SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:14 am Post subject: hong kong

yeah thats in hong kong...i oculdn't see the original video. coudln't connect or something...weird. i think i saw it already anyways haha i love watching those kinds of clips. anyways that clip of the 747 in hong kong is all over the web. i think it's on like www.stupidvideos.com or something or another site. and what the heck was the pilot thinking when he was landing that plane haha.

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:12 am Post subject:

While I am downloading this short clip (always prefer it over strreaming) I am taking a guess that it is the Kai Tak Airport, and a Japan Air 747 with the extreme rudder action. Shocked

EDIT watched it, yep I was right.... Cool

but it wasn't crosswind that made it look like that. It is Kai Tak's unusual offset approach, which makes pilots to make a 45 degree turn while maintaining the glideslope not above 1000 feet over a city. Only the last left turn is because of the wind.

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject:

Here is how to do a real Cross-Wind Landing

Click on the top video on the left and right columm. Cool

http://www.kingschools.com/webVideo/videoarchives.asp?login=yes&Section=&Access=1&userno=

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

Outstanding videos Skipperdan!

Anyone else want to know what happened to the Harrier?
I have seen another video in which a H-3 Sea King had the same thing happen. It was hovering over the same spot for upwards of 15 to 20 minutes and it ended up blowing the air out from underneath it and crashed.
I feel for that pilot of the Harrier though... In the chute and slammed back into the plane, that had to hurt!

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:

Yea, it is a good site, but they don't allow downloads of movies since recently....under some maintenence they say.... Confused

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject: max?

max? what does your signature mean? i dont get it. im just slow. haha

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/ZD464%20accident%20report%20summary.pdf

Hi cat1, reference the harrier crash this is a link to the official accident report and is quite an interesting read. According to this it was pilot error although he made the right decisions in trying to correct the problem a lot was learnt from this incident.

Brett

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject:

Circles, do you mean the thing about pointing your plane?

Its an old aviotion saying, means think before you act, think at least a few minutes in advance. If you expect to be handed off to the other frequency, tune it now in the standby radio, and when the controllor tell you to contact the other frequency, you have time to readback, and say goodbye, then just click, and that's it. Basically, that is what it means. Wink

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:54 am Post subject:

re: myheadspinsincircles,
for the Korean 747 landing at Kai Tak, the pilot was performing a side slip, it is an old technique used by pilots to slow down when they come too fast in the approach, in fact I performed one last night landing in China, XianYang, by doing the sideslip, as you all know you break the flow of air and the aircraft will slow down , but just dont land doing the slip as you will flip, wow im a poet and I just dont know it Cool

sorry

Derek

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:15 am Post subject:

ic thanks that's cool that your a pilot. i might want to be one when I grow up....haha i just landed in croatia a couple days ago with an extreme crosswind landing, the kind on these crazy clips we're seeing. wow that was FUN but haha i saw one lady crying Sad

. oh well we're alive.

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:46 am Post subject:

Oh yea? Try Grobnicko Polje in Craotia, approah over the mountains...

that's something Exclamation

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:49 am Post subject:

I think i'd be crying and would need a clean pair of underwear if I was a passenger on the very first video in this thread, lol
I would have shat a brick, Razz

Derek

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject:

hahaha i'd have loved it! Very Happy

. but what does shat a brick mean?

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

lmao, shat a brick is a scottish phrase, it means to sh*t yourself, but do it so much that you can build a mansion from it, tiz rather amusing, "I shat a brick and built a mansion"

Derek