July 28, 201510 yr From storm a few days ago. So is that all pilot or are electronics doing A WHOLE BUNCH to help try to smooth things out?
July 28, 201510 yr Pilot, for sure. An autopilot is only certified to a set limit, if it's anything more than said limit, it must be flown manually. Daniel DesjardinsA330 Type RatedVAC005Senior VP-Human Resourceshttp://www.vacanada.org
July 28, 201510 yr Wasn't he oscillating too hard? In this video you see planes approaching what it looks like (emphasis on "looks like" as weather might have changed of course) similar conditions and only the KLM 777 went nuts. Pawel Grochowski
July 28, 201510 yr Saw this earlier today on FlightAware. The comments section over there wasn't exactly enlightening but it seems like some funny business may have been going on... Greg Montey "Because with great power, comes great responsitriligence..."
July 28, 201510 yr This one performed an emergency landing. Did I learn something new here? Is a emergency landing a flaps up landing when strong wind? I didn't read anything about flaps being broken or something. Gerrit
July 28, 201510 yr It's possible, at least if you have a weather generator with historical data, to replicate this conditions. I tried it in P3Dv2, using ASN. The weather depiction, around 11:25 UTC is just great. Unfortunately the winds and turbulence are always tame in FSX / P3D, and not even ASN with the sliders of intensity to their extreme right can give us as close an experience like the one we can get, for instance, in Aerowinx PSX. I then used P3Dv2 as a visuals generator, and PSX for the simulation, and Whow!!!!! If it wasn't for the fact that I have a low-end rig, and the dense clouds are heavy in the FPS, it would have been an ultra-realistic experience :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
July 28, 201510 yr This one performed an emergency landing. Did I learn something new here? Is a emergency landing a flaps up landing when strong wind? I didn't read anything about flaps being broken or something. They were low on fuel, hence the emergency status. A less / no flap landing can be done in very windy conditions to have a better control over the aircraft, didn't know that but that's what I read somewhere. This was their 4th attempt for a landing, and with the low fuel level, they obviously wanted to bring the aircraft down safely. To be honest, I can't remember to have seen a no flap landing on video before. It looks very fast and challenging, this crew did a great job!
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