Impressive crosswind Airbus photo

[Naki]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/SATA-Intern...5-ET/1615692/L/

[creator2003]

Holy ,what a pic ,nice find

[Snowman]

WOW !!
I bet there would have been a few people on board that aircraft filling their pants !!!

Lawrie.

[Ian Warren]

Stunt pilot 'Robin Corn' trying to appease the what we have as Government not to buy ?

[Snowman]

A good advert for "what not to buy", seeing as how the Boeings already handle windy Welly fairly effortlessly...........................
Remember the NAC purchase of the B732 Ian,............. It all came down to welly, and the BEST aircraft to handle the conditions there....
Whaddaya reckon Ian ??...............

Lawrie.

[Ian Warren]

This would the very extreme .. even Boeing even have some shaky landings , One thing with this photo , i would love to see the entirety in video , A310 s are not small aircraft , this balancing act i don,t see any rudder or control surfaces going to work , this obviously caught the pilots out , the result ?

One thing taken into account , this was through a zoom lense , it dose distort exactly what is happening .

[Snowman]

Yes,........... it would have made one very spectacular video, if someone had caught it.
I would say the pilots would have been caught out totally unprepared for the unexpected.....
The result,.............. i shudder to think,... considering its heading straight for the grass , and that boundary fence in the foreground of the pic.
Looks like one hell of a strain on the undercarriage truck, and i wonder if the winglet on the Starboard side managed to stay intact ??............ Hard to tell from the pic......

Lawrie.

[Ian Warren]

Another possible that may have averted any major prang , 310's have yokes , but then lotta people fly FS with joysticks , guess its just what ya get use to , still one impressive photo !

[deaneb]

QUOTE (Snowman @ Dec 1 2009, 05:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The result,.............. i shudder to think,... considering its heading straight for the grass , and that boundary fence in the foreground of the pic.
Looks like one hell of a strain on the undercarriage truck, and i wonder if the winglet on the Starboard side managed to stay intact ??............ Hard to tell from the pic......

Lawrie.

Sure its pointed at the grass and fence, but where its heading (or the path its tracking) will be different. Remember it will "weather vane" into the wind. I'd pick once the gear is all down on the deck, the plane will straighten up. Still bloody scary though !! Amazing the strain the gear can handle. Not sure whether she'd be grounded for structural checks after that landing, before she's cleared to fly again?

Deane

[brownbox]

i dont get what the big deal is. I do this all the time in FS when im trying to land

Seriously though, wicked pic