Take off from Yeager airport, Charleston WV

[witchoneisit]

Landing there will get your heart started, especially on one of those small planes with the briggs and stratton engines. lol

[Shellyz2u]

Actually I64 also splits there too

[mcgervey]

@Shellyz2u Actually, it doesn't, I-64 splits just a hair further down the interstate, right in town... goes to Beckley and Huntington... Just after the I-77/I-79 split, it is just I-77 for a mile or so.

[Shellyz2u]

It is also over I64...actualy all three split in that area! ;-)

[EquivocallyAbsurd]

Just like hang gliding :)

[freshburritos]

we took live beside it and its like they dont want us to sleep

[PeavySubs]

Great vid, have entered the Charleston area so many times at that I-77-79 split coming down from Wheeling but had never seen it from that perspective. Thanks.

[Rickinsf]

To build the airport they cut the tops off two adjacent hills and dumped the spoil into the valley between, smoothed it flat. Sorta.

Back about 1968-69 a Piedmont airliner undershot the runway and slammed into the hillside, nearly everyone died.

[mkw0823]

thats pretty cool...my grandparents live right below the runway on the elk river...i have spent a lot of time there and have seen a ton of planes fly in and out of there but have never seen what its like on top...

[mcgervey]

Yes, it's on a hilltop over the city and I-77/I-64... They just completed a major runway extension as well...

[ace102692]

Is this the airport on top of a hill in Charleston?

[striper991]

No wonder the airport is so small, not a lot of tourrists. But still a lot of people in the Charleston area.

[iratepiratemike]

That has to be a 300 foot drop at the end of the runway...probably scarier to land there than take off.

[mcgervey]

300 sounds about right.... big drop...

[wvhb44beardog]

Actually a 900 foot drop.

[mcgervey]

@wvhb44beardog : Is it really that much?

[wvhb44beardog]

@mcgervey Correct.

[johncantees]

I love charleston. I grew up there.

but now I'm in huntington =\

[wvmountaineersgirly1]

lol me 2 wel dunbar nd i stil liv here but im only 12 lol

[unclecoolie]

I lived in Charleston for many years. I never flew out of Yeager - it's nice to see what it looks like.

[puppyluv12321911]

im leaving for florida keys in march is it scary on the plane??? :/

[ChessieStorm]

That is nice. I grew up near Ripley, so I've traveled through that spot so many times I can drive it in my sleep.

[TNxBlackplague]

O nice