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2015-07-07 Europe

Watch a C-130 pilot's terrifying view of a combat landing

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Nice to be able to see where you're going virtually all the way down. But not much room for error.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-07-07 07:52|| 2015-07-07 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Pretty much the common approach to valley flightlines. A Vegas pilot once told me the airport sanctioned the style to support the noise abatement ordinance, pilots chose it to minimize exposure to ground level wind shear.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-07-07 13:56|| 2015-07-07 13:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Standard approach into Balad. Even more fun in the back as "cargo"

Posted by OldSpook 2015-07-07 15:28|| 2015-07-07 15:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Similar to the approach for Aspen airport since the place is surrounded by mountains.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-07-07 15:36|| 2015-07-07 15:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Did a combat landing and take-off in a C-7 Caribou in Nam as a passenger. One was enough.

Posted by Old Patriot 2015-07-07 17:51|| 2015-07-07 17:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I wasn't the pilot but I landed at the old Hong Kong airport once and that was pretty scary. You fly alongside buildings fairly close and then as you get near the ground you do a hard right into the runway. Amazing it took them so long to create a new runway/airport.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-07-07 21:48|| 2015-07-07 21:48|| Front Page Top

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