I am soo glad I was not on this plane

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http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/stunts/Real_Rough_Landing/

The Lufthansa jet, with 137 passengers onboard, struggled through the strong winds of a powerful winter storm to land at Hamburg Airport, Spiegel Online reported. After skidding along the runway and rocking violently, the pilot was forced to abort the landing. Later, all 137 passengers arrived safely.
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A brown pants moment if ever I saw one :eek:
 
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Woaaaaaah... ive been on a plane thats come into land sideways but they managed to flick it round at the last minute. I would have been breathing into a paper bag if Id been on there!
 
Chap at work has his private pilots licence, he is now going for his commercial licence. His commercial licence will cost him £70,000. I hope that covers how to land a plane in windy conditions.
 
This is the vid I always like especially the last landing in the 777. It would look great looing out the window from the passenger seats wondering why you could see down the runway your supposed to be landing on :)

 
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Woaaaaaah... ive been on a plane thats come into land sideways but they managed to flick it round at the last minute. I would have been breathing into a paper bag if Id been on there!
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What you experienced crosswind landing, normal procedure for those wind conditions,
 
That would have been an amazing experience to be quite honest

Adrenaline through the roof
 
ah ya all wimps! Crosswind landings are great fun :D Altho the Lufthansa airbus landing video posted isn't a typical landing haha. You should have seen a landing I did in Dublin the other week, we had a crosswind of 28 knots gusting 35, now that was sporty hehe :D

As has been said the standard crosswind landing technique is to fly the aircraft with the nose into the wind, so that the aircraft is actually tracking the centreline of the runway. This can be quite a large angle if the wind is strong, and so it can look to passengers like we are flying slightly sideways. When we get close to the ground, around 20-30ft (depending on the aircraft type) we will start the flare, which means pulling up the nose a couple of degrees to reduce the rate of decent from around 700-800 ft per min to a nice gentle descent to allow for a smooth touch down (again depending on the conditions, somestimes including crosswind situations it can be beneficial to make a 'solid' landing to make sure that we retain positive control during the touchdown) Whilst flaring at 20ft or so we will kick the nose straight down the runway so that the main gear will touch down straight. Sometimes to keep the aircraft where we want it on the runway we may need to drop the in-to wind wing slighty, which can be a little uncomfortable for the passengers, but its all very standard however.
 
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Awesome - totally awesome. Must get out to our local airport (1 mile away) next time there's a serious crosswind (mind you, they have two runways at 90 degrees), so they probably don't have to do that sort of stuff too often.
 
By the looks of the crosswind I would have thought it was way too much to be a safe landing !! I'm amazed he even tried !
 
My flight back from canada was terrifying had turbulance for 3 hours. Then landing in lond sideways like that and jolting about. Then the flight from london to edinburgh was even worse.

Never flying again lol
 
I hate flying. An old friend and drinking buddy was on that Phuket crash last September. He got out slightly injured, but what he saw... **** knows how he got on a plane to fly home again... I'd have rather walked it. It was a wind shear apparently that caused that crash.
 
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