Flight Global’s Jon Ostrower posted videos of three different kinds of aeroplane approaches and landings. The first one is the most spectacular, as a Airbus A320 approaches Bhutan’s airport zooming, close to 3000m mountains. Fast forward to 5:39.
They plane warns “1000 feet” (300m) but they still can’t see the damn airport strip. It’s like Top Gun’s canyon run but with a 30m wide aeroplane that weights about 58,500kg and carries 120 passengers. No pressure! [FlightBlogger]
Charles
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:34 PMWorst airstrip placement ever.
Lillee
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:48 PMAnd people complain about flight path noise, imagine the decibels in that valley
awallafashagba
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:56 PMsearch youtube for difficult landings – there are some crackers in there !
Gemma
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:02 PMSOFT! That’s nothing compared to landing in Lukla in Nepal.
Sally
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:24 PMVery interesting runway, they basically had to turn onto final almost on top of the threshold.
There is also some interesting take-off’s out there, my favourite being the Vodka Burner taking off from YSCB. I love the quote “You can lift it up any time you like.” and “We have Smirdoff”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O20fo-WqRmc
Drew
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM“They plane warns” English do you speak?
vin
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:48 PMLOL… look how close he got to the end of the runway!!!
Paul
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 3:27 AMHe had plenty of runway when he came to a slow roll, the video then cuts as he’s still taxi’ing so I don’t think he used what you think he used to slow down.
Box Guru
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:11 PMRetard, retard, retard.
mike
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 5:26 AMyou use the word retard and expect people to take you seriously? for real? are you in middle school?
Just This Guy ...
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 3:20 PMDid you listen to the video?
It’s french.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101027111859AAu6PWp
Box Guru
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 5:25 PMAt least someone got it.
Jase
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:44 PMNight carrier ops is still scarier.
MD
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:17 PMWho’s the retard?? The Guy who put the Airstrip in the longest flat spot in the Kingdom?? The Pilot, who was following the Procedure Landing…
None ever said flying a routine course was exciting… it is Just one Procedure after another, Computers are better at that than People, and the Computer doesn’t have the need for a Thrill to keep awake….
That is probably only really interesting the first time in (or doing an Instrument approach with Fog to ground level, that would be more like kakkingyerdaks (is it double k??) ), after that its oh no we did this yesterday…. (Then let the Autopilot take it all the way in…)
The Joys of Flying for a living, different landing places.