Another entertaining Russian landing
Ut Sementem Feeceris
That's the Riviera approach to runway 22 at Nice (LFMN/NCE). Looked pretty text book to me - although I wonder if they would land on the longer 22L for performance reasons.
Those pitch oscillations on short final look allot like what I'm used to seeing the C-172s from the flying school doing at the local airport right before the instructor takes over. They usually look a little smoother by the time the instructor steps out for their first solo.
Couldn't be the most interesting landing, but this Cargo AN12 take-off somewhere in Africa for sure its the most Awesome and Entertaining TO i've seen in many years!!! 
I bet those guys started banking left before starting pulling up...
I bet those guys started banking left before starting pulling up...
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Jammedstab, why don't you think more about mocking professionals landing off a challenging visual approach with very tight turns? They did fine off a fairly difficult visual approach with a good landing. I come here as one of the forums hopefully with hard news rather than plane spotting stuff. There was really nothing unusual or out of the way there, this thread is just a waste of time belonging elsewhere.
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It is always entertaining to watch an airplane that big maneuver at low altitude, particularly when the maneuver is as skillfully executed as was this one.
It is easy to differentiate between who speaks from a position of knowledge on these boards and who just speaks.
It is easy to differentiate between who speaks from a position of knowledge on these boards and who just speaks.
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What always amazes me with these videos is who actually has the time to, presumably, video every takeoff and landing in the hope that one will be interesting. I do admit to finding them entertaining but I do also wonder whether some people need to get a life!
Apart from when doing the flying display at Farnborough, I've never seen a '124 do such a tight visual circuit, they normally establish about 6 - 8 miles out and once they start descent, are committed to landing as the engines take too long to spool up (with a danger of inducing a compressor stall) for a go-around, so the crew, having got it too tight, were probably trying to get rid of excess height without gaining speed.
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