I lived in Asia at the time of this video, I remember the running joke among business travelers was that if you asked the pilot nicely, he would stop at McDonald's before landing.
I was a tower controller in this era at Kai Tak. The ILS was based at the checkerboard and called an IGS (instrument guidance system). When you got to minimums on the ILS, you either turned and landed if you had the runway in sight, or you turned and started a go around if not visual. Not turning was not an option! Due to the crazy weather in the harbour, landings turned into go arounds often. Cathay Pacific pilots always made this landing look easy because they developed the habit of moving left off the ILS when they were visual and then had more space to do the turn.
The Hong Kong rugby team trained one season at Step Kip Mei ground which was directly under that turning point. We noted that the Cathay planes took the right hand turn earlier and wider, and the reason was confirmed by someone in the team with a Cathay connection. The non-Cathay planes had a very tight turn to do. We were like, someone should tell them!
All this while we - the Hong Kong Aviation Club pilots - had to wait for eternity (at our own expenses) for a take-off clearance at the Light Aircraft Holding Point - sometimes we even had to cancel the flight - , or for a landing clearance while in an endless holding patern above Kowloon Wan, after having already waited for a "require East pass at [time]" clearance... And after having received that landing clearance we had to immediately plunge to the runway, then began the long queuing on Bravo 1... You didn't give us (the Hong Kong Avaiation Club pilots) the easy life...
I used to fly the IGS13 half a dot to one dot left of course for a better turn to final. Much preferred Kai Tak to the new airport. Charming old airport. Watch “The World of Suzie Wong” with William Holden and Nancy Kwan. Taken some 37 years before the return to China on July 1, 1997. A year later, on July 6, Kai Tak was closed. The new airport at Chek Lap Kok just isn’t the same.
I was a passenger on a United 747 into Kai Tak in 1994. I'd just gotten my own private pilot license 6 months earlier, and I couldn't believe the approach. It was at night in rain. We dropped out of the clouds and seemed to be right in the middle of the city, looking into people's windows. I was sitting in a left-side window seat, and as the pilot banked right there was the lit-up checkerboard right at our altitude. As we were disembarking, I found myself next to the Captain, and I told him I was amazed he could perform that approach after flying across the ocean for 15 hours. That's when he explained that the plane had two flight crews. His team handled the takeoff, then went to sleep while the second one flew across half the world. Then he woke up and landed the plane.
I know exactly what you mean. I also landed there, in 1996. Like you, I think I was on the left side of the plane as well. I know what you mean about the windows. You are so close, you can make out the colors of the drapes and the items placed on the windowsills. The other thing I recall was the plane dipping to the right the second or two before it hit the ground. That was one remarkable experience.
i dont get how u guys think its fake, look at the landing and taxi. look at the buildings, lights, other planes, traffic on the ground, the water. If it was a sim, the camera wouldnt have been able to record as well. I see no reasons proving this is fake
I was six years old and now I really miss this old days. Can't believe how an international can be packed in such a cramped city. Kai Tak is really a legendary story.
90ish degree turn at a speed slow enough to almost immediately grease it onto the numbers. A very fine example of a pro making something remarkable look routine.
First time I went into Kai Tak was 1973 on World Airways DC 8-60. In those days they were building slums on top of slum buildings. I swear, the left wing tip was no more than 100 feet from some of those slum dwellings. You could literally see the people looking at you. That was a life time experience. Flew into the new HKG in October. Piece of cake. Don’t really miss Kai Tak but glad I had the experience
In 1966 I was living on Conduit Road *mid-level area). One night, with a cloud layer just over my apartment (flat to the Brits) a Pan Am 707 took off from Kai Tak, made a hard right turn and flew beneath our level. It was awesome to be looking down on a flying 707 from my easy chair.
I'm 65 and worked all my adult life inside the bicycle industry and must have flown around the world at least 50 times on 747s of all types and loved every minute of it (especially flying business class upstairs). Anyways, when I was young there was a permanent Cathy-Pacific Billboard near Hollywood & Vine, and many times they showed a 747 landing at Hong Kong Kai Tak with exotic junk ships in the background etc. I always said to myself, the day I land on a 747 in Hong Kong I will know I made it in life. To my good fortune I got sucked inside the bicycle industry in the late 70s and found myself first flying to Japan, then Taiwan in the 80s, and finally my dream came true in the early 90s, as I landed at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in a 747 400 on Northwest airlines. That was an unforgettable experience that brought me to tears, and a very inspiring day in life...
@@markfox1545 Yes, I was very fortunate to work for a sister company of Shimano. Many people do not like being on a plane on long flights, but I loved every minute. I flew to Taiwan quite often and knew the LA/Taiwan crew well as always flew up stairs. Many times I was offered 1st class, but 90% of the time I turned it down as it was down stairs where people moved around too much and it was a bit noisy. Upstairs was always cozy, quiet and private. It's so said they no longer use 747s. But they're working on a twin engine version.
Right, nothing beats landing in a 747 at Hong Kong. Pops used to work for Pan Am and we were spoiled flying in 1st class, running up and down the 2 decks. Miss those days in the 70’s.
I made this landing about 6 times when I was stationed in HK in the early 70s, at the time I never thought anything of it butseeing this now 40 years on makes me think Im lucky I survived LOl. These pilots were bloody good back then. It was awesome when we were coming over the flats and motorways but I was ro young and fiery to be worried.
Bill Galloway Oh, very nice! I'm an American who's very interested in the history of Hong Kong, so do you mind if I ask you how being a UK serviceman in Hong Kong was while you were there? Do you have any thoughts on the current Chinese control of Hong Kong? Thanks for your time and service by the way.
01:29 the bridges under construction are to the new airport being built on Lantau Island. 2:45 notice all the buildings (Kowloon) are the same height - restriction so that planes landing at Kai Tan don't crash into them! 3:00 the mountain you will crash into if you don't turn!
Awesome video. Many thanks for uploading. Hats off to the old generation of pilots for their flying skills with due respect to all current pilots for flying me around the world. Thanks to the the whole flying community.
The two 'ding' sounds described that the autopilot is turned off and they land by visual approach by making a tight right turn and not by using ILS landing
My favourite landing ever. Looking out the window at night and then experiencing the bank of turn over the tops of the high rises is something I’ll never forget for the rest of my life.
Wow, I had only heard stories about that checkerboard for that turn. Its such a shame that aviators will never experience that particular approach anymore. Total goosebumps being able to see it here on youtube.
+Thyri Carver i was there when the airport was closed in 1998. its sad to see it closed but its a blessing at the same time because now we have a bigger airport that is safer to land. its amazing that there was no severe crash when kai tak was in service for almost a century despite the challenging landing. to all those skilled pilots who landed there, thank you for your service
Not saying the new airport is shit (actually it's one of my fav airports) but Kai Tak has more charm, except for people living under the approach path lol.
Some of us would love it. I live next to an airport in California . . . perfect: sky divers every day, flights in and out every day, airshows have been an annual event for more than 40 years. I would like to see some gliders and sailplanes, hot air balloons . . . oh, well.
I used to live near LGA and while it was cool to see planes it sometimes got annoying trying to sleep at night haha maybe that's why the rent was so cheap haha
This video has certainly brought back memories for me while on an evening approach to Kai Tak way back in the '80's. The plane had to make a fairly sharp right hand turn above Kowloon City which is a subdivision very close to the airport itself. I clearly remember seeing residents in one of the flats in the building below having their dinner! The landing gears of these jets must have been no more than 80 to 100 feet from the water tanks sitting on top of these buildings which were, due to zoning restrictions, no more than 6 stories high themselves! It was nothing short of breath-taking to see a large plane making such type of maneuver that close to structures and the airport. These days, the old Kai Tak runway has been re-purposed as a shopping district and some sort of ocean terminal!
I love it because that is what I flew into in a DC-6 or Air Force C-118. It was the two smaller checkerboards and not the big one they constructed later. The approach was normally harry because the viz was so bad. When you went to make your turn you had to drop all your "configuration" landing gear, flaps, throttle idle and big turn with rudder assist. Don't land long. I loved it but it was challenging.
To me, "piece of cake" in a B-707, back in '68. Looks hairier than it is. Just stay in the envelope, and follow the cues, keeping altitude and hard objects in their proper places, and it can be a stroll. First thing a pilot learns is "altitude and airspeed" are your safety supports - one may trade one for the other - just keep them at a safe number. (altitude and object awareness).
Amazing how that pilot was right on the PAPI after that mad right turn. I flew into Kai Tak numerous times as a passenger. The first time I did I had a friend tell me to get seat 33K on the B747-400. I asked why since I had the option of a business class seat. But he insisted saying the perspective of the wing on the right side would be worth it. Well he didn't lie. The winglet on the B747-400 wing looked like it was about to take the laundry off the patio on people's apartments while on final to the IGS. Then after flying through the "canyon" of apartments, I could see a soccer field and runway 13 at Kai Tak from my window. I was certain that Kai Tak only had one runway, so I became a tad concerned with us being so low in a massive airplane. Just about then I heard the engines spooling up and the airplane must have banked about 30 degrees to the right, rolled out and we landed. It was exhilarating. After we landed we deplaned on the tarmac, and I was deplaning with the flight crew. I told the captain it was my first time landing at Kai Tak, and nothing you read about it can begin to do it justice. I also asked what was the "secret" to making such a smooth landing at Kai Tak. The pilot was from Texas, and with a Texas drawl he said, "you fly to the missed approach point for the IGS (mind you they are flying directly at a hill), once there you hold the heading for two seconds. Just when you can't stand it anymore then you make the right turn. If you do that it works out every time. He said whenever pilots mess up that approach, it is because they turned too soon. But it was a fun approach to make as a passenger, and I can only imagine it was a million times better as a pilot. I guess Paro airport in Bhutan is the only approach that comes close to Kai Tak that one can fly today.
Dear old Kai Tak I miss you, and the take offs, and landings that I've done. Each time I've been to Hong Kong since you closed I make a point of going up The Peak to see you, and remember watching the take off's and landings.
My office, to be precise, the pantry room, was facing the classic sharp L-turn landing mountain. But I took it for granted to enjoy the magnificent landing view, everyday during coffee breaks, and had NEVER taken any picture/video of it. Now that the airport has been relocated to Lantau Island, I regret for my whole life.
Definitely one of the absolute challenging airports to land in. The perilously short runway, the banking , and the buildings surrounding you. So sad that's it's closed. I never been there. I wish I could go there and wish I was born 30 earlier. A true historic marvel in aviation.
If I ever missed anything in my life, it would be spending a day (or week), just spotting from different areas around this airport. Thanks to all who post videos that keep this amazing airport alive!!
I miss Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. Back in the80's and 90's when I was still a frequent flyer, I would pay the extra dollar to fly Cathay Pacific just to make sure I'll have Kai Tak as my stop-over. There's something about that airport that made me love going there. The current one is just OK. Not really crazy about it. Thanks for posting this. Brings back lots of memories!!!
That's why I have a series of videos. One shot out the front. One shot out the side, and so on. They were then pieced together into a single video with multiple angles in one video. This is raw footage.
Great video, thanks for the upload. I was in the RAF and stationed there from 1976-1978. I lived in a block of flats just below the checkerboards, and although they are not there in this video I could still make out the area. I did once land the other way up the lei Yue Mun gap. Ah the memories.
I like these old airports. This and Athens Hellenikon were really beautiful to land at. All these modern airports take away the vibrancy of the place you're visiting. Kai Tak may have been dangerous to land at, but it really suits the background of Hong Kong.
Still miss landings at Hellinikon.Kai Tak was so adrenalin pumping above the roofs and the checkerboard approach.Hellinikon over houses and the beachgoers too during approach and/or take off
my Kai Tak memory is 1977-78. so dramatic.stayed at Chunking Mansion, spent a week wandering everywhere, Repulse Bay to NT... reading Thomas Hardy of all things... keep coming back to this wonderful video.
Kai Tak was a fascinating airport of its own. A 90° approach on final, a single runway that was`nt really long, in the middle of high populated area, crosswinds, aprons crammed up with heavies & high traffic. You`ll never have that anywhere in the world again.
Love these videos.Being an old retired guy who enjoys flying the simulator on google earth,these videos show me landings that I can duplicate,love it.Thanks for the uploads.
Not many airports left that allow pilots to REALLY fly a landing with skill & precision instead of computers. I miss Kai Tak. I miss that generation of pilots.
Used shoot this approach on the old version of Microsoft flight simulator in a 747. I am just a private pilot and had to go around many times. Much respect for the crews who flew this approach!
Ahhh, the memories! Flying into Kai Tak was always a thrill ... Checkerboard Hill, peering into people's apartments during the final approach, etc. But Kai Tak soon became too small for a modern world, with only 8 gates and no room to expand.
Eric Li yeah there's something about "imperfect" places like Kowloon that light I fire in my heart. I can never quite put my finger on it but I guess I would pin it to the clash of the hustle and bustle of everyday life in a budding industrial country contrasted by the relentless global industrial machine flying right over their heads 24 hours a day. Or maybe I really just like airplanes idk
Great video. What a great job these pilots have. In a flight from Sydney to Tokyo I was invited up to the cockpit & the Pilots told me that it is a job with long periods of boredom & short periods of extreme stress. I am very envious of these guys !
man this brings back memories as to when I used to land in Kai Tak on the school holidays in the 80s. Remember getting off the plane and the humidity hitting you like a warm, moist blanket. Nice landing!
Having made that approach driving a B-707 back in 1968, it now seems much more cluttered than I remember. I do remember looking into somebody's kitchen window. There were also sequence flashers on the ground leading from the Kowloon NDB to the runway in a right curving pattern. Also, the checkerboard on the hillside was quite prominent, but then it was a very clear day for me. Smooth landing, with applause, of course. (Pan Am, may it live on in memory). How this old fart does miss it - terribly!
I flew in and out of Kai Tak ('KT') regularly, with two different airlines, between 1987 and 1998 (when KT closed and the new facility at Chek Lap Kok - 'CLK') opened. My first approaches to KT were in the DC-8-73F, before I switched airlines and converted first to the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar, and thence to the B747-400. Since Hong Kong was our home base, the IGS13 approach rapidly became second-nature to all pilots at our airline. But because we were local, we were authorized by Hong Kong's CAD ('Civil Aviation Department') to perform a piece of trickery on the approach no visiting airlines were permitted to undertake. With the checkerboard and the runway threshold both in sight, we disconnected the autopilot and flight directors early and - "fully visual" - kept Checkerboard Hill to our right, and flew around the north side of the hill, before lining up on RWY13. This permitted us a longer final, and a purely visual line-up, for a more stabilized final approach. This made precision landings in visual conditions much easier. Perhaps pilots with overseas airlines pulled the same trick and got away with it, but I wouldn't know. But in a familiarisation briefing during my initial line training, however, ATC and CAD reps emphasised only local HKG airlines were permitted to do this. Interestingly, RWY13 at Kai Tak was not always as long as it was by the end, nor was it always in the same location where it is shown in this video. There used to be two runways at Kai Tak - RWY07/25 (1,450 m / 4,760 ft long), as well as RWY13/31, which latter was 1,664 m / 5,459 ft long, by 1957. But this was the original version of RWY13/31, and although parallel to the runway we see in this video, it was displaced well to the left (ie to the northeast), and did not project out into the harbour, being built on existing land without the benefit of landfill. As you can imagine, lining up with this older version of RWY13 was even more exciting than the experience you see in this video, requiring pilots to approach purely visually and come in over the hills north west of the airport. I never had the chance to fly that approach myself, but my own father was a Captain for BOAC, and operated into and out of Kai Tak many timesharing his own career, before the later version of RWY13/31 was opened in 1958. He operated the Lockheed L749 Constellation and the Bristol Britannia (both the 102 and later the much larger 312 models of this type) into and out of KT on the 'Old RWY13/31'. My father later described the technique for landing on the Old 13 as approaching over the hills to the northwest just as low and slow as you dared on intermediate flap, and then the moment you felt you were clear, lowering the gear and all remaining flap, idling the power to get down on to some semblance of a sensible glideslope, because landing 'long' on a 5,459 ft runway was simply not an option. After Kai Tak closed in August 1998, I had a few years operating into and out of the new Hong Kong airport at CLK, and it is indeed a beautiful facility, frequently voted the best airport in the world. But it's not Kai Tak.
Great to see the famous checkerboard again, from where the plane had to turn right some 47°. The Google Earth maps still show it but over time I guess it will fade away.
I know a pilot who used to fly into kai Tak. He told me it was the only runway he feared every single time. Never a routine landing he told me. But he said it was fun too at the same time.
I remembered this as a child and then as a young adult. Even scarier when it's raining, but whoa from the cockpit.!! That runway really looked short. Now I know what they meant by the checkered flag. I don't think you'll ever see it as a passenger. Thanks for posting
Always a thrill to see and appreciate the pilot skills in making it look so easy.Thanks guys (and girls) for your remarkable talents. I just wish I was much younger and to be involved in that vocation. You are my idols!
Recently learned about the famous 'Checkerboard approach' at Kai Tak. Came here curious to see the actual 'Checkerboard' on top of checkerboard hill during the final approach to RWY 13. The feel when you actually see it and then the sharp right turn to line up with the runway. Remarkable feat! Anyone else who came here for this?
I only flew into the old Hong Kong airport once. Even though I knew it was a tight approach, I was gripping my armrest pretty hard. That was an adventure!
I always wanted to see a landing at Kai Tak from the cockpit. It was fucking dangerous! Even if it was a sign of identity of the city, thank god they made the HK International Airport.
Old Kai Tak aiport is one of those visual landing ONLY airport. You cannot land using instrument (can't use terrain guidance system, since it will completely botched the approach, or not giving you enough space to clear the houses.) Or think of it this way: most airport in the world have a radio-guiding system that guide a plane to land. Problem with Kai Tak is that they cannot use that system because of congested spacing (you literally have about 200,000 people living at immidate vicinity of the airport, not to mention the terrain don't help either (the airport is surrounded by mountain, with only one way out toward Victoria Harbor) This is how crazy it gets: on the landing flight path chart (the one that tell you how to land at the airport), they EXPLICITLY mention that pilot MUST ignore the guiding signal before and during the checkerboard hill, or they will crash into Lok Fu and the hill (which has at least 10,000 living in those hills) due to lack of terrain clearance. Pilot have to land the plane with visual aid only (hence checkerboard hill)
@@BigTymers1211 You can land at Kai Tak with instrument, Runway 31 have ILS, if the weather is really bad, most plane would land there. The only reason why they dont use that much is because of the taxiway at the end is also where plane line up for takeoff at Runway 13
I sat in the lounge that looked straight down the runway for an hour on my way out in 1998. During this time every, and I mean every, plane landed right wheel first. They were still in a turn when the wheels hit the runway. Very impressive. :)
I thought I remember the buildings being much closer, so close I could see inside them, and flying lower for longer along the bay..Is this a different approach?
love how the checkerboard hill get closer and closer then at the last second 49 degree bank right and loose 800 ft in the turn to get you in the right spot and dont rip the top off the high rise on the way in
Hi I noticed 2 sides to the Checkerboard, the IGS side then the other just visible but offset by about 40 deg. Was that for pilots departing towards the hills?
Then may I recommend you fly to EVENES (ENEV), but do not take the ILS 17 approach, but any of the 35 approaches. You cannot come directly at it because of a mountain, so you have to approach first at an angle.
My father was an airline Pilot for Flying Tiger Line and Has flown to Hong Kong many times in 747's and other airplanes as well. He had over 30 thousand hours of flying experience by the time he retired in 1984 and over 30 years with Flying Tigers.
A Kai Tak landing required serious airmanship even on clear days. To do it in the rain or at night or in the rain at night was a real challenge and I'm sorry not to have had the chance to experience it. I visited Kai Tak several times from 1967-1970 whenever the U.S. Navy brought me to HK and spent quite a few enjoyable hours on the observation deck watching 707s, DC-8s and other assorted prop and smaller jet aircraft come and go. The landing routine there was similar to the old MKC approach in Kansas City if you were landing to the north. You'd fly your base aiming toward the apartments atop Quality Hill then turn final and float down below folk's living room windows to the runway down in the valley of the Missouri and Kansas rivers where they join together.
Yes, right. ILS only led to Checkerboard Hill. Pilots had then to make a right turn and only a few seconds to align the plane to the runway manually. This was called IGS (Instrument Guided System) and pilots needed a special license for this type of approach.
what an amazing approach!! it's really great how they get the approach so perfect !! it's always tough for me to land in fs and they used to do it fo real!! wow .. :)
Very good video. I have never been to Hong Kong. When i view this video , it gives me a good idea what to expect at that place if i ever plan to travel there. The cock pit is a major interest to share with viewers who might want t o see for themselves what pilots experience upfront. I can tell is is not fake, it is very real! Good job video guy! Edmondo ( etsonggalaxy)
@pantsNshirt what it is is the camera. a camera records 30 to 100 frames a second. meaning it takes that many "pictures" in one second. the same happens with the screens but they display it at that speed. so the camera is catching the moments when the screen is off. but the screen turns off and on so fast we as humans can't see it. hope that makes sense
I lived in Asia at the time of this video, I remember the running joke among business travelers was that if you asked the pilot nicely, he would stop at McDonald's before landing.
I lived in HK back in the 80’s and early 90’s and we used to marvel at how clear Kojacks face was on the apartment TVs during the final right turn
my mom and dad lived in hong kong they lived on top of mcdonalds 😂
@@formulaobsessed Best wishes, I hope your Hong Kong memories are as fond as mine.
Yes, McDonald's ran a fly-thru kiosk then. 😊😊
OH! HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH how funny!!!! what a joke this is! HAHAHAHAHA! HILARIOUS
I was a tower controller in this era at Kai Tak. The ILS was based at the checkerboard and called an IGS (instrument guidance system). When you got to minimums on the ILS, you either turned and landed if you had the runway in sight, or you turned and started a go around if not visual. Not turning was not an option! Due to the crazy weather in the harbour, landings turned into go arounds often. Cathay Pacific pilots always made this landing look easy because they developed the habit of moving left off the ILS when they were visual and then had more space to do the turn.
The Hong Kong rugby team trained one season at Step Kip Mei ground which was directly under that turning point. We noted that the Cathay planes took the right hand turn earlier and wider, and the reason was confirmed by someone in the team with a Cathay connection. The non-Cathay planes had a very tight turn to do. We were like, someone should tell them!
You’re a legend
All this while we - the Hong Kong Aviation Club pilots - had to wait for eternity (at our own expenses) for a take-off clearance at the Light Aircraft Holding Point - sometimes we even had to cancel the flight - , or for a landing clearance while in an endless holding patern above Kowloon Wan, after having already waited for a "require East pass at [time]" clearance... And after having received that landing clearance we had to immediately plunge to the runway, then began the long queuing on Bravo 1... You didn't give us (the Hong Kong Avaiation Club pilots) the easy life...
I used to fly the IGS13 half a dot to one dot left of course for a better turn to final. Much preferred Kai Tak to the new airport. Charming old airport.
Watch “The World of Suzie Wong” with William Holden and Nancy Kwan. Taken some 37 years before the return to China on July 1, 1997. A year later, on July 6, Kai Tak was closed. The new airport at Chek Lap Kok just isn’t the same.
Amazing info. Thank you
I was a passenger on a United 747 into Kai Tak in 1994. I'd just gotten my own private pilot license 6 months earlier, and I couldn't believe the approach. It was at night in rain. We dropped out of the clouds and seemed to be right in the middle of the city, looking into people's windows. I was sitting in a left-side window seat, and as the pilot banked right there was the lit-up checkerboard right at our altitude.
As we were disembarking, I found myself next to the Captain, and I told him I was amazed he could perform that approach after flying across the ocean for 15 hours. That's when he explained that the plane had two flight crews. His team handled the takeoff, then went to sleep while the second one flew across half the world. Then he woke up and landed the plane.
I know exactly what you mean. I also landed there, in 1996. Like you, I think I was on the left side of the plane as well. I know what you mean about the windows. You are so close, you can make out the colors of the drapes and the items placed on the windowsills. The other thing I recall was the plane dipping to the right the second or two before it hit the ground. That was one remarkable experience.
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AHAHAHAHAHHAHAA LMAO I CANT BREATHE HILARIOUS
jefferywestbrook Was the flight overbooked?
United, you enter the plane a doctor and leave a patient. If United can’t beat the competition, they beat their passengers.
i dont get how u guys think its fake, look at the landing and taxi. look at the buildings, lights, other planes, traffic on the ground, the water. If it was a sim, the camera wouldnt have been able to record as well. I see no reasons proving this is fake
People were dumb back then lol
@@Star737_yt Still are, more than ever.
@@aviationlba747 Look how many people voted for Trump...
@@edeledeledel5490 yep
Nope, not fake. You must be from the tRump camp, here's some advise, his loss was not fake, he lost.... Period!
I was six years old and now I really miss this old days. Can't believe how an international can be packed in such a cramped city. Kai Tak is really a legendary story.
Wong Terry I miss HK in 1980s... That was marvel.
90ish degree turn at a speed slow enough to almost immediately grease it onto the numbers. A very fine example of a pro making something remarkable look routine.
Bill Packman Its a 45 degree turn
+Ataylor0 90 DEGREE TURN. 45 DEGREE BANK ANGLE
44 degrees
47
Mine goes to 11
thank you to all pilots who safely landed their aircrafts at Kai Tak. You did a marvelous job!
Salute !
forever brilliant !!!
was our job did so every day, lol ........
First time I went into Kai Tak was 1973 on World Airways DC 8-60. In those days they were building slums on top of slum buildings. I swear, the left wing tip was no more than 100 feet from some of those slum dwellings. You could literally see the people looking at you. That was a life time experience. Flew into the new HKG in October. Piece of cake. Don’t really miss Kai Tak but glad I had the experience
In 1966 I was living on Conduit Road *mid-level area). One night, with a cloud layer just over my apartment (flat to the Brits) a Pan Am 707 took off from Kai Tak, made a hard right turn and flew beneath our level. It was awesome to be looking down on a flying 707 from my easy chair.
Condack Doh! I lived in Lobinson Doh!
I'm 65 and worked all my adult life inside the bicycle industry and must have flown around the world at least 50 times on 747s of all types and loved every minute of it (especially flying business class upstairs). Anyways, when I was young there was a permanent Cathy-Pacific Billboard near Hollywood & Vine, and many times they showed a 747 landing at Hong Kong Kai Tak with exotic junk ships in the background etc. I always said to myself, the day I land on a 747 in Hong Kong I will know I made it in life. To my good fortune I got sucked inside the bicycle industry in the late 70s and found myself first flying to Japan, then Taiwan in the 80s, and finally my dream came true in the early 90s, as I landed at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in a 747 400 on Northwest airlines. That was an unforgettable experience that brought me to tears, and a very inspiring day in life...
You made it in just a few years before the airport closed for good!
The bicycle industry requires a lot of international travel, does it?😅😅😅😅
@@markfox1545 Yes, I was very fortunate to work for a sister company of Shimano. Many people do not like being on a plane on long flights, but I loved every minute. I flew to Taiwan quite often and knew the LA/Taiwan crew well as always flew up stairs. Many times I was offered 1st class, but 90% of the time I turned it down as it was down stairs where people moved around too much and it was a bit noisy. Upstairs was always cozy, quiet and private. It's so said they no longer use 747s. But they're working on a twin engine version.
Right, nothing beats landing in a 747 at Hong Kong. Pops used to work for Pan Am and we were spoiled flying in 1st class, running up and down the 2 decks. Miss those days in the 70’s.
I like that the video is 7:07 in length. How Boeing.
+Robert Bell Check out my 7:87 video
RUclips actually parsed and turned it into a link
Well spotted
They should have extended it to 7:47 in length ;o)
Well my video has A 3:20 video :p
Thanks for filming and posting. Incredible to see cockpit view. Hong Kong has the best harbour in the world.
I made this landing about 6 times when I was stationed in HK in the early 70s, at the time I never thought anything of it butseeing this now 40 years on makes me think Im lucky I survived LOl. These pilots were bloody good back then. It was awesome when we were coming over the flats and motorways but I was ro young and fiery to be worried.
+Bill Galloway Hello, were you by any chance a UK serviceman stationed in Hong Kong when it was still a colony?
+Zincon48 yes I was there for over 2 years back in the early 70s, Black Watch stationed at Gun Club Hill Barracks in Kowloon.
Bill Galloway Oh, very nice! I'm an American who's very interested in the history of Hong Kong, so do you mind if I ask you how being a UK serviceman in Hong Kong was while you were there? Do you have any thoughts on the current Chinese control of Hong Kong? Thanks for your time and service by the way.
@@Vishalsinghyt1980 what? He never said he's a pilot. Read again.
01:29 the bridges under construction are to the new airport being built on Lantau Island. 2:45 notice all the buildings (Kowloon) are the same height - restriction so that planes landing at Kai Tan don't crash into them! 3:00 the mountain you will crash into if you don't turn!
Roger Patterson 3:00 turn right you go or it will be checkmate for you
The Lion Rock i believe
@@user-ky6vw5up9m Kowloon Peak
Tsing-Ma bridge, world’s widest suspension bridge.
Awesome video.
Many thanks for uploading.
Hats off to the old generation of pilots for their flying skills with due respect to all current pilots for flying me around the world.
Thanks to the the whole flying community.
The two 'ding' sounds described that the autopilot is turned off and they land by visual approach by making a tight right turn and not by using ILS landing
+Ahmad Kamil CORRECT THE ILS TAKES YOU TO THE CHECKERBOARD. NO FURTHER
My favourite landing ever. Looking out the window at night and then experiencing the bank of turn over the tops of the high rises is something I’ll never forget for the rest of my life.
Wow, I had only heard stories about that checkerboard for that turn. Its such a shame that aviators will never experience that particular approach anymore. Total goosebumps being able to see it here on youtube.
+Thyri Carver Why aren't they able to experience that anymore?
That airport no longer exists
+Thyri Carver i was there when the airport was closed in 1998. its sad to see it closed but its a blessing at the same time because now we have a bigger airport that is safer to land. its amazing that there was no severe crash when kai tak was in service for almost a century despite the challenging landing. to all those skilled pilots who landed there, thank you for your service
John Lai What is the replacement airport?
chap lap kok airport located at lantau island
Not saying the new airport is shit (actually it's one of my fav airports) but Kai Tak has more charm, except for people living under the approach path lol.
lol
Some of us would love it. I live next to an airport in California . . . perfect: sky divers every day, flights in and out every day, airshows have been an annual event for more than 40 years. I would like to see some gliders and sailplanes, hot air balloons . . . oh, well.
I would pay extra to live there and wave at people coming in
Yeah, the people who are livin at the apartment
I used to live near LGA and while it was cool to see planes it sometimes got annoying trying to sleep at night haha
maybe that's why the rent was so cheap haha
How do you get a job flying into Kai Tak?
"I vas a Stuka pilot in ze var."
"You're hired."
Haha🤣🤣
Kkkk
That was good LMAO!!
Damn good!
Our get born many years ago.
This video has certainly brought back memories for me while on an evening approach to Kai Tak way back in the '80's. The plane had to make a fairly sharp right hand turn above Kowloon City which is a subdivision very close to the airport itself. I clearly remember seeing residents in one of the flats in the building below having their dinner! The landing gears of these jets must have been no more than 80 to 100 feet from the water tanks sitting on top of these buildings which were, due to zoning restrictions, no more than 6 stories high themselves! It was nothing short of breath-taking to see a large plane making such type of maneuver that close to structures and the airport.
These days, the old Kai Tak runway has been re-purposed as a shopping district and some sort of ocean terminal!
I love it because that is what I flew into in a DC-6 or Air Force C-118. It was the two smaller checkerboards and not the big one they constructed later. The approach was normally harry because the viz was so bad. When you went to make your turn you had to drop all your "configuration" landing gear, flaps, throttle idle and big turn with rudder assist. Don't land long. I loved it but it was challenging.
How about all those Boeing 707s, QANTAS, Pan American, Cathay, etc.
To me, "piece of cake" in a B-707, back in '68. Looks hairier than it is. Just stay in the envelope, and follow the cues, keeping altitude and hard objects in their proper places, and it can be a stroll.
First thing a pilot learns is "altitude and airspeed" are your safety supports - one may trade one for the other - just keep them at a safe number. (altitude and object awareness).
Amazing how that pilot was right on the PAPI after that mad right turn.
I flew into Kai Tak numerous times as a passenger. The first time I did I had a friend tell me to get seat 33K on the B747-400. I asked why since I had the option of a business class seat. But he insisted saying the perspective of the wing on the right side would be worth it. Well he didn't lie. The winglet on the B747-400 wing looked like it was about to take the laundry off the patio on people's apartments while on final to the IGS. Then after flying through the "canyon" of apartments, I could see a soccer field and runway 13 at Kai Tak from my window.
I was certain that Kai Tak only had one runway, so I became a tad concerned with us being so low in a massive airplane. Just about then I heard the engines spooling up and the airplane must have banked about 30 degrees to the right, rolled out and we landed. It was exhilarating.
After we landed we deplaned on the tarmac, and I was deplaning with the flight crew. I told the captain it was my first time landing at Kai Tak, and nothing you read about it can begin to do it justice. I also asked what was the "secret" to making such a smooth landing at Kai Tak. The pilot was from Texas, and with a Texas drawl he said, "you fly to the missed approach point for the IGS (mind you they are flying directly at a hill), once there you hold the heading for two seconds. Just when you can't stand it anymore then you make the right turn. If you do that it works out every time. He said whenever pilots mess up that approach, it is because they turned too soon.
But it was a fun approach to make as a passenger, and I can only imagine it was a million times better as a pilot. I guess Paro airport in Bhutan is the only approach that comes close to Kai Tak that one can fly today.
Landing at Kai Tak was one of the most dangerous and difficult in the world, yet, the pilots made it look so easy, great skills!
Dear old Kai Tak I miss you, and the take offs, and landings that I've done.
Each time I've been to Hong Kong since you closed I make a point of going up The Peak to see you, and remember watching the take off's and landings.
My office, to be precise, the pantry room, was facing the classic sharp L-turn landing mountain.
But I took it for granted to enjoy the magnificent landing view, everyday during coffee breaks, and had NEVER taken any picture/video of it.
Now that the airport has been relocated to Lantau Island, I regret for my whole life.
Definitely one of the absolute challenging airports to land in. The perilously short runway, the banking , and the buildings surrounding you. So sad that's it's closed. I never been there. I wish I could go there and wish I was born 30 earlier. A true historic marvel in aviation.
If I ever missed anything in my life, it would be spending a day (or week), just spotting from different areas around this airport. Thanks to all who post videos that keep this amazing airport alive!!
This was one of the last flights to Kai Tak on July 6,1998
I miss Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. Back in the80's and 90's when I was still a frequent flyer, I would pay the extra dollar to fly Cathay Pacific just to make sure I'll have Kai Tak as my stop-over. There's something about that airport that made me love going there. The current one is just OK. Not really crazy about it. Thanks for posting this. Brings back lots of memories!!!
That's why I have a series of videos. One shot out the front. One shot out the side, and so on. They were then pieced together into a single video with multiple angles in one video. This is raw footage.
And brilliantly done, I may add.
Great video, thanks for the upload. I was in the RAF and stationed there from 1976-1978. I lived in a block of flats just below the checkerboards, and although they are not there in this video I could still make out the area. I did once land the other way up the lei Yue Mun gap. Ah the memories.
I like these old airports. This and Athens Hellenikon were really beautiful to land at. All these modern airports take away the vibrancy of the place you're visiting. Kai Tak may have been dangerous to land at, but it really suits the background of Hong Kong.
What about Gibraltar, Hechi or Lukla ?
Chek Lap Kok is still pretty beautiful, with the mountains as a backdrop,
Still miss landings at Hellinikon.Kai Tak was so adrenalin pumping above the roofs and the checkerboard approach.Hellinikon over houses and the beachgoers too during approach and/or take off
@@KG1970.. I used to live above Glifada. We would wait to see the flight land then set off to pick up my sister.
@@villageblunder4787 those landings were legendary.Eleftherios Venizelos isn't the same
my Kai Tak memory is 1977-78. so dramatic.stayed at Chunking Mansion, spent a week wandering everywhere, Repulse Bay to NT... reading Thomas Hardy of all things...
keep coming back to this wonderful video.
Kai Tak was a fascinating airport of its own.
A 90° approach on final, a single runway that was`nt really long, in the middle of high populated area, crosswinds, aprons crammed up with heavies & high traffic.
You`ll never have that anywhere in the world again.
Love these videos.Being an old retired guy who enjoys flying the simulator on google earth,these videos show me landings that I can duplicate,love it.Thanks for the uploads.
Dean: "Damn, who designed this approach?"
Sanjeev: "Satan."
"Pan Am"
I am sure that the airport was adequate in the beginning. Progress just outgrew the airport. I remember Hong Kong when it was mostly shantytowns.
I thought it was Sundeep not Sanjeev.
Not many airports left that allow pilots to REALLY fly a landing with skill & precision instead of computers. I miss Kai Tak. I miss that generation of pilots.
Try Paro airport in Bhutan. That will satisfy your desire.
Idiot... with skill etc ? You are talking about human life dumbass. This not a game.
Used shoot this approach on the old version of Microsoft flight simulator in a 747. I am just a private pilot and had to go around many times. Much respect for the crews who flew this approach!
Ahhh, the memories! Flying into Kai Tak was always a thrill ... Checkerboard Hill, peering into people's apartments during the final approach, etc. But Kai Tak soon became too small for a modern world, with only 8 gates and no room to expand.
The person who recorded these videos should have free Hong Kong mango drinks for the rest of their lives
agreed.
Are you kidding me the camera man here is crap.
@@Dwight511 hes FLYING A PLANE what more do you want
@@shelb2057 It's not like the pilot is flying with one hand and holding the camera with the other.. lol Whoever filmed this was zoomed in WAY to much.
@@bBersZ regardless tho, they still captured what landing at this airport is like b4 it closed
We used to fly into Kai Tak with 707's in the 1970's when I was at Air France ......the weather always made for a thrill ride, I miss that airport.
I miss the HK in 1998. Maybe it was not shining as it is today but I just miss it a lot.
Eric Li yeah there's something about "imperfect" places like Kowloon that light I fire in my heart. I can never quite put my finger on it but I guess I would pin it to the clash of the hustle and bustle of everyday life in a budding industrial country contrasted by the relentless global industrial machine flying right over their heads 24 hours a day. Or maybe I really just like airplanes idk
@@MrHenreee You are not alone with that sentiment...
The thing you miss is freedom, free Hong Kong.
Great video. What a great job these pilots have. In a flight from Sydney to Tokyo I was invited up to the cockpit & the Pilots told me that it is a job with long periods of boredom & short periods of extreme stress. I am very envious of these guys !
Never will forget the many times I flew and sat on the starboard side for the landing. It's just awesome indeed!🇸🇬❤️
man this brings back memories as to when I used to land in Kai Tak on the school holidays in the 80s. Remember getting off the plane and the humidity hitting you like a warm, moist blanket. Nice landing!
I was with a C-9 crew from Atsugi, Japan during 89-94, Did this trip to Hong Kong 4 or 5 times a year. Always distressing.
That was a freaking *perfect* approach and landing. 10/10. You really need skills for that.
And bring me new pants when I taxi to the gate please..yes that's right, my brown ones
The air traffic control at kai Tak did a fantastic job 👏 ❤
Having made that approach driving a B-707 back in 1968, it now seems much more cluttered than I remember. I do remember looking into somebody's kitchen window. There were also sequence flashers on the ground leading from the Kowloon NDB to the runway in a right curving pattern. Also, the checkerboard on the hillside was quite prominent, but then it was a very clear day for me. Smooth landing, with applause, of course. (Pan Am, may it live on in memory).
How this old fart does miss it - terribly!
I flew in and out of Kai Tak ('KT') regularly, with two different airlines, between 1987 and 1998 (when KT closed and the new facility at Chek Lap Kok - 'CLK') opened.
My first approaches to KT were in the DC-8-73F, before I switched airlines and converted first to the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar, and thence to the B747-400.
Since Hong Kong was our home base, the IGS13 approach rapidly became second-nature to all pilots at our airline. But because we were local, we were authorized by Hong Kong's CAD ('Civil Aviation Department') to perform a piece of trickery on the approach no visiting airlines were permitted to undertake.
With the checkerboard and the runway threshold both in sight, we disconnected the autopilot and flight directors early and - "fully visual" - kept Checkerboard Hill to our right, and flew around the north side of the hill, before lining up on RWY13.
This permitted us a longer final, and a purely visual line-up, for a more stabilized final approach. This made precision landings in visual conditions much easier.
Perhaps pilots with overseas airlines pulled the same trick and got away with it, but I wouldn't know. But in a familiarisation briefing during my initial line training, however, ATC and CAD reps emphasised only local HKG airlines were permitted to do this.
Interestingly, RWY13 at Kai Tak was not always as long as it was by the end, nor was it always in the same location where it is shown in this video.
There used to be two runways at Kai Tak - RWY07/25 (1,450 m / 4,760 ft long), as well as RWY13/31, which latter was 1,664 m / 5,459 ft long, by 1957.
But this was the original version of RWY13/31, and although parallel to the runway we see in this video, it was displaced well to the left (ie to the northeast), and did not project out into the harbour, being built on existing land without the benefit of landfill.
As you can imagine, lining up with this older version of RWY13 was even more exciting than the experience you see in this video, requiring pilots to approach purely visually and come in over the hills north west of the airport.
I never had the chance to fly that approach myself, but my own father was a Captain for BOAC, and operated into and out of Kai Tak many timesharing his own career, before the later version of RWY13/31 was opened in 1958. He operated the Lockheed L749 Constellation and the Bristol Britannia (both the 102 and later the much larger 312 models of this type) into and out of KT on the 'Old RWY13/31'.
My father later described the technique for landing on the Old 13 as approaching over the hills to the northwest just as low and slow as you dared on intermediate flap, and then the moment you felt you were clear, lowering the gear and all remaining flap, idling the power to get down on to some semblance of a sensible glideslope, because landing 'long' on a 5,459 ft runway was simply not an option.
After Kai Tak closed in August 1998, I had a few years operating into and out of the new Hong Kong airport at CLK, and it is indeed a beautiful facility, frequently voted the best airport in the world.
But it's not Kai Tak.
You remind me of Captain Lenard Morgan. Consummate aviator who had a knack for writing to make you feel what he experienced.
You drove a B-707? Wow! I've never heard a pilot refer to driving planes before. ;P
What a treat! Awesome video. The checkerboard is visible. Fantastic!
Great to see the famous checkerboard again, from where the plane had to turn right some 47°. The Google Earth maps still show it but over time I guess it will fade away.
I know a pilot who used to fly into kai Tak. He told me it was the only runway he feared every single time. Never a routine landing he told me. But he said it was fun too at the same time.
Very skillful pilots at the controls.
Thank you for this lovely reminder of the world that was.
I watched the whole thing and enjoyed every minute of it :)
Love how the pilots laugh after they land like "haha suprised that worked"
It’s very interesting that here’s quite a lot of pilots sharing their unique experiences landing at Kai Tak Airport even its been years ago.
Stayed at a friends flat for a few days years ago,the 747,s would fly just above the block
we would sit on the roof having a beer AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!
god damn that must be loud
I took a photo of a plane passing above from the street below,it looked as if it was going to scrape the flats it was so close.
So jealous
I remembered this as a child and then as a young adult. Even scarier when it's raining, but whoa from the cockpit.!! That runway really looked short. Now I know what they meant by the checkered flag. I don't think you'll ever see it as a passenger. Thanks for posting
Nice video, got to see a part of Hong Kong that I would not see in this lifetime. Thx.
Nice landing. : )
I +1 your +1 El Elsa X )
Always a thrill to see and appreciate the pilot skills in making it look so easy.Thanks guys (and girls) for your remarkable talents. I just wish I was much younger and to be involved in that vocation. You are my idols!
that looked like a pretty smooth landing :-)
I'm glad this video exists. Wanted to see it myself.
Recently learned about the famous 'Checkerboard approach' at Kai Tak. Came here curious to see the actual 'Checkerboard' on top of checkerboard hill during the final approach to RWY 13. The feel when you actually see it and then the sharp right turn to line up with the runway. Remarkable feat! Anyone else who came here for this?
I only flew into the old Hong Kong airport once. Even though I knew it was a tight approach, I was gripping my armrest pretty hard. That was an adventure!
I always wanted to see a landing at Kai Tak from the cockpit. It was fucking dangerous!
Even if it was a sign of identity of the city, thank god they made the HK International Airport.
+Vince O I'm a HK citizen. Actually, the runway is still there at right now, you can still try a hard landing....lol
Juan Acosta why was it dangerous?
Old Kai Tak aiport is one of those visual landing ONLY airport. You cannot land using instrument (can't use terrain guidance system, since it will completely botched the approach, or not giving you enough space to clear the houses.) Or think of it this way: most airport in the world have a radio-guiding system that guide a plane to land. Problem with Kai Tak is that they cannot use that system because of congested spacing (you literally have about 200,000 people living at immidate vicinity of the airport, not to mention the terrain don't help either (the airport is surrounded by mountain, with only one way out toward Victoria Harbor)
This is how crazy it gets: on the landing flight path chart (the one that tell you how to land at the airport), they EXPLICITLY mention that pilot MUST ignore the guiding signal before and during the checkerboard hill, or they will crash into Lok Fu and the hill (which has at least 10,000 living in those hills) due to lack of terrain clearance. Pilot have to land the plane with visual aid only (hence checkerboard hill)
Vince Ou It is a cruise terminal. Still a recognizable shape around the runway and taxiways to enthusiasts when looking from above :)
@@BigTymers1211 You can land at Kai Tak with instrument, Runway 31 have ILS, if the weather is really bad, most plane would land there. The only reason why they dont use that much is because of the taxiway at the end is also where plane line up for takeoff at Runway 13
I sat in the lounge that looked straight down the runway for an hour on my way out in 1998. During this time every, and I mean every, plane landed right wheel first. They were still in a turn when the wheels hit the runway. Very impressive. :)
Crosswind from the right?
Fun is over. Hong Kong handed over to China and the old Kai Tak shuts down.
Hong Kong return to China in July 1997, Kai Tak shut down in 1997. the new Hog Kong Airport is aone hell of a lot better.
The old HK Authorities commenced the airport some years before the handover.
that is lovely video,this airport ran 20years ago ,surprise to see .Thank you guys.
It is a 47 degree turn not 90 if you look at the chart of kai tak.
Great view, many thanks for uploading!
I thought I remember the buildings being much closer, so close I could see inside them, and flying lower for longer along the bay..Is this a different approach?
Yes, I could see what they were watching on TV. :)
love how the checkerboard hill get closer and closer then at the last second 49 degree bank right and loose 800 ft in the turn to get you in the right spot and dont rip the top off the high rise on the way in
I did this approach several times in the DC8, by the time I transitioned to the 747 Kai Tak was closed.
For a pilot, it seems a honor and challenge to approach a safely landing at Kai Tak airport. Especially flying a big thing like 747.
Hi I noticed 2 sides to the Checkerboard, the IGS side then the other just visible but offset by about 40 deg. Was that for pilots departing towards the hills?
Thanks for posting, I love your in-cockpit videos :)
MY GOD THAT LOOKS SCARY
It was also difficult to land at Kai Tak Airport sometimes because of strong cross winds
I plan to get a running subtitle or caption explaining thses when I get a chance. Stand by for that :)
Thanks for uploading, brings back a lot of memories.
listen to that pilot laugh "It's so awesome bing me!"
Fantastic video, congratulations!
And I was like: Oh, there's my house! there's my friend's house!
Thanks Timmy Chiu!! We would have never known without you!!
Beautiful landing.4:22 someone:"Hahaha"
If I were over such plane at 4;22 I have also laughed noisly
Love the nervous laughter right after the wheels touch down. Classic.
I did a flight simulator for fun once and I landed the simulator plane here at night with lightning it was TERRIFYING!
Then may I recommend you fly to EVENES (ENEV), but do not take the ILS 17 approach, but any of the 35 approaches. You cannot come directly at it because of a mountain, so you have to approach first at an angle.
never ceases to amaze me what an approach well done all Pilots indeed
My father was an airline Pilot for Flying Tiger Line and Has flown to Hong Kong many times in 747's and other airplanes as well. He had over 30 thousand hours of flying experience by the time he retired in 1984 and over 30 years with Flying Tigers.
A Kai Tak landing required serious airmanship even on clear days. To do it in the rain or at night or in the rain at night was a real challenge and I'm sorry not to have had the chance to experience it. I visited Kai Tak several times from 1967-1970 whenever the U.S. Navy brought me to HK and spent quite a few enjoyable hours on the observation deck watching 707s, DC-8s and other assorted prop and smaller jet aircraft come and go. The landing routine there was similar to the old MKC approach in Kansas City if you were landing to the north. You'd fly your base aiming toward the apartments atop Quality Hill then turn final and float down below folk's living room windows to the runway down in the valley of the Missouri and Kansas rivers where they join together.
Love the little chuckle when they land!
Yes, right. ILS only led to Checkerboard Hill. Pilots had then to make a right turn and only a few seconds to align the plane to the runway manually. This was called IGS (Instrument Guided System) and pilots needed a special license for this type of approach.
I miss the good old airport! The view back then just spectacular... Window seats were a must especially when arriving day time!
I like the little giggle at 4:22. A bit of, "well I'm glad that's done."
very smooth touch down
what an amazing approach!! it's really great how they get the approach so perfect !! it's always tough for me to land in fs and they used to do it fo real!! wow .. :)
Very good video. I have never been to Hong Kong. When i view this video , it gives me a good idea what to expect at that place if i ever plan to travel there. The cock pit is a major interest to share with viewers who might want t o see for themselves what pilots experience upfront. I can tell is is not fake, it is very real! Good job video guy! Edmondo ( etsonggalaxy)
I Must say your video is the Best Kai tak landing Video .
I Filmed Kai Tak Yesterday. I stood at that fire station and still has taxiway marking A12
@pantsNshirt what it is is the camera. a camera records 30 to 100 frames a second. meaning it takes that many "pictures" in one second. the same happens with the screens but they display it at that speed. so the camera is catching the moments when the screen is off. but the screen turns off and on so fast we as humans can't see it. hope that makes sense