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Community Discussion => Screenshot Discussion => Topic started by: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on December 30, 2010, 08:12:47 am

Title: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on December 30, 2010, 08:12:47 am: Santa left a pair of rudder pedals under the tree ;D

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 :o
So I had to land anyways....

Here goes nothing:
737 X-wind.mp4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfVBuAuUfzk#ws)
Title: Re: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-1997 Alexander on December 30, 2010, 09:31:02 am: very nice ;)
Title: Re: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-2381 Ted on December 30, 2010, 10:50:16 am: Wow!
Title: Re: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-2589 David on December 30, 2010, 02:26:56 pm: You are the master :o at the moment for me is almost impossible to land with the 737, but what about if you tried with the 747 or A380 ;D

Thanks ;)
Title: Re: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-0654 Murray on December 30, 2010, 02:50:41 pm: Which reminds me, must look at replacing my broken GoFlight pedals...
Title: Re: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on December 30, 2010, 03:51:53 pm: Quote from: EHM-2589 David on December 30, 2010, 02:26:56 pm
You are the master :o at the moment for me is almost impossible to land with the 737, but what about if you tried with the 747 or A380 ;D

Thanks ;)
Actually, I did. By accident! :P

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 ??? :o (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
Title: Re: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-1465 Dominic on December 30, 2010, 04:04:44 pm: That's a brilliant video E-J and a great piece of flying although I think you were lucky to remain on the tarmac ;D

Any chance of doing a similar video in an EHM jet for advertising purposes?
Title: Re: X-wind in Castlegar
Post by: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on December 30, 2010, 06:49:13 pm: Quote from: EHM-1465 Dominic on December 30, 2010, 04:04:44 pm
That's a brilliant video E-J and a great piece of flying although I think you were lucky to remain on the tarmac ;D

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 ;D

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 ;)