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Originally Posted by Linton
I used to fly into Tegel quite regularly for a company called Euro Berlin.I never managed to get into Templehof.Before the wall came down the only access to Berlin was via three air corridors which had been designed for a DC3.The top of the corridor was 9500feet and the transit speed was as fast as your jet could go!!I have seen the East German Air Force doing barrel rolls around the corridor on our way to Frankfurt.My father used to go into Templehof in the early 1970s in a BAC 1-11.He remembers the USAF radar controllers giving him a radar approach in bad weather between the tower blocks!A lot of fun was had and a lot of things which you could never do today or disclose on a public forum!!!
I will just say that this used to figure in a lot of approaches!!
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Interesting. the approaches of the hercules seemed to have very different altitudes sometimes, sometimes leading them to
extremely low altitudes indeed. I cannot be empoircial abouit it, but by subjective memory I would say that this seem to have the case when weather was poor - if that makes sense. I would expect exactly the opposite today, due to the building everywhere. Even at distance 1.5 km, there were industrial buidlings to the right (South). I once heared that at strong winds from the northfor the most they tried to fly over the railway track, and just in the last moment finally lined up with the runway, because of those buildings. I do not remember them to have been that high, though.
Using Google Earth on those places, and Westerberlin. That brings back memories!
