Full-sized Cessna 180 ZK-EKG makes a dicey cross-wind landing at Tokoroa

[HunterPilot24]

Short field: Flaps up, full back elevator, full deflection of aileron, hard on brakes without skidding a tire. You have to kill all lift and get the weight on the wheels. Nothing is going to stop without weight on the wheels.

[cptK737]

What are you talking about, look at the wind sock! It's showing not a lot of cross wind, also if the pilot had to carry out a cross wind landing then he or she would probably approach by crabbing the aircraft then kicking the rudder to straighten up last minute.

[xjet]

@cptK737 There are 3 different windsocks at our airfield and, due to their locations, it's quite common for them to be pointing in three different directions -- none of them indicating the true wind direction.

[rpm303]

no cross wind correction on the ailerons after landing.

must have been a rookie.

[atreewithnolife]

if hed of had some gliding experience, he might of done better.

[G56AG]

Landing was downwind, see the windsock at 1:06, take off was into the wind, look at how he weather vanes into the wind after lifting off the ground!

I remember one crosswind landing when I was a student pilot on a long cross country flight, I had the left rudder pedal all the way to the floor to line up for touchdown, a local CFI noted in my logbook "Arrived alive in Ada Oklahoma"!

[aWannaBePilot]

did it takeoff with tailwind or against the wind?

[backintack]

yup. Air Hawkes Bay Limited's Cessna 172N

[bobcook28]

Cross winds? the windsock is drooping down.

It is probably a calibrated 15 knot windsock.

poor landing in general

[xjet]

@bobcook28 The windsocks are very deceptive at this airfield. They tend to read low and often the three socks will be pointing in totally different directions -- catches a lot of pilots out.

[wristp1n]

@bobcook28 do you not see the crab angle? what do you think planes fly sideways normally then? nice landing. pro.

[sabalito619]

its this rc plane??? O_O

[childsca]

GET YOU AILERONS INTO THE WIND HOLY SHIT!

[simerpreet11]

Its better if he sat inside the cessna and flew it with a controller. It'll be RC transportation.

[3dkat1]

He a brave pilot , we have seen plenty abort with cross-winds like that at Tok

[MSargeNZ]

FYI, it's a 172N

[GNaranjoN]

Why did he landed with tail wind?????? WTF!!!!!! Is he crazy? Thats why he touched the runway too fast!

[cardinaldriver]

@GNaranjoN

I can assure you with the way he floated, he had very little to no tail-wind. This was actually a quartering headwind...not a direct crosswind by any means and perfectly within the crosswind component of almost any Cessna judging by the sock. This was nothing but a quite poorly executed landing as I saw no rudder correction before the touchdown.

[shoopwhoopX]

do they have these on hobyking?

[photobart1]

He was coming in fast. Seems like he was landing with the wind at one point.

[ZeroKenshin]

ops for a sec i thought it was a full- sized RC plane

[ZeroKenshin]

i imagine how great it will be if anyone can actually board it! haha

[grahamlwilson]

Hi Bruce, there looks like that this is a little bit of a downwind landing. What is the length of the runway there?

[SGTSnakeUSMC]

Keep that right wing aileron up on takeoff and landing rolls.

[MrMooseheadbeer]

awsome upload dude, thanks.

[splitty77]

Very Piss Poor Landing I though they where teaching them Better In Kiwiland now! And if that was dual training God help them! I see is was a 172 rengined with a 180 HP ..

[zmatt]

Horrible xwind correction, no wing dip into the wind and a fast approach speed.

[ebr62933]

Any laning you can walk away from is a good one, that was one of the best, very tricky conditions indeed.

[pistolpetepeterson]

that was one hell of a save concidering the cross wind

[SkylaneCaptain]

Good day to be practicing X-Wind Landings!! Just be careful to keep the back pressure on the yoke after touchdown. The plane came very close to wheel barrowing on the nose wheel which can easily end in an accident.

[Bing80]

Training session, eh?

[RikkieRc]

That was on 2 wheels. That seemed close

Greetings from Belgium

Erik

[48horijoe]

Bruce..its gone from a 172 to a 180..now its a nose wheeled 185...and India just put Aussie out of the world cup...lucky day for indians today..Im glad I was only watching..the guy that got out look a bit relieved...and who gets out just to pay landing fees after a landing like that..and at an airport that has none.

[xjet]

@48horijoe You said it was a 172 on approach -- I mistakenly put 185 in the video but got it right with 180 in the title. Actually, I'm pretty damned sure it was a Spitfire -- wasn't it?

[RxRobbo]

Love that tire screech

[eumegaf]

Good pilot.