On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 05:12:08PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > mike wilson wrote: > > >Stan Halpin wrote: > >> > >> I am still not convinced that the pilot didn't take off from the taxiway > >> to avoid wasting time by going all the way out to the runway. > > > >I've had a pilot (Aeroflot....) start his takeoff accelleration during > >the turn onto the runway. Until you've felt the tyres of an airliner > >scrubbing sideways, you haven't lived. > > Don't know how I stumbled onto this a few weeks ago, but I did: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE
That's Hong Kong for you. Just enough runway to operate a Jumbo, and mountains that prevent a traditional straight-on approach. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
