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Originally Posted by vmax
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This video in the
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1052955-awesome-landing-lhr.html#post10756379 got me thinking.
I wondered why the Belfast runway was not smoothed out when built?
Can there be better visual cues created to enhance pilot perception in judging distance-to-ground and/or following proper approach angles?
The crosswind landings at Heathrow were another example.
Many airports don't seem to be designed to face into prevailing winds, nor be ideally located.
Time and time again, repeat pilots must land under more dangerous conditions, and airliners waste fuel climbing out quickly because people chose to build houses in front of the flight path then complain about the noise. This seems wasteful of both fuel and equipment.
Here is a flight simulator landing at the now-closed Hong Kong Kai-Tak VHHX. As a kid I once sat in the cockpit jump seat while landing exactly there. Deja vu.
(Times were much different back then and my parents had a pilot friend flying for Indian airlines.)