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Post by bernardo on Mar 13, 2009 8:42:43 GMT -5
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Post by stansdds on Mar 14, 2009 9:16:45 GMT -5
Oh, my! Must have been like last summer's trip to Vegas for me and the misses. The flight from Richmond, VA, to Dallas-Ft.Worth, TX was uneventful until the landing. I say landing, but it was more like a quasi-controlled crash. We hit the runway hard, but thankfully only one bounce.
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Post by acourt on Mar 18, 2009 21:08:57 GMT -5
Many of our FAs look like that before the landing...  Al |
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Post by Radio Ranger on Mar 20, 2009 18:49:21 GMT -5
Nothing a little duct tape won't cure!
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Post by ashaman on Mar 27, 2009 23:02:21 GMT -5
Oh, my! Must have been like last summer's trip to Vegas for me and the misses. The flight from Richmond, VA, to Dallas-Ft.Worth, TX was uneventful until the landing. I say landing, but it was more like a quasi-controlled crash. We hit the runway hard, but thankfully only one bounce. I know the feeling. Landed in LICJ, airport infamous for the insurgence of traitorous gusts from the nearby mountains and hence of its not-so-gentle landings ( captains are encouraged to put the plane down decisively there), on a Fokker 100 Alpi Eagles in the boiling summer of 2007 here in Italy... I was almost going to ask if someone had shot us down to the captain, as the gag goes, but restrained myself. Poor guy surely did his best. No reason to get snarky.  We too bounced once only. All-in-all quite a good landing, seen the airport. ;D |
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Post by sunny9850 on Mar 28, 2009 0:20:33 GMT -5
Not sure if it was the flight where the well known phrase was coined originally...but after one of the more horrendous arrivals at KONT in a SWA 737 the flight attendant in her PA reminded everyone to "remain seated, while Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the gate"  KONT lies just right in the really swirly bit of air when the Santa Ana winds (45-60 kts some days) are howling out of the north east. On really bad days landings are a true test of pilot skill in extreme X-wind conditions. That flight had not been one of those days. But then again...any pilot who claims to never have had a "bad" landing is a man/woman in denial. ;D |
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