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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