Originally Posted by
oceancrosser
Well if I did that I would get a few calls from our FDM guy... Actually it did not look that nicely done. Arrival type of landing.
Over the threshold the left wingtip is still lower than the left gear. An he plants it on the runway after floating along it.
More like embarrasing than nicely done...
Can't speak for now, but back in the day the military operated with much looser parameters as to what was acceptable for traffic pattern ops. There was generally a perspective that one day we might be required to operate from some "unusual" airfields or with non-standard approach requirements (think bad guys with shoulder launched SAM's out on the approach or departure corridor), so we would intentionally practice close in turns arriving and departing. Not saying that's what is happening here, but military heavies will do things that commercial airlines would never even contemplate.