hendoman
19th Nov 2005, 04:05
I grew up under the flightpath at Manchester, and recently visited my old dad for a chinwag.
It was a windy day - a very windy day - and as I went back to my car having bought him some bottles of the good stuff from Sainsbury's my eye was caught by an Airbus landing pretty much over my head.
And the thing that captured me - even though I'd seen planes landing thousands of times before - was that as well as moving forwards it also appeared to be moving sideways, in the very strong crosswind.
Opening one of the aforesaid bottles a bit later I reflected that landing in a crosswind must be a pretty difficult thing to do, and may in some way explain the very large salaries reputed to be paid to the people who sit at the front.
So come on then. Please explain to this layman how you do it.
It was a windy day - a very windy day - and as I went back to my car having bought him some bottles of the good stuff from Sainsbury's my eye was caught by an Airbus landing pretty much over my head.
And the thing that captured me - even though I'd seen planes landing thousands of times before - was that as well as moving forwards it also appeared to be moving sideways, in the very strong crosswind.
Opening one of the aforesaid bottles a bit later I reflected that landing in a crosswind must be a pretty difficult thing to do, and may in some way explain the very large salaries reputed to be paid to the people who sit at the front.
So come on then. Please explain to this layman how you do it.