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Subject: [Leica] Paro Airport landing Bhutan
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 23:23:55 +0900
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Hi Howard,

When it comes to landings and other flight-related issues, I like BORING :-)

Cheers,
Nathan

On 5 Dec 2013, at 23:13, 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
> 
> 
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