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hevensdragon
hevensdragon
August 18th, 2025 7:35 AM

Yeah you occasionally get a pilot that is extremely experienced and the landing is super smooth. Had one that managed to make it so smooth I didn’t even realize we were on the ground despite being fully alert and talking to the person next to me.
But most a at least a bit bumpy.

Orlet
Orlet
August 18th, 2025 10:47 AM
Reply to  hevensdragon

In reality, a pilot may intentionally choose a firmer landing, for multitude of reasons, but most important ones being braking action and runway length. Brakes will work best with the full weight of the aircraft on the wheels, and in order to get that sooner you usually have to plant the landing gear firmer. As for runway length, well, those aren’t infinite. And depending on how heavy the plane is, how good the braking action is (wet runway will have worse braking, for example), noise constraints (for thrust reverser use), you may have to do a faster/firmer landing too, so you don’t risk overshooting (floating) the landing zone, or running off the end of the runway because you didn’t brake enough. There can also be mechanical constraints, such as wing spoilers requiring certain amount of weight on wheels to pop up, and firmer landing will get them up faster; an so forth.

Source: I watch too much aviation videos on Youtube 😀

Torbjörn Larsson
Torbjörn Larsson
August 18th, 2025 9:31 AM

Sooner or later every airplane passenger will find that Earth rocks.

Yuki will have to get used to Earth creature comforts.

Montana
Montana
August 18th, 2025 2:49 PM

is Mount Fuji copyrighted?

anony
August 18th, 2025 5:48 PM
Reply to  Montana

Pretty sure landscape features can’t be copyrighted.

Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan
August 18th, 2025 8:42 PM
Reply to  Montana

I don’t think Fuji is flat on top like that.

Torbjörn Larsson
Torbjörn Larsson
August 19th, 2025 1:54 AM
Reply to  Chris Ryan

The volcano outlet “cut-of-the-cone” is not quite that broad, else it’s a fair rendition – as volcanoes goes, Mount Fuji is not only large but rather “ideally” formed.

guest
guest
August 19th, 2025 9:05 AM
Reply to  Sage

I think the misunderstanding might be that they are at Haneda in the city, not at Narita in Chiba. Many international flights tend to go to Narita, but private planes tend to the old Haneda airport. Based on the building and the perspective they seem to be standing near the middle of the Haneda terminal 3 building somewhere around parking spot 123 looking over the building.

darkoneko
August 18th, 2025 4:00 PM

wooh Fujisan

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