Crazy Street Level HD 737 Landing in Chicago Midway!!!

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  • Опубликовано: 28 фев 2011
  • This is one of the coolest landings I've ever filmed!! Huge left turn right before touchdown! Great close up views of the streets of Chicago! Filmed from the first row on Southwest Airlines! Flight 2863 from St. Louis. 3/1/11.

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  • @briansierzega
    @briansierzega 10 лет назад +46

    The MDW slam and jam! Slam her down and jam on the reverse thrusters.
    They say landing at MDW is like landing on a postage stamp in the middle of a city.
    I live in Chi-Town and have been in and out of MDW my whole life. Never a dull moment landing there.
    If you're on approach from the SE..and you're good..you can reach out and grab a White Castle hamburger off someone's plate ;)
    Great vid man!

    • @dpm-jt8rj
      @dpm-jt8rj 6 лет назад

      Sorry dude, I didn't mean to steal your thunder, so to speak.

    • @martinplaybook
      @martinplaybook 5 лет назад

      same with LaGuardia in NY....not a lot of room for error

    • @as-guardianangel9360
      @as-guardianangel9360 5 лет назад

      Yah, Dallas Love Field too. Very short runway

    • @danieloconnell6306
      @danieloconnell6306 5 лет назад +1

      The landings can be rough at Chicago midway at times

    • @forceinfinity
      @forceinfinity 3 года назад

      Can you imagine trying to land on a postage stamp of a runway when the braking action is shit due to weather conditions?

  • @jguy1987
    @jguy1987 9 лет назад +6

    Landing at Midway over two dozen times myself still gives me an adrenaline rush everytime.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад +1

      It's a neat little airport! I enjoy my flights there as well!

    • @24fletchdog
      @24fletchdog 9 месяцев назад

      They are hard on the breaks their

  • @LemuelTaylor
    @LemuelTaylor 10 лет назад +21

    Breathtaking. Those CFM's were singing a glorious tune on that approach. I felt like I was watching a movie in full suspense. Awesome +1

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад +2

      Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment!

  • @jenconnelly6116
    @jenconnelly6116 11 лет назад +2

    My father lives a few blocks away and I grew up there. You don't even notice the noise after awhile, it's just part of the background to your day. The freakiest time I remember was after 9/11 when all flights were grounded. The silence from the airport was unsettling to me and my neighbor. The planes used to fly directly over my school which was a pain sometimes (we couldn't open windows).

  • @sams9894
    @sams9894 8 лет назад +4

    I love how you just hear the thud of the landing gear, and the immediate deployment of the thrust reversers. No time wasted getting it down!

  • @mark031363
    @mark031363 8 лет назад +25

    Pilot has to be having good time bringing that puppy in like that.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  8 лет назад +2

      +sam mich It looks like it would be fun!

    • @thaddeusj.wordlaw
      @thaddeusj.wordlaw 8 лет назад +1

      +Mah584jr HD Aviation ikr!!!

  • @mshakir2318
    @mshakir2318 9 лет назад +2

    Awesome video I was raised in Chicago and taking off and landing at midway is my fave gives me an adrenalin rush

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад +2

      Glad you liked the video! Midway is a very unique airport in the way it's set up! Thank you for the comment!

  • @rodddastmalchi312
    @rodddastmalchi312 8 лет назад +50

    At midway there is no nonsense or sugar coating. You just gotta put the plane down as early as possible and stop it before the end of the runway

    • @kellydobson8525
      @kellydobson8525 7 лет назад +4

      same with burbank

    • @dpm-jt8rj
      @dpm-jt8rj 6 лет назад +3

      I know the person who posted this video means well, but, I hate to be the one to tell him/her, that's not uncommon. His/her speed might have been a tad high, but, that is why Southwest keeps a full staff of mechanics at MDW! With a full stock of main gear breaks! I think that might have been either the "McDonalds-2" or "White Castle-3" arrival! If you can read the license plates off the cars at Oils Express, then that would be the "Giodano's-Six!"

    • @dpm-jt8rj
      @dpm-jt8rj 6 лет назад

      Stolen as it crossed over 55th St! I love that airport! WN drivers are pretty good.

    • @Kingbron007
      @Kingbron007 4 года назад

      Rodd Dastmalchi Not so much the airport but for Southwest... Certainly

  • @warren6815
    @warren6815 9 лет назад +2

    This is one of my favourite aviation videos! Those CFM56s sing a beautiful tune!

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад

      warren6815 Glad you enjoyed it so much! Thank you for the comment!

  • @timothyhaskins5020
    @timothyhaskins5020 8 лет назад +5

    Last summer was on a SW flight into Midway after midnight in a bad rainstorm, apparently with a slight tailwind too, according to our pilot who was miffed that the airport hadn't reoriented the approach pattern- he got it down and blasted the reverse thrust literally all the way down the runway- never had a landing any other time when the thrust lasted that long to slow the plane- a lot of passengers with white knuckles that night but fortunately a very competent pilot!

  • @SouthwestFreak
    @SouthwestFreak 11 лет назад +4

    I love that engine whine at 2:57. Great video!

  • @capflight4105
    @capflight4105 11 лет назад +4

    Absolutely incredible video. Really captures what it's like to land at Midway!

  • @tillyboos
    @tillyboos 6 лет назад +5

    I used to fly Southwest pretty regularly from the Bay Area to Chicago. It's a good airline.

  • @400collector
    @400collector 13 лет назад +2

    Love landings. Love the 737. Love when I find a videographer who records the speech after landing.

  • @gingerwood1969
    @gingerwood1969 4 года назад +4

    Awesome video!!!! Great sound as well!
    Landing at MDW is one of my favorite airports to land at because of the hard landing and the hard braking! You literally have to plant your feet hard on the floor to hold yourself back! 👍👍👍

  • @joeyrocks2207
    @joeyrocks2207 10 лет назад +1

    You captured the essence of landing at MDW. Great job !!

  • @braxtonbragg8115
    @braxtonbragg8115 9 лет назад +1

    2011, My last year as an Air Traffic Controller at MDW before retiring. Might have been working that day. Out of the eight airports that I worked at as a Controller, MDW was one of the most fun.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад

      Braxton Bragg It's a neat airport! I bet Chicago air traffic patterns and intersecting runways kept you busy!

  • @midsprat123
    @midsprat123 11 лет назад +1

    a couple years ago, came into midway flying home from a funeral and that was the only time i have seen the flaps fully extended as we came in over the industrial part of town (many smokestacks)

  • @komrad1983
    @komrad1983 10 лет назад +1

    Textbook positive touch. Love that seat location, there you get real music of those cfm buckets

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад

      Yeah, it was well done! Glad you liked the video!

  • @maulanwong3841
    @maulanwong3841 5 лет назад +1

    Boy!!! That was a loud landing! And a powerful one too!

  • @alhenry
    @alhenry 10 лет назад +1

    Nice video, Midway approach is amazing.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад +1

      I agree! It's really cool! Thank you for the kind comment!

  • @butchrules7
    @butchrules7 10 лет назад +4

    You gotta love Chicago! :)

  • @WarbirdPhoenix
    @WarbirdPhoenix 10 лет назад +1

    3:18 Nice capture of another SW heading out from the same runway. Cool.

  • @airplane564
    @airplane564 10 лет назад +10

    I like flying into midway especially at night

    • @dpm-jt8rj
      @dpm-jt8rj 6 лет назад

      That goes on my bucket-list!

  • @walteroppenheimer6222
    @walteroppenheimer6222 9 лет назад

    I had to watch this several times. You really get to judge your ground speed being so low over a heavily populated area. Having done some flying when I was young, I can tell you this is a pilots dream. ( getting to really work the aircraft ). really great video!!!!!!!!
    Walter

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад

      Yeah, Midway is a neat little airport surrounded by all sorts of neighborhoods!

  • @walteroppenheimer6222
    @walteroppenheimer6222 9 лет назад

    Thanks Mah584jr. That is so awesome. I will add that to my list of favorites. You must have been 100 feet above that last industrial building before landing. I could watch this video over and over again and always find something different. Totally cool.
    Walter

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад

      Glad you liked it! I appreciate the comment!

  • @kawythowy867
    @kawythowy867 4 года назад

    I fly into this airport 3/4 times a year. Sometimes I split between O’Hare and Midway. They both have there benefits.....I fly from Key West FL to Layover in Atlanta. Then onto Midway if I fly Delta. ....if I fly United or American Airlines I have a straight non-stop flight ‘VERY NICE’ into O’Hare. Always reminds me ‘seeing this video’ of the start of my 17 days vacation. And that is a good thing I look VERY forward to these vacas. Happy New Year everyone.

  • @danieloconnell6306
    @danieloconnell6306 5 лет назад

    Seeing the water and taking a picture when landing into Chicago is cool i also saw a Walmart and a home depot landing into Chicago midway

  • @DCussen
    @DCussen 10 лет назад

    That was badass!!

  • @johng5710
    @johng5710 4 года назад

    A couple times flying into Midway from the west, we actually went out over the lake and then did a 180 degree turn back toward the airport...one of the coolest approaches ever!

  • @alx292520362017
    @alx292520362017 11 лет назад +2

    Very nice vid! Im flying to Midway in a week on an 800

  • @airbusmad
    @airbusmad 11 лет назад

    Beautiful!

  • @MedicalPhysicist08
    @MedicalPhysicist08 11 лет назад +1

    Midway is one of the scariest approaches bar none. You can usually see what people are having for dinner.....

  • @robynhigginson9830
    @robynhigginson9830 7 лет назад

    Flying in and out of Midway in 2010 on South West Airlines was a bit of an adredelin rush...flying out to Phonix I had a South West airline pilot (based in Phoenix) sitting beside me and he talked me through the entire take off and what was happening in the cockpit for the first 5-8 minutes of the flight...VERY interesting and when I watch videos from Midway now...that conversation comes back...

  • @donsmth
    @donsmth 6 лет назад

    Glad you have this. They no longer use this approach to 22L.

  • @Critter1
    @Critter1 9 лет назад +1

    Of course the pilot did that. 😂 I was just on a 737 Southwest to Midway and I got the same thing and maybe lower. Mine was a nice touchdown, BUT HE HAMMERED THE BRAKES!! We also landed on 22L, just like you did.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад

      Critter1 Oh, very nice! It can be very cool landing at Midway!

  • @graphicaspect5584
    @graphicaspect5584 4 года назад

    Amazing view before Landing ! the Road to near the runway :)

  • @fsaviator4435
    @fsaviator4435 11 лет назад

    Ok thank you very much!

  • @kyokushinkuma
    @kyokushinkuma 6 лет назад

    This about gave me the same feeling as when I landed at Newark international, nothing but factories and roads around there.

  • @glasswings21
    @glasswings21 11 лет назад

    i just love midway for this my most fav airport due to its surroundings ...!

  • @dlr11164
    @dlr11164 11 лет назад +1

    In addition, just before crossing the airport boundary the aircraft passes over the parking lot at the corner of 53rd and Cicero.

  • @dlr11164
    @dlr11164 11 лет назад

    RWY 22L at MDW. Cool!! It's necessary to keep traffic in close to the airport when landing on this runway as the Chicago Loop is just 8 miles off the end of the end of the ruway, including the Sear (Willis) Tower.

  • @zachmatt3
    @zachmatt3 11 лет назад

    Wild ride. One of those turns was really abrupt. Looks like a lot of fun.

  • @mrusa4440
    @mrusa4440 10 лет назад

    It also allows for closer spacing on the approach corridor. The longer an airplane is on landing rollout the farther back the next plane on approach has to be.

  • @robertlworley
    @robertlworley 7 лет назад

    Yes, it does seem a little lower than I'm used to seeing!! :) But I don't fly all that much (but I LOVE it when I do), and when I do it's usually to bigger airports.

  • @phanthom091
    @phanthom091 12 лет назад

    great video, was it windy there because it looked a little shaky but other then that great :)

  • @BruceWayneWorld
    @BruceWayneWorld 11 лет назад +1

    There is a dark Gotham City feel to Chicago ! Everything is old or industrial from the houses, streets, to the buildings. Plus its always a overcast which creates grey skyys.

  • @oswaldj.bien-aimepronounce4802
    @oswaldj.bien-aimepronounce4802 10 лет назад

    Man, it was great, HARD landing!!!

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад

      Thanks! Glad you liked it!

  • @danieloconnell6306
    @danieloconnell6306 5 лет назад

    The view of Chicago is pretty cool when landing into Chicago midway

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  5 лет назад

      Yeah, it's a neat little airport!

  • @kosjeyr
    @kosjeyr Год назад

    I've only been to MDW twice and that was to and from the 8th Grade DC Trip.

  • @rileywoods6801
    @rileywoods6801 9 лет назад

    Looked like a perfectly flown approach and a soft landing!

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад

      It was great! It's always exciting on approach to Midway!

    • @jbrancs
      @jbrancs 9 лет назад

      Riley Woods approach was great, landing was definitely not smooth though lol

    • @Kpoole35
      @Kpoole35 9 лет назад

      Haha i don't think it was soft but more average, but yea an awesome approach!

  • @FromDaHooDBoiz
    @FromDaHooDBoiz 10 лет назад

    great video. in 1:34 I see Celina's Deli, Sophies Tavern( polish Pub), Gilmart parking and Archer Bank.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад +1

      Thanks! It's always cool when you can pick out your local landmarks!

  • @EternalNightsCollectibles
    @EternalNightsCollectibles 5 лет назад

    I've never landed or flown out of MDW when coming to IL. I always go through ORD.

  • @Helicopterpilot16
    @Helicopterpilot16 12 лет назад

    Holy crap! Was that a Lockheed JetStar at 2:01! Lucky catch!

  • @airboatkid
    @airboatkid 11 лет назад +1

    I love flying anywhere

  • @danieloconnell6306
    @danieloconnell6306 5 лет назад +1

    The southwest app is awesome to have on your smartphone

  • @brownbrownson
    @brownbrownson 13 лет назад

    that looks like a fun approach to fly.

  • @brownbrownson
    @brownbrownson 11 лет назад +1

    hell yea, short field landing!

  • @petercriscuolo6180
    @petercriscuolo6180 6 лет назад

    These Pilots Are Amazing Those Midway Runways Are Short As All Getout.

  • @Ozinater
    @Ozinater 11 лет назад

    Nice! Thats an awesome approach. What seat were you in? I am flying on WN for the first time from BUF-FLL a week from today.

  • @AARedSox327
    @AARedSox327 13 лет назад +1

    22L appch is always awesome

  • @Pandacapricorn
    @Pandacapricorn 12 лет назад

    It been awhile i flew in and out of Midway Airport in a long time!

  • @Geoffr524
    @Geoffr524 11 лет назад

    Flew on SWA a few times and went through Midway Airport a few times. Would have been interesting if you had a GPS tracklog of the flight.

  • @briantoth29
    @briantoth29 10 лет назад

    They're making the approach to one runway and then circling to a different one. That's necessary because of the proximity to ORD and is why there was so much low level maneuvering.

  • @DOLRED
    @DOLRED 10 лет назад +4

    Midway has always been landlocked. 1972 saw the crash of a United Jet into a nearby neighborhood. You can see its video here by searching "Midway Crash December 1972" The film is done by the CFD and the later part of it is somewhat graphic. The weird part of it was Howard Hunt's wife was killed in the crash carrying a briefcase with $10,000 in cash from Wash DC. Hunt was one of Nixon's cronies and the Watergate matter was just underway at the time. The cause of the crash appeared weather related, no official info was ever made known.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад

      Interesting information! That's cool to know!

  • @NVHSChadSheppard1
    @NVHSChadSheppard1 5 лет назад

    That’s a firm touchdown

  • @arielg7000
    @arielg7000 3 года назад

    OMG COOL

  • @TheLufthansa123
    @TheLufthansa123 9 лет назад

    Awesome Video :) first I think they landing on the street :D

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  9 лет назад +1

      Glad you liked it! Midway airport is definitely packed in pretty tight by all the streets!

  • @GOLD1702
    @GOLD1702 11 лет назад

    lol awesome! x)

  • @GJPrimus
    @GJPrimus 12 лет назад

    Wow the pilot was really working them controls on approach.

  • @scotty3034
    @scotty3034 6 лет назад

    Landed at Midway many times. The first time was "Where's the fucking runway? Where's the fucking runway? Where's the fucking runway?" And now it's fun hearing Midway first timers saying the same thing.

  • @ripsta1870
    @ripsta1870 10 лет назад

    Haha, welcome to rw22... Always good.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад

      Awesome! Glad you liked it!

  • @chrisnorton4781
    @chrisnorton4781 11 лет назад

    Looks like he did a pretty good job on the approach, What was so crazy? looked like a normal MDW landing to me. BTW, what part of no electronics on below 10,000 feet did you not understand?

  • @dlr11164
    @dlr11164 11 лет назад

    It is possible, or it could also have been vectors to 22L. There two left turns before the turn to final and I didn't see the airport on a downwind which you would have seen circling from 31C at least toward the east. Otherwise there would have been two right turns to final if they circles to the west of the airport.

  • @Helicopterpilot16
    @Helicopterpilot16 12 лет назад

    Well Mark! I got my wish! I'm flying from MSP-MDW-STL and back on 4 737-300's! Are you able to walk the entire terminal at MDW? I am going to wait for spring to fly because I want a longer sunlight day and a clean window. I'll probably sit in the back by the flaps for 4 videos and by the engine on the other. I was thinking rows 18 and 6...

  • @dpm-jt8rj
    @dpm-jt8rj 6 лет назад

    The video begins while in a turn, did you guys have a missed approach before taping? Midway are all low approaches, but I bet that might have been a miss! Those are always cool, when you're riding. If you're driving or if you are the cause of a missed approach, not so much.

  • @Moss235
    @Moss235 10 лет назад +4

    Yeah I think Midway is a fairly short runway so pilots of jet aircraft have to put it down in a positive way as they don't have that much time to stop, albeit enough time, in UK Bristol has a short runway (27) also with a slope aswell so you find when arriving there you hit fairly hard

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад

      Yes, there isn't a lot of runway space to work with so you've gotta make sure you put the wheels down without too much delay!

    • @Sheri45myvideos
      @Sheri45myvideos 10 лет назад

      ***** Yes they have to be on there toes when they land. They always do a good job:)

    • @aviationmegadudehd2301
      @aviationmegadudehd2301 6 лет назад

      I travel from Bristol loads

  • @thaddeusj.wordlaw
    @thaddeusj.wordlaw 8 лет назад

    Fast landing, very fast landing

    • @oboyz3848
      @oboyz3848 6 лет назад

      TJWAviation not that fast but when your flying so low over residential areas it puts into perspective how fast Your going on landing

  • @adrianoquendo1827
    @adrianoquendo1827 10 лет назад +5

    God I love the sound of the brakes. Hmmmmmmm

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад +1

      Yes, brakes are good!

  • @maplebacon__
    @maplebacon__ 10 лет назад

    They're called high speed turn offs :) I guess it kind of improves traffic flow. They're angled off the runway so pilot's can just roll onto them rather than slow right down and make a 90 degree turn off the runway.

  • @marktharp4462
    @marktharp4462 2 года назад

    I landed at O'Hare... quite a trip..
    then caught a flight to Miami!?

  • @salsajuan317
    @salsajuan317 11 лет назад

    Wow! That plane practically sped on the turnoff into the taxiway!

  • @danieloconnell6306
    @danieloconnell6306 3 года назад

    I have landed into Chicago midway plenty of times

  • @MrJohn1966elliott
    @MrJohn1966elliott 4 года назад

    I love it 💔

  • @crawdaddy1819
    @crawdaddy1819 11 лет назад

    the pattented ILS 31C circle 22L

  • @arifhafizamhamzah32
    @arifhafizamhamzah32 4 года назад

    That was something

  • @germaniaairline6627
    @germaniaairline6627 6 лет назад +1

    Best American Airline

  • @AXAviation
    @AXAviation 11 лет назад

    0:01-0:30 Dat feeling.... Best feeling in the world :)

  • @12alltel12
    @12alltel12 11 лет назад

    Flightaware has a pretty good log

  • @wbenne100
    @wbenne100 12 лет назад

    I would love to fly this approach myself...

  • @ericm1430
    @ericm1430 8 лет назад

    im always nervous flying low like that....done it many times but landing is still a bit sketchy, especially on a windy day

  • @TheTraveler976
    @TheTraveler976 11 лет назад

    flying southwest next week to midway...

  • @danieloconnell6306
    @danieloconnell6306 6 лет назад

    Lauren Nicki and Gerald kenning have you ever flew southwest airlines

  • @alx292520362017
    @alx292520362017 11 лет назад

    it was one of those high speed taxiway turnoffs, I think you can exit the runway there at 50kts

  • @townsendassvlanche7956
    @townsendassvlanche7956 6 лет назад

    SW used to fly into Detroit city airport makes midway look like O hare.

  • @as-guardianangel9360
    @as-guardianangel9360 5 лет назад +1

    The flight attendant said "Welcome to Chicago-Midway, our home base". No, Dallas-LoveField is the Southwest home base

  • @danieloconnell6306
    @danieloconnell6306 5 лет назад

    Shawtay have you ever been to Chicago midway

  • @r.m.gutierrez2207
    @r.m.gutierrez2207 11 лет назад

    Is Midway the new Kai-Tak?

  • @captnfishfiter
    @captnfishfiter 3 года назад

    Ouch...that was a hard landing....

  • @japanpro1
    @japanpro1 10 лет назад

    midway is a thriller coming or going.

    • @mah584jr
      @mah584jr  10 лет назад

      I agree! It's cool landing and taking off right in the middle of such a large city!