Considering that the new Microsoft Flight Simulator It is hard to get, lovers of the famous aviation simulator continue to take advantage of the time by increasing the number of flight hours playing other games that we can find on the market. For example Swiss001, a YouTube user who with the help of the game X-Plane 11 It has occurrences as striking as the one we bring you below.
A very dangerous airport
Located on the island of Saba in the Dutch Caribbean, the Juancho E. Yraus airport is considered the commercial airport with the shortest track in the world. This is because the airport is located at one end of the island, surrounded by cliffs and high rocky areas, so the final runway could only be 396 meters long.
This means that both the takeoff and the landing of the planes have to be perfect, since an excess in the route would exceed the runway and take the plane directly into the sea. Normally the planes that usually land there are the Twin Otter and the BN-2 Islander, but good old Swiss001 wanted to do more tests to see what kind of aircraft could land on the island.
Little runway for so many planes
For this, he has obviously had the help of the X-Plane 11 simulator, since with the game he has managed to transport himself to the Juancho E. Yrausquien airport and practice takeoff and landing tasks with a wide variety of airplane models. As expected, the smallest and lightest passed the test (not without complications and the occasional "oops"), while the largest succumbed to the power of the island.
As you can see in the video, a plane as common as the Boeing 737-800 is unable to slow down enough, so it ends up disastrously falling down the small cliff. And more of the same with the Boeing 777, of course.
On his channel you can find other videos with very curious feats, such as the attempted emergency landing on a Pacific island, tests at another small airport, or the curious curved runway in Papua-Guinea.