High speed landing(video)

mkiter · Since 01 Jan 2007 17 Posts

Can anyone guess the wind speed ? Very Happy

http://www.youkiteboard.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c5e5d1c6e28598e8cbbe

pkh · Since 27 Feb 2005 6549 Posts Couve / Hood Honored Founder

tinyE · Since 21 Jan 2006 2004 Posts not really an XTreme Poster

this one was right next to that one...

who says windsurfing sucks?
http://www.youkiteboard.com/view_video.php?viewkey=240ad5b9b413aa7346a1&page=&viewtype=&category=

Onad · Mon Apr 02, 07 6:38 am

Reaper356 · Since 10 Dec 2006 781 Posts Salem / LC Oregon Opinionated

Yeah it would suck to ground loop that baby! Looks like they sped the video up after it got on the ground tho.

Nak · Mon Apr 02, 07 10:45 am

I used to fly that aircraft. It's one of the baby Airbuses... Anyway, the video on the ground is definitely doctored. The pilot should have gone around by the way. He was not stabilized, obviously.

Looks like there was a good crosswind and he screwed up the transition from load demand to direct control. The way the Airbus fly by wire works is that above 100 feet the computer looks at pilot input and then decides how to implement that input. As you descend below 100 feet, control transitions to the flight control surfaces responding directly to pilot input. Normally, the transition is fairly transparent to the pilot. In a stiff crosswind you can get problems like this if you don't keep the transition in mind. Also, it could have been both pilots making control inputs. The side sticks are not interconnected, so the input from each is sent to the computer.

Nak

KITEADDICT · Since 13 Apr 2006 117 Posts PDX west side Stoked

Ya doctored for sure. If it was comming down that fast on the front landing gear it would have been destroyed