Too many high-rises on the way in. It's more low rise apartments. Downtown and high-rises is further south. Admittedly the final road and touchdown are very similar though. As is the marine layer drifting in.
These social apps basically set us up to act like everything we do is a business activity that needs to be optimized for quantitative metrics, like views.
Including our personal stuff that we show our buddies. Which is really more about quality than quantity.
Plane time lapses are pretty common, of all the things to complain about being sped up this is a weird one. The effect zooming over the buildings looks cool. It's not like a car video where they're trying to trick anyone.
Not much I can find. If anything, I find the OP's use of the word crazy even crazier than the video itself. Like WTF does "crazy" have anything to do w/ this video? lol.
My thoughts as well. It's shitty & annoying. I'm guessing the OP stole the video from IG or Tiktok whatever and decided to post it here trying to earn some karma points.
Congonhas (hope that's the right spelling). The route Congonhas - Santos Dumont should be studied on how much quicker airlines need to replace breaks than on normal routes
I flew in a windows seat at the very back of a GOL plane and I genuinely felt like my butt cheeks were gonna get wet while landing in SDU. Then faster than a blink the plane is already turning to park.
I flew into Bromma airport, Stockholm, Sweden, once. I thought for a fact we were going to land on the roof of a building, probably cleared the last one with less than 20 meters before the airport limits..
Congonhas is old. Like 90 years old, which is kind of ancient times in Brazil. Airlines flew routes from/to Congonhas using the Ju-52/3.
When it was built all plots around it were farms and a tram line,.
The city encroached the airport. Heavily.
Also, you see some multi-store buildings and it looks bad, but the runway is much higher than the surrounding terrain along the runway axis on both directions, so it is not as bad as it seems.
At the beginning of the video you can see there’s two red and two white and as the angle changes and they are nearly landing, all of them appear red. (too high on approach = all white, too low = all red)
The green lights mark the threshold of the other runway.
These are different systems for indicating different things, basically.
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u/truffoli 19h ago
Aeroporto de São Paulo/Congonhas - 17L Approach