[Leica] Paro Airport landing Bhutan

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)]

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