Aviation Specials – May 2018

alone. The procession will be complete by 0430 and all that will be left are white tail lights, fading into the distance. But th ...

RIDING THE IGS Flying the approach into Kai Tak over Kowloon, with its notorious 47 o low-level turn, was among the great challe ...

A fl ight into Kai Tak was something we never undertook lightly – although all of our work demanded absolute professionalism, of ...

HONG KONG KAI TAK 44 // Extreme Airports May-November tropical storm season, the limited fuel stocks at Kai Tak would start to r ...

HONG KONG KAI TAKHONG KONG KAI TAK Approach As we came over the Pacifi c or the South China Sea, the approach started as it woul ...

HONG KONG KAI TAK 46 // Extreme Airports At this point it’s worth explaining Kai Tak’s instrument guidance system, commonly refe ...

Extreme Airports // 47 HONG KONG KAI TAK a go-around and the impact effect that could have on terrain clearance. The missed appr ...

HONG KONG KAI TAK 48 // Extreme Airports 42-49_Kai Tak.indd 48 11/05/2018 12:29 ...

Extreme Airports // 49 HONG KONG KAI TAK Overcompensating for wind drift too late on the fi nal approach also caught out many pi ...

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH K ai Tak was like no other. The sweltering heat and almost unbearable humidity, the tower b ...

Extreme Airports // 51 HONG KONG KAI TAK A Mandarin Airlines Boeing 747-409 makes the turn from the IGS onto short fi nal above ...

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Courchevel is one of the most spectacular and challenging airports in the world. Operating into it is considered an honour for p ...

Extreme Airports // 55 Eyewitness Courchevel is in the heart of the Alps, next to the slopes of one of France’s best skiing regi ...

56 // Extreme Airports retired), and our performance specialist Ernst Wieser made their way to Courchevel. Captains Hoch and Hit ...

Captains Hoch and Hitsch became the fi rst teachers. During each detail, each of the trainees fl ew three circuits, take-off s a ...

COURCHEVEL 58 // Extreme Airports continued over Moûtiers, and entered the airfield traffic pattern. At an altitude of around 7, ...

Extreme Airports // 59 COURCHEVEL Departure Once we were ready for departure, we taxied the aircraft on the fl at section and tu ...

nose gear could keep the aircraft roing in a straight line , even if an engine failed. Once the aircraft began moving the co-pil ...