Simviation Forum - Most amazing landing

Reply #15 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 12:44am

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My best land ever was made on a B747-300 of Alitalia at the Kai-Tak Airport on Hong Kong. It was right on the centerline, perfectly aligned within the glideslope.

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Reply #16 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 4:05am

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There are some memorable ones for me but two stand out. They are both night landings into airports without runway lights. The first I think was Chile and I aimed for the blackest spot on the screen and watched the GPS but that'll only get you so far. Second was Afghanistan and I could just separate the difference in blackVblack to find the runway.
Does FS give info on which airfields don't support night movement?

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Reply #17 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 4:39am

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my 747 landing at Bali with visibility at almost 0. a few seconds before touchdown i saw a cessna taxiing on the runway. i landed and never saw the little prop again...

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Reply #18 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 4:42am

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Concorde at KJFK in near 0 visibility and a terrible crosswind. Wink

All I had for navigation were the instruments and GPS...not fun... Roll Eyes

...no flaps to slow me down either...but it was a rewarding landing. 8)

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Reply #19 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 5:13am

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Really? When did that happen? Fairchild AFB is only a couple hours from where I live

go to
http://www.airsidetv.com/
left hand side click on scene library
click on crash bang
find B-52

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Reply #20 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 9:34am

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Like others have said here - any landing that I walk away from is pretty cool - Brand new here trying to learn the ropes - This is a great resource for me ! Thanks forthis forum it's great !

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Reply #21 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 9:49am

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One landing I put in the "Sheer Luck" catagory....
(FS2000 Pro)
Late one night I was taking the C-5 from Travis to Randolph. I set up FSNav for the flight, took off and started the AP at altitude and settled back into the chair. Well, it was a new desk chair, plenty comfortable, too. And, you can guess what happened. Shocked

When I woke up, I was well short, but on a perfect track for the runway at about 500, and falling fast at about 400kts. No flaps. No gear. I didn't even try to recover. That scared the crap out of me.

Moral of the story; Don't go to sleep in da seat!

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Reply #22 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 9:54am

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prob the first landing i made sucessfully in the 777 at heathrow clouds down to 100 feet(i know its not like 0 vis clouds to 0) but i love the sight of the runway suddenly appearing out of nowhere. and i flew the entire approach manually slight cross wind on full instruments just until the point where i could have visability to land

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Reply #23 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 10:19am

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing...

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Reply #24 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 9:28pm

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Just had a great one. In the 747, KLAX with low vis(less then 10 miles), thunderstorm, 170 mph+ winds 200mph+ gusts. The 747 was shaking, I landing on the runway, amazingly. anyway,later, My Cessna 172 was flying sideways in similar weather.

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Reply #25 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 9:46pm

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flying a DC4 from Roswell to Albuquerque's SunPort,
It was in the early AM and shouldn't have been flying as tired as I was. I mis read and with bad hearing I leveled out on a great approach flaps full down gear down, wings level ..... air speed was nominal, about 145 KIAS I believe, I set this bird down on the second mark, and used flaps, and brakes to slow it down and turned off the taxiway like I owned it.

EXCEPT, that I had landed on the wrong runway. I don't fly that tired anymore, and write all approach instructions down as they come in. Maybe I should change my name to Pilot Error?

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Reply #26 - Apr 16^th, 2003 at 12:24am

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Like others have said here - any landing that I walk away from is pretty cool - Brand new here trying to learn the ropes - This is a great resource for me ! Thanks forthis forum it's great !

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Reply #27 - Apr 16^th, 2003 at 9:31am

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go to
http://www.airsidetv.com/

For those of you who have not checked out this site you must go see it! Its truly amazing!! Shocked

Expecially amazing is a video clip of various planes trying to take off and land in a killer crosswind...

Look for a video clip called "Gusty Landings"

I pity the poor passengers in these planes...
It really shows some amazing piloting skills though...

THESE are the most amazing landings.

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Reply #28 - Apr 16^th, 2003 at 10:08am

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I'd have to say all those times when I'm just messing around without ILS, so I'm not lined up with the runway untill about 100' out. Ever been at a 45 deg angle to the runway in a 737 at 100' and landed, staying on the runway?

BTW: the B-52 video is a streaming vid. You can forget about it if you have dial up. Buffer, play a second, buffer play a second, buffer... And because it streams, it can't be downloaded completely, and then watch it all.

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Reply #29 - Apr 16^th, 2003 at 5:48pm

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I have 2 great landings.

The first was at O'hare in a multiplayer game. I was flying a Swordfish Floatplane... God did those sparks fly! Grin

The second one was a perfect formation landing with a 767 while I was in a Corsair. Did the approach and every thing! Grin

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