I know pilots often say “any landing you can walk away from is a good one,” but I feel like this isn’t what they were referring to? Bottom lineĬockpit video footage has been made public of a cargo Boeing 737’s landing in Paro, Bhutan, a few weeks ago.
This looks like a very not-stable approach, yet the pilots proceed to land.I love the mixed signals from the pilot doing most of the talking first he says “be careful” and “don’t worry,” and then says “good, good, good” and “come a little more”.There’s clearly a pilot in the jumpseat filming this, so was one of the pilots on some sort of a check ride (which would make sense with a captain in the right seat), or what exactly was going on here?.Please tell me I’m seeing this wrong, but is the captain in the right seat actually just filming the landing the entire way down rather than, you know, being focused on landing the plane?.The pilot in the right seat has four stripes, meaning he’s a captain, even though he’s in the first officer’s seat.But no matter how hard the airport is to operate to, this approach is on a different level.Ī few observations, thoughts, and questions: I was under the impression that pilots landing here got special training (something tells me that wasn’t the case here?). In fairness, Paro is known to be one of the most challenging airports in the world to land at, and go arounds are complicated as well. My gosh, when I first saw this video I thought someone had gotten footage of me playing Microsoft Flight Simulator while really drunk.
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