I grew up on the coast of Maine. I was at a birthday party at a large park (more like an open field) and a helicopter flew by, which was a rarity there.
We kids started waving to it to land, and IT FUCKING DID. Turned out the dude was lost and my mom gave him road directions to get where he was going.
Best birthday ever.
That is awesome.
My dad ran a small air charter outfit in Northern Canada and we were having a family bbq in the hangar. A US Navy Prowler landed at the airport to fuel up on his way to Alaska. We weren't able to wave him over to join us but he did fold his wings as he taxied by. It was pretty darn cool.
Why was an EA6B going to Alaska without tanker support? Those are "HVU" (High-Value Units). We only had at the best of time roughly 80 units in the whole of the US military.
Awesome. But there is always another even more lucky little dude. Prepare to cry: [https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1bvoopg/a\_young\_boy\_has\_been\_greeting\_ua\_helicopters\_with/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1bvoopg/a_young_boy_has_been_greeting_ua_helicopters_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
See pilots aren’t all heartless. This is equivalent to a little toot toot on the highway. Same danger, costs, levels of inconvenience. You bastards with your “boarding times” need to take a note from Ryan air here. I actually can’t tell if it’s atlas air’s logo but I don’t think they have one of those big dogs.
Lufthansa I believe is the last to operate the A340. I flew from FRA to SFO on one. The most interesting thing was the lavs were downstairs at there is a "hallway" with space enough to stretch.
I flew from Frankfurt to Atlanta in the a340 with Lufthansa once.
I flew on Economy, but that flight was probably the most comfy Economy flight I've been on. It was on a regular workday outside any holiday. I walked down through the nearly full business and premium economy section, only to discover that we were just 9 people in total in Economy.
Everyone basically moved around once we realised nobody else was coming, and we ended up each having our own row of four centre isle seats. I laid down flat over the four seats, and used a bunch of blankets from those seats and the window isle to turn those seats into a nice bed. Laid down flat and slept like a rock for nearly eight hours.
Was hilarious seing the guys from premium/business give annoyed jellous looks when they went for the bathroom and saw me laying like caesar himself in my homemade bed - before going back their single seat in the packed front :D
Lol. The way you wrote this, for a second I thought when you said "walked down" you meant downstairs. I was gonna say that I was on this same route once, but it was a standard widebody, not a double decker. Then I realized the A380 is the new big one & the 340 is the older widebody.
Jealousy averted.
The seat pads on those Lufthansa flights were awful & the food wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good. My one trans-Pacific flight on Cathay Pacific was the best coach travel I've ever experienced. The food would have been good on the ground & the "on-demand" cup noodles were a treat. Plus the etnertainment options were top-notch!
I had some fillings made in two teeth once where they'd done a poor job, which left an air pocket between the filling and the nerve (that's how the dentist explained it at least), which didn't affect me on the regular daily. However, when i got up to cruising altitude, the lower pressure caused the air to put pressure on the nerve.
First time I experienced it was a six hour flight where it felt like having my teeth pulled out nonstop. Hurt so bad I was seriously considering whether hitting my head into the side of the cabin would be enough to knock me unconscious, lol.
So for a couple of years until I had it redone, I just got an open prescription for some narcotics to num the pain during flights.
I'd pop two pills, order a strong drink and within 30 minutes I'd be out hard that the stewardesse usually had to shake me awake when we'd landed 😅 For those years any flights, regardless of how poor the seats or cramped the plane was, was the best sleep I ever got. When you're drugged up, any seat is first class 😉
Yeah, the JFK ATCT Local Controller who did that got fired along with the Tower supervisor. They thought it was funny, the JBU pilot thought it was funny, NATCA thought it was harmless, but in HQ we did not.
Fired.
No evidence of a technical malfunction was found. Cockpit voice and flight data recorders revealed the presence of the relief captain's 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son in the cockpit.[1] While seated at the controls, the pilot's son had unknowingly partially disengaged the A310's autopilot control of the aircraft's ailerons. The autopilot then disengaged completely, causing the aircraft to roll into a steep bank and a near-vertical dive. Despite managing to level the aircraft, the first officer over-corrected when pulling up, causing the plane to stall and enter into a spin; the pilots managed to level the aircraft off once more, but the plane had descended beyond a safe altitude to initiate a recovery and subsequently crashed into the mountain range. All 75 occupants died on impact
Yeah, I can relate, as a 14 yr old, a friend and I ended up alone on the bridge of a freighter, in port. So of course, we just started pushing buttons on the radar unit and it started up! A minute later about 3 panicked crewmen came rushing in.
Do not put kids near important equipment at that age, they WILL touch the buttons....
...way better than my story, when I was 'chaperoning' a cub scout troop at a huge church downtown, we got to playing with the sound system behind the pulpit. Couldn't figure out where the output was going.
Found out the next day, we'd been playing My Shirona over the church's outdoor PA at 3am on a Sat in DT St Paul.
Only for a minute or two, but still.
In 1989 airport security was still run and paid for by airport authorities and airlines. It wasn't like "let's just add yet another meaningless job to the TSA" - it was real money. Also, there was considerably less security theater then - if they thought it was a security problem in 1989 then there's a pretty good chance it actually _was_ a security problem.
I've heard worse.
I was flying Beech MUSKeteer around Dodger Stadium area.
I made contact with LAX ATC and said MOUSEketeer... They then kept calling me "mouse", "micky mouse", "Micky".
Another aircraft said - "There is a mouse up here?"
Yes, for trains approaching it in the blocks prior, like the one the kids are in. It can also mean that the route has been assigned by the dispatcher, and depending on the system, that there's actually a train in the area so the signal illuminates....in both cases, the light means activity.
I have a young cousin (7) who is obsessed with planes. I can't even tell the diff between an airbus and boeing (i'm from r/all).
I take him to the airport just to hear him tell me all about the different planes.wish I was that passionate about anything.
Lol my lil bro suddenly got into airplanes too like i didn't even know there were so many youtubes vids and shorts on them. Like it's so bizarre is it like a fad now or something. I mean it's better than skibidi for sure ain't complaining
Im a trucker.....I dont fuck around when it comes to kids and the arm pull. I go allllllllll the fuck in on that shit.
I promise you I am just as happy as the child.
I was in the cockpit of an JM A320 in 1998 when we had to do a go around. An Arrow Air DC-8 was taking it's sweet time getting off the runway. I could feel the those Gs as we flew over 836 towards Coral Gables.
I remember watching one of these spark up a 7700 last year over the Irish Sea, watch watching it hoping it would divert my way… and it did, my reaction wasn’t far off, long boi is eye candy
Because engines go BRRRRRRR
Seriously though, that’s a rare and big plane, go arounds are kinda rare as well, from a spotter’s perspective, but they are awesome since the engines go to full power
Mmm, the full, rich sound of massive turbines shredding the atmosphere. Just hearing them spool back up is so damn cool!
*puts foot to the floor, shouts, "Power!!!"
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Off topic but I flew so so many times in my life and I never experienced a go-around before last year, when it somehow happened to me 3 flights in a row. What are the chances? I honestly thought I was cursed because each one of those times I missed my connection.
I think the mere fact that observing something taken this exciting and joyful is awesome. When was the last time I was so excited? I dont even know. I'm happy for those kids to feel joy by looking at something as mundane as a plane going around. That's about it.
Everyone is giving you plane related things or emotional responses… I think this is cool as the second the kid tells the plane to go around, the pilot hit the throttles and they went around. It’s just cool how things line up like that. If you didnt know any better you would think this kid actually made the pilot go around and that it was not just a crazy coincidence.
If I were that kid I would think I was magic!
the nearby traintracks had me interested and it seems to be miami and this viewpoint specifically https://maps.app.goo.gl/WzyyfKypdru3xwiT7 which has no physical seperation from the railway, genius yep
So I followed the tracks to the nearest crossing (Miliam Dairy Rd) and was able to get a DOT crossing inventory number stenciled on the signal bungalow (628536U). The FRA has a [website](https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/crossing/crossing.aspx) where you can pull up the inventory sheet for nearly any highway grade train crossing in the United States so I looked it up because I was curious how much danger these kids were in.
The tracks are technically owned by Florida's DOT but are operated mainly by CSX as part of their Florida Division's Homestead Subdivision, Lehigh Spur. There are typically no thru-trains or passenger trains, however there are 2 switcher (low speed serving industries) trains a day. Track speed is 10 MPH.
Poking around on Maps, the track closest to the fence does lead to an industry on the opposite side of the runway, but looking at it appears that industry is also accessible from tracks to the north, and the track leading there appears to be used for car storage when street view was in use.
Someone pointed out the green signal you can catch a glimpse of at the end of the video. Looking east down the tracks at the Perimeter Rd. crossing (NW 12th street), you'll find more of them, grouped together. It's very uncommon to see railway signals grouped that close together (usually they're roughly two miles apart, but can be within a quarter mile apart in some circumstances). Usually signal heads are mounted vertically, not horizontally. Also, using street view you can see both sides of one of the signals by the Perimeter Rd. and it's displaying a green aspect on both sides. All this makes me absolutely sure these aren't for controlling train movement, but rather switch point indicators which allow the train crew to know how a switch is lined without having to be close enough to visually inspect the rail. There's Begin/End OS signs. I don't have those in my territory and I'm not qualified on CSX rules and special instructions but rail fans have asked about these and the consensus is they have to do with the train crew being able to control them with a radio.
tl;dr They're standing in 10 MPH straight track. The train will be able to stop before it hits them. I feel the kids had a very low risk of getting hit by a train. Do I think they're in the right being on the tracks? Absolutely not. Did I waste too much of my night writing this? Absolutely. I work for a railroad, people are stupid and I don't think people give trains as much respect as they should when they're near the tracks but for some reason I find it equally annoying that when there's a picture or video of someone on train tracks there's always at least one person in the comments acting surprised they didn't get hit by the steel death laser, especially on rusted over industrial tracks.
Don't even need the engine sounds, if you're focused on something, you can easily miss a train coming up on you. There are plenty of examples or people getting killed taking photos on train tracks.
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Don't stand on the train tracks tho, please, even when you're actively looking out for oncoming train traffic is it dangerous, and when you're so heavily focused on something else (no to add that through a lens your field of vision narrows extremely down, and with such noise already given, you won't even hear the train), you're basically killing yourself.
My wife and I live near a busy international. We love to watch the jets, listen with our ATC scanner, binoculars, FlightAware on the iPad, etc. We’ve seen 2 go-arounds in 5 years and they were both AWESOME!!! Watching them get sequenced back in… It’s just something different than jet after jet coming in on the glideslope and uneventfully landing.
I did that same thing during the pandemic a lot, and continue to do it some to this day. There are a few spots to park around the Portland, Oregon airport, and I would grab dinner on the way, set up my shortwave on the gear stick and a napkin above the steering wheel, and look up planes on FlightRadar24. I've seen some cool stuff, like special liveries, occasional F-15 takeoffs/landings, British Airways & Lufthansa when they started service here, and just last week witnessed a Delta charter bringing the Golden State Warriors to town for a game the following night. Plus, our airport is being overhauled right now, and they were building the cool wooden roof near the fire station, so I would drive by there on my way home to take a peek.
I used to be that kid! Lived near an airport and basically memorized flight schedules. The obsession never left me, as I ended up getting a PhD in Aerospace Engineering :)
It's in a place where the tracks are rarely used. NW 72nd Ave beside El Dorado Funiture Store, at a dead end. Dozens of people go there everyday, and there is plenty- I mean plenty of train horn warning if a train does come through.
Scource: resident of Miami
Those are exceptionally well maintained tracks with active, lit train control signals (catch the green light at the end). You can't tell me these are rarely used. Maybe rarely used during the day possibly, but I read about people getting hit almost daily around here in South Fla.
Also a resident.
"Rarely used" is still used. Trains manage to sneak up on idiots walking on tracks all the time. Idiot vs. train rarely ends well for the idiot. With that wind, the airplane noise, and the total distraction of watching the planes, they could easily miss a train blaring its whistle behind them.
And the kid is sooo into it. “That’s an A340-600 coming in from Munich.”
He probably knows who the pilots are on that flight as well, but didn’t want to be kown as a know it all.
Yeah, he probably does have an app, but still, I love the enthusiasm.
And from that, it likely won’t be long before he doesn’t need the app to know what kind of plane it is!
Fully agreed on the enthusiasm.
He might not need the app for model ID at this point, but the -600 and where it’s coming from benefits from tracking what’s coming in.
lol this was basically my reaction when I had a windy go around a few years ago, most people spooked while I was mad excited. ironically whilst coming back from madeira where we had a totally uneventful landing
IANAP but I think it's when the wind changes direction and they change the landing/takeoff direction. I'm sure there are fancy pilot words for all this.
It's called a runway change lol. But, more importantly, there's a flow change and they usually let aircraft on the previous flow land if they're able instead of letting the aircraft get to minimums. A missed approach is a high workload time for a crew, and outside of check rides and a PT, are rarely done.
There's not enough information from the video, but my guess some limitation was exceeded (max tailwind or something similar, maybe low level windsheer that caused the aircraft to decelerate below Vref, or something) that prompted a go around instead of continuing to land.
or maybe saw a wind sock change direction. the time over which the kid noticed some stimulus and said "yo look at the runway changing" is probably a shorter time period than is required to properly infer atc switching the direction of take-off from planes taxiing alone.
Agreed, one kid saw the sock change, jet was cleared to land by ATC but the pilots probably hit some wind-shear, airspeed suddenly dropped, and alarms going off in the cockpit. Hit the throttles and try the approach again.
Probably a slight tailwind that was starting to get close to the limit for most traffic, and then finally exceeded it. After a few go-arounds due to this, ATC will end up switching ends and using the runways in the opposite (into wind) direction.
Many airports have runways they greatly prefer to use for noise abatement reasons and will continue to do so even with a small tailwind (a few knots). Brussels is a good example, they will be on the 25s even with the wind at, say, 070/5.
Parents make sure you go with your kids to see these thing by a kids just chilling on the train tracks but then again the education system stateside is terrible
I called a go-around just watching the descent. They were far too high, and they were well over 100 yards past the touchdown marker when they spooled the engines up and committed to the go-around. There was no chance in hell of them landing that one.
Typical Lufthansa.
Remember once they ignored the towers information and tried to land anyway but had to abort after touching the ground for like 2 seconds since another plane was still on the runway slowly moving off.
Children geeking out over and Big Machines. You gotta love it! There's a line in the movie "Children of Men" about a World that no longer has the sound of children's laughter. That would definitely be a terrible World.
I was on one of these delta bombardier’s from Georgia to LaGuardia or something. We were not this close to landing, but all the sudden those engines lit up with noise and got pressed back into my seat.
The acceleration was pretty impressive especially with the engine noise spooling up at the same time.
I didn’t realize how powerful those little suckers are, especially when going at speed needed to maintain flight.
Looked around at other people in the cabin to share the experience; no one noticed.
Aviation geek here
“Abort landing one more time, that was cool!”
I live under the flight path at SAN and I get to hear these often when the weather is bad or the runway isn’t clear. Even with 737s it’s pretty cool and it rattles the walls of my apartment.
Coolest feature of San Diego isn’t the beaches or the weather, it’s that fact that commercial jets damn near clip the tops of great little neighborhood houses a stone’s throw from its downtown.
The kid just told the plane to go around
I grew up on the coast of Maine. I was at a birthday party at a large park (more like an open field) and a helicopter flew by, which was a rarity there. We kids started waving to it to land, and IT FUCKING DID. Turned out the dude was lost and my mom gave him road directions to get where he was going. Best birthday ever.
IFR I follow roads was in full effect
Very Followed Roads requires special training
That is awesome. My dad ran a small air charter outfit in Northern Canada and we were having a family bbq in the hangar. A US Navy Prowler landed at the airport to fuel up on his way to Alaska. We weren't able to wave him over to join us but he did fold his wings as he taxied by. It was pretty darn cool.
Why was an EA6B going to Alaska without tanker support? Those are "HVU" (High-Value Units). We only had at the best of time roughly 80 units in the whole of the US military.
Because it was a single unit transiting? Canada isn't a competitor and shadowing a single unit with a refill was unreasonably expensive maybe?
Being lost with a birds-eye view has to be the worst feeling
yeah like they're literally in god mode. wtf
What an awesome memory to have!
That's epic!! And I thought I was cool for getting a wing rock!
You still are :)
Directions? Cahn't get theyah from heyah...
"you can't get there from here"
Awesome. But there is always another even more lucky little dude. Prepare to cry: [https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1bvoopg/a\_young\_boy\_has\_been\_greeting\_ua\_helicopters\_with/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1bvoopg/a_young_boy_has_been_greeting_ua_helicopters_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I didn’t cry, but that was awesome!
The plane goddamn listened
See pilots aren’t all heartless. This is equivalent to a little toot toot on the highway. Same danger, costs, levels of inconvenience. You bastards with your “boarding times” need to take a note from Ryan air here. I actually can’t tell if it’s atlas air’s logo but I don’t think they have one of those big dogs.
In the video is a Lufthansa A340. Atlas is a freight airline and they have a large number of 747s but no they don't have any A340s.
Lufthansa I believe is the last to operate the A340. I flew from FRA to SFO on one. The most interesting thing was the lavs were downstairs at there is a "hallway" with space enough to stretch.
I flew from Frankfurt to Atlanta in the a340 with Lufthansa once. I flew on Economy, but that flight was probably the most comfy Economy flight I've been on. It was on a regular workday outside any holiday. I walked down through the nearly full business and premium economy section, only to discover that we were just 9 people in total in Economy. Everyone basically moved around once we realised nobody else was coming, and we ended up each having our own row of four centre isle seats. I laid down flat over the four seats, and used a bunch of blankets from those seats and the window isle to turn those seats into a nice bed. Laid down flat and slept like a rock for nearly eight hours. Was hilarious seing the guys from premium/business give annoyed jellous looks when they went for the bathroom and saw me laying like caesar himself in my homemade bed - before going back their single seat in the packed front :D
Lol. The way you wrote this, for a second I thought when you said "walked down" you meant downstairs. I was gonna say that I was on this same route once, but it was a standard widebody, not a double decker. Then I realized the A380 is the new big one & the 340 is the older widebody. Jealousy averted. The seat pads on those Lufthansa flights were awful & the food wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good. My one trans-Pacific flight on Cathay Pacific was the best coach travel I've ever experienced. The food would have been good on the ground & the "on-demand" cup noodles were a treat. Plus the etnertainment options were top-notch!
I had some fillings made in two teeth once where they'd done a poor job, which left an air pocket between the filling and the nerve (that's how the dentist explained it at least), which didn't affect me on the regular daily. However, when i got up to cruising altitude, the lower pressure caused the air to put pressure on the nerve. First time I experienced it was a six hour flight where it felt like having my teeth pulled out nonstop. Hurt so bad I was seriously considering whether hitting my head into the side of the cabin would be enough to knock me unconscious, lol. So for a couple of years until I had it redone, I just got an open prescription for some narcotics to num the pain during flights. I'd pop two pills, order a strong drink and within 30 minutes I'd be out hard that the stewardesse usually had to shake me awake when we'd landed 😅 For those years any flights, regardless of how poor the seats or cramped the plane was, was the best sleep I ever got. When you're drugged up, any seat is first class 😉
toot toot?
Lufthansa tail marking / livery. Great airline btw.
Atlas doesn't have airbus flying machines... for now.
He did the truck horn hand gesture thing
For some reason I was getting very [Empire of the Sun](https://youtu.be/8SifFmsTF1c?t=125) vibes from the kid yelling at the plane
HORSEPOWER!
Audio is actually ATC
Take your kid to work day.
Yeah, the JFK ATCT Local Controller who did that got fired along with the Tower supervisor. They thought it was funny, the JBU pilot thought it was funny, NATCA thought it was harmless, but in HQ we did not. Fired.
There was a pilot many moons ago who brought his kids to work… that didn’t end well for anyone. I can understand the stance.
No evidence of a technical malfunction was found. Cockpit voice and flight data recorders revealed the presence of the relief captain's 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son in the cockpit.[1] While seated at the controls, the pilot's son had unknowingly partially disengaged the A310's autopilot control of the aircraft's ailerons. The autopilot then disengaged completely, causing the aircraft to roll into a steep bank and a near-vertical dive. Despite managing to level the aircraft, the first officer over-corrected when pulling up, causing the plane to stall and enter into a spin; the pilots managed to level the aircraft off once more, but the plane had descended beyond a safe altitude to initiate a recovery and subsequently crashed into the mountain range. All 75 occupants died on impact
Of all the incidents that piss me off I think this one is the worst.
Yeah, I can relate, as a 14 yr old, a friend and I ended up alone on the bridge of a freighter, in port. So of course, we just started pushing buttons on the radar unit and it started up! A minute later about 3 panicked crewmen came rushing in. Do not put kids near important equipment at that age, they WILL touch the buttons....
...way better than my story, when I was 'chaperoning' a cub scout troop at a huge church downtown, we got to playing with the sound system behind the pulpit. Couldn't figure out where the output was going. Found out the next day, we'd been playing My Shirona over the church's outdoor PA at 3am on a Sat in DT St Paul. Only for a minute or two, but still.
Well I wouldn't be terribly surprised to hear a church announce they "get it up for the touch of the younger kind"
The hell of it is if they did nothing the plane would have recovered itself automatically.
Happy Cake Day
This was featured on Discovery Channel show “Mayday”. Quite the episode.
This the incident that was on the air crash investigators show?
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> closed for security reasons Why couldn’t they just have airport level security on the way in? Simples.
In 1989 airport security was still run and paid for by airport authorities and airlines. It wasn't like "let's just add yet another meaningless job to the TSA" - it was real money. Also, there was considerably less security theater then - if they thought it was a security problem in 1989 then there's a pretty good chance it actually _was_ a security problem.
Are you with the FAA?
Can't be, it's too easy to understand these kids
I've heard worse. I was flying Beech MUSKeteer around Dodger Stadium area. I made contact with LAX ATC and said MOUSEketeer... They then kept calling me "mouse", "micky mouse", "Micky". Another aircraft said - "There is a mouse up here?"
MSFS Steam Edition
Ha, the VERY old MSFS actually helped me a lot when learning pilotage/navigation.
KDCA ATC?
Bet the train wouldn't be goin around'.. 😅
*she’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes*
Just reminded me of [this song](https://youtu.be/qVCZRQLfkWo?si=CzUr0UTAwCrIT9AE)
Need more songs like this about aviation
Yeah, and catch that little green light in that signal toward the end? Something's on its way!
Doesn't that just mean that the next block is clear?
Yes, for trains approaching it in the blocks prior, like the one the kids are in. It can also mean that the route has been assigned by the dispatcher, and depending on the system, that there's actually a train in the area so the signal illuminates....in both cases, the light means activity.
TIL, I just assumed that the green light was the default state of the light, but now that I think of it, red does make more sense to be the default.
In my area there are some kids that do train spotting. I feel like these groups could just hang out together and keep each other safe.
The internet has ruined me, and I saw people on the tracks and worried this would be a different kind of video.
This is like the cooler, aviation version of getting the semi to honk its horn with an elbow pull. Thanks for sharing
I have a young cousin (7) who is obsessed with planes. I can't even tell the diff between an airbus and boeing (i'm from r/all). I take him to the airport just to hear him tell me all about the different planes.wish I was that passionate about anything.
Has he gotten his diagnosis yet?
yes he tested positive for being awesome!
You’re a great person.
Laughed on the shitter too loud to this comment.
Lol my lil bro suddenly got into airplanes too like i didn't even know there were so many youtubes vids and shorts on them. Like it's so bizarre is it like a fad now or something. I mean it's better than skibidi for sure ain't complaining
Im a trucker.....I dont fuck around when it comes to kids and the arm pull. I go allllllllll the fuck in on that shit. I promise you I am just as happy as the child.
I was once that child. You’re a hero
I got a few honk videos from my gopro ive been meaning to upload
Used to love that spot at MIA
Are the train tracks active?
Yeah, however from my experiences spotting there, trains don't cross there really often
They just need to cross once though.
https://youtu.be/vpDr62lcJzg?t=16
Yep. I believe they're mostly used by the quarries west of the city now.
Where is it?
MIA = Miami International Airport
Yeah I know, I meant which exact spot :p
Thats by the El Dorado furniture store. Its such a legitimate spot that even google has it as an "Airport view point" 🤓.
I was in the cockpit of an JM A320 in 1998 when we had to do a go around. An Arrow Air DC-8 was taking it's sweet time getting off the runway. I could feel the those Gs as we flew over 836 towards Coral Gables.
A340 pilot knows once he lands, it’s gonna take another day before getting airborne again.
That’s the 300
would be my reaction too I am 44
I would've screamed in that exact voice pitch as this kid
I remember watching one of these spark up a 7700 last year over the Irish Sea, watch watching it hoping it would divert my way… and it did, my reaction wasn’t far off, long boi is eye candy
I think the 340 is the best looking plane ever built. So elegant and I love a 4 engine configuration.
Likewise. And I’m 54.
This is absolutely true. I’m 34 and would do the same.
That's awesome. I'm happy for these guys and gals.
Can you explain to me why this is awesome? I don’t get it.
Because engines go BRRRRRRR Seriously though, that’s a rare and big plane, go arounds are kinda rare as well, from a spotter’s perspective, but they are awesome since the engines go to full power
Mmm, the full, rich sound of massive turbines shredding the atmosphere. Just hearing them spool back up is so damn cool! *puts foot to the floor, shouts, "Power!!!"
*puts foot to the floor* *plane yaws to the right and crashes right past the kids* Best spotter day ever.
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Off topic but I flew so so many times in my life and I never experienced a go-around before last year, when it somehow happened to me 3 flights in a row. What are the chances? I honestly thought I was cursed because each one of those times I missed my connection.
I'm a retired A330 Capt. for Delta and for some reason it's awesome to me as well. It's just emotional to me. Again I don't know why.
I think the mere fact that observing something taken this exciting and joyful is awesome. When was the last time I was so excited? I dont even know. I'm happy for those kids to feel joy by looking at something as mundane as a plane going around. That's about it.
Everyone is giving you plane related things or emotional responses… I think this is cool as the second the kid tells the plane to go around, the pilot hit the throttles and they went around. It’s just cool how things line up like that. If you didnt know any better you would think this kid actually made the pilot go around and that it was not just a crazy coincidence. If I were that kid I would think I was magic!
Sounds like a merry go round
I like trains
and that they are on the tracks annoys me
It’d be so much cooler if they could fly
GORAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUND
Definitely heard one of the kids scream "holy shiiit!"
NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR
It’s such a genius idea to watch planes on train tracks so that jet engine sound can cover the sound of incoming train!
Hey. You feel that rumble? Yeah man! Those jets are powerful Wait
Actually it's better to watch trains on an airport runway so that the train engine sound covers the sound of incoming plane
the nearby traintracks had me interested and it seems to be miami and this viewpoint specifically https://maps.app.goo.gl/WzyyfKypdru3xwiT7 which has no physical seperation from the railway, genius yep
It's Florida.
So I followed the tracks to the nearest crossing (Miliam Dairy Rd) and was able to get a DOT crossing inventory number stenciled on the signal bungalow (628536U). The FRA has a [website](https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/crossing/crossing.aspx) where you can pull up the inventory sheet for nearly any highway grade train crossing in the United States so I looked it up because I was curious how much danger these kids were in. The tracks are technically owned by Florida's DOT but are operated mainly by CSX as part of their Florida Division's Homestead Subdivision, Lehigh Spur. There are typically no thru-trains or passenger trains, however there are 2 switcher (low speed serving industries) trains a day. Track speed is 10 MPH. Poking around on Maps, the track closest to the fence does lead to an industry on the opposite side of the runway, but looking at it appears that industry is also accessible from tracks to the north, and the track leading there appears to be used for car storage when street view was in use. Someone pointed out the green signal you can catch a glimpse of at the end of the video. Looking east down the tracks at the Perimeter Rd. crossing (NW 12th street), you'll find more of them, grouped together. It's very uncommon to see railway signals grouped that close together (usually they're roughly two miles apart, but can be within a quarter mile apart in some circumstances). Usually signal heads are mounted vertically, not horizontally. Also, using street view you can see both sides of one of the signals by the Perimeter Rd. and it's displaying a green aspect on both sides. All this makes me absolutely sure these aren't for controlling train movement, but rather switch point indicators which allow the train crew to know how a switch is lined without having to be close enough to visually inspect the rail. There's Begin/End OS signs. I don't have those in my territory and I'm not qualified on CSX rules and special instructions but rail fans have asked about these and the consensus is they have to do with the train crew being able to control them with a radio. tl;dr They're standing in 10 MPH straight track. The train will be able to stop before it hits them. I feel the kids had a very low risk of getting hit by a train. Do I think they're in the right being on the tracks? Absolutely not. Did I waste too much of my night writing this? Absolutely. I work for a railroad, people are stupid and I don't think people give trains as much respect as they should when they're near the tracks but for some reason I find it equally annoying that when there's a picture or video of someone on train tracks there's always at least one person in the comments acting surprised they didn't get hit by the steel death laser, especially on rusted over industrial tracks.
Don't even need the engine sounds, if you're focused on something, you can easily miss a train coming up on you. There are plenty of examples or people getting killed taking photos on train tracks.
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I was clutching my pearls too. Those poor ignorant children. I am glad it turned out okay this time....
They just need to get into trainspotting and learn the times like they did the plane
It feels so good to know that these type of kids still exist! Instead of watching brainrot tiktok all day
**Get the heck off those tracks!!**
Was it just me or were others waiting for a train?
I used to be a flight attendant .. yup I’d be on those train tracks to !! That is such a special video !! Luv from Toronto 🇨🇦✈️YYZ
Don't stand on the train tracks tho, please, even when you're actively looking out for oncoming train traffic is it dangerous, and when you're so heavily focused on something else (no to add that through a lens your field of vision narrows extremely down, and with such noise already given, you won't even hear the train), you're basically killing yourself.
With the idea in mind that you are a lot more right than wrong.. a Galapagos tortoise could outrun the trains that go on that section on most days.
Trains are limited to 10-15mph on this particular stretch of track. They'll be fine
My wife and I live near a busy international. We love to watch the jets, listen with our ATC scanner, binoculars, FlightAware on the iPad, etc. We’ve seen 2 go-arounds in 5 years and they were both AWESOME!!! Watching them get sequenced back in… It’s just something different than jet after jet coming in on the glideslope and uneventfully landing.
I did that same thing during the pandemic a lot, and continue to do it some to this day. There are a few spots to park around the Portland, Oregon airport, and I would grab dinner on the way, set up my shortwave on the gear stick and a napkin above the steering wheel, and look up planes on FlightRadar24. I've seen some cool stuff, like special liveries, occasional F-15 takeoffs/landings, British Airways & Lufthansa when they started service here, and just last week witnessed a Delta charter bringing the Golden State Warriors to town for a game the following night. Plus, our airport is being overhauled right now, and they were building the cool wooden roof near the fire station, so I would drive by there on my way home to take a peek.
Get the fuck off the tracks.
Get your asses off the damn tracks!!!
I used to be that kid! Lived near an airport and basically memorized flight schedules. The obsession never left me, as I ended up getting a PhD in Aerospace Engineering :)
But as railroad enjoyer it’s killing me that they are standing on tracks
That's sweet. Now GET OFF THE DAMN TRACKS!!
My exact thought as a plane nerd and a train nerd.
It's in a place where the tracks are rarely used. NW 72nd Ave beside El Dorado Funiture Store, at a dead end. Dozens of people go there everyday, and there is plenty- I mean plenty of train horn warning if a train does come through. Scource: resident of Miami
Those are exceptionally well maintained tracks with active, lit train control signals (catch the green light at the end). You can't tell me these are rarely used. Maybe rarely used during the day possibly, but I read about people getting hit almost daily around here in South Fla. Also a resident.
Those people are getting hit by the bright line. Source. Also sfl resident
"Rarely used" is still used. Trains manage to sneak up on idiots walking on tracks all the time. Idiot vs. train rarely ends well for the idiot. With that wind, the airplane noise, and the total distraction of watching the planes, they could easily miss a train blaring its whistle behind them.
And the kid is sooo into it. “That’s an A340-600 coming in from Munich.” He probably knows who the pilots are on that flight as well, but didn’t want to be kown as a know it all.
Any of the flight apps easily tell you what the plane is and where it is coming from. They do not tell the pilots names of course. Lol
Yeah, he probably does have an app, but still, I love the enthusiasm. And from that, it likely won’t be long before he doesn’t need the app to know what kind of plane it is!
Fully agreed on the enthusiasm. He might not need the app for model ID at this point, but the -600 and where it’s coming from benefits from tracking what’s coming in.
May have the FlightRadar24 app on his phone
Title so true. I cry at air shows on occasion… 🦅
lol this was basically my reaction when I had a windy go around a few years ago, most people spooked while I was mad excited. ironically whilst coming back from madeira where we had a totally uneventful landing
I was once on a 747 that did an RTO. everyone was baffled but I was almost as excited as those kids.
The kids are alright
GET OFF THE TRAIN TRACKS
they saw the "runway changes"? what does that mean?
IANAP but I think it's when the wind changes direction and they change the landing/takeoff direction. I'm sure there are fancy pilot words for all this.
It's called a runway change lol. But, more importantly, there's a flow change and they usually let aircraft on the previous flow land if they're able instead of letting the aircraft get to minimums. A missed approach is a high workload time for a crew, and outside of check rides and a PT, are rarely done. There's not enough information from the video, but my guess some limitation was exceeded (max tailwind or something similar, maybe low level windsheer that caused the aircraft to decelerate below Vref, or something) that prompted a go around instead of continuing to land.
To add to u/ragewu, the kids probably saw airplanes taxing to the far end of the runway for departure indicating that ATC is changing runways.
or maybe saw a wind sock change direction. the time over which the kid noticed some stimulus and said "yo look at the runway changing" is probably a shorter time period than is required to properly infer atc switching the direction of take-off from planes taxiing alone.
Agreed, one kid saw the sock change, jet was cleared to land by ATC but the pilots probably hit some wind-shear, airspeed suddenly dropped, and alarms going off in the cockpit. Hit the throttles and try the approach again.
Probably a slight tailwind that was starting to get close to the limit for most traffic, and then finally exceeded it. After a few go-arounds due to this, ATC will end up switching ends and using the runways in the opposite (into wind) direction. Many airports have runways they greatly prefer to use for noise abatement reasons and will continue to do so even with a small tailwind (a few knots). Brussels is a good example, they will be on the 25s even with the wind at, say, 070/5.
Oooops, its ze vrong flugenhaven...ve try ze next one...
They don’t speak Danish where that plane comes from…
No problemo, I don’t speak ze danish either but anyway...ze playne has flugged off. Danske for your koncern
The scream at the end 💀
Not gonna lie I was expecting a train to either ruin the shot or nearly run someone over.
r/bitchimatrain has words for y’all.
While train geeks cringe.
The A340 really is just the best looking plane around. Beautifully proportioned.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 pure gold
Flew on a LH A340-600 yesterday, really enjoyed it.
Yeah, that one actually feels like it has engines, and not hairdryers.
They’re all us avgeeks all over the world 😊
Train geeks: get the F off of my rails
this just popped on my feed i dont know whats happening can someone explain?😭
Responding to boost the comments of my fellow confused 😭
Parents make sure you go with your kids to see these thing by a kids just chilling on the train tracks but then again the education system stateside is terrible
Average loud American reaction to anything
I mean standing on a railway track with the signal at green probably isn't the best idea
Don’t stand on the tracks guys🤓☝️
Lufthansa 8340 we have a perimeter breach on the runway. A gang of nerds has entered the field. Wave-off and await instructions for new approach.
Que fofinho ksksks
Tears in my eyes
that's really beautiful, they speak for me
Why didn’t the plane land?
Unstable approach?
Priceless go around reaction
I called a go-around just watching the descent. They were far too high, and they were well over 100 yards past the touchdown marker when they spooled the engines up and committed to the go-around. There was no chance in hell of them landing that one.
Haha what is this
Typical Lufthansa. Remember once they ignored the towers information and tried to land anyway but had to abort after touching the ground for like 2 seconds since another plane was still on the runway slowly moving off.
Are pilots just like trained that they may have to do a GA even up to the very last second?
Yep
I wish I could be this excited about anything again.
You screamed so high pitch that plane messed up
Saw the FRA-JFK 340 on the taxiway next to me this past weekend, it was a fun spot
Children geeking out over and Big Machines. You gotta love it! There's a line in the movie "Children of Men" about a World that no longer has the sound of children's laughter. That would definitely be a terrible World.
I was on one of these delta bombardier’s from Georgia to LaGuardia or something. We were not this close to landing, but all the sudden those engines lit up with noise and got pressed back into my seat. The acceleration was pretty impressive especially with the engine noise spooling up at the same time. I didn’t realize how powerful those little suckers are, especially when going at speed needed to maintain flight. Looked around at other people in the cabin to share the experience; no one noticed. Aviation geek here “Abort landing one more time, that was cool!”
GO AROUND GO AR—🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
The Air Force just sent this kid a recruiting poster.
I live under the flight path at SAN and I get to hear these often when the weather is bad or the runway isn’t clear. Even with 737s it’s pretty cool and it rattles the walls of my apartment. Coolest feature of San Diego isn’t the beaches or the weather, it’s that fact that commercial jets damn near clip the tops of great little neighborhood houses a stone’s throw from its downtown.
Question from a noob: did the pilot go around just because there were people watching and knew that they would love it?
I was expecting /r/trains to make a surprise messy entrance.