Crosswind landings at Birmingham Airport

Birmingham International Airport in the UK has a single runway, which, unfortunately, is roughly at right angles to the prevailing wind direction. The runway is also rather undulating from one end to the other. This video shows two landings by Boeing 737s on a day in March 2008 when the wind was about 60 degrees to the runway, and gusting to 45 or 50 mph.

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Travel & Events

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• crosswind
• cross
• wind
• landing
• aircraft
• plane
• boeing
• 737
• birmingham
• international
• airport
• runway

[lolypop123454]

where abouts are you filming? ( i know its bhx i just wanted to know where abouts?

[betacygni]

@lolypop123454 it was filmed from private land in Bickenhill

[natcut1]

id like to get this same shot how do i get there? great vid by the way. always amazes me when i see those landings pilots are superhuman

[betacygni]

@natcut1 it was filmed from private land in Bickenhill

[RedDynasty123]

why the runway so short

[betacygni]

It looks shorter in this view than it is - though at about 2600 metres it's not very long in international terms. There are political and other difficulties in extending it, but they are planning to add a few hundred metres to it in the next few years.

[egbw]

It's not really a 'short' runway, you can't see some of it, it's in a dip! It'sjust over a mile and a half long (2.6km)

[Ben123planes]

look at that rudder work from 0:26

[marshalllucky]

@lolypop123454 these film is no take at the bhx this is the briminghams airpot in the uk ;-)

[MrCapsterman]

not private land at all.. public access footpath in a field down road.. if you have high quality zoom on your cam can get right in close... the planes lterally fly over your head about 300ft up..

[Cyberwwwizard]

That runway has suffered quite a lot of subsidence - like a fairground ride lol! I'm not gonna fly in or out of that place, but then who does, it's Birmingham and who'd go there - full of shit!

[HumanSayNo]

Great landing and great shot cameraman!

[loogarth]

Excellent angle and perspective.

[johnuio]

you found just the angle to show how darned AWKWARD those crabby flares are, trying to kick the nose straight w rudder & touch down before the thing starts drifting... even airliner manuals (like MD-11) say to start kicking straight at 100ft and to do a little slip, but slipping a swept wing plane is not fun... almost better to touchdown in a slight crab...

[lolypop123454]

@betacygni oh ok. I wish i was there!!