Bumpy landing at Dusseldorf

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Chuck328

1,581 posts

167 months

Saturday 20th January 2018
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MitchT said:
We live near LBA. The OH's brother lives in Belfast. Only direct way is FlyBe Dash 8 from LBA to BHD. Always fun!

My favourite bumpy landing video: https://youtu.be/RfaNapjz8K4
That Korean is pretty much a carbon copy of my landing I did in Amsterdam on the 18th. Apparently part of our delay getting in there was down to some of the terminal roof blowing off..

Wasn't as rough as my approach in to Edinburgh four days before laugh

GT03ROB

13,262 posts

221 months

Saturday 20th January 2018
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2fast748 said:
Aren't all Dash 8 landings that entertaining? I've arrived sideways on the Isle of Man on one.
We use Dash 8-300s here to move about. Judging by the way they are flown I get the impression they are fairly "chuckable". Always feel safe but they seem to do a few manoeuvers I'm not used to on jets!

Amsterdam seem particularly prone to wind, flying in there before Christmas, approached the runway at an abnormal angle, touched down, then took off again!

Davie

4,742 posts

215 months

Saturday 20th January 2018
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No, just no...

Had a few hairy flights running up and down to Bristol but recently had my first Dash experience going to Birmingham... return was probably a mild breeze by these standards but still reduced me to rattling wreck in the bogs afterwards!

Will stick to the M6 from here I think!

48k

13,078 posts

148 months

Sunday 21st January 2018
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Hub said:
LotusOmega375D said:
Shame no-one flies an A380 on my route: wind? What wind?
Er...

https://youtu.be/roS6oFjCDhc
The A380 pilot getting all Michael Flatly on the rudder made that 10 times worse than it should have been.

aeropilot

34,574 posts

227 months

Sunday 21st January 2018
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48k said:
Hub said:
LotusOmega375D said:
Shame no-one flies an A380 on my route: wind? What wind?
Er...

https://youtu.be/roS6oFjCDhc
The A380 pilot getting all Michael Flatly on the rudder made that 10 times worse than it should have been.
Nice dab of oppo.......



AER

1,142 posts

270 months

Sunday 21st January 2018
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Max_Torque said:
I'd expect the rudder to be hard over, but it seems to hardly move?
I'd guess the airspeed was much higher than a normal approach due to monster headwind. High airspeed = low control deflections.

Thee Postman Pat

75 posts

140 months

Wednesday 24th January 2018
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AER said:
I'd guess the airspeed was much higher than a normal approach due to monster headwind. High airspeed = low control deflections.
Care to explain that assertion?

bodhi

10,485 posts

229 months

Thursday 25th January 2018
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Funnily enough I had to travel back from Milan yesterday, and thanks to travel options to get to Birmingham I had to fly KLM through Amsterdam. Not too much of an issue I thought, slightly longer trip, but better planes than Flybe and some unexpected Flying Blue points.

Then that storm that was going round Europe landed on the runway we were trying to land at. Pilot aborted the landing and went for another one, only for the storm to hit that one when we were circling round. 20 minute in a Cloud with constant turbulence, and I made the mistake of looking out at the wing. Our 737 was doing a seagull impression.

We eventually made it down on the 3rd attempt, and on the way out I made sure the stewards were getting the pilot a beer afterwards.

Biggest issue is I have to fly out to Amsterdam again on Monday, and at this point, I never want to get on a plane ever again....

K50 DEL

9,237 posts

228 months

Monday 29th January 2018
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Think I must be some kind of adrenaline junkie, I've been a regular flier for over a decade now and every time I'm on a plane I wish for turbulence, I'd have paid double to be on the plane in the OP's video....
Only ever experienced it once, and even then it was so minor as to barely be noticeable.... didn't stop the nervous types screaming though!

That said, I'm the same on cross channel ferries, I've had some seriously rough crossings on those over the years but would still love rougher....

Wozy68

5,390 posts

170 months

Monday 29th January 2018
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K50 DEL said:
Think I must be some kind of adrenaline junkie, I've been a regular flier for over a decade now and every time I'm on a plane I wish for turbulence, I'd have paid double to be on the plane in the OP's video....
Only ever experienced it once, and even then it was so minor as to barely be noticeable.... didn't stop the nervous types screaming though!

That said, I'm the same on cross channel ferries, I've had some seriously rough crossings on those over the years but would still love rougher....
Reminds me of a flight from Birmingham to Barcelona. My Americanooooo mate who’d flown corporate all over the world a zillion times was having a right old laugh at me who hadn’t hardly flown at the time and my worries of turbulence and the plane falling out the sky.

We couldn’t sit together on the flight. Coming into land the plane was all over the place, and we landed with a right old bump. I hardly thought anything of it, well until it took me 10 minutes to unstick him from his seat. He was absolutely petrified. ....... By all accounts it was a very bad landing.

As I’d hardly traveled by plane before, I hadn't a clue. Sometimes ignorance is bliss biggrin