wrote:
Rich Ahrens wrote:
Dante wrote:
That is not a crosswind landing.
It is or was the normal approach for Kai
Tak.
Well hardly!
The aircraft was banked quite steeply to the right at this time.

On the left there was a mountain. A big mountain.

I had a look for a while from the ground and the airliners
were just leveling the wings as they crossed the fence.
The fence was not far from the threshold. Just a couple of
seconds.

There was a big visual target (really, a big red and
white billboard) on the mountain and I

Save the following to a file *.kml and oopen it in Google
Earth to see the Kai Tek threshold.
The mountain is 1400ft and 2 miles away
pretty much on the extended centreline.

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?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
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