German C-160 Transall retires in style

[ChasenSFO]

They almost managed to get the first C-160 kill at the last possible second. "A" for effort.

Video: This Luftwaffe C-160 Transall Cargo Plane Nearly Mowed Down Spotters while Landing - The Aviation Geek Club

 

[JordanD]

I can’t imagine how crappy it would feel after you screwed up and killed somebody doing a stupid pilot trick to try to look cool. Maybe I’m just old.

 

[Skåning]

Looks like it hit the road and bounced up. If you have to drag it in like that to make the landing distance work, maybe that’s not a suitable field.

But the Germans do like to drag and smack it on:

 

[JordanD]

Looks like it hit the road and bounced up. If you have to drag it in like that to make the landing distance work, maybe that’s not a suitable field.

But the Germans do like to drag and smack it on:

I wanna say that is a pretty notorious spotting location and I’ve seen a ton of pictures that look like hot dogging taken there. Either that or it’s really NOT a suitable area and nobody needs to be standing there, but in the video it looks like they skipped off the road and bounced into a pretty lengthy displaced threshold, so who knows.

 

[NovemberEcho]

It’s the Luftwaffe, they probably only get like 1 hour a month to fly.

 

[FlyingAccountant]

The guy standing in the red looks pretty close to the prop too.

 

[Deleted member 27505]

Damn. That was lucky. A few inches lower a few inches earlier and they would have ripped the entire undercarriage off the beast.

 

[ChasenSFO]

It did hit the road, then bounced and back down right on the edge of the threshold.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Asiana training video.

 

[citrus]

The guy standing in the red looks pretty close to the prop too.

Yet all he cares about is getting it on camera because you know it didn't happen otherwise.

 

[ppragman]

Looks like it hit the road and bounced up. If you have to drag it in like that to make the landing distance work, maybe that’s not a suitable field.

But the Germans do like to drag and smack it on:

Low flat approaches with power are a poor technique if you're trying to get Max shortfield performance, yet tons of people do this all the time? I really wonder why?

Steeper and behind the power curve with just enough speed to flare as you reduce power to idle is optimal. Your touchdown point is far more precise this way and you basically run out of energy as you flare.