Wingtip Vortex
Posted by GreenReport5491@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 15 comments
Landing in San Luis Obispo on an Embraer 175, catching vortices on the wingtips.
Posted by GreenReport5491@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 15 comments
Landing in San Luis Obispo on an Embraer 175, catching vortices on the wingtips.
-paw-@reddit
Im constantly amazed how slow it looks/seems to move when planes land
andrewrbat@reddit
It’s because you have no visual reference to things that are right next to you. You can only see far away out the windows, not trees 30’ away like when you are going down the highway at 70mph.
You will also notice that bigger planes seem to move even slower when seen from the ground because your brain doesn’t really understand the scale since nothing is near them. They are farther away than they seem and appear the same way a closer smaller plane would. They look slower accordingly. It’s pretty trippy.
-paw-@reddit
Thanks for explaining! Makes sense to me. Still it looks really cool
No-Performance-4861@reddit
I am in SLO right now but I drove down from the Bay Area. Beautiful place will come back when it's not raining lol picked the wrong weekend.
ReadyplayerParzival1@reddit
SLO is such a neat little airport
Haldron-44@reddit
Fuck'n came to say "holy shit! That is SBP's approach to 11!" It may be small but we get a good amount of traffick. Especially on the weekend. And ACI is an FBO that specializes in Bombardier repairs so it is actually quite busy for its size. We have entered the "summer season" of howling onshore winds up from the bay. Also pilots wanting to visit, learn what the "marine layer" is if not familiar. Great little FBO and town to have fun in for an afternoon. Can safely say there are few other FBO's with as many weird AV nerds, and as good of facilities.
Ok_Excitement725@reddit
The landing is the fun part there. Nice and short runway with some max auto braking action
looper741@reddit
E175 has OFF/LOW/MED/HIGH autobrake settings for landing. Maximum performance landings were max manual braking. When I flew it nobody ever used high autobrakes other than to demonstrate their use. Now, Envoy and SkyWest both fly into CRQ, which is 1000 feet shorter than SBP.
andrewrbat@reddit
Most 170/175s aren’t equipped with auto brakes tho. When i flew it for envoy none of ours had it. Do many of sky west’s planes have them? (Or rpa?)
looper741@reddit
All of SkyWest’s has them, except for the planes they got after Compass went away.
andrewrbat@reddit
Wow thats interesting. Thanks!
AlternativeEdge2725@reddit
That actually looks like a flap tip vortex.
GreenReport5491@reddit (OP)
Well said, I wasn’t 100% sure but it’s definitely coming off the flaps!
Some_Distant_Memory@reddit
That is such a beautiful approach view
FreedomsLastBreathe@reddit
Damn nature you crazy 🔥