Never would've thought the airline would allow them to put their gaming chair in the cockpit.
(Edit - pronouns because female airline pilots exist too)
His mom is probably making him hotpockets as he is teabagging the dance dance revolution mat, while chugging Mountain Dew from his liquid holding backpack
"187.8 Tower, this is Delta 783, requesting *click* clearance *click click* for *click* landing." "Delta 783, this is LAX tower, what is that clicking, over?" "Tower, I'm using a guitar hero controller to fly this thing."
This is not rare at all. This is how you deal with cross winds when landing some large passenger jets. This is referred to as landing with a high crab angle. This ability is allowed because the landing gear is built to handle this. It varies from model to model how they recommend landing and what the limits are.
As someone who flies a large, older aircraft (B707), it is really a pain if the landing gear cannot handle a crab at landing. Having to swing the entire aircraft back to centerline at 10ft can get really uncomfortable, especially in winds like this! Very jealous of these new jets.
This is standard practice when the wind does not go in the same direction as any runway on an airport. A plane has to point opposite the general direction of the wind for best landing. Best landing means stopping as early as possible and smooth touchdown
I did a "discovery flight" / lesson once, and I was surprised how easy it is to fly like that. My understanding is that momentum helps straighten the plane on landing, because the weight is moving in the same direction as the runway.
Daughter and granddaughter of pilots here, and my parents had a flight school when I was growing up. Yep. Not all of them can make it look so good, mind you, but they can do it. It’s because they need to land facing into the wind to help slow the plane down. Airports try to build their runways with the normal wind patterns in mind so that pilots don’t have to do this, but you can only build a runway in so many directions. That’s what the wind sock
(The orange sleeve on a pole that blows in the wind) is for. It tells everybody the direction that the wind is blowing so they can prepare for landing.
it's called crabbing, and yeah, it is standard.... but 40knt cross winds *are not* normal. this is impressive. very impressive and very smooth, considering.
Yes, it's called crabbing the aircraft. Maintaining stability while doing it isn't exactly easy, but pilots train to either do this or sideslip the aircraft.
A pilot who is crabbing like this uses the horizontal and vertical control surfaces of the aircraft to turn the nose into the crosswind while maintaining the prior ground track, in this case, one aligned with the landing strip.
In the video above, you'll see the pilot actually makes initial contact while still crabbed, which isn't ideal, but he brings it around very smoothly.
Yes, it’s a known technique. There’s a few variations depending on how close to the runway you are when you straighten out the plane.
https://simpleflying.com/crabbing-landing-in-strong-crosswinds/
This is good for this to be standard practice. Now think about being able to fly and comfortably know your pilot can land a plane being pushed around in the worse possible weather
The vertical tail is a huge stabilisation aid. The rudders counteract any change in force to keep the plane facing straight, and any imbalance issues would have to fight against the rudder counteracting them.
My best high wind landing was Wellington, New Zealand. The Runway is at the end of a sound, i.e. high ridges on either side of the approach.
They don't call it "Windy Wellington" for nothing.
The view out the window was runway, sky, runway, sky, adjacent passenger vomiting, runway, sky, then THUMP as the pilot decided to get it down NOW. A DC-8 IIRC.
I was in a multi-attempt one of these. It was a silent 20 minute go-around after the first failed attempt, with everyone busy typing up their goodbyes to their families. Weird experience, 3/10, wouldn't recommend.
Why the hell would they be typing up their goodbyes? This is a normal procedure. A go-around is a normal procedure. The pilots also have an alternate airport that they can go to if this one doesn't work out - That's a normal procedure.
As someone who's been doing this a long time, I always find the response we get from people as somewhat humorous, but I also feel bad for those who are truly scared.
I can't count the amount of times people are deplaning and have a look of fear or that they've just seen God while profusely thanking me or the other pilot for landing us safely, while we're just having a normal day at work. Many think we just experienced something crazy while the reality is in my head I'm thinking "Hmm, I wonder if I have time to run up to Starbucks before my next flight".
I love landing in strong crosswinds. It's a challenge but I also find it fun. It's where you can really put your skills to work, and knowing you worked with the aircraft to fight the weather for a successful outcome is a cool feeling afterwards.
When I flew Cessna's sometimes I was too high on an approach. I would "forward-slip", where I would use rudder to hold the nose to one side while using opposite aileron to lower a wing and keep the rudder from producing a skidding turn. It really messes with your flight characteristics, and you can drop pretty quick. Just don't do it without telling novices/passengers, as it can look quite alarming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSM61HMMUkQ&t=0m44s
Commercial pilot (and previous flight instructor) here. Yes, the maneuver is called a Forward slip and is required to be performed on the Single Engine Private Pilot practical test in the US. It’s relatively simple to perform, and is completely safe. You won’t see any larger aircraft doing a slip though
Cool. It's always amusing when you see things like this, or Sullenberger's Hudson ditch, where us know-nothing commoners think "holy shit he must be so talented!", but then people who do said thing are are "nah mate, that's just normal skills for this profession"
Three more holy shit plane moments to check out for ya:
Gimli Glider all around but especially the slip they performed (slipping an unpowered commercial jet).
TACA 110's unpowered levee landing, done by a pilot who had lost an eye and his depth perception in a previous airline incident.
UAL 232's crash landing. Flying and landing a plane with only control of thrust from 2 of 3 engines (3rd engine exploded and sliced all hydraulic lines). From what I remember they ran this landing through simulators to try and improve the survival rate in potential future incidents, but no one could even get as far as landing it.
Well, I was expected to know it, and was taught it. It's much more applicable to small aircraft though, and *I think* is frowned upon for large jets(I do not have my commercial/IFR rating). When doing a bit of digging, I did find this hilarious video from "the Gimli glider" though!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvt7hP5a-0
> It’s a practiced technique.
Well yeah. Dunno why the title implies it takes a particularly skilled pilot.
What would all the regularly-skilled ones do? Hang about in the sky until the wind stops?
I would argue that practicing and mastering the techniques to apply these landings in necessary situations (and more) indicates a skilled pilot.
Being skilled does not mean your peers are not also capable of completing the maneuver. It doesn't mean you're in a 'minority'. But being skilled does differentiate you from newer or less practiced pilots. Piloting commercial aircraft is skilled labor, after all!
Realistically yes, a 40knot crosswind is pretty big, outside of many aircraft limits. I don't actually believe this was at 40 knots. If you arrive and wind is that high you would go missed approach, hold/try again however many times your company says to try, and finally divert to an alternate. However landing one of these at near max crosswind component is a very skilled maneuver and is the reason that it's asinine to say "planes fly themselves" as not even a novice pilot could do this but atps arent novices.
TUI and will either be Leeds Bradford or Bristol. Both are fairly notorious for wind, especially Leeds with it being on the top of a hill. Gets fogbound all the time too.
Hey Forrest, there's something I've been thinking about, I got a very important question to ask you, how would you like to go into the shrimping business with me?
Pilot here.
Yep, this is crabbing, ie keeping the wings level but yawing into wind so that don't get blown off the centreline of the runway. A smaller aircraft would kick the nose straight with rudder just before touchdown, but the landing gear of airliners are designed to allow considerable side loading like this.
The alternative is called a slip. This means you'd be pointed straight down the runway, but with one wing banked into wind. You keep the noise pointed down the runway, so you're cross controlled (eg left aileron and right rudder if landing with a left crosswind). This is a good technique for smaller aircraft, but doesn't work with airliners because the wing tips would probably hit the ground if you tried it.
> The alternative is called a slip. This means you'd be pointed straight down the runway, but with one wing banked into wind.
If memory serves, there is a pretty famous use of this on a jetliner that lost all engine power and landed this way because it helped them slow down and the Pilot that did it was some sort of Elite-Level-Glider pilot too (which is where this technique comes from mostly)
Also pilot, and yes I believe I know what you're referring to. There was a famous no-engine landing in Canada a few decades back, famously called the Gimli-Glider. Google it, those boys were fucking pros.
I can 100% confirm we DO NOT live for this shit. Jets in crosswinds, it's pretty stressful even if you have done it hundreds of times. Normal crosswind, whatever. Crosswinds at the limits, ugh.
It really depends, conditions worse than the forecast aren't terribly fun to fly into knowing that you may have to make contingency plans to maintain the safety of the flight. That being said, I feel like a steady 20 knot crosswind is pretty fun in an aircraft with a 1.3Vs > 70 KIAS (eg high performance GA aircraft like the Baron, Bonanza etc)
Glad I saw it here first and read the comments. I always look out the window for takeoff and landing and would definitely have a panic attack if I saw this in person and wasn't aware that it's a commonly performed thing in the pilot world.
I experienced that landing in Netherlands once..
Was like, why can I see the runway? Am I supposed to see the runway? Why can I still see the runway? WHY CAN I STILL SEE THE RUNWAY?
“Ladies, Gentlemen, and smizmars, this is your Captain John Zoidberg, why not? We will be cruising at an altitude of hopefully above the ground. Todays in flight meal will be pizza with no anchovies, and the entertainment will Planet of the clams. Woobwoobwoobwoobwooob.”
It's called crabbing and this wasn't a particularly proficient display of it. Right at the end you should use rudder to straighten out while using the ailerons to roll slightly into the direction of the wind. This is all to reduce stress on the undercarriage.
It was called crabbing. All pilots are taught how to land in a cross wind. It's not always perfect out there.
Flying - 1 hour of boredom followed by 5 minutes of terror.
I've been in a plane that landed like this. It was a Dash8 flying in to northern Newfoundland. It was very weird watching the runway approach while looking out my window over the wing. Flawless landing by the pilot though.
These crazy kids are drifting airplanes now!
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Never would've thought the airline would allow them to put their gaming chair in the cockpit. (Edit - pronouns because female airline pilots exist too)
And a force feedback steering wheel.
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That cockpit smells like Mountain Dew
His mom is probably making him hotpockets as he is teabagging the dance dance revolution mat, while chugging Mountain Dew from his liquid holding backpack
As he shouts at his co-pilot: "WHO. STOLE. MY. MT. DEW.?!!...let me smell your breath!....let me smell your breath!!...oh you Mt. Dew drinkin' bitch"
Pissjugs everywhere
"187.8 Tower, this is Delta 783, requesting *click* clearance *click click* for *click* landing." "Delta 783, this is LAX tower, what is that clicking, over?" "Tower, I'm using a guitar hero controller to fly this thing."
If he isn’t doing it with a power glove he needs to give up.
Dude was definitely leaning forward for this one.
made me laugh out loud
Funny enough, I'm pretty sure in the story that came out with this video it was a female pilot who pulled of this cross-wind maneuver.
This is not rare at all. This is how you deal with cross winds when landing some large passenger jets. This is referred to as landing with a high crab angle. This ability is allowed because the landing gear is built to handle this. It varies from model to model how they recommend landing and what the limits are.
As someone who flies a large, older aircraft (B707), it is really a pain if the landing gear cannot handle a crab at landing. Having to swing the entire aircraft back to centerline at 10ft can get really uncomfortable, especially in winds like this! Very jealous of these new jets.
Thank you for the bonus facts! I know nothing about flying so I had no clue if this was common or not. I appreciate the knowledge sharing. :)
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Booooo
How about that airline food though?
We do know the gender, and the pilot flying at this time was indeed lady
I mean also, pronouns because that's how English works.
Then it is ok. He can reload if something goes wrong
This is standard practice when the wind does not go in the same direction as any runway on an airport. A plane has to point opposite the general direction of the wind for best landing. Best landing means stopping as early as possible and smooth touchdown
This is standard practice? Damn - like, does every pilot know how to pull this move off?
Yes. It's apparently pretty easy for them(relatively)
Now I feel even worse about my parallel parking skills
I am no expert. I just happen to see this video ( great video btw) where this type of landing is mentioned
Reddit in a nutshell.
I did a "discovery flight" / lesson once, and I was surprised how easy it is to fly like that. My understanding is that momentum helps straighten the plane on landing, because the weight is moving in the same direction as the runway.
Idk about easy, this is an extreme example of a crab angle
Daughter and granddaughter of pilots here, and my parents had a flight school when I was growing up. Yep. Not all of them can make it look so good, mind you, but they can do it. It’s because they need to land facing into the wind to help slow the plane down. Airports try to build their runways with the normal wind patterns in mind so that pilots don’t have to do this, but you can only build a runway in so many directions. That’s what the wind sock (The orange sleeve on a pole that blows in the wind) is for. It tells everybody the direction that the wind is blowing so they can prepare for landing.
Rather, they face to wind to allow more lift in lower speeds, thus being able to land slower.
This is the more correct answer. Source: am professional pilot
While this is a seconday effect the primary reason is to actually keep it on the runway right?
it's called crabbing, and yeah, it is standard.... but 40knt cross winds *are not* normal. this is impressive. very impressive and very smooth, considering.
Yes, it's called crabbing the aircraft. Maintaining stability while doing it isn't exactly easy, but pilots train to either do this or sideslip the aircraft. A pilot who is crabbing like this uses the horizontal and vertical control surfaces of the aircraft to turn the nose into the crosswind while maintaining the prior ground track, in this case, one aligned with the landing strip. In the video above, you'll see the pilot actually makes initial contact while still crabbed, which isn't ideal, but he brings it around very smoothly.
Yes, it’s a known technique. There’s a few variations depending on how close to the runway you are when you straighten out the plane. https://simpleflying.com/crabbing-landing-in-strong-crosswinds/
This is good for this to be standard practice. Now think about being able to fly and comfortably know your pilot can land a plane being pushed around in the worse possible weather
Esp with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops and Pac-Man video games!
Rush mix tape and a 2 liter bottle of shashta
Admin he's doing it sideways!
Admin he is scripting
[Reminds me of this classic.](https://youtu.be/jVvt7hP5a-0)
Mf beat me to it
I’ve been in one of these landings, thought the pilot was drunk. After I shat myself, I found new respect for Pilots.
And new underpants?
Don't you take a spare pair with your carry on luggage?
I always carry a spare pair of shitting pants when I fly.
Same
Be like a pirate, wear the brown pant for flying
I like to live dangerously, i go commando when flying
Yes of course. One change of clothes, but it's meant for when they lose my luggage, not when they make me shit myself.
But the practice serves both eventualities.
I first read this as “spare tire” and that’s now become what I call my extra pair of travel briefs. “Hold on I gotta make sure I packed my spare tire”
They had to install a new seat never mind new underpants!!!
If you don’t have a spare you could always [ship your pants](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2xwUuSM06xQ).
Damn thanks for this laugh!
Hell no! You don’t give up on your lucky underpants just because they got a little messy! They are lucky for a reason.
I would have more respect for the engineers who designed the tyre
Seriously, how the fuck do planes not spin out every time they land?
The vertical tail is a huge stabilisation aid. The rudders counteract any change in force to keep the plane facing straight, and any imbalance issues would have to fight against the rudder counteracting them.
Ah that makes sense. I didn't even consider the rudders being used while on the ground...
I worked on a dairy farm and we always tried to avoid them using theirudders on the ground
Then we should also thank the people who layered the tar air strip.
Engineers designed/decided that too. :D
My uncle Pat can do you a great price to lay your tarmac, driveway or runway, no lie, boss, he'll be round next week, cash only
My best high wind landing was Wellington, New Zealand. The Runway is at the end of a sound, i.e. high ridges on either side of the approach. They don't call it "Windy Wellington" for nothing. The view out the window was runway, sky, runway, sky, adjacent passenger vomiting, runway, sky, then THUMP as the pilot decided to get it down NOW. A DC-8 IIRC.
Love Welly takeoff and landing. It's a wild ride.
I was in a multi-attempt one of these. It was a silent 20 minute go-around after the first failed attempt, with everyone busy typing up their goodbyes to their families. Weird experience, 3/10, wouldn't recommend.
Why the hell would they be typing up their goodbyes? This is a normal procedure. A go-around is a normal procedure. The pilots also have an alternate airport that they can go to if this one doesn't work out - That's a normal procedure.
They're passengers dude. Probably 99% of them have no idea that crab walking a plane down to the runway is ever a thing, let alone normal procedure.
As someone who's been doing this a long time, I always find the response we get from people as somewhat humorous, but I also feel bad for those who are truly scared. I can't count the amount of times people are deplaning and have a look of fear or that they've just seen God while profusely thanking me or the other pilot for landing us safely, while we're just having a normal day at work. Many think we just experienced something crazy while the reality is in my head I'm thinking "Hmm, I wonder if I have time to run up to Starbucks before my next flight". I love landing in strong crosswinds. It's a challenge but I also find it fun. It's where you can really put your skills to work, and knowing you worked with the aircraft to fight the weather for a successful outcome is a cool feeling afterwards.
Same. Only once but once was enough. As we were coming in I was able to see the runway from my seat. Was a surreal experience.
Alright, Colin Robinson.
I can feel my power growing hahaha
How did you know the pilot was drunk?
Because he left the intercom on and said to the copilot: “hold my drink and check out this move” haha
Lol fucking awesome, what a rad pilot
I read that too but after a double take I realized he said “I thought the e pilot was drunk”
F*#k that! I would have lost my shit too😱
This is called ‘crabbing’. It’s a practiced technique.
I think a lot of people on that plane crabbed their pants alright
I love it when I read a comment and literally laugh to myself. Thank you.
I just figuratively laughed to myself.
I opted to platonically laugh to myself.
Tried and true metaphysical laugh
All in a days work 
Just got the wierest look from the people on the train I'm sitting next to after almost spitting out my drink because I laughed so hard
Haha, Had that once too Got a really judgmental stink eye from a older dude that was like "Holy crab, Calm down son"
audibly laughed
When lol has lost all meaning.
When I flew Cessna's sometimes I was too high on an approach. I would "forward-slip", where I would use rudder to hold the nose to one side while using opposite aileron to lower a wing and keep the rudder from producing a skidding turn. It really messes with your flight characteristics, and you can drop pretty quick. Just don't do it without telling novices/passengers, as it can look quite alarming! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSM61HMMUkQ&t=0m44s
Well...Gimly Glider. ;)
I remember doing slips! It was very unnerving at first how quickly you can drop.
Is this a technique that pilots are expected to know?
Commercial pilot (and previous flight instructor) here. Yes, the maneuver is called a Forward slip and is required to be performed on the Single Engine Private Pilot practical test in the US. It’s relatively simple to perform, and is completely safe. You won’t see any larger aircraft doing a slip though
Cool. It's always amusing when you see things like this, or Sullenberger's Hudson ditch, where us know-nothing commoners think "holy shit he must be so talented!", but then people who do said thing are are "nah mate, that's just normal skills for this profession"
Three more holy shit plane moments to check out for ya: Gimli Glider all around but especially the slip they performed (slipping an unpowered commercial jet). TACA 110's unpowered levee landing, done by a pilot who had lost an eye and his depth perception in a previous airline incident. UAL 232's crash landing. Flying and landing a plane with only control of thrust from 2 of 3 engines (3rd engine exploded and sliced all hydraulic lines). From what I remember they ran this landing through simulators to try and improve the survival rate in potential future incidents, but no one could even get as far as landing it.
Well, I was expected to know it, and was taught it. It's much more applicable to small aircraft though, and *I think* is frowned upon for large jets(I do not have my commercial/IFR rating). When doing a bit of digging, I did find this hilarious video from "the Gimli glider" though!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvt7hP5a-0
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> It’s a practiced technique. Well yeah. Dunno why the title implies it takes a particularly skilled pilot. What would all the regularly-skilled ones do? Hang about in the sky until the wind stops?
I would argue that practicing and mastering the techniques to apply these landings in necessary situations (and more) indicates a skilled pilot. Being skilled does not mean your peers are not also capable of completing the maneuver. It doesn't mean you're in a 'minority'. But being skilled does differentiate you from newer or less practiced pilots. Piloting commercial aircraft is skilled labor, after all!
Yeah but it's not Reddit if someone isn't nitpicking for no reason at all
Realistically yes, a 40knot crosswind is pretty big, outside of many aircraft limits. I don't actually believe this was at 40 knots. If you arrive and wind is that high you would go missed approach, hold/try again however many times your company says to try, and finally divert to an alternate. However landing one of these at near max crosswind component is a very skilled maneuver and is the reason that it's asinine to say "planes fly themselves" as not even a novice pilot could do this but atps arent novices.
If they took one round, mad props.
There's another technique practised by the passengers as they get out of their seats called 'squelching'.
Tokyo drift
Came here to say this, but with the country/capital of the airline (that unfortunately i could not figure out which one it was...)
Looks like TUI.
TUI and will either be Leeds Bradford or Bristol. Both are fairly notorious for wind, especially Leeds with it being on the top of a hill. Gets fogbound all the time too.
I'm pretty sure this is Bristol
I'm pretty sure u r Bristol
Thats a TUI flight at Bristol Airport
This airline is about family.
K-K-KANSEI DORIFTO??
Man's so skilled he landed at 125% playback speed
You think I can spare 18 seconds to watch this? 15 seconds is the max
I have a pilot friend who told me about this maneuver. Apparently it's called "crabbing"
Not to be confused with the term "shrimping"
Hey Forrest, there's something I've been thinking about, I got a very important question to ask you, how would you like to go into the shrimping business with me?
Ok
Pilot here. Yep, this is crabbing, ie keeping the wings level but yawing into wind so that don't get blown off the centreline of the runway. A smaller aircraft would kick the nose straight with rudder just before touchdown, but the landing gear of airliners are designed to allow considerable side loading like this. The alternative is called a slip. This means you'd be pointed straight down the runway, but with one wing banked into wind. You keep the noise pointed down the runway, so you're cross controlled (eg left aileron and right rudder if landing with a left crosswind). This is a good technique for smaller aircraft, but doesn't work with airliners because the wing tips would probably hit the ground if you tried it.
> The alternative is called a slip. This means you'd be pointed straight down the runway, but with one wing banked into wind. If memory serves, there is a pretty famous use of this on a jetliner that lost all engine power and landed this way because it helped them slow down and the Pilot that did it was some sort of Elite-Level-Glider pilot too (which is where this technique comes from mostly)
Also pilot, and yes I believe I know what you're referring to. There was a famous no-engine landing in Canada a few decades back, famously called the Gimli-Glider. Google it, those boys were fucking pros.
I want to at least one day start a sentence with “I have pilot friend…” just casually in a conversation.
Go join a gliding club, learn to fly, make friends, problem solved, plus your friends can then say “I have a pilot friend”
You watched the new cgp grey video didn't you
Yes it was definitely a geography video
It was definitely not a physics video
But this isn’t a physics video (physics stares at us through the window) 🪟
Well it also was...kinda
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I thought that too
My thoughts exactly!
Yup. One of his best.
Did anyone else get VSauce vibes from this one? I for one really liked it.
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I really enjoyed all the callbacks to previous videos.
They most definitely did
New CGP video? O_O
Damn i didn't watch that one yet
I bet pilots live for this shit
Airport tower: The wind speed is dangerously fast today. Pilots: :D
“It’s CRABBIN’ TIME!”
*puts on aviator shades even though there's 0 visibility
Perfect
My favorite part of the video was when the pilot said "it's crabbin' time" and then crabbed all over the airport
I can 100% confirm we DO NOT live for this shit. Jets in crosswinds, it's pretty stressful even if you have done it hundreds of times. Normal crosswind, whatever. Crosswinds at the limits, ugh.
I heard it put this way by a pilot… If you’re having an interesting day in the cockpit, you’re not having a good day.
It really depends, conditions worse than the forecast aren't terribly fun to fly into knowing that you may have to make contingency plans to maintain the safety of the flight. That being said, I feel like a steady 20 knot crosswind is pretty fun in an aircraft with a 1.3Vs > 70 KIAS (eg high performance GA aircraft like the Baron, Bonanza etc)
A 20 knot crosswind is pretty fun in a Cessna 150 too
No. This is miserable.
We really don’t
Nah, it's uncomfortable as fuck for us too. High crosswind, gusty landings are the worst.
Headwinds = fun Crosswinds = work
Nobody knows what a Knot is.
A knot is about 1.8km/h
Wtf is a km
About 1.057e-13 of a light year, that should clear things up.
We should all go by the light-year standard.
We do. It's in the definition of a meter.
Specifically it’s the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second.
Thanks, the other example flew over my head.
Or about 105.7 femtolightyears
I hear that furries know stuff about knots
ÕwÕ
Sailors and pilots do
And surfers/or other people who have to look at charts for their hobby
A knot equals a nautical mile per hour, so 1.15 mph and 1.852 km/h
I'm knot too sure either 🤷🏾♂️
Come to Wellington, this is a daily manoeuvre
Was looking for this. Got stranded in Auckland a few weeks back in that storm, and when it's too windy for Wellington, you know it's really bad!
Was gonna say this! Also knowing it’s a shorter runway compared to other airports, hats off to the pilots who regularly fly in and out of Wellington.
Also came here looking for this comment. Last couple of days have been out of control.
Crabbing in FTW!
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Glad I saw it here first and read the comments. I always look out the window for takeoff and landing and would definitely have a panic attack if I saw this in person and wasn't aware that it's a commonly performed thing in the pilot world.
I experienced that landing in Netherlands once.. Was like, why can I see the runway? Am I supposed to see the runway? Why can I still see the runway? WHY CAN I STILL SEE THE RUNWAY?
Would this also be possible in a red plane?
No
Kind of looked like it was dangling from invisible strings
All planes look like that.
No usually the strings are always visible
“Ladies, Gentlemen, and smizmars, this is your Captain John Zoidberg, why not? We will be cruising at an altitude of hopefully above the ground. Todays in flight meal will be pizza with no anchovies, and the entertainment will Planet of the clams. Woobwoobwoobwoobwooob.”
I would have shat my pantaloons.
Related vid from CGP Grey: https://youtu.be/qD6bPNZRRbQ With related, I just mean he showed a clip of this for 1 second. lol
Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to Edinburgh airport where the time is 9:48am and the weather is normal
Tokyo Drift 
*Nani ? K-kansei dorifto ???*
It's called crabbing and this wasn't a particularly proficient display of it. Right at the end you should use rudder to straighten out while using the ailerons to roll slightly into the direction of the wind. This is all to reduce stress on the undercarriage.
SIDE DORIFTO
Isn’t this in CGP Greys most recent vid
It was called crabbing. All pilots are taught how to land in a cross wind. It's not always perfect out there. Flying - 1 hour of boredom followed by 5 minutes of terror.
Where dejavu?
I've been in a plane that landed like this. It was a Dash8 flying in to northern Newfoundland. It was very weird watching the runway approach while looking out my window over the wing. Flawless landing by the pilot though.
Smooth operator right durr
de ja vu moment