[phantom4570]

 

[TommyGunn]

Interesting....the view is so foreshortened by the lens I suspect a wider lens from a different perspective might seem less dramatic.

 

[CaptainGyro]

I know the armchair YouTubers were giving this guy credit for an well-flown approach, but it's actually pretty sloppy. What you're really seeing is a pilot "saving" an approach that shouldn't have been that difficult.

He's got a crosswind from the right that's pushing him across the final approach path. He uses way too little bank in the final turn, allowing the wind to cause an overshoot to the left side of the runway. He then has to continue the turn into the wind to get back on the centerline, and then make that final little left turn to line up. Finally, with a crosswind from the right he should have aligned the fuselage with the runway with a little left rudder and dropped the right wing to touch down on the right (upwind) main gear first. Instead you can see him touch down on the left mains first, with the aircraft subsequently "weathervaning" into the wind. All in all a pretty rookie approach.

 

[Skeptic49]

I know the armchair YouTubers were giving this guy credit for an well-flown approach, but it's actually pretty sloppy. What you're really seeing is a pilot "saving" an approach that shouldn't have been that difficult.....

Truly it is written, "In any line of business, there is nothing like a Pro!"

Geoff
Who bows to expertise.

 

[Diamondback]

I know the armchair YouTubers were giving this guy credit for an well-flown approach, but it's actually pretty sloppy. What you're really seeing is a pilot "saving" an approach that shouldn't have been that difficult.

He's got a crosswind from the right that's pushing him across the final approach path. He uses way too little bank in the final turn, allowing the wind to cause an overshoot to the left side of the runway. He then has to continue the turn into the wind to get back on the centerline, and then make that final little left turn to line up. Finally, with a crosswind from the right he should have aligned the fuselage with the runway with a little left rudder and dropped the right wing to touch down on the right (upwind) main gear first. Instead you can see him touch down on the left mains first, with the aircraft subsequently "weathervaning" into the wind. All in all a pretty rookie approach.

What happened to "good landing is one you can walk away from, GREAT's when you can fly the plane again"? lol