How Not to Land

[Dmmoore]

Now this is a real smooth landing in the hands of an experienced pilot seating for his commercial check ride with the examiner in the right seat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4QHpVXtxI

What's dragging on the runway after touchdown?

[Dmmoore]

Now this is a real smooth landing in the hands of an experienced pilot seating for his commercial check ride with the examiner in the right seat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4QHpVXtxI

What's dragging on the runway after touchdown?

[Half Bottle]

Now this is a real smooth landing in the hands of an experienced pilot seating for his commercial check ride with the examiner in the right seat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4QHpVXtxI

What's dragging on the runway after touchdown?

The belly.

[Dmmoore]

Now this is a real smooth landing in the hands of an experienced pilot seating for his commercial check ride with the examiner in the right seat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4QHpVXtxI

What's dragging on the runway after touchdown?

The belly.

Ya think!

[GerryW]

The 'Follow Me' truck?

[3WE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAljM7CaY10

Probably illegal cross winds but great recovery. Maybe camera angle illusion.
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It was a windy day with gusty winds of that there is no doubt. What the heck is an illegal cross wind?

Illegal....yes, Aardvark2zz should have quoted the word "illegal"

The maximum demonstrated crosswind component- even if they were exceeding it has no legal bearing, but certainly fans the flames of parlor talk regarding responsible flying, and would probably weigh heavily in a case of mental-anguish lawsuit

Then again, there are ops "regulations" that will limit what your employer will allow you to do.

So, I would wonder if the cross wind that day was "legal" or not....I'd guess legal, while the corrections were certainly spectacular, it also seems well within the capabilities of the aircraft and pilots.

My disagreement is with the word "recovery" which has some implications that they were not "completely on top of the gusty cross wind". Instead, they showed excellent control and straightened out for touchdown just like the textbook says you should.

Ok, I do agree that was a "great recovery" from a significant crab angle.

[Gabriel]

Now this is a real smooth landing in the hands of an experienced pilot seating for his commercial check ride with the examiner in the right seat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4QHpVXtxI

What's dragging on the runway after touchdown?

It's amazing how stuff can happen.
Not only they forgot to lower the landing gear, but they also missed the gear warning intermittent horn that sounded all the way from at least the base to final turn (where the video starts) to the touchdown.
And it was not a new PPL. It was pilot seating for the commercial licence and with the examiner in the right seat. One would think that, even if one is a crappy pilot that isn't keen of checklist, at least during an exam one would fake the personality, try to look responsible, and run the checklists!