Apparently it flew over a hill or large object that left only 100ft below while still in cloud. Freaky.

What a retard!

>> ^mrsid:

What a retard!


I didn't get that until right at the end of the video

ILS approach charts usually tell you about stuff like that so you can be ready before hand. You can't be spooked by stuff like that and expect to land 40tons of airplane safely. For fearful fliers like myself, ILS landing chats are usually available online so you know exactly what kind of landing to expect...every turn, every decent. Also helps you know when you are on final or a holding pattern.

My brother, a hobby pilot, used to do landings like this time after time in MS Flight Simulator X. They've good for testing your navigation skills and using the instruments. I tried a few too, I found VFR flying in real to be much easier than IFR in FSX.

>> ^Quboid:

My brother, a hobby pilot, used to do landings like this time after time in MS Flight Simulator X. They've good for testing your navigation skills and using the instruments. I tried a few too, I found VFR flying in real to be much easier than IFR in FSX.


That is not unlike real life. Looking out of window at 20k at 400 miles per hour isn't exactly telling at times, even without cloud cover. Only on an approach you have done dozens of times in the same conditions will the "look" of a particular landing be helpful. This isn't unlike most areas of life, things you don't do often, how they look isn't very useful, now a checklist...that is useful no matter how many times! This is why all aspects of planes and checklist based. For any given day you might be on several different planes on a large variety of different airports. That isn't always the case, many times they get similar kinds of routes over and over with the same equipment, but that does change from time to time.

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Jeez what's that do to the confidence of the pilot if the computer is calling him a retard right before touchdown. I had an ex-girlfriend like that, but she called me that when I was parallel parking, same thing. Retard! Retard! you hit the curb again.>> ^CrushBug:

>> ^mrsid:
What a retard!

I didn't get that until right at the end of the video

>> ^mrsid:
What a retard!
It's one thing to have the computer assist with landing, another entirely to have it grade your performance in the harshest possible terms.

I can't believe nobody has commented on the trail from the previous aircraft that landed. That's what punched the long hold in the cloud cover. Maybe this is just obvious to everyone. Anyway, very cool!

That was just a low overcast, the visibility was high once they got below the clouds. I'm instrument rated, and used to fly small planes, and never had any desire to fly the big aluminum tubes. I've done a few approaches down to minimums (200ft overcast 1/4 mile visibility) with no co-pilot or fancy pants autopilots or computers calling out my altitude and insulting me after landing. Believe it or not, when you have low clouds and low visibility, it's some of the best flying weather. It's calm stable air that allows for fog and low cloud formation.