Parallel Landing at SFO

[Airshowlover100]

I miss NWA! :(

[ringbuchblock95]

The Airbus Pilot really did a great job! Such a smooth landing :)

[JoaoBatist4]

Traffic, Traffic, Traffic, 300, Mantain Vertical Speed, Traffic, 200, Traffic, Traffic, Climb, Climb, 100, Traffic, 50, 40, 30 Traffic, 20, 10, Clear Area

[MrCondor007]

isn`t it against the law to use electronic devices while landing and taking off? Don`t they interfere with the altitude reader?

[zseartcc25]

@MrCondor007

The only thing that I have every seen first hand to make any difference is cell phones and that's only when I was up front which makes a loud buzzing noise in my headset. Never have I ever had a problem with any other electrical device especially a camera because they do not send nor receive any information.

[sonicfan7]

TRAFFIC TRAFFIC! MONITOR VERTICAL SPEED!

: ) Tcas keeps us safe when everythings allright anyway :P

[jetdillo]

@sonicfan7 "Minimums...300...200...100...­" :)

[boeingdude1]

this is common @ ksfo

[flaziola]

Now the dash for the last parking space begins ;)

[MushroomMan57]

This is so cool :)



[dwilltheill]

That's a beauty.

[oYFOR]

nice



[efastMixer]

does the para runway meet minimum IFR clearance for landing

[jetdillo]

@efastMixer Alas no, and this can cause quite the delays when the fog rolls in...

[efastMixer]

@jetdillo so visuals only

[jetdillo]

@efastMixer Yup. When it's clear here, it's amazingly clear. When it's not, it REALLY isn't :)

[xytsdx2]

Only in san Francisco...

[cvbcbcmv]

lol that a319 or a320 on 28r is kind of overkill. That's a long ass runway

[truthsofwolf]

I first read your YouTube username as 'jetdildo'.

[gramirez72]

@truthsofwolf LOL!

[MrDimaPianist]

woooww...it´s really crazy and magic

[Aviationlover98]

SFO tower told you to land parrell to each other.

[xyira777]

That is so cool, sweet vid.

[fordairport1]

miss the red tail

[dillion921]

great landing

[hadibadashi]

Nice shot, right time right place.

[xXShadowLugiaXx]

And that's why I live near SFO. :D

[megarockman]

Wait, don't all electronic devices have to be turned off for takeoff and landing?

[armandosilvestre]

P E R F E C T!!! Thanks for sharing! :)

[thelopespilot]

what an awesome video mate, and what an smooth landing by the a319

[SomoshiphopRadio]

Man thats some jealous wife following the husband to work! lol

[jetdillo]

@SomoshiphopRadio Ha! LOL

That's one of the funnier comments I've heard about this video.

Thanks for watching!

[SomoshiphopRadio]

lol haha Good Video man!

[DjMatty2k9]

@SomoshiphopRadio Amazing Comment LOL!

[jrd1461]

They are spotting each other, why do you think they landed so smoothly?

[jetdillo]

@jrd1461 Well, they are the same type of plane, landing at the same place, just a couple hundred feet away from each other. They're going to have the same or very similar flight control software and autopilot systems. So they're going to make their approach and landing in a very similar way.

[jrd1461]

@jetdillo I'm aware, I was being sarcastic, I know they aren't really spotting each other.

[MusicLover11325]

Would be cool if you could film it when the NWA a320's landing gear came down :D

[323tiim]

You lucky son of a bitch :)

[jetdillo]

@323tiim Yeah, I was pretty lucky. I took that about 3.5-almost 4 years ago now and haven't in back in the "right place at the right time" to catch anything like it since.

[rjch0173]

@323tiim Apparently I'm even luckier - the only time I've ever flown in to SFO, I saw this as well. Rather disconcerting to see another plane flying only a few tens of metres away from you...

[323tiim]

@rjch0173 Wow, you were lucky to..^^ The only cool thing ive seen was a flight between Barcelona and Copenhagen. I looked out of the window and saw an Air France Embrear 145 1000ft above, it was awsome! I actually still have a picture!

[Toshiboy25]

Now lets see who gets to the gate first!

[Toshiboy25]

NWA jet: HAHA I BEAT YOU!!!

[kfkgj]

nicee...!!! thnks for 4 sharin...

[bobduvar]

NWA pilot : I WOOOON !!!!!!!!!!!!

[piromoretta]

rare video...good job recording and thanks for sharing 5*

[gillimilli]

how smooth both planes touched ground omg

[freeflightsimulator]

The nwa had a nice landing, i didnt even see smoke coming from the tires as it touched down!

[pacman4988]

liked this vid

[willwoodhouse]

i imagine atc told your pilots not to overtake the other a320, as thats common procedure on these approaches

:)

[astoniz]

this is really nice :)

[airbusandmustang]

Ahh, the good old days when NWA was still in service. Damn Delta!

[FoulOwl]

Just think,if this was LasVegas Int how many passengers would be betting on which plane touched down first.

[dinohoo]

wow...thumbs up for the landing on your plane!

[Swissflier101]

now thats cool xD

nice vid 5/5

[piromoretta]

2 fast 2 furious.......cool

[etlaoax]

4 u dumb asses that aircaraft was run way 28right arriving at sfo..nothing special

[sarkizmutafyan]

Now that's just.. WOW!!

[PraisedBeAllah]

i didn't know planes were allowed to fly that close?

[all4golf]

@PraisedBeAllah

As long as they maintain visual separation, it's fine. If this weren't allowed a lot of flights would be delayed, not by much but still.

[guitarkickspunkkids]

fuck! it's too close

[Corinne6531]

Really cool ! I wish I d see it too :-)

[rich0319726]

nice vid doc, gg.

[germ321]

I pray that I get to do this one day

[Mfplaya55]

dirty

[12345obama]

isn't it forbidden to fly that close? looks dangerous.

[jetdillo]

No. They are maintaining proper horizontal separation.

The runways are spaced apart from each other at legal distances. Also at that point in the approach, both planes would be lined up with the runways and Air Traffic Control would keep them far enough apart.

[12345obama]

thanks for the detailed answer. I will check the SF aiport on Google maps now.

[12345obama]

P.S. I've done it now. You were correct. I was wrong.

[umpalumpa101909]

@12345obama They are on the ILS, So there being guided down Automaticly, so its safe

[dmnddog74]

@12345obama: They've been doing this for years at SFO. If you look at an overhead shot of the airport runway configuration, you'll see that it was designed to allow for this. Takeoffs from SFO were a bitch for me though, because they'd have to climb very steeply very fast to clear the hills west of the airport. My head would hurt like hell on the ascent. I live in Chicago now, no hills.

[Seneca34M]

@12345obama At this point, the following aircraft got a pointout for the traffic and were told to maintain visual separation from the other aircraft, and SFO Tower was proving "tower visual separation" confirming they were separated. The runways are spaced far enough apart to allow for parallel approaches. If the following aircraft was larger, it was instructed to not overtake the other aircraft for wake turbulence separation. But this is perfectly legal if the pilots accept.

[jstuttgart]

cool

[jjr1123]

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeee!

pilot 1:hey wanna see who lands first?

pilot2:lets do thisssss!

pilot 1 and 2: it was a tie -_-

[ugnut123]

hahahahaha lol nice

[Learjetjock]

Those are always fun approaches to fly. Somtimes if your the crew of a much larger aircraft say the 744 or a 777 you see real challenge. In those cases the heavy must follow the smaller one in which means the smallerone must keep their approach speed up while they heavy is usually at about their min safe speed. It is pretty cool to experince.

[randompieceoftoast]

very neat! i wonder how many people from the other plane were looking at this one o.o

[trimair]

OH YEAH REALLY NICE !!!

[niranjan0035]

it's the best awsome video man!!!!!

[yoto5951]

WOW

[AviadorLPA]

Awesome.

[aviator147]

sweet, i never had the chance to be this close yet, hopefully soon!

[dylanhelmer]

wouldnt that be funny if someone on that NWA flight was taking vid of this jet and uploaded it? haha

[cosminx2003]

@dylanhelmer it actually happened take a look here : watch?v=hnSN37SaWKI

[JayPattersonTV]

@cosminx2003 not the same video my man but close! In this video the NWA flight touched down first and was a head, in your video the video plane was behind and touched down after :) Sorry!

[gillimilli]

awesome landing from nwa

[Fumeti]

nice video!

[racsito39]

This is a rare video, 5/5

[kady7869]

landing at SFO is always fun. Wouldn't there be turbulence with the 2 planes so close to each other?

[thomaskroon97]

lol 5/5

[vjc02s3705]

samething here. o'hare 3 parallel now! 27 L R 29

[FlyingWing92]

I live right under O'hare's glide slope and they do that all the time. Very cool :)

[roofanhealer]

And how are those turbulent flows acting up, I thought there should be an 1-5 km separation from aircraft, but I might be wrong.

[ShadowchildCOBHC]

you have to only bee a few hundred metres away to be safe even if both are jumbojets. its just the FAAs regulations as its safer and easier for the air traffic controllers to keep track

[jef1500]

Nice one!!!! :) keep em up :)

[deltafan909]

soft landings. these parallel lnadings and takeoffs always amaze me.

[pkay098]

well you would be keeping pace as the approach speeds are published and are the same for all aircraft of a certain category and 90% of airliners fall into the same category

[NYIMBOZOKOMA]

jetdillo what plane were you flying in?

[moose6692]

what airline where u on

[scaremenga]

I think you were keeping pace with them

[kj762aa]

Brilliant, this is excellent. How often does this happen

[rzeszotary]

it would be funny if someone was filming you guys from the other plane :P

[redcarsarasota]

Heh, and then put it on YouTube!

[popstreetpilot]

the NW can be a 320 or a 319

[PilotJamesD]

it looks like 319

[jezrelnyc2000]

A319

[buybygb]

One of the great reasons to land at SFO!

[andyranger01]

what airline were you flying?

[planelover3640]

I have seen a bunch of parallel landings, espcially at Logan Intl.. but never seen one from inside an aircraft.. great video!

[lawpar79]

were you on an a320 or were they both a320s. was the nwa an a320?

[jetdillo]

Yes, yes and yes. :)

[maxp0w3r]

@lawpar79 The NWA aircraft is a A319.

[LABRATproductionz]

this happened to me just a week ago in denver

[tellsitasitis]

Also common in Seattle

[jetdillo]

Interesting. I didn't know that. I can't say I'm surprised, but I don't get up to SEA all that much these days. Thanks for watching!

[tinkandtory]

@jetdillo you lost the race by 4 seconds lol

[ariesenergie]

that´s exactly what i saw 3 weeks ago when i was in SFO departing from there to London, 2 landings at the same time, and another 2 take off´s at the same time too, i have never seen it before in other airports. but some people told me that in atlanta they do the same.

it´s incredible. and i would like to say ¡Only in San Francisco¡

[mylesandpennie]

yeah they do the same in altanta but their never this close lol this iz amazing i love seeing seein planes in formation like this its crazy

[dsy108]

They do this in ATL occasionally. But even when they do, the two runways used for landing are on opposite sides of the main terminals, so it doesn't look this cool. Also, when the landing runway to the south of the terminal and the new fifth runway are both being used for landing at the same time, there is still quite a bit of distance separating the two, so it never looks this close at ATL. :)

[Andy200hea]

Really good vid! Very unusual!

[Fuckdencio]

OMG!!!! :O

[alaqmar1992]

wow , great video man!! i like to give this video 10 starts but the limit is only 5 starts !!!!!!

Keep it up!!!

[jetdillo]

:)

Thanks for the compliment and for watching. I'm glad you liked it.

[alaqmar1992]

im sorry , its 5 stars , i wrote it 5 starts* by mistake!

[NicoTien96]

a little bit shaky but still very nice to watch! thanks for sharing it :)

[martyallthatime1]

very cool

[tsakogiannis]

AWESOME!!!

[duk309]

Ah ok i got ya, i was gonna say cause we were on an NWA A320 landing 28R with a US Airways A320 landing parallel to us when we went Cool vid man.

[jetdillo]

Heh, neat!

So you were getting the opposite view :)

That's pretty cool.

I'm sure they're both regular flights, and, as I said earlier, they're both the same kind of plane, flying into the same place, using the same auto-pilot software, so I suspect this happens a lot. I was just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to catch it.

[duk309]

Yup, its pretty common at KSFO, thats why i love that airport. Great vid!

[lawpar79]

maybe it was that same day when you met up with jetdillo.

[duk309]

When was this? and what airline were you on?

[jetdillo]

late May 2007, shortly before noon. I was on a USAir flight coming from LAS.

[tigeri8]

i see this all the time cuz i live in sf but still cool

[tonyojules]

WOW, SO COOL!!

[jetdillo]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I took that over 1.5 years ago and haven't run into anything like it since.

[Manu2455]

Wow Men Coooooooooooooooooooooooool Video, congratulation. i like the Aviation.

[sarkizmutafyan]

an air to air video

[Tomtheflyboy]

hey cul video!

[jetdillo]

Thanks!

Glad you liked it...

[SaPrepPride]

IT'S A RACE, WHO WILL WIN?!?!

[manfco]

jajaja nice!

[clearancedelivery]

its cool to see these from a different perspective

[th992000]

That was very cool!

[ihavepsychicpowers]

That was cool to watch.

[prjeo]

at first i thought it was a flight simulator :S

[pega57]

last one to land is a rotten egg

[hkproperty]

good take

[Krulle27]

Excellent footage! I wonder what the distance between the two planes are?

[jetdillo]

FAA rules for minimum horizontal separation on final during VFR conditions(which this was) is 500 ft. However, at SFO, the rules call for 750 feet minimum lateral separation between aircraft.

Thanks for watching!

I'm glad you liked it.

[Penguinzcanfly]

wow did the other airplane landed at the same time thats cool!

[Tuckie]

Very rare and nice footage! :)

[trent8002003]

Only in US can we see scenes like that. Seems the US has a much greater tolerance for small horizontal seperation between 2 planes. Saw that in Seattle, too. In busy airports like Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, even London where there's no shortage of air traffic, I have never seen 2 planes so close in parallel and doing almost simultaneously landing.

[jetdillo]

I thought about this after it happened and realized that software had a lot to do with it. In fact I think it's a perfect demonstration of flight control software. Two A320s doing approaches on parallel runways with the same heading at the same time are going to have almost identical landing profiles.

Thanks for watching and for the comment.

[clearancedelivery]

theres nothing dangerous about em, im on SOIA's daily. on a clear day theres nothing dangerous about them. you must not know what your talkin about

[trent8002003]

Checked 3 times and didn't find the word *dangerous* in my post. Merely stating a fact that PL happens more in US than elsewhere. You must not know what you're criticisin about.

[atenco01]

Only the big airports (SFO, JFK, ORD, DFW, DTW) with paralell runways allow this...Is one big funnel into the parallel runways due to high volume..Although only in visual flight rules they can do such small horizontal

[killa704]

u forgot ATL

[Slashfan90210]

They will at Heathrow, but it's just incredibly rare because you're always in a bloody holding pattern before landing.

[BrummieNeil89]

heathrow use one runway for take off and the other for landings hence the landing holding patterns,

[ChasenSFO]

Good old SFO! Nice video.

[Chengsta92]

what were you flying?

[jetdillo]

I was on a USAirways A320 coming in from LAS.

[economistBR]

Dude great video, quite hard to have that happen.

A A320 crashed kiling 199 people here in Brazil 2 weeks ago. Flight 3054