747 Qantas Sydney landing under heavy rain 

@midwestairlinesinc The news reported severe flooding on that day (not in Sydney)...with casualties.

@sean23444 i know, the pilot may suddenly feel empowered by all the clapping, thrusting back to the skies for a little encore

@sean23444 because bringing a train or a bus into a station is exactly like landing a 400 tonne aircraft carrying up to 624 people in weather like that...no pressure or anything.

@sean23444 Because when you land its a controled crash while when you pull up to a bus stop it just a stop

@sean23444 People also applaud when you land in Puerto Rico. I guess that it is just the mentality of the natives who are appreciative of the pilot for landing safely.

Flying from Frankfurt via Bangkok (QF 6). VH-OJE

@fspilot96 u need the new ati radeon graphics card xD by the way i have flight simulator 2011

why do people start clapping when an aircraft lands? I mean nobody claps when a train pulls into a station or a bus arrives at a bus stop!

Dont we all wish our flight simulators look like real life

where was it flying from?

@sean23444 when they have like a problem with the aircraft and they are forced to land the pilot tells them and when they land people start to clap because the pilot did a good job of it

enormous wings.... wow.... clap-clap :P

@sean23444 In fact, I thought that happened just on TACA flights and that people from my country had that behavior...but no!!! It happens all over the world!!! (maybe they're happy cause they landed alive???)

@sean23444 there was some bad weather...

@sean23444 cause they landed in dangerous conditions.

@sean23444 well i guess its because they made it home safely or something! I mean, imagine, if there was big trouble, like engine fire on the plane and you land safely on ground, would you clap? I would! Cause I'm glad I DIDNT DIE!

@sean23444 well i think its a lil bit hard to land a plane then drive a bus aruond l-0l0l

I know that was obviously SYD, but weather is more associated with the likes of LHR!!

@sean23444 but it´s much easier to drive a bus

The Germans are always clapping :-)