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some a really like what the...:o

check this approach: Lukla, Mount everest:

http://www.aerosoft2.de/videos/lukla.wmv (have a little patience at the beginning)

http://www.aerosoft.de/_php_projekte/_php_screenshots2/screenshots.php?sp=fs2004&p=lukla

from:
http://www.aerosoft.com/cgi-local/re/iboshop.cgi?showd70!12,4640181140,DF10064

Would try that landing only when being totally stoned.

I used to like the old Hong Kong airport. I used to deliberately sit on the right hand side of the plane when flying in so I could see what the locals were eating for breakfast in their kitchens in the high rises as the jet's wingtip went perilously close to their rooves as it took that "last turn".

OK, I exaggerate a bit on the breakfast part, but not the wingtip part!

Ouch!

I'm looking forward to that landing once I go to Nepal for mountaineering... Landing strip ends with a mountain wall, what is that? :-?

Hopefully it is not worse than taking of at altitude in a overloaded army helicopter in Kyrgyzstan. I had seen this video from the year before I went there crash . With that in memory, I can honestly say that the take of from the glacier was more scary than anything the acctual climb involved. :o

Cheers Porphy

Wait until you take off in Lukla. The tarmac sometimes is not long enough to allow the airplanes getting airborne, so they just roll over the cliff and fall down into the valley - and then they start to fly. The trick probably is to close your eyes and think of an albatros... Or you pray to Skybird :D

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I'm impressed the end of that runway is a solid-looking wall rather than a pile of, ahem, compressed planes Skybird :dead: