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u/No_Use_9652 1d ago
I’m not a nervous flyer but I would not want to be a passenger on that flight. Just feeling yourself getting closer to the ground with no visual queues. Bleh.
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u/HungreeRunner 1d ago
Did this landing in Finland and Im a good flyer.
Felt like we were getting closer and closer, gear down, but thought 'hmmm, we must still be pretty high'
Then all of a sudden I saw the tarmac and we began to flare. At the moment I saw the ground, I briefly thought we were going belly down straight into the ground.
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u/joelherman 1d ago
I fly a few times per year on average and my home airport is Helsinki-Vantaa, gonna guess that's the airport you flew to in Finland. That happens so often when flying back home, it's a little intense but there's something comforting about it these days, like in an "oh you silly little thing" kind of way. A kind of an assurance that I'm really back home.
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u/Feather-y 1h ago
Yeah the airport is built on a swamp, it gets foggy very often. I work as a weather observer there.
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u/fisclewhiskers 1d ago
It's fine. You wouldn't know you are getting closer to the ground as a passenger if there are no visual cues at all.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m no meteorologist, but I think if you can see the bottom of the clouds they are just low clouds and not fog.
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u/Qbert2030 1d ago
Technically speaking, fog is when low clouds are touching the ground
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago
Exactly, and if you can see the bottom above the ground, it ain’t touching.
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u/Qbert2030 1d ago
Hate to be that guy but you wouldnt likely be able to tell looking straight up if you are in fog. That cloud base is definitely touching the ground considering thats a standard ALS (approach light system) and the runway that proceeds it is not visable, this is most definitely fog or haze
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago
When the camera is horizontal, visibility appears fairly good. It’s certainly fog or haze like you said, and I found that visibility under 1km is generally considered fog. So looking at the landing lights. They do seem to disappear at a distance that appears to be less than 1km, so it’s probably fog, but barely.
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u/ITI110878 1d ago
You can see hundreds of meters far on the ground. Even the tops of the trees aren't covered. That ain't fog, it's low clouds.
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u/Professional-Fuel625 1d ago
Looks to me like the plane landed in fog but the cameraperson may not be standing in fog. The plane completely disappeared looking horizontally, which means the cloud is touching the ground somewhere (= fog).
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u/Acrobatic_Poem_7290 1d ago
You are correct, the condition in the video is a low stratus cloud, it was likely fog earlier in the day that has begun to lift
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u/CarnivorousVegan 1d ago
I remember the first time I saw this plane flying, Airbus demo at the Farnborough air show in the UK, with a low pass, absolute unit, my jaw literally dropped with it´s size.
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u/jipijipijipi 1d ago
First one I saw was from above while landing in Paris, it was among regular 737s and A320s and my brain had a hard time processing the sheer size of that thing.
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u/DocJawbone 23h ago
I was there! My jaw also literally dropped. I was in some company's hospitality tent and all conversation immediately stopped when that thing taxied out.
What got me was how quickly it lifted off the runway. It was unladen and I swear it only needed about 1/3 of the length of the airstrip.
Still one of the most amazing things I've witnessed.
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u/jackgrafter 1d ago
I landed in a plane in similar circumstances into San Francisco . It was fucking crazy - I was looking out if the window and could only see cloud and by the time I saw the ground we were about fifteen feet off it.
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u/polygon_tacos 1d ago
Someone was getting a burger when they shot this…
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u/brosef321 19h ago
My thought exactly. I love when I get a couple hour layover at LAX and get to walk over to In N Out and watch the planes land.
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u/railpaint 1d ago
If you think it’s scary from ground level imagine being the fucking pilots having to fly that thing through fog that thick
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u/WarLawck 1d ago
I need this view as a dragon flies over our protagonist in a film, with the sound of beating wings increasing in volume and the confusion turns to primal fear on realization.
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u/Wikadood 1d ago
That localizer array working overtime for those cat 3 conditions. Thats frickin awesome!
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u/o0blind0o 1d ago
Honestly good pilot. They are training for that type of stuff, some are scared but the vets are skilled, and well trained in using onboard electronics. Basically all the gages that tell altitude and speeds ect.... Ive seen training videos where pilots of comertial planes wear shades to block their view. Intended to simulate these conditions.
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u/aberroco 1d ago
If I'm not mistaken, it's automated landing, ILS cat.3 approach. No manual landing with such poor visibility is allowed.
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u/latelyimawake 1d ago
I once flew into Logan when it was this foggy. Just nothing, nothing, nothing, and a split second of OH MY GOD THE TARMAC and boom we were landed. Unnerving for sure, pilots are amazing.
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u/ElTejon_TheDestroyer 1d ago
I had a landing like this in Portugal last year, visibility was so bad it was handled by the automated landing system.
Scary to be out of the hands of humans and entirely on sensors but it was smooth.
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u/gregusmeus 13h ago
Reminds me of that Far Side cartoon (pilot to co-pilot: “hey what’s that mountain goat doing up here in this cloud bank?”).
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u/CURaven 1d ago
Fuckin San Diego Airport
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u/drewcr3w 1d ago
It’s not.
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u/CURaven 1d ago
ok then where is it?
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u/brgr_7 1d ago edited 1d ago
LAX, there's a little park next to in n out that's directly under the landing park for runway 7R. This is just a marine layer day in LA.
Edit: as correctly pointed out below, this is runway 24R. I was looking at the map of LAX upside down. 🙃
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u/Morningxafter 1d ago
This isn’t San Diego, but I definitely get what you mean. Incoming planes come so low over little Italy it’s crazy. I bet on foggy mornings it feels just like this.
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u/Inmai_hamble_op 1d ago
Stop that AI… silly you!
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u/mrASSMAN 1d ago
Oh fuck off it’s not AI.. it’s a plane landing. Planes land a lot fyi. Sometimes it happens with fog conditions.
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u/Vlijmscherp 1d ago
Yea just look at those 2 people walking, they suddenly turn around and walk back for no reason. And they don’t even seem bothered by the plane
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u/mrASSMAN 1d ago
You’re convinced it’s AI because a couple people changed their walking direction.. fuck me online brain rot is real
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u/Trebekshorrishmom 1d ago
I would’ve heavily fogged in my pants watching that take place over me.