Wow those are some awesome pilots! Airline pilots what's it like to land in these conditions? I know part of it is an optical illusion, but I looks almost like they are hovering, blowing around in the wind. That said, the smoke off the wheels tell you otherwise. What was the vehicle with lights on doing in one of the landings? It pulled up and stopped in the background on or near the end of the runway.
All Dash 8's? Different airlines. The early ones had a history of main gear failure on landing... think they had to beef them up. The vehicle w/ emergency lights didn't look like it stopped to me... Telephoto lens forshortens everything.
What do you think is wrong with the design???? Many (100's) in the US... Horizon, United Express, Continental, etc. etc. many regionals use them. It's really a great plane... made in Canada by Bombardier, from the deHavilland dash 8.
Those folks have some chops! Great video for illustrating the importance of a go-around - why you should never feel compelled to force the landing.
Until the jet age, most large airports were built with three (or more) runways in an equilateral-triangle arrangement, providing runways 60 degrees apart, so that significant crosswinds were never a problem. Even airports we don't think of as that way today, such as Atlanta, Miami, New York (JFK) and London (LHR) had that arrangement. But with the advent of large jets which seem to be more tolerant of crosswinds, many airports today have all the runways in the same direction, or nearly so, just as the aforementioned ATL, MIA and LHR, or at most in a 90 degree layout, like JFK. The other runways are either long gone or are now used, in part, as taxiways. But I think pilots of these smaller aircraft wish they were still there!
