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 ;D
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
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
Ooops!! I uploaded the wrong version of the video. Will try to upload the right one if I can.
Maurice
Here is the new link to the correct video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjN9cNaW2ig
Maurice
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.
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
Quote from: astron on June 23, 2011, 05:07:13 AM
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
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