i know its not really drift but its really amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ;mode=related&search=



P.s.The A380 in the video weights about 252 or 276 metric tons empty.(depends on the version)

Can't see the vid (bastard IT department) but can I assume the plane's making a skid turn (using the rudder with banking)? I love those

hehe reminds me of my first flying lesson, although we weren't coming in very sideways it felt like it.

not a great experience

I thought the rudder was always used in combination with banking to make a turn?

..shows what I know about aviation. haha

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I thought the rudder was always used in combination with banking to make a turn?

..shows what I know about aviation. haha

Well, it is, but he's meaning opposite rudder, i.e. right rudder and left aileron, basically to drift the plane, lol.

Discovery Channel once had a clip of a B52 landing with strong crosswind.. Now this plane has two pairs of wheels on the front and two near the back, somewhat oddly.. If I recall it properly, it steered the landing gear into the runway direction on the approach.. cool stuff

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although we weren't coming in very sideways it felt like it.

Ugh, I remember taxiing for the first time. Almost ran over some woman who was walking her dog at the edge of the airfield. With a Cessna 150.

I've been onboard on a landing like this...Unbelievable...you don't see the rundway and suddenly it's touchdown.
Hats off the the pilots with the confidence to do this with 300 lives in their backs! Although they don't have any other choice!

found this one when browsing the related content: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE

you could call that drifting already ^^

Wow, that was either very difficult conditions (already Hong Kong airport approach is difficult since there are mountains around, or a spectacularly newbie/bad pilot...

Drifting?

Who are you guys, car addicts?

It's called yaw. With a serious crosswind to counter.

Two big thumbs up to those pilots though . Drifting is hard enough in a car, but a plane going sideways? Landing must be the hardest thing in the world in such a situation.

Sure, it would be difficult to land alone without the crosswinds. Really, all the pilots are doing is monitoring the landings. The heavies auto land by themselves through computer control. They intercept the ILS (instrument landing system) and the computer guides the plane completely down to touchdown.

At least this is how I assume it is. I've been flight simming for a few years now. I land the heavies all the time. Never have to touch the stick. They land themselves, as do their real counterparts. Though for fun, I do land them manually in the sim.

EDIT: From wikipedia: The output from the ILS receiver goes both to the display system (Head Down Display and Head-Up Display if installed) and can also go to the Flight Control Computer. An aircraft landing procedure can be either "coupled" (Autoland), where the Flight Control Computer directly flies the aircraft and the flight crew monitor the operation; or "uncoupled" (manual) where the flight crew fly the aircraft uses the HUD and manually control the aircraft to minimize the deviation from flight path to the runway centreline.

Didn't always use to be like that though Rodgers . I remember back a long long time ago one of my sisters had a chance to fly one of the Delta hydraulic simulators and tried to land. She did it at nighttime for some reason, but I remember the graphics just enough to say it was a bunch of green wire lines which made up the tower, the background, and the runways. Back in those days the pilots had to land them.

Only thing you have to worry about nowadays is what pilots call "static discharge" I'm sure some of you here know what static discharge really is heh.

You guys want to see some cool flight videos, just look up any ones of 747's landing and taking off from St. Maartin in the Caribbean.

Its safe to say, if i had have been aboard one of those planes whilst landing, i would have been touching cloth!

well its not like these maneuvers arent part of a standard pilot training ... you can also do these sort of things to shave off excess speed on your final approach although i think a 747 might be a bit too big for that
wither way point is if you managed to get your air transport licence you know how to do these things safely

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well its not like these maneuvers aren't part of a standard pilot training ... you can also do these sort of things to shave off excess speed on your final approach although i think a 747 might be a bit too big for that
wither way point is if you managed to get your air transport license you know how to do these things safely

It's all about vectoring the forces of desired magnitude in the correct directions. This may seem irrelevant to that thread on ice racing, but the basic physical idea is the same.

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It's all about vectoring the forces of desired magnitude in the correct directions. This may seem irrelevant to that thread on ice racing, but the basic physical idea is the same.

and you still havent grasped what im on about in the ice thread but ive given up on that and chose to let it slide

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and you still havent grasped what im on about in the ice thread but ive given up on that and chose to let it slide

I'm excusing the pun, is anyone else?

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You guys want to see some cool flight videos, just look up any ones of 747's landing and taking off from St. Maartin in the Caribbean.

Want to see worse? What is that airport I believe it is in France which is right off the beach, so everyone on the beach has massive 747s and 777s and all other Airbuses and all these huge jet liners only a few hundred feet above them.

Ahah, found it, Philipsburg \ St. Maarten
hahhah

^a nudy!, sorry guys, it is France.

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Want to see worse? What is that airport I believe it is in France which is right off the beach, so everyone on the beach has massive 747s and 777s and all other Airbuses and all these huge jet liners only a few hundred feet above them.

Ahah, found it, Philipsburg \ St. Maarten
hahhah

^a nudy!, sorry guys, it is France.

Hey XC, check this out

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=447696#post447696

Thought it was in France..

woa I didn't see he said the airport.. gah ..

Still getting used to this laptop... uhhhhh.. lol
/me walks away whistling


Owell, I posted a picture, now everyone can see how awesome it wouldn't be to be on that beach.

Actually I did find some cool pictures some people took of planes landing there, from directly below on a really shiny plane it can give cool reflections.

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Owell, I posted a picture, now everyone can see how awesome it wouldn't be to be on that beach.

How awesome it wouldn't be? Unless that was a typo, that would be awesome to be on that beach. But then, I like flight simming and airplanes almost as much as sim racing and cars.

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How awesome it wouldn't be? Unless that was a typo, that would be awesome to be on that beach.

Ohh yeah..my thoughts exactly...that looks awesome. You can lie right underneath the planes flightpath. I'm tempted to book a holiday there right now