my dad used to drive the mini bus, picking up the stars for the Excelsior hotel. Probably about 50 years or so ago. He met Bruce Forsythe and Tommy Cooper. I can`t remember which one he said was genuine and nice and which one was up his own arse...but still a nice memory.
@lizhowardk7627 Honey 🍯 I am so very sorry for y /r papa (sin el acento) $ if I were able to fly to BHM i would have been very happy 😊 to thank him for his 30 yrs of work, but now I am an old idiot man who does not fly anymore , but I still wish him & his family all of the very best in life, & the best thing that u can do for him is to pray 🙏 for him & for y/r family members ❤😊😢😢
Thanks for the landing, always wondered what It looked like from the cockpit. You just checked off another thing on my bucket list in life. Thanks again
It’s hard to become a trainee. Let alone a fully qualified driver. Takes about 8 months. Some places less, other places longer. Depends on your traction and routes. Very rewarding though. Just had an airline pilot start with us, he likes the trains better.
Always track your flights on flight radar and have spotted you on the cargo side car park. It’s amazing to see what you see and inspires me to be a pilot one day too! Thankyou
BHX - one of my favourite airports. Worked there a number of times and even got to fly in the Police Helicopter a couple of days, and a day in the tower :)
To me, this always means the end of a long voyage. I travel from Oakland, California to Seattle, then on to Amsterdam and finally Birmingham. More time in the air, but a lot less hassle than having to cross London from Heathrow to Houston. My wife drops me off at Oakland, so I don't have to worry about beeing stuck on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and I have friends waiting at Birmingham. A very relaxing journey.
All the times I’ve flown into BHX I’ve always landed on 33 across the M42 motorway. Was interesting to see this approach. That one pilot needs some cough meds though.
The guys who do this stuff are amazing! How do they do it! I have enough trouble with my petrol lawnmower! Should be boarding a flight to Birmingham tomorrow from Gran Canaria. We put all our trust in these guys even those who believe the earth is flat!
Great video. Can anyone explain the final anticlockwise turn to line her up? When I've flown in from the south to land on RW15, I always seem to have passed to the west of Birmingham and had a clockwise turn. I assumed that was to separate aircraft movements?
The published approach onto 15 from the south is all based off the Honiley VOR (6nm SE of the airport). You are supposed to follow an 11nm long arc 18nm from HON curving in a clockwise direction over the City until reaching a waypoint called CHASE, this is on a 330deg radial and 18nm from HON or apporox 10.5nm NW from the airport. In reality you never follow the procedure as you are normally given radar vectors in a straight line from HON usually in a direction of between 305-315 deg on a right hand downwind. ATC will still take you out as far as CHASE give or take a couple of miles and descend you down to 2,500ft before giving you a right turn to intercept the localiser just north of Sutton Coldfield, approx over Aldridge. Occasionally if ATC have departures heading out to the West, or as you say ATC are busy and wish to organise movements more efficiently they will stager the approaches on alternate left and right hand downwind. 90% of the time you will fly over the City, the rest of the time you will be sent out toward Tamworth. Obviously coming from the East we would prefer the latter, but outbound traffic below us dictates what happens. Hope this helped.
LesD9 have you ever had it when you are landing and the plane goes really close to a road at EGBB? I think it’s a motorway but if you go along that road you get amazing plane views (you can’t stop there though but I saw an EK A380 on the road!!!!) also car park 5 is amazing for plane spotting
@@mysteryguy5177 You may mean the A45 to the south which was realigned when the runway was extended a few years ago. If you time it right, an even better view of landings can be had from the upper deck of the local bus services which use the service road inside the airport perimeter. You only get one shot each time tho'! You can see what I mean on one of the Street View series.
I flew in Birmingham a couple of years back on an Emirates A380, the plane was slammed on the runway ?? and then the troubles started. Three other planes had landed just before us, so immigration was swamped took an hour to walk the tapes. The UK passport reader could not read my UK one year old UK passport, so had to queue for the number one eye ball guy, great that worked. Into luggage claim area, now Birmingham Airport has levied a 0ne pound charge to rent a luggage cart. Trouble is most passengers don't travel with one pound coins, so the smallest note I had was a twenty, posted into the machine and received twenty one pound coins, great. The cart attendant suggested I barter with the rest of the passengers to get rid of the coins. The other passengers only had dollars and after waiting in the passport line I was in no fit state to work out exchange rates, plus the comment from the cart guy sealed it when he said the machine will soon run out. The Emirates car guy even phoned me to ask where I was, it was taking that long. Once in the car the driver said there has been a lot of bother with the 1 pound cart charge, the attendants are like hawks outside the building snatching carts away just as you lift your luggage. To make sure an outgoing passenger doesn't get it. Now I prefer reginal airports to Heathrow as their a lot less walking, but who want's to stand around because of poor scheduled landing with an immigration set up that can't cope. I don't know what the air lines pay for landing/take offs but surly something could be worked out about the cart charge. Or has this come about with the cheapo airlines using Birmingham.????
@@daveflyinghigh3209 BHX Postcode is B26 3QJ, google says B33 0QB for the North end viewing area (The one in the video), there is another at the South end by the A45 postcode B92 0DX
Wow such a great video. BHX is my local and I have watched aircraft land there for ages. It was nice to see the pilots view for a change. Those lights seems to shake the plane a lot when it runs over them. Do the planes not had suspension?
Can't be Ryanair... it landed too smoothly and I could not hear the usual ruckus from the passenger compartment! Then again... it could have been Mentour pilot... he seems to be the only Ryanair pilot who knows how to land without cracking the airframe! Check his videos out.
My Dad worked at Birmingham for over 30 years, ATC... His surname is Howard.... No one from the airport comes to visit him.... x
my dad used to drive the mini bus, picking up the stars for the Excelsior hotel. Probably about 50 years or so ago. He met Bruce Forsythe and Tommy Cooper. I can`t remember which one he said was genuine and nice and which one was up his own arse...but still a nice memory.
@lizhowardk7627 Honey 🍯 I am so very sorry for y /r papa (sin el acento) $ if I were able to fly to BHM i would have been very happy 😊 to thank him for his 30 yrs of work, but now I am an old idiot man who does not fly anymore , but I still wish him & his family all of the very best in life, & the best thing that u can do for him is to pray 🙏 for him & for y/r family members ❤😊😢😢
Correction of the airport code but since I am so very dumb I typed in the incorrect code , which is BHX Duh,Duh 😢😢😢
The least they could do would be to give him a day off.
Thanks for the landing, always wondered what It looked like from the cockpit. You just checked off another thing on my bucket list in life. Thanks again
Wow, what an experience! Thanks for sharing. I live in Chelmsley Wood just off the flight path we see you guys all the time. Nice to see what you see.
So cool, you don't realise how fast the planes are actually going until it gets closer to ground level..awesome vid❤
5:12 there’s about a 1/150 chance I’m driving that train!!
no carriages mate, what's going on hahah
2 carnage’s is why I know it’s one of ours!! Haha
@@sw01ller is it hard to become a train driver?
It’s hard to become a trainee. Let alone a fully qualified driver. Takes about 8 months. Some places less, other places longer. Depends on your traction and routes. Very rewarding though. Just had an airline pilot start with us, he likes the trains better.
did you ever see a plane coming above you?? if so then thats you!
Beautifully done...reminds me of flying in a Cessna CJ 19 years ago when I did trade shows. What fun.
Nice video my friend!
VERY NICE for a change to watch a landing without looking at instruments! Thanks for a lovely video.
Awesome footage ..and a nice view of our factory on finals. Cheers for sharing
I don't get to flyvery often, so these videos are great for me. Thank you. I love to look down at our country
Yes Carol, the country still looks fantastic when viewed from the air... on the ground it is a different story! Hehehe...
Always track your flights on flight radar and have spotted you on the cargo side car park. It’s amazing to see what you see and inspires me to be a pilot one day too! Thankyou
Cracking viewing area in Birmingham for departures and arrivals and don't cost a penny either!
@Des M. Must be referring to the view from the top of the car parks...
Viewing from Sheldon Country Park, as seen at the runway 15 threshold and approach lighting
I've got a spare Strepsil if you want mate.
Adam Noble Thanks, I'm ill
That was immensely satisfying, and they probably flew past my house which made it even more interesting.
Probably went over New Oscott, Kingstanding and Erdington. I know, I live in New Oscott. Great landing
cool! My grandma lives in new oscott
How do they find the runway. They are so clever to do it.
I swear Pilots have the best office.
Well I'll be, I can just about see flugsnug in his usual haunt at the end of the runway.
GT Stang flugsnug would have got him.
BHX - one of my favourite airports. Worked there a number of times and even got to fly in the Police Helicopter a couple of days, and a day in the tower :)
That helicopter is a pain in the butt. Always seems to go off shift at 2-3 in the morning and comes in from the SW. Over our place!
Tower of London or Birmingham ?
@@TrevorPoole-y7b lol
great view into BHX, i love flying into this airport in the sim.
To me, this always means the end of a long voyage. I travel from Oakland, California to Seattle, then on to Amsterdam and finally Birmingham. More time in the air, but a lot less hassle than having to cross London from Heathrow to Houston. My wife drops me off at Oakland, so I don't have to worry about beeing stuck on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and I have friends waiting at Birmingham. A very relaxing journey.
A plane once flown right over me whilst driving from Birmingham to Coventry on the A45. Was very very close. Was amazing
Use the Coventry road next time.
Awesome video, mate👍
Great video....
Amazing video
Thanks
I thought there was a bloke with his little bats guiding the plane to a stop - nice video -thank you wmike -
Yes, oh yes! The best view ever. Thank you.
All the times I’ve flown into BHX I’ve always landed on 33 across the M42 motorway. Was interesting to see this approach. That one pilot needs some cough meds though.
The guys who do this stuff are amazing! How do they do it! I have enough trouble with my petrol lawnmower! Should be boarding a flight to Birmingham tomorrow from Gran Canaria. We put all our trust in these guys even those who believe the earth is flat!
nice Mike keep it up.
Great landing
Buttered that bread didn't even hear the bump untill the nose wheel!
Very interesting perspective. Thanks for the video.
nice landing... just a little confused about GPWS callout
PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT SOFT LANDING & brakes perfect . I subscribed 👍
Thanks. Hope I can come up with some new material soon.
Smooth landing, Bravo 👍👌👏
Great filming that was
On the approach to the gate, is there not suppose to be someone directing you?
I wondered that also but I guess they do things a little different at BHX. Guess it's no big deal. There are no acft nearby.
Tea break mate!
There is guidance. However it is electronically displayed. The stands in Birmingham are actually quite tight.
Great video.
Can anyone explain the final anticlockwise turn to line her up?
When I've flown in from the south to land on RW15, I always seem to have passed to the west of Birmingham and had a clockwise turn. I assumed that was to separate aircraft movements?
The published approach onto 15 from the south is all based off the Honiley VOR (6nm SE of the airport). You are supposed to follow an 11nm long arc 18nm from HON curving in a clockwise direction over the City until reaching a waypoint called CHASE, this is on a 330deg radial and 18nm from HON or apporox 10.5nm NW from the airport. In reality you never follow the procedure as you are normally given radar vectors in a straight line from HON usually in a direction of between 305-315 deg on a right hand downwind. ATC will still take you out as far as CHASE give or take a couple of miles and descend you down to 2,500ft before giving you a right turn to intercept the localiser just north of Sutton Coldfield, approx over Aldridge.
Occasionally if ATC have departures heading out to the West, or as you say ATC are busy and wish to organise movements more efficiently they will stager the approaches on alternate left and right hand downwind. 90% of the time you will fly over the City, the rest of the time you will be sent out toward Tamworth. Obviously coming from the East we would prefer the latter, but outbound traffic below us dictates what happens. Hope this helped.
@@Goproflying Thanks.
LesD9 have you ever had it when you are landing and the plane goes really close to a road at EGBB? I think it’s a motorway but if you go along that road you get amazing plane views (you can’t stop there though but I saw an EK A380 on the road!!!!) also car park 5 is amazing for plane spotting
@@mysteryguy5177 You may mean the A45 to the south which was realigned when the runway was extended a few years ago. If you time it right, an even better view of landings can be had from the upper deck of the local bus services which use the service road inside the airport perimeter. You only get one shot each time tho'! You can see what I mean on one of the Street View series.
LesD9 yes I know what you mean... thanks for the correction!
Jet2?
That was nice.
Beautiful!
amazing. BTW, Airborne for the cold..
Did everybody stand up and cheer when you rolled into the terminal?
Perfect .... right on the centre line.
I flew in Birmingham a couple of years back on an Emirates A380, the plane was slammed on the runway ?? and then the troubles started. Three other planes had landed just before us, so immigration was swamped took an hour to walk the tapes. The UK passport reader could not read my UK one year old UK passport, so had to queue for the number one eye ball guy, great that worked.
Into luggage claim area, now Birmingham Airport has levied a 0ne pound charge to rent a luggage cart. Trouble is most passengers don't travel with one pound coins, so the smallest note I had was a twenty, posted into the machine and received twenty one pound coins, great. The cart attendant suggested I barter with the rest of the passengers to get rid of the coins. The other passengers only had dollars and after waiting in the passport line I was in no fit state to work out exchange rates, plus the comment from the cart guy sealed it when he said the machine will soon run out.
The Emirates car guy even phoned me to ask where I was, it was taking that long.
Once in the car the driver said there has been a lot of bother with the 1 pound cart charge, the attendants are like hawks outside the building snatching carts away just as you lift your luggage. To make sure an outgoing passenger doesn't get it.
Now I prefer reginal airports to Heathrow as their a lot less walking, but who want's to stand around because of poor scheduled landing with an immigration set up that can't cope. I don't know what the air lines pay for landing/take offs but surly something could be worked out about the cart charge. Or has this come about with the cheapo airlines using Birmingham.????
Good Moaning Vietnam EGBB is rubbish you’ll just have to go with it
Who was the Captain, James Ingram? ;)
He was a very naughty person.
Did he really need to stop that close to the tow truck at the end?
How do they know where to place the nose wheel when there was no marshall?
there is a docking guidance system, you can just see it as it pulls on to stand
@5:26 you can stand under the planes as they come in/fly out.
Yeah it’s a public viewing location
What's the postcode for there?
@@daveflyinghigh3209 BHX Postcode is B26 3QJ, google says B33 0QB for the North end viewing area (The one in the video), there is another at the South end by the A45 postcode B92 0DX
What are the thingee's in front of the windscreen for?
I think they are deflectors
Great video
Nice to watch a landing with the focus on the forward view only. Something different.
Yes, I liked it also. Great view
I don't know why planes don't have a front camera and have the footage shown on the TV's.
This describes my life
surprising to see the approach is right over a passenger rail line
Where is the Marshall guy?
Scrabbling round looking for the lost ping pong ball. I can tell him it rolled under the canteen fridge.
There's every chance I was pulling my pudding as this was being landed. There's every chance that it was bloody nice too.
Beautiful video. What were the strange 'pshh' noises? Auto trim?
Most likely yes
They make a noise like they are huffing in annoyance at having to do some work
Spraying air freshener
That’s why he’s coughing
Air freshner required because of pilot flatulation.@@philtimson5449
Nice!
Excellent !
is there a reason there's no marshaller?
there is a docking guidance system, you can just see it as it pulls on to stand
Nice view.!
Stunning
Birmingham, Alabama? Or Birmingham in Europe?
@@NigeB1966 Okay. Thanks!
what video game is this, can you get for the xboy?
Its real not a game!
greesed that landing!
Always see planes landing, cool to see it from a different perspective.
1:33.........soo reassuring!!!! Lol
Whoever was coughing on that flight deck, I hope you got checked out back then.
Never heard so much noise coming out of the cockpit before it sounds like you guys are pumping up a basketball
that was a stab trim wheel it keeps the plane flying level i am glad it did not jam up it would have been very bad
Anyone have an idea on the likely approach speed there?
J D 136 kts ish
What`s take-off..190?
Rattus Norvegicus Rotate maybe 145... initial climb 15 degrees bitch up round 190. Then decrease in angle of attack and increase of speed
Wow such a great video. BHX is my local and I have watched aircraft land there for ages. It was nice to see the pilots view for a change. Those lights seems to shake the plane a lot when it runs over them. Do the planes not had suspension?
The taxiway centerline lights SHOULD be flush, and shouldn't cause the aircraft to bump. Bad installation.
They are never really flush anywhere, and you can feel them even in bigger aircraft with larger wheels.
A Ryanair plane?
737-800 approaching that zone of the airport makes me believe this is a Ryanair aircraft
Can't be Ryanair... it landed too smoothly and I could not hear the usual ruckus from the passenger compartment! Then again... it could have been Mentour pilot... he seems to be the only Ryanair pilot who knows how to land without cracking the airframe! Check his videos out.
Colmore Row on a Sunday.
Nasty old cough mate, lovely vid and smooth landing. Great.
Is this a pump up plane ?
Richard Jones haha.
I think it’s the autotrim wheel maintaining correct altitude whilst turning.
Why does it sound like someone blowing up a balloon?
Kinda long?
That's a proper 'greaser' by any measure!
This doesn't appear to be the Birmingham, Alabama International Airport. It doesn't have a runway 33 according to google earth.
Michael LeBlanc It is Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Kuka siellä yski koko ajan?
Any idea of flight direction? Me just under flight path north to south
Pilot came into land over Stetchford/ Tile cross over the Radleys Road. You can see Lea Village and Lidl
From the north, over Bromford Bridge and Fort Dunlop.
@@bengeoghegan277 They passed directly over Fort Dunlop which is north(ish) of Elmdon.
A big thanks to all who responded. Indeed from north to south , who remembers Elmdom?
@@Mrfort indeed from North to South. Elmdon? Elmdon trading estate? I don't live far from Elmdon lane which is runs parallel with the runway.
Someone do’nt sound too well. Great video!
I bet this is Ryanair
Gate 1 is (was) always Ryanair.
beautiful
I am almost convinced "hundred" is in meters, the 50-40 -30 is in feet... Strange...
Would be nicer to see instrument panel and hear cockpit communications.
Always someone moaning. Everywhere. Never happy are we?
Caught a cold?
Better than simulator!
good job capt pull in a the gate i will give u a drink of moonshine lol
It was the copilot flying. But thanks anyway.
I can take off LOL Got to learn this :)
Birmingham is EGBB my friend
2:46
A lot of comments saying it was a nice landing. What if I told you it was Ryanair (listen to the fanfare after landing)...?
And? They have trained pilots as well. The fact that they treat their other staff and 3rd party in a different way is another matter.
And it was the First Officer flying :)
this jet must have the repairs made by boeing. the earlier once crashed, Ethiopian and Lion Air in Indonesia - it began as a $$$ saver.
Do airlines mind pilots doing this?
Landing the plane in one piece? Probably not... I would think they would recommend it as a rule!
@@GaryNumeroUno ha ha
@@GaryNumeroUno Yeah breaking them frequently leads to a very pissed off insurance company lol.
Butter
Landing ok. A bit quick on breaking
THE POPULATION IN BIRMINGHAM ARE ANGRY BECAUSE AIR FARES AND RAIL FARES HAVE RISEN BY 40 RUPEES IN THE PAST YEAR.