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Much like Kerbal Space Program, but a little more expensive...
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Reminds me of Cabin Pressure:
MARTIN: A firm landing is a safe landing
CAROLYN: If that landing had been any safer, we'd all be dead -
Bloody hell. Looks like there’s more going on there than a simple crosswind. Given how rough the weather looks, it’s actually a pretty decent landing, maybe a little heavy on the rear/right gear but at least none of the engines hit the ground.
I bet the passengers shat themselves.
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Being an airbus, I doubt the physical controls were doing anything more than being held steady at the heading bug. All that flapping around is probably the computer’s doing since the whole thing is 100% fly by wire...
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If I were driving an A380 then I'm sure that the only landing that I could walk away from would be one I made would be in a simulator!
A lot of Cargospotter's videos involve crosswinds. Watch the start of this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9n7ShkOJ0
and look at the rudder deflections immediately before and after touchdown.In the video posted by @fussballclub, there is what looks like full left rudder before touchdown, and then full right rudder afterwards, leading to the oscillations that passengers at the back of the aircraft must have found very uncomfortable.
Not sure what the crosswind components were in the two videos, but the crab angles look similar
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passengers at the back of the aircraft must have found very uncomfortable.
Talking of which...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpxsgDpX3uo
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Says here was the pilots landed the plane.
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Yeah, I didn't mean it was auto landing, rather that every control in an airbus goes though the computer, which does a load of extra stuff in order to simplify input.
You can't take an airbus out of it's envelope (bank angles etc) like you can with Boeings, which have more direct control. I.e; a 747 would at least let you try to do a barrel roll, whereas an A330 will just stop at 45 degrees or something, from what I understand.
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Don't forget that modern Boeing models (777 and 787) are fully fly by wire as well - although Boeing and Airbus might have different ideas about how far they'll allow the pilots push the envelope.
As you said though, the flight control computers stop the pilots doing some stuff towards the edge of the envelope, but they don't move the elevator, ailerons or rudder by themselves if the aircraft is being flown normally.
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Down the rabbit hole of Nasa's Flickr account... They used to make some really weird stuff.
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X-24B on Lakebed by NASA on The Commons, on Flickr
Tier 3 DarkStar on Ramp by NASA on The Commons, on Flickr
X-2 with Collapsed Nose Wheel by NASA on The Commons, on Flickr
HL-10 on Lakebed with B-52 flyby by NASA on The Commons, on Flickr
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Excellent book on the history of the R101 airship, and you can listen to the audio book it for free:
http://www.engineerguy.com/airship/