New Adelaide Airport is very impressive!

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Well I had occasion to pick up a friend at the NEW airport for the first time yesterday and I got there well before the flight arrival to have a bit of a look around. It is very impressive. A very long terminal building with great facilities and shops, coffee bars, cafes, etc, etc. But to me the best thing is the direct view onto the apron area and loading, embarking/disembarking facilities, air bridges etc. We have come a long way from the old terminal where you walk across the tarmac and if you're not careful you might stumble down the old ladder from the plane or whack your head on the bottom of an engine as you walk past the plane under the wing and so on. Watching a couple of planes arriving I couldn't help being impressed with the pilot's accuracy and skill in getting the nose wheel right spot on the yellow line as in turned into the gate area and followed straight up to a stop point where the air bridge comes up to meet the door. How the heck do the pilot's judge that? They can't very well see the nose wheel from the cockpit can they? Have they got a glass window in the cockpit floor? They don't have the guy on the ground waving the big pink ping-pong bats anymore. It's not the world's most burning issue, but I'm curious.