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" after a long boring flight from Bangkok"

I wonder how he would hack a long flight, from say............. Narita??????? ;)

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It's a truly good description of landing on RW 13 Kai Tak but it was necessary to actualy do it to really understand just how special it all was. Those who did it on a daily basis would know about this.

Those of us who used to work for Dragonair were lucky enough to do it a couple times a day on some patterns!

I enjoyed that!

I was lucky to get a bunch of approaches during my f/o training by a bunch of the best c/t captains who gave every final days approach to me....8 in all.

Last was couple of days before it closed....Damian (as everyone knows him:):):))...and as we turned finals the parking lot was full of everyone in the evening getting down there for their last photos, sea of flashes from cameras....and as we rolled final, he turned and looked at me and casually said "better not screw this up blogs......will be a lot of photographic evidence". Never forget:ok:.

and as we taxiied past the nulla...."Debrief Cathay Club....????" from the left seat.....(that was Cathay)

You godamn right there was debrief in the Cathay Club:O:O:O:O:O:O