Lukla Airport landing

inside Yeti Airlines' Twin Otter aircraft

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Travel & Events

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• Lukla
• Nepal
• Yeti
• Himalaya
• Twin
• Otter
• aircraft

[qortes]

indeed, it crashed. Very sad news for me.

[tomellis6680]

a good landing is a controlled stall!! which is exactly what they did!! I'm a commercial pilot and that is a very difficult task in anyones book!

[lerrysan]

love the stall sound!!!!!

[stephen98841272]

stalling is another way of the plane saying fffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

[dentalpatience26]

A landing ends with a controlled stall, aka flare

[rey2290]

but you can make a good land without the stall alarm

[russelschultz]

@rey2290 its not an alarm, its a stall 'warning'. the idea in a landing is to get the plane to stall, nose up, just inches off the runway. if you set the plane down *before* you stall, you'll likely bounce. and that's not a good thing.

[rey2290]

could be a good landing but in the POH doesnt say that the alarm needs to activate to be a good land

[rey2290]

but i dont know why peopple say that land with the stall alarm is normally .... is a alarm ! how could be posible being normal land with a alarm activated !

[LateNightCable]

@beeroosterm lol, that's funny. I've been told I should be a lawyer. Anyway, not to drive it into the ground more than it has been or act like a politician, but even matters that seem obvious, have deeper layers. I was just exchanging personal views with you. I will say If you ever have the opportunity to fly a bush plane, I think you'll find that some things which seem death defying on camera, can actually be quite thrilling in person, and life affirming. Nice chatting with ya!

[beeroosterm]

@LateNightCable You should be a fucking politician; your inability to address the issues, or rather, your desire to obfuscate the obvious is very well developed. If this is delieberate, I'm uncertain of your motive(s). I cannot decide whether you do not understand or whether you're arguing for the sake of argument. Sometimes it's difficult to read between the lines. I give up. You win.

[LateNightCable]

@beeroosterm There is risk in just being alive. That doesn't mean it takes particular balls to live, but awareness. Your belief that big balls are necessary, brings into question the level of nerve required for a BH landing. Everyone has a threshold regarding their safety, it varies from person to person. What some one do, others would not for fear of personal harm. What one perceives as dangerous is strictly relative. Bunker would cross your threshold apparently, but not that pilot's.

[beeroosterm]

@LateNightCable On the contrary, recklessness has nothing to do with balls. And contrary to what you apparently believe, sometimes it IS the luck of the draw that gets you killed. You can be he most fastidious pilot on the planet and get nailed by something as quotidian as a puff of wind at the wrong moment. You can minimize your risk but not eliminate it. That's where balls comes in: taking the risk where (most) others wouldn't.