A great video from my BIL

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  • Art Vandelay
    Striving for mediocrity
    • Jul 2009
    • 10516
    #1

    A great video from my BIL

    This an email from BIL who live in Niku and BYUGuy's neck of the woods.

    Hi everyone,
    Yesterday I flew into Tegucigalpa, Honduras for the first time. The recent coup didn't affect our flight except for the fact that we only had about 35 passengers on it both ways. The airport is in the middle of the city which lies in a mountain valley covered in lush green vegetation. I wasn't qualified to fly down there till yesterday when I flew in with a check airman who showed me how it's done. The approach is a circling maneuver following terrain with mountains literally on both sides of the airplane flying very low following the downward slope of the mountains to the runway. We fly over houses about 200 feet below us on short final. Then to top it all off the runway is very short. Here's a video of an American Airlines airplane doing it. It was a lot of fun.

    [YOUTUBE]loyKfeV7NFg[/YOUTUBE]
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    • WashingtonCoug
      Monsters like me
      • Jan 2009
      • 1489
      #2
      That looks like landing an airline jet on an aircraft carrier. That has got to be a rush for the pilot.
      "To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."
      —Abraham Maslow

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        • LiveCoug
          LA Ute loves me
          • Nov 2008
          • 18486
          #3
          That's cool.. My dad has a sweet video of himself landing a 747 at the old Hong Kong airport. That was a crazy approach.

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            • Art Vandelay
              Striving for mediocrity
              • Jul 2009
              • 10516
              #4
              Originally posted by LiveCoug View Post
              That's cool.. My dad has a sweet video of himself landing a 747 at the old Hong Kong airport. That was a crazy approach.
              MY BIL is always sending me videos of things he takes from the cockpit, usually on his cell phone. I always find it humorous since the flight attendants make such a big deal about turning off all electronic devices. He actually got a 1 in a 1,000,000 shot of the space shuttle launch one time from above. It was a crappy video but kind of cool.

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                • wuapinmon
                  Soul Plumber
                  • Dec 2008
                  • 30711
                  #5
                  I HATE flying into Tegucigalpa. I felt like I could reach out and touch the hillside shanties. That has to be one of the worst major airports in the world. Taking off is just as harrowing. It feels like the engine is red-lining and you're at a 45-degree angle.
                  "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                  The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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                    • creekster
                      It is NOT a monkey!
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 22661
                      #6
                      Leaving my blackberry on during a plane flight is one fo the few ways I disobey authority anymore in my middle aged malaise.
                      PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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