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So just now I’m driving along and see a very large airliner pretty low and doing some turns. I never see commercial planes anywhere near that low. Usually they are very high and headed to the Bay Area, which is about 100 miles west of here depending on what airport. I pulled up the phone and it looks like it’s Southwest 5258 headed to Sacramento, about 90 miles away... but like I said, I’ve never seen one so low. What’s it doing? The tracking website indicates 8500 feet up and 8.5 miles from me but it seemed far lower than that. I could see the paint scheme/colors enough to think it was a Southwest but I wasn’t sure. | ||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
It's easy to misjudge altitudes, especially with large planes. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Southwest doesn’t fly very large airliners, only 737s. I don’t know approach parameters for those carriers, but I recall traffic many times at 9-10,000’ inbound to Lindbergh Field at ~75-80 miles out over the mountains as I was eastbound. Below 10,000’ the speed limit is 250 knots. Maybe the plane had to do some turns for spacing or something, although I think that is not commonly done with carrier planes. This is speculation on my part. You can look at the flight log on Flightaware. It shows the flight passing east of Modesto about 10-12 minutes from landing, at which point it was descending at the rate of 900-1000 feet per minutes out of about 9,000’. So maybe we’re not far off. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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