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    Plane on a... gale force wind

    This is some pretty incredible plane manoeuvring, avoiding crashing whilst in gale force winds!

    BBC News Player - Plane narrowly avoids disaster


    Im a pretty frequent flyer, but that would be damned scary


    amazing flying skills.

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    oooh that brings back memories
    Quote Originally Posted by Ephesians
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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    mabye the pilot was texting?
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    if you look closely enough you can see a kid blinding him with a laser-pointer from the ground...
    1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!!!

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    Quote Originally Posted by chicken View Post
    if you look closely enough you can see a kid blinding him with a laser-pointer from the ground...
    lol!

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    He's been playing too many games

    'Right , they're on to me, better use mah flyin skillz to evade them, maybe I can trick them into thinkin that I've lost it...

    Phew, got away safe, like! woo, I r0x0r '

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    It wasn't Dak flying was it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    LANGUAGE WARNING!!! The F's are quite early on!!
    YouTube - Dak forgets his ammo

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    its a crosswind, the pilot hasn't been on the sauce! however much it looks like that
    Quote Originally Posted by Ephesians
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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    Hehe, that was awesome (as it didn't end in disaster).

    Reminds me of the video of aircraft testing, landing in crosswind. Makes me think the aircraft are "drifting" in to land. Awesome angles!

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    dayum, thas some scary sheet.

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    that was pretty cool

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    oooh that brings back memories
    what sort?

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    drink flying.. there was no wind.. he just wanted an excuse!

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    Quote Originally Posted by sammyc View Post
    what sort?
    air cadets, was doing glider training (powered glider) from raf warton. and one time the weather turned nasty while i was up. had to land pretty much like the one in the pic was trying to
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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    That would be terrifying if you were on board

    Good skills from the pilot there!

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    Re: Plane on a... gale force wind

    The pilot should have aborted the landing sooner

    The portside wing was meters from being ripped off!

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