 Nina221
Female, 13-17, Midwest US
 72 Posts
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Monday, December 10, 2007 1:34:08 PM
I just had to see the travel section of this site a week before i go off in a plane
thanks |
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 jtandtauna
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
86 Posts
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:47:22 PM
that music sucked  |
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 Marsilvanian
Male, 18-29, Europe
273 Posts
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:28:57 AM
Planes :) |
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 __Tigger__
Male, 30-39, Australia
105 Posts
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:16:03 AM
Dodgy landing attempt, very dodgy approach, super dodgy pilot ---> 0:48I can tell from the video. I know because I've seen quite a few landings in my time.
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 Dragoliz
Female, 13-17, Australia
94 Posts
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:30:02 PM
If you looked at the bottom of the clips you would see some of them said "Weather Action at Wellington Int Airport NZ". Wellington our capital city is renown for its horrible windy weather. Shows how skilled you have to be just to fly plane to Wellington. lol |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
10503 Posts
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:37:22 PM
Fools! I'd like to see any of u land with a crosswind and not make it look like that. |
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 BloodyHippie
Male, 18-29, Western US
150 Posts
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:43:35 PM
Sorry but someone has to do it. PHOTOSHOPED! I can tell by the pixels and having seen a good number of photoshops in my day. Anyway I was kinda expecting dodgy airplane landings to have alot fewer landings and maybe a crash or two. |
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 Itsdude56
Male, 13-17, Asia
901 Posts
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:00:18 AM
scary how you can see the wings bend >.> |
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 matsuri_aka
Female, 18-29, Canada
254 Posts
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:58:15 AM
That's okay. Let's all dance to the gay song. |
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 CheesyQueso
Female, 18-29, Western US
10873 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:16:41 PM
^ issues |
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 sup_dawg444
Male, 18-29, Western US
210 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:15:11 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. SHUT UP! All you people keep saying "ooooh those guys are talented oooooh" shut up! we don't care if your dad's an airline pilot and therefore you think you know everything there is to know about planes! It was titled Dodgy Airplane Landings, not terrible pilots can't fly a god damned plane, nobody was saying they were bad pilots. so shut up already. |
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 PurdueU BenZ
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
84 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:04:10 PM
what are you guys talking about? Crosswind landings are fun! Aileron into the wind, opposite rudder...you fly straight as an arrow, but touch down on your wind-side wheels first...and it is probably simpler to do and control in a Cessna 172 or Piper Warrior than in a 737... |
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 sepia-tenshi
Female, 18-29, Canada
357 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:53:33 PM
idont wanna watch this! imma be on a plane next month! |
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 Vanwa
Female, 13-17, Midwest US
365 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:13:49 PM
kudos for not killing the 200 passengers they were carrying. |
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 h0ax_d3m0n
Male, 18-29, Europe
2478 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:29:27 PM
people do crosswind landing all the time, hell i do but i only fly gliders, if you didnt you would crash, it takes some serious skill to do it with a boing 747! :| |
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 AKappy
Male, 18-29, Western US
2607 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:36:07 PM
Yeah, penile tumescence. |
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 TheGrag
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1548 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:30:34 PM
wtf...the vid was ok but jeeze... cant they embed it into IAM insted of linking it? lazy bastards! |
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 dajumbles
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
29 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:29:46 PM
Um, my dad is a Delta pilot and those were actually pretty good for crosswind landings. Especially in commercial airplanes, crosswind landings are very hard to do, the pilots were able to pull them off with ease. |
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 GummyWurmz
Female, 13-17, Europe
1483 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:34:43 PM
Someone on YouTube said that these were just flight landings being aborted. Anyhow they shat me up =/ |
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 davymid
Male, 30-39, Europe
11676 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:46:21 PM
Finally, I got a suggested link posted! As AKappy would say, I have attained a state of tumescence... |
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 norwish
Female, 18-29, Canada
437 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:02:18 PM
That is very impressive. Although I still would be pooting myself if I were a passenger... I hate flying. |
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 WDanC
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
418 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:20:18 PM
TIMES UP! |
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 candor88
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
111 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:25:28 PM
Those pilots are very skilled.
I've been around skydiving for 10 years and I've seen my fair share of crosswind landings, but those were in a Super Otter. It's much more impressive with jets.
I think at least 4 of those were Boeing 777. |
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 eleutherarch
Female, 13-17, Europe
1005 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:55:33 AM
Yeesh, they weren't bad. |
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 goaliejerry
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
4004 Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:20:38 AM
Most of those pilots were crabbing. Another technique one could employ would be a sideslip, wherein the plane is kept lined up straight down the run way, with one wing banked down in the direction of the wind. In that configuration you touch down on one wheel first. Probably a lot scarier for passengers, and more difficult in larger planes. But in a single engine cessna, side sliping done right gives a high level of control. |
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