JFK 13L Makes "Scariest Runways" List

[Matt Molnar]

Travel and Leisure's website has a slideshow of "The World's Scariest Runways (http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/the-worlds-scariest-runways)."

Some of the usual suspects are on there, like TGU in Honduras, but I was surprised to see the Canarsie Approach to 13L mentioned.

[PhilDernerJr]

I would think that if there was going to be a local airport on that list, that LGA's shorter runways with water at BOTH ends would have gotten it mentioned. Interesting nonetheless.

[cancidas]

i'd love to know who made that list. st. maarten is a straight-in approach, so you can slow down as much as possible before rubbing rubber on the asphalt. KDCA's river visual is hardly white-knuckle. i'd love to go into either barra, scotland or matekane air strip in lesotho. now those look like fun!
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[T-Bird76]

They fail to mention the scariest thing about 13L is the 22 intersection. The turn is nothing when you think if either plane aborts they can collide into each other..

[Tom_Turner]

13L? Thats not even the runway in the image is it? And Jamaica Bay isn't exactly at the end of it - though some marsh is.

A survey of pilots some years back put LGA on their list.

Tom

[stuart schechter]

The picture is showing 4L

[Iberia A340-600]

The approach into Cusco is much more scarier than the approach into 13L and it wasn't even mentioned!

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[Speedbird1]

Yes, that photo doesn't show the Canarsie Approach at all. It does look like Rwy 4L/22R. Neither 13L nor 13R are depicted. I disagree that the Canarsie Approach is so scary except when the ceiling starts to deteriorate. The LGA Visual/Expressway 31 Approach is much scarier, as is the EWR Approach when aircraft turn into Rwy 31 in strong winds. Interesting to note, that "knock on wood", these approaches have not had accidents that I am aware of.

[Matt Molnar]

I'd say it's scarier for westbound drivers on the Belt Parkway than it is for anyone on the aircraft!

[Matt Molnar]

Here are a couple of good 13L approach cockpit vids...

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