The intention of recording these videos was to show some flaws of the autopilot, as mentioned before in another thread, I HATE the CRAB-Approach, and in the first video the autopilot admitted its flaws well enough !
The plane got pushed way too much off the landing corridor to the left side, nearly crashing into this mast-like structure. Using rudder might seem to some as a good solution but this changes the vertical speed as well as the longitudinal axis trim / lateral trim.
In the second video you can see a similar difficult landing, this time the heading is just fine, but the touch down speed is so high, that the vehicle shakes a bit while slowing down.
The 3rd video is done as it should be made, being the middle of both ways, coming in a little bit fast and then slowing down a little bit so to save/ protect the wheels/ landing gear.
But then to show that an approach with 140kts or around can be made more freely and more smoothly without autopilot (compared to video one) video 4 was created, starting the approach to the right side of the landing corridor, so towards the wind, knowing that the wind will take the aircraft towards the runway with a good heading).
Video 5 then came to my mind just to show that absolutely no landing corridpr is needed at all.
(making the hunt for those cross matchings of the airfield-Aircraft ILS obsolete).. important only things are speed, sink rate (that's why i prefer a low level approach) and the heading of both aircraft and runway, as shown with the handling in combination with the MFD-Map functions !
Thus again Compass and Map are the most important items everywhere.
With this said let me criticise the Air France Flight 296 A320 Crash
in the way that whoever put trees in the landing corridor should be made at least a bit responsible, too. An Airfield should be clear, open space (hence --> FIELD) expecially in the landing corridors !
just to remember to be careful with autopilots: (Rights remaining with the video's owner)