BRAVISSIMI!! When I saw that the landing was in the first third of the video I thought I was going to stop watching... the fun part had to be over. WRONG! After the autoland the hard work was finding the gate. It was SUPER COOL to watch the 747 clear some of the fog for a minute. GREAT VIDEO!!!
Seems like the capatain and F/O have a really good relationship in the cockpit, would love to fly with a crew like this one day. Interesting how clear the air is behind the 747. Nice footage.
I can't believe what I just saw. I heard the recorded voice call 1,000 then it's 30, 20 10 and we can see a few lights on the runway. Then the taxi. Incredible!
Notice..the airplane is being flown "in english" this is a competent crew. The most difficult thing about CAT III is finding the terminal once you are on the ground.
I was on a DAL 757 from IAD in 1992 that did a CAT IIIB autoland in zero visibility at MXP. I had a wing window seat and couldn't see the end of the wing the fog was so thick. That's typical weather pattern for winter at the base of the Italian Alps.
This is the closest real life impression of conditions at Tenerife in 1977 when the KLM 747 crashed into the Pan Am 747. The Korean Air 747 here even has a similar colour to the KLM 747.
That is because jet engines blow hot air. Fog appears when the air temperature equals the dew point (temperature at which water vapor in air condenses). By increasing the air temperature, the values are no longer equal so the water vapor becomes a transparent gas again!
I´ve had that experience on 16th of dec 2022 on flight EW 9558, TFS to DUS, arriving at 5:20 p.m. The captain told to passengers already 1 hour before landing about a difficult landing because of extreme bad weather situation in DUS. My seat in A320 was Window 9A. 2 minutes before landing the aircraft was diving into the clouds - I could see landinglights exactly in the moment the aircraft touched the ground - for me amazing. Reducing of speed was normal. At all moments of this approach I felt safe. Thank You to the very good crew!
Whoops! The landing was so deceptively easy...imagine the computing ,the split second reading of the ILS parameters, the technology behind it all......and the crew...so relaxed...might have been chatting on park bench for the tension they show. Hats off to the crew and all pilots in general...your job is not easy. And two hoots to all those armchair expert comments.
What an approach! Would you be okay with me featuring this in my series Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited both in the video and in the description. Thanks!
Great vid.Here in SC there are only maybe 5 days out of the year we have fog that bad.Ive never landed in vis 1/2 that bad.I did land in KATL where 1/2 the field was vfr conditions and the other 1/2 was almost zero/zero.I watched 12 or so big boys land and just like in the vid the 300 ft agl fog that was hugging the ground started breaking up.The rising sun took care of it all within 30 minutes.
@AngolaAirman You are, of course, correct. I was referring to the first made with fare paying passengers onboard. IIRC, they were only told after then had landed! :)
