Another entertaining Russian landing
 

Any landing you walk away from is a good landing:ok:

Anyone care to explain what the deal was with this landing? Looks... interesting to say the least

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.

Being such a massive plane, does it have it's own unusual landing style? Those dips just before it sets down look terrifying for the crew haha

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.

Pity there's no footage of it taxying back from Antibes ;)

Having witnessed quite a few An-124 landings in my time, this is pretty average. Nice clip though.

Looked like a Nice landing to me. :p

Nothing wrong with that...:ok:

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!!! :ok:



I bet those guys started banking left before starting pulling up... :p

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.

That is a good t/o JF
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BobnSpike

You are so right.

I knew the Russians had taken over on the Cote d'azur... but an Antononv to bring in the Christmas Caviar - that's the final proof...

Move to spotters mods?

Don't think that was the riveriera approach, isn't that at the other end?

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!

You mean like those guys by the side of the river all day in the hope of catching a fish which, if they catch one, they then throw back in :}

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.

Indeed

4 minutes from line up to reporting ready in order to spool up to required power and temp.