On a similar vein (no pun intended:O ) when established on an stabilised OEI approach on the bus with no AP it's an interesting exercise to challenge students to see for how many seconds they can keep their hands and feet off the controls and still have it accurately fly alt/az profiles. When they've nailed the trim, they free up brain space for the go around, circle whatever.

Those videos are pitiful, just pitiful

Agreed. But the wonderful Biggles type drama of man battling the elements is mana to the great unwashed.

Here's another fine example (starting at 50 sec in the movie)

Including rudder this time

Here's what it looks like from the outside. Is it over controlling, leading to PIO in the yawing plane, or is the A380 that unstable??

I've just given up and accepted this is now a fact of life in airline flying, having seen it on both the B737 and the A320. I'm prematurely turning into a grumpy old man trying to persuade people against their will why this is so wrong. I've just decided it's easier to let it be, it's like fighting the tide.

Now I just mutter under my breath on short final:

What are people's thoughts on this technique? Beginning at 13:50.

For starters I can't see there being a great deal of turbulence there with the wind coming off the sea. Fixed wing A/C are inherently stable. He was in a high wing so lateral stability should be good. I say be lazy and let the a/c do the work. It will fly itself, as mentioned in previous posts.

From when he started doing the "Mayo" to when he touched down, the mayo would have been rock solid in that short time. He did appear to have nailed the centre line which was good.

If he was a pilot carrying out very low level ops performing like that, his left arm would probably have given up after the first sortie.

Maybe it's me being too old and out of touch. Please correct me should I be.

Heh... starting at 13:50 and for a while, it seemed to me about normal for a gusty day in a light plane (never flown a Caravan, but speaking generally...) and then it got to the part just before the flare and holy schnike! :ooh:

Maybe the pilots posting this stuff online do this intentionally for dramatic effect to gain attention and admiration? After all, if you make very small and gentle inputs it doesn't look so difficult and exciting.

Look at the death grip on that side-stick! Then notice his finger tip control of the nose wheel steering. Go figure.

If you want to prove your balls are as big as your ego, go military rather than cash 100k oF mummy/daddy/rbs cash down the integrated route.

Got a lot of time for the guys who work their ways through modular, scraping time doing local instruction and single engine/light twin pax stuff, even crop dusting, than the guys proving the big man on YouTube by waggling a stick wearing raybans whilst the computer makes hight calls.

A lot more finesse and passion for the job

Well not all military pilots are ace pilots. To have flown with some ex fighter pilots, some of them were very average to say the least... I guess pulling 7G and flying raw data are 2 different skills. :}

Quote from John Farley's book A View from the Hover: My Life in Aviation:

pineteam,

I think you are right. I remember one very well qualified ex-RAF Lightning pilot who clearly had done well as a fighter pilot, but who, when confronted with difficult conditions at Chicago, was unable to cope. As a fighter pilot, under the direction of a ground controller he had obviously been well able to perform, but maybe with only a few tasks at any one time. In the civil environment, when faced with the multiple inputs of flying on instruments in a three-crew aircraft in a hectic ATC environment in a complex area in bad weather he experienced great difficulty. These same issues had arisen during his simulator training, but they became a major problem during route training.

Was this a limited ability to multi-task? He continually forgot things and over-controlled. He did not complete the course.

Not all mil blokes fly fast pointy things .. my point being, if all you have ever done is the dutchess, a JOCC then straight onto a 73 or 320, I'm not surprised at the result. You haven't had long enough to finesse your trade. Please don't let the parochial I once flew with an ex military bloke who was useless tar us all with the same brush.

I'm sure those with a background in SEP or twin flight instruction for a few years wouldn't struggle, nor would a guy who has done a few years crop spraying. You really earn your spurs during those early first hours.