Descending into Queenstown pilots view

[Capricorn1(Tom)]

Descending into Queenstown, New Zealand = 4:11 minutes of video.

You must have faith in your instruments and yourself to descend into an overcast and mountainous terrain.

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/pilotnewzdalnd1


Cheers Tom:eyepop:

[RobF]

So beautiful. Thanks for posting Tom. I get a stiff neck from craning out the window sometimes when its dusk coming down through clouds. Isn't it wonderful to see the view from the front. I do recall some hair raising sights as a passenger landing in Queenstown years ago - just how close those snow capped peaks seem to be :eyepop:

[BlackWidow]

Wow that is fantastic. Well if you did get it wrong, you would never know about it.

[Octane]

It's so awesome sitting on top of a hill near a snow chain area atop the Remarkables and watch the planes come in to land and take off. The sound of the engines rumbling up there is awesome.

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[mithrandir]

The closest I've got to that was one morning in 1975 on the bunny hop from Sydney to Canberra. Over Lake George the pilot said Canberra was closed with fog, and he had enough fuel to circle for 2.5 hours before he had to return to Sydney.
He'd just started to circle to the south east of Canberra when he banked hard right and landed. Even before he turned off the runway he announced the airport had been closed as soon as he had wheels down.
I guess some pollie was prepared to risk everyone on board to get to a meeting.

[astroron]

I have been in some military planes flying into stuff like that.
Scary stuff ,that's why it is best you don't see whats happening from the front.:eyepop:
Cheers:thumbsup:

[BPO]

Hey, I can see my observatory!

[guggle]

AWESOME!!

Anyone care to take a guess what the object is in the top right hand corner of the screen that disappears at 1:13 and reappears briefly at 2:44 before entering the clouds?

[Astro_Bot]

They don't call it "white-knuckle airlines" for nothing! ;)

Great footage!

[LewisM]

Yeah, there's nothing quite like being up the pointy end in stuff like that!

Saab 340 in the vid?

Oh, and that object in the sky? Considering the nature of the lens used, I would say it is an ILO - Identified Lunar Object :)

[SkyViking]

Fantastic video, thanks for posting this!

[Capricorn1(Tom)]

Thanks for your kind reply's...hope you enjoyed...all the best...pilots do some amazing stuff we all take for granted....:thanx: Tom

[h0ughy]

spectacular views - thank you

[erick]

That's great! Thanks!! :thumbsup: