One wicked landing!

[Omag 2.0]

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Just as I was about to leave the local airfield, the tower decided to switch the landingdirection...

I'm not quite sure if that was such a brilliant idea, judging by this rather akward approach of a little Piper... Looked like 45

[Mictheslik]

That last pan is a beauty.....

congrats to the pilot  :D

.mic

[ozzy72]

Talk about crabbing it

[guesswho531]

Talk about crabbing it

Seriously...
Great Landing..
(Last shot is a Beauty)

What do you Shoot with?

[The Ruptured Duck]

Bet he felt like a hotshot after that one

[beaky]

Nice sequence!
It's hard to do it with panache, but that's nothing unusual.
Couldn't have been too strong a wind, either... by shot #3, he's straightening out, still quite high... and he's banking downwind a little throughout to get back on-center.  If it was really blowing, he'd have the upwind wing down a little.
Might have overdone it initially, which is not unwise... better to have to drift back than to try to power across or bank a lot low to the ground because you didn't crab soon enough.
No two landings are exactly alike; that's one thing I love about flying.  :)

[freedomhays]

We do that with the Nav down the keys 8 out of 10 approach,  sometimes for practice on one engine...

[Aerophile]

Looks like nothing more than a forward slip.  Dip the upwind wing into the wind to correct for wind drift and opposite rudder to increase profile drag and get you down on a high approach.  Also, like Rotty mentioned, you can see that he straightens it out as he flares for a almost three pointer.  Must have had a little bit too much airspeed from the looks of it.  That's not uncommon after a forward slip though.  Doesn't appear that he's using a whole lot of flaps.  

Great series of shots.  You captured it quite well.  As much as I get tired of flying them, those little plastic wagon Diamond Eclipses are fun to slip.  I can point the nose +/- 20 degrees (rough guestimate) away from centerline and with the awesome forward visibility all you see in front of you is nothing but runway.  Then take out the rudder input, correct for any crosswind, and squeak the landing.  It's quite fun.  Anyways, enough rambling.  Great shots!  8-)

[a1]

Some wicked shots too.


Fabulous.

[beaky]

Looks like nothing more than a forward slip.  Dip the upwind wing into the wind to correct for wind drift and opposite rudder to increase profile drag and get you down on a high approach.  Also, like Rotty mentioned, you can see that he straightens it out as he flares for a almost three pointer.  Must have had a little bit too much airspeed from the looks of it.  That's not uncommon after a forward slip though.  Doesn't appear that he's using a whole lot of flaps.  

Great series of shots.  You captured it quite well.  As much as I get tired of flying them, those little plastic wagon Diamond Eclipses are fun to slip.  I can point the nose +/- 20 degrees (rough guestimate) away from centerline and with the awesome forward visibility all you see in front of you is nothing but runway.  Then take out the rudder input, correct for any crosswind, and squeak the landing.  It's quite fun.  Anyways, enough rambling.  Great shots!  8-)

'Tis true, he might have been forward slipping... although it's not generally a good idea to do that with the nose pointing downwind.
But it does depend on how great the wind angle is relative to the runway... there is some leeway, usually.


So, Omag... what was the wind doing, or do you remember? Was it from the pilot's left, or right?

[Omag 2.0]

No, actually the wind was blowing right to left over the runway. I was talking to a local resident who was every bit baffled as I was on why they switched the landingdirection...

[beaky]

No, actually the wind was blowing right to left over the runway. I was talking to a local resident who was every bit baffled as I was on why they switched the landingdirection...

Well, now I get it... when you're landing downwind, even a very slight quartering tailwind, all bets are off, sort of.