Wizz Air performs low flyby during airshow in Budapest

bizjets101 · Post by **bizjets101** » Fri May 09, 2014 5:28 pm

YouTube VIDEO

Published on 9 May 2014

Enjoy our short footage of Wizz Air's low pass over downtown Budapest during the airshow on May 1 2014.

Cpt David Morgan and Cpt András Árday made the first ever low altitude fly-by overhead the bridges of Budapest with an Airbus jetliner.

An extended footage of the flight will be available soon.

Made by Tamás Bodorics and András Mihalik.

Changes in Latitudes · Fri May 09, 2014 7:32 pm

And the award for worst airline name goes to...

Rouge

Tail-Chaser · Post by **Tail-Chaser** » Fri May 09, 2014 7:57 pm

I see what you did there...

FenderManDan · Post by **FenderManDan** » Fri May 09, 2014 8:37 pm

It could have been Pooh Air....

AirFrame · Post by **AirFrame** » Fri May 09, 2014 9:55 pm

I don't understand why gear down... In the possibly unlikely event that the event went sideways, would you really want to be hoping that the gear would retract in time before the water landing?

Changes in Latitudes · Fri May 09, 2014 11:07 pm

AirFrame wrote:I don't understand why gear down... In the possibly unlikely event that the event went sideways, would you really want to be hoping that the gear would retract in time before the water landing?

The dreaded dual engine failure with stuck landing gear. I'm glad you're not my sim instructor.

digits_ · Post by **digits_** » Sat May 10, 2014 12:17 am

Quite disappointing that they flew over the bridges

Oscar · Post by **Oscar** » Sat May 10, 2014 12:49 am

I don't understand why gear down

It's for an airshow....the gear down gives more visual effect for the spectators

Mig29 · Post by **Mig29** » Sat May 10, 2014 4:40 am

It looks like Hudson River go-around to me, they better call in Sully

FICU · Post by **FICU** » Sat May 10, 2014 4:55 am

Changes in Latitudes wrote:And the award for worst airline name goes to...

Looking at the paint they could have called it "Air Barney"... hang on a sec I gotta take a...

hst · Post by **hst** » Sat May 10, 2014 5:48 am

I don't understand why gear down...

How about GPWS warnings like "Too Low Gear" or "Terrain, Terrain, (Whoop Whoop) Pull Up"?

AirFrame · Post by **AirFrame** » Sat May 10, 2014 2:35 pm

You need a ground proximity warning when you're flying 200' above the ground? I'd hope you know your airplane and sight lines from the cockpit better than that.

The dreaded dual engine failure with stuck landing gear. I'm glad you're not my sim instructor.

One flock of birds can ruin your whole day. I don't think Sully went into the Hudson with gear down either.

Rockie · Post by **Rockie** » Sat May 10, 2014 3:17 pm

AirFrame wrote:You need a ground proximity warning when you're flying 200' above the ground? I'd hope you know your airplane and sight lines from the cockpit better than that.

That's not it. GPWS/EGPWS is not the easiest thing to disable on a transport Category airplane from a MEL/regulatory standpoint or practically for that matter, and the simpler solution is just to do the flypast thingy with the gear down in the landing configuration.

AirFrame · Post by **AirFrame** » Sat May 10, 2014 3:56 pm

Ah, that makes more sense. They just wanted to silence the warnings. One annoying thing about having a GPS that's tied into your intercom is the constant "terrain, terrain" warning that it keeps b*tching in your ear... At least, when flying around the Vancouver area where being near mountains is normal. You'd think Garmin employees all lived on the prairies...

hst · Post by **hst** » Sat May 10, 2014 6:25 pm

I'd hope you know your airplane and sight lines from the cockpit better than that.

I do

arctic_slim · Post by **arctic_slim** » Sun May 11, 2014 5:47 am

Rockie wrote:
AirFrame wrote:You need a ground proximity warning when you're flying 200' above the ground? I'd hope you know your airplane and sight lines from the cockpit better than that.
That's not it. GPWS/EGPWS is not the easiest thing to disable on a transport Category airplane from a MEL/regulatory standpoint or practically for that matter, and the simpler solution is just to do the flypast thingy with the gear down in the landing configuration.

Having the gear down would not necessarily silence an EGPWS. A GPWS not sure but the EGPWS was not silenced by the gear being down if you were not near an airport.

If I remember correctly the Dash-8 had one button to push to disable the EGPWS, we used it when going into strips that were not in the database. Even with gear and flaps down it would still yell "terrain Terrain" when getting low. The disable button was part of the checklist.

I would think an aircraft like an A320 would have something similar to disable it whether gear is down or not. Maybe its totally different from the Dash-8 so correct me if im wrong.

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Sun May 11, 2014 11:33 am

The EGPWS in the 320 can (and must be) disabled when going into airports not in the database. Some individual warnings such as flaps and glideslope warning can also be disabled.

Blakey · Post by **Blakey** » Sun May 11, 2014 11:43 am

Changes in Latitudes wrote:And the award for worst airline name goes to...

Rouge

I don't know; the competition is pretty fierce in this category!

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 20140510-0

Kramer may disagree.

Changes in Latitudes · Sun May 11, 2014 11:57 am

Blakey wrote:
Changes in Latitudes wrote:And the award for worst airline name goes to...

Rouge
I don't know; the competition is pretty fierce in this category!

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 20140510-0

Kramer may disagree.

Resume SENT!

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Sun May 11, 2014 1:18 pm

AirFrame wrote:I don't understand why gear down... In the possibly unlikely event that the event went sideways, would you really want to be hoping that the gear would retract in time before the water landing?

Just like how the Airbus computer wizards made it so that if you attempt to set take off power with the park brake on, you must obviously be trying to take off so the computor automatically releases it for you a la Ethiad ground test. I'm sure it's an equally well though out computer thing that goes something like; If you go below 200' with the gear down the wings probably automatically fall off cause you're obviously suicidal...

Just like that first airbus airshow crash where the test pilots tried to go around but the computer retarded the power for them cause they were obviously trying to land...

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Sun May 11, 2014 6:06 pm

What the hell do you mean "Air Barney"!!! My paint job is perfect with no runs or elephant snot, no fisheye or orange peel.

Barney

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Sun May 11, 2014 6:56 pm

Captain Morgan

AirFrame · Post by **AirFrame** » Sun May 11, 2014 7:19 pm

Old Dog Flying wrote:What the hell do you mean "Air Barney"!!! My paint job is perfect with no runs or elephant snot, no fisheye or orange peel.

Might not be peeling, but it *is* orange...

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Mon May 12, 2014 2:46 am

And you are colour blind. It is RCAF Trainer Yellow. Bloody kids!

linecrew · Post by **linecrew** » Mon May 12, 2014 3:12 am

Second pass by the A320 was gear up with a bit more speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOIuCFQXvQM

The rest of the airshow looked pretty good too with the opening act being Peter Besenyi (world aerobatic champion and Red Bull Air Race developer) taking off from a bridge in an Extra 300:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC5bJAUMRhc

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