Ahh!, another Flugsnug video.
I have to say, that his/her videos are always of the highest quality and I've been following them for the past few years.
I may be wrong, but every 'Flugsnug' video that I've viewed to date, has been filmed at Birmingham (UK), BHX/EGBB.
Very , very hairy. I agree that a go-around was called for, particularly when the phugoid oscillation set in which could easily have resulted in a nosewheel collapse . Whether adysmith's idea of a wing down technique would have worked, I do not know. There seemed to me to be plenty of rudder authority, ( too much , really, as the pilot induced near ground loop at 0:24 showed ) but how effective the ailerons were seemed questionable, and the amount of roll that would have been needed to prevent drift to the left probably would have made it just as hairy as the technique which was in fact adopted
Well if you must build an airport with a North/South runway in a country with predominantly Westerly or Easterly winds this is going to happen regularly.
Birmingham is my preferred destination when flying to England, usually with Flybe but a couple of times Ryanair.
This selection from the same cameraman includes take-offs and a couple of go-arounds as well as landings. I might even be on the Ryanair 737 at 7.10 as I remember an interesting landing in November 2013.
I assume that the landings are all on auto-pilot with no human input into the type of approach flown . . . . up until the aborted ones anyway.
