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[Bullet2012]

Plane struggles to land in strong winds

The flight from Aberdeen got into trouble as it was trying to land at London Heathrow Airport.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Seadog]

That reminds me of my first attempt at landing

 

[optima21]

there were nearly skid marks on the runway, you know the problems if you follow through with strong wind

 

[brightspark]

That reminds me of my first attempt at landing

mine on the microlite in a crosswind i bounced and took off again 2 times on the runway and landed the 3d never been in one before and had no lessons or a licencejust to add any landings a good landing a crash landings a diffrent kettle of fish

 

[Bladevane]

As many others have stated - "A good landing is one you walk away from. An excellent landing is one where the plane can be reused".

 

[OJCar]

As many others have stated - "A good landing is one you walk away from. An excellent landing is one where the plane can be reused".

So you have travelled by Dan Air then...

 

[DAPPH]

So you have travelled by Dan Air then...

Had some real lumpy rides with Dan Dare Air out of Luton & across the channel , often at the end of Feb & well into March when the gale force winds would chuck us up a 60 feet then disappear only to catch us 140 feet lower down .
I never needed a barf bag or clean brown trousers but a hell of a lot of people in the plane did .
During such flights my ex wife took to screeching every few seconds " Oh my god " , " Warragh " , " Oh my god ( Catholic and all that supposedly ) it really put me off me trying to read my copy of War & Peace . But I am / was too much of a gentleman to have said " STFU ! "much as I felt it.

 

[Domdom]

As many others have stated - "A good landing is one you walk away from. An excellent landing is one where the plane can be reused".

That’s what my instructor used to say, God rest her. she, sadly didn’t manage to walk away from her final flight.

Coventry air crash tragedy victims

THE families of those killed in Sunday's tragic air crash near Coventry have paid tribute to their loved ones.

www.coventrytelegraph.net

 

[bricol]

Every other day at Leeds Bradford UK's highest airport. Runway goes over a hill . . .

Bit of a crosswind most of the time . . .

 

[Knuckles2907]

Every other day at Leeds Bradford UK's highest airport. Runway goes over a hill . . .

Bit of a crosswind most of the time . . .

Yep crosswinds and up drafts that’s why military planes fly in and out quite often because of the strange winds.

 

[R Kraft]

The wind in Wyoming will commonly blow at 70 mph and more.
I was driving on the interstate one day, during a cross country bi-plane race.
There was a bi-plane at several hundred feet in the air, just setting in one place.
Odd to see an airplane disappear in the rear view mirror.

 

[PhillipM]

There's a guy that flys some sort of insane hopped up stunt plane over the workshop regular - when we had the buggy running he even used to 'race' us, down the tracks and then do stunts following us around the fields, he'd play for 20-30 mins and then waggle the wings and shoot off - he came over once when the wind was up there at 40-50mph or so and he hung the damn plane right overhead with it just sat at 45*, half engine power and half wind holding it there like a helicopter, I never found out who he was but damn he can fly!

 

[JMS1972]

Every other day at Leeds Bradford UK's highest airport. Runway goes over a hill . . .

Bit of a crosswind most of the time . . .

My worst experience of flying was a landing there

 

[R Kraft]

A good wind can do some amazing things.
Someone told me that a pilot of a bi-plane landed and took off from the top of a hay stack.
Would have loved to see that.

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Every other day at Leeds Bradford UK's highest airport. Runway goes over a hill . . .

Bit of a crosswind most of the time . . .

*Pedantic mode*

Not strictly over a hill, it's at the top of a hill but the runway actually dips in the middle, and goes up at each end...I'll see if I can find a picture
Sadly the only time I've been in the area in bad weather, I couldn't actually see the runway but I did hear plenty of go arounds

 

[Fred Trevvett]

 

[bourbon]

Who thought it was a good Idea to put a runway there?

 

[Domdom]

There's a guy that flys some sort of insane hopped up stunt plane over the workshop regular - when we had the buggy running he even used to 'race' us, down the tracks and then do stunts following us around the fields, he'd play for 20-30 mins and then waggle the wings and shoot off - he came over once when the wind was up there at 40-50mph or so and he hung the damn plane right overhead with it just sat at 45*, half engine power and half wind holding it there like a helicopter, I never found out who he was but damn he can fly!

That’s why pilots from Alaska are so good. Into the wind many of them can land on a short beach.

 

[sako243]

Okay great - but how do you take off again if the wind has dropped.

 

[daleyd]

Reminds me of flying out of Liverpool to Dublin about 20 years ago - I remember it quite vividly as it was the first day that the euro currency was being used so there was chaos as shops were changing over!

Almost every flight out of Liverpool was cancelled because of high winds - except the Ryanair flight to Dublin! I’m not a nervous flyer but I can’t say I enjoy it hugely. The woman sat next to me was telling me that she flew lots and she wasn’t bothered by a bit of bad weather.

It was a pretty rough take off, but nothing too bad - however when we landed in Dublin and we were looking at the end of the runway out of the side window she grabbed my leg out of fright as bags were falling out of the overhead lockers and people started screaming . Fair play to the pilot, I’m sure it was well in hand, but it didn’t really feel it from the cheap seats