Holy cwapolo, here are two master classes in crosswind drift landings at Osaka airport.
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Oh my, that was something! I have never seen a landing like that. It was terrifying and impressive!
I can imagine how it would feel like to be a passenger there, if one doesnât know beforehand this is normal and everything is completely under control.
I never liked looking out the window at the runway while touching down. Yaw angle is sick in those videos.
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Some serious crabbing going on there, 
Libi
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I used to see this quite a lot when I lived by Sumburgh airport in the Shetland Isles. Small airport, smallish turboprops, big big winds! Some of those pilots were extraordinary!
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The only crosswind landing that was terrifying for me was sitting in the right seat of a Cessna 172, crabbing a good 15°-20° at around 40 ft above the runway. There was a wind break line of tall trees parallel to the runway, separating the airport from a farmerâs field. We dropped below the tree tops and the crosswind was GONE. The plane snapped to port, perpendicular to the runway. I looked out of my side window and saw the wing aligned with the runway. I was sure we were going to do a wing-over landing, cartwheeling down the runway. Fortunately, just before touchdown, we cleared the tree line and the crosswind snapped us back to the crab angle. That was in the â60s and Iâm still here, so all good in the end. Damn near soiled my whities, though. 
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those are fun, we have a crazy airport here in Iceland called âĂsafjörĂ°urâ, its a very tight fjörd, when if the wind is right, when landing, you fly in hugging the mountain on one side of the fjörd, feels like wing is touching the mountain, then at the bottom of the narrow fjörd, the plane does a sharp U turn, much more angle than normal in passenger flight, with some G-force even, then your hugging the other mountain and diving towards the ground, very sharply, and landing on a strip right beetween mountain and sea
worked up there long time ago, and took this ride few times, never did a landing like that without some massive screaming in the plane, ppl even fainting, but I enjoyed it alot
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For a few years I was watching the Hongkong airport landing as it has some nasty crosswinds.
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Large wind changes close to the runway can be scary. Iâve planted a couple landings a bit hard because of similar things.
Just wanted to say that I love that youâre from Iceland!
Everything Iceland is great ⊠my girlfriend even learned to pronounce âEyjafjallajökullâ, for reasons only known to her
Say cheers to the HuldufĂłlk from me!
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this I will do, when the snow melts I will get out there and give your greeting
and learning to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull is not easy, I know, my real name is one that has sounds in it that nobody not icelandic can make, living abroad it was always funny to have ppl try, so I got ppl just to call me nix, and that was very appropriate in the Netherlands (private joke if there are dutch ppl around, and Iâm guessing you are from your name)
@Whying_Dutchman hope you having a good day when you read this, and give your girlfriend a hello from Iceland
to bad we dont have a word for Gezellig in icelandic though, we missing outâŠ
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Iâm scared of flying, no way way am I watching that shit, uh-uh, not a chance!
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The only times Iâve been really afraid in the air was when I was in the right seat with my biological male parent at the controls of his Cessna 172. And Iâve flown millions of miles on commercial airlines and never came close to being that scared.
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was on the staff of a 4 star Admiral. The admiral had his own P-3 decked out for an executive with a kitchen and an office for the admiral. My station was at the comm center, right behind the cockpit. So, like any kid, Iâd run up and sit in one of the jump seats in the cockpit for take offs and landings. Flying in to Sarajevo once in winter, it was snowing to beat hell and the wind was not great. As we approached the deck, I was looking out the cockpit windows and we were at about a 70 degree angle to the runway. The pilots were chucking, I was sitting there quietly shitting myself. We hit the deck and the plane straightened out on the runway, all was good.
Edit: Oh, and combat take offs and landings in Afghanistan. Those can go straight to hell.
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I canât tell you how many times Iâve said âhe did that on purposeâ to a seat mate who was afraid of flying after the pilot lifted one wing at touchdown to align the landing gear with the runway on a major crosswind landing. That scared the s**t out of a bunch of peeps. 
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I used to love doing short approaches with passengers. âDonât worry, this is normalâ - and throw in the big slip, dive for the numbers, and drop like a rock.
Same technique- except with C-130s (and other transports), in addition to the slip they also have airbrakes and can also actually reverse the thrust, for even more drag and steeper angles. Fun fun fun. Pilots love doing this shit. I bet they were laughing.
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I learned to fly in a tail dragger (Piper Clipper). That makes crosswind landings EXTRA fun. No crabbing down the runway. The airplane wonât straighten out when you touch down, itâll ground loop.
So I learned 1 wheel touchdowns for those situations.
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Like this? 
And what happens when it doesnât go to plan.
Yup. Exactly.
You fly the plane with one wheel touching the ground for as long as you can.
Another scary one is La Paz airport (El Alto International Aiport). At 4062m (13,325 ft for you folk across the pond) itâs not the highest airport in the world but it is the highest international airport. Landing is fine, though a little worrying when I asked the stewardess why it was so empty and she casually said they couldnât go in to La Paz fully loaded because of the altitude! Itâs taking off thatâs scary; because itâs so high they need a LOT of speed and getting off the ground takes way longer that most of us are used to. It goes on and on, faster and faster, everything is rattling and shaking before you finally get off the ground. That was scary!
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