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[–] 66 points 1 month ago (6 children)

At some point, you have to hit the ground. Your experience as a pilot determines how well that goes.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    IIRC that’s a fairly famous runway that’s extremely close to the ocean shore, and people flock to it to have a jet come in danger close over their heads.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    La Paz, Bolivia is at about 13,000 feet. That's pretty high up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    It's always interesting to see the ADS-B data from flights landing at airports like this. ADS-B only transmits the uncalibrated barometric altitude, so you see aircraft drop from 13kft to 0 once it hits the ground.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    people have a very hard time judging height from a distance... that could still be 100-200 ft from the ground.

    your 6ft frame won't be anywhere near it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The shadows appear to be midday allowing measurements from the plane's shadow to its wheels. I don't know plane size so wheels could be 4 to 5 feet tall. I can tell it is not the larger or smaller ones. Estimating from there I get 30-40 feet above ground. I would allow some perspective to account for some difference here, so I'd say it could be up to 80 feet. I highly doubt it is even 100.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    looks like it's this landing and plane

    if the video is the same plane, then it's anAirbus A321Neo

    plane specifications

    the wheels are apparently Dunlop 50.0 x 17.9 main wheels 1270 [mm]

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    While I don't disagree in general that the landing gear was above everyone on the ground, it was still an extremely low landing and came really close to a disaster. Here's a still from a higher-quality video

    FTR the "ILS RDH" (Instrument Landing System Reference Datum Height, i.e. how high the plane will be on its glide path at runway threshold) is stipulated to be between 15 m and 18 m. It is set to that height specifically to balance between a safe vertical separation to ILS antennae or other obstacles before the threshold and maximizing the landing distance. The plane was definitely below 15 m even before runway threshold, so it was a low landing for sure. I couldn't find a report published about this incident, so I don't know what the actual "threshold crossing height" was here.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    And the dude lived to tell the tale. I would listen to them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Aerial Aircraft Carriers

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