Stupid pre-PPL pilot

Slugger

Slugger

Well-Known Member
[YT]g0hhkD4vzTM[/YT]
What an idiot. Look in the description:
"The tower actually asked me if I was sure I wanted to land. This was my last solo xc for my ppl."

Sorry if this is a repost, but I didn't know what to search for.
 
I agree this is a pretty stupid thing to attempt for a student Pilot, I'm a Private Pilot with about 70ish hours, I still wouldn't attempt this until I took some practice landings with my instructor in high crosswind conditions. Seems like this kid showed the Macho hazardous pilot attitude.
 
by the way, the wind in the video was 320 at 17kts G 26kts, he was landing on runway 24. His crosswind factor was 16.7 at the lowest gusting up to 25.6
 
Am I missing something?? I didn't see anything shocking? Based on the crab angle, it didn't even seem like that stiff of a crosswind
 
I don't get it. On centerline, main wheels first, touching down within the first 1/3 of the landing area...looks good enough to me.

I've done far scarier landings myself as a full fledged pilot.
 
It doesn't look the the wind is really that strong to me. Even if it was he did a decent job in the flare, so I would be surprised if it was his first time landing in wind conditions like that. As far as we know he has spent hours and hours in winds worse than that with an instructor. So with the little bit of information that I have, I don't think it looks that stupid.
 
If he was out flying that day on a long xc, then his instructor signed him off for it. He probably has a much better idea of this guy/gal's limitations than a bunch of armchair quarterbacks on teh interwebz.
 
that is true, at first I was just thinking he was making a bad decision, but I forgot that he may of had some training, lol. That's defiantly a big thing to forget, lol.
 
Slugger said:
What an idiot. Look in the description:
Click to expand...

name-fail.jpg
 
I first off I thought this student Pilot was an idiot since it seemed to be hazardous conditions with such little hours, however I neglected to think if they had crosswind training before. At the first viewing I thought they were an idiot, now I think they just had a skillful landing there, I'm sure they had a good amount of crosswind training before then.
 
BaronPete said:
If he was out flying that day on a long xc, then his instructor signed him off for it. He probably has a much better idea of this guy/gal's limitations than a bunch of armchair quarterbacks on teh interwebz.
Click to expand...

You would be surprised how often an instructor signs someone off on a "good" day only to have the winds kick up and gust when they weren't forecast to do so.
 
I wonder if "The tower actually asked me if I was sure I wanted to land." means the controller said "Winds are 320 at 17 gusting 26" ...and that's how the student pilot translated it, as a question.
 
Maurus said:
You would be surprised how often an instructor signs someone off on a "good" day only to have the winds kick up and gust when they weren't forecast to do so.
Click to expand...

True.
----

Student pilots do vary in ability. Hell I soloed a 12 hour student with the wind gusting to 24 and steady in the high teens. The wind was only twenty degrees off the runway though.

Pilot ability does differ, I see that but I think many "so what" posters are missing an objective lot at this. A twenty-seven knot crosswind component would be a lot to handle for even professional pilots and "dumb" if intentional no matter what the SP has done before in practice. So dumb, that I think it would have to be an inadvertent happening like Maurus said.

To top it off it is all a moot point because if you think that is what a 27 knot direct crosswind slip looks like from a PA-28, I guarantee you have yet to do one, much like the video poster.
 
I wouldn't have authorized touch and go landings on the first solo..too many things happening at 40 knots/gusts. I wasn't there so I can only say thats me though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top