Is this normal?

[bitchstewie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-47360240/stron...

I think I'd have been stting my pants frankly.

[JapanRed]

I was just about to post the same video.

How far can big commercial planes such as the one in the video bank? It looks to be at approx 45 degrees each way - i’d Have thought it would’ve dropped out of the sky at such an angle. Can’t have been comfortable for the passengers that!!!

[Cupramax]

I think Gib can suffer with extreme winds but ive never seen anything like that, reckon several new sets of underwear required (including mine if i was on it )

[cherryowen]

Mrs O was part of ATC at Gib many years ago, and apparently it's all to do with wind shear barrelling over the rock (much like what affects flights at Denver International)

[shouldbworking]

Is there such a think as lateral PIO?

[lbc]

bhstewie said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-47360240/stron...

I think I'd have been stting my pants frankly.

Nothing unusual for Gibraltar.

If things get too bad they divert all flights to Malaga.

[CrutyRammers]

I reckon it's a bit unusual

[JapanRed]

lbc said:

bhstewie said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-47360240/stron...

I think I'd have been stting my pants frankly.

Nothing unusual for Gibraltar.

If things get too bad they divert all flights to Malaga.

Really? How far will the plane bank before the pilots start to worry?

[AshVX220]

When I saw this video it was on my facebook feed with little supporting info, I actually discarded it as fake. I can't believe it's real, must have been terrifying!

[karma mechanic]

That looks to me like the fly-by-wire inputs were out of sync with the actual buffeting from the wind. Whether that's a pilot doing it or some software I don't know, but it did look impressively regular. Software would be very regular...

[Cupramax]

I was wondering if the pilot was doing it deliberately as a technique to deal with severe wind shear, anyone know?

[JapanRed]

karma mechanic said:

That looks to me like the fly-by-wire inputs were out of sync with the actual buffeting from the wind. Whether that's a pilot doing it or some software I don't know, but it did look impressively regular. Software would be very regular...

Can you say that again in a way that us laymen would understand?

[Schmeeky]

Cupramax said:

I was wondering if the pilot was doing it deliberately as a technique to deal with severe wind shear, anyone know?

[Cupramax]

very apt.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

I've been on a flight where very similar happened, coming in to Birmingham, October 17. Maybe 3-400 metres before landing the 737 went at that sort of angle (at least it felt it!) right, then left, then right. It then leveled out before landing shortly after. It was actually the smoothest landing (the actual landing, not the approach of course) I've ever experienced. I was absolutely crapping it at the time, with visions of the plane coming down on it's wing, I was waiting for a go around to happen.

I spoke briefly to the FO departing the plane, I said 'that was a bit hairy!' he just replied 'wasn't it just', whilst looking slightly shell shocked.

[Chuck328]

Cupramax said:

I was wondering if the pilot was doing it deliberately as a technique to deal with severe wind shear, anyone know?

Definately not a windshear recovery technique.

[Cupramax]

Here’s the full video of the approach, glad I wasn’t on that one. Clean underwear all round.

https://youtu.be/tjv3xBB-HmY

[bitchstewie]

Cupramax said:

Here’s the full video of the approach, glad I wasn’t on that one. Clean underwear all round.

https://youtu.be/tjv3xBB-HmY

Seriously. fk that.

[Krikkit]

Yep, fk that!

Is it just control lag versus the perfect wind force to create a harmonic?

[Cupramax]

And the quite excellent Mentour pilots concise explanation of what was going on.

https://youtu.be/3BkOgZPjZX4