Is This A Normal Landing?

[uber]

Seen this today in everyones fav paper, it does look pretty low is that normal for a military aircraft?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2361593/Ty...

[illmonkey]

Street view has a clearer shot of the road and runway: http://goo.gl/maps/IAPDT

Looks like it'd have to be the norm!

[anonymous-user]

You'd be amazed how low you have to fly a plane to land it! I'm surprised it hasn't been banned.............. ;-)


/airplane movie

[lloyd h]

Its definitely lower than usual but at the same time you shouldn't really be standing under the flightpath of a landing jet for that exact reason! I know they dislike people doing it at Brize, especially if they have ladders.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

The Runway 20 Threshold at Waddo is right next to the A15, ergo, if you want to put your jet 'On the Numbers' rather than at the Instrument Touchdown Point, you are going to come in low over the road (which is exactly why there are traffic lights there).

He/she might be a tad lower than normal, but it looks like a perfectly normal visual approach to me.


What is Muppetry is standing in the undershoot, let alone being on a bloody stepladder!

[jonnyb]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

What is Muppetry is standing in the undershoot, let alone being on a bloody stepladder!

Yep. Just like those idiots that stand in the under shoot at St Martin.

[Puggit]

jonnyb said:

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

What is Muppetry is standing in the undershoot, let alone being on a bloody stepladder!

Yep. Just like those idiots that stand in the under shoot at St Martin.

I'd do it again

[Simpo Two]

Ah but the stepladder gives you the option to descend rapidly (at 9.81 m/s/s) in an emergency A sort of inverse bailing-out.

[EdBarrett]

Bags of room... Good show ol' chap!

[EdBarrett]

Bags of room... Good show ol' chap!

[FourWheelDrift]

For a Eurofighter it did seem lower than it needed to be. But at Waddington along that road there are traffic lights to stop traffic crossing if anything big is approaching. As for the viewing public, target practice, they love it.

[c7xlg]

I'd guess he did it to show off a little to the crowds.

Like the red sparrows staying VERY low after taking off at Farnborough airshow to give a close look for the people (me) watching from the heathland at the west end of the airfield.

[Jim Campbell]

The chap flying is a Royal Air Force fast jet pilot, he know's what he is doing. Things like this ought to be applauded, not send people running for health and safety reviews and hard hats. I bet the main gear touched down 1 inch beyond the threshold.

Bravo i say.

[DamienB]

From the other side of the fence... he was certainly lower on final approach than most Typhoons would be and was about 20ft lower over the piano keys as a result. Touched down past the numbers - my impression was that the nose was tweaked back a little as he crossed the hedge.





I've seen lower at both Waddington and Coningsby - including fence panels being taken out (with spotters underneath them in one case! We didn't laugh - much).

[JW911]

Having spent many hours of my childhood in more or less the same position as the cameraman, that was significantly lower than normal.

Some chap in a Mirage (I think) took out the fence a few years ago (before the current one was built) but normally you'd expect to be a good fifty feet or so higher at that point.

[EdBarrett]

JW911 said:

That was significantly lower than normal.

You'd expect to be a good fifty feet or so higher at that point.

Who cares! It was cool as fook

[eharding]

JW911 said:

Having spent many hours of my childhood in more or less the same position as the cameraman, that was significantly lower than normal.

Some chap in a Mirage (I think) took out the fence a few years ago (before the current one was built) but normally you'd expect to be a good fifty feet or so higher at that point.

They should have planted a few large trees at the threshold (and one great big sod-off oak right next to the runway midpoint) to make it more sporting, eh?