Crazy Crosswind Landings & Ground Loops | Oshkosh EAA AirVenture 2022 

Firstly, my apologies for a few of the aircraft ages being wayyyy off. I mainly go off what Flightradar24 gives me, but obviously some of them are very inaccurate. Secondly, @4:56, it should be a Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer! Reg is also N7012D, not N70210, and it’s 65 years old. I probably should’ve checked to see that a Raven S49A is a balloon 😂 thanks to everyone that pointed that out.

I just want to salute every pilot who executed a go-around when things got dicey. That's the difference between an Aviator and a mere pilot. They saved their aircraft, and maybe themselves, regardless of how it looked, or what inconvenience it may have caused the controllers.

Props to the camera operator here. It can be difficult to keep an airplane in frame but every one of these landings is captured perfectly.

Best crosswind landing I ever saw. Riding shotgun in a '46 Ercoupe, no rudder pedals. Steering 45 degrees into the wind. We tracked down to the runway like we were on rails. Right at the flare, he straightened us up and I heard a single chirp from the tires. RIP dad.

@11:05 - YL-DON is a Pelegrin Tarragon, a Latvian built ultralight.

I really thought that one Bonanza [that did end up going around] was going to stall right over the pavement; that was difficult to watch. As my flying journey has progressed to now being an airline pilot, I’m convinced even more that there’s simply no room for ego on the flight deck of whatever we’re flying. When that moment arrives that we know it’s time to power up and get out of there, let’s just do it! Swing around for another pass - no problem! If it’s really ugly, and sometimes it is, let’s go somewhere else! Safe flying 😎

I love the fact you show the type and age of the aircraft. It’s very helpful in identifying the older midels.

Hats off to the skillful pilots who accepted the challenge and succeeded in a safe crosswind landing!!!

So many aircraft here that are over decades old, yet still looking fresh & new 👌

Awesome video! That was a beautiful 180. Hopefully he was able to get it fixed and fly it back home.

Best video yet. I learned a lot watching these guys!

Beautiful video, thank you!!

Beautiful capturing ❤ Great varieties 🤩

I appreciate the all the research you did in chasing down the N numbers and type of airplanes! great Job!as well as the ages 😁🛫

Excellent, excellent close up shots of the landings! Well done.

Lots of rudder exercise in this video. This really is one of the best places to sit and watch A/C land. Great video, as always 👍

Very interesting! Brings me back to my CFI days teaching cross wind operations in tail draggers. What I would hammer in; for one ALWAYS keep your upwind wing low and NEVER let up. Secondly, as soon as it touches down FULL aileron into wind, right down to walking speed and even then, keep it there. I see time and again; when the wheels are on the ground, people relax and neutralise controls an thats where stuff goes bad...

Brilliant videography! Thanks

Thanks for all the work on aircraft ID, info and N number data!! I learned a few I didn't know.

As a pilot who flew this year and many years in the past I give great credit to this videographer. Nice editing. Amazing piloting skills and much respect to those aware enough to hide their pride and go around. You’ll meet old pilots, but you’ll not meet old, bold pilots. Nice work and thanks for posting

You good tell the MAULE pilot handles crosswinds on a daily basis. Well done

Great footage ... thanks for sharing !!! Ciao from Italy !!!

That was fun to watch!!

Man, those Piper, low wings just kind of magnet to the ground. Down close and one and done.

That V tail had me on the edge of my seat! I hope they see this and learn. It clear in the video that he was toying with a near fatality. Wow.

Thanks for this video. I'm too old and don't have enough money to come to Oshkosh anymore. I miss it. Thanks again, Royce

Beautifully videoed. Well done. Would have been a great day for the enthusiastic sideliners holding up their landing score cards lol The wings level, nil aileron into the wind landing methods seem to net a lot of dangerous low speed ballooning and floating.

Such a great action, fantastic video mate!

Wow. Reminds me of the crosswinds at Chicago Executive Airport when I went last October.

Kudos to those who chose to go around.👍

Wonderful👍👍👍

VERY VERY INTERESTING CROSS WINDS TODAY !!!

Wow. Thanks

That’s the tough thing about flying into Oshkosh you feel pressured to get it down the first time. you have to go back around and get in line.

WOW great video thanks made my day 😀👍

LOVE this channel where you put up the names of the planes. Have been asking that for a long time. My favourite channel from now on. Keep on posting.

All landings looked good to me..great camera man!!

Old guys with slow and diminished motor skills flying powerful machines

The V tail Bonanza mushing along there in the go-around really scared me.

I like the ground loop videos.

the Comanche driver set it down like a boss

I'm surpriced in many Old classic airplanes looking like New!

It's common practice at both Air Venture and Sun-N-Fun to segment the runway to accommodate 3 or more A/C landing on the same runway at the same time. They place large colored circles on the centerline at various distances down the runway and instruct the arriving pilots to "go all the way down and land on the green circle." They don't want to hear you on the radio either. They call you by make, model, and color for instructions and the pilot acknowledges by rocking his wings. Going to Sun-n-Fun one year I was so busy listening to my air band radio and watching the steady stream of traffic that I passed the airport by 5 miles. Really fun to listen to, though.

Great footage. The unknown aircraft looks like Blackshape Prime to me.

Who ever filmed this is damn good...nice job.

Incredible video mate!

Good photography!!

Man look at the trees whipping, very challenging winds.

With that kind of crosswind component, it's amazing to me how many of the pilots in this video held in very little or no upwind aileron during the roundout and rollout phases of the landing. The P-51 @ 2:22, Aeronca @ 8:53, and T-6 @ 10:39 were some notable exceptions. Wonderful video!

Years ago I used to fly with a friend of mine and we used to go in to Meigs (rip) just to practice crosswind landings. There were hairy times.

The Chief has my airmanship award, followed by some some fine wave-off decisions from the C-47, Corsair, and F-16. I don't know Oshkosh operations, but understand more appropriate runways where available.

Way cool! My wife and I owned 8494M, Cessna 182 (3rd from the end) from 1978 to 1990 in the Portland Oregon area. GO MIKE!

Interesting to watch. I am amazed at how many pilots stop flying the plane as soon as it is on the ground. Very few have the proper crosswind controls in and more then one has the upwind wheel rising. This would be a great video for CFIs to review with students.

Very talented airmanship going on there but that 144R Bananza toward the end had me worried. And the 180 should’ve held in left aileron to prevent that right wing tip from dragging

That 150 coming in at 12:23 was great, even with just 10 flaps!

Thanks for naming the airplanes...cheers to all the pilots!

Great video! I see some skilled aviators, but also an astonishing amount of poor x-wind technique. I don't think the Bonanza owner (N144R) knew how dangerously close he was to crashing that beautiful V-tail. Wow, just.....wow.

You've done good work! Keep it up! Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!

YL-DON at 11:11 is a Pelegrin Tarragon. Great shots!

very like see old aeroplane flying......

Taildragger pilots are the best!

Yeah I was working the line when this happened. Very interesting to watch

Cool to see N2983 landing around the 10:40 mark. The owner lives out near me in eastern PA and I'll hear him coming from miles away. Those Texans really announce themselves.

@8:38 the aircraft (blue & white) landing is a North American Navion. They built these aircraft on the same jigs as the P-51 Mustangs

I like these videos better than seeing you on other site.... Now if you could do this LIVE that might be fun.... 😁😁😁😁

Interesting lessons here , very few pilots landed wing low into the wind and most of them stopped flying the plane once the wheels touched down, they neutralized the ailerons instead of rolling full over as the plane slowed down.

Best thing to do is keep a little power all the way to you h down. It is hard specially landing on the colored circles the controller wants you to land on. #1 rule is to NEVER GET INTO A PISSING contest with those controllers as well. Xwind landings can be challenging but keeping a level head and not get pissed at others you can be ok.

Awesome capture! May I feature this Beech V35 Bonanza go around in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. Cheers!

The unknown is a light sport from Europe called a "shark." I saw one at Portsmouth when landing in an RV10 and he was headed out- it was so unique we had to ask over the radio what it was.

The aircraft at 11:15 is a Pelegrin Tarragon "Microlight"/Ultralight aircraft (according to FAI rules). It is produced in Latvia. But that guy flying the V-Tail Bonanza at 18:00 was "SCARY"!

Best trainer, ever: C150

If you want to add the age of active USAF aircraft, the year of manufacture is in the tail number as a 2 digit number after the AF. So AF86 under the two letter base identifier would be built in 1986. Hope that helps.

The last plane, N258L has the classiest paint scheme I've ever seen on a GA aircraft.

13:58 "gotta poop! Ain't got time for no damn crosswinds!" lol

Some good decisions to go around.

Amazing. Can I feature this amazing video in one of my next episodes? Of course, with a link to this original video. PEACE!

Wow! That Cessna (N1615) not only made no correction to the crosswind, i.e. no Aileron into the wind. But caused the whole thing by relaxing the back pressure on the Elevators in the first place. The Champ (N9510E) clearly showed how a crosswind landing is done, albeit a bit squirrelly. Note: the Left aileron is fully up during the roll out.

Nice camera work. Model and age are really neat to have on your video even if there were a few inconsistencies. Let someone else try to catalog all of these! Those complainers probably never have attempted to build even a simple video. It's hard work, good job!

The descriptions was great as so many look-a-likes are out. You could just tell the wind conditions, esp with the lighter aircraft's. Ho many go around's were there?

Watched all of last year, watched all of 2023. Not one pilot put in a crosswind correction after touchdown. And notice the planes going around: the DC-3, the F-16: expereinced pilots. A go-around is always a positive maneuver!

F4-U “wave off, going around” F-16 “wheels up, going around” Comanche “what crosswind?”

The Doctor Killer still showing it's stuff (Beechcraft Bonanza V35). But, man, wish I owned one! A family friend had a Tri-Pacer and it was the first aircraft I went up in and the first I piloted (briefly). Sweet little thing. I figured "Raven" must have made a clone copy. ;-)

The airplane you called a raven appears to be a piper tri-pacer!

The P51 Mustang at 13:32 tail number 413410 was originally 44-63350 . In July 2007 the pilot at the time, John Mckittrick, flipped the plane on his first solo landing attempt and died as a result. Aircraft was built in 1944 ....

When you come in for a landing, everybody has equal opportunity

I could be wrong, but as I recall they were requiring pilots to land on a particular colored spot to increase landing frequency. That, along with a gusty and stiff crosswind could make things a bit dicey.

Peregrine Tarragon is the aircraft you asked about!

That blue V tail bonanza was a waggin.

Your mystery aircraft at 11:10 is a Pelegrin Tarragon, produced in Latvia. This aircraft has Latvian registration.

The experimental aircraft all look like RC aircraft! Hahaha!

11:06 Millenium Master , blackshape Prime ❤️✈️

It amazes me that so many of these pilots have full flaps in these cross wind conditions! So few understand pitch and power and directional control! Especially the tricycle gear pilots! I learned to fly tail wheel airplanes 50 years ago and these where normal conditions in Texas and Oklahoma.

Interesting and educational video. I think I saw you out there! But, I think some of the aircraft ages are pretty far off. But! A good educational video and thank you for your work and time!

Looks like the crosswind was bad on approach, but then settled down before touchdown. Still, very nice work by all these pilots.

11:19 That's a Pelegrin Terragon!

12:30 is a 152 model. You can see that as it has the two sky lights.

I was a bit surprised to see that almost all planes have their flaps down. However, this runway seems long for most aircrafts, which makes it possible to land without flaps. In addition it seems that few of them keep the stick in the wind after touchdown

I followed those two RVs at the end for the approach, but they sent me to 27 (Stinson 108)

YL-DON is a Pelegrin Tarragon from Latvia.

What happened to the L-19 "Bird Dog" at the begining of the Video??? Much Damage???