A340-600

[22cibe]

pretty coooooool ! one of my favorite planes , and now one of my favorite videos ! greaaattt

[XxStalkerxSasquachXx]

If only Airbus had a yoke instead of that stupid joystick, then I would like it more.

[MrTommispilot]

Is it an autpilot landig if the copilot touched his hand on trust?

[RyanJames1611]

That was actually a great landing.. It looked funny because the camera guys arm would have bounced.. As for people saying oh but the countdown was quick: it doesn't matter, the majority of the flare happens at 10 feet of less.. great landing and great filming, the A340-600 is an amazing airliner

[djwael12]

funny..germen accent :p

[rohanA380]

Very smooth just the camera mooved because of the impact.

[trancebeliever]

wow, smooth landing

[djwael12]

ILS landing?

[soniix101]

yes you are right its ils landing

[pandemis]

What a brilliant idea....I mean the split screen showing the gear and the wings.

[perfectpilot1]

longest plane in the world''amazing''!!!!

[hmizou93100]

@perfectpilot1 Yes but it still airbus... :(

[22cibe]

boeing sucks-boing

embraer and bombardier aaand AIRBUS

[beeeneee]

haha what a stupid discussion. the landing was nice, the problem is that at the time the video was made, both runways at frankfurt airport were rebuilt overnight. so the asphalt quality was really bad at the first kilometer and that is the bumpy stuff you can see

[TheSeaShark]

im sure that it went retard retard! as they landed lol

[FLIGHTCOMPANY]

It means put the throttles to idle. I know, I for one can't land a plane that yells retard at my face.

[gazinibras]

thanks to the sophisticated aircraft that successfully beared such immense stress on its tires! but this shiny new aircraft will be a crap soon if the copilot continues flying like this.

[benfalas]

what u mean? for me he did everything right

[gazinibras]

Yeah... Everything was right except the touchdown. It was harder than normal. You can measure it by following the altitude callouts (50, 40, 30, ...)

[relativeair]

your an idiot! because the callouts were closer together does not mean it will touch down harder! a flare will stop a hard touchdown! and these are built to handle rough landings! the fuckin thing has a landing weight of about 260 odd tonne so it has to handle a lot!

[gazinibras]

Obviously the aircraft is made to handle that impact but in this case I think the pilot should have touched down more softly at least for passenger comfort.

[relativeair]

it was nothing of concern at all! it looked like a hard touch down because the person holding the camera would have jolted his/her arms when the mains touched! normal touch down! the runway seemed worse than the touchdown itself!

[ElMon25]

yes it was a nice landing....if it was more rough the plane would bounced when the landing gear touched the runway....:)

[relativeair]

no it wouldn't have it wasn't even a hard touchdown! jeez if you think this is a hard one you have obviously yet to experience/see a hard touchdown!

[ElMon25]

i think it was a smooth landing...

[Scoopy4444]

i think you all lost your time typing this (joke) ; )

[matz951]

Airlines also can configure what callouts they want.

[colomboykevkev2007]

a very good vid thanks

[gokumalo]

Airbus also runs the captain, hence why the airbus A320 crashed at that airshow, the plane configured itself to land when the captain was only doin a flyby..Go Airbus right..more like a YEAH right!!I don't pick sides hence why i'm watching this vid but Boeing is better regardless!

[brownbrownson]

i like how you can hear things shakin in the cockpit!

[Nico1887]

Sieht wirklich super aus.

[maytham340]

Thanks for sharing the fantastic A340-600

[mclenm]

RETARD means pullback more

[EvOluTiOn91]

damn, that landing wass hard!!! if you figure they went from 20 to 0 feet in 1.5 seconds if was a 800fpm touch down!!! surprised the tires didn't pop, or worse!

[EvOluTiOn91]

those red buttons on the sides of the throttle levers are the secondary autothrottle disengage buttons. In order to disengage the auto throttle both have to be held in simotaneously (ignore spelling) for 2 seconds. That 'retard' feature is really useful, it just makes airbus planes so much easier to do good landings with than the boeings which don't have it.

[PilotOfNorway91]

wtf...it is easier, but in the boeings you just listen to 50, 40 etc..at 20, pull back more, set engines idle at 10, watch the Vertical Speed meter, and keep in between the 0 and 200 -fpm mark...do this 200 times, and its simple!!

[jmr604]

Rough runway!

[trizzleseven]

All airbus planes are equipped with full computer supported fly-by-wire-systems, which also tell the pilots when tehy have to pull back the throttle levers to touch down. It was the CoPilot, flying and landin the plane...Maybe it was not his day! :)

[andytaggart]

Was that an ejecter seat button I saw just above the throttle???

[PeetPeeet]

Ejector seats are only fitted on fighter jets.

[gazinibras]

ha ha ha haaa.... ejector seat on a A340 ?? Nice imagination! If the pilots of a commercial aircraft ejects then what will the rest of the people do???

[andytaggart]

Well we could always put our heads between our legs and kiss our ass good-bye

[dhc2tacksby]

"retard" tells the pilots to retard the throttle. (pull back the levers in the centre)

[brownbrownson]

i always thought that meant pull back on the joystick...

[malametal]

ahahahhaa nice comment melinda !

[melinda22x]

why is the plane calling the pilots retards?

[jayman138]

was it just me or was that a hard landing

[idioticman2003]

lol, it was indeed quite a hard landing