The conclusion and no doubt the highlight of our Great Airports tour was none other than Hong Kong's former airport of Kai Tak, home to the spectacular and challenging runway 13 "checkerboard" approach. As an old favorite location, Kai Tak attracted quite a crowd. It took me a few attempts to successfully land the Boeing 747, which I flew in from the previous week's fly-in airport in Tokyo. Later, I explored the surroundings in a Piaggio Avanti before returning to Kai Tak in a 777, operating a Sea King rescue helo for a while, and even engaging in a bit of dogfighting above Hong Kong in a Su-30 Flanker, after ATC had lost all hope of controlling the unruly aviators.
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| X-Plane Freeware Project's Japan Air Lines Boeing 747-400 (old colors, GE engines) |
| Team Ferrari Piaggio P.180 Avanti (default X-Plane 9 aircraft) |
| Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-200ER by the XP Jets team |
| Westland Sea King HAR3 by Brett Sumpter, Nils Danielsson and Ethan Teiger |
| PLAAF Sukhoi Su-30MKK Flanker by Barry Leger |
| Japan scenery packs by various authors, converted to X-Plane by scottp |
| RJTT enhancements by tk205 |
| Kai Tak 1.1 scenery by Roger Mole, converted to X-Plane by rundek (various other authors, see readme file) |
Fly-in banner (featuring X-Plane Freeware Project's Cathay Pacific Boeing 747):