Landing Feet From The Beach In Los Roques, Venezuela

New York's LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) is famous for making passengers nervous during over-water approaches and landings, even though the runway is offset more than 100 yards away from the water. Switch that to an airport with its single runway just feet from the ocean. This is the Los Roques Airport, Venezuela.

The Los Roques Airport (SVRS) is a small domestic airport on the El Gran Roque island off the coast of mainland Venezuela, 130 km north of Caracas. Its single 07/25 Runway is only 3,280 feet long and 60 feet wide, yet serves anything from Cessna Citations to 68 passenger ATR-72s. It's a small runway for turbine aircraft, so many pilots have to approach just a few feet above the ocean and beach. One thing's for sure, you don't want to land short!

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Swayne Martin

Swayne is an editor at Boldmethod, certified flight instructor, and a First Officer on the Boeing 757/767 for a Major US Carrier. He graduated as an aviation major from the University of North Dakota in 2018, holds a PIC Type Rating for Cessna Citation Jets (CE-525), is a former pilot for Mokulele Airlines, and flew Embraer 145s at the beginning of his airline career. Swayne is an author of articles, quizzes and lists on Boldmethod every week. You can reach Swayne at swayne@boldmethod.com, and follow his flying adventures on his YouTube Channel.

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