TAILWIND!!!!!! lol no way man... you never would land with a tailwind... headwinds or crosswinds only... a 20 kt tailwind would increase your ground speed by 20kts, so normally you would land on the other side of the runway and take advantage of a 20kt headwind to reduce your ground speed.
maybe thats what you meant?
thats a sick video thou
at full thrust (which is rare for takeoff, except on small runways, and occasionally as a normal monthly or so requirement), you could make a small truck do sommersaults... there's a cool video of it, but i cant find it at the moment.
No sir, not true, I'm not trying to start a debate on it but.... I have personally landed in Aspen, Colorado as well as other places with a tailwind. I don't prefer to do that but sometimes those are the cards you are dealt. Aspen stands out because it is considered a more difficult approach and landing than other airports. Not to mention, it's at 8'000 ft elevation. It's like you are trying to land in the bottom of a coffee cup with mountain wind currents coming down the valley. The location of the runway, aircraft weight, temperature, airport altitude, runway length and wind direction all play a part.
At St. Maarten, the only way in is over the ocean, headwind or tailwind. There is a mountain at the other end. I have roughly 15 landings there and there always seems to be that same sailboat out off the approach end of the runway, everytime we are there, weird.
You are correct as far as the increase in ground speed. I have seen gains and losses of 30 kts at times with the controls being, well......... uncontrollable. You better do it right the first time because there is no time for a second time. Imagine wrestling an airplane all the away down to the ground for 5 minutes, only to go missed approach and do it all over again. Just like the guys in the video. Been there, Sucks.
Does anybody know French? I think in that song they are singing, "I think just **** my paaants, yes I must have **** my paaants."