Jhooper From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 6195 posts, RR: 13 Reply 1, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1219 times:
Jhooper From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 6195 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1226 times:
Bobcat From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1207 times:
Jhooper,
Nice video from the L-1011. During the last 3 seconds of
the video, what is that thing on your lap? A GPS receiver!?
I can just picture the FA going by and say
"Excuse me, Sir, I can assure you the pilots won't get lost!"
Super Em From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 434 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1162 times:
Hmmmm... From Canada, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 2088 posts, RR: 5 Reply 6, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1144 times:
Jhooper, I can't believe how long it took for that L-1011 to get airborne. Even fully loaded and fueled for a trans-pacific crossing, it seemed like it went on forever. By 4:20:08, I would have concluded that there was something very wrong. The last 10 of those forty-five seconds of racing down a runway, and still being on the ground, would have alarmed me. Then that excessively sharp bank to the right would have had me clutching the arm rest.
Glad it was you and not me!
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Je89_w From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 2327 posts, RR: 10 Reply 9, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1121 times:
Jhooper From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 6195 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1109 times:
I'm glad you enjoyed my video. Yes, that's a GPS reciever.
Last year 1,944 New Yorkers saw something and said something.
Hmmmm... From Canada, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 2088 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1099 times:
One other note, Jhooper's video is the only one taken from the passenger's perspective on any of these sites. Cockpit videos are a dime a dozen, and show very little out the windshield, but passenger seat videos are almost non-existent, and much more dramatic. I wish there were more of these.
N.B. I timed the take-off run times for other planes, even 747s, and they were between the mid-20s to the mid-30 seconds. Forty-five seconds is at the point where you begin to think that the pilot intends to drive the plane to its destination, and what you are actually looking at is the beginning of the highway footage of the long drive back home.
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Aeri28 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 591 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1088 times:
I loved the Delta take off video. I too wish there were more pax perspectives.
On a side note, I had a similar experience taking off on an Air New Zealand 747-200 from Nadi to Honolulu. It was a packed flight, and I remember the take off roll went just a bit longer than I felt comfortable with. I know that feeling when you wonder 'uh, is it going to get off the ground?'
dont' know why, hot/humid environment? extra fuel? Perhaps it had to have more fuel to go onward if HNL was closed.. Obviously we got off the ground fine!
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