Is this a standard appr at Faroe Islands ?
 

today french football team flew in at Vaga Airport, Faroe Islands for their Euro 08 qualifying match. According to pic, their 146 appered make a very unstable landing approach.. Is this normal a procedure there ?

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/071013/i...2623301446.jpg

Vagar is very very special!

I'm interested in knowing how that picture tells you that the approach was unstable. Please explain.

From what i can see (but what do i no) that the aircraft is tilting to the left hand side. it dont look like rudder it looks like aileons movement???

or it could be the way the photos been taken.
who knows

Don't know the a/c, but what is unstable is the residency of this thread in R&N, as caring hands shall move it soon :)
Jokes apart... nice picture.

Look flyvirgin, before you go any further with the pilot thing, work on your literacy- seriously, try rereading your contributions! You commented you wouldn't like to comment, then did, twice, meaninglessly.

Where you take a picture from and with whatever telephoto affects the outcome, so let's stop criticising- we have no idea of the conditions at the time.

Hey Rainboe !!

I was totally shocked by this report actually, I mean - France winning 6-0 !!! I didn't think they had it in them any more .....;)

Read in the paper today that the aircraft held for an hour over the Faroes but couldn't land due to fog. It then diverted to EGPD to refuel. Then tried again but ended up diverting to somewhere in Norway, and then onto the Faroes when the weather cleared. So maybe the approach could have been interesting.

The above info is from an well known english tabloid, so must be the truth!!!!

It's outrageous- I mean talk about leaning over on one side only, uneven, very dodgy, amazing ending, but a win helped make up for losing the rugby.

As one who has experienced the turbulence in Vagar (which puts Funchal into the shade) I would say the picture looks slightly 'photoshopped' but quite believable.

Wheee! BOAC, if that's photoshopped I'll have a bite of my hat; until then it's doffed about the same cm as the gentleman/lady flying it on might have loosened his/her tie afterwards. C'mon Rainboe, at least now we know what "aileons" might be for. :rolleyes:

Just thought I'd get that in before Rainboe:)

Gear appears down, flaps deployed, clearly got right aileron imput to correct the roll, probably caused by mixing from the high ground to their right. Cant comment on speed.

Dont bash the geezers, the pax probably did that amongst themselves as they walloped it in!!!! :bored:

http://www.slv.dk/Dokumenter/dscgi/d...Collection-410

interesting approach plates:eek:

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a link to a video of the landing.
http://www.eurosport.fr/football/tel...vid54371.shtml

Can't you be stable in a turn??? :}

Anyway... this is not a problem for the BAe146/Avro RJ family. Vagar is by no means the only approach which looks like this. Look at Sumburgh on Runway 33 which will result in something looking similar!!!

Sumburgh 33- I remember it well! You had to approach visually on base leg to the lighthouse on top of the hill that obstructed the straight-in approach. As close as you could, then follow the hill slope down as you turned onto final. Sometimes you felt you 'overcooked it' and passed far closer to the lighthouse or hillside than you intended. Reminded one of the HKG 13 IGS. The point is, a cameraman who was a Pprune spy in those days could easily have gotten photographs that would have got you crucified here with 'unstable approaches', 'bank close to the ground' (try less than 50'), 'wing waggling' etc. Vagar looks like a place than deserves 'respec'! Bit unfair to start criticising the crew.

I can still remember the turbulence warnings from sorting Vagar into my father's Bottlang Airfield Manual as a teenager. It was one of the more exciting plates although I knew we'd probably never get there. The photo doesn't look alarming to me.

Don't think anybody intended criticism. I certainly have the greatest respect for anyone who does this day in, day out.

Re Sumburgh 33, YouTube have a few Saab flight deck videos nicely illustrating Rainboe's comments.