You will NOT believe this landing..........

[hammersley]

wow - look at the length of this field... ... ..... talk about a high PUCKER FACTOR!



What A Pilot!! Video

 

[The patriot]

It would have been nice if they showed it until he was standing still.

Definetly megaforce!

Eric

 

[jandtjil]

Wow they should install tailhooks.
I wonder where that is, and if it's an American Airlines regular route ?

JJ

 

[TRLRTRSH]

Took me a while to find it, But here it is. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/TGU

Does make you want to grab your seat that's for sure. Although the runway is a shade over 6,000' long. The angle of the video makes it look shorter than it is.

 

[Edward]

Someone needs to tell that pilot that he isn't flying a C-130.



Edward

 

[jandtjil]

Took me a while to find it, But here it is. TGU - Tegucigalpa [Toncontín Intl], HN - Airport - Great Circle Mapper

BRAVO!



here are some additional views of TGU



YouTube - Landing 737 at MHTG



AA 757 landing in Tegucigalpa, Honduras



YouTube - Take off & landing at Toncontin International Airport

 

[SHobbs]

Are you kidding me? Don't book me on a flight to that place.

 

[The patriot]

The crews who have that route sure earn their money... ...

 

[Edward]

After watching the other video's it's like watching them land in the bottom of a bowel.



Edward

 

[Cummins Pilot]

Pretty neat for a big bird. We still do some "crazy" landings with our airplanes at work. DC-6s & C-46s. We'll send the senior captains and crews on the more technical airstrips.



For some really truly outstanding landings you should watch the DVD Big Rocks & Long Props. These guys are nuts. They land on sandbars you can't fit a bus on by water skipping to a stop.

 

[TRLRTRSH]

Cummins Pilot, thanks for the lead to Big Rocks and long props. I'v heard of skip landings before but never seen one. If you go to their web page you can see a good demonstration of two!

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Hammersley - your spending too much time in the political forum. I think this is the first thread I've ever moved OUT of the political forum!! Congratulations:-laf

 

[Edward]

Hammersley - your spending too much time in the political forum. I think this is the first thread I've ever moved OUT of the political forum!! Congratulations:-laf

Steve you didn't see Hillary for president on the side of that airplane?:-laf





Edward

 

[rkressg]

I flew into Heathrow one night earlier this year, when they were having 90mph winds with significantly higher gusts in a little A-321 (quality Iberia Jet), and the cross wind was so bad, I was sitting in the J-seat, and I could see the runway we were landing on.

Unfortunately, you can not shut down that airport at 6:00pm on a Thursday afternoon (almost as bad as Atlanta)

What amazes me the most is, how did he stop a 757-200 on only 6000', and not very wide (and then take off again later). Even our CRJ-900s Jets (I work for Bombardier) require a little more than 5800' for TO and 5200 for landing, and that is way smaller and lighter than a 757.

I would hate to try and land there with an issue (such as a broken thrust reverser, not common, but the cables do break).

 

[Cummins Pilot]

At Fairbanks International Alaska (I used to work there as an A&P) the 757s once in a while will hit the middle taxi on a 10,500 strip. Set it down on the numbers and lay hard into the reverse you'll stop in under 5k from what I've seen Northwest do. But they need all of 5k to get off again.

 

[Jim Fulmer]

What amazes me the most is, how did he stop a 757-200 on only 6000', and not very wide (and then take off again later). Even our CRJ-900s Jets (I work for Bombardier) require a little more than 5800' for TO and 5200 for landing, and that is way smaller and lighter than a 757.



In a 707 at max normal landing weight (250K) the landing distance is only about 4500 at standard day (dry runway) One of the vids he floated bad, that is definately a VFR field, and yes it is in a hole... ... I'd love to shoot that approach.



Jim

 

[Cummins Pilot]

I'd love to shoot that approach.



Jim

I'll 2nd that.

 

[Jetpilot]

Very cool, but he needs to use a little more rudder to align the aircraft better. As for the 757 its a cool plane. Pilots love it for performance but passengers hate it due to its long narrow design. The 200's are much better than the newer 300's due to power to weight and the darn thing is so long tailstrikes are a real hazard.



The 757-200 only needs 3050' at max gross landing weight to stop! The truck landing gear, massive brakes , and great thrust reversers makes this one of the best short field high altitude transport category aircraft out there.



Doug

 

[Jetpilot]

What amazes me the most is, how did he stop a 757-200 on only 6000', and not very wide (and then take off again later). Even our CRJ-900s Jets (I work for Bombardier) require a little more than 5800' for TO and 5200 for landing, and that is way smaller and lighter than a 757.



I would hate to try and land there with an issue (such as a broken thrust reverser, not common, but the cables do break).

The CRJ has very poor brakes and thrust reversers, also the wing is so close to the ground it creates a ton of ground effect or reduction in induced drag. The small engines on the CRJ causes the TO roll to be as great or greater than a larger transport jet. As for thrust reversers cables most of the new generation controls are fly-by-wire, doesn't mean they aren't MEL'd but normally this is due to a reverser door manfunction not a cable.



Doug