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Crosswind landing
"Dante" wrote in message ... That is not a crosswind landing. It is or was the normal approach for Kai Tak. I can't remember if it was buildings in the way or what precipitated the requirement but it certainly had nothing to do with wind. Yes it looks impressive, maybe thats why they are well paid, 'course it's a doddle compared to landing on a carrier deck in heavy seas. Barbers Point Hawaii has a very similar approach. You come in straight toward to the beach and as soon as you cross the 'surf line' you bank 90 degrees and line up on the runway. You don't have a lot of time to react and you've really got to 'slam it over' to line up on the runway. In fact, the Pilot is looking out his side window to see the runway and start the turn. |
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Crosswind landing
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:29:48 -0500, Rich Ahrens wrote:
My CFI's first real landing of a 747 (as opposed to sim work) was at Kai Tak as a Northwest first officer. Heck of a way to break in. Excuse me but I think I detect grade AAA1* bull$hit. Probably in the mid 90's there was article in the flying press about Kai Tak covering such things as the flying club and light aircraft activity (sunday mornings only) but they also followed an aircraft all the way through the approach, with a copy of the approach plate and pictures from the cockpit and the ground at each stage. If I recall correctly it was a USA based carrier they followed. Great emphasis was put on the fact that absolutely no one except pilots with very high hours on type can bid for the HK routes and that the approach is flown in the simulator many times before they do it for real. The idea that new crew on type would make their first real landing at Kai Tak is laughable - unless of course he was coming in over the water to land on 31 when it's a piece of ****. -- |
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Crosswind landing
Martin wrote:
Excuse me but I think I detect grade AAA1* bull$hit. Your privilege. I'm reporting what he said, so I'm not bull****ting. Whether or not he is - well, I know him, and I don't know you, so I'm more inclined to believe him than you. If I recall correctly it was a USA based carrier they followed. Great emphasis was put on the fact that absolutely no one except pilots with very high hours on type can bid for the HK routes and that the approach is flown in the simulator many times before they do it for real. Your recollection sounds spotty and even if accurate is apparently based on a single carrier. And I'm sure he would have flown it in the sim. |
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Crosswind landing
I tried saving everything between the # signs and another including the # signs and got an error message both times. What am I doing wrong? The file that worked for me looks like this: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0" Placemark nameTai Kek - threshold/name LookAt id="khLookAt639" longitude114.1855754172161/longitude latitude22.33115115307646/latitude range9224.606404125258/range tilt4.617814675820289e-010/tilt heading137.0698383241931/heading /LookAt styleUrlroot://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317/styleUrl Point id="khPoint640" coordinates114.1943674119204,22.32364675210839,0 /coordinates /Point /Placemark /kml No blank lines anywhere, and saved as "KaiTek.kml" Don't forget the ".kml" extension. Oh yea, you have to have Google Earth installed. |
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