I'm not an expert, but I think you have to get pretty low to land. If you stand at the runway threshold, then that's you way too close, not the plane way too low.
I think you’re spot on. It might be handy that landing a plane always have to finish with contact on ground/surface/whatever. The parachutes pilots are using seems to be for emergency, not for regular landing. In case of using these parachutes, the plane, at the end, be ‘to low’ as well for his well-being. So, one might consider, the ‘to low’ aspect of this all might be matter of circumstances. 😊
@@pepwaverley2185possibly it was deliberate to discourage the spectators. I've seen a Harrier used for that. Some travellers set up camp next to the airfield at Farnborough, next week was the airshow so every couple of hours a Harrier turned up and hovered for a while. They lasted two days.
My Dad was stationed at Coningsby in the late 60's. Me and my mates used to sit on the crash gates, just yards from the runway, We were only eight year olds. We would watch Vulcans, Victors, Lightnings and Phantoms landing and taking off. Just imagine being 100 feet away from a Vulcan taking off. As mischievous lads we would sneak around the base and go places we shouldn't go. What an adventure. I will never forget my childhood in the RAF.
@@Buggsy61 Hi. Yes they are great memories. I'm 63 yers old. I remember many little adventures we had as children in the RAF. ....Yet I can't remember where put my keys. !!
@@kwalts88 Hi. You're lucky. I never saw the Harrier. The most modern fighter we had at Coningsby in the 60's was the Phantom. For me it is the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen. I too miss the roar.
Saw Typhoon at Blackpool airshow last year and it was awesome. The sound of it made me emotional. It was totally mind blowing. The speed the thunder the manoeuvres. I am envious of the people who got to be there to experience so many coming in to land. Outstanding post. Thank you
I remember standing there 50 years ago watching Phantoms do the same thing, but a bit less gracefully. That was the year I saw German F104s on a squadron swap at RAF Wattisham. It was quite a sight to see Lightnings and F104s flying in formation. And, of course, in those pre-digital days I'd run out of film.
I used to stand at that very spot when I was younger and Coningsby was a Tornado base. It's the approach to the runway and as other people have commented, usually as a plane lands it has to fly pretty low at some point preferably near the runway. The pilots know people are there to get a buzz, so they buzz them.
The pilots are not landing any different than they would always land. Making a more shallow approach than usual just to "buzz" watchers would add a lot of unnecessary risk for a really dumb reason.
I was at Coningsby 88-90…best feeling ever was being sat in my little mini metro at the threshold with the Tornado F3s taking off or landing. The resonance though the car was immense! Will never forget that feeling.
Reminds me of when my Dad used to take us up to the end of the runway at Boscombe down, just for the thrill!.. mid/late eighties/early nineties. Dad stuff !!! 😁 R.I.P Dad.❤
It's not it all as there are typhoons based in Scotland that are there for rapid response. Every day for weeks there out playing games with Russian jets that come far to close to Scottish air space. With a bunch of monitoring planes.
I remember a quote from a documentary called 'Airplane!" Pilot: "We're gonna have to come in pretty low to land this thing" Stewardess: "Is that difficult?" Pilot;: "it's just something that you have to do when you land!"
If anyone thinks the planes are passing over them too low, then they shouldn't be standing there! Looks like a perfectly normal approach for landing to me.
They need to go to the Valleys, and that would astound them to see pilots flying at shoulder height, you on the road above and a plane just zoon past, pilot sitting there, looking ahead, and dive-bombing helicopters. You have to have some guts to be in a helicopter, to rise above the mountains, and then dive down, straight down, face first.
Been there, and would recommend going to an air show where they are featured. It is a lifetime experience. It is a magnificent looking plane, absolutely stunning, and the sound is a roar that surpasses anything, a beast of a sound, puts other fighter jets into the background.
Don't get me wrong ,The Typhoon Euro Fighter is a nice plane. But it doesn't beat my favourite , which is still the Harrier Jump Jet which they were still using up until surprisingly recently. Then there's everyone's favourite the good ol' Spitfire too. One other thing which occurs to me is how much these planes remind me of Concorde .
Feel free to correct me, Quo, but the last time I looked, a while back, India, Spain, Italy and America were still refining them and using them. I remember seeing one take off at a Catterick military display in the 70's. My favourite, too.
Am a huge fan also. Something dodgy went on when we sold all our harriers to US marines for nothing like what they worth and US used them for years, probably still do we upgrades.
I wouldn't trust my kids running with a spoon but I trust a highly trained pilot with a multi million pound jet. The odds of them making a fatal error is slim at most.
The typhoon is a great plane but my favourite will always be the tornado i was in the cadets when i was younger we used to go to RAF leuchars for flying and i remember loads of tornados lined up near the runaway while i was taking off. Great memories.
How are they "way too low"?? They're making their LANDING RUNS! It looks like they've cordoned off a little spot for people to stand while this process is happening; mighty nice of the RAF! I was in the USAF and our govt. would NEVER allow civilians to stand this close to the flight line!
So where is the insanely too low part? Those final approaches were on a perfectly fine glidepath. If people chose to put themselves near the boundary fence, that's their prerogative, but don't put shade on competent pilots doing their job.
This video does not do justice to this plane. The noise, when taking off, is horrendous, deafening, a beast of sound. I have been to airshows, and when I could not see what plane was taking off, until it came over the houses, the Eurofighter was like a typhoon. You knew when it was on the runway. I love this plane. The U.S claims it has no plane as good as this that we have.
Have you ever heard them in real life? I can see why they call it the typhoon. I have heard these beasts at airshows, and nothing like it, a huge boom and roar that sounds like a giant taking to the air.
Ghosts of The London Underground Part 2@@dougaldouglas8842 Same here - I've seen them twice at airshows. I can't understand how something can be that LOUD!!! 🤣
I've never heard of a landing being too low before. What do you suggest? Maybe a couple of hundred feet above the ground - and then a ladder to get out of the plane?
There is a reason why the RAF Police often try to prevent planespotters waiting under the flightpath. Fortunately, people are a lot softer than vehicles, so you aren't likely to damage the aircraft, if they get that low. That said, I was once overflown by an RAF Phantom at less than half that height - it missed me by no more than 12 feet!
If a plane was low enough to strike a person at this point in the approach it goes without saying that the plane would most definitely not be ok...the comments here are something else
I was at Duxford when a Typhoon showed us it's arse then gunned it... You could feel the jet wash from 150m away, I can believe it when they says it's the fastest climbing fighter.
And, in 1963/64, I remember standing near the runway threshold on the Dogdyke side as Vulcans came in at night. Now that really was dramatic! Incidentally, on quiet Sunday mornings I recall learning to drive on that runway.
Wow that's awesome, how many was there, 12 - 14... Seen similar at Lossiemouth when I was working on their TFST project. But not as many as that. Seen alot of performance take offs. Does the pilot see all these folk hanging around I wonder??
ive been to conningsby many times the pilots landing is text book, professional & excellent - my experience is some pilot will abort landing on aporoach before flying over the road at the airbase perimeter especially if someone standing directly in the flight path /runway approach - Fun it may seem but it's potentially dangerous, not sure if it is prohibited at conningsby i always stand to the side of the approach flight path Never under it
I have never understood spotters that stand in the undershoot, directly under approaching aircraft. I had to move one at Lossie who got most upset when i said standing on a double ladder directly in the path of approaching aircraft was a really dumb idea.
I was on a plane once and it was getting lower and lower and lower and lower..... I screamed out to the cabin crew... ".. If we get any lower we are going to crash into that airport runway down there!!! ....."
Stood just there a couple of years ago when one of the had to hit the thrusters and do a Go Around... loudest thing I've ever heard.... had to drop my camera and cover up so never doing that again without ear defenders! Pretty Awesome though 🙂
Great precision. Good fun for the kids but i'd still be inclined to stand slightly to one side. Not much, even as little as 40 foot or so helps. That way you're all certain of which way to run if the engine note changes.
