Nice Picture...

[Jbb]

Camera angle matters...lol...
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/860LandikngatSFO.jpg
Look at this incredible picture taken by a German aviation photographer.
A Lufthansa 747-400 and a United 757-200 are on a simultaneous landing
approach on the parallel runways 28L and 28R at SFO.
Real runway separation is 225 meters.
Due to the telephoto distortion, the Jumbo 747 being 3 times larger than
the 757 and being behind it, gives us this fantastic optical illusion that
they are flying inches from each other!!!

[barbigrl]

That is a trip!!

[RiverOtter]

Very Cool :supp:

[tamalewagon]

great pix!

[PHX ATC]

Whew! For a fleeting second, I thought you caught me working there. :crossx:

[HCS]

I think there hooked together. :rolleyes:

[BarryMac]

Guess, I picked the wrong day to quit sniffen glue...

[DogHouse]

Whew! For a fleeting second, I thought you caught me working there. :crossx:
Nice work there ATC!!! ;)
So, as a builder of advanced avionics systems, I've always wondered if you ATC types actually let the pilots fly our optimized FMS descent/approach profiles or do you always intervene and vector them off somewhere?
:boxed:

[sam pioske]

Between the two is the cessna 150 i drove in there some years ago Do THEY still allow that???

[WYRD]

hummmm that is.....well different! :D

[HCS]

That's why you don't fly United! :jawdrop:

[WYRD]

Ladies and Gentlemen this is your captin and if you kindly look out the right side of the plane you will see a HOLY JUMPIN JACKBEANS BATMAN IT IS A JUMBO JET LANDIN ON OUR AZZ!!!!!! :mix:

[PHX ATC]

Nice work there ATC!!! ;)
So, as a builder of advanced avionics systems, I've always wondered if you ATC types actually let the pilots fly our optimized FMS descent/approach profiles or do you always intervene and vector them off somewhere?
:boxed:
Funny thing is...almost 99.9% of the time (except this year with all the crappy weather) they get visual approaches into PHX. So, pretty much the crew is tracking the profiles of the ILS and whatever else they can think of, while "flying" it the old fashioned way.
Every once in a great while, we'll get an announcement that a pilot will be doing an autoland. Mostly FedEx, UPS, ABex, and I think a few United and a couple of American flights will do it. It's pretty cool to watch the plane land itself, flip out it's reversers and associated metallic paraphanelia, brake and slow roll to a stop on the runway.
It's not often we get to see that as they are usually nuts to butts flying in here with no chance to take even 5 extra seconds on the runway than they need to do that stuff.
Way cool though, I must admit. :shift:

[MsDrmr]

Ladies and Gentlemen this is your captin and if you kindly look out the right side of the plane you will see a HOLY JUMPIN JACKBEANS BATMAN IT IS A JUMBO JET LANDIN ON OUR AZZ!!!!!! :mix:
well said ;)