Decades ago I landed a Twin Otter at Harare, Zimbabwe. The terminal was at the far end of the runway. My capatin just turned to me and said: "land long". I replied: "yeah, I figured that out." That runway is 15,500 feet long (14,500 or so more than a Twin Otter needs to land and stop).

Apparently this runway was built so long to accomodate BOAC Comet's hot and high performance requirements in the day.

I haven't read the whole thread but it's worth a mention that if you follow the approach lights you will not land on the numbers.

You will land in the touchdown zone, some way down the runway.

To land on the numbers, the approach lights will be all four red for quite a while.

Wouldn't know, by the time I touch down I stopped looking at the lights some time back.

Numbers? Centreline? Tarmac? 3 degrees with no trees? What bliss that must be!:)

Bliss? Sounds awful. Give me 500m of grass, no numbers, trees on the approach and a friendly club house...

Bit like the aviation equivalent of Orwell's "The Moon Under Water"

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Negative. If I bother to glance at them, I see 'all whites'. ;)

Here's a (quite low for me) approach into EGGP:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...03621res-2.jpg

500mtrs? Greedy:=