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Free To Speak6 months ago

How does a pilot do that so exquisitely when the passenger cabin is screaming in stark terror the whole way down? 🤣

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Buzz Patterson6 months ago

We’re busy. 😎

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The Donkey Whisperer6 months ago

Awwww, the old “weather-vaning” crosswind technique. Nice! I still prefer the “wing-low, top rudder” technique so I keep the runway in front of me vs looking out the side window for it. lol.

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Buzz Patterson6 months ago

That’s how I flew.

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Ole’Dad, MBA6 months ago

@Arizona_GOAT Impossible in the 74

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The Donkey Whisperer6 months ago

@BuzzPatterson lol. 74 lands itself.

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Jiggsy6 months ago

I got to fly the 757 sim at United about 15 years ago. Max crosswind on my last landing. Approach too high, then too low, and I slammed it onto the runway. Rolled to the right, ding ding ding right engine on fire. Not done, rolled it to the left, ding ding ding left engine on fire. Came to a stop slightly off the runway. My brother-in-law was in the instructor's seat. He had a death grip on each arm. (I won't name my buddy, who was an instructor there, and still flies for United.) Landing in good weather was fairly easy for me. Pilots earn their money in bad weather.

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Dale Moore6 months ago

I had fun learning with this one.

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Gene Ryals6 months ago

Bet the folks with window seats on the starboard side of that plane were sucking foam with butt cheeks!

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Edward Baker 🐇6 months ago

Not bad…but…looks like they just landed in a crab. Good thing runway was wet

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-/EyeOfTheStorm\-6 months ago

Sir would that be described as crabbing?

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Buzz Patterson6 months ago

Yes.

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Assaultduck6 months ago

It's amazing what some people can do that's just part of their job.

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Merica Madness6 months ago

Physics and pilots being experts in it We love to see it

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Bob Snow6 months ago

I refuse to disclose the most severe crosswind I've ever tackled in a jet.🤫 Fortunately, the Herk taught me well all those years ago.

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TheRealKurtA6 months ago

“Nicely done.” You pilots are so full of such under-stated bad-assery, which is the way it ought to be. Each time it felt like the flight crew handed the reins to “them crazy Duke Boys” we’re in the back questioning most of our life decisions. You guys were up front not even breaking a sweat, hats off to all of you.

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Equi-Distant6 months ago

I'd been on a few planes, but not many, and my traveling days were just getting started. I'd never been 'crabbing' until SFO. Can't say I cared much for it. As a passenger, flying crooked without any knowledge of WHY was an unpleasant experience to say the very least. 🙃😆

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twad6 months ago

Earned his paycheck for the day!

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🦅🦅TwoEaglesMom🦅🦅6 months ago

Gulping. One flight into Burlington in a puddle jumper with a landing like that...said the complete rosary in two minutes. Yikes.

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Marty6 months ago

I'm guessing it wasn't a DEI pilot.

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StewMama- Radically Moderate6 months ago

I fricking hate sitting in the front jumpseat facing the passengers during those kinds of landings

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Vincent Horatio Tortelli 🇬🇱 🇵🇼 🇳🇷6 months ago

It's a bit unnerving to look out the window from the window seat and see the runway.

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San Antonio House Painting6 months ago

@Fandango_Fire Definitely not a DEI hire!

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Terry Lee6 months ago

When my Dad and our family were stationed in Okinawa, my Mom took a trip to Thailand & was returning home, THIS is how her plane was landing in a HEAVY crosswind! We were all freaking out but the pilot, like this pilot, did an outstanding job getting Mama home safe for us!

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Nicolas Filosofas6 months ago

Man— I remember coming into the Azores like that. Creepiest thing to see the runway out the porthole passenger windows, but those guys landed it like pros. Of course, our ESTA team had to fix the gear afterwards, but did eventually get safely on and off that rock. 😂

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Robby Kelly6 months ago

Airport runways should be laid out and built like an asterisk 🤣…just be careful at the intersection

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Alex Paxton6 months ago

That is some mighty fine sideways crabbing.

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Donald DaCosta6 months ago

Reminds me of an Airfield in Mandeville back in Jamaica when I used to live there and work for the small Domestic Airlines Trans Jamaican I did a short stint as Cargo Supervisor in a little town 3000 ft above sea level the cross winds there were wicked, This Pilot did a Fab Tdown

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Brian Varn6 months ago

This is why I cannot look out windows during landings. Had one like this at Barajas—in the fog—three attempts before we diverted. I’m pretty sure they had to replace the arm rests I tore off! 🤣

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Keith E. Junker6 months ago

That's just about every touch down on Shemya.

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Brandyn6 months ago

That is some amazing flying skills 💪🏻

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matt phillips6 months ago

45 mph gusts?

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john ballesteros6 months ago

Must’ve been a carrier pilot coming in a yaw like that!! HOE-LEE Shite…😳

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Peter S. Lee6 months ago

Crab that baby!

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Bob Krause #bab6 months ago

Serious cross winds there!!

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Billy Bob ✝️👊6 months ago

@measter9922 Now that is a crosswind! Good gravy. Beautiful landing!

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Larry 🇺🇸6 months ago

I would say he done that a few times

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Pamela Johnson-Norman6 months ago

My algorithm feeds me a steady stream of these amazing flights. Landings are a special treat.

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J K6 months ago

Serious question - What are the passengers doing/thinking?

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gene ripon6 months ago

I truly can't believe y'all do that stuff. how am I going to function in a fake AI world.