They have to use such high thrust because that runway is so short plus the air is usually hot which is a factor in how much thrust is needed and then yet all the residents gripe and complain about the noise 🙄. They want to live near the airport but not hear any noise. If this runway could be extended about 2000 feet they wouldn’t have to rocket out of there
The very best take off I've ever experienced out of SNA was a Southwest flight to OAK and I chose to sit in the very last row, co-pilot side window seat. I so enjoyed and loved the takeoff, it made you feel like you were in a rocket. I can't wait to travel out of SNA again. Richard/ California
noise abatement requirements....that is why they need full power to climb quick and level out...thank you for the video John Wayne is a great Airport...right about 7:07 in the video there is a square small body of water off the engine right above that is where my dad is resting. He was my Best Friend.......hope you had a great flight.....Awsome Video.......
Not to mention they also need full thrust because the air is hot and the runway is only about 5700 feet long. If they had 2000 more feet of runway they wouldn’t have to use so much thrust and therefore not as loud. Wealthy People move close to the airport for the convenience then complain about the noise 🥴
For university, Southwest was my form of transportation to San Jose every semester. Trust me, I experienced this a handful of times every year. It feels like a big sumo wrestler laying on you. Thank you for sharing this. I am glad Southwest still operates at this lovely airport.
Easily the best recent sna takeoff video ive seen. Great spool up, got up quick and steep and great engine cutback. Gotta love sna takeoffs, its like a roller coaster launch lol. Lucky enough this is my home airport. Sorry about the screaming child.
Love the vid man. Great work...If you don't falcon punch the kid, I'll do it for you... too many events all happening at the same time. Full-power take off = Annoying 3 year old = Noise abatement procedures = Beautiful skies = Higher Fares = Newport Coast Property Values = Southwest Airlines Hospitality = Only in the OC
Definitely a blast of a takeoff , (OMG, only around 20 seconds to "rotate"), with some guttural bass notes you don't hear that often. A+++, "YAA" !!! Go SWA !!!
Great video. Hands down my favorite airport: clean, easy in and out, awesome takeoff ascent, and great views (and almost always great weather to enjoy the show).
@@YayAreaAviation Back in either 2004 or 2005, I flew on American from SNA to JFK - and holy shit, that takeoff was awesome thanks to the RB-211s their 757s had.
@@BlueLineAv : the problem is you're adding the qualifier "rated takeoff thrust" when the original comment was "full power." Those are two different things. Maximum RPM on the N1 rotor is 104% in overboost, and I've found several go-around clips where they actually used the full available power. This takeoff is around 99-100% if you do an audio analysis against a reference clip at a known RPM. Full "rated takeoff power," sure, but that's not the full power available.
Love SNA....After the morning rush, after 9:AM....If you're an "A" list with Southwest, you can literally enter the airport get in"flyway" lane at the ticket counter, the fast lane at TSA walk to your gate and board in 10 minutes...I've done that dozens of times
A noise-abatement take off from John Wayne airport. A little scary as they throttle back those engines until over the ocean. Also, a short runway there too. It always felt like we were in a little free-fall and just hanging there until going back to full power.
I wonder what would happen if they had to abort a takeoff here. I know somesome recently who was flying out of DFW and they were well down the runway going quite fast and the pilot had to slam on the brakes. The plane had to towed and they had to get a new plane for theflght. Those runways are much longer so at SNA would they be crashing at the end of the runway?
A couple of weeks ago I was on a Southwest flight out of Baltimore where we had to ABORT the take-off because the plane could not get enough AIRSPEED to rotate. Thank God we were still on the ground when the brakes were applied. This is with a longer runway too, if we were off the ground, we might not have made it.
Aloha Airlines (before they went belly up) flew to HW from here, in 737's no less, I took them twice. Long haul in a 737, I bet the tank was on "E" when they landed
Not quite. I calculate around 97.75% on the N1 rotor based on some basic math, a simple frequency analysis, and sample clips with the engine gauges visible. Still, about as high as you're likely to see in normal service.
@@ErickC I followed the same process and got 97.71%... close enough. But then I realized how that doesn't account for RU-vid's compression algorithm clipping the frequency response of the audio. Adjusting for that, plus any sunspots which may have been active that day, it does in fact work out to 100.00%. OP was correct, and in more ways than one: If you look closely at the instrument panel gauges, right next to the "100" it actually does say in tiny letters "full-ass power".
@@marcmcreynolds2827 : the compression would reduce the sample rate and you'd lose some high-end harmonics (see: Nyquist frequency), but that won't affect frequencies way down where I was measuring (there's always going to be some quantization noise, obviously, and any sample below 44.1KHz is probably going to have some of that noise in the audible range). Other ways it's probably compressing are a reduction in bit depth, but that's not going to affect any frequency response, it'll just affect the noise floor. It's entirely possible the playback rate may have been modified from the original recording, which would have a pitch-shifting effect (kind of like NTSC to PAL and vice-versa) but I doubt it. I've uploaded videos to RU-vid and I've never had them play back at the wrong rate. 97% is also pretty consistent with most 737NG high-power or go-around videos. You raise a good point, though -how do we define "full-ass power?" Is 97% within the "full-ass power" band? Possibly. Probably. Is 97% of an ass basically an ass? Is 97% of a billion dollars still basically a billion dollars? You could probably drop 3% of an ass by shaving some hairs, so it's probably close enough.
@@ErickC > 97% of a billion dollars still basically a billion dollars? < If they're short the 3% because it was given to me... then Yes! Basically the same. *Exactly* the same.
5:35 so when the engine makes that different noise, does that mean the pilots reduced power because of the residental neighborhoods? Do they have to do that until they get over the ocean? 6:55 you can hear the engines throttle up again?
The city of Dana Point started also complaining about the noise for those routes that turn the other way. There was a proposal to fly a few miles over the ocean before continuing the climb to altitude before being allowed to turn around. Some airlines, & I think SWA was one of them, threatened to pull out of sna entirely if that was enacted.