[Normy]

I've landed and taken off from Hong Kong several dozen times, but the first time was in the fall of 2002.

Kai Tak is now a housing development.

-The new airport, Chep Lak Kok on Lantau island is for sure better [you can land there when the ceiling is 200 feet], but despite the pair of long runways...it is anything but a "piece of cake". The south runway, 07R, is the typical cargo runway and it is closest to a GIANT hill about a kilometer/1/2 mile south of the centerline. This hill extends to the west and makes your life MISERABLE due to the shear and constant turbulence. For whatever reason, it seems that the wind ALWAYS comes over the hill and messes with you! I've had 10 knot airspeed-changes almost instantaneously while in final to that runway, and this was with gentle winds 160/10!

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