Most difficult landing in the world - Bhutan?

[mrloudly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZqN-uEgQU&fea...

[Boatbuoy]

I'm tempted to suggest that it's more impressive than the old Hong Kong (Kai Tak) airport approach.

[kiteless]

Lordy me

[Zaxxon]

Had the aeroplane suddenley seen Morrisey just before touching down?

[db]

I want to go there!
nice to see this opened again

[NDA]

The old Hong Kong airport freaked me out - as did Funchal.

I'm not a happy flier.

[Manicminer]

Thanks to the mods for opening this thread again.

That must be something else to be in one of those hillside houses and see an A320 fly past below you at a couple of hundred MPH!

I guess they turn off terrain warning for approaches like that.

[Moose.]

Pretty awesome for something the size of an A320 I must say. If I had to give up bush flying, this is what I'd want to do instead

[horza]

Amazing.

Question: Is the FO really wearing white socks!?!?!?

[scubadude]

Not as hairy as Lukla in Nepal surely?

[anonymous-user]

Hopefully not a repost (but unlikely), I think Id be a bit nervy on this approach...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyKfeV7NFg

[anonymous-user]

I would have been even more nervous on this flight to the same airport!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJoXMcehrYo&fea...

[Ultuous]

NDA said:

The old Hong Kong airport freaked me out - as did Funchal.

At least I'd have known about Hong Kong - hadn't heard about the approach to Funchal until I suddenly found my nose brushing the sea during the approach!

[Puggit]

Any excuse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEJLdGx9BI&con...

[Ayahuasca]

Tegucigalpa, Honduras is a bit hairy too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8

They had to remove a bit of the hillside in order to make an approach possible, and according to a pilot friend of mine, unless the wheels touch down in exactly the right position you are going off the cliff at the end!

The excitment doesn't stop when you get there - it is the current murder capital of the world!

[Manicminer]

I went to Tegucigalpa about ten years ago, it was about as moody as Glasgow on a bad night.

Didn't know it had gone to being the murder capital of the world, Caracas is pretty bad along with some Mexican cities as far as that region of the world goes.

Reading the latest news though it looks like Honduras is top of the tree followed by El Salvador! 88 murders per 100k citizens in 2011. Crazy.

The landing itself isn't anywhere near as bad for a passenger as the videos make it look.

Edited by Manicminer on Tuesday 27th March 20:52

Edited by Manicminer on Tuesday 27th March 20:52

[Ayahuasca]

Manicminer said:

The landing itself isn't anywhere near as bad for a passenger as the videos make it look.

That's because they can't see most of it!

[Manicminer]

Exactly