1. that crazy wind!!!
2. @midgeurefan fuck you
3. Stopped in at Wellington while flying from back to Christchurch - gets VERY bumpy around the Sinclair Head with a NW wind in a Piper Tomahawk - definitely tests you landing one of them on 34 when the wind is 310 @ 25 kts gusting 40 :)
4. Honestly, Wellington Airport must be considered as a very dangerous airport in some cases for many reasons...
5. spikie 4... The UA 747 was on the ground for 80 mins, no one got off and I witnessed the takeoff, there was no stripping out weight, it was airborne at about the 4500 ft mark and sailed off in to the sun. There was actually an Air NZ 747-200 that visited Welly before the UA to validate Wgtn as a alternate ahead of the 747-400, and a Qantas 747-200 did a low pass over the runway en-route to ChCh in 1972, so a total of three 747 visits to Welly above SP size.
6. Love the old Ansett BAE 146 (1 plane - has 4 engines - needs 6.)
7. @p2pat turn comp off birdbrain
8. we landed with one engine and the airport was closed deu to wind but it was an emergince
9. What the fucks with that shitty music ruins the video ....
10. yeah fu__g sheep is an adrenalin rush for those dummies.
11. did they check the last plane for structural damage? lol
12. hahahaha, thank you for that, we were lead to believe, that the UA pilots were on a bonus system during and after the gulf war to save aviation fuel, hence lesscarried fuel, less weight.... amazing being in the airline industry all these years how exchanging information amongst the airlines was mostly gossip ..... its called competition ... cheers
13. @spikie4 The first 747 to land there though was a QANTAS 747SP in 1981. Then in 1991 a United Airlines 747 was diverted from Auckland to Christchurch only to find that Christchurch was fogged in, therefore making an emergency landing in Wellington. Sources: Wellington airport Wikipedia
14. Oh I am not a pilot and not sure of the ability/possiblilty of a 747 landing at WLG airport.... but it was a great talking point at the time .....
15. LOL, flue in to Wellington many time as an airline rep for many years, but remember an old UA 747- 100 from LAX in the 90's was diverted from Auckland, to Christchurch, lacking fuel it managed to made it to wellington -not designed for 7247 as too short, managed to land (how???? I don't know), but the aircraft was stranded, so they had to completely strip the plane down, seats and all to get it out ...... don't know how dangerous it was but they got it off the ground..... ummm
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17. I so know what this is like, I flew into Brisbane and I swear I didn't even know that the plane had touched the ground it was so smooth, and When I flew from Auckland to Wellington I felt like the plane was going to land on it's wing it was real rough and then I think we did a 2 metre drop straight down when we did land land the tray table dropped open that was rough as hell that the pilot apologized for the rough landing. But travelling to Wellington by Air totally sucks I'd rather drive now.
18. Haha. I've only experienced perfect landings at Wellington. Nice and smooth. I actually want a scary one one day. :P
19. @DAHKSYDE Spot on.
20. Whats this music? i like this!!! thanks.
21. There are lots of crosswind landing. whoa! what a really windy city to
22. Until an earthquake around 1460 it used to be the sea floor and the hills beside it Mirimar Island (now peninsula). The very first attempted landing of an RAF bomber had to be aborted because it broke its undercarriage on touching down and had to abort and fly back to Ohakea with fuel streaming out the back: /watch?v=R3iMw7Q7H68 A sign of things to come. They call it the aircraft carrier - short with water at both ends! Apparently it's common for the windsocks at each end to point at each other.
23. What makes landing at Wellington unpleasant is not the wind. It's the customs officials and police. NZ is a nice place but it's like a police state.
24. @filiandsela lol harden up!! I've lived in welly all my life.. the wind is not as bad as people make it out to be! hahah bumpy landings are the best!
25. sweet

Wellington Airport, New Zealand

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Landing at Wellington Airport, New Zealand
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