Hi all, I have been hoping/planning to travel to St Helena for a couple of years ...
A reasonable video of the landing is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwrr...ature=youtu.be
There still seems to be some windshear effects but I have now idea how significant this is.
For comparison, this is a video of the Comair 737-800 trying the same approach last year ... I would appreciate your comments on the differences:
https://youtu.be/MQiQtdq1C3g
(what strikes me is the difference in size between the aircraft, for one thing!)
Reports indicate four pilots were onboard - and are the crews that are planned to fly to aircraft on the actual revenue service. Also an Embraer test pilot accompanied them.
Yesterday they did more than 10 practise landings/touch and goes (it's not clear from FR 24 which). This is a link showing the practises:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...s-yaa/#e901e48
The following quote refers to the Embraer test pilot:
''Captain (also Test Pilot and Flight Instructor), Joel Faermann, said the quality of St Helena Airport is, “amazing.”
Runway 20 (the Barn end) approach from the north, which proved problematic for Comair’s Boeing 737-800 in April 2016, was tested repeatedly by the Embraer team with low level passes, landings and full stops, and all declared, “very safe, very easy,” by Captain Faermann.''
Make of this what you will!
Cheers all ...