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They make it look to easy.
its so easy whats hard in landing that the ITS CAVOK no wind ????? a pilot with 200 hours could land in thoes conditions
By Yoshi7 1146764647 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removecavok - ceiling and visibility OK ?????? 9999 meters of visibility????
Ok, doesn't matter, anyway the 747 has ILS (even most of c172 have it). I don't know about the runway...
Cause hes an experience captain, you don't get to be captain without a lot of experience, he's a cathay pacific captain and their main spot is Hong Kong therefore he has probably done that landing oodles of times and you'd be surprised how much is automated these days! (which is why i'm joining the RAAF and not going commercial till i retire :P), i so hope i get to pilot planes some day... bah to Lan Tau making landing easier in hong kong! lol
By Ixixly 1146650943 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove... but dont big aircraft like that have auto landing...? If they didn't use Autolanding then cool... but Pilots are awesome anyways!!
By greatmoney 1148665362 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHave Auto Pilot system, But no Auto-Landing.
By Devilly 1148860679 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeim training to become a pilot. i plan to be an arobatic display pilot.
By D190 1150477642 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSome aircraft do have auto-land, not all, but some..
By Pyrodrive 1150262285 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeis soon to be invented
By Sebzead 1149447826 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThe Boeing 747-400 (which I fly) has both an autopilot, and an autoland function.
Autopilots have been around since the late 1920's by the way, and autoland is a British invention, having first been demonstrated on the Hawker Siddley Trident for BEA in 1963, and on the Vickers VC-10 for BOAC shortly thereafter.
Final approval for autoland in commercial operations was not gained until years of trials had been completed.
This was to category IIIb low weather miniums, too, even in 1963. Landings in category IIIc minimums, which are otherwise known as zero/zero, were also demonstrated back then, but it's not a practical proposition, as the visibility is so low that the pilots cannot see to taxy to the gate after landing, and have to be towed off the runway!
Having said that, however, the autoland function on any commercial jet could NOT be used on Runway 13 at the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong.
Firstly, autoland, as it presently stands can ONLY be used on straight in approaches to landing, and even then, only to a runway which is served by an approved ILS. Please remember that the Kai Tak Runway 13 approach had the infamous 47 degree late turn from final to line up with the runway. So, it was NOT straight in approach.
Secondly, for autoland to be performed, the ILS for that runway has to be approved and maintained in each specific case, anywhere all over the world.
And Kai Tak's Runway 13 was NOT autoland approved.
So, ALL landings on Runway 13 at Kai Tak were manual.
... and Madeira airport?
what do you know about it?
Ah huh...the infamous checkerboard landing here! The weather didn't look to bad in this video, and the pilots, well they're the same pilots that had flown that route hundreds of times, so they're quite pros at doing it.
By avcomth 1185043756 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveVery nice video, if use want to see more plane videos the i sujest the websit www.flightlevel350.com
By stevie763 1153938124 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveIt had such a good safety record because only the best of the best pilots were allowed to fly there. I would be sh*tting myself if I was flying over the crowded buildings just outside the airport (in the Kowloon City district)!
By Richard Lai 1149103915 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI got my private pilot's license several years back. From everything I've heard, landing a 747 is easier than landing a little Cessna 172. I remember doing crosswind touch and goes and literally getting drenched in sweat, not from fear but from concentration. Things happen really fast in a little plane, while the bigger ones seem to be considerably more forgiving.
And forget about flying into busy airspace to a busy airport. The controllers like don't seem to realize that it will take you a bit longer to get on the ground and off the runway than a 757. I once had a controller ask me to speed up in the pattern when I was already going as fast as I could. I didn't even start slowing down until I was over the runway. But, I gotta say, landing a little Cessna 172 on one tire in a 15 kt crosswind is a lot of fun.
Also fun is landing a Cessna 152 with full flaps into a 30kt headwind. When your gear touches the ground you have what seems like a 10 foot rollout. Feels like you're coming straight down. Only problem is it takes you 15 minutes to get to an exit off the runway.
I learned on Cessnas myself, and you appear to have heard wrong. Congratulations on obtaining your PPL, but the big jets (especially the widebodies) are far more challenging to handle than the small ones you have flow so far.
Don't let that put you off, however, as the fact that many airline pilots started where you are is ample evidence that the progression up to the largest of aircraft can be made.
But your attitude is important - you have to aproiach each and every flight until the end of your career as an opportunity for learning.
But if you take the attitude that the hard part is over, and it is all going to be so much easier from now own as the bigger planes are "...more forgiving..", not only are you in for a rude awakening, but you are unlikely ever to progress to jobs where you will get to fly the 'big iron'.
I remember completing a
Hey everybody, I just thought I'd post this. Just off the bat, I'm at captain of a Boeing 767-300 and I've been flying for the past 30 years. Believe it or not the actual flying is not as hard as you may think after recieving the correct amount of training. Of course you can't do checkrides and touch and goes in a actual 744 jet, so these pilots use simulators twice a month to practice different situations. Actually, the hardest part of flying is talking to Air Traffic Control!
By Squawker_9999 1146887851 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove...judging by what you have written, it doesn't sound you have flown very much of anything at all.
By kwajimu 1148524243 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI've flown very much actually. I may not have been flying a 763 for very long but aviation has been in my career for quite a long time. I have most of my hours on a Cessna 172SP and a Cessna 310, however after recieving my airline transport pilot rating I do miss those bush flying days :-(
By Squawker_9999 1148779897 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveFrom what you write, I just don't buy the claim of your being a 767 captain.
By kwajimu 1150345451 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSo what sort of plane is a 744?
By gillean666 1146946429 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeis a 744
By Squawker_9999 1147132387 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removejust like 733 is 737-300 and 752 is 757-200
By Squawker_9999 1147132533 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveEasy like handling a bike.
No seriously ... an huge plane and a very smalll cockpit. And look for these ugly chairs ...
Its fun 2 watch these videos, and then read the replies, where the ppl. that dont no what the pilots r talking about, are confused. that ammuses me, especially when u do know. lol.. 1st 747 plane crash ( destruction ) that comes to my mind is flight 800, JFk to Paris July, 1996. :(
By Mom-I-Lost-My-Helmet 1146704553 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removecan be fun. I know people that has never flown but it's not bad at all. Enjoyed.
By Sooze 1146667712 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethey really make me think it was easy....
By enrico e 1146563479 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI don't think I have what it takes to fly a 747. You need to be very cool-headed and have great judgement.
By shinyam 1146664588 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removemakes me want to buy a ticket and go to Miami, been 2 years allready
By bigjake 1146500066 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeits the old airport in hong kong - kai tak.... the take-off's and landings were always exiting, very good saftey record too.
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