Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A good landing for once


I've put up a number of video clips of bad landings during 2013.  To start 2014 off on a better note, here's perhaps the smoothest landing I've ever seen on video - so smooth I reckon the passengers hardly felt it.  It's a US Airways Airbus A330 landing at Manchester on August 30th, 2010. This one's definitely worth watching in full-screen mode.





You can read more about it here, including a detailed description of what makes that landing so special.  Congratulations to the pilot on a great job.

May 2014 bring smooth landings for all of us.

Peter

8 comments:

  1. What a sweetheart of a landing! Thank you.
    Happy New Year to you, Peter, and all your readers.

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  2. i thought any landing you could walk away from was a good one???

    yep nice job on this one. musta been the copilot landing it *grins*

    Happy New Year!!!

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  3. That is the kind you hear before you feel it !!! Excellent

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  4. Nice. Happy new year, Peter, to you & Miss D and all you love.

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  5. Hey Peter,

    THat was a very good landing. I was on one similar, I was in a Delta Boeing 767 and the pilot greased it in, you didn't feel the transition at all and the pilot didn't use the TR at all. When I was leaving I told the flight attendants that was an exceptional good landing and pass the kudo's to the pilot. The head stewardess told me "hang on a second" and the pilot came out and the pilot was a "she" I commented that I have flown a lot and that was by far the best landing I had even seen. She smiled and told me "thank you".

    She is still the standard I judge others.

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  6. When I commented on an exceptionally good landing in Caracas some years ago, the American Airlines pilot just said, "Yeah, we get lucky sometimes".

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  7. What makes this even more remarkable is that the only two times I have ever been on a commercial aircraft that blew a tire on landing, those landings were at Manchester NH. Most of the landings that I've had there were best characterized as.... forthright. A lot like I imagine a carrier landing would be, a brisk planting of the wheels on the tarmac and an immediate and forceful application of the brakes.

    Manchester has a short runway.

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  8. @Historian: I suspect this was Manchester in England.

    ;-)

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