Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: VWE on June 09, 2007, 01:51:26 AM

Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: VWE on June 09, 2007, 01:51:26 AM
Anyone know where the heck this (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6db_1181312855) approach is at?
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Geary420 on June 09, 2007, 02:02:10 AM
According to the comments at the bottom of the page its Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  Since its a mile above sea level it's really not low at all:D
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: VWE on June 09, 2007, 03:29:15 AM
Crazy, crazy!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7QgjdRONo&mode=related&search=
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Serenity on June 09, 2007, 03:29:59 AM
That runway... is WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY YY too short for that aircraft... I would be sh**ing myself at the idea of having to try that landing...
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Geary420 on June 09, 2007, 03:53:58 AM
Check youtube for videos from the Hong Kong airport, IIRC thats one with a bit of pucker factor as well.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Serenity on June 09, 2007, 04:00:35 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Geary420
Check youtube for videos from the Hong Kong airport, IIRC thats one with a bit of pucker factor as well.


Mind posting a link? Im a bit too busy to search myself.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: DiabloTX on June 09, 2007, 04:03:19 AM
HAHA Serenity your sig got Skuzzified.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Serenity on June 09, 2007, 04:08:49 AM
Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
HAHA Serenity your sig got Skuzzified.


lol. Only took 5 months! Well, I know which ones I want, ill put it back soon... bit busy chatting with the GF so its not really on my list of priorities...
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Serenity on June 09, 2007, 04:13:33 AM
There. Restored with a little extra added. [/hijack]
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Vulcan on June 09, 2007, 04:59:19 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Geary420
Check youtube for videos from the Hong Kong airport, IIRC thats one with a bit of pucker factor as well.


Meh, Wellington airport New Zealand (my hometown) has em all beat for white-knuckle landings.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Geary420 on June 09, 2007, 05:31:32 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Serenity
Mind posting a link? Im a bit too busy to search myself.


http://www.youtube.com
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: CavemanJ on June 09, 2007, 06:31:37 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Geary420
Check youtube for videos from the Hong Kong airport, IIRC thats one with a bit of pucker factor as well.


Kai Tak, checkerboard approach to 13
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Vulcan on June 09, 2007, 07:01:03 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHnhPadF6WQ
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Max on June 09, 2007, 07:55:32 AM
The final approach and touchdown at St Barts will set your hair on end.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: WMLute on June 09, 2007, 12:33:18 PM
Psssst Serenity.....


righteousness
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Serenity on June 09, 2007, 12:51:29 PM
Thanks, lol. I always get that wrong... (Its a long word I rarely use, lol.)
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: RAIDER14 on June 09, 2007, 01:49:33 PM
757 short takeoff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzRI47pj34&mode=related&search=)

757 low flyby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwcCiQS_F3A&mode=related&search=)
Title: Re: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Xasthur on June 09, 2007, 02:08:29 PM
Quote
Originally posted by VWE
Anyone know where the heck this (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6db_1181312855) approach is at?


That pilot officially has MASSIVE balls.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Serenity on June 09, 2007, 03:49:45 PM
New Zealand vid:

Wow. As a pilot, I understand whats going on there, if I was IN those planes, id be fine, because I get it. Id probably sit there crituiqeing it with my dad. But you gotta wonder what those poor passengers are thinking!

757 STO:

Holy ****!!! I wouldnt have beleived it had I not seen it! That is a SHORT takeoff!!!
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: RAIDER14 on June 09, 2007, 06:21:55 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Serenity
New Zealand vid:

Wow. As a pilot, I understand whats going on there, if I was IN those planes, id be fine, because I get it. Id probably sit there crituiqeing it with my dad. But you gotta wonder what those poor passengers are thinking!

757 STO:

Holy ****!!! I wouldnt have beleived it had I not seen it! That is a SHORT takeoff!!!


The 757 is overpowered
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Serenity on June 09, 2007, 06:22:56 PM
Quote
Originally posted by RAIDER14
The 757 is overpowered


In general, or that particular one?
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: DiabloTX on June 09, 2007, 06:29:21 PM
Quote
Originally posted by RAIDER14
The 757 is overmodelled


Fixed.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Suave on June 09, 2007, 06:43:57 PM
If I remember correctly, at Toncontin just beyond the end of the runway is a cliff and a busy highway runs along the bottom of the cliff. In 1997 or 98 an american c-130 did something very wrong and rolled off of that cliff and crashed down onto the highway.

They used to have some old FAH planes rotting at that airport, f4u's and c47s and stuff.
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: eskimo2 on June 09, 2007, 07:53:49 PM
At least they use runways:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cPSlQH_kB0
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Donzo on June 09, 2007, 08:12:15 PM
Not a flyby...but funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbt_IqX1uZk
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Donzo on June 09, 2007, 08:19:52 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Serenity
New Zealand vid:

Wow. As a pilot, I understand whats going on there, if I was IN those planes, id be fine, because I get it. Id probably sit there crituiqeing it with my dad. But you gotta wonder what those poor passengers are thinking!

757 STO:

Holy ****!!! I wouldnt have beleived it had I not seen it! That is a SHORT takeoff!!!



Good thing he was on a runway and not a treadmill!!!!!  doh!
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: eskimo2 on June 09, 2007, 08:31:25 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Donzo
Not a flyby...but funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbt_IqX1uZk


That was awesome!
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: RAIDER14 on June 09, 2007, 08:44:11 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Serenity
In general, or that particular one?


in general but I'm not sure if all 757s use the same type of engine
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: RAIDER14 on June 09, 2007, 08:56:58 PM
KC135 Low Flyby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5kLrXhx_LY)
Airbus or fighter jet? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQynfV9vaYA)
RV8 formation  flyby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGn_t9CLawQ)
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: cpxxx on June 10, 2007, 07:37:00 AM
The 757 is famously overpowered. A light one climbs like a fighter.

Here is what the RNZAF do with them at airshows. A friend saw it live at an airshow in England. He said he could not get his head around the idea of an airliner flying like that.

Not the best vid but a search will bring up more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ2FCiQfLu0&NR=1
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: FBplmmr on June 10, 2007, 08:57:37 AM
Quote
Originally posted by eskimo2
At least they use runways:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cPSlQH_kB0


poor guy probably got a "you have ditched":(
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Slash27 on June 10, 2007, 09:09:13 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4KLXlE9ZU4&mode=related&search=
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Viking on June 10, 2007, 04:27:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfQXnYKscB8   Scary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZXtLsrdAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LHwYoT4Bho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3YoG3VcIU  A380

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GB55VDobAo  Craziest landing I've ever seen!
Title: How low do you dare to go...
Post by: Vulcan on June 10, 2007, 05:29:26 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Serenity
New Zealand vid:

Wow. As a pilot, I understand whats going on there, if I was IN those planes, id be fine, because I get it. Id probably sit there crituiqeing it with my dad. But you gotta wonder what those poor passengers are thinking!
 


Got to remember those are fairly normal landings for here. Did you notice the runway is not flat, but drops from each end towards the center (think they do that on purpose).

Way to go for the guy that decided to build our airport in a turbulance ridden valley 30 degrees off the prevailing wind.