Take-off or landing...can anyone guess?

[Denny Yen 0]

This Dragon Air A330 was captured in KHH/RCKH without any caption (EXIF data says 2004). The pilots must have had nerves of steel to be able to pull this off.

 

Is this a take-off or landing...can anyone guess?

 

[Raj 0]

Landing

[Jessnor Arif 1]

looks like Standard Operating Procedure for crosswind landing

[Kevin Teh 0]

wah crosswind landing? canot be rotating at the threashold at such an angle rite?

Edited July 5, 2007 by Kevin Teh

[LeeTZ 1]

Crosswind landing

[Ellist 0]

extremely high-skilled X-wind landing

[FK Wong 0]

i can see the threshold there....shortfield takeoff? lol...hehe...=P..landing of course...

[Mohd Nizam 0]

Piano key is there .. definitely landing ..

[Teoh Z Yao 0]

Landing. See aslo the flaps. Just a normal x-wind landing, no?

[Gavin Andrew David 6]

Piano Keys in sight

Flaps at landing setting .. hmm

Nothing else I suppose

But could be a take off , very very very early rotation Provided he can enter the runway way before piano keys

[Pieter C. 5]

My guess is LANDING, however, no full-flaps due to high (cross)winds

 

Quite daring I must say; does anyone know the max. x-wind factor for the A330 ?

[Yusoff 1]

I say that is an extremely mad landing. not to say darn interesting. reminds me of Kai Tak...

Hmm.. if its a take off, it must have been a new experimental Airbus jet using a very advance VSTOL technology for pax aircraft.. wakakakaa...

Edited July 6, 2007 by Yusoff

[PC Yuen 0]

Very much of a typical crosswind landing procedure. Could it be 25kts crosswind?

[Louis L. 2]

flaps setting seems to be in landing position...guess should be landing.....

Edited July 6, 2007 by Louis L.

[Min Chun 0]

Landing for me

[Radzi 2]

Interesting picture.

 

Runway 27 crosswind landing. Not for the faint-hearted.

[Mohd Yohan 0]

clearly landing.....but for a crosswind with an angle like that........woah! too much

[T Azahan 1]

last exit shown is 'F'. 'E' to the right so exit 'A' shud be on the right as well but further down. so its landing.

[LeeCH 0]

Requires balls of steel for such a landing. I will probably f****ed it up big time if I was doing it. More often than not, the pressure to straighten the nose will consume all the thoughts and attention and hence forgetting or not enough flare applied. End result?? Plenty of smoke after that. And I am trying to improve, for learning is part of every flight.....

[TK 0]

GO AROUND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yusoff 1]

Balls and nerves of steel...Yup, go around is way much better rather than smokes the tyres or anything... or land somewhere else like what happened last time at PEN.

[JosQi 0]

Is this a photoshop touch-up picture?

 

.....look like - landing.

 

but...

 

the heat after the engine, if extreme cross wind. the smoke/heat after engine doesn't make sense in this way.

and the shadow.

 

but in this picture.... we can't see any shadow. except a little part of wing.

 

i guess.. is a photoshop touch-up picture. but the plane is in landing post.

Edited August 8, 2007 by JosQi