What was he doing?

[Dave]

Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004 13:40
and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX

http://www4.passur.com/lax.html

[Larry Dighera]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:57:14 -0000, "Dave" >
wrote in Message-Id: >:

>Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004 13:40
>and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX
>
>http://www4.passur.com/lax.html
>

Either the pilot was attempting to comply with a rescinded request to
change runway assignments, dodging a flock of birds, or attempting to
intercept the localizer, IMO. I wouldn't have expected him to have
mistaken the runway 25L localizer for the runway 25R localizer,
because they're on different frequencies, but who knows ...

[Chuck]

"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004 13:40
> and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX
>
> http://www4.passur.com/lax.html
>
>

Looks like he stopped at Iowa City and drank too much of Jay's free beer
before he left! :)

[Thomas Heide]

"Dave" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
> Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004 13:40
> and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX
>
> http://www4.passur.com/lax.html

Very, very interesting site!
Does anyone know if there are more than LA Int.? Propably european airports?
Thanks,

Thomas

[Robert Moore]

Larry Dighera > wrote
> Either the pilot was attempting to comply with a rescinded request to
> change runway assignments, dodging a flock of birds, or attempting to
> intercept the localizer, IMO. I wouldn't have expected him to have
> mistaken the runway 25L localizer for the runway 25R localizer,
> because they're on different frequencies, but who knows ...

On LAX's 4 parallel runways, the standard big jet operating policy is
to depart on the inboards and land on the outboards. Could be to keep
departures and missed approaches apart in instrument conditions.
However this is not really what arriving pilots want.... long taxis to
the terminal and often not able to cross the inboard due to a long
string of departures. So there seems to be a standing request for a
switch to the inboard if available.
That's the way that it worked back when I flew the PanAm LAX-SFO shuttle
in the late '80s. In VMC, we would almost always be cleared for an
approach to the outboard, requesting landing on the inboard.

Bob Moore

[Dave]

"Thomas Heide" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Dave" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> ...
> > Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004
13:40
> > and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX
> >
> > http://www4.passur.com/lax.html
>
> Very, very interesting site!
> Does anyone know if there are more than LA Int.? Propably european
airports?
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas

Just more US sites

http://www.passur.com/sites.htm

[Tom Fleischman]

In article >, Dave
> wrote:

> "Thomas Heide" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Dave" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > ...
> > > Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004
> 13:40
> > > and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX
> > >
> > > http://www4.passur.com/lax.html
> >
> > Very, very interesting site!
> > Does anyone know if there are more than LA Int.? Propably european
> airports?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Thomas
>
> Just more US sites
>
> http://www.passur.com/sites.htm
>

This site is kinda broken. When I load www4.passur.com/hpn.html, for
Westchester County, I get a a map for Atlanta.

[McGregor]

See what happens when you let the copilot touch the controls.

"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004 13:40
> and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX
>
> http://www4.passur.com/lax.html
>
>

[Jay Honeck]

> This site is kinda broken. When I load www4.passur.com/hpn.html, for
> Westchester County, I get a a map for Atlanta.

Yeah, I had a hard time making that one work. It locked up IE on me once,
but eventually worked.

LAX is very, very cool to watch. Scary, almost. Makes me appreciate those
ATC guys even more.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Darrell]

Looks like "Marvin Mainliner" was doing a dipsy-doodle on final. Maybe he
was high and did an S turn to lose altitude and the map display exaggerated
the turn.

--

B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Take a look at the replay at this site begin the replay at 1/3/2004 13:40
> and keep a close watch on the northern plane on final approach to LAX
>
> http://www4.passur.com/lax.html
>
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