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Originally Posted by borked
Get the fuck outta here - if that's the landing path of all aircraft, that's seriously disturbing  |
Why do you think they closed the airport? Do some google research on 'Kai tak checkerboard approach" and you'll find that the approach was a 90 degree turn on short final. The name "checkerboard approach" is because there was a big checkerboard on the hills where pilots could see they needed to begin there turn before touch down.
Here some pics of aircraft starting the turn at the checkerboard:
Because of the short distance between the turn and the actuall touch down this resulted in alot of pilots doing corrections at very low altitude:
Wich resulted in very "crab" landings:
