I love my home airport and the "races" we get to go on on takeoff and landing :) always a trip. Hundreds if not thousands of flights later this doesn't get old!
“The layout of the parallel runways (1L/1R and 28R/28L) was established in the 1950s, and have a separation (centerline to centerline) of only 750 feet (230 m)”
Too close together for IFR operations, which is why the capacity at SFO drops in half when too overcast/foggy. They can do this when it's clear and they can see each other. The other two crossing runways are close as well, and they will land next to each other in the same manner.
It’s amazing how it can be 95° F and sunny 40 miles away, but 65° and misty in SF. That area of CA has so many different weather profiles packed into a relatively small radius.
I was flying to FL and another plane came REALLY close - going the other way and climbing. We were prob at 32K feet. I knew it filled up a couple windows......this video allows me to guess that the planes were only separated by about 1,000 feet (wingtip to wingtip). In theory there was no vertical separation because the other plane was headed up at a 5 degree angle or so.
I am pretty good at distances (a carpenter, a contractor, did demolition, etc.).
It seemed too close. The traffic was quite heavy that day (maybe over coastal SC) as I saw many other Planes, but none like the one (an airliner) that crossed with us. I should have dug into the time and place just to see for myself.
Miami was the first airport I regularly went into where I saw operations like this. I have to assume they have...let me look......yes, it looks like 2 close together and one a distance away but still pareller. I have to assume MIA has mostly E/W winds
SFO is wild. I was once in a 787 taking off on 1R and crossed in front of an A380 approaching 28R. Watched it the whole time. My plane started climbing out just as the A380 reached the edge of their runway.
discombobulationz@reddit
I love my home airport and the "races" we get to go on on takeoff and landing :) always a trip. Hundreds if not thousands of flights later this doesn't get old!
Digital_1337@reddit
Ow that’s a rare video !! 11/10 !!
_DigitalHunk_@reddit
Would this be possible if both were A380s?
SuperDreadnaught9000@reddit
Ah... it's especially nice to see a parallel takeoff from the view of an A380. 👍
N420BZ@reddit
A380 don’t use 1R for takeoff at SFO.
cautionbbdriver@reddit
Sometimes they do. Saw a BA a380 take a few months back on 1R. Took a double take.
N420BZ@reddit
Ooh interesting. I’ve never seen it there. I assumed they just all wanted the 26s.
flightist@reddit
28s.
CommunicationNo3626@reddit
Doesn’t look like an A380..
MandalorianBeskar@reddit
“The layout of the parallel runways (1L/1R and 28R/28L) was established in the 1950s, and have a separation (centerline to centerline) of only 750 feet (230 m)”
peroxidase2@reddit
That looked close. I thought there was some distance regulation for side by side was some where around 1000m or so? My be i was just misinformed.
RogLatimer118@reddit
Too close together for IFR operations, which is why the capacity at SFO drops in half when too overcast/foggy. They can do this when it's clear and they can see each other. The other two crossing runways are close as well, and they will land next to each other in the same manner.
epicenter69@reddit
Foggy in San Francisco? Never.
peligroso@reddit
SFO is an entirely different micro-climate and gets a comparatively much lighter marine layer.
epicenter69@reddit
It’s amazing how it can be 95° F and sunny 40 miles away, but 65° and misty in SF. That area of CA has so many different weather profiles packed into a relatively small radius.
minilinguine@reddit
SF alone has so many microclimates, always have to take a sweater so that's annoying. Overall amazing weather
FlyingManBearPig@reddit
I experienced this. We'd drive from Sacramento where it's triple digits, and end up in SF where it's low 70s within 90 minutes.
absoluteczech@reddit
Only on days ending in y
MathResponsibly@reddit
what happens when the left engine of the right plane falls off, shoots over the fuselage, and ends up on the right runway??
RosieDear@reddit
I was flying to FL and another plane came REALLY close - going the other way and climbing. We were prob at 32K feet. I knew it filled up a couple windows......this video allows me to guess that the planes were only separated by about 1,000 feet (wingtip to wingtip). In theory there was no vertical separation because the other plane was headed up at a 5 degree angle or so.
I am pretty good at distances (a carpenter, a contractor, did demolition, etc.).
It seemed too close. The traffic was quite heavy that day (maybe over coastal SC) as I saw many other Planes, but none like the one (an airliner) that crossed with us. I should have dug into the time and place just to see for myself.
triple7freak1@reddit
Finally a parallel take off
It‘s almost better than a parallel landing lol
FidgetyHerbalism@reddit
Certainly much better than a perpendicular landing
RosieDear@reddit
Miami was the first airport I regularly went into where I saw operations like this. I have to assume they have...let me look......yes, it looks like 2 close together and one a distance away but still pareller. I have to assume MIA has mostly E/W winds
Magooose@reddit
I've experienced this at SFO a couple of times and it's pretty cool. Still not the parallel landing thou.
Mulsanne@reddit
Is this my video? It looks so much like my video
https://youtu.be/FB4AFFnrHKA?si=WPVTwqIpRDYDqDLs
Twitter_2006@reddit (OP)
I found the video on Twitter.
Mulsanne@reddit
Yeah but people have been ripping it for years.
I don't mind, either!
Don't you think they're identical though? Just a fun coincidence for me. I never expected that video to have a million views but it does
spesimen@reddit
cool! thanks for posting it, nice to see it in much higher quality
Mulsanne@reddit
You're welcome! I was surprised to see it posted here
melancholy_dood@reddit
"Up, up and away!"
Aggravating_Plant848@reddit
Who won? ✈️
Lazy-Reputation-5554@reddit
SFO is a disaster waiting to happen with all the cross runways
StandardDeluxe3000@reddit
until the day they accidently mix up the lanes of both, and the plane on the right wants to fly left, and the plane one the left wants to fly right
N420BZ@reddit
SFO Tower verifies the first RNAV fix of the SID when issuing the takeoff clearance for parallels. In this case, RNAV SSTIK and RNAV TYDYE.
quarterlifecrisis49@reddit
Relax. There's a traffic signal ahead.
SARS-covfefe@reddit
SFO is wild. I was once in a 787 taking off on 1R and crossed in front of an A380 approaching 28R. Watched it the whole time. My plane started climbing out just as the A380 reached the edge of their runway.
Mustangfast85@reddit
Looks like twinsies a320s too
Candle-Jolly@reddit
Me shouting into the aisle from seat 7A:
"TELL THE PILOT TO KICK IN THE AFTER BURNER!"
Sorry-Passenger4283@reddit
It's like looking at a mirror
70M70M@reddit
THIS IS SO COOL! 😭😭😭
Possible-Angle8054@reddit
“ATC permission to race”
HughJuvula@reddit
I hope the pilots waved to each other 👋🏼
Ok_Mathematician6075@reddit
Twins. But dangerous.