Near Miss @ HKIA

[cxorcist]

Originally Posted by iceman50

cxorcist

You think a clearance like that would be given in low vis!!!!

I've seen it given at night and when the HK pollution was pretty thick. Not LVO per se, but bad enough to start lining holes up in the cheese.

[sewerpiper]

Hey guys I am one of the volunteers locally that feed liveatc.net. We know all of this information above because of one of my servers at a friends home that feeds from Tung Chung was running. Who knows how hard ATC would have tried to cover this up otherwise.

We could use some help. I am moving back home in a few days, and need someone to take over from DB or South Lantau(TC is blocked from the hills) to feed the departure and approach frequencies. I had to shut mine down last week and pack it up to move and because of this we missed the exchange between polar and departure which would have been very interesting. If anyone is interested in continuing feeding the closed frequencies in these areas please contact me. The equipment is cheap (less than 100USD) and it helps the aviation community. You dont have to be a computer expert, the guy who owns liveatc can maintain it all, you just need to give it power and an internet connection, with a small antenna out a window.

[sewerpiper]

Originally Posted by SloppyJoe

Can someone explain the odd Hong Kong ATCism, when a runway is closed at night the clearance to cross includes "cleared to cross the active runway 07/25/L/R? When the runway is open and operational it's just plain old "cleared to cross 07/25..."

Why?

Are you sure they are saying "active" or maybe they are trying to say in that weird accent "inactive". That is what I *think* I hear