A380 Landing

[TXGold]

Just made its first landing. Looks like the guy should've left the autopilot on until 50' AGL. It seemed to me there were some pretty big control movements going on. Anybody have an idea what the wind was in London at time of arrival?

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

I think it made a few landings before when it went on a tour of Asia a few months ago. This was its first time in London, though.

 

[JetSpeed219]

I noticed that too, there was quite a bit of rudder movement right before touchdown and the landing looked pretty hard.

 

[mcjohn]

Well....is there a video?

 

[Sunnfun]

Well....is there a video?

The Beeb has a report with video: Airbus A380 jet lands at Heathrow

Enjoy! There will probably a higher quality version soon on youtube or flightlevel350.com.

 

[PA-44Typed]

Looks like a good amount xwind?

 

[Iceman21]

I would be that they were very light and had enough fuel onboard to divert the to nearest place that could "handle" the plane. If something did go wrong on landing at heathrow, I'd imagine they didn't want to have a massive post crash fire.

 

[Crizz]

I would be that they were very light and had enough fuel onboard to divert the to nearest place that could "handle" the plane. If something did go wrong on landing at heathrow, I'd imagine they didn't want to have a massive post crash fire.

What are you talking about?

 

[cfi on the fly]

Remember that all aircraft are making small adjustments when lining up for center line, they are just not as noticeable in smaller aircraft. But in the a380 these movements are magnified because of the sheer size of the aircraft. The longer the wingspan, the more the wingtips will appear to fluctuate as adjustments are made.

 

[Iceman21]

The first few people that posted in the thread made comments about the plane making big control movements and all I was baiscally saying was that the plane was most likely a bit "light on it's feet"

Make sense now?