DA40NG gusting crosswind landing with a surprise downdraft 

This landing was excellent. I'm an instructor that specializes in wind training. Click my name if you want proof. The pilot touched down on the center line, upwind wing low, nose high, soft-enough, with the longitudinal axis aligned with the runway, no side drift, and maintained xwind correction on the centerline throughout the rollout. To all the armchair critics. I don't care if you would have flown the approach differently, good for you. Do a landing this nice and post it to youtube, then have yourself a cookie because you earned it. Flap setting is a matter of pilot preference. Sure, less flaps lets you touch down a few knots faster, which makes the controls more effective, but now you're carrying more kinetic energy into the rollout, and less aerodynamic drag to bleed it off. Flaps are a tradeoff. As for his approach speed, it was plenty high. He wasn't dragging it in on the stall horn. My favorite thing is when a student adds 10kts to their approach speed because someone told them to on reddit, then they float halfway down the runway waiting for the landing to be over, finally they force it down too fast, and it starts skidding sideways because the wheels have no weight on them. It's the single most common mistake I see in rusty pilot xwind. The approach angle was fine, too. I fly steeper in my mooney and slower in my champ. Because I like doing it that way, not because it's the best way. My friends fly my planes differently and get the same results. If you think there's only one right way to fly in wind, you're wrong. Next time it's breezy go up and experiment with all the techniques - no flaps, full flaps, fast, slow, steep, shallow. You'll see they all work. Just keep enough padding in your energy state to absorb a gust without dropping onto terrain and you'll be fine.

Fantastic landing under the circumstances. Well done.

Nice job carrying the threshold. Nice and calm. Not death gripping the controls. Beautiful.

Plenty of flying hours right there. Excellent piloting sir.

Very well done. That downdraft was surprising. I probably would had go around. 👌

Nothing about that indicated windshear or down draft. What I did see was an approach that was too slow for a crosswind landing. When you take out the crab and add aileron at the bottom you decrease your lift and if you don’t increase your approach speed to account for that then you will stall prematurely at the touchdown point and you will feel a sudden sink that may be interpreted as a down draft to the unaware pilot.

Great throttle control and reaction to that wind sheer. Could have gone much worse!

I'm not a pilot and don't know very much about flying a small plane but that was an awesome landing. Impressive

Holy hell, well done

That drop-in was horribly fascinating! Nice control!!

I think your reactions were spot on so it made it not look so bad. Was hard to read the VSI For the down draft, but regardless great job man!

very good i expect right wheel first but you made it better at the end.

Yep looked like a full attention required landing. I have a airfield that has a bank of trees just before the threshold and if your on a normal approch they suck you down and i get the Stall alarm just like you did. On that runway we always come in high, full flap and dive past the trees throttle closed to avoid the hole in the air. Hard when your first learning fun once you have :-) Love the DA40 but my head hits the canopy so not good for me on longer trips as i get kneck ache.

Great reaction to the downdraft. Well done, fly safe

Bleeding off all of your energy in your long and flat flare and riding the stall warning to the ground - not what you should be doing in gusty conditions.

Cool as a fan

Great throttle response to downdraft.

Why did you extend full flaps in such a strong wind ?

Nicely done.

Smooth as silk.

If it goes down when it's supposed to and not before, it's always a good thing

Well done.

Nice landing given the challenging conditions.

Nice job. Check your glide path. It might just be the camera but it appeared like you were low on the approach. In gusty and turbulent conditions it's best to approach with a higher angle of attack. But if you're not comfortable with that or have not been trained accordingly then stay with what you are most proficient with.

Nicely done!

Great landing!!!

very nicely done

From this angle you kinda look like Hank from King of the Hill.

Nothing to see here folks. Routine crosswind landing. Very common.

Looked good to me !!!

Great job!

Excellent 👍

wow

Lovely!

Why aoa. Negative did you chose for appoach ? İsn't uncomfortible , lower appoach speed higher aoa. İsn't usefull?

Nice job dolph lundgren

I'm surprised the diamond doesn't float with those wings

Where was the downdraft ?

REAL

What plane is this?

That shit was fucking nuts bro

Greased it

Sounds similar to a turbo prop.

Didn't see any surprise downdraft

EASY!!!

Never seen down draft..

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be thankful you're in something easy that you can get away with extra speed. Try that in a jet and you're in big trouble

RIP EFHF :(

Flying looks easy. Landing, not really.

I don't echo "well done/" I think it was reckless to attempt to land. You should have gone around. This scenario is the whole reason why you train touch and goes. One good downdraft and you were toast.

I hate getting a surprise downdraft after I rip a big fat juicy FART💩

LOL I can just imagine this generation of so called "Pilots" flying a Cessna 195

Horrifying airplane. Way too light

you cant fly this plane :D and you show this public :D congratulations! More speed, full flaps at the verry end, midium flaps too fast, speed way to slow for those conditions, approach too flat.

Very well done!