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

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

I tried to see that link (from work), but got this message:
 
The request was denied due to a content categorization online-gambling.
 

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

Cool video. Have landed in Queenstown myself several times- but I don't remember approaching it like that.
 
It's a real snowboarder town. Everything costs 2.5 times what it does outside it's little sphere and there are many people there who have just earned a degree and big ideas about how the world works. So when you talk to a snowboarder you just nod your head saying "great idea, wow, that's terrific, awesome, wish I'd thought of that" but on the inside you are thinking "hehehehe.... way to go dude".

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.

ha-landing at the old airport in Hong Kong beats them all-there`s heaps of clips on youtube but having a window seat was unforgettable.
check it out
cheers

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.

That would have to be one mega$$ simulator! Notice the reflection on the windscreen. I have never seen that in a simulator before. Not impossible, just unlikely.
 
Looks like a small jet maybe? Runway almost too short for it as it took the whole strip to land. No room for error. Hate to think how he'd make an emergency go-a-round if a deer or child popped out near the end. Landing in low clouds like that is scary dangerous IFR stuff, you never know what's coming at you. Notice the row of lights at the beginning of the runway.. he was dead on.
 
As for the scenery, pretty common stuff, clouds and all, in Alaska... when driving as well as flying. 
 
btw, it's the CO-pilot's view, not the pilot's, as labeled.
 
... oh wait, I forgot European's drive from the wrong side.

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.

I noticed the reflections and wondered about that as well..... having flown simulators as well as having a pilot's license, either way, that was one heck of a job of flying.... nothing says vindication of your skills like popping out of the bottom of a layer of scud like seeing the runway glide path indicators all lined up nice and pretty and knowing you're on the glide path dead center.