Archive for the ‘Videos’ Category

Lufthansa Airlines crosswind attempt

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Title from CNN: Storm blows jetliner off runway Battling blustery weather, a Lufthansa Airlines flight scrapes its wing on the ground during a landing attempt. Source: CNN.com (CNN) -- Battling blustery weather, a Lufthansa Airlines flight scraped its wing on the ground during a landing attempt in Hamburg, Germany over the weekend, ...

Funny flight attendant

Friday, November 16th, 2007

This video was posted by the YouTube user rodizzl. From the YouTube "About This Video": this was on my flight from LAX to Chicago MDW, and there was this flight attendant who made some very interesting remarks that had the whole plane laughing. i couldnt record the flight attendant, but i did ...

Google Earth Flight Simulator

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

The newest version of Google Earth has a secret flight simulator function. Yes, a flight simulator! To activate it press Ctrl+Alt+A. You must have the latest version of Google Earth. Watch the video. The function will be in "Tools" once u activate it. Before that it wont be there. ...

Jet Blast video

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Jetblast video demonstration As seen herer http://forum.flydamnit.com/index.php?topic=438

Flight Simulator Training - Part I

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

What is a simulator? A flight simulator is used to train pilots on the ground. It permits a pilot to crash his "aircraft" without being hurt. Flight simulators are often used to train pilots to operate aircraft in extremely hazardous situations, such as landings with no engines, or complete electrical or ...

Crosswind Landing

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

What is a crosswind landing? I always thought crosswind landing is cool. For those who don’t know what a crosswind is: A crosswind is a wind condition when the prevailing wind is blowing across the runway. From Encarta: “a wind that blows across a particular route, flight path, or direction of ...

737 New Normal Procedures

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Why do we need a normal procedure? Cant the pilot just get in the plane and fly off? Why waste 20 mins with the entire checklist? What are the pilots doing in the flight deck? Anyway, the B737 New Normal Procedures verify for each phase of flight that the airplane condition ...

Flying inverted under bridge

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

An acrobatic plane flying inverted under a bridge. Imagine the G and difficulty performing this maneuver. I find this video really cool. I mean really when ure upside down, everything is the opposite. Normally you would pull the control stick to get away form the ground. But during inverted flying. ...

Landing Technique

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

This is a video of a MAS Twin Otter landing. I will try to upload the boeing ones later. Enjoy. I dont fly this btw, so i dont know anything about this. I downloaded this vid from some MAS directory. Haha.