05-09-2015, 06:43 PM
abo and I were fortunate enough to get an hour in the full-blown 747 simulator @ the United Denver training center (a buddy of ours is a UA pilot and his college buddy is a 747 instructor there).
Total bucket list experience. Short video below of abo doing a full-control crossswind landing at Hong Kong. For a guy who's never been in the cockpit of an airplane before, much less driven a 747, it was an awesome landing. He should think of a career change. My crosswind did not go as well
Notice I drop the phone at the end to grab the reverse thrusters (abo forgot them - as there are about 8 million things going on in the last 2 seconds, but as noted, his crosswind landing chops are immense):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k6riAju34M
Total bucket list experience. Short video below of abo doing a full-control crossswind landing at Hong Kong. For a guy who's never been in the cockpit of an airplane before, much less driven a 747, it was an awesome landing. He should think of a career change. My crosswind did not go as well
Notice I drop the phone at the end to grab the reverse thrusters (abo forgot them - as there are about 8 million things going on in the last 2 seconds, but as noted, his crosswind landing chops are immense):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k6riAju34M