Madeira, Funchal,airport

landing on an aircraft-carrier type of airport at Funchal as seen from a pax, charts for pilots at http://www.tinyurl.com/foeb5

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• madeira
• funchal
• airport

[borkri]

what airline?

[fluglehrer]

i guess 'twas austrian (OS)

[ptknight]

Why all the clapping?

[fluglehrer]

don't know. but it seems to be a speciality of austrians to do that, and that for decades already. guess they are happy to be on firm ground ;-)

[fluglehrer]

hallo marc,

das scheint eines der geheimnisse oesterreichs zu sein - die leute klatschen nach der landung immer, frage mich nicht weshalb sich das so eingebürgert hat ;-)

gott sei dank tun sie das nie hier in wien am boden, wenn zb der busfahrer in die station einfährt, das wär' dann echt lästig.

[DonalMW]

What's with the applause ? ? The pilot was doing his job......

And more tan likely he wouldn't be able to hear it.

[miguelmpn]

@fluglehrer On the ancient airport only the best pilots could drive planes to Madeira they needed a good curriculum to be able to pilot to Madeira

So every time an airplane lands safely the passengers show gratitude and respect to the pilots, by clapping.

[daniel89jena]

@fluglehrer no it's not special for austrians, it seems to be generally done on chartered/package travel flights

[dnunessaldanha]

usually people clap because the runway of the island of Madeira is one of the most dangerous in the world, i not agree because people are only saved when the plane stalled and people come out unscathed

[jonstewartforprez]

@DonalMW I'm a pilot, and you're absolutely right in that we wouldn't hear any clapping on the flight deck. But if I'm not misunderstood, then the clapping is a sign of relief that they (the passengers) survived the scary landing (Madeira does rank in one of the extreme approaches/airports)

[jbcd1211]

Soft landing for Madeira, great video :)

[shadowsinmymind9]

now I remember, I went to Madeira a few years ago and when the plane landed everyone clapped, me and my cousins were pretty confused as to why they clapped

[miguelmpn]

@miguelmpn My both comments should be together... :P

Hope you understand the claps :D

[miguelmpn]

@fluglehrer This airport is rather new, but the old one was one of the most difficult airports to land in the world, he was too small and the airplanes had to invert the thrust on the engines even before touching the ground. At those times we really felt the pressure and stress over the plane and pilots.

[skoumi]

das is eine lauda air maschiene

aber kann mir wer sagen welche ?? 737 ...

[borkri]

Ok, thanks..