NovemberEcho
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The winds on the ATIS aren’t bad but winds aloft 500’+ were well above 50kts
View: https://youtu.be/xauO-7FH8qI?si=OMqR3yCqx2YeMCdw
View: https://youtu.be/xauO-7FH8qI?si=OMqR3yCqx2YeMCdw
Southwest tries to redecorate LGA tower
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ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
That’s a little scary.
I was landing LGA around this time. Winds at 1000’ was 50kts right on the tail. Then 50kt crosswind at 500’ then down the runway at minimums. Luckily my FO made it in. If we didn’t I wasn’t gonna try another one.
CoffeeIcePapers
Well-Hung Member
Those winds get crazy on 4 as you get low.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Nearly 45 years later, and this movie still delivers the goods.
45 years prior to 1980 would have been 1935, if you want to be depressed.
A300Capt
Freight Dawg
Wow…in that case I can’t imagine what they must’ve been at the gate?
CFIscare
Well-Known Member
Or think of it this way. 45 years ago you could have very easily flown into LGA on a 737. 45 years prior to that La Guardia had just been elected mayor and it wouldn’t be until over 5 years later in 1940 that Pan Am started flying into “LGA” with Boeing 314 flying boats.
Yup they do. Plus the ILS requires you to hand fly it. No autopilot coupled approaches to that runway. Can get pretty hairy. You earn your money on that one.
Oh I agree. Clear blue day it’s nothing. But on this day yes it was hairy.A handflown ILS is a hairy maneuver now. At yi yi……
CoffeeIcePapers
Well-Hung Member
They way they keep you in fast on this approach, coupled with a strong tail wind, followed up by windshear over the threshold, along with the shortish runway, does make it pretty challenging.A handflown ILS is a hairy maneuver now. At yi yi……
KLB
Well-Known Member
One of my favorite things to do up is tell @NovemberEcho "unable" when he asks me to do things that aren't very practical like keep my speed up with a 50kt tailwind. I bet it drives him nuts. He then goes with the delayed vectors and I yell "spend me baby!"
j/k @NovemberEcho Haha
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
Coming from decades of HSIs the Boeing loc needle presentation really screws with my brain.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
I don't speak Boeing, what's that?
