Posted on 10/08/2017 8:04:00 AM PDT by rktman
Millions of people have been viewing and forwarding or posting an alarming-looking video (embedded below) of a giant A 380 airliner landing in heavy crosswinds at Dusseldorf. It’s scary-fun, but actually nothing unique to the Airbus or all that unusual. There is an entire genre of crosswind landings on YouTube. But owing to size, it is impressive.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Whoa!
Guts - Glory - RAM...
Scroll down a bit. Regular website with imbeded video and no junk pop ups. Easy link to watch the landing.
http://bgr.com/2017/10/07/crosswind-landing-video-omg/
Or, you can cut out the middleman altogether and go straight you YouTube and search A380 cr, and by that time, there is a list of videos, including this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roS6oFjCDhc
Those turns are probably where the phrase "Kai Tak Heart Attack" came from.
And you're so low and close to apartment buildings you can actually see into apartments...I had a window seat during that first landing.
I get very few pop ups at that site. Oh well. Sorry and thanks for the linky thing.
I just want to tell you both...good luck, we’re all counting on you.
“Now landing at Gate 10......Gate 11.....Gate 12.......”
Boy, he made a mess of it!
His goal was to get the plane flying down the runway center-line, yawed at an angle to counter the crosswind, and straighten up just before touchdown. He didn’t do that too well, ended up sliding sideways and then made the biggest mistake: a gross over-correction.
Muslim pilot that got really lucky he didn’t wreck his landing gear dancing on the rudder pedals.
Clickbait ia what American Thinker is.
Yep. I was looking at the rudder and whoever was flying really screwed up.
Go to YouTube. Two words: Kai-Tak.
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Beat me to it.
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Nonetheless, the landing in the video would have scared me a lot more simply because of the size of the plane. I have an irrational unease about large aircraft.
Mr. niteowl77
You can get a similar experience at DC’s Reagan National Airport if the weather is bad and the approach is an ILS approach from the north. The aircraft is low enough and close enough to see the folks working in the tall building in Roslyn that’s next to the Iwo Jima memorial.
...of course I ripped the wings off of 6 747's, put a couple more in the drink overshooting the runway, smashed some perfectly nice residential buildings with a few others..."virtually" killed thousands,
...but eventually, I nailed that checkerboard sucker!
It’s weird. Sometimes its clickbait, sometimes interesting stuff. This was both I guess.
Nothing special.
Go to youtube and search for crosswind landings and see 100 worse than that one.
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