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Old 30th Oct 2013, 03:49
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nitpicker330
 
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Tawau in East Malaysia. The old Airport was around 5,000' long from memory and was a Captain only landing for the 737-200/300/400/500.
It was painted with Boeing short field markers. If you hadn't touched down by them a mandatory go around was required or you'd end up in the shanty houses off the end.....

It was quite a challenge in wet weather, you needed to accurately land firmly on the markers then use full reverse and auto brake. Even then you'd usually use all the LDA....

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