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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: flight17 on July 25, 2012, 06:30:33 PM
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So some might have seen this already, but I just saw it on another site....
A C-17 flying into Macdill AFB in Tampa, landed 5 miles short of MacDill at Peter O Knight airport. Both airports runways are perfectly aligned, only 5 miles apart. The thing is P.O.K. Airport's runway is only 3400ft long and it is strictly a general aviation airport.
This is normal for a C-17 however as all pilots train to fly into and out of a 3300ft runway at just below MLW/MTOW.
Videos:
Landing
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuqsd_tRHw
takeoff
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J7SE-0tD2HE
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wi58Ds3Krgw
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My computer wont play your links.
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Those were mobile links...the crazy thing here is that the C-17 can take off in less space than that field is easily. It is a hell of an aircraft.
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My computer wont play your links.
remove the "m." and it will load the desktop site
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Got the pleasure of working this plane in Charleston for 4 years, video's dont do justice on what it can really do....
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I love the c-17, have seen those things climb at almost a 80 degree climb fully loaded. Just creeping through the air as if it was clawing its way up a invisible hill. :aok
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Very cool, fixed links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuqsd_tRHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7SE-0tD2HE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi58Ds3Krgw
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Somebody's flight career just got a whole lot shorter.
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*hack*
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That was fun to watch, but the "oh my god" comments got annoying fast
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The same thing happened outside of Tucson AZ. a few years back. A 747 being flown to Pinal Airpark for refurb or storage by Evergreen air services was landed by mistake at Avra Valley Airport. The outer engines took out the lights on each side of the runway. Both airfields aligned and only about 5 miles apart.
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It seems quite a popular past time landing at the wrong airfield :)
http://www.thirdamendment.com/wrongway.html
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worlds smallest airshow...... :furious
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Pilot to navigator: Next time please buy a better GPS and not one on sale!
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Somebody's flight career just got a whole lot shorter.
Not only the flight crew but also the tower.
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When it was preparing to roll, what the heck is getting sucked in the outboard
engine at 37 seconds? Water vapor?
:cheers: Oz
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It's pretty common for the engines to create a vortex contrail at runup...
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When it was preparing to roll, what the heck is getting sucked in the outboard
engine at 37 seconds? Water vapor?
:cheers: Oz
Skilless pretty much got it right. When I used to do engine run's on these, the vortex's would really show up when the engine was in reverse. Pretty neat to see it from the cockpit.
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That landing is fun to watch, somewhere around touchdown or imediatley afterwards seems to be the moment that the pilot/crew realise that that this was'nt the runway/airport they were looking for so they hit the OS button and really lay on the brakes, then about halfway down the runway they realise they're plenty slow enough that they can ease up and roll out. :rofl
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*hack*
Your rigth obviously a mod changing the weight of the aircraft.
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Not only the flight crew but also the tower.
:rofl Yep
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I loved this comment posted on the last video.
Sooooo do ya need me to call V1 orrr....
Just shut your mouth and enjoy our last take off for a while!
:rofl
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Your rigth obviously a mod changing the weight of the aircraft.
:rofl
you should read what some are saying on FB :rofl
one was along the lines " I saw him go through the ground...." (that made me laugh)
I tried to set them straight but paranoia is heavy with some. :rofl
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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I wonder how many house windows they broke on takeoff?
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I loved this comment posted on the last video.
:rofl
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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A large military aircraft landed here on one of our smaller airports due to emergency. They ended up having to take apart the entire plane and truck it out. I am trying to find the news story on it.