Night landings. Wait...I've only been out here a few years. Is that a lighted golf course right at 1:00 in the bottom middle? Got to look that up. During one of your day-time, left-side [DL] videos I saw an interesting "white ring" around a development south east of Madison and 54th. What was that? The Gene Autry Estate. Wow! He has a buffer of what appears to be about 150 foot of nothing but plowed sand all they way around his very good sized lot, lake and house. Anyway, thanks for the videos. I'm learning about my area.
Thanks Kenneth. At 6:34 I am looking at the view, if you took and X through the corners of the picture and a + from midpoints across, the intersection of all the lines through this "O" would be where I live. This is the best vicinity shot I have ever seen of my location. Thanks again. I'll be waving. That large water hazard right in the middle is the one out back of my place. I do practice shots from my backyard to the nearest sand trap in the middle of the fairway. You can see it there. Hah. And there's the dam. Once when the dam was completely blocking canal water I was reaching in the canal for balls, and slipped in. The water was only 18 inches deep but it was weird being down in there. Wouldn't want to be a big horn sheep in that canal. Just before Cahuilla Lake [upper middle right] there are ropes across the canal. Plenty of ladders along the way. Still weird. Thanks for the picture.
See all those green areas, folks? That is UNNATURAL! Everywhere you see green is a irrigation systems of some sort. People are/were not supposed to live in the DESERT!
The Palm Springs area has a natural ground spring and has natural oasis. But it’s grown beyond that. That said it’s no different than running a pipe to a neighborhood that’s not on a natural water source anywhere. That’s how homes get water that don’t have independent wells. My great grandmother years ago had a hand oil in her kitchen. So sometimes homes are on top of natural water but it’s certainly rare.
At 3:00 I was able to make out that other airport down by the freeway, and the intersection I think, at bottom left for Jefferson and the freeway, and at the end of Jefferson, the church I went to two weeks ago...just beyond the school.
@@jeffreyhill8040 Perhaps I am a Dennis Watson who just found out that the self-propelled one car train that came to Palouse and Pullman from Spokane, was not "THE BUG" as I have thought for decades, but rather the railroad in the NorthWest was part of a number of railroads over the nation that had a use for the limited range of the self-propelled "BUDD" cars. BUDD.... not BUG!!!! And which jeffreyhill8040 are you?
@@DennisWatson-gu3uy Yes, but those of us who watched it pass thru town twice a day for years on end, did indeed call it The Bug. But I read up a bunch online maybe fifteen years ago and learned that it was an RDC something-or-other made by the Budd Company. So, I wonder if someone just gave it a new name before our time.
These Palm Springs airline views been popping up on RU-vid about a month for me. Funny seeing you here, but I was sure it was you because of the geographical notes and the grammar and spelling (of all things).
@@jeffreyhill8040 That's hilarious Jeff. Well when Richard here has a camera and sits on the left side of the plane and flies into Palm Springs, and posts the video, these are great views of the territory I'm in. You know, to find escape routes and such. In case one is being chased. Say by a Rambler sedan...with... dents on the roof?
Loved it. I could just see a bit of where I live for just a second at 2:09 towards that uplift of a little mountain there in the middle at bottom. Keep trying Ken. I have watched three of your approaches. I like it when you sit on the lift side of the plane.
I’m often on the right side so I get less sun when traveling west and can enjoy the scenery out the window… but likely will end up on the left in the future. In the right side again in a couple of days.
@@kennethpiner Well, I'm often watching flightradar24 to check your planes I see visually as they approach PSP by flying near over PGA. It is nice to see one looking back at me. I'm always wondering as they fly by, "Where you been?" Now I can figure it out.
Coming in from east. I have landed hundreds of times in Palm Springs, as a passenger. This is the first approach I have seen from this direction. I have always landed from the reverse direction, both in Metroliners, as in 337, or Airbus.
Great Video...Thanks for sharing. One thing that would make it more interesting would be to have a map in the lower left corner that shows the track of the plane and basically where it is located at the time, so that it matches up with the aerial view. And, for us pilots, it would be great to know your altitude and speed. Do something like Flight Radar. Also, it would be nice (in the description) to tell us what type of aircraft you are flying. I am a pilot (have not flown in a long time) and a photographer. When I did video's like yours my views increased then I put a flight tracker in the bottom of the screen. Thanks again for the great video.
@@mrdennischapman this instance it was American Air 781 from ORD to PSP - Boeing 737-823 (WL) N908AN Thanks for the suggestion perhaps I can add that in for future videos. Will have to figure that out.
In the early 1970's I lived in the San Jacinto valley, on the otherside of the mountains from Palm Springs. My buddy's and I would leave a car in the Mt. San JacintoTram parking lot, drive around to Idyllwild. And then hike up to the peak of Mt San Jacinto. You had to buy a ticket ride the tram up to the peak but it was free to ride down.
From the air that may seem to be the case but it’s actually quite lovely in many ways. You have to embrace the beauty of the desert - which is very different, yet very beautiful in its own way. I’m grateful to have a connection to this place.
A few years ago I’d done a residency at the Palm Springs Air Museum and though I flew in and out of PSP many times, the best flights were in the museum’s C47 -what my father flew in WW II over The Hump.
I flew and took students to palm springs airport routinely in government helicopters. We would fly in and out of all of those mountains that surround KPSP. Good times, but retirement is better.
Definitely plan a trip. In the meantime here’s a video I did in the past about visiting in the summer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3OSrrau77LQ.htmlsi=aPPFhAT9YO9a8wmZ
I live in SoCal and have been to PS many times but never by plane. What a view! The barren hills make me think of living on another planet! Great video!
New York City really has tow (2) Downtown Areas in one (1), based on Skyscraper / High-Rise Building Massing, "LOWER MANHATTAN" and "UPPER MANHATTAN". In the USA, only Chicago is 2nd in terms of Downtown Skyscraper / High-Rise Building Massing. Great Views!!
