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

This was a very marginal cross-wind landing in a Cessna 180 which used all of the sealed runway (and some). When the wind's too strong for my RC planes, it's definitely too strong for the full-sized aircraft.

Listen to the tires screech as the plane drifts sideways on two wheels after touch-down. The pilot didn't quite anticipate the amount of aileron input required to stop the windward wing from lifting once contact was made with the ground.

Filmed at Tokoroa Airfield in New Zealand on Friday March 25, 2011.

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Sports

Tags:

• Aviation
• cross-wind
• landing
• incident
• near-miss
• Cessna
• 180

[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.

[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.

[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?

[MSargeNZ]

FYI, it's a 172N

[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.

[wristp1n]

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

[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