A380 Lands at KLAX

[rfresh]

Did anyone else see the large rudder inputs the pilot made just after touch down this morning at KLAX with the A380?

The touch down on the 4 mains was smooth but with the nose wheel still up in the air, the pilot went into reverse thrust (you could see the reverser cowlings on the engines sliding aft, indicating he had initiated reverse thrust) almost immediately the a/c lerched to the left as I saw the huge rudder deflect to the left - then he corrected back to centerline and you could see it lerch back to the center of the runway.

This a/c only had Airbus flight test crews on board. The only other landing I saw was a few months ago when Airbus flight test landed at some airshow in Europe - that landing was absolutely terrible - unstable approach, rocking wings and rocking touch down!!

Any see how the landing went at KJFK?

 

[Dumb Pilot]

Get a life

 

[Taildragon]

you land it then, ace

 

[DiverDriver]

.... eh, nevermind

 

[SKC]

Poor landing must mean terrible aircraft.

 

[The_Russian]

We will see!

 

[rfresh]

Poor landing must mean terrible aircraft.

I don't know about the A380, but a friend of mine flew (just retired) the A319 for Frontier and he says that airbus's side stick input wasn't optimzed very well in his opinion; he says you make a stick input and half second later the plane reacts to it. He said he never got used to that.

The video today of the A380 landing showed the right side of the plane - I was wondering if they had an engine on the left side fail to go into reverse thrust which would explain the large rudder inputs. Even if they did, I doubt they would make that info public.

 

[Napoleon TNT]

I don't know about the A380, but a friend of mine flew (just retired) the A319 for Frontier and he says that airbus's side stick input wasn't optimzed very well in his opinion; he says you make a stick input and half second later the plane reacts to it. He said he never got used to that.

The video today of the A380 landing showed the right side of the plane - I was wondering if they had an engine on the left side fail to go into reverse thrust which would explain the large rudder inputs. Even if they did, I doubt they would make that info public.

No, no, no! You have it all wrong!

They didn't show the left side because it had duct tape holding the wing on.

It really isn't a completed airframe. It is just put together enough to make it look like it is done.

Haven't you ever seen the movie "TUCKER" ???

 

[328dude]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-airbus20mar20,0,7798733.story?coll=la-home-local

Looked ok to me. Nothingwrong with a little tire smoke.

 

[The_Russian]

No, it looks like he misjudged his rudder input.

 

[Huck]

Had to have been a reverser. #2 failed to come out, probably. No reversers on 1 and 4 because they will hang out over grass in some airports.

He probably got a little anxious to slow down. A heavy on 24R at LAX is not for the squeamish.

 

[328dude]

No, it looks like he misjudged his rudder input.

All this from a Brassilia driver Thanks Maverick

 

[capt. megadeth]

you land it then, ace

Exactly what I was thinking......

 

[Scrapdog]

I don't know about the A380, but a friend of mine flew (just retired) the A319 for Frontier and he says that airbus's side stick input wasn't optimzed very well in his opinion; he says you make a stick input and half second later the plane reacts to it.

Yeah, that's what happens when you fly a big airplane.

 

[xjhawk]

the guy who started this thread would most likely ask for a ride from someone, sit in the jumpseat and critique the landing after they shut down.....what a buthole.......

 

[Huck]

Naaaah.... making the first A380 landing in the states is a major step-out. You go big like this, it better be perfect. And it was not. This ain't a line crew, this is a test pilot.

 

[SuperKooter]

Was a pretty lousy landing. Must not have done much training with this guy. Wasn't it a Lufhansa crew?

 

[viper548]

They missed the first high speed. What a piece of crap

 

[landlover]

all this shows is that euro pilots need to learn a thing or two from us americans! i'm sure the plane is fine, just needs a man flying it, not some euro trash!!

 

[Huck]

It weren't Lufthansa - they went to JFK. It may have been Quantas.....

 

[Old School 737]

A380

It won't be a very good pax plane and when it fails UPS and FedX will snatch them up for next to nothing and make them work for them, same deal as the MD-11.

 

[AerroMatt]

It won't be a very good pax plane and when it fails UPS and FedX will snatch them up for next to nothing and make them work for them, same deal as the MD-11.

Sure about that? FedEx and UPS have been buying new lately. Maybe ole Connie Kalitta???

 

[Marko Ramius]

They missed the first high speed. What a piece of crap

Seems to make sense. They were going to the south side of the field and I imagine any future revenue arrivals will be dumping people in the remotes instead of the bradley terminal. I don't know how often it will be seen by the old 50 yard line.

 

[HighSpeedClimb]

It definitely looked like the number 1 reverser did not deploy.. Either way, the guys I fly with that have Airbus time tell me its very hard to have a bad landing.

 

[hypersonic]

i'm sure the plane is fine, just needs a man flying it, not some euro trash!!
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I'm sure some fatass trailer trash american pilot would have done a better job

 

[Falconjet]

I'm sure some fatass trailer trash american pilot would have done a better job

You say that like its a bad thing.

FJ

 

[HalinTexas]

Are you sure it wasn't an autoland?

 

[The_Russian]

All this from a Brassilia driver Thanks Maverick

Obviously you have never flown the Brasilia.

 

[The_Russian]

Naaaah.... making the first A380 landing in the states is a major step-out. You go big like this, it better be perfect. And it was not. This ain't a line crew, this is a test pilot.

Agreed.

 

[The_Russian]

all this shows is that euro pilots need to learn a thing or two from us americans! i'm sure the plane is fine, just needs a man flying it, not some euro trash!!

Right on.