Posted on 11/09/2014 5:54:20 AM PST by EBH
Friday, November 07, 2014 07:15AM
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Aviation officials reported delays and some cancellations for flights at O'Hare Airport Thursday due to high winds, making landings for some flights - like this one - a bit tricky.
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Pretty neat landing to watch.
Neat. I remember seeing some old videos of B-52s about in the same shape, but they had one thing going for them - their landing gear was steerable.
I’m glad I wasn’t in it....
Yep...I think a few passengers needed underwear changes.
Gotta love those crabbing landings.
When I learned to fly I was taught two ways to land in a cross wing, the side slip and the crab method. The side slip method to me is so much better than the crab yet all of these airline jockeys always crab in. Anyone know why? With the side slip using cross controls, aileron and rudder, the fuselage and wings are lined up thruout the entire final approach the only thing out of whack is the nose wheel and on a tail dragger u don’t even have that problem. I don’t get it....
There is no need for that crab approach. There are other (better) ways to land in a cross wind.
Bush landings. Personally I enjoy these videos for the scenery as much as anything.
How else would you maintain a heading? Looks like the pilot did a picture perfect landing in a high cross-wind.
Wow outstanding land!
The only question remains..,
Was he a pilot for the Air-Force, Navy or Marines?
When flying commercial you can usually tell if your pilot was in the Air Force, Navy or Marines by the way they land the airplane.
If it’s a long slow decent, put down nicely, then it’s a former Air Force pilot.
If it’s a long slow decent put down hard, then it’s a former Navy pilot.
If you are just cruising along, and all of sudden the pilot dives the plane practically over the airport, lands hard.... Then you can best believe it’s a former Marine Pilot.
The Passengers must have been $hitting themselves.
Looked like a pretty good job to me. Maybe a little long but he had a lot to deal with. He held it off a long time to line up.
Can you imagine the forces on the main when the final correction is made after touching the downwind wheel and then hitting the nose gear?
You crab until the flare, because you should NEVER slip a swept wing jet until you are in ground effect.
So all of us professional pilots are doing it wrong?. Did you stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night?
It was textbook perfect. Do you have any REAL idea about what a rudder does?
Looked good to me too.
Heavy jet isn’t built like a Cessna trainer. You can’t slip them in. You’ll drag the wing, or the pod, or both, depending on the model.
They all crab in, they try to straighten it with the rudder at the last instant, but sometimes they can’t, and sometimes they blow all the tires.
Those are pretty cool.
Probably not, they likely never felt the difference. As long as the plane wasn't bobbing up and down or tilting one way, then back the other excessively it was a smooth landing from a passenger perspective.
I've been through far worse landings than that on a windy day at O'Scare Airport.
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