For all you plane buff's out here.

[Markw]

My friend is a pilot, and put this on Facebook today. he flew this approach into JFK last night
Youtube video approach into JFK 13L As he said it is a very unusual 'non precision' approach done to keep planes clear of the city.....
Follow the lead in lights & enjoy.....!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZXgIVkI8gQ

 

[Boboro]

That's very cool.

 

[leverhead]

That is pretty cool! It's not the view most of us get to see. I've got a short one I should put up, a daylight view from the nose of a B-17 with all the noise.

 

[Ishi]

Wished it was longer would of liked to see the flare out at touchdown.

 

[Southern Planter]

That approach would be a colossal pain in the fanny under IFR conditions.

The guy who taught me such naughty maneuvers as cuban eights and such was a 'Nam "Wild Weasel" pilot with several thousand hours of Phantom jet time. He told me he was more comfortable doing a night carrier landing in a phantom jet, than making approaches into big city airports.

He was a marvelously bad influence on me... we both got kicked out of a sail plane club for doing loops and cuban eights in a L-13 Blanik sail plane.

 

[Knucklehead]

There's a 77 yr. old farmer down the road that wants to take me up in his little bitty airplane. I don't know much about it but I found a picture that looks a lot like his plane. I could only see it from the back while it was in his hangar but I do remember it had hard wings on top of the cockpit and the prop was in the back of the cockpit. I've been up in a 4 seater cessna single engine before but nothing this small. It should be fun.

 

[Boboro]

Yea... That looks fun.

 

[Boboro]

But where do you keep the beer cooler?

 

[Knucklehead]

But where do you keep the beer cooler?

I'll sit on it or hold it in my lap or climb out on the wing to fetch it if I have to. This ride might require the hard stuff though.

 

[Boboro]

Take bottles, You can cunk'im at the po lice!

 

[Brown Thumb]

I think they make a 6-Pack Hat.

 

[Markw]

That's a nice little ultralight there Knuck's, you will enjoy your flight it that.

Southern Planter he said it was a pain flying the IFR. I think they fly it manual. He makes me laugh, when he qualified I think he was the youngest commercial pilot in the UK, he said when they got on board and the passengers saw him you could see them mutter there is some young snotty nose kid flying this bloody plane.
He is the friend who got me the La Palma Havana.

 

[Ben Brand]

No chance of a NO SMOKING sign then.