Mummy I can't see :)

[Radar]

Check this out

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f0_1183152276

[Ian Warren]

Now that is a pretty landing , Bet many will try this at home

[ardypilot]

I think I may have been on that flight!

I remember a few years ago I was flying Frankfurt to Heathrow and as we started descent, we went into thick cloud. I kept looking out the window, waiting for the cloud to stop and have a good aeiral view of London, when all of a sudden, thump we hit the tarmac and the reversers went on!

Gotta try it in FS now!

[ZKTOM]

I trying this definitely

[pois0n]

I think I may have been on that flight!

I remember a few years ago I was flying Frankfurt to Heathrow and as we started descent, we went into thick cloud. I kept looking out the window, waiting for the cloud to stop and have a good aeiral view of London, when all of a sudden, thump we hit the tarmac and the reversers went on!

Gotta try it in FS now!

Exact same thing happend to me going into Heathrow, it's pretty awesome

Was in a Qantas 744 coming from Sydney via Bangkok though

[Kelburn]

Man! I wish they'd try that in Wellington!

[A185F]

Can get better than that. A Cat IIIB ILS will allow basicly 0ft cloud (well officially "Below 50ft" which can be any old height) and no viz. Only curtain airports are cirtified to cat III standards and only cirtain aircraft. For e.g, for a Cat IIIB aproach the aircraft has to be fully autoland capible and does it all it self and the pilots must be checked out and are usually only the more experienced ones in the airlines but not all of them. Some aircraft that are capible are the 747-400, 757, 767, 777, and A320 & up. Not the 737 (like in this vid) which is only cirtified to CAT IIIA from memory, which is 50ft and 200m viz (also from the dusty old memory so I stand to be corrected). In the vid they were clearly visual at DH so It can get much worse (funner) than that

[Kelburn]

sorry to be picky but it was actually an A320.

[A185F]

sorry didn't even have a good look. Just read the:
"Scary landing of a Boeing 737 at London Heathrow without visibility"
under the video title.
Very observant

Here's a video of a IIIB from the cabin, can hardly even see the wings !!!

[ardypilot]

Woah, that second video is exactly like I remember. Thanks for the link A185F!

Kelburn- how did you figure that first video is from an A320?

[Kelburn]

The instruments:
It has two side by side for the Captain and First Officer and there are also tow LCD screens for the engines.

Also there was the classic:

50
40
RETARD
20
10

(it's a wonder why Airbus pilots don't end up getting depressed from their aircraft verbally abusing them)

[ardypilot]

Also there was the classic:

50
40
RETARD

Hahaha- just watched that again and realised the RETARD WTH?

[G-HEVN]

retard: verb; to slow down or pull back.

Good to see a classic London fog! Shame FS is still really bad at those shallow, dense fog layers. Somewhere I have a picture of Heathrow that's just a blanket of fog with the control tower poking out the top! I'll try to dig it out...

[pois0n]

retard: verb; to slow down or pull back.

Depends how you interpret it

Definitions of retard on the Web:

* check: slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
* cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"
* be delayed
* idiot: a person of subnormal intelligence
* decelerate: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

[brownbox]

oooo, flying into heathrow looks fun!!

[Matthew]

I like doing that in the PSS 777-300ER, its fun

[towerguy]

don't need to go to London to try it - NZAA is now catII and full catIII starts either later this year or early next. I know as I'm doing all the study now of all the new systems we are getting and all the new procedures to go with them - hence not a lot of flightsimming time and the slow down on the world tour.

It will be 23L only.

[ZKTOM]

(it's a wonder why Airbus pilots don't end up getting depressed from their aircraft verbally abusing them)

Hey! That was my line!!!

[A185F]

and full catIII starts either later this year or early next.

It will be 23L only.

I heard that, is that because of international flights having nowhere to go if all the suitable airports are fogged out...? also to what level of cat III ?? and why only 23L ?? sorry for all the qs

[Duckman]

I can remember beingon a flight like that into Munich... it was raining aswell and I've gotta say it was the only time I've ever been frightened on an aeroplane when we suddenly touched down.