Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I swear you could almost smell what the women were cooking in their kitchen when landing at Kai Tak...(-: I always used to wonder how developers ever got permission to build those high rises there, and how on earth people lived there with planes screeching past at eye level every minute, day and night. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:43 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > I too prefer airports on flat land and near the sea but I keep living in > places with interesting approaches. The old Kai Tak airport in Kowloon > Hong Kong (closed 1998) was one of the world's great approaches. The pilot > aimed at a checker board on a hill just before landing and executed a 45 > degree turn down through the laundry lines in order to hit the runway. It > was so difficult all the pilots were on high alert and in about 50 years > operation no landing plane ever crashed into the housing estates around > the airport approach although a few slid off the other end of the runway > into the sea. The new airport at Chek Lap Kok - on flattened reclaimed > land is very boring by comparison. > Check out: > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvbm2ZlsnQ> and a whole lot more videos > in the same bunch. > Cheers > Howard > > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:50:22 +0900 > From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Paro Airport landing Bhutan > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Awesome! I prefer airports like the one in Seoul, on flat land and by the > sea :-) Although I noticed some course changes evidently to ensure not > even coming close to North Korean airspace ;-) > > Cheers, > Nathan > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information