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bobby

12-20-2008 08:40 AM

Amazing Airports

Tully Mars

12-20-2008 10:11 AM

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/...56148c.jpg?v=0

Diego Gracia

http://media.kladblog.com/media/200812/landing/27.jpg

What the hell?

biznatch

12-20-2008 03:20 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...t_La_Palma.jpg
La Palma airport, canary islands.

highthief

12-20-2008 04:54 PM

http://www.nlr.nl/documents/MCD%2020040718-467.jpg

Reykjavík Airport, Iceland

guyy	12-20-2008 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by highthief (Post 2575267)

Reykjavík Airport, Iceland

Been there. When i was there the passenger terminal was a hut devoted to icelandic caviar. I was kind of creeped out by all the fighter planes. I liked the fog.

The old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong was my favourite. The charm came from the series of tight turns the plane had to take in its descent to reach it, any miss and the plane could slam into a mountain, the laundry on the rooftops the plane would barely skim over, the short runway that ended in the bay, the spectacular lights you'd see after one of those turns. Apparently they only let the best pilots fly into it.

http://www.fmas.co.uk/Korean%20Airca...20Tak%2001.jpg

http://88bw.net/bio/hongkong-airport.jpg

Final turn on approach from the bay

Tully Mars

12-20-2008 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guyy (Post 2575301)

Like this-

http://pixdaus.com/pics/ab3nhrH9kiZ2.jpg

guyy	12-20-2008 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tully Mars (Post 2575305)

Like this-

Yeah. That's the Kowloon approach, though. The difficult landing was the bay approach.

Xerxys

12-20-2008 11:01 PM

OMG, I swear I didnt think that plane was going to make it. I've seen other videos before, my sis who's a pilot tells me only pro's can pull off that kinda landing!!

guyy	12-21-2008 06:11 AM

From the Kai Tak Wikipedia page:

Quote:

The landing approach using runway 13 at Kai Tak was spectacular and world-famous. To land on runway 13, an aircraft first took a descent heading northeast. The aircraft would pass over the crowded harbour, and then the very densely populated areas on Western Kowloon. This leg of the approach was guided by an IGS (Instrument Guidance System, a modified ILS) after 1974.
Upon reaching a small hill marked with a checkerboard in red and white, used as a visual reference point on the final approach (in addition to the middle marker on the Instrument Guidance System), the pilot needed to make a 47° visual right turn to line up with the runway and complete the final leg. The aircraft would be just two nautical miles (3.7 km) from touchdown, at a height of less than 1,000 feet (300 m) when the turn was made. Typically the plane would enter the final right turn at the height of about 650 feet (200 m) and exit it at the height of 140 feet (43 m) to line up with the runway. This maneuver has become widely known in the piloting community as the "Hong Kong Turn".
Landing the runway 13 approach was already difficult with normal crosswinds since even if the wind direction was constant, it was changing relative to the airplane when the 47° visual right turn is being made. The landing would become even more challenging when crosswinds from the northeast were strong and gusty during typhoons. The mountain range northeast of the airport also makes wind vary greatly in both speed and direction; thus, varying the lift of the airplane. From a spectator's point of view, watching large Boeing 747s banking at low altitudes and taking big crab angles during their final approaches was quite thrilling. Despite the difficulty, it was nonetheless used most of the time due to the prevailing wind direction in Hong Kong.
Due to the turn in final approach, ILS was not available for runway 13 and landings had to follow a visual approach. This made the runway unusable in low visibility conditions.

The video is taken from atop the checkerboard hill.

Tully Mars

12-21-2008 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guyy (Post 2575383)

From the Kai Tak Wikipedia page:

The video is taken from atop the checkerboard hill.

What video?

guyy	12-21-2008 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tully Mars (Post 2575305)

Like this-

http://pixdaus.com/pics/ab3nhrH9kiZ2.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tully Mars (Post 2575387)

What video?

The youtube video in my post above.

roachboy

12-21-2008 10:40 AM

holy crap.

i'm surprised that many planes did not land in the drink--it looks like things get really pretty dicey just before touchdown--cross-winds.

yikes.

Tully Mars

12-21-2008 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guyy (Post 2575442)

The youtube video in my post above.

Somethings not working for me, I don't see a video.

BadNick

12-21-2008 08:52 PM

Landing On Aircraft Carrier - Video

At first the vid posted above by that guyy wasn't working for me, even said "no longer available", then a minute later I tried it again and it played....yikes! that's a scary one.

dlish

12-22-2008 01:23 AM

ill post the airport i landed at in Yemen. the plane was bigger than the airport itself.

ironically, im sitting in Hong Kong Airport right now on the way to sydney.

will post the pic when i arrive in sydney.

Tully Mars

12-22-2008 03:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick (Post 2575586)

Wow! Thanks for posting that. Almost like porn to me. Well, almost.

Can you imagine doing that in heavy weather, at night on a "rolling deck?"

Sounds like my old vacuum, that's weird I had no idea.

Sticky

12-24-2008 10:41 AM

St. Martin Airport

skambete

12-26-2008 12:42 AM

Crazy German Landing!

dlish

12-26-2008 01:20 AM

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...8/IMG_2065.jpg

Seiyun Airport - Yemen

the plane was bigger than the airport itself!

Charlatan

12-26-2008 02:58 AM

The runway at Kai Tak is still there but isn't in use... I'm surprised they haven't re purposed it yet. I was about six months off landing at that airport. I think it would have been fun.

Nothing exciting about Changi Airport... in fact, it's what they trade on. All is normal and smooth.

Peladinho

12-30-2008 08:32 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...tch_harbor.jpg
DUTCH HARBOR ALASKA

I did not take this picture but I have been there many times a nasty little runway.

catback

12-31-2008 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tully Mars (Post 2575642)

Wow! Thanks for posting that. Almost like porn to me. Well, almost.

Can you imagine doing that in heavy weather, at night on a "rolling deck?"

Sounds like my old vacuum, that's weird I had no idea.

What do you mean rolling deck, night or day the carrier is always charging into the wind for takeoffs and landings. But yea night time is harder because it's so dark and the carrier only uses minimal lighting. With ILS and cues from the LSO landing at night is textbook.

Zweiblumen

01-01-2009 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guyy (Post 2575301)

Been there. When i was there the passenger terminal was a hut devoted to icelandic caviar. I was kind of creeped out by all the fighter planes. I liked the fog.

You are probable confusing Keflavik Airport (Reykjavik International) with Reykavik airport (in the picture).

Yours
Zweiblumen

Sion	01-01-2009 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dlish (Post 2576628)

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...8/IMG_2065.jpg

Yemen

that looks like it could be in New Mexico or Arizona

elgeebar

01-02-2009 04:57 PM

I don't know the current position, but when I visited Corfu on holiday in my teens (so we're talking around 20 years ago) Corfu Airport had the reputation of being the most dangerous airport in Europe. Why, well it only has one runway and it is mostly over water...

The approach is flying along side the island over water so if you look out one side of the plane, nothing, the other, the lights of Corfu Town. A steep banked turn to line up with the runway and in. Apparently lots of planes have missed or skidded into the water in the past. Anyway, here is the best pic's I can find with zero effort ;)

http://www.corfu-holidays.biz/images/corfu_airport.jpg http://www.corfuminibus.com/images/airport-corfu.jpg

The barrier across the water at the foot of the runway is a causeway you can walk across the bay (which I've done). The very small island is the famous "Mouse Island".

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