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Don't watch if you are already nervous when flying....
danny_galaga:
i've heard that too. the wheels can castor or something. the undercarriage is rated for up to 45 degrees from straight apparently!
Level42:
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Fixed. If it dies again search for "hamburg crash landing" (Although it's not really a crash of course).
SavannahLion:
Why should the pilot(s) lose their permit over this? There are other examples with some really bad landing strips.. :dunno
Level42:
Uhhh.....did you actually watch the Hamburg video ??
That was a cross-wind (better:storm) landing on a regular strip. The landing should have been aborted earlier. (around 0.35).
St.Maarten is famous by now and there are dozens of video's on youtube which all show fine landings.
The reason for the Jumbo's going so low over the beach is because of the short lenght of the strip. You need to put it down right at the start of the strip...
There's one aborted landing by a KLM plane on one of the video's. which is rather the best thing to do when the strip hasn't been cleared yet...also normal procedure.
SavannahLion:
I did actually and I see nothing that could really be considered deserving of a loss of license. He probably could have handled the situation a little better, yeah, the pilot probably should've aborted before getting in as close as he did. But losing his license due to a bad crosswind? C'mon. Get real. If pilots refused to land every time there was a crosswind, there wouldn't be much air traffic to speak of since no one could land a plane unless conditions were absolutely perfect.
And letting a possibly inexperience 24yr old copilot try to land? Again, probably not the best judgment, but in the end, every pilot learns by experience. If the pilot always flew the plane and never actually let the copilot do anything, then what's the point?
In the end, how can we pass judgment a 1:05 video about a situation we know very little about? Maybe the pilot had to land there. Maybe the plane was carrying some kind of life saving cargo. Was it a private or commercial plane? What kind of experience did the pilots have? What lead up to that video? What happened afterwards? How "heavy" is a heavy storm? Would it be the same kind of "heavy" storm that Alaskan bush pilots are known to contend with or is it the kind of "heavy" storm that causes an desert airport to shutdown due to a mere 2" of snowfall?
It's an interesting video, all it's really good for is a little armchair discussion.
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