Aeroplane Landing

seaner

:Was in lanzarote and found a cycle path that ran right beside the airport there....as such we were able to stand right underneath the pathway of a landing aeroplane.!! Scary but exhilerating!

Check it out..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH9vE7fUf_E

highlydebased

Yup its excellent. Paradise for plane spotters (Such as myself). Excellent for photographs

seaner

yeah we were actually amazed that people were allowed stand there - but I guess its safe enough. Got loads of pics and a couple of vids. Very windy that day though so the vid sounds all over the place.

Sorry about the bad quality video I had to make make a 60mb video into something under 1mb in order to upload it! Terribly slow internet connection!! thanks very much Irish broadband :mad:

rossie1977

these are two of my favs from St Maarten where 747 jumbo's land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O3xSDiIqHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2LBVuc1pVk

seaner

ps can someone identify the aeroplane for me......? tks

BuffyBot

Off to Aircraft and Aviation with ya

seaner

oops - thanks mod. Sorry I didn't know where to post it!

Henry Ford III

Matagorda. I was there.

seaner

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Matagorda. I was there.

thanks henry, but i wanted to know what the aeroplane was - not where I was! Its arrecife.

highlydebased

The arrecife video is a B737. Quality is not good enough to judge the airline...

pclancy

Looks very windy allright, he's crabbing a lot. Windy landing are great fun

highlydebased

You think thats bad look at this!! :eek::eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_WLa_9usaw

seaner

pclancy wrote: »

Looks very windy allright, he's crabbing a lot. Windy landing are great fun

what does crabby mean?
yeah it was SO windy that day. We had rented bicycles and were going along the cycle track that runs right from Puerto Del Carmen to the Airport. We had to turn back shortly after we shot this vid cuz the wind was so strong it was blowing sand up from the beach into our faces. It was like glass! Glad we weren't flying that day I'm a bad enough flyer without adverse weather conditions!!!

pclancy

Its a technique of landing when the wind is affecting approach to a runway.

Planes like to land into the direction the wind is blowing. When there's a crosswind blowing from either side of the runway they approach the runway pointing into the wind but it appears as if they're flying sideways then swing around just before touchdown to land straight on the runway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswind_landing

highlydebased

Watch video link I posted above for good crabbed landing

seaner

i can't see that video for some reason

highlydebased

This link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_WLa_9usaw

pclancy

Some good videos here of Boeing test crosswind landings. Break.com isnt work friendly btw...

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=318194

Its amazing to see and a bit weird be on when it happens. In feb coming into Heahthrow the EI airbus I was on felt like we were flying towards the terminal during the last bit of the landing then swung nicely to a perfect landing. Wind was very bad that night but pilots get very good at those landings due to European weather!

pclancy

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=296566

Good example in Dublin!

Plug

seaner wrote: »

:Was in lanzarote and found a cycle path that ran right beside the airport there....as such we were able to stand right underneath the pathway of a landing aeroplane.!! Scary but exhilerating!

Check it out..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH9vE7fUf_E

I have a few pics from there. Them engines would deffin you after a while.
At the over side of the fence there are blast deflecters.