Piloting Tricky Approach to Kathmandu | Airbus Cockpit View

Kathmandu is considered an extreme airport, its runway is in a valley surrounded by mountains that rise to nearly 10,000 feet on all sides. A missed approach has to be very well prepared and briefed to avoid any surprises. Here JustPlanes is filming DRUK AIR Airbus A319 on a flight from an even more dangerous airport, Paro Bhutan! This is a must see nearly 5 hour cockpit film with lots of very interesting flying and pilot briefings and presentations!

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[Azishome]

In addition to her accomplishments as a pilot, I have to applaud her for being able to convert meters to feet. Tons of respect, Ma'am.

[tambarum]

Went to Tribhuvan in 75 in a 4Jet.Arrived from the South and had to drop like a stone after crossing a very high ridge.Not a very long Runway then and had to hold High due to a DC9 which had landed and burst some tyres.Eventually approached from the North and remember some high rocks on finals which we had to avoid!!!Departed a few days later and we had to run roll onto the runway because of its length to give us a fighting chance.Blew some stones etc off the end of the being built runway as we departed heading South and then it was clean up and leave full power on for some time.Wonderful Country with lovely people.

[ashutoshchhetri]

I heard only 15 pilots are there who can do a perfect landing in Paro airport and she's one of them namaste maam 🙏💞

[QuizmasterLaw]

You have a dream job. I'm glad you let us all finally see it from YOUR great perspective!!!

[magneticman]

This is epic footage of an awesome country, Nepal is a great place to visit and should be on any adventurous persons list of things to accomplish, MERRY XMAS;-))

[SPOTTERPLUS]

Beautiful and challenging approach. Greetings from Argentina. :)

[philipmarq]

For you instrument pilots watching, did you notice her terrific scan. Her eyes were always scanning. Nice.

[roygould]

Great video.
Awesome job piloting.
I had no idea the city was so BIG and so sprawling.
It is MASSIVE.

[redpeppergg]

I am an Aviation Enthusiast from Nepal. It's really fun to watch these small planes go over the house. Even 777 lands here. The only thing that triggers me that when I talk about Nepal, people think that all of Nepal is mountains. These is also flat plain.

[yodrouin]

She blew my mind, absolutely an awesome pilot, my hat is off to her

[ThomasJoshua]

Kathmandu is a crazy airport! Not had the pleasure to fly there myself yet but I'm really looking forward to the day that I get to! Most of my vids are just in and around Europe, but there is loads of great views to see there as well. Looking forward to this one.

[veronicacougar]

COOL!!! I would like to know more about this lady pilot, the epitome of grace under pressure.

[treefella]

Thanks, just thanks for bringing me these amazing views of places I would otherwise never see in my lifetime!!

[pinkcody]

I'll always remember landing there in 1998 - as we touched down I looked out of the window and saw a cow standing on the runway...

[asimsherzai]

Great country and Nepalese are great hospitable people

[spirituallovers]

That's amazing travelling kathmandu. You're most welcome in nepal.

[soujrnr]

Wow!! What absolutely gorgeous scenery there! Great job landing as well!

[dgaf]

I’m from Nepal and I’m Proud of my country❤️❤️ y’all nepal issaa beautiful country❤️❤️

[jamesjowitt]

A wonderful team pilots with good scene and well trained pilots thanks

[oldnepalihippie]

Ha, I'm on this flight all the time (20 year resident of KTM) so it was to see what's going on in the cockpit, thx.