Crosswind LANDINGS during a STORM at Düsseldorf B777, 767, 757 A330 - Storm Andrea
Why Aviation Stack Exchange recommends it
Aviation Stack Exchange users link it as a vivid real-world example of heavy crosswind landings when asking or answering questions about how pilots and aircraft handle them.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2015 to 2017.
What it is
A 2012 plane-spotting video by Cargospotter filming crosswind landings at Düsseldorf during Storm Andrea, with gusts up to 60 knots. It shows a Boeing 777, 767, 757 and an Airbus A330 fighting the wind, including a Condor 757 that aborted its first approach.
What people said
Recommends Farhan · 2015-06 · Aviation Stack Exchange · on “When a large commercial jet touches down, is it committed to stopping?”
No, when an airliner touches down, it is not committed to stop. However, a go around after touchdown is not an easy task and sometimes can be very dangerous. A hypothetical situation is discussed here [LINK] which is similar to Flight 9268 [LINK] which you mentioned. Compared to a landing, more runway is required for a takeoff. After the touchdown, pilots have very little time to decide to take off again if they cannot stop. Fortunately 1 , most of the time, this decision is made very quickly. However, if an airplane is slowed down below the minimum safe go-around speed, there will (or may 2 ) not be enough runway remaining to take off again. Therefore, pilots should accept a runway overrun,
Cites KeithS · 2015-07 · Aviation Stack Exchange · on “Why don't modern aircraft have landing gear that can swivel to compensate for crosswinds?”
There is one aircraft I know of that can do exactly what you state, the B-52: This plane has steerable dual-bicycle gear which allows the crew to point the gear along the runway while the fuselage is "crabbed" up to 20* off the runway centerline. AFAIK the gear are slaved to the ILS; you dial in the OBI to a course and the gear will point that way even if the aircraft points differently. The reason this was done is primarily due to the design of the rest of the aircraft. It's a very "dense" design, cramming a lot of weight into a very small package, requiring massive wings and tail just to keep the thing under control at altitude. These surfaces then become huge sails at lower altitudes, and
Cites PerlDuck · 2017-01 · Aviation Stack Exchange · on “Are crosswind landings performed using autoland or under manual control?”
I believe many people here have seen at least one of Cargospotter [LINK] 's videos of crosswind landings at Düsseldorf (DUS/EDDL). There [LINK] are several [this video] of them [LINK] . I picked this one [LINK] : [LINK] I think the pilots land their aircraft manually in case of such heavy crosswinds. But is that true? Or do they lean back and watch the scene as the autolanding system does its job? This somehow related question [LINK] suggests the plane is operated manually. Are there any regulations as to when using autolanding and when to do it manually? I know this might be opinion-based, but could autoland even handle these crosswind situations?