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6th March 2009, 08:03 AM
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Your all-time favourite take-off or landing??
What has been your all-time favourite/most memorable take-off or landing and why?
For me it was in a B767-300 out of Cairns in low cloud and rain. The 767 is such a powerful aircraft, I remember the feel of being pushed backwards hard into my seat as we accelerated, we rotated and the force pushing me down was equally as hard as we climbed out steeply. Seconds later a hard left bank as we were passing through the low cloud and rain, the aircraft was dancing around quite a bit. I think most of my 767 departures have all been great, no other aircraft seems to climb out so steep. 
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#2
6th March 2009, 08:11 AM
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Trust you to be the 767 Nick
 Mine was landing in LAX on VH-OEJ as QF107 for the 2nd time but 1st time being and plane spotter and acctually knowing all the planes I was looking at. It was such a good feeling to see aircraft like I remember a Kalitta Air 742F parked there as we taxiied in and even just UA 767's and 777's that you only used to see on Airliners.net.
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6th March 2009, 08:53 AM
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MD11 out of ALK. I had never climbed out so steeply in any aircraft previously. I thought there was a malfunction and the aircraft was going to keep nosing up till it stalled.
This was with Mandarin Airlines (but a CI flight)
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#4
6th March 2009, 09:08 AM
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Favourite take-off probably will go to a Qantas B747-300 departing Perth heading back to Sydney last year. This was purely because of the aircraft I think, being a daylight take off and realising this is something I won't experience again. Although I was wrong, because I headed back to Perth later in the year for one more B743 flight.
Favourite landing is any of the times at Kai Tak aboard a Cathay Pacific B747-400. (At least three times). Not so much for the aircraft, but as a young kid, and now realising that this can never be experienced again it's at least burned into memory. I *think* two of the approaches were for Rwy 13 and the other for Rwy 31. Dan
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6th March 2009, 09:48 AM
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Favourite Landing was at Kai Tak in the jump seat on an Ansett 747-300
Favourite take off to many to mention but were ll in the jump seat.
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6th March 2009, 10:08 AM
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Favorite Take off and landing have to be E190 Perth to Karratha.
The take off was 5:45am, early, the sun just coming up...and the power of the takeoff was phenomenal. The angle we were going...i was scared we were going to stall! Then the landing into Karratha...banking around the entire airfield, through cloud, coming in seeing ocean and lakes...awesome. A close 2nd landing was in a 767 Mel-Per, had to go around and the power and acceleration was just amazing.
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7th March 2009, 11:17 PM
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Great question but so difficult to pin down to one or two....
*flying into Newark on a Continental DC-10 from Sydney via Honolulu. It was at about 10pm on Christmas Eve when we lined up for finals and I looked across to the lights of Manhattan as we flew past. *landing at Heraklion, Crete on an Olympic 727-200 from Athens. All the morning flights had been cancelled due to bad weather in Crete. This was the first one in. We made three attempts to land - lots of engine pitch changes as we bounced around in cloud; at one point water become visible IMMEDIATELY below just as the pilot gunned it and up we went again. Got in on the third attempt. *...and in the "goes without saying" category - Kai Tak landings
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11th March 2009, 10:31 AM
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My favourite landing would have to be back in 2005 arriving into MKY on a Qantas 733 it was overcast you could just see all these ships waiting at Hay point and we had these interesting vortices coming off the wing the landing itself was a lot harder then normal though.
Another landing was in 2007 On a Rex Saab 340 into Lismore descending through the clouds around all the hills in the nearby range. also it was a short hop from BNE the flight itself was about 20 minutes and the F/A still managed to serve a snack and a sweet afterwards. My favourite take off would have been in 2007 on a DJ SYD-ADL flight taking off from Rwy 34L and turning left and having a great view of the Western Suburbs and the Blue Mountains. J
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8th April 2009, 10:44 AM
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Best takeoff was about a year ago on QF419 off rwy 25 763 VH-OGA. Very steep takeoff, have never experienced such an insane departure before
Worst landing was in January 2004 coming back from PER on QF566. a/c was 332 VH-EBA landing rwy 07. Very strong crosswind component on final made an interesting final approach, and we touched down very late, around taxiway Alpha. I was really worried if we would stop in time :S We took the last taxiway with a helluva lot of braking and full reversers.
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