Nailed it! Strong language warning, don't do this

[fly_tornado]

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[Litespeed]

I would swear he went backwards a couple of times.

 

Well done, now he can change those undies.

 

 

[DingerPPC]

Christ, bit like King Island

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

Yep, the worst landing I have ever seen well one you could walk away from..

 

 

[facthunter]

If the wind was so strong how could the turn be done so easily, on the ground? I've probably only landed in stuff similar to that once, in a Tiger. Needed people to hold the wings down. Could easily fly backwards, but I wouldn't recommend landing that way. IF the situation is temporary wait it out or go somewhere else. Trees or obstacles upwind make it very rough (turbulent). Nev

 

 

[Nobody]

If the wind was so strong how could the turn be done so easily, on the ground? I've probably only landed in stuff similar to that once, in a Tiger. Needed people to hold the wings down. Could easily fly backwards, but I wouldn't recommend landing that way. IF the situation is temporary wait it out or go somewhere else. Trees or obstacles upwind make it very rough (turbulent). Nev

To me it looks like the wind was 45 degrees to the runway direction and the turn on the ground was a slow speed ground loop. Look at the windsock in the foreground and the dust direction near the aircraft.

 

 

[facthunter]

Could be, but a sharp U turn from into wind to downwind is nearly impossible, in a strong wind, with a Light aircraft like that. Don't forget the plane was zero Groundspeed a few seconds earlier. Nev

 

 

[pylon500]

With that much wind, he should have landed on an in to wind taxiway, or the grass somewhere?!

 

 

[DrZoos]

Wow that seriously rates on the swearing scale

 

 

[eightyknots]

 

I used to work at Nobby's Signal Station in Newcastle once a fortnight for many years and, on two occasions around summer time, I saw a light plane hovering stationary above Nobby's Beach and once even flew very s-l-o-w-l-y backwards ...such was the headwind that made this possible. The nautical types who manned the radios at the signal station told me that they had seen this about ten times from their vantage point. It alarmed one of them the first time he saw it as he thought that the plane was in trouble.