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That is an excellent pilot.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop smoking.
Lots of videos like this on YT and LiveLeak. Nothing new or all that extraordinary, really.
Been driving airplanes since 1968. Watched the video. This is way overblown. The crosswind component was just too high for the aircraft. He had to go to a runway that was more aligned with the high wind. I am sure it was upsetting particularly because in wind like that it can get quite bumpy close to the ground and the wind gradient in the last few hundred feet can cause a greatly increased rate of sink.
Sorry but I don’t think he had to “ditch”(extreme) but go back around
That pilot earned his pay for that trip.
I know nothing about flying, so all you pilots tell me why I’m wrong: I would have just made a rough landing on the turf instead of revving up and starting over. I would have thought that trying to abort the landing at such a late point might cause me to lose control and do a nosedive or flip or something.
I didn’t see any wind in that video. Just a plane trying to land sideways.
I didn’t see any wind in that video. Just a plane trying to land sideways.
The pucker factor must have gone off-scale high. It would have been neat to have been on the right side of the plane looking down the centerline of the runway, something normally NOT done that low.
I'm told that the fact that the B52's wheels could align with the runway regardless of where the plane was pointing was top secret info for years.
There are other interesting videos at the link above.
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While I’m not an ATP I was a CFII with a multi. In the comments I saw only one reference to wing low or what is known as cross control. Upwind wing down to drift into the wind and opposite rudder to keep the fuselage lined up with the runway.
Yes, there are the two approaches, crab and cross control but cross control keeps the fuselage lined up with the runway and is the only approach I taught. But when I had to get checked out at a strange airport and there was a crosswind I did my CW procedure.
I dipped the wing and used opposite rudder to keep the fuselage straight. And kept the plane configured like that until I was in the flair. I would at the last second let the wings level so the touchdown was on both gears. I’ve had several discussions with other check pilots afterwards. That would say ‘perfect approach until the flair’ and then you float a foot or two off centerline because you leveled the wings.
My honest response was twofold. When landing on one gear the plane WILL bounce and I felt uncomfortable dropping the plane in on one gear at or near gross even tho it was perfectly safe. I never got an objection and always was satisfactorily checked out.
Gotta get back up one more time.
As a poster suggested above, the crab angle and wind velocity might have exceeded the rudder authority; that, and the landing would have been bouncy and potentially hazardous.
That said, the pilot will know what the surface windspeed and directions are, as well as the crosswind capability of the airplane.
My suspicion is that the go-around (this was not a "ditch") was the right choice, as was heading to an alternative airport.
If there is a 777 driver hereabouts, I'd love to hear his or her take.
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I’d have to get my bag down for a change of drawers.
Whats going on out there?