I am soo glad I was not on this plane

"A good landing is one that you can walk away from. A great landing is one where you can use the aircraft again."
 
Blinkz said:
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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Is sideslip SOP for your airline (can't remember who you fly for.) in both steady and gusting crosswind?

I was discussing crosswind landings not so long back with an SQ pilot who said they're strongly advised to use sideslip in steady winds and a mixture of de-crab and sideslip in gusting conditions. Of course they try to avoid a traditional crab like you guys to avoid the stress on the main gear.
 
On a slightly different tangent to crosswind landings but this would without a doubt fill every passengers pants with brown goo

 
I wish there was a pilot in the world that had a portable player with top gun - so when eever there was a action packed moment he could play it to his passengers. I would love it.
 
That is exactly why Pilots get so much money and training. Well deserved... The conditions were atrotious.
 
Indeed, why bin a landing if you can just try again?

Spot on Mr Pilot, it looks such a hard job, fair play to them I say.
 
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