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Not much room for errors if you look at Midway's layout. You can see
buildings lined up in every corners. One mistake, or failure and you gonna
hurt someone on the ground. I am not saying that it is a challenging airport
to fly in or out, but I am concerned about its safety though. I was
concerned about it for a couple of years. One time, I was on the commercial
flight to Midway. On approach, everything looked good, and when we are
coming down to final, I sensed a problem when the nose dropped aggressively.
The plane then flared aggressively, and made an extremely hard landing at no
landing zone( barely missed the wind breaker). I immediately knew that the
pilot must have let the airspeed drop below the recommended approach speed.
Obviously, it was too late to go around on final because of the time delay
on jet engines. So, pushing nose down was the only option. That was my
assessment. I had the window seat and I could see buildings that were a lot
closer than on typical approaches. I could see that the plane barely missed
the wind breakers. Since I am a pilot, I easily recognized the no landing
zone. I looked around in the cabin after the landing and unfortunately, all
passengers didn't notice anything. I think I was only person on that flight
that got into a brief panic.

Toks Desalu

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Toks:
Not much room for errors if you look at Midway's layout.

I hear Hong Kong is the most dificult airport to land in, and the most
breathtaking scenery wise.

Flyingmonk wrote:
Toks:

Not much room for errors if you look at Midway's layout.


I hear Hong Kong is the most dificult airport to land in, and the most
breathtaking scenery wise.


Used to be.

Have they opened the new one where they blasted mountains/islands?

Flyingmonk wrote:
Have they opened the new one where they blasted mountains/islands?

The new Chep Lak Kok Airport opened July 1998, the same time the
legendary and exciting Kai Tak in the city closed. It was a sudden, not
a gradual, transfer of operations.

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Nick

Have they opened the new one where they blasted mountains/islands?

I believed that they build new airport on man-made land.

On 11 Dec 2005 09:21:53 -0800, Flyingmonk wrote:

Have they opened the new one where they blasted mountains/islands?

well, yes. in 1998.

http://www.info.gov.hk/info/sar2/infrast.htm
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The new Hong Kong International Airport opened to air traffic on July 6,
1998, after an overnight move from the old airport at Kai Tak in one of the
world's biggest peace-time logistical operations.
---snap

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Toks Desalu wrote:
snip............... I could see that the plane barely missed
the wind breakers. Since I am a pilot, I easily recognized the no landing
zone.

I'm a pilot too. What's a wind breaker?

Frank


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Jet blast deflectors, news media calls them sound barriers
(stupid news media). If a jet was a break-away or take-off
thrust it would be blowing cars off the road, those curved
steel plates deflect the jet blast upward.


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James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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