Thanks Ned,
I was going to say crossing the centreline of KSAN at 800' in a 44 and seeing 2 reds 2 whites on the PAPIs and thinking 23.5 hours earlier I saw the same picture in something a lot bigger but that's been done re KLAX 😎
I remember creeping up a snow covered valley below Byron Heights in the Falklands looking for 3 guys walking down to meet us. There'd been a recent incident where people had nearly died of exposure trying the same thing. Our loady spotted them so we put one wheel on and opened the cargo door. There was little visual reference with patches of hill fog around in fact I was using a black rock to maintain a hover. Just as the last guy was dragged through the door the rock spread its wings and flew off. !*#+ .