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, Apr 25 2012 05:04 PM
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 05:04 PM
A bit windy at Bilbao today with some flights diverted or cancelled. Im not surprised. Click on "play" on the link to see some of the landings...(and not).
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 07:46 PM
Cor, i would rather be on a 20' boat in a six, at least i can jump over and have a soft landing. 
Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in.
shame on the trust for being party to dragging the rsa into the failed cfp, because they can sniff funding.
Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.
Consumer of bass.
Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.
Angling sanitation trust delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.
Kent & Essex Sea Anglers, block alternative opinion on their face book page, shame full.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 12:15 AM
its common practice for pilots to yaw like that just before landing in high winds. then they bring it straight just before it hits the deck. im not sure its meant to wobble about the runway like that though 
respect the feesh 
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 05:05 AM
I worked in the oil industry many years ago we were on a shell chartered fix wing flight from shetland to aberdeen did a lot of flying in planes and choppers in those days but not one like this from the minute we took off from sumburgh in shetland the plane was all over the place we were in the middle of a very deep low presure the shower clouds were hugh when we came to land at aberdeen we were weavering all over the place as we made our approach there was 49 white knuckle oil workes on that flight it was a force 10 cross wind at aberdeen airport they closed the airport after we landed not a nice experience i decide enough was enough and went back into chartering that was 20 years ago.
paul.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 07:15 AM
It looks like a rare bit of fun to me.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 05:23 PM
Had a similar experience flying to the isle of man in what I could only describe as a bus with wings the thing was all over the place we made 6 approaches pulled out and then landed on the 7th attempt ., I absolutely shite myself and vowed never to fly again got the ferry home and have never flown since. 
When you can,t see a light at the end of the tunnel .Storm up and switch the bugger on
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 06:05 PM
Had a similar experience flying to the isle of man in what I could only describe as a bus with wings the thing was all over the place we made 6 approaches pulled out and then landed on the 7th attempt ., I absolutely shite myself and vowed never to fly again got the ferry home and have never flown since.
Scary.
I fly quite often, sometimes up to 20 international flights a year, but in all the years doing this have only had one "incident". That was at Alicante in an old Olympic airways 737, that was leased to a different airline. It was ancient.
As we were powering up to go, there was a bang from the left engine and it stopped. We rumbled back to the terminal and were delayed for 19 hours till they found another plane from somewhere.
The pilot came out from the cabin when the airbridge was being connected, and just smiled and said "Sorry, but at least it went bang before we took off!"
It caused a laugh anyway.
Hasn't put me off at all though.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 04:03 AM
Scary.
I fly quite often, sometimes up to 20 international flights a year, but in all the years doing this have only had one "incident". That was at Alicante in an old Olympic airways 737, that was leased to a different airline. It was ancient.
As we were powering up to go, there was a bang from the left engine and it stopped. We rumbled back to the terminal and were delayed for 19 hours till they found another plane from somewhere.
The pilot came out from the cabin when the airbridge was being connected, and just smiled and said "Sorry, but at least it went bang before we took off!"
It caused a laugh anyway.
Hasn't put me off at all though.
Your a brave man captain.
paul.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 02:03 PM
Your a brave man captain.
paul.
Not really, i know it is pretty safe overall, and there is really no alternative to many places.
I see the BBC have now picked up on the original video clip now...
