GoJet strikes a wingtip on landing

[jdubya]

Good discussion and sure, it's crazy at this level to talk of technique but obviously pilots at all levels have some issues with it. I've seen some unbelievable stuff out there.

As to one of the other posters: you're crazy in this business if you DON'T analyze the mistakes of others.

 

[Redan]

Have to agree, the discussion of flying technique (or hangar flying) has always been a staple of pilots. I learn something from every instance of hangar flying and from every FO I fly with. When it gets to the point where I feel discussion of any sort of flying technique on an aviation forum is "unbelievable" it will certainly be time for me to hang up my wings.

 

[jetRAT]

It can happen to anyone especially if you get slow in a gusty crosswind.

Uh...so don't get slow in a gusty xwind. Welcome to xwind landings day 1. BTW, thank you for proving my original point. Don't you have a line to cross somewhere?

 

[bailout]

ASA has had at least two wingtip strikes that i can remember off the top of my head..



(of course one of those was banking 40 degrees at 30 feet to avoid landing on a taxiway)

 

[Data]

Here's a nice briefing from Airbus on their recommended technique...wings-level ie crabbed approach. This document shows both techniques and discusses the geometry limits of certain designs and how that relates to the strength of the crosswind. Good read.

http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/179.pdf

 

[CRJ puppy]

Every airline has wingtip strikes. One or more a year. They just don't usually make the news. Shoot. Delta has had a rash of them too. So it really has little to do with the operator having a "young" work force....

 

[Maria]

So how do you land the CRJ simulator in a crosswind?

I've flown taildraggers in the Mountain West (KMMH) and never had a problem, but then I didn't crab the whole way down, with a Hail Mary kick at the last second.

 

[wmuflyguy]

So how do you land the CRJ simulator in a crosswind?

I've flown taildraggers in the Mountain West (KMMH) and never had a problem, but then I didn't crab the whole way down, with a Hail Mary kick at the last second.

Crab and then kick it out at 10'-30'. I've seen people do it as early as 200' not my technique though, I just don't like flying in the slip that long.

 

[kf4amu]

Every airline has wingtip strikes. One or more a year. They just don't usually make the news. Shoot. Delta has had a rash of them too. So it really has little to do with the operator having a "young" work force....

Piedmont has never had a wingtip strike.

 

[Data]

Piedmont has never had a wingtip strike.

Neither has Chuck Norris, the ground just moves when Chuck's wingtip is where he wants it.