World's most Beautiful Approach? Airbus Visual Approach in Rio
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The famous visual approach for landing in Santos Dumont airport, considered one of the most challenging approaches in the airliners world. High elevation terrain surrounding the airport, variable winds ,many birds and one of the shortest runways an A320 operates ( 1300 mts )
Cant get tired of this
Visited Rio in 1983 while in the Navy aboard the USS John F Kennedy CV-67. Still remember the trip like it was yesterday. One of the most beautiful cities that I’ve ever seen.
Many things change in my city. To 1983 from now.
Never been there, mayb one day
I'm agree with you .....i began to know Brazil since 2019 ....and now i 'm retirement ,and i have plan Aug 2023 travel to beautiful Brazil .......
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I think that s pretty cool Sunshine Shoulders Almost 40 years ago right ?
Not only the most beautiful approach, but the most beautiful city. And for its size I can’t think of any other city I felt safer in despite the bad propaganda. Utterly awesome.
I'm happy you had a great time in Rio. As a Brazilian myself, I can assure you: there is some propaganda, but some reality too. Unfortunately. I have only good things to say about Rio, but some of my friends have gone through bad experiences, such as being mugged or assaulted. But you're right! No wonder why we call it "A cidade maravilhosa" (The wonderful city).
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You can't be serious haha, it's a warzone. And i'm brazilian, i have a lot of brazilian fellas who are from Rio, left that place and are never going back, it is LITERALLY a warzone.
not only the most beautiful approach or either the most beautiful city but the most beautiful mountains with beautiful city
I'll never forgot this approach in the airplane way back when I was a young boy of 8 and along with my dad and the rest of the family, we were beginning our relocation to this amazing city. This view is still vivid decades later. Thanks for posting this.
Someone from Rio once described Santos Dumont to me as the world's largest aircraft carrier.
That's true! without tailhook, barricade or barrier.
Lol hahaha, that's what it is
Nice airport has entered the chat
Perfect description.
Runway with 1300 meters and the auxiliary 1200.
Wow. That was one of the smoothest, lightest landings I've ever seen a pilot do on a jetliner.
Considering how short the runway is, even more amazing.
This was some masterful flying on part of the pilots.
Scott Bridge This airport is used for domestic flights, for international flights the Galeão international airport is used with a four-kilometer runway.
Thinking the same... "Like buttah"
The most Spectacular combination of Nature and Urban Place on Earth.😍
A beautiful approach, but a very busy landing pattern, and absolutely no room for error or room to spare on the runway!
At least you can go around. And the runway is long enough, you could stop in a much shorter distance. Think of all the safety margins for the landing distance calculations....
In Lukla you really have absolutely no room for error, there you can't just go around.
@@Jet-Pack Well there was a pilot who made it, there's even a video of it, but it didn't look safe at all
Yes. You're right. But consider that in the 40 last years there is ZERO accidents. I have to say, in the last accident, when a plane felt into the Guanabara's Bay (1.972) there were no deaths. If you came to land at Santos Dumont, just enjoy the beauty.
Paul, that's why Santos Dumont airport is nicknamed "aircraft carrier" by Brazilian pilots
Made famous in the James Bond film “Moonraker”.
Flew into Santos Dumont Airport from Sao Paulo six years ago. Different approach over the sea but breathtaking! For me the most beautiful City in the World.
Yeah, we flew in a small twin-engine Piper Navajo CR back in the mid eigthies, gorgeous approach no matter which way you enter the City, it's just out of this world.
Was wondering where the runway was for a minute there lol.
Me too, I thought, is this a seaplane... Lol
@@craigie13 Hahaha. I have been living in Rio since birth. For the past ~15 years, been working in one of those buildings underneath this video, from where you can follow the whole approach with your eyes. So I knew exactly where the runway was BUUUT I'll admit that I noticed, it will only appear to you at the very end!
Also, the right-hand pilot complains somewhat of the vultures in the way. "Opa opa opa -- ... desgraça" i.e. "whoa whoa whoa - ... aw nuts".
Same...🤷🏽♀️
Me too lol 😂
I was looking for an aircraft carrier.
That's Santos Dumont Airport, only for domestic flights. It's not an easy one.
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"Am a big cock." There, fixed it for you.
The most beautiful natural geographic setting for a city.
Cape town is better
Beautiful, straight down the middle. Incredible approach, and nice how you can hear the engines throttle up and down behind the cabin noise, a bit more power in that final turn.
Rio de Janeiro, con su magia, una de las ciudades mas lindas del mundo!
Been on sugar loaf mountain and Christ the reedemer Magnificent views over Rio cruised there not flew.
Vc já esteve no Rio de janeiro ?
Usually, youtube videos have titles claiming to be "world's most ____" or "the best ____ ever" , or "5 top ___"
Well, to my point of view, this is worlds most beautiful approach. Indeed.
^This MUST be the worlds most accurate comment ever created in history of all time in the universe. MUST SEE FOR YOURSELF (no clickbait!!!111)
Me too!!! :)
Departures, (take off) are also wonderfull.
For everyone's info, this airport is mostly used for domestic flights. Many people like it because it's so close to downtown.
However, Rio's international airport is some 30km away, in the Guabanaba Bay.
It has 2 runways, 3 and 4 km long. This one is 1.26 km, less than HALF the lenght of the shortest runway at Galeão International Airport.
19.6 km away.
Valeu RP
So they don’t get a billet in their head on the highway to the international airport.
@@slippery_slobber A billet? Or a bullet? And yeah, the risk is real. As a Brazilian myself, I can tell you that!
Brilliant how these guys navigate and so cool to watch and what a view I would so much love to see Rio it so beautiful!
0:48 Avoiding bird strike
This is one of the most challenging landings for Airbus-320/Boeing-737 family in Brazil; the runway has only 1200 meters!
Ah, Santos Dumont. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Stunning footage landing into a most spectacular city- thanks!
This is a terrible place. The only good thing about Rio is actually featured in this video. Otherwise it's a total shit hole. You will definitely be either raped, robbed, kidnapped, or murdered if you're foreign and here long enough.
@@Jeepsteve1982 Sorry to hear this. Thanks for the warning to be careful.
Impressive landing skills!
What is impressive about this ? This is normal everyday stuff. It would be fitting if you said that aircraft is impressive machinery.
0:46 Close call! Good on the pilots for noticing the birds
Christ the Redeemer's spirit surely was guiding those pilots
To me a very unusual approach. I've been to Rio de Janeiro at least 15 times and the usual approach is across Guanabara Bay and the Niterio bridge...yes, it all about wind direction
You've landed at the galeão international Airport. This landing ocurred at the Santos Dumont regional Airport.
@@JVinholi no, this is Santos Dumont, but have 2 tipes or approach, 02R or 20L.
The approach in the video is approach of 02R. The approach passing from the Bridge is the 20L
Imagine that a City this beautifull from above can hold so much misery, death and sadness on the ground....
Pede Meyer very true brasil is extremely filthy poor infrastructure bad economy extremely racist I’ve been there twice and I’m over it oh yeah as far as beautiful yes they have them but don’t let that fool you that obesity rate is around the same as you USA very high!!!!
I am an American that has a home in Rio de Janeiro. The crimes make this country Ugly... People rob, murder you in cold blood. I been going there for 20years. It continues to get worse.
@@eZmiles "People rob, murder you in cold blood" And the difference with the US is?
Why don't you stay in Cleveland?
25% of Rio's populations lives in "favelas" (Shanty towns)
Lived there thru the 60's. Kindergarten thru 8th grade at Our Lady of Mercy school. First time I heard that song "Leaving on a jet plane" I was on my way to the airport, leaving. Leaving Rio broke my heart.
Thank you. Yes it is the most amazing approach in the world. Been there done it. (not as a pilot).
when working in Brazil. fulfilling a childhood dream. Cheers. Fica frio.
Beautiful! I found approach to Hong Kong airport equally beautiful as well.
So beautiful!❤️
I'm no expert, but the runway appears to be a bit short?
Yes it is. Only 1300 metres or 4265.092 feet. (Because in aviation everything is in feet). That length is very short for an A320
@@CharlieND Wow! I Googled my local airport, LAG, cos I know their runways are considered dangerously short, and discovered they're 7000 feet. That's still considerably longer than this.
@@CharlieND it's a a319. A320s don't operate at that airport.
Ziggmanster 4341 feet for RWY 02R
It is short, actually.
Ahh, SBRJ, Santos Dumont. Beautiful Airport. Nice landing on its 4100 feet 02/20 runway. Nice view of Copacabana beach as well. It's been a while since last time there.
Those birds came really close at 0:48!
The pilots said: " Oh, oh. Damn birds, there are more ahead. There are a lot more.
MarcosVB thanks!
@@m4rcosvb Was just going to say the same thing. Big birds too! Frigate Birds.
@@m4rcosvb ... I thought that the "Opa, opa!" was an aural birds warning :D (not really)
@@adb012 lol, "opa" is commonly used here as a surprise expression but some people (like me :D) also use it as a greeting
Very smooth landing.
I guess I'll sit on the left side if I ever go to Rio de Janeiro.
This isn’t the main airport. You land at a different one when coming on a larger carrier.
@@danielgloverpiano7693 , thanks for the info. I'll make sure to switch planes for this view
@@PaliAha you’re most welcome. This airport is very similar to Washington National Airport, as opposed to Dulles. You would have to take a Brazilian airline on a domestic flight to fly in here. That being said, the view from the top of Sugarloaf is just as spectacular and a must if you go to Rio. You take a perilous cable car ride to the top. It’s hard to believe there’s a platform up there with a cafe, etc. But there is. I wish Rio were a safer city. There’s a lot of poverty, which causes street crimes. You have to watch your back at all times, and your wallet. It’s not as safe as Buenos Aires. I hope you can get there some day. Santiago is also a gorgeous city surrounded by mountains.
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Beautiful city, beautiful landing.
Bravo !!! Excellent video !!! Yes, that runway seemed short, but the landing was so smooth like everything was on auto-pilot - and the weather was perfect. The people on that beach must enjoy watching the planes bank over before landing.
Yes. 1.300 meters.
I flew into Santos Dumont quite often during the 1980's via the Ponte Aerea (Air Bridge) on a Varig Lockheed Electra. The landings were usually the other way (towards Pao de Acucar) and were a bit nerve wracking especially in bad weather. Their service was every 20-30 minutes and was walk- on and walk- off with no allocated seating. We used to go to the tail of the aircraft where they had lounge type seating parallel to the body of the aircraft facing each other. Not sure if they still fly the Electras.
No, we don't use Electras anymore for at least 20 years, and Varig no longer exists.
Buffalo Air in NWT uses one...TV show here in Canada...
This is about the MOST unique view one will get NEXT to literally Piloting this Jet!!.. This Judge gives it a 10 out of 10!!..
Such a Smooth Landing😍😍😍😍
I used to live at Rua Bambina, Botafogo...The planes landing give the passengers on the left hand side of the seating arrangement an exceptional view as the the plane curves around pão de Açucar
WOW such a precision landing. Bravo!
What a stunning approach!
OMG YOU'RE HERE
Beautiful approach and smooth landing onto 02R (reverse ops due to wind?). With such a short runway you need to "stick" the landing and this guy made it look easy. One of my favorite challenging airports to fly into on FSX, except I don't know if I have ever tried it from that direction landing 02R.
I would think the prefer pattern would be into the 20 L/R runways, this final is so tight, it's crazy
Ordinary people may not realize how demanding it is to make such a sharp turn under such low altitude (calling out 500 feet in the turn) and low airspeed. When flying low and slow, you don't have full control over the aircraft (i.e., the plane is not as sensitive and fast-responding to inputs as with a faster airspeed), and the risk of stalling is high. In order to make that sharp 180-degree turn, the plane needs to bank with a really wild angle, which will cause the airspeed and lift force on the wings to drop even more. This can potentially lead to a stall in which the plane falls out of the sky. Due to the low altitude, there is simply no time for recovery. In order to make the turn safely, you have to constantly monitor the airspeed and altitude and increase the throttle if necessary. Another challenge is that you have to line up perfectly with the runway when you finish the turn, which demands precise aileron and rudder control. You don't want to approach the runway with an angle, right? In addition to that, we have a very short runway on which you have to land early in order to come to a stop without overrunning into the water. So you probably have to go extra slow with full flaps and fly at the edge of stalling. Moreover, you cannot land too hard for the sake of the comfort of the passengers, so you may have to hit the runway with the perfect combination of airspeed, altitude, and vertical speed. Despite all these, the pilot managed a pretty soft landing on this short runway in the video, which was quite impressive to me.
Beautiful views! Thanks for uploading!
Lindo! O Brasil é um dos países mais bonitos do mundo.
E um dos países com maior criminalidade e corrupção. 😡🤑🤡😠😈☹️
@@ThomasJr Sim, mas isso não se aplica a mim. Cada qual que coma daquilo que gosta. E Portugal em comida faz inveja a muitos países. Também há muitos brasileiros cá que não querem ir mais para o Brasil, também comentam que há muita violência, corrupção e criminalidade, e que é o fim do mundo. 🙁😶😐😈
@@luispatricio5919 Grande merda Portugal, o pais mais mediocre e invisível da Europa. Conheço brasileiros que tentaram mudar prai, nao gostaram, e voltaram pro Brasil. Eles nao acharam ai melhor que o Brasil, e de fato nao eh. Brasil eh moderno, avançado, portugal eh uma roça .
@@ThomasJr E se eu lhe disser que já estou farto desta merda há muitos anos! Desemprego, corrupção, políticos de merda, baixos salários. Mas uma coisa é certa , Portugal é bonito, Lisboa por exemplo. A comida é boa, mediterrânica. Mas eu vou fazer tudo para mudar ou emigrar. Tudo de bom.😐
E cheio de miséria e corrupção.
To me, the world's most beautiful approach is the one you fly when you're landing at your home airport...lol
Ewww. No
You've not been to Rio obviously.
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“See what you were missing?” -Jewel
“Yeah”-Blu
Rio (2011)
This is beautiful, as is the northern approach into Sydney over the harbor and CBD, but Nepal has both beat for sheer beauty with some airport’s built on the sides of mountains with Himalayan peaks all around. Pilots need a lot of skill and huge courage there, but it is magnificent.
One word AMAZING
The best feeling in the world when a plane lands thank you almighty
holy hell. only 4500 ft. I agree. One of the toughest and most beautiful approach. Looked like about 150 degree bank for final.
Dave Elmy This airport is used for domestic flights, for international flights the Galeão international airport is used with a four-kilometer runway.
What a smooth approach and delicate landing.
Wales is such a beautiful country
I flew in there a couple of times for the Carnival, the approach is gorgeous with Sugar Loaf in the distance, other than that, it's just another big city on the ocean, but it has a couple of nice beaches and a great song about one of them (Ipanema!) As a GA pilot, I thought it was a bit tricky landing there due to some hazards (like a bird strike, a short runway and busy traffic), but pilots usually handle it well, if they come in and out of there often.
It sure is good to know that the "pilots USUALLY handle it well." That sure is comforting.
@@georgesealy4706 That, my friend, means that things are almost always routine so it's no big deal, but many unexpected things can happen in aviation. In the case of airlines, passengers rarely know about it but when things are NOT routine, due to weather or any malfunction of the airport equipment, or the aircraft itself, or the ATC rarely makes mistakes but all those thing CAN happen. Sometimes things look good and then something happens and missed approaches must be made, go-arounds (aborted landings) must be made, and it's usually handled very because they practiced all kinds of things in the flight simulator and can deal with it well. But humans are not perfect and rarely mistakes are made. Pilot error is STILL the cause of 85% of airline crashes. Thankfully most know how to handle emergencies and they get the aircraft down and sometimes passengers don't even know there was an incident, the pilot merely tells them "we'll be delayed a bit" Air travel is still the safest way to travel so don't worry about it.
@@MJLeger-yj1ww Thanks for your reply. I was being a little bit joking with my comment. I have the highest regard for the job that pilots do. In fact, I find it amazing that with the thousands of flights daily that there are so few accidents.
@@georgesealy4706 Thanks, George, it's hard to imagine, but stats say that at any one minute in the day, there are more than 120,000 people in the air! There's certainly more people traveling by air than ever before, and more aircraft, so that is often the reason for the delays at the airports, along with weather sometimes and aircraft mechanical delays but those are in the minimum, pilots know the weather because they all have radar right in their panel in the flight deck now!
@@MJLeger-yj1ww - You are not wrong, but this airport is (will be) celebrating 47 years with no casualties.
Very worthwhile watch. Thanks for making it.
Beautiful! The best part...blue water!
Smooth! Stop by Arkansas on your next trip and get me!👍🙏
You have to get down quickly here. Notice on almost all videos you see of this approach, the 50 feet callout is before the threshold. Floating on the flare is not viable here. You have to get the wheels on terra firma and the spoilers out well before a third distance down the runway. Both directions are difficult for different reasons, but both usually require steep turns well under 1000 feet, and this one has the turn completed at only 400 feet! Kudos to the captains who fly this approach daily.
Ordinary people may not realize how demanding it is to make such a sharp turn under such low altitude (calling out 500 feet in the turn) and low airspeed. When flying low and slow, you don't have full control over the aircraft (i.e., the plane is not as sensitive and fast-responding to inputs as with a faster airspeed), and the risk of stalling is high. In order to make that sharp 180-degree turn, the plane needs to bank with a really wild angle, which will cause the airspeed and lift force on the wings to drop even more. This can potentially lead to a stall in which the plane falls out of the sky. Due to the low altitude, there is simply no time for recovery. In order to make the turn safely, you have to constantly monitor the airspeed and altitude and increase the throttle if necessary. Another challenge is that you have to line up perfectly with the runway when you finish the turn, which demands precise aileron and rudder control. You don't want to approach the runway with an angle, right? In addition to that, we have a very short runway on which you have to land early in order to come to a stop without overrunning into the water. So you probably have to go extra slow with full flaps and fly at the edge of stalling. Moreover, you cannot land too hard for the sake of the comfort of the passengers, so you may have to hit the runway with the perfect combination of airspeed, altitude, and vertical speed. Despite all these, the pilot managed a pretty soft landing on this short runway in the video, which was quite impressive to me.
Beautiful, thank you for post. Miss Rio.
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Better to stay away, if you decide to still take the risk take security precautions like you're entering a war zone (just don't be mean to people but stay alert at all times)
Splash'n'Skillz #37 😢
@@dusanpetrovic1181 hey I'm 19 and haven't been assaulted or presenced an armed one yet, south zone is safer which is the one with touristic stuff, but outside doesn't look pretty, it's city of roughriders, like Escobar's Miami 5x worst, but it can be survivable
It looks so beautiful when you can't see all the murders on the ground
Most of the murders occur on the favelas, barely never on the rich part of the city, where the rich people lives.
You've lost the chance to remain silent
Rio is not as dangerous as Saint Louis, Baltimore, Saint Louis or Detroit!
I´ve done the CGH ( São Paulo city airport ) flight to SDU at least 30 times and only once ( !! ) did the plane came in from the Botafogo side..... all the other times coming in from the east- ocean over Niteroi and Rio-Niteroi bridge..... landing on the northern side of the runway.... also a nice landing for those sitting at the right side window...
Hi Georg, most of the times when this procedure and runway are in use is at early morning because of prevailing winds flowing to the sea where the pressure is lower at night, but when the sun rises and the land gets warm the wind direction changes to the opposite runway. Best regards
@@teopr in the afteenoon summer usually rain because of cumulus nimbus clouds above Caxias city and Petropolis Moutain an the landing and takeoff change to runway 02.
Definitely scenic!
What a great job! Flawless!
0:01 "Ladies and gentlemen, if you look out the window on any side of the aircraft, you will see one of the most insane disparities of wealth within any city on the globe. Estimated arrival in 3 minutes."
Wow that landing was smooth AF
We had the same nice approch befor our hollidays in Brasil Exellent! Beautiful
Jung jacobs Holland
Skilled pilot... Very soft landing...
One day I'll go and see Rio ❤️
And will be welcome, for sure.
Me too
And I'll never leave...
all approaches are beautiful
Smooth touch:) lovely landing
Beautiful Aproach & perfect landing!!! Great video!!! Thank you!!! Greetings from Argentina !!!
MAN you Guys are the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Smooth landing!! Those guys are good!!
In addition to this Airport Santos Dumont for smaller aircrafts to land and take off - that name considered locally to be the father of aviation, Rio has another longer International Airport for bigger aircrafts to land and take off. Certainly with a more required extension for eventual errors of which I have no news of occurrence!
Approach with emotion!
This is beautiful .........
No margin for error in touchdown zones without pontoons or outriggers.
My thanks on behalf of the passengers that do not realize what takes place in the front of the aircraft.
Well done, gentlemen!
That was amazing. Great footage.
Worked in Rio back in August. We were told to not leave the work site except to take the shuttle to the hotel, and to stay in the hotel until we shuttled back to the site. It was kinda sad. We used to look forward to going there and having fun.
Damn what a scary short airport runway. It reminds me of my trips to the tiny Micronesian islands in the Pacific rim.
Emelio Salazar This airport is used for domestic flights, for international flights the Galeão international airport is used with a four-kilometer runway.
"Dentro de mais um minuto estaremos no Galeão"
Amazing scenery!
Simply stunning !! 😀😱
Wow, perfect landing!
Looked like a feather landing! Is that Rio?
I just saw this video and the view from the plain was pretty . thank you
Very nice.
Awkward however that they should make the approach coming over the city instead of over the sea.
Noise is not an issue in Rio i guess.
It depends on the wind direction, you can see that the wind it's almost straight into the nose of the acft
@@pedrodeabreufreire1920 Yes i understand that but still. Why not making the turn overhead te sea and having the same runway?
From this video appears to be just water on the other side, but you have some islands over there with buildings. Anyway in terms of noise you find some airports way worse than this.
My thoughts exactly.....why is the approach over land, beach and the marina when you can equally make a right base turn over the ocean which will not cause any unnecessary noise pollution to the city.
Cause there is just a much bigger airport next to this, the other airspace is used for that more important airport.
Stunning excellent great wonderful landing ❤
When I flew into Rio De Janeiro I went to Galeao airport instead - and it was night time. So I didn't see any of this.
This is Santos Dumont Airport, that serves only for domestic flights. Galeao is international airport.
@@fernandocesar6626 I flew in from Sao Paulo - which is a domestic flight. So I could have used either airport.
The surrouding area of Galeão is quite ugly to be fair
Fantastic. Loved that video! Muito legal!
GORGEOUS!!
Man, that was smooth! Brazilian pilots kicking some ass!
Wow super landing
Not a lot of room for an error...
Not supposed to have anyway
Actually there is airport is clear at both ends terrain wise, a go around is always available
Thank you very much Marcel. Fantastic. God Save you
Vry smooth landing. I could not tell the change from air to land.
0:45 I remember the huge flocks of frigate birds and Urubus there over Botafogo.. they can have impressive sizes.
Magnifique ! Probablement la plus belle approche du monde ! Mais il faut être un pilote adroit car le Pain de sucre est juste dans l'axe de la piste.
Nice and Smooth!...... to me that is the world's most beautiful approach. But this is a close second though...😎
Magnifique vue de Rio
Hello! Would it be possible to use a clip from this wonderful video in a documentary? Please let me know. Thank you.
Bianca Cervantes Hi Bianca, of course you can use it. Please send me the link when it’s done so I can watch