Posted: 7/17/2017 6:36:36 PM EDT
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I love these videos.
Nothing like sitting in a window seat and watching your runway approach through the side window. 
 Traumatic Landings B757 A320 B737 || BAD WIND LANDINGS in Madeira. |
 Ilyushin IL-76 strong Crosswind landing. Unbelieveable Russian Pilot skills ! (Watch in HD!) Try it in a flying truck... |
| I was on a 737 coming into Reagan in DC once and that happened. I was in window seat over the wing and everything seemed pretty normal but on approach as we got over the runway we were at what seemed like about 45 degrees sideways but still over the runway and almost down but then suddendly wind must have pushed it slightly off because on my side it was grass under us. The pilot handled it really well though and just throttled up and came back around and was fine on the second round. also apologized on the intercom...jokingly blamed it on the first mate. Made everybody laugh. It was really windy there though. |
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I love watching those videos, and the skill of the pilots doing the flying!
Several years ago I was on our corporate shuttle, a high wing Dornier (Maybe a 328??). The pilots at the time were not required to close the door to the cockpit and normally left it open. I would always pick the aisle seat in the front row so I could see out the windshield as we did our landings and approaches, and would often poke my head in while in cruise to see the awesome views. We were coming in one summer evening and were trying to get in before an approaching storm front and were landing on runway 23. Not sure about wind conditions, but from the way it felt on the plane and normal summer patterns, the winds were probably from the W-NW, so a pretty strong cross wind. As we came in it was pretty cool to watch just how far off the runway axis the pilot had pointed the nose. At times we were probably 20deg off the runway axis, but was cool how the actual heading was staying on a pretty steady course. Because of the gusts she was having to use a lot of rudder to maintain the heading and the nose was swinging back and forth several degrees and was pitching up and down as the gusts were impacting the pitch attitude as well. As we got to the runway we touched down, and had a pretty good gust that made it tough to get the right main gear down right away. It felt like we ran down the runway on the left main for quite a while, but was probably just a second or two before the plane settled down on the right main gear. Our pilot did a great job, and the plane clapped for her. As we deplaned she and the co-pilot definitely had a relieved look on their faces! |
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Even more fun in a Super Cub, right? :) Quoted:
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Crosswind landings are fun. I seek them out. |
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It's especially fun in my Champ, because it has so much rudder authority, (and no training wheel). I've been out playing in Cessnas, and not had enough rudder to align with the runway until flaring to land. That's still fun, but not as fun. Grandpa used to take me up in his J3, and a slip was one of his favorite maneuvers to do after flying around over the farm doing long lazy right hand turns with the doors open. That slip made me pucker a bit when I was little since my brain was expecting us to be flying in a straight line not with our nose pointed the wrong way with the left wing low! |
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Cool, and sorry if I mis-identified the aircraft in your avatar! Grandpa used to take me up in his J3, and a slip was one of his favorite maneuvers to do after flying around over the farm doing long lazy right hand turns with the doors open. That slip made me pucker a bit when I was little since my brain was expecting us to be flying in a straight line not with our nose pointed the wrong way with the left wing low! Quoted:
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It's especially fun in my Champ, because it has so much rudder authority, (and no training wheel). I've been out playing in Cessnas, and not had enough rudder to align with the runway until flaring to land. That's still fun, but not as fun. Grandpa used to take me up in his J3, and a slip was one of his favorite maneuvers to do after flying around over the farm doing long lazy right hand turns with the doors open. That slip made me pucker a bit when I was little since my brain was expecting us to be flying in a straight line not with our nose pointed the wrong way with the left wing low! |
| I experienced that sitting in the back of a C-130 and sitting sideways with the windows above my head. As we were close to the ground during landing, I could see out the other side windows across the plane. I could see sky, then ground, then sky, etc. We sort of skipped along for a while with one side set of wheels touching at a time until we were able to get both sides down. It was scary when I looked across the plane at the load master and he looked scared shitless. Oh, this was during a winter ice storm, too. |
| It's pretty fun the first time you get a serious cross wind in a really long aircraft like a 757-300. You have to line up such that your ass is overhanging the grass on the upwind side of the runway before kicking in rudder in the flare then, voila, you're back on centerline. |
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It's pretty fun the first time you get a serious cross wind in a really long aircraft like a 757-300. You have to line up such that your ass is overhanging the grass on the upwind side of the runway before kicking in rudder in the flare then, voila, you're back on centerline. |
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Flew from Addison in Dallas to a regional in Columbus in a Cessna centurion. Dad was flying me and wife.
Landed in about a 25-30 crosswind with gusts to 40. Dad was a pilot his whole life, and current on the FAAs king and queen airs. He was sweating bullets, was not comfortable flying to another bfield due to fuel. Perfect landing, wing down, one wheel... Perfect. We taxied, I was sitting right seat. Looked at him and said. I just want you to know that I know how amazing that landing was. (I was a crew chief on Huey's, and current). To this day, I don't think there has been anything I have said to him that says you're still my hero better. Many ex military pilots have told me my dad was the best civilian pilot they have flown with. Txl |