Originally Posted by tcook052
The reason it sticks out is I was flying out of Kai Tak back in early July '98 a few days prior to the switchover. I was a rush setting in the top deck of a NW 747 for your first time to HKG.
Back in 1975 I spent a summer in HK as a student. I stayed with friends of my parents who lived on top of a hill in Kowloontong. From their rooftop garden I had a birds eye view of the famous checkerboard and we were high enough that I could tell if an airliner was on glidepath by whether or not I could look into the pax windows as they went by.
I have fond memories of sitting for hours with a Sony airband receiver watching airliners from all over the world do the curved ILS.
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