Video: How not to land at St Barts

I just find the camera man hysterical…….

“Woooooooooooo…………………..Crap…………That Kinda?……….Blows?”

LMAO, that may very well be the understatement of the year.

I thought a good landing was one you walk away from…as long as they`re all ok,it could have been worst.

Slipperysam,
I’ve also noticed the ‘floating’ that the C150/152/172 does during hot temperatures. It must be something to do with the rising heat and as you say thermals. As you suggested, using a lower flap setting normally helped. All good fun though!

Video is now at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z2o0acIlm4

Cheers,
Andy

Thanks!

One often wonders 😮

I can recall many years ago video taping a B52 landing here… the wind was gusting up to 40knots…. the engines went to idle…. and nothing happened…
It floated all the way along the runway…. 2/3rds of the way down power was applied and a go-around performed….

That kinda thing happened to me a few times… in a C172 mind you!
During summer (36degrees “C” and higher) in high winds (straight down the runway) once the plane got into ground effect it would litterally sit there 10ft of the runway with 40knots indicated and not land!

The first time it happened i let it float 1500ft before i went round.

Eventually after a few times that it happened over the summer months… I got the idea of reducing flaps while in ground effect and hey presto touch down it did! (Or land with only 20degrees of flap)

This kinda float only happened in the C152/172, anything bigger and it simply didnt happen… Maybe it was light enough to soar with the thermals?! lol

Ok enough of my ramblings:D

New link

Try this.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2929285/st_barts_plane_landing_fail_extreme_videos/

Videos been taken down… anyone got another link?

Saw that on Liveleak last week.
I’d have gone round be the time I was halfway down the runway and finding myself still in the air!