Another flight video

[Maurice]

Once upon a time...in a land far, far away (Nepal), a foolhardy sim pilot took off from Katmandu & flew to Paro where he attempted to land on runway 33 where there is a steep 6,167 ft drop in the last 5.71 miles

This video shows his first unsuccessful attempt followed by a scary landing on his second attempt. Miraculously, everyone survived 

No tree tops were chopped off during this flight, but several flight regulations were ignored. Please don't try this at home 

Seriously now, I would love to see a real cockpit video of a real landing to that runway. It would be nice to see how close to the ground you really are during the whole approach as compared to the FSX version. I imagine that any passengers who have never landed there must be sh....g their pants if they look out the window.

New link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjN9cNaW2ig

Maurice

[bussgarfield]

Excellent stuff Maurice.

Flying in, stalling the plane to lose speed and then bump.

I was begining to thinK this guy had a motion sim until I realised the camera tripod was knocked on touch down !!!

Gary

[Maurice]

Ooops!! I uploaded the wrong version of the video. Will try to upload the right one if I can.

Maurice

[Maurice]

Here is the new link to the correct video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjN9cNaW2ig

Maurice

[DaveC]

Great Video Maurice.

I have really enjoyed watching your project come together over the time I have been here.

Your clouds look spectacular.  I could fly through those for hours.  Better than real ones. 

Dave C.

[astron]

Maurice, you are having way to much fun with that new camera, did you mount that on a tripod or something in the sim looks great when you turn it side to side stays nice and level, and on that 2nd landing i wonder if you took off some tree tops with your landing gear,LOL that was close,    keep it up cool stuff

Tom

[Maurice]

Maurice, you are having way to much fun with that new camera, did you mount that on a tripod or something in the sim looks great when you turn it side to side stays nice and level, and on that 2nd landing i wonder if you took off some tree tops with your landing gear,LOL that was close,    keep it up cool stuff

Tom

Yep. tripod but need to change the head to a fluid head to get smooth panning. I have the fluid head but it does not fit on my current tripod, so need to buy another tripod

Maurice

[Maurice]

I finally found a real cockpit video of a landing in runway 33. Interestingly enough, the pilot does not follow the VOR/DME procedure to descend to the runway but instead seems to follow a valley for a less drastic descent. Unless I am mistaken, this must be allowable only in pure VFR conditions I would think.

Anyway, the link to that site is http://wn.com/Landing_to_BHUTAN_Airport and the actual landing is item 13: Flight into Bhutan from the cockpit. I found it quite interesting to watch as well as videos # 6 & 12 which show landings on rwy 15 instead. Looks like a really beautiful country.

Maurice