X-wind in Castlegar

[EHM-2387 Eric-Jan]

Santa left a pair of rudder pedals under the tree 

So of cause I had to try them out ...
And what better place to do that than in our latest WILD Division hub Castlegar. To make things a bit more exiting, I took a Boeing 737-800 there, and added a touch of crosswind ...
Avoiding the mountains on a rwy15 departure was one thing, a go-around at rwy33 would be pretty much impossible 
So I had to land anyways....

Here goes nothing:

737 X-wind.mp4

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

very nice

[EHM-2381 Ted]

Wow!

[EHM-2589 David]

You are the master at the moment for me is almost impossible to land with the 737, but what about if you tried with the 747 or A380

Thanks

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Which reminds me, must look at replacing my broken GoFlight pedals...

[EHM-2387 Eric-Jan]

You are the master at the moment for me is almost impossible to land with the 737, but what about if you tried with the 747 or A380

Thanks

Actually, I did. By accident! 

I wanted to select the 737, and saw the 737 with all white livery. I then clicked the one next to it with the Boeing colours, which happened to be the 747 ... I tried the same flight I did later with the 737, but I did not get off the ground in time, and when landing (much nearer to the touchdown zone, by the way), I still ran out of runway and dove nose first into the river. Somehow, the thrust reversers did not kick in    (and I forgot to deploy the spoilers; that's what you get when you only fly small aircraft, haha!)

Thanks all, for your comments!
E-J

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

That's a brilliant video E-J and a great piece of flying although I think you were lucky to remain on the tarmac 

Any chance of doing a similar video in an EHM jet for advertising purposes?

[EHM-2387 Eric-Jan]

That's a brilliant video E-J and a great piece of flying although I think you were lucky to remain on the tarmac 

Any chance of doing a similar video in an EHM jet for advertising purposes?

Thanks, Dom!
I thought at first that I would do allright, except for the overcompensating the dip under the glidescope, but I was coming in too fast. At 140kts, I could still hold her over the center line, but as airspeed bled out, the 30 kts crosswind component got to be a bit too much to compensate even with max rudder deflection. So I ended up "dipping the wing", which is a bad way to land if you are a fan of your undercarriage 
Ah well, I got to use about 5200 ft of the 5300 ft log runway, and about 140 of the 150 ft width 

I'm getting the hang of this video thing now, so I sure am tempted to try on an advertisement. I'll give it a shot for the WILD Division, OK? See if i can dig up some recordings of the opening event legs, and add some Castlegar footage, or so. Mmmmhhh, let me brew on that one a bit. I'll get back to you