@@JesusCliment "This is your captain speaking. Some news for everyone, hope you're all sitting down. Oh wait, you're not. This is Ryanair. Most of you are standing. Anyway, we're going to be returning to the origin airport because of weather conditions. Hope you didn't have a connecting flight."
I’m a frequent flyer and I’ve seen my fair share of turbulent landings. But after landing in Wellington for the first time... I needed a new pair of trousers 😂
You know its a good day when you have a wing emergency exit seat and you are looking at the leading edge lined up with the runway and sea spray is hitting the window 😂 We landed on the first attempt.
I've been there once but the first time I went on a flight it was to Auckland and when we landed I thought there was a Tornado. You can tell I was a young 2016 boy.
The first ANZ737 had massive wind shear over the threshold. Fantastic save and decision, the wind looked terrible. I was based at leeds/bradford in the UK on 737's. This looks like the NZ equivalent. Great vid.
oh god .....flying into Wellington next week in this blustery spring weather! Managed to repress my two earlier bumpy landings and the take off from hell I'd experienced before...until now.
One time I was flying back into Welly, super windy night.. The couple beside me, middle aged Canadians, never been to Wellington before, the wife was beside me (in a 3 seat combination on an A330) They hadnt spoken a word to me the whole flight (3 hrs), night flight from sydney The woman beside me on approach grabbed my hand. was so nice, but i whispered in her ear that this is Wellington, its quite often like this and that the best reason to fly AirNZ is because they are experts at this
I've seen some crazy crosswind landings but dayum Wellington is a tough airport to handle in those conditions. Great work by all the pilots to even make it that close to the threshold in those kind of winds, even better when they made contact and made the landing.
I watches 1000's videos in aviation, I love it, but, crosswind landing like this ?? Never, ever, These pilots simply are amazing and super . OMG, I just could not believe two video I watched landing in Wellington NZ ! I am going to try with FSX . Thanks for sharing this airside tv. it it amazing.
Flown to and from Wellington heaps of times. Those pilots are extremely skilled and on a very short runway. They have to get it right or no option except to abort the landing.
Watching this reminds me of the first time I flew in over the white horses (seems like within touching distance beneath you), then the plane bounces and dances around landing until finally settled on the runway. Much prayer and holding of breath!
12 years ago, well pre -COVID-19. How time flies. 1968 Q4, afternoon landing from Chatham's in a Bristol Freighter, either RK or LT. Exciting gale force cross wind landing, with the surf crest spume higher than the Bristol. The airport was closed to prop aircraft after we wiggled our way to the SAFE terminal. That big tall tailfin was a great wind catcher. 😮
I don't ever feel scared with planes on youtube, but this... I can't believe it but I shivered when I saw those wings flexing like a hurricane is pushing the hell out of them! anyway, what a masterpiece of landings! never saw a plane vid with so good and so bad things in a brilliant way as this...
That was a 737-800. Compared to the first 737 that went around twice, the 800 wings are longer in addition to the winglets. It handles better on this kind of wind. Very nice landing.
I remember when we landed here about 10years back ... I swear we were nearly coming in at a 45degree angle. Ppl were clapping when the captain made it!
@@vikkimcdonough6153 Beaurocracy and incompetence are the reason, Vikki. The idea of an extension was first brought up over 70 years ago and then for 60 years, the argument amongst all the affected groups was whether to extend to the north or south [extending it to the south was going to cost about 3 times more]. In the interim, the cost of extending to either direction has escalated one hundred-fold and it wasn’t until about 10 years ago that the pilots input was actually taken notice of being…. It can’t be extended to the north because of the hills that must be cleared when approaching from the north would mean having to descend at too steep a gradient to land safely on the new extension. So now that’s finally been recognised, now the cost of the extension blows-out any cost/benefit of having the extension in the first place. LOL
@@kyblack123 Extending the runway to the north would still allow a longer landing distance for planes landing from the south, though, even if it wouldn't benefit planes landing from the north.
@@vikkimcdonough6153 Wellington winds can get pretty strong and being that planes need to land heading into the wind, if they only land from the south with a strong tailwind behind them, it would probably negate having the extra length of runway
60 knot winds are rather common in some areas. As a retired weather observer/forecaster.I have seen lots of airliners land with 60 gusts, including Las Vegas, NV: Barrow, AK Barter Island, AK, and many others. I saw wind gusts to over 100 mph in Columbus, GA.
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Obviously something went quite seriously wrong in the first clip, was that an instance of wind shear? And what would you typically announce to the passengers? They must have been terrified. Also why is it SOP to retract the landing gear in a go-around? Does it help with control, or trim, or is it just a best practice so that you're ensured of the best possible performance in such a situation?
Have only been here once and thankfully got smooth conditions. Great video though - do you mind if I feature on of the first clips in a video? With full link back to your channel / credit of course. Cheers
Few simple things really. The 737 has a sharp nose cone shape, while the A320 has a more rounded shape to its cone. The 737 generally have a flat bottom look their engine. And the cockpit windows on the a320 are diagonally facing downwards at the front, while the 737 is completely flat. Hope that helped.
Wellington Born and Bred if I didnt live here, I dont think I'd be able to handle turbulence as much as I am able, but it doesnt even bother me. Windy Welly all the way! Lol
I had a connecting flight taking me from my town, to Wellington, to Sydney and it was the first time I ever landed in Wellington. It was one hell of a land, I could FEEL the wind that was blowing us around😂😂👀💀😳
the airport is on reclaimed land forming a land bridge to the north shore , yes the wind rushes through from the sea as the area is a nautral wind tunnel. landing in a friendship (prop) was the scariest miss home!
just to add in my bits, wellington airport is located in a sort of wind tunnel. surrounded by hills both sides, so the winds that come through there can get quite strong.
Reminds me of travel to Marseille with "Mistral", at night. It's quite horrible as a passenger when you cant see how far up you are, and you get the impression there are downdrafts which plummet the aircraft! But as a pilot in the above video it must cause a bit of sweat!
Being from Wellington, I’m sort of used to it all now. The funniest time I can remember was back in May ‘83. My wife and i were returning from Oz to supposedly have our wedding reception back with my family in Wellington that evening. The plane attempted 3 landings and on the 3rd, a flight attendant threw up and there were 3 Aussie guys in the back saying the Lord’s Prayer. Unfortunately we had to then divert to Auckland and even after breaking the speed limit driving Auck> Welly in a rental, we still missed our own wedding reception. LOL
Is it possible that the B737 which has bigger surface of the tail gets more wind hit and turbulence than A20 which has much smaller tail? It looks like the A320 is much more stable on the approach - just an observation.
How many lunched needed to be scraped off the aircraft’s ceiling as a result of the sudden downdraught at 0:20? 2:35 makes me want to have airliners covered in RCS thrusters. Impressive flying skills, anyway!
I’ve flown to and from wellington a couple of times and that is one super windy place. I’ve had two of my flights cancelled due to wind and weather but yeah. It’s windy xD
NZWN has some of the most extreme winds and weather in the world, so it's definitely quite a challenge landing there. It also doesn't help, how the runways are tiny! Poor buggers.
Ok, I believe you! Do you happen to know what direction the runway faces? I can't see a runway number. I'm just wondering how much of a crosswind these guys are facing. I can see the wind sock in the distance but it's hard to make out how far from parallel to the runway it is. Anyway, I can watch this stuff all night, thanks for posting!
