Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I remember the Kal Tak. It was unnerving looking into people's apartments as we flew by! Sent from my iPhone Sonny Carter http://www.SonC.com/look > On Dec 5, 2013, at 8:13 AM, 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