[Roccus]

When it lands it takes a long approach and the pilots get assistance from the tower telling them what runaway to land on , and what the weather is and whether to land or not.

Once watched a (Saudi, I believe) 747 line up to land on a runway of the decommissioned Floyd Bennett NAS instead of a runway at JFK. The FBNAS runway was at about a 90 degree angle to the JFK runway and about 5 statute miles closer. A rather rapid port-starboard zig-zag got him back on the proper approach. I'm sure the radio traffic from the tower would have been quite interesting.

[neverevergiveup]

“Once watched a (Saudi, I believe) 747 line up to land on a runway of the decommissioned Floyd Bennett NAS instead of a runway at JFK.”

Just looked at the relative locations of each. That’s scary, to say the least.