Global InformationCourchevel Altiport information
Courchevel Altiport Altiport de Courchevel | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Courchevel | ||||||||||
| Location | Courchevel | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1962 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,008 m / 6,588 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°23′51″N 06°38′04″E / 45.39750°N 6.63444°E | ||||||||||
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  CVF/LFLJ Location in Savoie  CVF/LFLJ CVF/LFLJ (France) | |||||||||||
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Courchevel Altiport (French: Altiport de Courchevel) (IATA: CVF, ICAO: LFLJ) is an altiport serving Courchevel, a ski resort in the French Alps. The airfield has a very short runway of only 537 metres (1,762 ft) with a gradient of 18.6%.[1] There is no go-around procedure for landings at Courchevel due to the surrounding mountainous terrain. The airfield primarily sees use by smaller fixed-wing aircraft such as the Cessna 208 Caravan or Pilatus PC-12, as well as helicopters. The runway has no instrument approach procedure or lighting aids, making landing in fog or low clouds unsafe and almost impossible.[1]
The airport is considered dangerous, as it features a difficult approach, an upward-sloping runway and ski runs in the adjacent area. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the seventh most extreme airport in the world.[3]
It has featured in films including the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
- ^ a b c SIA AIP Archived 2020-01-02 at the Wayback Machine PDF (in French)
- ^ "Un altiport dynamique toute l'année" (PDF). mairie-courchevel.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ^ Most Extreme Airports, History Channel, October 14, 2010