The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Friday, March 21, 2008
Great piloting skills
A few weeks ago I posted a video clip of a Lufthansa Airbus making a very, very scary approach to the runway in a severe cross-wind. I've posted other "interesting" landings here and here.
Here's another, this time from Canada, demonstrating a situation almost as dangerous as the Lufthansa landing, but saved by extremely good flying by the pilots. Hats off to them! The aircraft is an Airbus A319 landing in Montreal, with winds gusting to well over 40 mph.
Peter
Nice smooth transition from a crab approach to a final slip---landing on one wheel using opposite rudder to keep the plane parallel to the runway.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch closely you can watch the transition. Great flying job.
I'm amazed they did that without smokin' the tires.
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