Part one of a two-part series of me trying to do the famous IGS 13 into VHHX. The aeroplane is the Tupolev Tu-154B2 available at Project Tupolev. The scenery is 9Dragons' Kai Tak Airport. Info & Download.


Шасси Выпущены! - Landing gear down! According to the ProTu's manual it is custom on Russian airliners to lower gear before lowering flaps.


Over the East Lamma Channel. We're looking over the captains shoulder. To our 10 o'clock we see the Ma Tsing bridge.


Landing lights extended and on. Nope, we don't have the best weather in here. Luckily we have IGS to guide us down to the checkerboard.


Again, we look over the captains shoulder. We have intercepted the glideslope ( sort off... ) and are now almost over Kowloon.


Yep, thats the same Ma Tsing bridge as we saw before.


With flaps fully extended, and an airspeed of about 270 Km/h, we start the famous 47^o degree turn to line up with the runway.


View from the flight deck. Even though we have followed the IGS quite reasonably, PAPI says we are to high.  We're also a bit far right. This certainly won't be a soft landing.

Click here for part two.

As always, C 'n C welcome!

KS.

Definately. It must be some kind of a bug, as I do have backlighting in the 2d panel.

Wow great feel to these shots.