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    Pilot Crab Walking A Dash-8 During Heavy Crosswinds


    Pilot Crab Walking A Dash-8 During Heavy Crosswinds



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    1. SerenityPickles on

      To the pilot. 👏 👏 👏 👏

      And also for the interior cleanup crew 🥇

      The amount of vomit, crap, and tears will be immense!!!

    6. fluffysmaster on

      I was one in a puddle jumper in a thunderstorm over Georgia.

      We were 11 passengers. 10 of us were silent and clutching our butts.

      1 guy in the rear was barfing every meal since his first communion.

    7. SoManyQuestions-2021 on

      I tell people that once, in the mil, we were flying in a DC9 (or similar) and landed sideways. The look at me with doubt. That day I made peace with the lord, and got right in my head.

      Of course once we got off the plane, I lapsed into my heathen uncouth ways yet again… but for about 2 minutes I was among the faithful with all my passion.

    11. Adventurous_Lie9881 on

      The first time I flew on a charter plane I could see out the cockpit from my seat. I didn’t know about crosswinds or landing a plane, I just see the pilot looking like he is going to miss the runway. It’s all swervy, I see the runway but most the time, the plane isn’t aiming there. Just like this video, the plane is pointing up, to the side and back around again.

      Started to freak out but luckily the person next to me explained the whole thing. Its crazy what goes into flying a plane and landing it safely, even with autopilots. 

    12. winchester_mcsweet on

      I worked for Piedmont as a ramp supervisor back in the day, the dash was my favorite to work hands down, it was also a great aircraft to fly on. Those dash pilots were a different breed, I seen them land no sweat in all kinds of weather, only downside was deicing them…. I ate a lot of type 1 fluid thanks to the prop wash.

    14. Otherwise-4PM on

      I don’t like when people clap after a plane lands, but this deserves a standing ovation.

    16. sky0175 on

      That was impressive, and hats off to the pilot. It looks like the airplane was hanging on an invisible line just because of the amount it bounced in the air, nose down, nose up. I was like, “WTF?”

    17. space__heater on

      I sure hope they were about to run out of fuel and had to land right away. Because if they landed like this just because the pilot thought “I can do this, no problem” I’d be pissed

    23. Hato_no_Kami on

      I had the pleasure of being in a Porter Airlines prop craft of similar size landing in a cross wind at Billy Bishop Airport maybe 6 or 7 years ago. I remember looking out the window and understanding that we were lining up for one of these landings that I had already seen videos of. I got really excited to experience what it will be like because I have some sort of lack-of-fear disorder or something. The answer is that it’s simply as rough on the inside as it looks on the outside. Looking out the window and seeing the plane is traveling sideways, feeling multiple short 0 g moments in close succession before one that hits the ground and you get rocked sideways before everything is suddenly a normal smooth landing process again.

    24. -whichwayisup on

      Credit to the pilots but fuck me I’d rather be diverted to a nearby airport with less vomit.

    27. DavidDaveDavo on

      I was on a flight to Schipol airport in Holland and the cross wind was so bad and we landed so sideways that I could see down the runway as a passenger.

      We were the last plane down before they shut the airport. There was emergency crew waiting by the side of the runway “just in case”. It was scary.

    30. AAA_Dolfan on

      I remember flying into California once and we did something similar. It was in a Saab plane. Now i get absolutely anxious x 500 whenever i fly in a prop plane

    31. RustyBrassInstrument on

      Y’all need to watch B-52s land 30 degrees crooked in a cross wind. Those BUFF landing gear know what’s what.

    41. Renbarre on

      Looks like the most terrifying landing I ever had, in Ho Chi Min. There was a typhoon right behind us. When the plane started to go down it felt as if it was kicked in the butt so hard it bounced back up. After that we were shaken up hard, not knowing which way we were going. The rain arrived and we landed very hard in a rain so thick you couldn’t past the wings.

      Noone tried to stand up in advance.

    42. ShadNuke on

      I’m honestly surprised we don’t see more of this where I live. We consistently see 70kmh winds around here all the time. Like scary windy, on most days.

    43. scfw0x0f on

      Crabbing, not crab walking, but yes. Good technique.

      One of the flight instructors at the club where I trained told a story about how she was on approach to LVK in a Cub once with heavy crosswinds. She landed on the taxiway between the runways.

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