r/nextfuckinglevel • u/The_Merciless_Potato • Oct 25 '20

Removed: Repost Skilled pilot landing passenger jet in a 40 knot crosswind.

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u/BenGamez Oct 25 '20

“Hahahaha they said I couldn’t drift a plane! Well look at me now bitches!”

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

Try landing a helicopter in weather like that... but on a helipad built in the treetops (delivering supplies to inland PNG...3 weeks walk or 2 days to put the helipad up). Land in that weather and before rotors stopped people all over pad like ants

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u/ash-andrew Oct 25 '20

Am I the only one that has the theme to Tokyo drift playing in their head when watching this

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u/Dan1280 Oct 25 '20

Where's that?

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u/The_Merciless_Potato Oct 25 '20

Somewhere very windy.

Jokes aside, I don't know.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

That is skilled. Just a Little fish tail at the end.

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u/s0m3d4y Oct 25 '20

Don’t most airports have perpendicular runways for this very reason?