I'm actually impressed by what I saw. You pros can speculate how the captain got into trouble, but I marvel at how deftly he got out of it. I've never flown a real aircraft, but I've done a few approaches on FlightSim. That looked like the 747 equivalent of fish tailing into the parking space. I can just see the guy pushing the rudder pedal to the floor!
I totally agree with ya, he did what he was supposed to!!!
You should seen me on my checkride today, in the sim, Wasn't pretty single engine on fire, then the sim decided to crap out and go into manual revision mode. Basically no power steering, it was my right leg against 41,000 lbs of burning aircraft, it got hairy for a few, but hey we walked away. It wasn't my fault and would probably never happen that way in real life due to all the back up systems that are in place. But I keep my job for another six months.
Steak wine and nice cigar for me. Every six months my job is on the line and I hate it. Makes me wanna quit and open a cigaa' store.....
Shane