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A380 Hard Landing at Oshkosh

Old 31st Jul 2009, 21:40
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Having flown with the A380 Captain in the Air Force (Phantoms), the airlines, and our experiemental aircraft (RV's), I'll put him up against any pilot on this board.
For an Air Force pilot, that was a great landing!

Wasn't he an FO at Northwest or something like that before he went to Airbus?

Reminds me of some of the old Kai Tak videos of crosswind landings:

YouTube - 747 Extreme Landing at Kai Tak Airport
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Old 31st Jul 2009, 22:45
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Rainboe, the A-380 will make money just like the Concorde did - never. Even by Airbus' account, they gotta sell 250 of them to break EVEN! Good luck with that. It's the European taxpayer, just as with the Concorde, who will pay the bills. It's a huge govt. jobs creation program. "Ladies and Gentlemen, look out on final and watch in awe as the worlds largest and most advanced aircraft, the Airbus A-380, a shining example of superior technology and sophistication, lands at Oshkosh".............SPLAT!!!!! (Lots of tire smoke, full rudder deflections both ways, wings flexing.....yikes!). WHoops! Yea, when I wanna sell my airplane I'm gonna hire a ****-hot test pilot and have him crash land it in front of the buyer!!!

Dan Gryder is a Delta 777 pilot btw, and instructs in his DC-3, he does a helluva job, and knows how to land in a crosswind. He's gotten his -3 in and out of I believe a 2000' strip, if I remember right, its all on AVweb » The World's Premier Independent Aviation News Resource. No substitute for proper technique!
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Old 31st Jul 2009, 23:29
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A Delta 777 pilot eh?
Wow
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Old 1st Aug 2009, 01:27
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Well, no.
The A380 is very good at what it does.
For routes requiring both range and capacity, nothing else comes close.
In terms of sales, neither Boeing nor Airbus has much to show in net orders in the current year.
The A380 remains a young program, and anyone with any knowledge of the air routes of the world can see that the aircraft will serve those airlines wise enough to add it to their fleets very well.
WRT the landing, anyone who has flown much as SLF, or even spent much time at an airport, has seen worse.
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Apparently, in the UK, you aren't taught to bow down and pay proper homage to the Delta pilot. They consider themselves superior gentlemen and pilots; they have a natural right to be in the air and the company can do naught wrong. Wives are dazzled in admiration having been told by DL management that their husband and their futures are secure and stable as befitting members of the Delta family.

Oh, wait a minute, it is 2009. Sorry

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Old 1st Aug 2009, 09:59
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Sludge, you got a problem with the 380. Not to worry, but don't use one less-than-ideal landing to castigate the whole program. You are not paying for it! Don't worry about it. It took the 747 program years to go into profit, and some 35 years to reach 1500 hulls. The 380 will outsell that....over 35 years. And we haven't seen the 'stretched' version yet (that wing and those engines are built for a lot of growth). Got to sell 250 to go into profit? The eventual numbers for Emirates, BA and SIA will exceed that alone! Look what happened to the 707/DC8 when bigger came along. Whilst the US hangs onto point-to-point and its drawbacks, other countries are doing central hubs to central hubs- in the future, the 380 will be the right size for the rest of the world. Let it prove itself- you're not paying in the meantime.
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Well Rainboe, I can tell from your pontificating tone that you are obviously right, so I guess I believe you. Wish I had a crystal ball like that! I don't have a "problem" with the 380, I just don't believe all the hype. I hope it's a grand ambassador for aviation and flies folks safely for many years. So far I'm not too impressed with it or the EADS philosphy of "flight by committee", or the Airbus fly by wire protocols. I think we've all heard the jokes and seen the videos of the snafu's with that! For the record, I have about 500 hours in Dassault products and think they are magnificent flying machines! I fly a Boeing on the weekdays and a Pitts on the weekends, with about 22K total time. WHoopee! That and $2.00 will get me a cup of coffee, maybe! I've had some memorable ldgs, who hasn't, and I'm gonna laugh WITH you about it!!! ('specially in the Pitts, yowww!)

Far as the "short field" aspect, that runway is a MILE AND A HALF long! There is also a video on youtube showing A-380 doing a "short field" ldg. Looks like a smoooooth touchdown to me! You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the truth! hehehehe! Guess theres gonna be a whole lotta airports having to completely rebuild themselves to accomodate that thing!
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Rainboe, well said!
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Old 1st Aug 2009, 16:34
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You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the truth! hehehehe!
Quite honestly I don't bother with day dreaming or lies. Nothing but cold hard truth!
Guess theres gonna be a whole lotta airports having to completely rebuild themselves to accomodate that thing!
Just like when the 747 came along, and the airports that had painstakingly adjusted taxiways and parking gates for 707s had to re-adjust them upwards again! Life's a bitch sometimes! This thing is so much bigger than a 747. The wing area is astonishing.

But frankly I'm surprised someone who is (self proclaimed) so experienced cannot assess that landing on the 'firm side of ordinary' and has to criticise the drift. And he did flare too. Firm, but not too bad.
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"Wasn't he an FO at Northwest or something like that before he went to Airbus?"


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One of the nicest guys you will ever meet. No chip on his shoulder like some who post here.

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Old 1st Aug 2009, 17:28
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For another video of the same landing it was also a late turn to finals with little time to stabilise the approach - yeah, a firm arrival, but what's the problem? Ever see the Buffalo at Farnborough? Now, that was a heavy landing...

Dan Gryder may be a hero to Sludge but on the video on AvWeb he does come across to me as a bit of a self important motor mouth. Never fumbled a landing Dan? Lucky I guess...

Over the years I've seen various highly regarded pilots publicise their own errors and offer analysis of where they went wrong. They may occasionally offer some critique of another pilot's incident but it's usually sympathetically expressed and a case of "there but for the grace..."

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One lesson I learned early in my 727 career was, that on landing and you see a TV crew filming your arrival, don't both of us in the front seats be looking at the TV crew and forget to flare. (Oh, the FE was a lot of use, he was laughing his butt off, he could see what was getting ready to happen, but did he say anything,,,,,,,,,,,,,hell no. And yeah I bought the beers that night.)

The same could be said for landing at St. Maarten when young ladies only wearing bikini bottoms are standing on the seawall waving at you as you land, but somehow that is more forgivable.

All the test pilots I know are paid to make safe landings, not necessarily smooth landings.
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Old 1st Aug 2009, 19:38
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Whats wrong Galaxy? Didn't get by the rocking chair interview at DL? Just kidding
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Old 1st Aug 2009, 22:38
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A380 landing

I don't know about the landing from a handling point of view, but it looked OK to me. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I was expecting something thrilling, sphincter-tightening and exciting. Then I watched the video, which was a bit of a disappointment. Not even a decent bit of wing flapping, with the outer engine nacelles bouncing off the tarmac. But wait, I am not a 'pilot', so I guess I don't know about these things.
Ever flown on an A380? It is a different, better experience. For a start it is quiet, very quiet. That makes a big difference on 13 hour trips. All other aircraft seem uncomfortably noisy to me now, especially the 777. The A380 is spacious; it is not only wide-body it is high-body. This feeling of space is as far removed from the 747 as the 747 was from the 707. It is a step change. It seems powerful, reaching cruising altitude of around 40,000 feet in one go, not bouncing around at 25,000 to 30,000ft waiting to burn off weight to allow a further climb, like some of the 747s.
As for aesthetics, yes, the nose looks ugly. But the wing is good, very elegant, and by all accounts is very efficient. And it is proven efficiency that will sell this plane in large numbers. For instance, SIA who have been operating the A380 for some time, have just announced that 10x777 flights are to be replaced by 7x380 flights per week SIN/CDG/SIN, which they calculate will give more capacity, less trip costs overall and less capital cost.
I do not see the new generation of twins coming along to be natural A380 competitors, and anyway, their CASM is more, as is the 748's. The latter is a beautiful looking plane externally, and internally with the skyloft arrangement. A pity it has not sold more - only to LH I think - and there must be a reason. You will probably like travelling on the A380; most people who have flown it do. Returning to the landing, it looked just fine to me, with good lateral stability. Anyone else notice that?
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Old 2nd Aug 2009, 15:10
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For those here, that have flown Airbus products. We know, all to well, that there are times the "Fly by Wire / Auto Thrust" combination just can not keep up.

Light Aircraft, in a gusty wind, can be the worst.

I do not know if the 380 has the "Ground Speed Mini" feature? I would assume it does...

In a Boeing (...any Boeing) you would have more control of the sink rate, by simply adding a little thrust. In the Airbus, you are along for the ride.

Unless you are one of the, very few, that will use manual thrust.

With the Airbus (FBW,) there can be a noticeable delay.

Pitch-up on the stick to arrest the sink rate - auto thrust is working trying to keep up - delay doesn't arrest sink rate - pitch moment comes in just in time to drive the main gear into the runway.
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Crab touchdowns approved??

From a technical standpoint (from a taildragger pilot for whom touchdown in a crab is a surefire ticket to the weeds) how is it that a monster, heavy plane like the 380 can be approved for touchdown in a crab? Does the main gear castor like on the B52? If not, the stress on the tires and gear must be phenomenal. None-the-less, I can understand the need to plant the plane firmly and quickly, given the short-field requirements at KOSH. But, that crab?!?

In the AVWeb video, the entire right side of the plane can be seen from a viewpoint way to the left of the runway....... a very large crab angle to my (untrained) eye. I was in the crowd that day and the cross-wind wasn't that bad. GA taildraggers had been landing all morning on 36. It did appear that the 380"s turn onto final was pretty close, perhaps resulting in a less than stable approach, IMHO,

Regarding the possible closing of a busy runway if the 380 had not stopped in time to make the planned turn-off.......... The 380 arrived after the entire KOSH airport had been closed for the daily AirVenture airshow, so it would have had no impact on the "busiest tower in the world." The huge tug, which had been brought in special for this arrival, was fired up and standing by for any eventualities.

All of the controversy aside, the 380 put on a helluva show that day. The slow flight performance was awesome. And very quiet, too.

It may not make much (or any) money for Airbus, but the airlines flying it should make a killing.
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The more I read about this, the more I have to wonder about the wisdom of the Airbus fly-by-wire. Guys are saying you can/can't override the controls, use or not use the rudder on a x-wind, add power but the plane won't let you(?)- what the heck kinda flight control system is that? Then the whole "tight pattern" thing - sorry but you can bet those guys flew that whole airshow profile plenty of times in the simulator, practicing every possible scenario - engine out, flap problems, and yes, even (gasp)crosswinds! Isn't this thing supposed to be some kind of technological masterpiece? Surely it has all sorts of high-tech gee whiz to help a guy do a normal traffic pattern with what, a 8 knot xwind? Isn't it supposed to be "pilot proof"? Maybe it needs to be a little more "computer proof"!

Far as the "slow flight" etc., we all know any airplane of that size APPEARS to be moving very slowly, also you must consider they had to be VERY light - isn't the interior stripped out? Surely they didn't land with 10 hours of gas onboard either. I don't see how landing that thing on 8000', or even 5500' (whoooooo!) strip is that big of a challenge for all these test-pilots and the worlds greatest airliner. Sure is a big airplane, though.
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Old 2nd Aug 2009, 17:44
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Right girls, listen up
how is it that a monster, heavy plane like the 380 can be approved for touchdown in a crab? Does the main gear castor like on the B52? If not, the stress on the tires and gear must be phenomenal. None-the-less, I can understand the need to plant the plane firmly and quickly, given the short-field requirements at KOSH.
It has to be approved. Many pilots, many times will touchdown before pushing off drift. An aeroplane that is not cleared to land with full crab on simply isn't practical. It is usually 'not recommended', which means 'don't do it if you can avoid it'. Minor crab is nothing.
In the AVWeb video, the entire right side of the plane can be seen from a viewpoint way to the left of the runway....... a very large crab angle to my (untrained) eye. I was in the crowd that day and the cross-wind wasn't that bad.
Crab is simply a function of 2 things:
Crosswind vector
Aircraft speed
If the crosswind wasn't bad, the crab can't have been that bad, unless the airspeed was VERY low because of light weight. I doubt it was below a reasonable figure, and I did not get the idea it was extremely low from the vid. So your statements contradict themselves.
The more I read about this, the more I have to wonder about the wisdom of the Airbus fly-by-wire. Guys are saying you can/can't override the controls, use or not use the rudder on a x-wind, add power but the plane won't let you(?)- what the heck kinda flight control system is that? Then the whole "tight pattern" thing - sorry but you can bet those guys flew that whole airshow profile plenty of times in the simulator, practicing every possible scenario - engine out, flap problems, and yes, even (gasp)crosswinds! Isn't this thing supposed to be some kind of technological masterpiece? Surely it has all sorts of high-tech gee whiz to help a guy do a normal traffic pattern with what, a 8 knot xwind?
Sludge- I don't understand it either, but I know this. Whenever the Airbus boys are in a bar, we do not under any circumstances ask such questions. The evening will be ruined whilst they rabbit on about Airbuses until we are all horizontal. You are either a Boeing person or an Airbus person, and 'ne'er the twain shall meet'. Just don't ask. But it seems to work for them (most of the time)- they always make the bar alive.

But by God give them an excuse and it all comes out non-stop whilst you notice the wimmin who were with you have disappeared. All you hear is '...... Law.... drone....drone Law.... drone...Law'.

I greatly fear that we are getting one soon. They will soon be among us again.

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Old 3rd Aug 2009, 22:21
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I'll bite. I have several thousand hours on both Airbus A320 / A330 and the Boeing 737. In a previous company we changed from the 737-200 to the A320. All of the older pilots did not want to change. After a few months on the A320 none of them wanted to go back to the 737.
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PIO, PIO, PIO. Get a life! nice "agricultural" landing.
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