I remember a pilot telling that to my father many years ago, when I was very young. He and my father were taking me up in some kind of an old over-wing single engine aircraft with a radial engine; that much I also remember. The plane was blue, and I got to “fly” it for a minute or so, trying hard just to keep it level.
How’d you like to be a passenger in a plane whose pilot is attempting to land here, in these kinds of crosswinds?
Ultimately that’s a lot of Old School “stick and rudder” flying, as they say.
BZ
WOW….some of them pilots REALLY earned their paychecks…OMG.
Also, if you watch the video…from the angle of the camera, it looks like the planes are literally dropped straight down from a vertical drop. The camera angle doesn’t let you see the plane moving forward.
Great stuff.
Thanks. I enjoyed the heck out of it, really gives you a different perspective. Pilots still have to be pilots. I wonder how a true “autonomous plane” would handle that?
BZ
And those guys in rice burners think THEY are drifting.
Yep, ‘old school’ flying there! Slips and everything else trying to get them planted! 🙂 You DON’T learn that in the simulator! Some interesting cross controlling there. best landings were at 2:49, 5:18 and the little turboprop that was next. Interestingly, most of the ‘weird’ landings were Airbus (no stick feel), the best were Boeings…
You know, that’s odd, that was a question I had in the back of my brain — did a physical yoke to touch and manipulate make a difference?
I wonder what Airbus and Boeing pilots would say?
BZ
Lots of rudder work there with a little bit of “pull-back”.
And when you stick it, get those clam-shells working!