I don't think it's possible to capture a better parallel landing than this. Excellent work. As a a long time pilot, the principle of "lift" amazes me still to this day. How an object this heavy doesn't simply fall out of the sky fills me with the magic of flight. Thanks again for this vid.
Wow you’re so right...this is a beautiful video! Question though: if you as a long time pilot are wondering that such a heavy object can stay up there in the sky and not fall out of it...where does that leave me? I have been wondering forever how easy those huge planes roll down the runway and just lift off like there was nothing to it. I love the SFO Airport and since I live in the Bay Area (Walnut Creek) I do use this airport quite often.
Pat Glass. I am amazed at the Antanov AN225 and the ability for it to get up having millions of pounds of cargo. But yeah it is amazing to me to just how you wrap your head around the idea of something so heavy getting up and staying up
Pat, you're absolutely right!!! And it looks like the landing of that 737 was absolutely smooth, with the main landing gear touching down very softly and evenly. What a great video!!!
Orlando M. The other plane had already pretty much stopped when the filming plane landed with a longer it seemed, slow down. Maybe a bigger plane. The first plane was done first.
Yeah, but the posters plane turned into a bucket of bolts the second it touched down! If a bus or train sounded like that, you'd get off! It always makes me laugh. It's obvious that airplanes are not happy on the ground!
Proof for Parallel universe... ahahha... jus saying.. ... for now even with all our progress - we(Earth) stil come under NOT LOOKING ... and could be others are looking at us.......... BUT who are we kidding ... good Lord - Univ is so HUGE.... !!!
I was on a plane, not at San Francisco, and this same thing happened... so fun to watch the other plane, just like this, and land together parallel. ♡ DH
I experienced a double landing on a Pam Am flight London to SFO back in the 70s. The pilot came on the intercom. Passengers who can see another aircraft on the left hand side, well I can assure you there ARE two runways down there.
actually this is something that always fascinated me since I moved to SF Bay Area -- that planes usually approach SFO for landing in pairs. Didn't observe anything like this in Seattle.
Pair landing is easier for planes to manage due to turbulence. Imagine a ship sailing, theres waves coming behind the ship. Same with an airplane. If both plane land at the same time they can eliminate the wait between the first and second landing strip and get more planes down. (I think)
@K W haha. That's probably because I reside on one side of the Bay and work on another. So (prior to coronavirus) I used to commute via San Mateo-Hayward bridge -- that's where planes approach for landing.
San Fransisco is a somewhat unique airport in this regard. Generally, it is not allowed for aircraft to be this close to each other, even while landing. You will see parallel landings at many other airports, but the parallel runways are separated by a much grater distance. San Fransisco, and a few others, follow a special FAA landing procedure due to the proximity of the two parallel runways to each other. The procedures are quite strict and and must be followed to the letter to ensure safety. There have been incidents in the past when one aircraft violates the procedures and encroaches on the other aircraft's airspace.
Thanks to pelosi and the leftist/socialists, san fran has quickly been transformed into a giant toilet.... Visiting? Don't forget your feces/used hypodermic locator map!! Yeah, it's really beautiful alright..... Thinkin about moving there? You'd better have a million plus to spend on a miniature 2 bedroom/1 bath with zero yard and "who knows what" for neighbors (doubtful you'll find one). Looking to rent? No problem. You can probably find a 1 room apt for about $2-3000/month. Oh, and it's at least a 2 hour commute to san fran at that price point. Yeah, it's a great place. BTW, I used to live there so don't even come at me with that BS.
Man I am so ready to travel again. When I was younger, I was a nervous flier. But after 3 trips to Japan from Honolulu (2012, 2014, 2018). 9.5 to 10 hours going. 7.5 to 8 hours return ( there is a tail wind that makes flight coming back much quicker). Its has been overcome. I had a flight to San Diego in 2019 and I filmed the take off and landing. Back in my youth I would have been white as a ghost with hands griping the arm rests.
That's amazing how they have slightly different glide slope and speeds but yet make it there basically the same time. Looked like the other plane had to get back into the throttle for a few seconds or just different flying characteristics. Cool video
DFW airport often has parallel landings. The first time I saw one, I didn't realize that there were two runways and, for a brief moment, it looked as if the two planes were going to collide as they descended and lined up to land on their separate runways.
Thank you for making this video. It was just spectacular to watch. Keep up the incredible and interesting work, you have great filmmaking talent. Kind regards from Ireland Kate. 👱♀️💕
This is a great video, we flew into Dallas (I think it was Dallas) and we flew side by side on landing as well. Dallas airport is huge. Not as close as this though, just watched to the end. Brilliant
It's called a SOIA (Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approach, a type of the more general Simultaneous Close Parallel PRM Approach, SOIA being the procedure for distance between the runways of less than 3000' down to 750'). Here, SWA is flying a straight-in ILS (or other precision) approach to 28L (runway 28 left) under Precision Radar Monitoring (PRM system - a high rate update radar seconded by an additional PRM controller), while the other aircraft (i.e. UAL) is flying an LDA (offseted, 2-3 deg, precision approach) to the parallel runway 28R, under the same PRM as SWA. From one certain point (final of the LDA segment), the 28R inbound is continuing flying visual, always behind the straight-in landing and parallel with this, to the threshold, for landing. The closing in and parallel final with the SWA leading can be clearly seen here. Great video!
There used to be a fantastic Mexican restaurant right near the water's edge there behind the airplane being filmed. I used to sit there and love the food and watch the planes come in. It was fab. I can't recall the name of it.
Ah, great viz -- in the a.m. before the fog rolls in during the afternoon. I flew out of HMB airport over on the ocean many years, and used to drive all the time over to watch TO&Ls at SFO! Love the approach from the north, going south below the Dumbarton bridge (I hear there's a toll on that bridge now!) and then up to SFO! Beautiful views! I miss it. I moved out of the Bay Area (for obvious reasons) 20 years ago and miss going to see the action at SFO!
I happen to come this site but to check what is the term parallel landing means! 😊 Its really fun to see another plane is flying together with you at a distance ! Its beautiful! i always want to have the experience of seeing another plane paving through whenever i am on a plane!
0:01 the green park on the water is actually a man made hill. It used to be the land fill for San Mateo, CA which you see in the background. The visible, straight road going from one side of the screen to the other is the 101 Freeway. The green patch right behind the 737 is the Peninsula Golf & Country Club. 0:28 The larger buildings on the other side of the 737 is San Mateo's downtown. 0:39 Golfcourse: Poplar Creek Golf Course Marina: Coyote Point Marina Hill of trees: Coyote Point Recreation Area -I remember doing an Easter Egg hunt there when I was 5 or 6. Family did a lot of trips there in the early 70's. Had a great little nature museum back then which still is in operation. 0:57 The vacant lot is the old Dive-In where I originally saw Mad Max and First Blood as a double bill.
@@tonyt8805 Wasn't born San Mateo, but lived there since the year I was born to January 1976. In mid 80s lived in Burlingame which is when I saw Mad Max and First Blood at the drive-in.
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I love going tro Coyote Point and watching the aircraft coming into SFO. Coyote point is centered at about 0:41 in the video. Making your approach to 28, you would swear that you're going to land on the water.
Was cool I really watched to see if I saw any landmarks from the old days. I lived in the SF Bay area till I was 35... Been in tampa bay area last 33 years.
no, the radio altimeter will give very stable readings over the water so its a good thing. Suprised the Localizer signals dont interfere with each other......hmmmm
I was on a United Flight from Australia that landed just before Asiana Flight that crashed at San Francisco as we were taxing to the gate i watched the incident unfold and the plane burst into flames.
@@RadioNul Flew home from Europe on a 777 and the female captain absolutely greased the F out of the landing. Quite literally did not feel the touchdown.
Que bello video!! Sorprendente cuando aparece la sombra del avión azul,lejos de el,y conforme se acerca a la pista se une al avion,y desapareciendo debajo de el,cuando aterriza.
OK, so I have a question for you. Does wake turbulence come into the equation? I mean I can see how it would not be an issue here as both these aircraft wakes would be well behind them. However, I wonder - is there a "stagger" spacing where the following aircraft could run into wake turbulence from the leading aircraft, or are the runway center lines far enough apart for this not to be a problem?
David Anderson well, if there is then I haven’t felt it. My guess is that the runways are spaced far enough apart such that it’s not a factor. A crosswind might blow the vortices a ways but they likely dissipate before reaching the parallel runway. Crosswinds, on the other hand, can definitely be affected by man-made objects as they’ll shade you from the crosswind - until you reach an area where the crosswind is no longer shaded and suddenly it can hit you pretty hard! The craziest crosswinds I’ll regularly encounter are at Sydney (for which I don’t have an explanation for) and Anchorage, where the terrain can cause the crosswinds to behave in unpredictable ways.
I don't think it's possible to capture a better parallel landing than this. Excellent work. As a a long time pilot, the principle of "lift" amazes me still to this day. How an object this heavy doesn't simply fall out of the sky fills me with the magic of flight. Thanks again for this vid.
Pat Glass I DON T IT S POSSIBLE TO CAPTURE A BETTER PARALLEL LADING THAN THIS
Wow you’re so right...this is a beautiful video! Question though: if you as a long time pilot are wondering that such a heavy object can stay up there in the sky and not fall out of it...where does that leave me? I have been wondering forever how easy those huge planes roll down the runway and just lift off like there was nothing to it. I love the SFO Airport and since I live in the Bay Area (Walnut Creek) I do use this airport quite often.
Pat Glass. I am amazed at the Antanov AN225 and the ability for it to get up having millions of pounds of cargo. But yeah it is amazing to me to just how you wrap your head around the idea of something so heavy getting up and staying up
Pat, you're absolutely right!!! And it looks like the landing of that 737 was absolutely smooth, with the main landing gear touching down very softly and evenly. What a great video!!!
This is not something you would like to say in your PA though...
YOU GUYS ALMOST LOST, BUT YOU RECOVERED AND WON AT THE END - AND THAT'S ALL IT MATTERS :)
SouthWest touch down was butter smooth. But this one rattled a lot. :)
Orlando M. The other plane had already pretty much stopped when the filming plane landed with a longer it seemed, slow down. Maybe a bigger plane. The first plane was done first.
@@ivangranger8494 the A320 floated longer, hance a farther touch down
Robert G Okay, and the winners are the safe and sound passengers, and crews.
@@robertg5393 its a 737 smh
That 737 landed softer than a butterfly with sore feet. Great video!
Yeah, but the posters plane turned into a bucket of bolts the second it touched down! If a bus or train sounded like that, you'd get off! It always makes me laugh. It's obvious that airplanes are not happy on the ground!
@@carlwilliams6977 lol so true.
Oh, my, my! That good ole one liner by Rod Machado never gets old! 😂
@@carlwilliams6977 Yes, now that you say, that's so true! 😂
@@carlwilliams6977 Airbus aircraft always sound worse than Boeing products. They have noisy hydraulics, among other things. Boeing all the way!
Wonder if there was anyone on the other plane filming that plane at the same time?
I hope so but it would be harder since that plane was initially in front of the other.
You’ll be interesting to watch the hypothetical Point Of View (“POV”).
Proof for Parallel universe... ahahha... jus saying..
... for now even with all our progress - we(Earth) stil come under NOT LOOKING ... and could be others are looking at us..........
BUT who are we kidding ... good Lord - Univ is so HUGE.... !!!
i dont think if this is the one 7 yrs ago 😅
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May be someone did filming
Excellent video, and no disgusting background music. Thank you.
Haha you said it. The background music just takes away then feeling of the scene.
I was on a plane, not at San Francisco, and this same thing happened... so fun to watch the other plane, just like this, and land together parallel. ♡ DH
I experienced a double landing on a Pam Am flight London to SFO back in the 70s. The pilot came on the intercom.
Passengers who can see another aircraft on the left hand side, well I can assure you there ARE two runways down there.
Awesome pilots and great Videographer to capture very unique moments of landing that won't happen twice in any flight 🛬🛬
actually this is something that always fascinated me since I moved to SF Bay Area -- that planes usually approach SFO for landing in pairs. Didn't observe anything like this in Seattle.
Do they ever do it these days, with all the flights banned and fleets grounded? Seems like recovery will take forever.
Pair landing is easier for planes to manage due to turbulence. Imagine a ship sailing, theres waves coming behind the ship. Same with an airplane. If both plane land at the same time they can eliminate the wait between the first and second landing strip and get more planes down. (I think)
@K W haha. That's probably because I reside on one side of the Bay and work on another. So (prior to coronavirus) I used to commute via San Mateo-Hayward bridge -- that's where planes approach for landing.
San Fransisco is a somewhat unique airport in this regard. Generally, it is not allowed for aircraft to be this close to each other, even while landing. You will see parallel landings at many other airports, but the parallel runways are separated by a much grater distance. San Fransisco, and a few others, follow a special FAA landing procedure due to the proximity of the two parallel runways to each other. The procedures are quite strict and and must be followed to the letter to ensure safety. There have been incidents in the past when one aircraft violates the procedures and encroaches on the other aircraft's airspace.
Watching 3 land together at Dallas is pretty kooL, too.😄
Beautiful San Francisco and always on the move with the new.
i am a german i love the bay area
Thanks to pelosi and the leftist/socialists, san fran has quickly been transformed into a giant toilet.... Visiting? Don't forget your feces/used hypodermic locator map!! Yeah, it's really beautiful alright..... Thinkin about moving there? You'd better have a million plus to spend on a miniature 2 bedroom/1 bath with zero yard and "who knows what" for neighbors (doubtful you'll find one). Looking to rent? No problem. You can probably find a 1 room apt for about $2-3000/month. Oh, and it's at least a 2 hour commute to san fran at that price point. Yeah, it's a great place. BTW, I used to live there so don't even come at me with that BS.
That was bad ass Both landing in the touchdown zone. Being a swa pilot I got the chills 🤪🤪🤪😁
Man I am so ready to travel again. When I was younger, I was a nervous flier. But after 3 trips to Japan from Honolulu (2012, 2014, 2018). 9.5 to 10 hours going. 7.5 to 8 hours return ( there is a tail wind that makes flight coming back much quicker). Its has been overcome. I had a flight to San Diego in 2019 and I filmed the take off and landing. Back in my youth I would have been white as a ghost with hands griping the arm rests.
Same when I use to travel to Korea every year from Charlotte to Seoul before the pandemic.
Excellent footage of that miraculous SOIA approach
Not a Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approach (SOIA). This was a tiptoe-visual approach. Happens 50 times a day.
Yeah. SOIA isn’t used anymore at SFO. 👍
Claps for camera man along with his pilot coz, he landed equally smooth or better
Thank you ATC for keeping separation and Moving Tin!
Awesome video. What timing‼️. For years I flew out of and into SFO and Beverly got used to that long water approach.👍👍👍👍
That's amazing how they have slightly different glide slope and speeds but yet make it there basically the same time. Looked like the other plane had to get back into the throttle for a few seconds or just different flying characteristics. Cool video
That was a smooth touchdown. Great angle.
Great Vid - well done for being there at the right time.
DFW airport often has parallel landings. The first time I saw one, I didn't realize that there were two runways and, for a brief moment, it looked as if the two planes were going to collide as they descended and lined up to land on their separate runways.
Thank you for making this video.
It was just spectacular to watch.
Keep up the incredible and interesting
work, you have great filmmaking talent.
Kind regards from Ireland Kate. 👱♀️💕
This is a great video, we flew into Dallas (I think it was Dallas) and we flew side by side on landing as well. Dallas airport is huge. Not as close as this though, just watched to the end. Brilliant
amazing, wish there were more videos like this one with wide bodies in particular. Well done.
It's called a SOIA (Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approach, a type of the more general Simultaneous Close Parallel PRM Approach, SOIA being the procedure for distance between the runways of less than 3000' down to 750'). Here, SWA is flying a straight-in ILS (or other precision) approach to 28L (runway 28 left) under Precision Radar Monitoring (PRM system - a high rate update radar seconded by an additional PRM controller), while the other aircraft (i.e. UAL) is flying an LDA (offseted, 2-3 deg, precision approach) to the parallel runway 28R, under the same PRM as SWA. From one certain point (final of the LDA segment), the 28R inbound is continuing flying visual, always behind the straight-in landing and parallel with this, to the threshold, for landing. The closing in and parallel final with the SWA leading can be clearly seen here. Great video!
So, you've been watching Captain Joe!
@@MJLeger-yj1ww ....Lol..🤣
These pilots were on the charted visuals. Not SOIA.
what a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing ... greetings from Indiana USA
There used to be a fantastic Mexican restaurant right near the water's edge there behind the airplane being filmed. I used to sit there and love the food and watch the planes come in. It was fab. I can't recall the name of it.
Nice! Thank you for posting this!
What is so spectacular on this?
This happens day by day on many airports with such an runway configuration.
A very rare treat! I saw a landing like this, when I was going into Atlanta, back in the 90s. Very cool.
perfect capture , i did not see better than this
That was fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Great video.
Ah, great viz -- in the a.m. before the fog rolls in during the afternoon. I flew out of HMB airport over on the ocean many years, and used to drive all the time over to watch TO&Ls at SFO! Love the approach from the north, going south below the Dumbarton bridge (I hear there's a toll on that bridge now!) and then up to SFO! Beautiful views! I miss it. I moved out of the Bay Area (for obvious reasons) 20 years ago and miss going to see the action at SFO!
Beauty thanks, was worth watching
Truly great to see when you can!!!!!!!!!!
I've once witnessed a virgin America a320 landing while our southwest airlines B737-700 was taking off from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City back in 2017
absolutely incredible ... why would I like to be on that plane ??? ... or just watching ... BEYOND SPECTACULAR ... Thank-you
I NEVER a Landing like this before.
Fkn WOW...
Thx for Posting ✌
flight to san francisco
Very nice landing
Wow wonderful, amazing, etc. Etc. I don't have words to praise this video
Very nice video! The best ever parallel landing recorded!
This happened on my last flight and I knew it was special, great video
That is so cool thank you so much
This is standard operating procedure during VFR conditions at KSFO. Happens 50 times a day. Still always fun to watch.
I happen to come this site but to check what is the term parallel landing means! 😊
Its really fun to see another plane is flying together with you at a distance !
Its beautiful! i always want to have the experience of seeing another plane paving through whenever i am on a plane!
Public comments.watch plain landing amazing and lifting off I really appreciate and enjoy watching it . thanks so much.
Now I want to go home and play Flight Simulator 2020.
0:01 the green park on the water is actually a man made hill. It used to be the land fill for San Mateo, CA which you see in the background. The visible, straight road going from one side of the screen to the other is the 101 Freeway. The green patch right behind the 737 is the Peninsula Golf & Country Club.
0:28 The larger buildings on the other side of the 737 is San Mateo's downtown.
0:39 Golfcourse: Poplar Creek Golf Course
Marina: Coyote Point Marina
Hill of trees: Coyote Point Recreation Area -I remember doing an Easter Egg hunt there when I was 5 or 6. Family did a lot of trips there in the early 70's. Had a great little nature museum back then which still is in operation.
0:57 The vacant lot is the old Dive-In where I originally saw Mad Max and First Blood as a double bill.
Absolutely correct.....born and raised in San Mateo! 😎😎😎
@@tonyt8805 Wasn't born San Mateo, but lived there since the year I was born to January 1976. In mid 80s lived in Burlingame which is when I saw Mad Max and First Blood at the drive-in.
clearly the Airbus is a heavier load than the Southwest 737... But great, great video. So interesting. Beautiful day to fly to SFO.
Why do you think thhat??? There's no way to tell, actually,
Wow, that is fantastic.
Nice video of parallel landing
Absolutely beautiful video. Great job.
Brilliant video. thanks..
Just beautiful...thank you for sharing
never seen before... i would love to shoot a similar one myself.. and finally you won the race.... :-)
At ATL, you won't just see parallel landing - you'll see two DELTA planes parallel landing :-)
For sure!
@Declan Pearl I said at ATL, are you dumb?
Fun fact, you didn't search for this video.
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I can
Fun fact: this is a copied commen
@@TheTeaLordRBLX damn im busted
Wow, I never see such parallel touch down before. Pretty cool.
Air traffic controller: "I have to pee, just follow the others."
What a capture! Well done!
Wow!! Truly spectacular.
Really cool video thanks. Subscribed
the southwest pilot had the best flare, pretty cool
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smooth landing by the Southwest 737
Very nice capture
How awesome is this....?wowwwww
Excellent - thank you!
I love going tro Coyote Point and watching the aircraft coming into SFO. Coyote point is centered at about 0:41 in the video. Making your approach to 28, you would swear that you're going to land on the water.
Nice video 👍 perfect timing 👍
Was cool
I really watched to see if I saw any landmarks from the old days. I lived in the SF Bay area till I was 35... Been in tampa bay area last 33 years.
John Tindell Coyote Point
I was in a parallel landing once at Narita Airport in Japan. It was 2 ANA 787s.
landing at SF is terrifying because its ocean until the very last second
no, the radio altimeter will give very stable readings over the water so its a good thing. Suprised the Localizer signals dont interfere with each other......hmmmm
How does that make it terrifying? I'd rather have a water landing. At least then the plane will float.
I was on a United Flight from Australia that landed just before Asiana Flight that crashed at San Francisco as we were taxing to the gate i watched the incident unfold and the plane burst into flames.
1:49 butter
passengers didn't even know they had landed
@@RadioNul Flew home from Europe on a 777 and the female captain absolutely greased the F out of the landing. Quite literally did not feel the touchdown.
Sounds like a personal problem
@@99dndd blog it.
@@BChandl13 OML SAME, Female pilot but on a southwest flight back to san diego! Didn't feel any sign of touchdown
Excellent video, thanks for sharing 👌👌
Que bello video!! Sorprendente cuando aparece la sombra del avión azul,lejos de el,y conforme se acerca a la pista se une al avion,y desapareciendo debajo de el,cuando aterriza.
Now there's an unusual sight!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder which ATC is monitoring each aircraft landing.
Fantastic video!
Great videography!!!
That's my airline. Our Pilots are awesome!
It happens when two flights come into airport controlling radius and waiting for runway clearance if more than one runway available for landings.
Always amazed at how fast they still are moving.
Now that i see it i think it is the parallel landing of daily dose of aviation video
That’s a great video!
Man that plane was dead on the glide slope. Great video.
Nice capture
Beautiful!
Nice Flight Sim video.
The Southwest Landing was BUTTER! This plane's landing sounded a lot worse than it was.
I’ve paralleled many other planes at many airports during my aviation career.
OK, so I have a question for you. Does wake turbulence come into the equation? I mean I can see how it would not be an issue here as both these aircraft wakes would be well behind them. However, I wonder - is there a "stagger" spacing where the following aircraft could run into wake turbulence from the leading aircraft, or are the runway center lines far enough apart for this not to be a problem?
David Anderson well, if there is then I haven’t felt it. My guess is that the runways are spaced far enough apart such that it’s not a factor. A crosswind might blow the vortices a ways but they likely dissipate before reaching the parallel runway. Crosswinds, on the other hand, can definitely be affected by man-made objects as they’ll shade you from the crosswind - until you reach an area where the crosswind is no longer shaded and suddenly it can hit you pretty hard! The craziest crosswinds I’ll regularly encounter are at Sydney (for which I don’t have an explanation for) and Anchorage, where the terrain can cause the crosswinds to behave in unpredictable ways.
I do this all the time in FSX at KSFO, sometimes we even collide!
AWESOME!
Great video!
Very cool. Thank you.
Incredible filmagem. 👏👏👏👏👏👏😲😲😲
Waoooo both pilots landed perfectly smoothly
Great landing.
Note, the Pilot of the second plane to land touches down little past the first plane to avoid Wake Turbulence.
What's the regulation for parallel landings? Is there a minimum distance between landing strips required?
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Wonder if there was someone in the right side of the southwest airlines flight recording the flight from that view point?