Posted: 1/19/2008 8:32:11 AM EDT
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St. Maarten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo (Yes, it's for real) href=www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O3xSDiIqHA Cockpit view: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmDuXO_k6E&feature=related The old Kai Tek in HKG...fun approach...gone but not forgotten! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE&feature=related www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnokcAu0c4&feature=related Kai Tek IGS13 From the cockpit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZFFFRBejw&feature=related Cockpit view CATIIIb at PDX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wnl1Ut--o&feature=related MD11 Cockpit view 13L (Canarsie Approach) JFK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EQ9-m-nuPI&feature=related Last week... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKC3sTFeOe8 Don't ever do this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK5te5Yp0_8 |
Cool vids. |
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Another classic...Toncontin Airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8 |
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Hi-ILS Rwy 21, Roswell NM (link is to the IAP plate) Commonly known as "The Widowmaker". I've flown this a few times in the T-1 and it is interesting to say the least. |
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I used to take flying lessons when I was younger at the Kansas City Downtown Airport/MKC. The approach at #1 was fun. You have to come in high becasue of buildings then you have the Broadway Bridge and the river to deal with on your approach. Kansas City Downtown Airport Magoo |
The HKG IGS was fun...and challenging...kept it interesting. The new airport is boring. |
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Nice thread! But if you stuck-winger's don't mind a rotorhead's point of veiw here are a few really fun approaches! Sorry, no video... http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2548/castlerockfire009mx5.jpg This wasn't a hard approach to make for the helicopter, but you will notice a bucket just coming out of the water 110' below the heli. There was a little beaver pond just deep enough to get the bucket to fill in the creek, but it was surrounded by trees. The two trees behind the pond were just far enough apart to fly the bucket between on the approach without having to come over and down into the pond. Made 134 "approaches" to this pond over a seven hour period... http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3253/dscn1730rr0.jpg Not an approach, but the finished product. Just big enough to get the skids on, and not a bad view! http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9684/dscn2401ge5.jpg Another of my favorite pads, used to service a radio repeater. http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/53/dscn1411yw0.jpg Finally a photo of an approach! Long final to make a drop at 13,100' msl. http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6630/dscn1403ze1.jpg Short final to the drop, from an outside the cockpit perspective. http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4734/dscn0089ra0.jpg If the photo is too small to see the altimeter or GPS, the Altimeter is reading 13,200' and the GPS is showing 13.15k'. The red light on the caution/warning panel is the Low RPM warning as I am sitting at ground idle. The -6c showing on the OAT puts the DA @ 13,700'! Enjoy the alternate perspective - and believe me, every single one of these was fun! |
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Aspen VOR/DME C Aspen VOR/DME C  If you see the black spot along the road, that's where a GIII went in. Hailey, Sun Valley ID GPS A One way in, one way out.  |
And that looks like early stock 206, too. Impressive. |
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This one is amazing! Heavy Crosswinds landing, looks like a crash |
Not quite, Bell 407. |
Are you saying that your approaches to a short, moving steel "runway" aren't fun? C'mon, they've got to be even funner at night!  Isn't that the real reason yous guys get "bolters"--so you can approach all over again? Got video of approaches that resulted in grades other than OK-3? 
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how did the concrete get up there? |
| Thule was a hoot. Last time I was there (1977 in a TXANG KC-97) it was July and 30F blowing snow. There was an iceburg floating off the end of the runway. One way in and one way out. The runway was painted white to keep it from absorbing sunlight/heat and sinking into the permafrost. Housing was portable heavily insulated portable buildings that had been hauled in by air many years earlier. |
It sure wasn't by airplane. |
I don't recall if the runway was concrete, I never thought about that question. I just remember that it was unique that the runway was white and the explanation was absorbing sunlight/heat. In the days that Thule was constructed and supported the C-124 was capable of airlifting just about anything. At certain brief times of the year things were shipped in too. It would be interesting to find out how the construction schedule went. I went looking for info and here is some I found: The initial airfield and base were build by the US Government in 1951 in just 104 days under total secrecy---code name "Blue Jay". The base was to provide a refueling point for long range bombers potentially directed to the Soviet Union. The magnitude of the construction accomplishment in building Thule Air Base is hard to appreciate. However, consider that the 63 supply ships followed ice breakers crushing through six feet of sea ice into North Star Bay on 9 July 1951 and the construction crews they carried (4000 men) left by plane in October of the same year after having built a large paved runway, taxiways, pads, several huge hangars ( a C-141 can with ease be inside), each with eight hangar door sections weighing 230 metric tons a piece, several large fuel storage tanks, barracks and support facilities for 4000 personnel, and storage buildings, roads, and other necessities of a small city. All of this was constructed on 480 meters of permafrost and build to withstand winds in excess of 240 km/hour and temperatures below -40 degree. |
I showed this to my father, who is a 757/767 Check Airmen, who flies the trip quite a bit. He says its a captian only landing, and the one in the video is perfect.
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