KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5934 posts, RR: 4 Posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1984 times:
They did an interesting low altitude tour of the south 'burbs of PDX tonight...I witnessed it from my car as I was driving home. I thought maybe they were in a (really low altitude for an airliner) hold! So low I could tell it was an AS 737.
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12562 posts, RR: 64 Reply 1, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1966 times:
Nothing out of the ordinary from what I see. Departed PHX 1 minute early at 1705 and arrived PDX 9 minutes early at 1940.
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KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5934 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1945 times:
amwest2united From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1914 times:
Quoting KELPkid (Reply 2): Zoom in on the flight path around PDX in Flight Aware and you'll see it...they circled around south at low altitude
Looks like he may have been too high to land and had to lose more altitude prior to landing.
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EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12562 posts, RR: 64 Reply 4, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1914 times:
Quoting KELPkid (Reply 2): they circled around south at low altitude.
It's not like they were on a grand tour of Portland, though - they diverted from their straight-in approach from the east, turned south, then circled back onto essentially the same approach. Could have been traffic ahead of them, traffic on the field, etc.
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BlueJuice From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 205 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1903 times:
chrisair From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1774 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1733 times:
The pilot got a text from a neighbor saying there was a strange car in his driveway, so he decided to take a look...
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2167 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1628 times:
There were some pretty tall cloud formations this evening over West Portland suburbs like Beaverton & Newberg, there was hail and winds for a while tonight, it never made it to the airport area, not even downtown, but planes were most likely trying to avoid what the news called unreliable weather, with pretty dark clouds and gusts of wind on the leading edge.
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dinker225 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1049 posts, RR: 20 Reply 8, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1417 times:
As AS657 was on downwind for Rwy 10R the tail wind for planes arriving and departing got to be too high. The airport switched the arriving and departing runways during the middle of a small clutter of arrivals and some had to make a little detour while things on the ground and in the air were worked out.
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Roseflyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8754 posts, RR: 52 Reply 9, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1380 times:
Those look like vectors for spacing. The airplane flew at a constant altitude for it, so I would assume they just needed some extra spacing on approach. It could have been that weather was restricting the acceptance rate, so they had to do some turns to slow them down.
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as739x From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 5821 posts, RR: 23 Reply 10, posted (1 year 1 month 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1263 times:
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