Do pilots feel adrenalin?

Question

Do pilots feel adrenalin while landing a huge A380 or Boeing 747 or any heavy aircraft during storm or crosswind... or it's just routine and it's all up to electronics? Are pilots sure about soft landing on such aircrafts?

Answer 1

The answer to that is the a380 is still to new. not many pilotys have had a chance flying it yet but as for the 747 and the 777 pilots do get it but also have to be calm same time that way there is no crash of any sort.

Answer 2

The first few are always stressful but with time and doing it over and over it gets routine. Some landings are smooth and some are less smooth, sometimes you are on your game and sometimes you are a little off.

Answer 3

I'm sure all pilots get an adrenaline rush during some aspect of flying, otherwise nobody would want to be a pilot.  Landing large planes in heavy crosswinds can definitely give you a rush, but at the same time pilots have to keep a cool head and know their limits, so they don't take unnecessary risks with theirs, and other passengers lives.

Answer 4

Sure, during a storm.  

It isn't up to electronics--it's up to handflying.  

The best landing is not always a soft one.

Answer 5

In some situation, they sure do. Being a private pilot myself, prior to 9/11, I was often asking to visit the cockpit and was allowed to do so on long commercial flights.

At such an occasion, I asked the pilot of a 747 if the landing style of the pilots was different. He answered that, according to Boeing, they should land the plane much harder but if they did, passengers would complain, so they land very softly.

The reason for the 'hard' landing is that an aircraft must be either flying or rolling and the transition must be as short as possible. Especially in crosswind condition.

This is something that, as a private pilot of a little tailwheel aircraft, I agree with very much.

Answer 6

if a storm or crosswind is bad enough for adrenaline rush, then why are they not diverting?

Answer 7

No, not really.  It's exciting your first few months flying a big jet, but after a while, like everything else, it becomes a job and second nature.  Landing a plane, no matter how big, becomes routine rather quickly, even when the weather sucks.  Of course, we always try to make it as soft as possible.  I mean, computers have taken over all aspects of flying and landing is all we have left.