Anyone know this pilot? Buy him a pint!
 

BA276 at LHR 08/02/19

Why buy him/her a pint?

Why not? Awesome flying skills, yes I know it is trained for, but it isn't a daily occurrence and was very impressive to watch. The comment was meant in appreciation.

BANG!
Ladies and Gentlemen, as you may have just noticed we have arrived at London Heathrow - Oh wait no, no we haven't...

A wild day today all over the UK - Glad I'm not on some tiddler like a Flybe Q400 being flung about

All in a days work. Just for one split second I thought they were going to try and rescue it! :=

I wonder what Leeds/Bradford's like today?

Why are such things always described as 'insane'?

Why is the gear not retracting?
Our call was "Go Around, Flaps, - Positive rate, Gear Up."
Or did they think they might have broken something?

Just love Big Jet TV, they seem to have more lamp posts, buses and other rubbish in them than the rest of these awful sites put together!

No, standard go-around in wind-sheer, maintain positive rate of climb, do not raise landing gear or adjust flaps.

Good video capture (for the pedantic of you) , windshear in the flare, nose down to maintain speed, TOGA, maintain positive climb rate, wait until clear of shear, recover.

For those who can't view Twitter videos, there is a version on the BBC homepage: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-47177...athrow-airport

Well if that's what they actually did then it's not a good capture at all.

good capture of the video numpty

Too assume that one would have to take the comment completely out of context.

Well he wrote it, so presumably he knows what he meant. :O

Because he earns > £110k per annum and can well afford his own beer.

Commercial pilots exist in another financial reality to most of the rest of us. Try not to think of them in normal human terms, in my experience they generally don't reciprocate. They merely tolerate us and our limited abilities.

The whole purpose of writing a post is so other people know what you mean. Or you may as well just keep it to yourself.

So nice to see a well balanced individual, a canyon sized chip on each shoulder!