Totally off topic, but one for Jez maybe
Discussion
This popped up on my FB recently, and quite interested some on a local forum.
But raised a query....some seem to say a lot of that is autopilot. I say yes computers are good....but surely most of those sorts of landings are largely pilot ?
Shocking that it's a UK airport too ! Some amazing flying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9OAng32F0
But raised a query....some seem to say a lot of that is autopilot. I say yes computers are good....but surely most of those sorts of landings are largely pilot ?
Shocking that it's a UK airport too ! Some amazing flying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9OAng32F0
I remember that week well
Oddly for some time afterward flying seemed plain dull.
All of those approaches were flown manually, the autopilot simply isn't designed to operate to those limits.
Some of those landings were just plain stupid.
I remember one winter flying a pretty nasty approach into Cork Airport, the runway itself is pretty short and downhill, we popped out of cloud at 500 feet and the runway was visible from my side window, at 200 feet the wind was still showing 60kts accross the runway (the Airbus limit is 38).
ATC gave a ground wind of exactly 38 knots accross.
We landed, it was quite scary, but we were both happy aswe were the only aircraft there, as Ryanair and Air Lingus had both cancelled their service.
By the next morning and having had a chance to reflect I felt that we had been foolish and taken an unnecessary risk, it was obvious the wind was out of limits, the tower just telling us what we needed, and we knew that.
Sometimes getting the job done doesn't mean land where people expect you to.
I learned about flying from that..............
Oddly for some time afterward flying seemed plain dull.
All of those approaches were flown manually, the autopilot simply isn't designed to operate to those limits.
Some of those landings were just plain stupid.
I remember one winter flying a pretty nasty approach into Cork Airport, the runway itself is pretty short and downhill, we popped out of cloud at 500 feet and the runway was visible from my side window, at 200 feet the wind was still showing 60kts accross the runway (the Airbus limit is 38).
ATC gave a ground wind of exactly 38 knots accross.
We landed, it was quite scary, but we were both happy aswe were the only aircraft there, as Ryanair and Air Lingus had both cancelled their service.
By the next morning and having had a chance to reflect I felt that we had been foolish and taken an unnecessary risk, it was obvious the wind was out of limits, the tower just telling us what we needed, and we knew that.
Sometimes getting the job done doesn't mean land where people expect you to.
I learned about flying from that..............
Edited by crisisjez on Tuesday 15th April 00:41
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