Extreme crosswind landing in Las Vegas
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- čas přidán 9. 10. 2011
- Young pilot gains valuable crosswind landing experience in gusty 33mph conditions. Aircraft is a Cessna T310Q. Runway 25 at KVGT in Las Vegas. Approach is "over the numbers" (25 at McCarran KLAS), then left base onto final for 25 at KVGT.
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Ladies and gentlemen, your pilot today was Badass.
Andy Hale except for landing in a crab with retractable gear and letting the nose flop down.
bombud1 You weren't there. You don't know the exact conditions or his experience level-how can you be so critical?
+Paul Dirac Just a typical know it all
What would you expect? To land on the belly of the aircraft? He followed the right procedures and protocols in this situation. Congrats to this pilot.
HELL YEAH
I cannot find the words to express my admiration for these guys
Pilots are heroes man. They're just gutsy people.
+kenwayne96 * gusty people... hahahahaha
+kenwayne96 No, a lot of them are just plain stupid. And even dumber for posting videos of the dumb things they do.
+s stan You know a lot of pilots then?
+Cameron Putt Who are " lot of people"? I been around them longer than you have and have never heard of that! Sounds to me you just made that up.
+Cameron Putt I don't believe it. don't know how old you are but let me explain something. Most airline pilots come from the military. They are former Air Force and Navy pilots. Also, I been on you tube for years, seen most if not all flying video's and I have never seen those comments. I certainly would have jump all over them if I can get on them before my 2 buddies here. We meet in the hangar, 4 old time retired pilots. We then fly out for breakfast and lunch. Next to me are 2 retired military pilots and we all have over 10,000hrs. None of us have ever seen or heard anyone say that. However, I am not calling you a liar but we would appreciate if you can give us a link so we can blast those morons. Have a nice day.
They landed perfectly
Excellent video, using a quality camera and editing out of unimportant sections makes this a joy and an totally enjoyable clip.
Passenger: Runway in sight!
Great skills and this video was a treat. Thank you for posting!!!
Nice landing! It's always tough to land a small aircraft in a gusty crosswind without breaking anything and as says the old pilot lore "any landing you can walk away from" is a good one!
cheers
I love the strobing of the GPS and the radio above it.
Never had a rough landing in Vegas but coming out over the mtn range will find you praying every time.!!!
I hope they did a "Hey tower! Watch this!" radio call for that landing.
Good work guys!
Did a really nice job holding centerline - can't even tell if the title of "extreme" x-wind is deserved! Well done.
WOW, great handling! Loved this crosswind landing! The pilot treated her very smoothly and professionally :)
Love it! Great stuff!
Whoo-hoo, you got fancy graphics software.
But most of us just want to watch the video.
Well done! Such a professional landing!
Nice job. Xwind landings are the most fun!
Good job flying and landing. Good video. Thanks for posting.
Nice video! Got my private up in North Town, and it's nice to see a video of the usual flying conditions there :D
Very well executed approach and landing!
Nice video quality and nice landing - looked pretty gusty!
Being a student pilot I've practiced X/wind landings in similar winds. Its extreme in my book and a great landing too, keep up the good work!
Great job guys !!! Very nice landing! Thanks for video!
Great flying! Looks like that one kept all your limbs busy! Great work getting her back on centre-line before the flare!
Great landing in less-than-ideal conditions! Good Job.
"Control track with ailerons, heading with rudder, fly it to the ground." That's what I kept telling myself last time I had the rare chance to do touch and go's in a nice crosswind. I had thought about it for years. It really worked well when I tried it. The C172 touched down one wheel at a time every time, right down the line. I wish I could afford to fly more than once every 20 years.
Flying a mosquito into Thor's fartstorm is more harrowing than I am willing to try. Good on you for sticking the landing!
Glad your video shows you landing it better
Enjoyed this, great landing
I wouldn't call that a perfect landing, but it was damn impressive considering the description says he's a young pilot getting "valuable crosswind landing experience" which says to me that he's not done this too often before, or not at all. With that in mind, I can't help but to be impressed by how well he handled it.
Fragacide might wanna get that experience in something with fixed gear if hes going to be landing in the crab like that. his gear could have easily folded on this very landing.
Fragacide Yeah very impressive for a young pilot, some experienced pilots would struggle with crosswinds like that, but the comment section will point out every mistake he made even though the primary role of any pilot is to ensure the safety of the aircraft, which he did do.
bombud1 You can see that he righted the plane at the perfect moment before contact. The gear wouldn't buckle unless he tried keeping the angle while landing. I think he did well considering the conditions were probably more than expected.
Loobo2012 Yeah, well those who point out every single little error are only in it to get credit for their knowledge. I commented to give credit to the pilot in this video, which he well deserves at least a little.
Thanks for the tip. I was at the time a brand new multi-engine pilot with about 200 hours total. I am now a commercial pilot flying photography flights and lots of operations all-weather in and out of KLAS, KSAN, KSNA, KBUR, etc. Let it be known that my hand NEVER leaves the throttle, except when the right seat has me backed up, like he did in the video.
Excellent landing! Good job!
Bravo! Nothing like landing sideways to make your day. Great piloting!
Thanks for posting this video. The 310 is a nice aircraft and this shows how stable it is during a crabbing approach. At 1:40 a caption said, "turning base for runway 25," when they were actually turning to final, but otherwise I didn't notice any other goofs. I hope that you have many happy landings in beautiful locations.
310Q is a sweet airplane, I have couple hours in one. Nice job sticking the landing.
Nice landing man, good training and work.
Great landing!
Great landing! gotta love that bumpy ride on approach.
Fantastic video, thank you.
Great video!
Great video! Loved it.
Oh man do I love flying.
Just started flight training, loving every minute of it. Just did sharp turns with the blinders on today.
Awesome landing!!
I was the pilot. No, it wasn't EXTREME, but it was definitely gnarly. Thanks man!
Excellent job!
FWIW: My father, a 36,000+ hr airline pilot, taught me that you should fly the plane down to the round out in a crabbed position, then kick it out straight and drop the wind side wing just before touch-down. His reasoning (and that of many other high time commercial pilots I know who learned to fly in WWII through the Korean conflict) was when you kick the nose straight and drop the wing through the approach you increase the stall speed and create excess drag with crossed controls.
That is basically a nice day up in Edinburgh. Good job, but lucky the wind seems fairly constant!
What a fun ride! I'm on my couch yelling blue line, blue line! Watch your descent rate! Somehow my wife does not understand the pothole in the sky concept with bumpy weather, but she has not ridden with me in a small plane. I go "woohoo" every time we fly in bad weather with an airline. Flying at night is nicer, but for a student, the worse the conditions (with an instructor) the more you learn and to use when you are on your own and find yourself in IMC conditions getting thrown every which way except blue (gray) side up.
nice video and great flying!!
Nicely done!
wow...
Nice landing, captain!
very nice Capt.
That was fun to watch! Great job!
Great job! Excellent cross control
You guys had your hands full! Good job
Awesome video!!! Great job!!!!
Very nice video. Good job!
Very, very cool! Great job!!
fantastic landing!
Wow...such great skill. I felt like I was right there...nice video!
Nice job! I once had to do a 21kt direct crosswind landing in an Archer and let me tell you...I don't want to do it again! Thats what I get though for pushing the plane past the demonstrated xwind! Good job man!
Nice! I few a 1963 310 a couple of times... I love them!
Awesome landing! Great job!
Nice POV shot. Very stable camera mounting as well.
Thanks much. Appreciate the reply...
very nicely done, reminded me of my days of flying in small aircrafts lol.
Good landing!!! I like how you stabbed at it right near touchdown and left a sec of grab or go :)
I live in North Las Vegas and often go to the little park near the runway to watch TO's and landings. Beautiful observation park just off of Decatur and Cheyenne.
there's so much correction required that it doesn't even look real! Almost has that 50's movie look of putting a cockpit infront of stock footage lol, nailed it though, great job!
Hi you are joyful because you are a good boy
Great video!! Felt like I was inside with you! Seemed a fast landing touchdown? I'm not a pilot though. Very windy!! A good scary video. Thanks. Would be scarier at night time.
That is actually the North Las Vegas Air Terminal on a westbound approach with the Spring Mountain Range and the La Madre Mountains (foothills of Mt. Charleston) of in the Distance. My Mom's flight instructor crashed up there in the 1980s flying back in a snow storm from Tonopah. He was twenty miles off course flying at 10,000 feet.
This is good video, have a question, what could be the crosswind speed? I didn't see the airplane having a right or left travel on approach. The airplane was straight at all times over the runway. On some cases, the rt or lt wing will have to go down depending on the wind direction. Thanks for sharing this video.
Holy cow that was awesome ! At first I honestly thought it was a troll video with a green screen lol. That was wild. I've always wanted to take off and land a plane...it's the flying that gets me! Safe travels sir !
Very nice job! Was that an instructor in the right seat? And what was the flaps setting?
thanks for sharing!
The sound being referenced in previous posts is the radar altimeter indicating 50ft, not the stall horn. In these conditions, wind shear potential was high. Had the stall warning sounded, you would have seen an immediate go around initiated with right seat on throttles, and left focused on flying the airplane out of the stall as planned and understood. You will notice right seat had the throttles on final for this very contingency.
i learned to fly at an airport with gusty crosswinds ,,, this video is great ,, the pilot may not have seemed to do all that well ,, but he did do just fine ,, it's easy to be an armchair critic ,, get out there in adverse conditions and see what it's like ,, i would fly with this guy anytime
Great landing, given the conditions...You're right about the windsock. ;)
Nice job. I noticed a slight kick to the right when the wheels touched down since the nose was not aligned with runway, but not bad at all. For the conditions, good job.
Excellent job.
Perfect landing !
It did look windy, but you made the landing look easy. That's down to pilot skill more than anything else.
Xwind factor was 20g31kt. Empoyed a left crab in the approach to eliminate the lateral travel you refer to, thus keeping the airplane over center line all the way into the flare. Look closely just before touch down rudder kick; cross controls cause the left wing to dip into the wind slightly. Left main touch first, then right, and finally the nose gear. Other than the high xwind factor for this aircraft, sort of routine really.
What are those flashing red lights in bottom-center? Maybe it looks that way because of the camera (like the bars on comp monitors for cameras)?
Good job guys, you made it look easy.
Why is the altimeter set to QNH and not QFE ? Great video, thanks for sharing.
very well done and focused hard landing
Amazing job!!!
Beautiful!
Just prior to setting it down, is it just a feel as far as how much crabing you need to do? Or do you rely on any particular instrumentation to advise you or give you some angle or atitude adjustments? Thanks.
@KellyMorganite Chopper for errands? What do you do, land on top of Food Lion with it?
Fantastic job by the pilot!
Crab on approach; then forward slip when nearing contact. Correct? I did quite a few @ Spokane International in small Cessna's when I was young.
Good landing!
panda44r it sounds like you have some nice memories watching takeoffs/landings at Las Vegas. The poster said this was KVGT which is North Las Vegas. Also I imagine to the person who posted the video piloting a plane and seeing a crosswind landing from the cockpit must have been very interesting. As a student pilot having flown on a day I should not have when the wind blew up and I had to land in a 25kt 90degree crosswind it was a miserable, terrifying experience for me (as soon as I took off I knew I had made a terrible mistake thinking I would just go up and "see how it was"). Anyhow, crosswind landings are now a good challenge rather than a death defying experience but fun to look at from the plane or the ground :)
Can't tell but were you using asymmetric thrust? If not it sure does help.
Great job!!
so is the proper way to release the rudder before you touch the ground or release when landed
Great job!
Perfect landing!! Nice!
Wind sensation is a magnificent moment !