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AirNav. AOPA Airport Directory. World's top 10 scariest airports. Nervous fliers, stop reading! Travel + Leisure has come up with a list of the world's scariest runways that can make even the most relaxed travellers grip their armrest. (Photos: Happy landings? World's scariest airport runways) 1. Tucked into a tightly cropped valley and surrounded by 4900-metre-high Himalayan peaks, Bhutan's only airport is forbidding to fly into. Advertisement 2. The length of the runway is just 2180 metres which is fine for small or medium-size jets, but as the second-busiest airport in the Eastern Caribbean, it regularly welcomes wide-body jetliners like Boeing 747s and Airbus A340s which fly in low over Maho Beach and skim just over the perimeter fence. 3.

Located smack in the center of two overlapping air-exclusion zones, Reagan National requires pilots flying the so-called River Visual into the airport to follow the Potomac while steering clear of sensitive sites such as the Pentagon and CIA headquarters. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Reuters. NACO IAPs. NACO AF/D. NACOmatic - Bulk Download FAA NACO Approach Plates, Airport Diagrams & the Airport Facility Directory. SkyVector.