To be sure, I admit I've rarely ever briefed where the Tower is during my descent briefings, both before or after our issue at Kai Tak.
Nor am I overly familiar with hand signals, until called on to use them when about to park after a diversion where there's limited ground support and signals are needed.
BB has a point.
My contribution was only that the funny thing about aviation is we never seem to make the same mistakes a second time - for at least two years.
By then the lessons we learned from the last stuff up are largely forgotten.
Checking where Tower is located is a sound idea yet rarely required.
No need to reinvent the wheel, but if you can make the edges rounder, all power to you.
And if you ever remember to check where the Tower's located, you may find it to be very useful information, one day, just like knowing those infernal hand signals
But landing without a clearance...
