TWA B 727 LANDING AT STL, COCKPIT VIEW

TWA B727-200 LANDING R/W 30L STL, VISUAL, (Added Dec. 2) When this video was made, the intro music of "St. Louis Blues" seemed appropriate. The source of that music was a piano roll that was a collaboration of "Blues Tone Music Rolls", John Arpin and myself. John, who died in Nov. 2007 was the pianist. Several new postings in his honor are on You Tube. Hence, this note to identify John's work, even though the sound bite is brief.

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• BOEING
• 727
• LANDING
• VFR
• PARALLEL
• B727
• RUNWAY
• COCKPIT
• FLYING
• AIRPLANE
• JET

[ampicoab]

No, many commercial flights land using visual approaches. However, almost all flights are conducted on IFR (instrument) flight rules. In other words, IFR flights can make visual approaches and landings. The flight is still on an IFR flight plan even though it makes a visual approach. The flights at Laguardia often land using the "Expressway visual approach", as an example.

[stoeger40]

Tell me your last flight was a Cardinals charter!

[ampicoab]

@stoeger40 Yes, it was. SFO-STL

[ampicoab]

@stoeger40 I'm curious, how did you know?

[SkidRowJosephine]

Cpt. Bob,

Two questions; what is thew function your 1st Officer performed flipping a switch located at the top of the dashboard, two or three times in quick succession?

What was the "KA-TOOOSH" instrument sound from, the aircraft made immediately before rear gear touchdown @ the 3:46 mark of the video? You had your hands full doing final moment steering with the yoke at the same moment the ka-tooosh sound happened.

[ampicoab]

@SkidRowJosephine The 1st officer was turning his flight director off. The noise heard at 3:46 is a mystery. It may have been someone giving audible sound effects to the wheels touching down.

[nenblom]

A classic airline AND a classic airliner! Great job!

[ab6485]

I just noticed that the pnumatic brake handle is to the left of the captain instead of its normal location to the right of the engine gauges. Anyone know why this was on this 727 in the video? Another question is what was the pnumatic brake handle used for? I have never seen it used before.

[MSLTUL]

Man, this is really good.  Good camera work showing inside/outside the aircraft.

[DavidBerquist334]

i see it says visual approach, i thought all commercial flights were instrumented approach. was it instrument approach for the pilot flying the plane? and visual for the one doing communications? thank you for your answer

[dude6595]

good old fashion flying right here buddy! thx for sharing!

[MRBMYERS25]

@ampicoab STL Saint Lois And SFO Sanfrancisco

[kmentt]

He is wanking the Yoke too much, I know its a manual landing but you shouldnt need (if properly trimmed) to be loosly mooving the yoke as he did that much. In other 727 manual landings tiny corrections are enough. Was this due to wind?

[solomonpilot767]

wow i love the b727,real plane 4 real pilots thanks 4 posting,guess what if it is not boeing i am not going,please no scare bus only boeing bus!