A good bit of flying

[bob10]

I'm not a pilot, but this must be considered ok, or did the computer fly it?
Plane Landing Crosswinds (http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/plane_landing.html)

[Bearman]

some pretty talented landings there Bob. That is extreme crosswind.

[Cobber]

Blimey! Quite a bit of talent there :eek:

[Bigbjorn]

Barely any opposite lock on at all. Those pilots need some dirt track training.

Turn the nose into the corner while applying enough throttle to break the tail loose and get it sliding. Put on some opposite lock to keep the wheels aimed at where you want to go and steer with the throttle.

I once saw a video clip of Jumbos landing at Hong Kong between the washing lines on the high rise apartments. By God, they had opposite lock on.

[ant_schomacker]

I flew into Narita (Japan) a few years ago on a jumbo in a typhoon. Watching the nose camera on my screen was very interesting... Travelling forwards at about 30 deg from the runway and still being blown sideways :eek:

[Tank]

I'll bet there were a few "Allah Aqbah's" muttered while that was happening and not a few OMFG's as well, Regards Frank.

[sheerluck]

I flew into Narita (Japan) a few years ago on a jumbo in a typhoon. Watching the nose camera on my screen was very interesting... Travelling forwards at about 30 deg from the runway and still being blown sideways :eek:

I can sympathise with that. I was on the last flight to leave Hong Kong airport (new Lantau airport, not the old Kai Tak) before Typhoon Nuri hit in 2008.

It was what you might describe as somewhat bouncy :eek:

[land864]

I reckon if I were on board any of those , I would have been assuming the ultimate crash position of putting my head between my legs and kissing my arse goodbye :eek:

[rick130]

Barely any opposite lock on at all. Those pilots need some dirt track training.

Turn the nose into the corner while applying enough throttle to break the tail loose and get it sliding. Put on some opposite lock to keep the wheels aimed at where you want to go and steer with the throttle.

I once saw a video clip of Jumbos landing at Hong Kong between the washing lines on the high rise apartments. By God, they had opposite lock on.


It's called sideslipping in a plane Brian. You learn it very early on.

When I was learning to fly a million years ago the instructors all remarked at how easy I went into them and how controlled my side slips were.
I didn't tell them I was a lunatic in a car, been driving sideways as soon as I was behind the wheel and had raced karts almost fulltime for the previous three years. A sideslip in a plane felt very natural :D

[superquag]

I did it when I chartered a plane & pilot in Adelaide, last century. (Had the same chap the day before when I took advantage of the $20 T.I.F.)
Very kindly let me do the second landing... floated in a tad high on Final and just as he started to say "You're... " - I slipped off the excess and put it down nearer the runway's start than middle....
Bloody cheeky of me, I suppose but I'd read enough 'Biggles' books to know exactly what to do.

Priceless !

(before the phrase was even invented !!!:p:p:p)

[stallie]

And how not to do it! At least they did the right thing in the end and went around. With 47kts crosswind it should have happened earlier.

Airbus A320 Lufthansa nearly crashed during crosswind approach - YouTube

[sheerluck]

And how not to do it! At least they did the right thing in the end and went around. With 47kts crosswind it should have happened earlier.



Holy **** that was close! That was a gnat's knee away from a wingtip on the Tarmac I reckon.

[stallie]

It did scrape the Tarmac...