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AAPalmTree said:
What's up with the main off the ground in the third pic?
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As far as I could tell it was just ready to fly, and the left main hopped off the ground. A moment after that photo was taken, the nose wheel comes up, and the airplane seems to levitate off the ground in an almost 3 point attitude. Not sure if it was aileron induced, or if it was due to the very SLIGHT left crosswind. I just remember watching it between shutter releases, and thinking *oh man that'll look interesting!*
 
Beefy McGee said:
Wheelbarrow crosswind landing technique. It's all the rage in Europe.
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I was looking through my sequence of photos, it appears they were putting the nose on pretty firmly with a lot of forward pressure evident by a large amount of nose down elevator deflection, a compressed nosewheel strut, and the MLG struts almost completely extended, in another instance I can see one of the two mains off the ground with a large elevator deflection nose down similar to the photo I posted.
 
JustinS said:
I was looking through my sequence of photos, it appears they were putting the nose on pretty firmly with a lot of forward pressure evident by a large amount of nose down elevator deflection, a compressed nosewheel strut, and the MLG struts almost completely extended, in another instance I can see one of the two mains off the ground with a large elevator deflection nose down similar to the photo I posted.
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Yep. Add in a bit of yoke deflection to one side or the other, usually away from the wind, and that's how students and the less proficient wheelbarrow a 172. It's always fun when a student does it, starts veering off the runway on two wheels (nose and a main) and then looks at the instructor like "what happened?" Haha

Apparently it works in a 787 too.
 
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Beefy McGee said:
Yep. Add in a bit of yoke deflection to one side or the other, usually away from the wind, and that's how students and the less proficient wheelbarrow a 172. It's always fun when a student does it, starts veering off the runway on two wheels (nose and a main) and then looks at the instructor like "what happened?" Haha

Apparently it works in a 787 too.
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Did 2 edits of planes doing the circle-to-land 01R approach at SFO on 12/30/14, now back to bed.
United Airlines A320 turning over Burlingame landing on runway 01R at SFO by ChasenSFO, on Flickr
This United A320 did the base really tight, I've never seen an A320 bank as hard as he did. I'm not complaining though, that was epic as hell.
Southwest 737-300 on final runway 01L at SFO with a 787 ready to depart 01R. by ChasenSFO, on Flickr
Southwest while in the base-to-final turn was asked to switch to 01L to get the United 787 off of 01R. That's why they get favors from ATC, with a few exceptions the other carriers were refusing the shorter runway 01L, even the RJs but Southwest had no problem with it.
 
ChasenSFO said:
Did 2 edits of planes doing the circle-to-land 01R approach at SFO on 12/30/14, now back to bed.
United Airlines A320 turning over Burlingame landing on runway 01R at SFO by ChasenSFO, on Flickr
This United A320 did the base really tight, I've never seen an A320 bank as hard as he did. I'm not complaining though, that was epic as hell.
Southwest 737-300 on final runway 01L at SFO with a 787 ready to depart 01R. by ChasenSFO, on Flickr
Southwest while in the base-to-final turn was asked to switch to 01L to get the United 787 off of 01R. That's why they get favors from ATC, with a few exceptions the other carriers were refusing the shorter runway 01L, even the RJs but Southwest had no problem with it.
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I've been based there 3 years and I still haven't landed on the 1's. Always happens on my days off or when I'm somewhere else in the system. I did get to take off on 19R a couple of weeks ago. That was crazy. Winds blasting over the hill at 30+ knots made for some gnarly turbulence on the initial climb.
 
Cal Goat said:
I've been based there 3 years and I still haven't landed on the 1's. Always happens on my days off or when I'm somewhere else in the system. I did get to take off on 19R a couple of weeks ago. That was crazy. Winds blasting over the hill at 30+ knots made for some gnarly turbulence on the initial climb.
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I mean landings on the 01s are rare. 12/30 was only the second time in my life(growing up with a view of SFO from my parents place) that I've seen the planes land on the 01s for the entire day. Sometimes up to 2 years or so go by when it doesn't happen, then when it does, maybe 3-5 planes do the approach usually just to help SFO quickly change the runway config. I'd do sexual favors to the CA to get to fly that approach if I ever get the chance at a 121 carrier. But chances are slim.

As for the 19 departures, those 2 stormy days were the only 2 I've ever seen where departures used the 19s all day(extreme weather these last few months here). I thought the Lufthansa A340-600 was going to have a wingstrike on takeoff, later I read a blog post from a pax on board saying people were screaming out loud and the pilots even came on just after takeoff to assure the pax they had control. Two worst things I saw those days were a Compass E175 rotate with the nose up and sit in ground effect until almost the end of 19R then shoot into the air later reporting a 25 knot loss "at rotation" and a Brasilia rotate right as a 50+ knot peak gust was reported(!) and I swear it looked like it was hovering for a solid 4 seconds before it swung around to the left and was blasted into the turn so quick it was hard to process what I saw for a moment. All that with the steeply rising terrain loaded with houses at the end of the runway must have lead to some wet farts up front.
 
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