Post by Markoz on Oct 1st, 2011 at 7:12am
701151 wrote on Oct 1st, 2011 at 3:58am:
| It actually has a VC! I just want a Captain Sim quality VC10 or One-Eleven. |
I might check it out. I used to travel from Manila to Roxas City (Philippines) on a BAC 1-11.
I had a very interesting landing at Roxas City one time. The pilot almost ran off the end of the runway on landing. It started out that we were too high and too close to the airport. The pilot must have put the engines at idle and we started losing altitude. FAST! After a we had been descending for a while, I was looking out the window thinking that if the pilot doesn't give the engines some power soon, we'll be swimming with the sharks! So he finally adds power, now we are too low and too far away from the airport, so it sounded like he decided to use full throttle. This stops the descent, but we then gained way too much speed. All of this, and the Pilot decided to land anyway. We stopped very close the end of the runway. When the aircraft turned to go back to the terminal, I could see that the airport perimeter is not very far from the end of the runway and at the edge of the perimeter fence is a fish farm (I thought they were rice paddies back then), so we could have ended up in that! The funniest part of the incident was the Pilot's announcement at the end of the flight. We were still hurtling down the runway trying to stop and the Captain is saying that he hopes that we have had a wonderful flight! Not only that, he was saying it so fast! AND. This was said in Tagalog (Filipino) and then repeated in English. All before the plane stopped.
To give you an idea of the what the airport is like, here are some aerial shots (I used Google Maps to get them):
When the aircraft stopped, my seat (just before the wings), was past the threshhold lines on the lower image. The Airport Terminal is at the other end of the runway, the northerly end (first image). I think this was when I was going to the Province to get married, I was with my fiance's cousin, she was already at her parents place.
I may have this on a video (I took lots of boring videos of my flights back then). I'll have to see if I can find it.
Mark