Wow - not for the novice pilot!

How's this for an "interesting" approach?
 
Landing in New Zealand
 
Some beautiful scenery though!

Heh, once you see the video you might think that message is accurate!

Lurvely scenery. Not for the novice pilot indeed. For that approach, you would need to be IFR rated. For that approach in that airplane, you would need to be twin engine jet certified. Unless........unless you had watched a bunch of youtube videos and thought, "pffft..how hard can it be?" and just went and stole a jet and took a shot at it so you could go snow boarding with yer buds
and impress them with your new found flying and stealing skills.

I'm wondering if it's real.... it's certainly cool....the scenery kinda looks like a high quality flight simulator.... but I could be wrong.
 
You certainly must trust the instruments in this one. Not a big margin for guessing or mistakes.

I thought it had something of a flight sim about it too as the buildings first start to appear especially, but v.cool all the same.

Instructors have a saying about those VASI lights:
 
Red over white - you're all right
White over white - you'll fly all night
Red over red - you're dead
White over red... Unless you're a stunt pilot, probly not the best way to land cause you're upside down.
 

 
Though this runway was using PAPI lights. Your aim? Make PAPI proud.

Gee- it really would be the uncanny valley if it was a flight sim. 

Copy that. The view from the front seat is kind of surreal anyway, but this is the real deal.
Very nice approach.. This is hairy, but not nearly as bad as Lukla or Courchevel. I have the utmost admiration for the guys that are qualified for those.

It looks like they used a "dash cam" placed on top the instrument panel. Very similar wide angle shot as used in car videos but never seen in a simulator.
 
Also, from 3:39 to 3:44 you can see a jet-skier in the lake right in front of the approach path, and street traffic in front of the runway... the computing power needed for this to be a simulator would be phenomenal even for the military...
 
Unless it was posted by aliens.

There are quite a few airports around the world that are much hairer places to land a plane even on a clear VFR day....
 
A TV show called the 10 most dangerous airports in the world highlighted them some time back.   Several of them will not permit pilots who have not had airport specific landing training and check rides to land at those airports.
 
One, IIRC, is over a road, to a runway that is sloped down hill and into a lake at the end....if you approach too high or fast, and don't get stopped in time, you and your plane go swimming.
 
 
On simulators:  I have a few of the older sims... from around 2001 or so, but the realism factor in the new ones is uncanny. With computing power in the gamer machines, handling HD video graphics is no problem.   It's getting more and more realistic... but at least you can still walk away from the crashes....