A couple nights ago I landed on a jet and told the pilots while getting off that I could tell he was an NBA fan the way he dribbled the plane down the runway!
One turned bright red, the other nearly swallowed his tie trying to keep from laughing.
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That was good. I was conducting an inspection on AF contractors last spring and I watched a contract L-100 land at a remote airfield with about a 45 knot crosswinds. I asked the weather observer on duty how come there was not a crosswind advisory out, and was told, we don't have one. Sure enough, they don't and still don't to this day. When I inquired about it, the answer I was given was, if we had a cross wind advisory for 25KT or higher, we'd never be able to land a plane here.
First, it wasn't a Chinese pilot. TUI is a European airline that specializes in charters/vacation destinations. A 757 couldn't make it from China to Bristol, which is in the UK. Second, he should have gone around. The mark of a professional pilot is not making the dangerous landings but knowing when to go around and try again.
Wind was only 26kts gusting to 40. I didn't catch the runway, but unless it was perpendicular to the wind direction, then his crosswind was less that the wind speed.
He landed that bird in a pretty spectacular crab. That is a good way to blow a tire or worse.
I've seen jets landed in a 50 knot (not including gusts) direct cross wind with less drama than that.
I once spent a week at CGAS Kodiak waiting for flight weather to Amchitka Island and saw some amazing things performed by H-3 and C-130 pilots. The top of the military pilot food chain rewrites the book on a regular basis.
I am a reluctant passenger and can't even imagine flying like that.
mike r
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I'm surprised, I woulda thought "fly by wire" does all that stuff automatically now.
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First, it wasn't a Chinese pilot. TUI is a European airline that specializes in charters/vacation destinations. A 757 couldn't make it from China to Bristol, which is in the UK. Second, he should have gone around. The mark of a professional pilot is not making the dangerous landings but knowing when to go around and try again.
Wind was only 26kts gusting to 40. I didn't catch the runway, but unless it was perpendicular to the wind direction, then his crosswind was less that the wind speed.
He landed that bird in a pretty spectacular crab. That is a good way to blow a tire or worse.
I've seen jets landed in a 50 knot (not including gusts) direct cross wind with less drama than that.
Was a passenger on a plane that landed like that. Pilot told us a couple of times to tighten our seatbelts as tight as we could cause he said it was going to be rough. I'm thinking, "you know we could fly to Seattle..." I really puckered when as we approached I could see the runway getting closer out my window.
That was pretty poor judgement IMO to land that airliner on that runway. I would of gone to a hold till the winds changed or I would of gone to a runway more aligned with the winds. There no crab angle to input into the landing gear like there is on a B-52.
Looks to me like the pilot did a good job crabbing it in but did not kick the rudder at all. An experienced pilot would have kicked the rudder at the last second and the plane would have lined up with the runway.
Basically this pilot just let the nose crab into the wind and flew the plane into the runway low and slow. Was very luck that the plane did not break the Landing gear off and flip.
We popped a tire, skidded onto the grass, scared the crap out of the passengers, grounded an aircraft for repair and inspection BUT we did touch down on time!
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I once spent a week at CGAS Kodiak waiting for flight weather to Amchitka Island and saw some amazing things performed by H-3 and C-130 pilots. The top of the military pilot food chain rewrites the book on a regular basis.
I am a reluctant passenger and can't even imagine flying like that.
mike r
Funny you mention Kodiak. When I saw the clip, my mind immediately went to Kodiak. I was stationed there for 3 years and had some interesting flight experiences. I talked to a pilot one day after an entertaining landing. With Barometer Mountain positioned where it is at one end of the runway and the ocean at the other, it creates challenging atmospherics.
We popped a tire, skidded onto the grass, scared the crap out of the passengers, grounded an aircraft for repair and inspection BUT we did touch down on time!
Exactly! Besides, Bristol is slack enough that a go-around wouldn't take any time at all. It's not Heathrow, LAX or JFK.
