Landing and funny taxiing in Vladikavkaz

Hello, my friends! Nice to see you!

That was a flight from Moscow to Vladikavkaz, a town in the Norhtern Caucasus. My FO was rather young and didn't have a big experienc of flying B737-800. 

That was an NDB approach, I have to help him a bit, but overall he was good.

A funny situation arised during taxi. So, watch, enjoy, and...

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Crazy windy approach on Saint Valentine's Day

Domodedovo airport is located far from seas and mountains, but rather often the air overthere is very turbulent that makes flying (and especially landings) be not easy trips.

We were prepared to face with large airspeed changes and discussed this possibility in the briefing, giving special attention to the stabilized approach awareness, but to be honest only after watching this video I saw how large were speed changes at  appx 500 feet AGL just after I had disconnected the autoflight.

This landing forced me to thought a lot about the modern view on stabilized approach criterias - according to them, this approach had to be terminated and a low altitude go-around had to be conducted.

But...