Author Topic: Amazing Landing 744 KaiTak (Read 614 times)

Gixer · « **on:** September 15, 2004, 10:26:42 PM »

Came across this, cool video.

http://www.big-boys.com/detail.asp?id=2833

~~...-Gixer~~

Angus · « **Reply #1 on:** September 16, 2004, 07:51:09 AM »

Jeez, what a landing.

Anyway, that webside has a ton of nude pics!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** September 16, 2004, 08:13:04 AM »

Whats a 744?

Edbert · « **Reply #3 on:** September 16, 2004, 08:15:05 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Whats a 744?

A typo.

I see landings like that every day in the MA

slimm50 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 16, 2004, 08:34:14 AM »

Stupid porn filter here at work...won't let me access the site to view the video. I wouldn't look at any dirty pictures, honest.

Don't they trust us?!?

Edbert · « **Reply #5 on:** September 16, 2004, 08:37:56 AM »

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Originally posted by slimm50
Stupid porn filter here at work...won't let me access the site to view the video. I wouldn't look at any dirty pictures, honest. Don't they trust us?!?

heh! Get a job with IT/MIS, then you can exclude yourself from the filters and or logs

DA98 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 16, 2004, 09:08:45 AM »

IIRC, 744 is the short name for the 747-400

ASTAC · « **Reply #7 on:** September 16, 2004, 09:12:54 AM »

Thats a skilled pilot

Muckmaw1 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 16, 2004, 09:50:31 AM »

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Originally posted by Edbert MOL
A typo.

I see landings like that every day in the MA

744 is short for the 747-400.

Bodhi · « **Reply #9 on:** September 16, 2004, 09:53:42 AM »

Hell of a cross wind....

eagl · « **Reply #10 on:** September 16, 2004, 09:58:48 AM »

that 747 pilot is an idiot... He probably lined up on the wrong runway or on the taxiway and decided to save it.

-dead- · « **Reply #11 on:** September 16, 2004, 10:34:27 AM »

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Originally posted by eagl
that 747 pilot is an idiot... He probably lined up on the wrong runway or on the taxiway and decided to save it.

Not actually possible - there was only one Runway at Kai Tak - 13/31, hence this pilot having to land in crosswinds. There's a also a lot of windshear and such nastiness round these parts - lots of hills and sea. With Kai Tak, if you missed your line up more than a small margin, it was into a hill or a building with you, pretty much. Leave the landing too late and you were into the harbour, too. The last stretch (if the wind was going the right way) was a 60 degree right turn just before landing, and some excellent views of the insides of people's living rooms and the walls of air cons adorning the high rises out of the windows on the right. Excellent fun to sit through, but no doubt a nightmare to pilot. I miss it. Sham Shui Po is too damn quiet without 747s with their wheels down overhead every 3 minutes. Mind, I'm a load of people in Kowloon feel safer and better for the new airport.

Dux · « **Reply #12 on:** September 16, 2004, 10:38:06 AM »

Hehe... that Kai Tak approach used to be one of the "challenge" landings in MSFS98. Lots of fun but very tricky.

Stringer · « **Reply #13 on:** September 16, 2004, 11:10:51 AM »

That used to be a heck of a ride flying into Kai Tak. The new airport is soo boring now

Although I was on a flight out of the new airport during a Typhoon Warning 3 once. I believe a China Airlines flight crashed a little after our flight left. That was an interesting climb out.

eagl · « **Reply #14 on:** September 16, 2004, 11:22:07 AM »

So you are saying the approach is *designed that way*... It still looks like extreme maneuvering rather late in the approach, not merely compensating for a crosswind. A proper crosswind correction involves either a slip or skid into the wind, not a violent s-turn on short final, and it really looks to me like the pilot had a late visual pickup on the runway and had to make an aggressive last second correction to line up for landing.

Without more video, seeing the approach plate, or a wider view, it's tough to really say. I don't 100% buy the crosswinds explanation though.