Little Bit of Crosswind Component

[mattdaniels]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17863501

[davepoth]

That looked a bit lively!

[ramz]

Why is the video sped up? Still quite a hairy day at the office there but I'm sure it would look less busy at normal speed.

[anonymous-user]

Is it sped up? Looks normal to me.

[Riff Raff]

Been there, done that. I was on a flight that did three go-arounds ( I think - I was quietly crapping myself) trying to land at Bilbao, because the crosswind was over limits.

Eventually we diverted to Vitoria, which was a hoot, as they didn't have any mobile steps to hand that were big enough to get us off the aeroplane.

[uncinqsix]

Meh. About on par with my local airport: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0

[Chilli]

uncinqsix said:

Meh. About on par with my local airport: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0

Small world. I almost bought a house in Khandallah ( no idea on the spelling) specifically as with binoculars you could see the planes landing, from the main bedroom!

[ramz]

el stovey said:

Is it sped up? Looks normal to me.

Definitely sped up. The planes in the video seem to eat up a large chunk of the runway in very little time, and even the way the planes are tossed around just looks exaggerated.

Compare it to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvLuUJFHYk

Edited by ramz on Friday 27th April 12:51

[mattdaniels]

I like the way the engines change position for #2 and #3 between the overhead shot and the landing shot. Someone mucked up the edit methinks.

[mrloudly]

uncinqsix said:

Meh. About on par with my local airport: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0

Did the last one land or crash

[Justin Cyder]

I remember as pax, being sat on an airbus at GVA waiting to depart on a windy day. As we waited for an arriving aircraft, we were holding in such a way that our window was lined up with the runway. It was plenty windy & the combination of perspective, chunky rudder input & deflected approach meant that the incoming 757 looked for all the world like it was flying right at us.

Even though I knew better, I remember that being slightly disconcerting, thinking great, I made it through that ski trip only to get a kicking off a Boeing!

[uncinqsix]

Chilli said:

uncinqsix said:

Meh. About on par with my local airport: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0

Small world. I almost bought a house in Khandallah ( no idea on the spelling) specifically as with binoculars you could see the planes landing, from the main bedroom!

I live in Khandallah


Top of the hill, but facing the other way (view's not as good, but it gets more sun). There's a great park nearby where we take the kids that's right under the flightpath. My boy loves it

[Simpo Two]

Great, BBC News speeding things up for effect.