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mark_hoffman Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 1. "RE: Kai-Tak" 07-02-03, 21:22z  Hi Vic, I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to reply. I've had a busy month. I have indeed flown in there and it is one of the few airports where a visual approach is more difficult than the instrument approach. As you probably know, you approach on a base leg to the runway aiming at a big billboard. The problem is that the base leg must be flown so close into the airport that the final is very short. Compounding this is the fact that there is almost a right crosswind. As you are on a right base that right crosswind on final is a tailwind on base. This tends to make you overshoot the final which you must not do. Because of all the above the approach is often not too stablized which is pretty important in heavy jets. You are often rolling wings level on final at just a feww hundred feet, this in an aircraft with a 195 foot wingspan! All that being said though, the landing at Kai Tak was hotly fought over because it was such a challange. After all, that's why we became pilots wasn't it? Mark Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Kai-Tak    vgbaron       06-02-03              RE: Kai-Tak    mark_hoffman       07-02-03       1            RE: Kai-Tak    vgbaron       07-03-03       2                 RE: Kai-Tak    mark_hoffman       07-05-03       3                      RE: Kai-Tak    vgbaron       07-05-03       4

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