getting a bit OT I know but ...

Just curious, but would the pilot be under full manual control for a landing
like this? Not having piloted anything more complex than a glider I wondered
which has a faster response - the human or the autopilot?

Chris

Jack ) wrote:
I was intrigued by the full spoiler deployment (roll control) on the
right wing.

It reminds me of Leeds/Bradford airport in a westerly gale that often
produced mountain wave rotor. Now landing in those conditions was
always FUN.

Metar Sea-Tac for mid afternoon Wednesday KSEA 282153Z 35008KT

Metar series:

http://meteocentre.com/cgi-bin/get_s...=KSEA&DELT=360

shows no winds to give any cause for comment on either last Wednesday
(as the clip suggests) or even the Wednesday before. Strange.

(I had to use IE7 - wouldn't work with Firefox)

Jack