Boeing 747 Cockpit Video Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (1998)

[@formbyquiz]

That approach (in very murky conditions) and landing was BRILLIANT. Hardly a shudder when the main gear touched down. A real pro job. Thanks for the post

[@CaptainBoeing]

AS 747 PILOT... A BIG GOOD JOB AND WELL DONE 4 THE CAPTAIN AND THE CREW

[@paulknight8419]

Fantastic - a video without the music - it makes it soooo much better with the real sounds. Thank you.

[@zombieman82091]

Airboyd...You always have the best footage of any jet driver's seat video than anyone on the tube... Thanks for it all, and keep it coming my friend~!!

[@jeremyhaines4481]

Fantastic stuff when i went to Hong Kong i flew in to the new airport ❤

[@brucewayne3602]

had to live to believe it ... words are not adequate to describe the experience ... hats off to thousands of pilots through the decades, heroes all !!!

[@mq46312]

At around 1:35 it feels like the plane is still way too high... but somewhere they manage to land.

[@freeaman]

your videos are awesome. i love planes. man's one of the best invention. thanks to your videos, i am getting an experience of how it feels when someone is flying the plane. keep on uploading. cheers.

[@netcong2]

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, that was beautiful...

[@MedicalAviator]

Just one word: Spectacular! Nice video! and Sound!

[@aaron1728]

Still remember when I was small, I lived around that area. And I went up to the "checkerboard" hill every weekends. But, I have no idea what does it use for. I was so naive back then :') *just a bit memory for myself*

[@jrdivinopolis]

Incredible, this landing was perfect, beautiful!

[@littlehappymonks]

thanks for uploading, I always love watching your channel. perfect. ...:D

[@capoia]

Fantastic !! Congrats to the pilot. Really nice work !!

[@MPCapricorn]

Great landing, excellent crew!

[@etc21228]

2:01 are the Spoiler rising sound,pilot switch to ARM before landing,once the plane hit the runway,it will rise automatically. 2:30 are the pilot manually retract the spoiler,after the speed reduce to

[@MarcusLeepapi]

Thanks man..... Thanks so much... I miss this airport.....

[@FirstClassVO]

Wow, that was a smooth landing.

[@Barkingspider]

that was one of the hardest airports to land, that pilot kicks ass

[@ZOTOBICRBOT]

Good video man....its amazing the work of pilots in these planes.....

[@RichardLaiHK]

Oh, the good old checkerboard approach. I wonder if it's still there. I've once climbed up there with my father, fantastic view. In those days only the best pilots were allowed to land there. :D Great video!

[@RufftaMan]

nice. perfect approach and landing.. i love the beacon on the hill =)

[@LordAlthalus]

I wanna know how fast you need to complete that turn to final and what bank angle they need to use. That's awesome.

[@rahman2cool]

This landing had to be one of the top 10 smooth lands at KAI TAK

[@doctrui]

@oBrendy The stripes in the runway are about 30 meters long! They're going very fast, though it doesn't seem so

[@Stensture]

Hard to believe its a 747. It looks like hes landing a helicopter. Nice video!

[@jcmegabyte]

Cool ride - thanks!

[@richardwparis]

@royalengland I think the 'plus 10' is +10 kts above vref and '900' is the rate of descent in fpm. I may be wrong though.

[@EliteOfTheRad]

dude, this video was taken in 1998... :P

[@BlitzvogelMobius]

Great Video!

[@inqilabzindabad3298]

that seems like a very smooth landing.

[@scvs2]

When i left China, for my new country i left on a Cathay 747, Kai Tak airport. 13 years passed first time I returned (this summer). Unfortunately was not able to experience landing at Kai Tak in the 773ER.

[@coulie27]

smooth landing! hah looks slower and smoother from the cockpit than from the cabin

[@machinejet]

Instrument guidance system. Its almost like the ILS but it "guides" you to the checkerboard on the hill as you can see on the left side in 1:00. When you reach the checkerboard then you fly visually and make a right 47 degree turn to line up with the runway for landing. Hope this helps =)

[@tb88536]

that guy did a nice job. that airport is not in use for airliners anymore but it was a hard turn in to a runway going inbetween two biuldings. very difficult

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Check out the PAPI's which are the lights on the edge, 2 green and 2 red indicate spot on glidescope (as opposed to vector which is your direction ie track). 3 greens and 1 red would be too high, all greens way to high etc you get the point.

[@ARKINHK]

It was built in 1925, so, yup it was small. The runway was extended, but, it was deemed to expensive to again and again - not enough resources around that area of Kowloon. Hence, the move to Lantau.

[@MarcusLeepapi]

Great view... I miss that airport..

[@swisscheeze13]

incredible approach

[@itsonlycapnkirk]

When Alan Whicker was talking with the pilot who had just landed him there, Alan said that he was so scared he shut his eyes on final approach ! The pilot said - "so did I ! "

[@omar2726]

It just looks slow because the visual reference point is the ground, which is quite far so it looks like its moving so slow from the inside. The landing speed of 747 is more or less 140knots.

[@hockeyg609]

-Excellent landing-

[@poweredparagliding]

Very nice, thanks for sharing!

[@VisitingPiddlyStations]

Perfect IGS Approach!

[@FGESN]

@marksorokin Это (уже закрытый) аэродром Кай Так, помимо сложной посадки регулярно возникали крайне опасные сильные переменные ветры, на видео скорее всего встречный воздушный поток увеличивает подъемную силу машины, пилотом повезло, что ветер не изменился за время посадки.

[@junemercado]

0:05 is that the auto pilot/off sound?

[@maximusaviationchannel]

yup! Thats the soundn of the pilots also moving their seats back to make room for their balls.

[@davidc437]

@osnoflaramo This airport was closed in the late 90's. They've had a new airport for over 10 years now.

[@lifrson]

Being a PC pilot, I've tried the approach and did a VFR on the checkerboard on the mountain near the airport. I hand flew the bird in using a 757-232. Still quite a challenge.

[@kingoftheintertron]

And their planes are much smaller and more agile. But yeah landing on a tiny moving runway must be super intense, at least they get landing hooks so if they get it wrong they can circle arround again.

[@mattutubematt]

wow its amazing how slow it seems ur flying!

[@ssodc]

Nice landing budy :)

[@musico81986]

What are those "Plus 10", "Plus 14" calls I hear from the pilots for? Great video!

[@GOP4USA]

gotta be on your game for this approach!

[@Archels]

the plane is landing at something like 115 MPH and the track is very large, its normal that it appears slow...

[@flyfrt]

thats the wind-up sound of various/systems being triggered by the the spin up of the main landing wheels.......on ground contact

[@liamjanin]

i like the link to no music. nice touch

[@WarrenSmalley]

The old HK airport was in the middle of the city, as you can see in this video. That last-minute turn to starboard in the final approach was famous around the world. Unfortunately, the new HK airport is in the middle of the harbor and there is nothing interesting about landing in HK anymore.

[@xxbenjamin32xx]

yeah thats true from a cockpit angle..but its actually pretty fast. About a 140-155 kts approach

[@RadioheadConcerts]

Beautiful

[@EagleLogic]

Little happy with the zoom there buddy

[@faisal210]

nice video. how come they are very slow right at landing? I know runway is short but they were already very slow at the landing time. its a 747... can anybody tell me?

[@xXxlllManHacklllxXx]

Can someone tell why they have to land with the mountain in their back and not from the sea? I knew it but now i forgot why...

[@napalm0nipples]

you try holding a camera while your in the way of a bunch of levers switches and 2 pilots that are trying to land on one of the hardest places to land :)

[@germdisco]

what causes the wind-up sound right before touchdown?

[@VIP100RoyalProdz]

He Landed.. Wow!!! Too Smooth.!

[@sramboz]

Is that the harbor at the end of the runway? wow it seems so slow for going at 100+mph

[@adamp.3739]

200+mph actually

[@RichardLaiHK]

A bunch of people: it was originally a tiny flying school, then the RAF took over until the Japanese invaded Hong Kong in 1941. Shortly afterwards the Japanese built an additional runway. Then in 1957 the British government replaced the old runways with new ones, and gradually the residential area grew around the expanding airport.

[@RUBBERMOOG]

Great post thanks

[@sheepball]

wow nice how did you get in the cockpit?

[@DouglasMiles1]

Have to love a 1/4 mile final in a 747 :P

[@buttermybutt1277]

Yooo...did the space shuttle ever land at Kai Tak?

[@hlfLordTesco]

and the descending vector was too steep for a birdy like that. am i right?

[@Icehexahedron]

why isn't 31 used instead of 13 when wind is 260/8?

[@sparks444]

Nice approach, the very narrow lense makes it look like the landing is done at 60kph :p

[@royalengland]

What does the pilot mean when he says plus 10, 900 plus 14, 800

[@adamp.3739]

Wait, the Boeings used to call out "sixty"? I thought that they never done that...

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Dad used to fly this every day in a TriStar.. He still misses it I think!

[@heffron91]

well over 2 years and it costs (in the netherlands) 150.000 dollars. but i dont know the price outside of europe actually.

[@AbstractMan23]

how fast are they going? it looks very slow...

[@BlueSharkRides]

O_O... nice landing O_O... he banked it lol then got her on the runway wow they are really skillled...

[@redjem13]

That is one great landing

[@lpacct]

Can anybody explain to me why the plane was going so slowly on the runway shortly after landing?

[@sweethartowns]

what the hell happened when they first landed because it just looked like it stopped...or is it an Optical illiusion?

[@georgesabitbol2137]

sonor warning at the beginning of this video announces that the autopilot is now disabled

[@jononioo]

why can't they just come in on a straight approach? Why all the turning?

[@aryus220]

shor final e and shortissible landing. Greatest in the kay-tak.

[@oBrendy]

What speed he did it at ? seems like no moer than 60 mph ?!?!

[@SpencerStaudinger]

what is that sound at 2:01 and at 2:30?

[@WildBillHabiki]

it looked like they were barely moving when they touched down but I am sure they were going very fast.

[@jp4505]

Wow, ive never seen a plane turn like that just before touchdown that takes skill. and is it just me or does it seem like theyre barely moving when they get over the run way

[@hbcrazyman]

wow. incredible. landing. its so weird how the airport was literaly in the middle of the city. it would be bad if a plane stalled right there.

[@clubhouseme]

Do you suppose alot of people live there?

[@annd87]

very good landing

[@mihailofsx]

WOOWW.. Ive never seen anything like this! How steep is this damn approach??? WOW.. Does anyone know the final approach aircraft configuration? Final approach speed? This seems to be very steep and very slow! Just pay attention to the PAPI.. it shows a good glideslope (2 red, 2 white) while the aircraft is more than 150 feet over the threshold !!

[@PKarpachev]

I wonder if the pilot is applying backthrust?Can anyone tell?

[@taylonnn101]

how did they go so slow?

[@bilshut]

funny how the video camera makes it look like the plane is landing at about 10 mph

[@ferdasynn]

wow that was a slow landing, almost no distance covered on the runway. Just look at the lines.

[@klsgamer1115]

i wonder how you got the video LOL

[@KeeLiphotonics]

well you have to consider the scales of things like that runway is reeeeeeli long and reeeli wide! (so it will slower) also they have be slow when landing as to not run out of runway =P