"Any landing you walk away from,..."

tbburg · Jul 10, 2010

"..,is a good landing"

Sure, but what if you need to change your underwear?

Can you say "Maximum cross wind"

link: http://www.airliners.net/photo/SATA-International/Airbus-A310-325-ET/1615692/L/

Kittrell · Jul 10, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X_7Xt2ga-s

I hear landing in Hong Kong is a trip.

DrMoab · Jul 10, 2010

The photographer in the OPs post had to be about crapping himself about that time.

bjoehandley · Jul 10, 2010

tbburg said:
"..,is a good landing"

Sure, but what if you need to change your underwear?

Can you say "Maximum cross wind"

link: http://www.airliners.net/photo/SATA-International/Airbus-A310-325-ET/1615692/L/

The smell in that plane must have been horrible by the time it got to the terminal

assgas:

DrexelSpivey · Jul 11, 2010

bjoehandley said:
The smell in that plane must have been horrible by the time it got to the terminalassgas:

It's gonna be up on blocks for a minute, with the re-upholstery and recarpeting. Febreeze ain't gonna get it this time...

bjoehandley · Jul 11, 2010

tbburg · Jul 11, 2010

DrexelSpivey said:
It's gonna be up on blocks for a minute, with the re-upholstery and recarpeting,...

Oh, that's OK. They should have plenty of time to do that while they're checking that landing gear.

old_man · Jul 11, 2010

As a pilot that learned in a very windy locale, those landings where you have to crab it into the wind are FUN. Most of those commercial airlines trying to land were doing a pretty fair job. It looks really bad, but that is the technique when the field doesn't have a better facing runway and you don't have other options. The key is to crab like mad, then right before you touch or right when one tire is down, you pull it hard to line up with the runway. Its like running a lot of obstacles, someone who has a lot of experience can make it look easy.

wolfpackjeeper · Jul 11, 2010

there are a few videos out there where NTSB was testing the ability of the landing gear to cant with crab angle and let a plane land with out going wing low. Some of them look to be coming in with about 20deg of crab.

wolfpackjeeper · Jul 11, 2010

old_man said:
someone who has a lot of experience can make it look easy.

Bob Hoover with any airplane, doing any maneuver...

tbburg · Jul 12, 2010

wolfpackjeeper said:
Bob Hoover with any airplane, doing any maneuver...

Engine on or off,.
And those wads at the FAA pulled his license.

wolfpackjeeper said:
there are a few videos out there where NTSB was testing the ability of the landing gear to cant with crab angle and let a plane land with out going wing low. Some of them look to be coming in with about 20deg of crab.

Sometime watch a B-52. They have castering wheel trucks. When they're unlockes, the whole plane can be pointed off to one side by 20 or 25 degrees and still tracking straight down the runway.

87manche · Jul 12, 2010

tbburg said:
Engine on or off,.
And those wads at the FAA pulled his license.

damned shame.

Watching him do one engine rolls in a commander was amazing.

old_man · Jul 12, 2010

tbburg said:
Sometime watch a B-52. They have castering wheel trucks. When they're unlockes, the whole plane can be pointed off to one side by 20 or 25 degrees and still tracking straight down the runway.

The crabing feature of the B52 was top secret for quite a while.

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