This is a tremendous example of the fact that it does'nt matter which airline you are flying, the pilots are hugely skillful and professional. We are lucky to have them.
A lot of the major airport runways in the UK have an approximate East- West orientation (090/270 degrees). Birmingham is one of those airfields that is fairly North/ South facing (150/330 degrees). It is very common to execute significant crosswind landings throughout the year at BHX. (EGBB)
Looking at the air speed, its clear the wind is virtually negating forward speed, losing lift, while crosswinds are heavy, so, its amazng how much skill they have...
Great video! So happy to see that pilots are very conservative on landing and actually preferring to go around in the name of safety. Unlike old procedures from last century, promoting pilots to land ASAP, which breaks gears, causes bouncing and as seen unfortunately accidents. Nicely done humanity!
I landed at Birmingham last night about 7pm was the scariest landing I've ever had thankfully the pilot nailed the landing first time, everyone clapped ^_^
I flew into Heathrow yesterday from Gibraltar, arriving around 13:30. The pilot certainly earned his money. I did wonder at one point if we were going to TOGA as the plane was being thrown around from side to side until approximately one minute before touchdown. Ironically it was the same plane that I had flown out on the previous day which had to be diverted to Malaga due to partial failure of the flaps that provide braking. The runway is so short in Gibraltar it meant we potentially had insufficient stopping power! Luckily the ground-engineers were able to rectify the issue.
It looks like the planes almost hover in the spot, I presumed that was just to do with the angle and the perspective but they really look like they're on some Harrier Jump Jet moves
It's interesting to see how much the crosswind affects the planes as they taxi down the runway after landing - the tails of the planes are way off the runway centreline even as the nose wheel tracks the centreline, all due to the additional lateral wind load on the tail fin. It just shows how much the pilots have to compensate for crosswinds during the landings.
You could hear the BHX planes over the winds yesterday. Pretty scary as a lot of them come in over built up areas like Kitts Green (which I think is in the distance in this video)
Every go-around is increased risk of something going wrong. Airports should not be built without crosswind runways. Heathrow even had one until the late 70’s, then they built a terminal over it
Really??? Do you have any idea how little space there is in the UK? Especially around airports. You can’t dig up all of the surrounding areas “Just” to put a runway in place that’s maybe convenient 5% of the time. Most airports are already aligned with the prevailing wind in the UK anyway. The cost of digging up the surrounding areas and the environmental impact would be huge. “Every go-around is increased risk of something going wrong”. Oh behave. You have no idea what you’re blabbering on about. Go arounds are dynamic manoeuvres and they’re actioned IF the pilot isn’t happy about something. But, every go around doesn’t necessarily increase the risk of something going wrong jeopardising the safety of the aircraft. We train very regularly for things like this and don’t spend many hours in a simulator playing blackjack. When weather is this bad, we load as much extra fuel as we can carry. If we can’t land twice at the destination we cart over to another airfield that’s a bit less breezy. We’re paid to look after people, please don’t belittle or insult my profession and leave it to us on days like this.
Birmingham had a cross runway until well after the new terminal was built. The problem is more to do with cost and safety though at Elmdon the Coventry Road and Land Rover works added to the problem. There's supposed to be space to the HS2 side of the site to build a second parallel runway but difficult to identify with the present works. Providing and maintaining the ILS and other services for a cross runway is expensive like for a parallel one. There's then the safety aspect of take offs or landings crossing each other. Some US airports have what is the old Air Force or RAF configuration one of which recently had such an issue.
It was the secondary runway for the RAF who laid the usual cross runway pattern. The Coventry Road and Land Rover works meant that the primary RAF runway couldn't be extended as readily as the one on the present alignment. Even that causes issues with the Coventry Road which was originally proposed to be diverted under rather than around when extended Really a badly sited airport but not for 1939.
Take a look at the map on Google Unless you know the area well the next part is difficult. The railway line has been there since 1839 approximately. Most of Sheldon didn't exist until post 1939 or 1950. The M42 didn't exist until 1980s. The NEC was fields until the 1970s. Land Rover works was a wartime shadow factory built in 1940s. Elmdon was a little village the airport was named after and the Coventry Road was a turnpike from the 1700s turned into dual carriageway by 1970. A municipal airport built on the edge of the City of Birmingham. For context of a similar airport look at Barton airfield which was Manchester Airport.
Probably a result of Medieval ploughing and the airfield being a grass one in 1939. The basic RAF concrete runways were very short by modern standards and since the current one would have been considered the secondary one they would have not been too bothered. Watching take offs it certainly looks like it acts like a ski jump on aircraft carriers.
Everybody can land a modern jet under normal circumstances. But it takes skill and professionalism to keep the plane in one piece at critical moments like these.
The rate at which some of these pilots fail is alarming. Granted these are tough conditions but that’s the job. Some are landing and the others are just worryingly failing. Its as tho once the autopilot is off they seem to fall apart 😮
@@RollsRod you are not qualified to judge pilots or doctors. There are professional bodies who carry out that function. I don’t think they need your input.
This is a tremendous example of the fact that it does'nt matter which airline you are flying, the pilots are hugely skillful and professional. We are lucky to have them.
Well said Ray 👍
That was extremely impressive with the first go around. The sheer skill of these highly trained pilots in such terrible weather conditions. 😮😊
Cheers I was the Skipper 👍
A lot of the major airport runways in the UK have an approximate East- West orientation (090/270 degrees). Birmingham is one of those airfields that is fairly North/ South facing (150/330 degrees). It is very common to execute significant crosswind landings throughout the year at BHX. (EGBB)
thats where the fun is, crosswind landings 😎
The way some of them twitch and jerk around on the wind makes them look like toys on a wire. The power of nature is insane
Looking at the air speed, its clear the wind is virtually negating forward speed, losing lift, while crosswinds are heavy, so, its amazng how much skill they have...
Brilliant thanks. You don't get the credit you deserve. You have an awesome live stream
Thank you Ground 👍
That's great landings!!!!! What a pilots!!! Breath taking professionals!!!!!❤❤
Superior skills of the Pilots on board, they deserve an 'accolade!' 🙏🙏🙏
Great video! So happy to see that pilots are very conservative on landing and actually preferring to go around in the name of safety. Unlike old procedures from last century, promoting pilots to land ASAP, which breaks gears, causes bouncing and as seen unfortunately accidents. Nicely done humanity!
It's great watching the planes land facing the camera, looks as if their hovering
I landed at Birmingham last night about 7pm was the scariest landing I've ever had thankfully the pilot nailed the landing first time, everyone clapped ^_^
I flew into Heathrow yesterday from Gibraltar, arriving around 13:30. The pilot certainly earned his money. I did wonder at one point if we were going to TOGA as the plane was being thrown around from side to side until approximately one minute before touchdown.
Ironically it was the same plane that I had flown out on the previous day which had to be diverted to Malaga due to partial failure of the flaps that provide braking. The runway is so short in Gibraltar it meant we potentially had insufficient stopping power!
Luckily the ground-engineers were able to rectify the issue.
The runway looks wavy
Thankyou so much for these wonderful airport feeds. Really enjoy them 🍻👋🏻
Thank you for the support billy whizz 👍
Fun to watch Kev, thank you for your work!
Thank you John , hope your keeping well 👍
Amazing to see how much crab still exists with all three wheels on the ground, shows a strong wind.
That's not a runway, it's a roller coaster!! 😁
Great captures!
Thank you Frederick 👍
Brilliant work, Kev! Especially so, when the weather isn't conducive at all.
Thank you Vaqar 👍
BRAVOOOOO FOR ALL THESES PILOTS ♥️ save a lot
Great footage as always
Thank you Barmyb 👍
Like Wellington, NZ on a good day. This is a long runway and these winds are common here in Welly.
Thank you for the stream.....Love to arounds.
Thank you Liz 👍
Cheers Kev! Glasgow was ropey, I managed to record my landing.
upload'uh if you can please. ty
Glasgow is horrible for take off and landing
Great stuff SOFAPILOT , we would love to see your recording 👍
05:05 'thought he was gonna go then' ... I thought I was going to go then! - The Captain FR1213 😳
I salute the skills of these pilots .
Thanks Ken, good watch
Wind wasn't that strong until the evening, we were flying over at Halfpenny Green.
It looks like the planes almost hover in the spot, I presumed that was just to do with the angle and the perspective but they really look like they're on some Harrier Jump Jet moves
I would be hysterical if it went round again
Gotta admire x
Frisky day mate, great captures 👍
Cheers Tony 👍
Last one 😮
amazing skills in awe
7:46...what a recovery!!! 😰
He definitely thought about not taking off again 😅
I migliori piloti al Mondo
It's interesting to see how much the crosswind affects the planes as they taxi down the runway after landing - the tails of the planes are way off the runway centreline even as the nose wheel tracks the centreline, all due to the additional lateral wind load on the tail fin. It just shows how much the pilots have to compensate for crosswinds during the landings.
You could hear the BHX planes over the winds yesterday. Pretty scary as a lot of them come in over built up areas like Kitts Green (which I think is in the distance in this video)
Great video as always Kev but I still don’t know what polish saying you know 😂
Hi Stuart , it was jak się masz " How are you ? " 🤣
Brussel airlines best of best!!
Love your work
Thank you so much 😀
why are they still allowed to fly? looks crazy
Wow
Thanks Carole 👍
Every go-around is increased risk of something going wrong. Airports should not be built without crosswind runways. Heathrow even had one until the late 70’s, then they built a terminal over it
Really??? Do you have any idea how little space there is in the UK? Especially around airports. You can’t dig up all of the surrounding areas “Just” to put a runway in place that’s maybe convenient 5% of the time. Most airports are already aligned with the prevailing wind in the UK anyway. The cost of digging up the surrounding areas and the environmental impact would be huge. “Every go-around is increased risk of something going wrong”. Oh behave. You have no idea what you’re blabbering on about. Go arounds are dynamic manoeuvres and they’re actioned IF the pilot isn’t happy about something. But, every go around doesn’t necessarily increase the risk of something going wrong jeopardising the safety of the aircraft. We train very regularly for things like this and don’t spend many hours in a simulator playing blackjack. When weather is this bad, we load as much extra fuel as we can carry. If we can’t land twice at the destination we cart over to another airfield that’s a bit less breezy. We’re paid to look after people, please don’t belittle or insult my profession and leave it to us on days like this.
Birmingham had a cross runway until well after the new terminal was built. The problem is more to do with cost and safety though at Elmdon the Coventry Road and Land Rover works added to the problem. There's supposed to be space to the HS2 side of the site to build a second parallel runway but difficult to identify with the present works.
Providing and maintaining the ILS and other services for a cross runway is expensive like for a parallel one. There's then the safety aspect of take offs or landings crossing each other. Some US airports have what is the old Air Force or RAF configuration one of which recently had such an issue.
Hi new to your TH-cam so interesting.Thank you
Welcome JoJo 👍
Is it an illusion or is Birmingham's runway almost as lumpy as black pools big dipper.
Very few runways are actually flat but it's appearance is exaggerated by the camera zoom.
I'm surprised the runway isnt 'flat' and appears to undulate
Fantastic 😲
Thank you Elena 👍
Very interesting 👌
Why build a N/S oriented runway knowing the winds cross it most of the year?
It was the secondary runway for the RAF who laid the usual cross runway pattern. The Coventry Road and Land Rover works meant that the primary RAF runway couldn't be extended as readily as the one on the present alignment. Even that causes issues with the Coventry Road which was originally proposed to be diverted under rather than around when extended
Really a badly sited airport but not for 1939.
Is it my eyes, or does that runway have a lot of humps and dips in it?
Incredible 😢men
Or women.
Birmingham aye? Might want to sort out the airstrip no? Orientation and doesnt look flat. Layperson thoughts...
Take a look at the map on Google
Unless you know the area well the next part is difficult. The railway line has been there since 1839 approximately. Most of Sheldon didn't exist until post 1939 or 1950. The M42 didn't exist until 1980s. The NEC was fields until the 1970s. Land Rover works was a wartime shadow factory built in 1940s. Elmdon was a little village the airport was named after and the Coventry Road was a turnpike from the 1700s turned into dual carriageway by 1970. A municipal airport built on the edge of the City of Birmingham. For context of a similar airport look at Barton airfield which was Manchester Airport.
Wooooooow 😮😮😮
Just landed in Glasgow
A day when you want your feet firmly attached to terra firma .
Definitely David 👍
Tierra firme ⭐️
It might be safer if the runway was actually on level ground.
Probably a result of Medieval ploughing and the airfield being a grass one in 1939. The basic RAF concrete runways were very short by modern standards and since the current one would have been considered the secondary one they would have not been too bothered. Watching take offs it certainly looks like it acts like a ski jump on aircraft carriers.
Wow 5:00 a ryanair with a smooth landing
Cheers I was the Skipper 👍
Back again
The runway is fine and causes no isssues.
Everybody can land a modern jet under normal circumstances.
But it takes skill and professionalism to keep the plane in one piece at critical moments like these.
I wouldn't like to be on this plane..
Annoying as some may find it the Ryanair landing was the best.
Cheers I was the Skipper 👍
Why is that runway not flat like real runways?
The rate at which some of these pilots fail is alarming. Granted these are tough conditions but that’s the job. Some are landing and the others are just worryingly failing. Its as tho once the autopilot is off they seem to fall apart 😮
That's a spectacularly miss-informed comment, the decision to go around is based on professional judgement, claiming anything else is absurd.
I love how you have the temerity to criticise professional pilots when you clearly know sfa.
Failing is what you are doing by writing this nonsense!!!
@@mcgoverg1 so if a few doctors keep failing where one doctor is successful yo excuse would be “it’s a hard job and who r u to point it out?” huh 🤔
@@RollsRod you are not qualified to judge pilots or doctors. There are professional bodies who carry out that function. I don’t think they need your input.
When youv'e seen one!!🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱