Any 737 drivers care to comment on this?


http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=968017

If there is 20 kts wind from the right its a perfect crosswind landing

737 driver says a great picture of a classic wing-down cross-wind landing.

Any other questions, armada?

Nice picture of a beautifully executed wing-down crosswind landing.

Hope, the wind came from the right.....;)

From the look of the length of the smoke trail, it was not a hard touchdown. I would assume that it was a superb landing in a crosswind using wing down technique.

I love those as a passenger. I'll take a beauty like that over winds-calm floating down the runway for a "greaser" landing any day of the week. When they do it right, you know the flight crew is earning their pay on one of those.

Textbook landing - Left rudder input is clearly visible as well.

Are the flaps at 30 deg ??

Hmmm! Could only be 29.5deg? Obviously Ryanair 'getting away with it again':D :D

EDIT: Sorry - let my evil side out there:D. Perhaps we should wait and see if 'armada' has any more questions on it?

Why all this speculation about wind speed/direction when it tells you in the photo caption that the wind was 033 degrees/32 knots landing on Rwy 28?

I'd say impressive!

Hey, just a quick question for those ryanpilots. what is the engine on that 737? seems to have a very low by-pass ratio. Must be quite a noisy beast!
cheers
Ghostie

It's a 737-200 with Pratt & Whitney JT3 (or is it -9, I've forgotten!) engines. You are right they are low bypass and noisy, possibly only exceeded by that wonderful means of converting fuel to noise, the BAC 1-11.

Edit: You have made an assumption (probably correct :D) in this part of your text which may NOT be true. I would prefer to let armada come back and offer us more before reinstating it - so it is in the deepfreeze for now.

Lovely landing

Can remember a similar one a few years back with the 'Jaguar'. Winds were gusting all over the scale, he got pitched about all the down the then landed in a similar fashion.

Lots of radio button clicks from the four aircraft holding sort.

not a JT9D, thats like on the B747 & widebodies.

Rainboe and SNAM JT8D-9 (or -15s most likely -15s in this day and age).

Good approach and landing. Well done to a true professional crew.

Try that with the NG ;)

Nordam hushkitted-JT8D. Do pay attention please.



Nordam 737 hushkits in demand
Stewart Penney, London (30Jul98, 16:03 GMT, 351 words)


US hushkit specialist Nordam has announced orders worth more than $75 million to muffle 56 Boeing 737-200 twinjets, most of which are flying in European skies.

Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has ordered 16 new shipsets (of two hushkits) and five conversions for its 737-200s, which are the only aircraft in its fleet prior to the delivery of its first 737-800 in early 1999.

Kit deliveries have started and will continue until December 2001. Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary says that hushkitting means the carrier can "continue to grow and maintain our position as Europe's largest low fares airline".

America West, based in Phoenix, Arizona, has placed the second biggest order, taking 14 shipsets which will all be delivered by the end of the year.

European Aviation, an aircraft trading and spares specialist based in the UK, has ordered "at least" - says Nordam - ten hushkit sets for the 14 737-200s that it bought from Belgian flag carrier Sabena in February.

Moroccan flag carrier Royal Air Maroc has committed to seven shipsets for delivery by the year's end, making it, according to Nordam, the first African carrier to bring Chapter 2 aircraft into line with ICAO's Chapter 3 noise regulations.

French carriers Euralair International and Air Mediterranee have ordered four sets between them.

Nordam says it has now received a total of 336 orders to quieten 737-200 aircraft fitted with Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines of various types. It has delivered the equivalent of 180 shipsets, and produces 10-12 aircraft sets a month.

Company vice president Jack Arehart says Nordam is now focussing on European carriers as it considers the US market to be "matured".

In addition to hushkits, the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company produces flying control surfaces, interior structures, radomes and transparencies for commercial aircraft and helicopters. The company also has a repair business.

Hushkitting allows airlines to continue using aircraft which would otherwise be consigned to the scrap heap for failing to meet noise regulations. All of Europe's aircraft must be compliant with the Chapter 3 standard by 31 December 1999.

US airlines, which are regulated under the FAA's equivalent Stage 3, have until 1 April 2002 to quieten their aircraft.


Source: Air Transport Intelligence news

Ghostie: by-pass ratio 1
TI-Easy: no problem at all to do this with an NG or Efis, but dont try it with a Bus.

Might be it is conservative working for my present employer, but more than 6° bank, less than 10ft RA, is a Go Around

At a pitch attitude of4 to 5° the flap track fairing (and not the engine as generally believed) will touch with a roll angle of about 14°.