The best landing I ever had was on a Boeing 747(?) coming into LAX probably somewhere around 2000.
We were flying through a really big storm front forever. Drop. Rise. Drop. Rise. For hours.
Finally, we start coming down still bouncing all over the place. About 30 minutes outside LAX, the plane suddenly got as smooth as glass and we touched down with the lightest touch I had ever experienced.
Captain comes on: "Well, we were planning on diverting, but you can all thank the fine engineers at Boeing for bringing us down in that weather on autoland."
Guy next to me who threw up: "Why the hell couldn't they have turned that on 2 hours earlier?"
We were flying through a really big storm front forever. Drop. Rise. Drop. Rise. For hours.
Finally, we start coming down still bouncing all over the place. About 30 minutes outside LAX, the plane suddenly got as smooth as glass and we touched down with the lightest touch I had ever experienced.
Captain comes on: "Well, we were planning on diverting, but you can all thank the fine engineers at Boeing for bringing us down in that weather on autoland."
Guy next to me who threw up: "Why the hell couldn't they have turned that on 2 hours earlier?"
Pilots are done.