Video Airbus A380 Hard Landing, Oshkosh 2009

yep in cattle class

Ah, the joys of having a UA frequent flyer account – free upgrades! :p

hope you did not spill the G&T’s when it got a bit lumpy

Don’t remember it getting bumpy at all – presume that the G&Ts had had their effect by then and I was asleep. I didn’t even manage to watch all of the new Star Trek movie before I nodded off!!! :rolleyes:

Not a bad flight

As above, don’t remember much – except I was a little annoyed the pilots switched channel 9 OFF just before departure (it was on whilst we were on the gate)

Andy

Skymonster,

yep in cattle class – saw you whilst waiting to board and again as I passed through the posh bit but not easy to stop as it would have held up other pax. . Not a bad flight – hope you did not spill the G&T’s when it got a bit lumpy 🙂

did you enjoy flying backwards on UA958 ?

Huh? Were you on the flight – you should have said hello if so.

But yes, it was fine, particularly after a couple of gin and tonics! 😀

Andy

Skymonster,

did you enjoy flying backwards on UA958 ?

Rather firm for sure, but arguably the right thing to do on a shorter and narrower than normal runway particularly when faced with a gusting crosswind – you don’t want an extended flare/float and the corresponding risk of going off the side or the far end, and into-wind wing down is a no-no with podded engines. Right rudder just before touchdown to kick off the crab and lift right wing a little to counter rudder-induced wingdrop may have been more elegant, but the A380 gear is designed to manage landing crabbed and as already said, planting it firmly on a limiting field with x-wind field is probably the right way to go.

FWIW, KOSH only has one runway exit A380 capable and that’s not all the way down, so running past the exit would have entailed a blocked runway and a tug pushback to the exit – on departure, the A380 was pushed backwards all the way down the runway to the departure threshold where it was started and then departed.

A

Having been there to see the event itself it was very windy for most of the week. I do not see anyone mentioning the other ‘heavy metal’ landings that were as firm.

I believe there’s only one turn off at Oshkosh that is A380 compliant, and it’s about half way down the runway, so I think a ‘firm’ landing was intentional.

Just checked…yes, it’s taxiway P2, only 5500ft down the runway.

A video with “nice” landings in two North/northwest of Spain airports where the weather is often nasty. The second approach is my local airport to runway 17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjRPR9Rwdk4&feature=fvw

With wind, I don´t fly. So many scary landings :confused:

If anything, this is a positive video for Airbus. Their airplane was handled pretty severely and came away with no damage.

Several earlier posters have commented on the hard landing……the part that bothers me is that the Pilot never kicked the rudder and straightened the airplane prior to touchdown…all the rudder activity was after touchdown. He/she put tremendous side/twisting loads on the landing gear. This guy/gal really muffed this landing, IMHO.

A piece of cake. You should have to see planes landing in crosswinds in SCQ or in other Spanish northwestern airports. That´s hard. 😀

Come on Steve, you have been around long enough not to make such a dopey comment. How else can you flick a sideways monster to line up with the runway at the last moment. The landing was textbook I would say.
Line it up and plonk it down before you get an updraft and endless drift.

Of course we all know that my remark was just a bit of levity!!!

Come on Steve, you have been around long enough not to make such a dopey comment. How else can you flick a sideways monster to line up with the runway at the last moment. The landing was textbook I would say.
Line it up and plonk it down before you get an updraft and endless drift.

I had to comment on the fool who said it “looked like a very hard and very bad landing”. The conditions were hardly ideal for a silky smooth touchdown. Muppet!

Paul

A learner driver obviously!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yi9C8NE3Ek

Maybe not “hard” but definitely “firm”.