Any info on why they wanted such an exact wheels rolling time?
Not too sure, I'm guessing they were trying for a perfect on-time departure and arrival into London. It was neat to hear how they had the original ATC'ers that handled the first Concorde flight working the stations for the last departure.
Great footage of this helicopter crash in Auckland, New Zealand. They were using the chopper to setup a seven story high structure to be used as a Christmas tree display on the waterfront, when suddenly one of the support cables caught the main rotor blades:
I'm amazed everyone walked away from this unharmed, especially given the proximity to flying debris.
Yeah, I too expected them to use 16/34. When I'm in Calgary I live just of the glide path of 10, and I can't say I've seen anything really big fly over the house to land. The biggest I've seen landing on 10 is A321
I always thought the appeal of LGA was its proximity to Manhattan. On my only trip to New York I flew YYC-YYZ-LGA, and we did a spectacular approach right around Manhattan before landing, it was like an aerial tour. The city had already blown my mind before I even landed.
I've always found Newark to be by far the fastest for getting in and out of Manhattan. Hop off the plane, hop on a train, and you're right in the middle of it.
That Lufthansa was textbook windy crosswind landing, crab and just plant her on good and solid.
Awesome videos Bigtime! It's funny, I saw that Continental missed approach today too. I brought my scanner (and my wife) and parked in the Silverwing Golf Course parking lot on 48th ave. - and saw it (and an Air Canada A320) go around.
Quick question though - it looked like you had a perfect vantage point. Can I ask where you were when you shot those videos? It appeared that you were directly under the Lufthansa!
Yeah, I too expected them to use 16/34. When I'm in Calgary I live just of the glide path of 10, and I can't say I've seen anything really big fly over the house to land. The biggest I've seen landing on 10 is A321
With the winds as high as they were, the crosswinds on 16/34 would have more then likely above crosswind limits.
Heavies on 10/28 isn't that uncommon, mostly happens with high winds like today.
Quick question though - it looked like you had a perfect vantage point. Can I ask where you were when you shot those videos? It appeared that you were directly under the Lufthansa!
I don't know about now, but there used to be a bit of parking space just off to the side of the start of runway 28.
It's just off the road that goes by the Aerospace Museum and by the SAIT aerospace building. I don't know about now with the closures, but that's how I used to get there.
A video of the Lufthansa landing shows how pilots fought to keep control as the plane lurched dramatically to the left just moments before touching down on the runway.
No, you moron reporter, the pilots were not "fighting to keep control" and the plane did not "lurch dramatically to the left". That was a perfectly-executed crosswind landing where the pilots were in complete and total control of their aircraft for the entire approach.
Awesome videos Bigtime! It's funny, I saw that Continental missed approach today too. I brought my scanner (and my wife) and parked in the Silverwing Golf Course parking lot on 48th ave. - and saw it (and an Air Canada A320) go around.
Quick question though - it looked like you had a perfect vantage point. Can I ask where you were when you shot those videos? It appeared that you were directly under the Lufthansa!
Not my video, just posting it from seeing it on twitter yesterday. Looks like they walked over and pretty much stood under the approach path of 28 on McCall way.
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Wouldn't be surprised if the go arounds were due to windshear warnings--did you hear anything specific on the scanner?
Looks like peak gusts were around 45 kts, about 50 mph.
An ATC'er over at SSP said there was a 35 knot windshear around 500' AGL in play.
No, you moron reporter, the pilots were not "fighting to keep control" and the plane did not "lurch dramatically to the left". That was a perfectly-executed crosswind landing where the pilots were in complete and total control of their aircraft for the entire approach.
I can't believe how many people are talking out of their ass on this topic.
1. Everyone on that flight nearly died
2. Yeah, like the pilot tries to land the plane sideways, good one
3. Airports are designed so the runway is a wind tunnel, that way planes always land into the wind to help them slow down, and take off with the wind to help them take off. The engineers built the terminal buildings, and such to ensure there is no cross-wind.
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for the love of God I hope everyone understands that's sarcasm and I refuse to use green text
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Bigtime... I looked at that screenshot... and then the comments.
Commercial jets landing on 25 is something I have NEVER seen... I hope some people got pics/vids of that!
No, no, no...not 25, 28 - very big difference there.
25 is rarely, (if ever), used anymore. When I was taking flight lessons way back in the day, I made a special request to use it and it even felt small in the small aircraft we flew.
