Boeing 737 Drop Kicks Key West ...
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- * This is a video I shot from a Delta 737 from Atlanta, making a drop kick on Key West Florida, as laughter ensues...
* Key West Airport (KEYW) has the shortest runway of any airport served by Delta jets. So swooping in on a 737 for a drop kick landing, with full braking and thrust reversers deployed is a real hoot. Kudo's to the Captain and first officer for their mad skills, LOL!
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~ Shot with an Apple iPod Nano 5G ~
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@BobWeaver112 Well this isn't AirTran, it's Delta. And I live in Key West, and have spent much time at the airport myself. Larger planes have been know to land here. All these "know it alls" seem to think there is a huge difference in the landing capability of a 700 and 800, there isn't. Weight restrictions don't even come into play in a flight from Atlanta. Technically, EYW is long enough to accomodate any 737, So for the last time, this is a 737-800. Nuff said.
its not that its a threat to security but its a threat you you and other pilots well being im in Civil Air Patrol Key west squadron and we go to the Private section of the airport and they don't want people not qualified enough to be there theirs spinning props ropes chocks and you have hats which can get sucked into a engine Or a Prop.
@tedinvegas True. The thing that gets most people's goat in the lower Keys now are the F-18's from the Naval Air Station in Boca Chica. The occasional 737 cruising overhead seems kind of tame compared to that.
738's in January? Here come the snowbirds, lol! Last January/February, that's about when I shot this video.
I live in Key West, and had flown back in before, but never on a jet. It's much more fun this way, lol.
@pilotofa737
Yeah, who knew the old 737-800 was a STOL plane? lol
How did I get from the world's longest video on RUclips to this?
@LateNightCable They need to learn to take the good with the bad. I'm in tourism/travel here in Las Vegas. I've lived with noise from McCarran. That noise means money into the economy. Same with a military base -- dollars into the local economy. I need to specifically take a trip to touch down on a 4800' runway in a 73x. Was the plane less-than-full because it was weight restricted?
@NYBaldwin11510 There were two exits over each wing.
@LateNightCable AirTran has 737-700s in their fleet, not the -800s. NYBaldwin is correct: the 738 doesn't have the short-field performance required for the 4800' runway in place at Key West. The Delta flights to Atlanta on their 737-700s are already weight restricted as it is, as are ASA's CRJ-700s. Furthermore, I spent a week in Key West the week after this video was filmed and saw nothing but 737-700s by Delta. If a 737-700 is already weight-restricted, then a -800 has no hope.
@KilgoreII Jesus. Take a chill pill.
Boeing plane can do anything.
4800 feet of runway
great landing
lol
True. We touched down just past the threshold in this video, and with full braking and thrust reversers, there was plenty of runway left.
very impressive seeing as how the 737-800 has such high landing speeds
WOW. And to think that just a few years ago, Key West was all freaked out over having CRJ's landing there.
BTW, a check of Expedia shows (that at least in January), 738's are the equipment in use.
im in shock right now. those 737-800's take up all that runway in atlanta and in key west, not even the whole runway. the embraer's take the whole runway in key west. dam!! love the video and amazed lol
@BobWeaver112 This was a 3/4 full arrival to EYW in an 800 with winglets. A departure on the same plane would likely be much less than full. But an 800 with enough fuel for EYW-ATL (less that 10% fuel cap) can operate from 4,800ft @ sea level (EYW) with somewhere in the range of 20-25,000 lbs to spare. Add that many pax/cargo, and you have your max takeoff weight. That's meaningful enough.
No jetways, everyone deplanes via air stairs, just like the old days. The last time I did, they didn't want anyone mingling on the tarmac too long though and had a sheriff deputy hanging around. Such is our security crazy world today... Thanks for watching.
Nice approach to a short runway and turned off runway with room to spare. As for the firm touchdown, bet this pilot is ex-Navy with carrier landings in his log book. God Bless our vets.
Jeez, that's just like landing on Rwy. 8 at Burbank! Thanks for posting
@tedinvegas It seemed like a pretty full plane to me, as full as average. I was on a flight from ATL to SAN that seem relatively less full.
You're right, those noises are the sound of money. A lot of people down here seem to be inexplicably wealthy somehow and don't need tourism. But without it, Key West is a ghost town. Little things just make people complain because it's such a microcosm. KW is too small and too populated to be a "layed back island" truthfully, but that's the image anyway.
@DanielLaverriere18 From the world's longest RUclips video to one of the shortest commercial runways in the U.S. makes sense to me, lol.
@werejusthatgood
Yeah, the 737 service is pretty recent. Before that it was strictly Super ATR's, B1900D's, and CRJ's which still come in. One of the Continental 1900's can be seen taxing in the video.
AirTran also introduced 737-700 service to KW last December.
It's funny how they send a relatively large aircraft with a very high landing speed to a destination with one of the shortest commercial runways, like you said.
Anything other than a spot-on landing would be.. catastrophic.
i think they land hard on purpose to land at the threshold of the runway because it is so short. I've never been there but all the landing videos I've seen at key west have been the same, hard and at the threshold.
@KilgoreII their not that bad. chill out man
Does keywest have jetways? Or did you de-plane via air stair?
Great video makes me want to go to Key west
I love Key West
Lol SkyGuy, that's straight up illegal...
perfect shortfield landing low and flat...drop on the numbers...awesome job
look that all the passengers are happy to be in Key West!
Eastern airlines use to land 727 in key west back in the mid 1980's. the 727 is a slightly heaver and larger plane.
That is the reason. The large planes would end up in the mangroves if they tried to grease it. Just getting her down is most important.
2:38 hold your breath... lol
Love keywest
air stairs
4800
You know, you guys all say that the pilots have no choice but to touch down hard in K.W. but, I think it is possible for them to grease their landing they just need to aim strictly and directly for the threshold. They can use the voice inside the cockpit that tells them how high they are by counting down by tens from 50, and they can't be over the actual runway until moments after the voice says 10. That would give them a pretty good chance of landing directly on the threshold. Now yes, what I am saying is probably way easier said than done, but really skilled and experienced pilots could have a really high chance at it.
+SkyGuy 10 Let me guess, you've never flown an aircraft in your life, right?? LOL
+SkyGuy 10 That is called a "Duck Under" and is strictly forbidden incase you experience a down draft on short final. I have approximately 6,000 B737 hours [29,000 total] and flew for Air Florida out of Miami (MIA) many many times into Key West...so YES I do know a little about what I say. The proper way is not a flat low glide slope aimed a the first brick but a normal glide slope carried deeper into the threshold crossing height to flare at the last second taking ground effect/AOA/and approach speed variance into account. Good landing are possible but NOT the prime priority.
falcondriver100 Are you joking or serious. I have flown a real plane. Not anything compared to the 737 and not anything compared to the hours those pilots have, but yes, I am a student at Aspen Flying Club of Centennial Airport in Colorado. I fly the Diamond Katana DA-20, and have about 30 to 35 hours.
Now apparently what I said was really stupid, but truth be told, I wasn't basing my comment off of anything, it was just a though that popped into my head when I first watched this video, and thought I would speak up. My mistake :I
+CR Rains Thanks for the professional input. I met a man who moved down to the Florida Keys after witnessing the 1982 Air Florida crash into the Potomac. Standing on the bridge that the plane clipped made him question what he was doing with his life in Washington DC, so after that, it was palm trees and coconuts for him.