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Title: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: Devil 505 on January 13, 2012, 12:52:00 PM

Found this on another site.

"There was a storm over Düsseldorf's airport last week. Things got rough, with strong crosswinds that made landings pretty hard—and even caused some missed approaches."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mMvLuUJFHYk#

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: Seanaldinho on January 13, 2012, 12:59:46 PM

 :O

Serious pucker factor there!

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: Tordon22 on January 13, 2012, 01:09:18 PM

Nice one by the Pegasus 37.

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: oakranger on January 13, 2012, 02:24:26 PM

Looks like my brother crosswind landing he did in Gymon, Ok

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: Cobra516 on January 13, 2012, 03:06:04 PM

Great video!  That is indeed a stiff crosswind. 

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: F22RaptorDude on January 13, 2012, 09:55:25 PM

One at 2:00 made my mouth drop to the first story of my house

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: Gh0stFT on January 14, 2012, 04:52:27 AM

see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42fchrzhHY

it was 2008 at Hamburg, strong wind and allmost crashed. Lucky ending

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: Nwbie on January 15, 2012, 10:20:37 PM

Question from a non-pilot

Why wouldn't the airport switch landings and takeoffs to a different direction runway?  (example this n-s directions and switch to an e-w direction runway)?

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: Tupac on January 15, 2012, 10:25:48 PM

Quote from: Nwbie on January 15, 2012, 10:20:37 PM

Question from a non-pilot

Why wouldn't the airport switch landings and takeoffs to a different direction runway?  (example this n-s directions and switch to an e-w direction runway)?

some airports only have 1 runway

Title: Re: Crazy Crosswind
Post by: phatzo on January 15, 2012, 11:03:31 PM

Quote from: Tupac on January 15, 2012, 10:25:48 PM

some airports only have 1 runway

yep, Coolangatta has prevailing NE or SE winds so they just have a N-S runway.