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These are the times when you really have to trust the pilot

Nice pics. Have a look at the airport on St Martins island, just as scary

Beautiful locations, but, @rse-landing Chinooks aside, how do these approaches differ greatly from normal? I do not know of any airfields I have landed on where an under- or overshoot could not have resulted in my destruction. My instinct, on looking at those runways, is to squirm upright in my seat, body on high alert, set eyes to wide open and concentration and focus levels to 10 - as was suggested by my instructor for all approaches and landings. You have to trust the pilot - he is trying to survive himself.

The choppers on the other hand..... How do you park the rear end on a pinnacle in space without even being able to see what you are doing?!

Goowsh Demon - at least I know that the GT450's have a good undercarriage looking at that strip.

Regards
John

As the (occasional) passenger, I must say that to hear the phrase...
"These are the times when you really have to trust the pilot "
makes me wonder what I've been doing all the other times?

BTW - Does anyone recall ever flying into the original Hong Kong (Kowloon?) airport? I had a window seat and recall being almost at eye level with little old ladies hanging their laundry on balconies of flats and weaving between high rise buildings to land. I wish I'd had a forward view though.

Barry is that the house/hut at the end/approach of the runway that got in the way of Marius the other day

demon wrote:Cool pics morph, and a great topic
I have seen some really challenging ML strips right here in sa, lets see some pics of these...
I have been told our strip at Rietfontein can be daunting, so here's a pic taken by Big-D from mt GT450...

WHERE's THE RUNWAY


That housie and the fence are what I am scared of to try take RV in there. (Book say it oK), but I still learning to land it

Demon

I suppose you get many lowlevel waves from passerbyes - but not many visits.

Landing with Sir Demon at Rietfontein is fun, especially on the shorter strip (I am sure there is a more technical term but it escapes me now). I am sure he could land the GT on a tickie

Have landed there before.............Piece of old takkie in a AIRBORNE

THERE IS A SHORTER STRIP

Depends from which angle you look at it, maybe you looked at it width wise

(Pilot to copilot... man this runway is short, yes but look how wide it is )

phodees please

"runway" over the N1 near the chrome mine-Grassvalley

Apollo wrote:As the (occasional) passenger, I must say that to hear the phrase...
"These are the times when you really have to trust the pilot "
makes me wonder what I've been doing all the other times?

BTW - Does anyone recall ever flying into the original Hong Kong (Kowloon?) airport? I had a window seat and recall being almost at eye level with little old ladies hanging their laundry on balconies of flats and weaving between high rise buildings to land. I wish I'd had a forward view though.

Ahhh, the good old chequer board approach into Kai Tak. Did that plenty times in the good old classic 747.