[aruanan]

That’s sort of like what he was describing but it seems as though he was talking about a civilian airport. I’ll see if I can remember who it was and check, though I think it was a group of people talking on board a flight somewhere.

[Grut]

One other thing is that there wouldn't be an updraft from the cliff on approach since the wind would be blowing towards the aircraft, off the cliff top. So it's either a tall tale, or a garbled one, or for some reason (big mountain at the other end?) aircraft have to make downwind landings there.