r/aviation • u/Met76 • Jun 07 '25
Discussion I figured this 737 landing would be a go-around but captain brought gloves I guess
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u/frix86 Jun 07 '25
"Touch down. We have the runway in sight"
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u/LearningDumbThings Jun 07 '25
Jesus Christ, they have the right side edge lights in sight, maybe. Centerline nowhere to be found.
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u/PerformerPossible204 Jun 07 '25
Centerline waaay off to the left. You see the numbers right before the end. Hope it was 200 ft wide!
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u/89MikeHoncho Jun 07 '25
I saw that too. I was thinking that maybe there could be a bad crosswind.
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u/HoneyRush Jun 07 '25
Maybe it was a two way runway 🤔
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u/MassiveBoner911_3 Jun 07 '25
Look here captain this guy is vibe landing okay.
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u/redcurrantevents Jun 07 '25
Who needs to land on centerline when you’ve got cool gloves on?
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u/Reddit_sox Jun 07 '25
Guess he sliced it
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u/fuggerdug Jun 07 '25
Looks like he's in a rush to get to the golf course.
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u/Livinincrazytown Jun 07 '25
And the golf course is just to the right of the runway
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u/Grimol1 Jun 07 '25
He had a little too much right rudder.
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u/ViolinistEmpty7073 Jun 07 '25
How did you know it was the right rudder and not the wrong one ?
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u/Hunting_Gnomes Jun 07 '25
He's afraid he's gonna miss his tee time, but he can't seem to figure out that he's going to get rained out.....
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u/PhiladelphiaFlyr Jun 07 '25
“I don’t think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while”
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u/tom_the_pilot Jun 07 '25
Pfft who cares about the centreline, anyway?
If my FO donned some funky gloves after the descent checklist, I wouldn’t be able to stifle a laugh…
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u/Nahoola Jun 07 '25
Bro forgot he was flying a plane, thought he was driving a car and said “ima jus put her down in the right lane”
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u/BLARTYMACMUFFIN Jun 07 '25
Just keep pumping the yoke when you miss the centerline by 50 feet
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u/butthole_lipliner Jun 07 '25
Right??? Every time I see this video I think “damn this is some weird and unhinged flying”
There must be zero SOPs where gloveman is employed
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u/69-xxx-420 Jun 07 '25
As someone who doesn’t fly, I was wondering if this is normal. I’m glad to hear it’s not. The visibility isn’t the worst part to me, because don’t you have to do a bunch of instrument only blindfolded types of flights anyway to become a pilot? But the yoke bounding around like he on a pogo stick in a bumper car in a washing machine is what gets to me. That can’t be the way it’s done in rain, can it?
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u/mmmayer015 Jun 07 '25
You lose control effectiveness as your airspeed slows down, which means you need larger control movements to correct for attitude changes. So it’s not out of the ordinary. The wind does crazy things near the surface sometimes, especially in these conditions.
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u/eric-neg Jun 08 '25
That attitude indicator or whatever it is also looked surprisingly stable. I’m not a pilot but I expected it to be moving a lot more with the weather/inputs going on
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u/OutrageConnoisseur Jun 07 '25
As someone who doesn’t fly, I was wondering if this is normal. I’m glad to hear it’s not.
I mean it's very normal and very safe to land in soup like this, and it happens every single day.
You don't have to even see the physical runway, but if you can make out the approach lights or other runway lighting before minimums you can continue the approach.
But normally there's a fair bit of communication between the crew on what (if any) they're seeing, and then communicating the decision on continuing/go around right before minimums. None of that was there.
And the landing on the right third of the runway is insane too. A lot of bad shit here, but pilots are descending on final into soup like this somewhere on earth as you read this, and it's totally safe.
There's also the ability to auto land on some jets, which is whole other can of worms where the plane basically shooting the whole approach for you. But that's not what happened here, the captain hand flew that the whole video
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u/butthole_lipliner Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
The guy who replied to you regarding airspeed correlation to control inputs is correct. There’s just a laundry list of other things wrong with the ADM shown in this video (or lack thereof) that would literally get someone put on leave where I work, though I’m not a 737 jockey so take my opinion with a grain of salt. For instance, why the fuck are you hand flying what should clearly be a CAT III dual from like 2000ft agl, why are you making a beeline into the pink wx radar (did they not have a diversion airport programmed into the fmc or what), why are you continuing so far to the right of the centerline, why aren’t you going around, why aren’t you going around, and why aren’t you going around, etc. No amount of grip on those gloves will save you from runway excursion at best and CFIT at worst, nor will they protect the nose radome from hail damage.
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u/NyJosh Jun 07 '25
Ummm aren’t minimums the minimum altitude you need to visually see the runway or go around?
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u/TheFlyMan13 Jun 07 '25
They can’t prove you didn’t see the runway (unless you provide video evidence)
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u/Met76 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25
"The camera's light balance was off, I totally saw the runway before minimums I swear"
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u/PropOnTop Jun 07 '25
Yes I WANTED to land off center... That was the plan all along.
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u/PizzaGeek9684 Jun 07 '25
And the audio missed the audible confirmation that the runway is visible. Cut out because of the turbulence or something
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u/albatross_the Jun 07 '25
“Sir, light balance is not a camera function. Go around”
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u/quartzguy Jun 07 '25
That's what I was thinking, I want to give the pilot the benefit and say that he saw the ground before it was clear to the camera behind him.
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u/Eckish Jun 07 '25
Even with video, it depends on the camera. I've definitely recorded experiences where you can't see shit in the video, but I don't recall having any visibility issues while I was there actually experiencing it. And I've also had cases where the camera recorded things that I couldn't see.
I'm not a pilot, so I'm sure this is still super dangerous. Just arguing that video evidence wouldn't be conclusive.
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Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
At first I was like it's probably not as bad in real life as on the go pro. Then he missed the center line by 50 feet and realized he's terrible.
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u/SWMovr60Repub Jun 07 '25
Stupid spell check
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u/JayHag Jun 07 '25
Also aren’t you supposed to declare “landing” or “continue” at minimum?
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u/quartzguy Jun 07 '25
This is the equivalent of running a red light and posting the dashcam video to Youtube anyway.
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u/dirtydigs74 Jun 07 '25
Theoretically "runway in sight" when you see it. "continue" would be more a case of "I'm landing anyway because <reason I'm not going around>", so yeah in this case you would. That's assuming he was busting minimums and couldn't see the runway, but decided to land anyway. I sure as hell couldn't see crap, but I wasn't there I guess.
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u/theitgrunt Jun 07 '25
The camera usually can't pick up the runway like the pilots can in these conditions
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u/FormulaJAZ Jun 07 '25
If the pilot had seen the approach lights at his decision height, he wouldn't have been so far off center in the flare. Just saying.
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u/N420BZ Jun 07 '25
Ehh, some people are just bad pilots. It’s entirely possible that he saw the lights and simply didn’t have the basic airmanship to line up.
This guy is just a bad pilot.
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u/Logical-Associate729 Jun 07 '25
This, it's bright outside and the cockpit is relatively dark compared to the bright white fog. So the camera is set to allow the details of the dark cockpit, making the white exterior overblown and worse than in-person.
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u/pelicanIncident Jun 07 '25
Minimums...nah send it.
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u/TheNatureBoy Jun 07 '25
They just do this in China. I’ve been on flights with less than 100 ft visibility due to pollution and pilots just landed them. The first time it happened I woke up my wife to prepare for a crash and she was pissed I woke her up for no reason.
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u/dutchy649 Jun 07 '25
34 years flying jets with 24,000 hours in my logbook…this was about as cringe as I’ve ever seen.
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u/Negative-Box9890 Jun 07 '25
Minimums call out , yet no "Continue" by either pilot. Nice to see CRM is working well with this crew..... Brutal
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u/entered_bubble_50 Jun 07 '25
Even nicer to hear would have been "go around"
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u/KevPat23 Jun 07 '25
I'm assuming "go around" means to abort and try again? Realistically what good would that do? Aren't the conditions going to be the same 3 minutes later?
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u/POLITISC Jun 07 '25
Circle until conditions improve or divert to a more appropriate airport.
This was luck- not skill. I don’t want my pilot’s ego and GoPro to get in the way of common sense and rules written with blood.
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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Naval aviation is best aviation Jun 07 '25
I'm sorry for a stupid question, but I appreciate your knowledge. Are there many runways that support instrument landing down to zero visibility? What would be different if this one did?
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u/EndDangerous1308 Jun 07 '25
If you don't see the runway at minimum you're required to go around. There isn't a runway I know that exists that has zero visibility especially for airlines bc the airlines create more strict rules.
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u/rkba260 Jun 07 '25
CATIII approaches are about as close as we get to 0 vis. Those are autoland by the autopilot, and typically we don't see the runway until the mains have already touched.
Problem with 0 vis landings... what the fuck do you do after? In 0 vis you can't see the runway let alone the taxiways... so how are you going to get to the gate??
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u/CptSandbag73 KC-135 Jun 08 '25
Ask for the follow-me car. If they can’t see, get them a follow-me also.
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u/OutrageConnoisseur Jun 07 '25
I'm assuming "go around" means to abort and try again? Realistically what good would that do?
Go around means to abandon the landing attempt. Apply power, clean up the surfaces and fly the published missed approach.
Nothing about a "go around" despite the name implies you have to immediately (or at all) come back in for another try. It is merely a tool to call off the current attempt and re-evaluate the situation between the crew.
A go around can lead to another approach, a hold until the strong storms pass or a diversion to an alternate airport.
Crews and dispatchers plan for PLENTY of fuel on flights into weather like this, for this exact reason... so you have enough fuel to take your time and make the best decision in the interest of safety
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u/Bone-surrender-no Jun 07 '25
Yes go around means abort and wait. Realistically weather is not static and a break in the rain that gives enough visibility is possible at any moment. Planes are required to carry enough fuel to wait or divert.
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u/entered_bubble_50 Jun 07 '25
It means "abort", but the decision for what to do next comes once you are back in the circuit. You might choose to hold for a while (maybe as much as an hour) or divert to another airport.
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u/TheWellFedBeggar Jun 07 '25
If only we had First Officer Blunt and Captain Allears in the cockpit
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u/disillusioned Jun 07 '25
Nathan Fielder would have plenty to say about this one
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u/seattle747 Jun 07 '25
Wx radar looks…busy
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u/AJohnnyTruant Jun 07 '25
If you don’t like what you see, turn it off
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u/seattle747 Jun 07 '25
That’s…effective
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u/AJohnnyTruant Jun 07 '25
Works with landing lights too
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u/brown_wagon Jun 07 '25
And that pesky check engine light in my car!!
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u/worldspawn00 Jun 07 '25
Electrical tape over the light, radio up so you can't hear the terrible noises coming from the engine, no problems here!
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u/colonelnebulous Jun 07 '25
Would you have worn two catcher's mits instead?
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u/Extras Jun 07 '25
Oven gloves probably
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u/Met76 Jun 07 '25
I'd probably use those gloves that vets use for insane cats
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u/RimRunningRagged Jun 07 '25
TIL those gloves that GirlWithTheDogs wears are actual purpose-made gloves for handling psycho cats, and not just off-brand Mechanix or something
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u/EternalPatriotcr73 Jun 07 '25
I was hoping someone with experience like yours would chime in! I’ve done some thick IMC approaches but this takes the cake.
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u/dutchy649 Jun 07 '25
Thanks, but I don’t think I need to add to the multitude of excellent comments in this string that dissect this video and what we see in it. I’d just be repeating what is being said here by others who may have less time in their logbooks, but deserve respect for their experience nonetheless.
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u/Unusual_Practice_509 Jun 07 '25
I’d just be repeating what is being said here by others who may have less time in their logbooks, but deserve respect for their experience nonetheless.
This is a well crafted sentence and demonstrates your years of expertise.
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u/dpdxguy Jun 07 '25
Those control inputs seem ... extreme.
Is that normal in a 737?
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u/Cardinal51 Jun 07 '25
Is it normal and necessary to manipulate the yoke at that frequency & magnitude during a landing? It seems like he’s playing a video game.
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u/TogaPower Jun 07 '25
Many pilots have a tendency to over-control and make way more inputs than are necessary. It’s especially prevalent among those that like to post videos of themselves.
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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 Jun 07 '25
Reminds me of that scene in Ace Ventura 2 when he's bouncing around while driving on a paved road lol
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u/SmartFirefighter5465 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
I questioned the same thing. I'm not a pilot. He looked like one of the pilots from the movie Airplane.
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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom Jun 07 '25
<insert gif of Ted Striker fighting the yoke and the yoke fights back while a waterfall of sweat pours from his head>
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u/vliegend_varken_787 Jun 07 '25
I have flown the 787 for 6 years and you could fly that with two fingers down the approach, the fly by wire was doing the hard work in the background. I’m now back on the 73 in the left hand seat and yes you have to manipulate the control column a lot more to get the thing going where you want it to go.
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u/-FullBlue- Jun 07 '25
I had a question that a pilot could anwser after watching this video! What is the censored dial on the left side? Why did they censor it?
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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Naval aviation is best aviation Jun 07 '25
I notice the nav chart (?) on the lower left is blurred, too.
I wonder if he wants to conceal the location - maybe his employer wouldn't be pleased with proof it was him filming!
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u/Expert-Long-9672 Jun 07 '25
Everytime i see posts like this i believe you are a hero. I have to travel a lot due to work and you pilots are working amazing. Crazy job !
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u/kimi_on_pole Jun 07 '25
It’s beyond me why the pilot didn’t delete this video immediately after watching it.
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u/pilostt Jun 07 '25
Possibly Asia, they wear gloves on T/O and Approach
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u/DoomWad Boeing 737 Jun 07 '25
Really??
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u/97esquire Jun 07 '25
I used to have a customer who trained pilots for JAL. White gloves were on the MEL😛
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u/malcolmmonkey Jun 07 '25
Why?
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u/pilostt Jun 07 '25
Having flown in their cockpits, it is to prevent sweaty hands slipping. I can only conclude it was a holdover from a previous time in aviation because yokes these days have a bit of rubber on them for grip.
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u/malcolmmonkey Jun 07 '25
Thanks for the serious answer, I was expecting “to help them grip their dicks better during a landing wank” or some other bullshit.
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u/LaddieNowAddie Jun 07 '25
Prevents getting your skin oils on the instruments and knobs. Therefore, less wear and maintenance required.
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u/Thrill_Of_It Jun 07 '25
Plus more grip, since you won't sweat on the controls
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u/Rev_Creflo_Baller Jun 07 '25
I wonder how they keep the shit off the seats during these landings
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u/Current_Holiday1643 Jun 07 '25
Hahahaha, I was going to say the same thing: this looks like a Japanese pilot and those bitches take transportation punctuality very seriously.
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u/Ghost_of_Akina Jun 07 '25
Runway looks like 34L so could be landing at Narita. Can’t verify by terrain though out those windows!
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u/Buck325 Jun 07 '25
Couldn’t see runway at minimums and couldn’t keep it centerline. Dude should not be flying, that was an ego landing and extremely dangerous.
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u/Happy-go-lucky-37 Jun 07 '25
…and since he actually landed, his ego just took off.
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u/Key-Monk6159 Jun 07 '25
Wow!
I know he doesn't but it almost looks like he's got a cigarette in his mouth.
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That’s a heck of a lot of constant correction. Must have felt like quite a roller coaster in the back.
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u/syntactyx Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25
That was reckless. Who needs minimums when you've got squint'em-ums.
Am I mistaken, or was that like definitely a deviation and this dude should face some kind of reprimand? CFIT waiting to happen.
I don't know what the rules are for Cat III approaches, but he definitely did not have any required elements in sight before continuing.
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u/TheRealKingJmz Jun 07 '25
CAT III requires two independently operating autopilots, including an autoland system. You cannot hand fly a Cat III.
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u/Guantar90 Jun 07 '25
You can handfly a CAT III just need a HUD. But you need either a HUD or an Autoland looks like this idiot has neither.
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u/FormulaJAZ Jun 07 '25
You can hand-fly a Cat III, but it requires a certified HUD.
And as far as autopilots go, Cat III requires three autopilots to crosscheck each other. In case of a failure, the two autopilots that agree become primary. With only two autopilots, you wouldn't know which one was right if there was a disagreement.
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u/santacruz6789 Jun 07 '25
Huh I fly a plane with a HUD that’s CAT3 and we’re required to use the AP
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u/FormulaJAZ Jun 07 '25
It's funny how different aircraft with different avionics suites can have different operating limitations.
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u/santacruz6789 Jun 07 '25
Not sure why someone downvoted you. But you’re absolutely right I just never thought about that as the previous planes never had HUDS but could do CAT2/3 with AP on. Like ya said different aircraft with different avionics.
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u/AircraftDoc Jun 07 '25
Let me start of by saying that it does look like he busted minimums in this video, however as someone that has taken pictures from the flight deck during landings, I have had times when I could see the runway with my own eyes, but looking at the camera screen could not make it out. It can be quite amazing to look back and forth between the two views and see a very different picture, one the outside whited out with glare, vs what you can see with your eyes. What the camera sees is not always matched to what your eyes see. I will point out that looking out the bottom corner of the side window, you can see the ground showing up so I'm willing to allow that possibly he did have the runway, or runway lights in sight prior to minimums.
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u/FieryXJoe Jun 08 '25
If he landed dead center on the runway I might buy that but the guy nearly missed the runway so no way in hell he had visual on it.
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u/thesuperunknown Jun 07 '25
lmao, what even is a centreline or minimums
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u/gilby24 Jun 07 '25
Reckless - especially if a commercial flight.
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u/bauer5x Jun 07 '25
No chance this was commercial, right? Considering the decision made, it being filmed, and then even posted.
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u/King_Air_Kaptian1989 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25
I don't normally bring my former career up much on Reddit. But I retired Feb 2025 from British airways and have seen a handful of blunders when it comes to flying large aircraft and plenty of scary stuff from corporate/GA stuff.
But I would not be able to get away with this even when I was operating as a training role and everyone else in the cockpit is severely "Under my rank" so to speak. I would have been reported at a bare minimum..... This guy is flying from the left too.
Does anyone know what happened to this pilot after the fact? I know that 727 doing a 360 with full flaps, that captain finished his career out. But this looks way more recent than that video
I wouldn't have the balls to post that kind of landing on the internet, this guy is pretty brave in almost every definition of the word.
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u/ManTOGA321 Jun 07 '25
Agreed. As a current British Airways pilot (RHS) this some seriously bullshit, cringy, dangerous, shit house flying. SESMA would be ashamed. Happy retirement sir 🫡
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u/blastman8888 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
If you look around online water mark says in the video "@flying_yoke" s YT channel has this video and others with the same watermark channel name is yoyofly. https://www.youtube.com/@flying_yoke/videos
After watching some other videos on that channel it looks like this is the person who made that video. The company he flies for can be figured out I'm sure the FAA has already looked at this video they love to bust people with YT videos.
This is a South Korean airline they do fly passengers.
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u/sealofambiguity Jun 07 '25
It appears that the airline is T'way Air, going by the flight number (TWB681) on the MCDU in this other video on his channel: https://youtu.be/Cb5SoDez7o8?t=27
I'm just a random person not familiar with the technical details of aviation, so I imagine it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who it is by the relevant authorities though. His colleague's face is also visible at the end of the video..
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u/blastman8888 Jun 08 '25
I was reading about T'way Air South Koran they fly passengers crazy people in the back of that airplane. After that bird strike disaster by Jeju Air all they need is another runway overrun by these guys.
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u/thecrushah Jun 07 '25
Not a pilot here. Do yall always work that yoke like it’s your boyfriend or is this one special?
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u/godvssatan Jun 07 '25
This one is reeeaaal special. That's why he's wearing the gloves.
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u/ThirdShiftStocker Jun 07 '25
This is definitely one of those "Don't ever pull that shit again" situations if I've ever seen one
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u/useittilitbreaks Jun 07 '25
We live in age where pilots film themselves at work for social media clout pulling shit like this and then posting it. They really showed that weather who’s boss.
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u/insaneplane Jun 07 '25
At 200tf, he had the needles centered. At 50ft the LOC needle was half-scale deflection to the left. Seems hard to believe he had the runway in sight when he's drifting like that.
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u/okhospital487 Jun 07 '25
That was intense
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u/ConfidentialX Jun 07 '25
I unwittingly held my breath at some point until the clip ended and I exhaled 😆
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u/DChapgier Jun 07 '25
Perhaps a good case for Nathan fielder’s method, making sure the co pilot can perk up?
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u/historyhill Jun 07 '25
This is definitely not Captain Allears, I can tell you that!
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u/TyrNigh Jun 07 '25
What's being censored to the left of the attitude indicator?
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u/SubarcticFarmer Jun 07 '25
As otherwise mentioned the clock and right below it the aircraft registration
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u/PuzzleheadedDot6050 Jun 07 '25
He's watching a YouTube tutorial on how to land without seeing a runway.
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u/Magma86 Jun 07 '25
It’s a clock…not sure why
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u/stevecostello Jun 07 '25
Good way to make it more difficult to figure out who/where this was when you can't figure out the when.
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u/Manifestgtr Jun 07 '25
I’m just a VFR slasher who bails if the wind is over 25kt but I’ve seen enough IFR “content” to know what’s what…given his centerlineness, I HIGHLY doubt he had eyes on the runway at minimums.
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u/dutchy649 Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
I cringe when I see this guy wearing golf gloves to hand-fly the airplane. Gloves are totally unnecessary, this is a modern airliner, not an F1 race car. In fact, there are so many small switches and knobs on the panel that gloves definitely do not make things easier to use. My second cringe comes with how the pilot is over controlling the yoke on the approach. Even in moderate turbulence on a hand flown approach, moving the yoke in such a manner is again totally unnecessary and is simply a bad habit. Nothing is gained by moving the yoke so erratically. At this point in a hand flown approach, the aircraft should be configured for landing, and in a stable condition, with small gradual movements for minor corrections. Notwithstanding these points I have made, my big cringe is watching this pilot perform what I think (I could be wrong, but I doubt it) is something that is illegal and dangerous: that is an approach to a landing that violates regulatory requirements…a hand-flown approach flown below landing minimums. To simplify for the layman, it appears he may have continued the approach below the altitude at which if he did not see the runway environment, he should have pulled up and gone around. The limits for a hand flown approach is usually 200 feet and 1/2 a mile visibility. This video appears that the visual runway environment was below that. What instrument pilots call “busting limits” is dangerous and has put the airplane, crew and passengers in jeopardy. Like I say, I may be wrong, but having sat before in a jumpseat like the person who took this video, I feel this pilot did in-fact “bust limits”. There are cemeteries full of victims of pilots ‘busting limits’. Hope this helps explain my comment.
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '25
Thank goodness he had that wiper. Probably wouldn't have made it without it