He had a strong left cross wind with buffeting, it looked like to me. Required more affirmative control input. You could see after touchdown he gave it full left aileron into the cross wind to help keep the wing down.
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Moving air has a lot bigger impact on a plane's huge surface area than the surface of the flight controls can counteract. So control inputs have to be a lot more aggressive in buffetting.gusty winds.
As jet instructor, however, I'd have critiqued him for "hamfisting" it a bit too much on approach. He overcontrolled a lot, and had to instantly apply opposite corrections to correct his previous correction. He was fighting it, in other words. He could have been a lot smoother.
So is he co-pilot or do european planes put the controls on the right side or???
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He's doing a good job. Airliners fly differently than light civils or fighters, on a gusty day I'll move the yoke similarly to that. It's not something you do consciously, you just do it by feel. In a smaller plane I'd say he was over controlling it but that's the way most airliners fly, it's like flying a barge. They're very stable and it takes bigger control inputs to move them around.
That looks like Le Bourget in Paris, not the main airport Charles De Gaulle. De Gaulle has the runways oriented east/west and the winds are usually blowing north/south so you almost always have a big crosswind, it's often windy there. That video is of runway 27 (facing due west) and the wind is pretty hard out of the south. That's a pretty typical gusty day in Paris.
His flight path vector is good the whole way down, lineup is good, and he rolled it on, not much more that you can ask for. I would have shot for a bit firmer touchdown but it worked out good for him. A gusty day like that will give you a bit of a workout but he handled it well.
Notice his cell phone sitting on the oxygen mask in the lower right corner, it never moves until he starts braking on the runway. You more than likely wouldn't have spilled your wine if you were a passenger during that landing.
Use to fly in north Texas and on a hot summer day in a small Cessna when the thermals were popping off of tilled land and not far above pattern altitude you dance more than that.
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Because he was flying a friggin house....and he had a helluva crosswind coming in from the nine o/clock side. Notice how once on the ground he was putting in left aileron to offset possibly the raising of the left wing??
Well, It doesn't appear to look "stormy", but windy though. The credits mention a CRJ, so not a huge aircraft. You do what it takes, so, hard to tell, but it does look like he is over controlling, especially in pitch control.
So is he co-pilot or do european planes put the controls on the right side or???
Based on the three stripes on his shoulder epaulet he was the co-pilot.
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
Use to fly in north Texas and on a hot summer day in a small Cessna when the thermals were popping off of tilled land and not far above pattern altitude you dance more than that.
So true of Iowa over freshly planted fields in spring too — like my 20’ Crestliner quartering into 2’ waves going 30 per.
