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Old 22nd Jun 2019, 08:04
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Out of curiosity, has a sidestep ever been necessary at London Heathrow?
Well I’ve done one. 09L to 09R due to poor speed control from the one ahead.

Whichever way you look at it. Landing that far down the runway, and that far off the centreline is no advert for great handling skills. The right main gear is pretty clearly over the grass at 50’, and the aircraft not even lined up with the runway. Possibly reflecting that, the last couple of hundred feet appeared very much on the ragged edge of the handling pilot’s ability curve.

That was much closer to being an incident, than it ever needed to be. Even arriving at an air show.

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