pure skill

pure skill

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the last one is nuts.... I would have puked chunks..

 

:eek4:

 

damn.... no wonder why its not a job for anyone

 

Drifting before you even touch the runway. Thats not for the meager man.

 

Crosswind landings are like that. Pretty sketchy, especially if you dip your downwind wing too much and catch the wind. Better than trying to keep it straight the whole time, as once you get stable, you can keep flying sideways like that without much trouble.

 

Near fail? Or Pure skill?

 

my coworker showed me this video. Most of the shots are from some airport over in asia (sorry I cannot remember which country off the top of my head) which always has nasty cross-winds. Pretty sick IMO

 

I've been on a few of those. There's nothing you can do at that point so you just have to cowboy up and enjoy the ride.

 

oh Jeez...

That would be really fun though.

 

I thought it was lame at FIRST then I kept watching TIGHt SHYT

 

Those guys have some skills for sure. That second vid posted was also pretty crazy!

-Steve

 

Try this in a Cesna 152 with a 16 knot crosswind, way ugly. Big planes can handle the big crosswinds although you need to fly way ahead of the plane due to response time for corections.

I failed my first flight test due to strong crosswinds at Lake Elmo airport, came down 2 feet short on the threshold.

Great respect for these pilots.

Mike