I'm not an expert, but I think you have to get pretty low to land. If you stand at the runway threshold, then that's you way too close, not the plane way too low.
I think you’re spot on. It might be handy that landing a plane always have to finish with contact on ground/surface/whatever. The parachutes pilots are using seems to be for emergency, not for regular landing. In case of using these parachutes, the plane, at the end, be ‘to low’ as well for his well-being. So, one might consider, the ‘to low’ aspect of this all might be matter of circumstances. 😊
@@pepwaverley2185possibly it was deliberate to discourage the spectators. I've seen a Harrier used for that. Some travellers set up camp next to the airfield at Farnborough, next week was the airshow so every couple of hours a Harrier turned up and hovered for a while. They lasted two days.
My Dad was stationed at Coningsby in the late 60's. Me and my mates used to sit on the crash gates, just yards from the runway, We were only eight year olds. We would watch Vulcans, Victors, Lightnings and Phantoms landing and taking off. Just imagine being 100 feet away from a Vulcan taking off. As mischievous lads we would sneak around the base and go places we shouldn't go. What an adventure. I will never forget my childhood in the RAF.
@@Buggsy61 Hi. Yes they are great memories. I'm 63 yers old. I remember many little adventures we had as children in the RAF. ....Yet I can't remember where put my keys. !!
@@kwalts88 Hi. You're lucky. I never saw the Harrier. The most modern fighter we had at Coningsby in the 60's was the Phantom. For me it is the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen. I too miss the roar.
Saw Typhoon at Blackpool airshow last year and it was awesome. The sound of it made me emotional. It was totally mind blowing. The speed the thunder the manoeuvres. I am envious of the people who got to be there to experience so many coming in to land. Outstanding post. Thank you
I remember standing there 50 years ago watching Phantoms do the same thing, but a bit less gracefully. That was the year I saw German F104s on a squadron swap at RAF Wattisham. It was quite a sight to see Lightnings and F104s flying in formation. And, of course, in those pre-digital days I'd run out of film.
I was at Coningsby 88-90…best feeling ever was being sat in my little mini metro at the threshold with the Tornado F3s taking off or landing. The resonance though the car was immense! Will never forget that feeling.
Reminds me of when my Dad used to take us up to the end of the runway at Boscombe down, just for the thrill!.. mid/late eighties/early nineties. Dad stuff !!! 😁 R.I.P Dad.❤
I used to stand at that very spot when I was younger and Coningsby was a Tornado base. It's the approach to the runway and as other people have commented, usually as a plane lands it has to fly pretty low at some point preferably near the runway. The pilots know people are there to get a buzz, so they buzz them.
The pilots are not landing any different than they would always land. Making a more shallow approach than usual just to "buzz" watchers would add a lot of unnecessary risk for a really dumb reason.
I remember a quote from a documentary called 'Airplane!" Pilot: "We're gonna have to come in pretty low to land this thing" Stewardess: "Is that difficult?" Pilot;: "it's just something that you have to do when you land!"
The typhoon is a great plane but my favourite will always be the tornado i was in the cadets when i was younger we used to go to RAF leuchars for flying and i remember loads of tornados lined up near the runaway while i was taking off. Great memories.
Don't get me wrong ,The Typhoon Euro Fighter is a nice plane. But it doesn't beat my favourite , which is still the Harrier Jump Jet which they were still using up until surprisingly recently. Then there's everyone's favourite the good ol' Spitfire too. One other thing which occurs to me is how much these planes remind me of Concorde .
Feel free to correct me, Quo, but the last time I looked, a while back, India, Spain, Italy and America were still refining them and using them. I remember seeing one take off at a Catterick military display in the 70's. My favourite, too.
Am a huge fan also. Something dodgy went on when we sold all our harriers to US marines for nothing like what they worth and US used them for years, probably still do we upgrades.
It's not it all as there are typhoons based in Scotland that are there for rapid response. Every day for weeks there out playing games with Russian jets that come far to close to Scottish air space. With a bunch of monitoring planes.
Been there, and would recommend going to an air show where they are featured. It is a lifetime experience. It is a magnificent looking plane, absolutely stunning, and the sound is a roar that surpasses anything, a beast of a sound, puts other fighter jets into the background.
I've never heard of a landing being too low before. What do you suggest? Maybe a couple of hundred feet above the ground - and then a ladder to get out of the plane?
And, in 1963/64, I remember standing near the runway threshold on the Dogdyke side as Vulcans came in at night. Now that really was dramatic! Incidentally, on quiet Sunday mornings I recall learning to drive on that runway.
If anyone thinks the planes are passing over them too low, then they shouldn't be standing there! Looks like a perfectly normal approach for landing to me.
They need to go to the Valleys, and that would astound them to see pilots flying at shoulder height, you on the road above and a plane just zoon past, pilot sitting there, looking ahead, and dive-bombing helicopters. You have to have some guts to be in a helicopter, to rise above the mountains, and then dive down, straight down, face first.
So where is the insanely too low part? Those final approaches were on a perfectly fine glidepath. If people chose to put themselves near the boundary fence, that's their prerogative, but don't put shade on competent pilots doing their job.
ive been to conningsby many times the pilots landing is text book, professional & excellent - my experience is some pilot will abort landing on aporoach before flying over the road at the airbase perimeter especially if someone standing directly in the flight path /runway approach - Fun it may seem but it's potentially dangerous, not sure if it is prohibited at conningsby i always stand to the side of the approach flight path Never under it
Have you ever heard them in real life? I can see why they call it the typhoon. I have heard these beasts at airshows, and nothing like it, a huge boom and roar that sounds like a giant taking to the air.
Ghosts of The London Underground Part 2@@dougaldouglas8842 Same here - I've seen them twice at airshows. I can't understand how something can be that LOUD!!! 🤣
I wonder what it would look like if, for some reason, one had to do a go-around and lights the burners right about at the wooden fence? 🤔 Also: Those cow print short-shorts are bold 😅
Wow that's awesome, how many was there, 12 - 14... Seen similar at Lossiemouth when I was working on their TFST project. But not as many as that. Seen alot of performance take offs. Does the pilot see all these folk hanging around I wonder??
I wouldn't trust my kids running with a spoon but I trust a highly trained pilot with a multi million pound jet. The odds of them making a fatal error is slim at most.
I have never understood spotters that stand in the undershoot, directly under approaching aircraft. I had to move one at Lossie who got most upset when i said standing on a double ladder directly in the path of approaching aircraft was a really dumb idea.
How are they "way too low"?? They're making their LANDING RUNS! It looks like they've cordoned off a little spot for people to stand while this process is happening; mighty nice of the RAF! I was in the USAF and our govt. would NEVER allow civilians to stand this close to the flight line!
Stood just there a couple of years ago when one of the had to hit the thrusters and do a Go Around... loudest thing I've ever heard.... had to drop my camera and cover up so never doing that again without ear defenders! Pretty Awesome though 🙂
This video does not do justice to this plane. The noise, when taking off, is horrendous, deafening, a beast of sound. I have been to airshows, and when I could not see what plane was taking off, until it came over the houses, the Eurofighter was like a typhoon. You knew when it was on the runway. I love this plane. The U.S claims it has no plane as good as this that we have.
Part of the training is that it’s necessary to get really low to land an aircraft … it helps to get the wheels to touch the runway .
that was part of what I said. Maybe they are practicing for aircraft landing. read mine above.
Your humour was too subtle clearly.
@@sobzuk I think it was….
You don't say Sherlock!
@@andrewb2475 🕵️♂️. 🔎😎
"Way too low" & "Insane eh".........That's the one thing I've always noticed about aircraft, just how insanely low they have to get 'TO LAND'!🙄🙄
Insane alright but it's not the jets!
Best thing is to keep aircraft no lower than 30,000ft upon landing. Just need a big step ladder
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Surely getting low is a pre requisite to landing, getting quite low I’d imagine is pretty useful otherwise you are never going to land.😂
I'm not an expert, but I think you have to get pretty low to land. If you stand at the runway threshold, then that's you way too close, not the plane way too low.
I think you’re spot on. It might be handy that landing a plane always have to finish with contact on ground/surface/whatever. The parachutes pilots are using seems to be for emergency, not for regular landing. In case of using these parachutes, the plane, at the end, be ‘to low’ as well for his well-being. So, one might consider, the ‘to low’ aspect of this all might be matter of circumstances. 😊
@@pepwaverley2185possibly it was deliberate to discourage the spectators. I've seen a Harrier used for that. Some travellers set up camp next to the airfield at Farnborough, next week was the airshow so every couple of hours a Harrier turned up and hovered for a while. They lasted two days.
Better to overrun the runway 100m at taxi speed than to underrun it 100m at landing speed !
@@jamesmaybury7452 depends, at the end of the runway at Heathrow there is a sewage farm. You might survive the crash but nobody is coming to get you.
I’m a pilot. One of the most important part of any textbook landing is you have to come in low😂
I don't know what is more shocking the planes or that guys cow shorts.
My Dad was stationed at Coningsby in the late 60's. Me and my mates used to sit on the crash gates, just yards from the runway, We were only eight year olds. We would watch Vulcans, Victors, Lightnings and Phantoms landing and taking off. Just imagine being 100 feet away from a Vulcan taking off. As mischievous lads we would sneak around the base and go places we shouldn't go. What an adventure. I will never forget my childhood in the RAF.
Can relate to that. Same experiences at RAF Akrotiri in the early 70’s plus a U2 that wasn’t really there. Great memories.
My dad was RAF. We have Tornados on our base - I miss the roar of those planes. When they moved on, we had Harriers.
@@Buggsy61 Hi. Yes they are great memories. I'm 63 yers old. I remember many little adventures we had as children in the RAF. ....Yet I can't remember where put my keys. !!
@@kwalts88 Hi. You're lucky. I never saw the Harrier. The most modern fighter we had at Coningsby in the 60's was the Phantom. For me it is the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen. I too miss the roar.
@@ShaunBakerUK Nice story, Lightning is pretty impressive taking off :)
Saw Typhoon at Blackpool airshow last year and it was awesome. The sound of it made me emotional. It was totally mind blowing. The speed the thunder the manoeuvres. I am envious of the people who got to be there to experience so many coming in to land. Outstanding post. Thank you
This demonstrates excellence in flight training!
Every one of those planes executed their approach exactly the same way!
Don't think it does ..simple landing conditions are good to fine . So nothing majorly excellent about any of the approaches tbf
Computers !
As you would hope, and expect.
@@jimreilly6933 not always it can be skill too.
@@BarrybullthiefpoutersI think it does as there could be an emergency - not saying it is, but if you get it wrong…
I remember standing there 50 years ago watching Phantoms do the same thing, but a bit less gracefully. That was the year I saw German F104s on a squadron swap at RAF Wattisham. It was quite a sight to see Lightnings and F104s flying in formation. And, of course, in those pre-digital days I'd run out of film.
Phantoms were noisy things give me a jolly green giant helicopter any day.
Once in lifetime experience right there
They are coming in to land, its the people who are insane to stand so close to the end of the runway😮
Such an elegant and deceptively simple design. Love the Typhoon.
Sarah talk to me please are you OK peter😅
That's not too low - a perfect approach and landing.
Yes, but you must understand that the uploader is a pilot, Typhoon pilot, one who is claiming that each pilot was wrong. Now, know your place :)
@@dougaldouglas8842telling someone to know their place is bang out of order. Uploaded?
@@cidertom5140 ?
I was at Coningsby 88-90…best feeling ever was being sat in my little mini metro at the threshold with the Tornado F3s taking off or landing. The resonance though the car was immense! Will never forget that feeling.
Reminds me of when my Dad used to take us up to the end of the runway at Boscombe down, just for the thrill!.. mid/late eighties/early nineties. Dad stuff !!! 😁 R.I.P Dad.❤
Those typhoons are beautiful air planes.
In the next episode we'll learn how aircraft have to actually leave the ground to take off.
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Surprising just how close the ground they get on take off...
I used to stand at that very spot when I was younger and Coningsby was a Tornado base. It's the approach to the runway and as other people have commented, usually as a plane lands it has to fly pretty low at some point preferably near the runway. The pilots know people are there to get a buzz, so they buzz them.
They're not buzzing them, they're landing.
The pilots are not landing any different than they would always land. Making a more shallow approach than usual just to "buzz" watchers would add a lot of unnecessary risk for a really dumb reason.
@@rogertoaster9385 true also the police have to move these people away from this spot quite often as that fence is where the guidance lights are
I remember a quote from a documentary called 'Airplane!"
Pilot: "We're gonna have to come in pretty low to land this thing"
Stewardess: "Is that difficult?"
Pilot;: "it's just something that you have to do when you land!"
All aircraft get insanely low when they are LANDING ! doh.
My goodness that is incredibly liw approach and great video!! 😁😊
These kids have never seen Concorde take off from Heathrow. Now that sound will rip your heart out and depress your lungs. RIP Concorde.
Didn't even know we had 22 operational aircraft.
Herd of people being crazy? These folks are just plane ✈️ nuts.
As impressive as this is…it doesn’t come close to that fella’s cow print shorts 👍🏻
Had to rewind to see those shorts! 😂
The young lads faces , loving it
If you are in line with the runway which I think you are there you should not be surprised if they come in that low!!
Damn, this is actually my dream to watch it in person
Awesome footage 👍👍
Love this video. One for my bucket list.
The typhoon is a great plane but my favourite will always be the tornado i was in the cadets when i was younger we used to go to RAF leuchars for flying and i remember loads of tornados lined up near the runaway while i was taking off. Great memories.
Mines the spitfire, pure beauty. easy to fly. Not much to go wrong either no electronic gubbins .
Don't get me wrong ,The Typhoon Euro Fighter is a nice plane. But it doesn't beat my favourite , which is still the Harrier Jump Jet which they were still using up until surprisingly recently. Then there's everyone's favourite the good ol' Spitfire too. One other thing which occurs to me is how much these planes remind me of Concorde .
Feel free to correct me, Quo, but the last time I looked, a while back, India, Spain, Italy and America were still refining them and using them. I remember seeing one take off at a Catterick military display in the 70's. My favourite, too.
You'd have loved the matador display at Riat (Royal International Air Tattoo)
Am a huge fan also. Something dodgy went on when we sold all our harriers to US marines for nothing like what they worth and US used them for years, probably still do we upgrades.
Given the state of the the UK's armed forces after years of cutbacks one was pleasantly surprised to see so many aircraft on finals!
*I see Beau Brummell setting another fashion trend with dress shoes, calf length socks, two tone bovine pattern shorts & oxford shirt...*
Yes, quite the trend-setter. But he still got his 3:05 minutes of fame. So looking forward his next fashion statement.
Please define "way too low." I believe that way to low would be trying to land below the level of the runway.
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Love the fact that no body worries about their hearing , they will in years to come though.
'What? What did you say. Can't hear you. Speak up! No, louder!' Me, fifty years later after my misspent youth on the range without ear protection.
That's all of the RAF, right there.
It's not it all as there are typhoons based in Scotland that are there for rapid response. Every day for weeks there out playing games with Russian jets that come far to close to Scottish air space. With a bunch of monitoring planes.
LOL they used to fly round the midlands when i was younger, never see them anymore
they are also flying the f-35 b
Attacking your own is nothing to be proud of.
@@krashd humour is useful for all sorts of reasons personally I dont think that was an attack , more of an observation
Like really, really Cool 😊
I was waiting for that one pilot who was thinking "okay, let's scare those folks by going REALLY low. 😎
That is awesome!!!!!!
That is remarkable on video….I can only image how it looked, felt, and sounded in person!!
must be one hell of a buzz
Yummy spent jet fuel
Been there, and would recommend going to an air show where they are featured. It is a lifetime experience. It is a magnificent looking plane, absolutely stunning, and the sound is a roar that surpasses anything, a beast of a sound, puts other fighter jets into the background.
Wow what an experience
My dad would pack the car with kids and take us to YYZ to watch planes take off and land. It is one of my most cherished memories with my dad.
What was 'way too low' or 'insane' about this?
Absolutely standard landings at Coningsby......🙄
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Touch and gos apparently
They have to be low in order for the wheels to contact the runway before they get to the other end.
Good point!
That looks like fun.😁
Great footage and an amazing experience for the kids. Once in a lifetime thing that. 👍😉
I've never heard of a landing being too low before. What do you suggest? Maybe a couple of hundred feet above the ground - and then a ladder to get out of the plane?
Wow, we've been coningsby a few time when staying at Tattershall lakes ,where abouts is this spot? Thanks
Strange that each of the planes had their landing gear down...maybe its a requisite for landing safely, just like flying low
Those kids will never forget that experience.
At least we still got a few planes left, A impressive sight watching the typhoon land, but a deadly weapon when they are used in anger.
Looks like normal approach to me as threshold looks close
Love the ground effect these delta wings are generating
Hey great catch mate! Can i feature this in one of my upcoming episodes? Of Course you will get credit for it! Thanks
That's cool that you can stand that close to the end of the runway. That would be verboten in the U.S.
Incredible !!!!! 😮
Brilliant stuff
Never mind being so low, have you seen those crazy pilots flying with their wheels out? Nutters!
Gotta be hell on the ears but still such beautiful approaches and landings. ... J
I can remember watching Phantoms in that same spot many years ago.
And, in 1963/64, I remember standing near the runway threshold on the Dogdyke side as Vulcans came in at night. Now that really was dramatic! Incidentally, on quiet Sunday mornings I recall learning to drive on that runway.
To see one land like that must be cool but to see 22 is special. love them jets
Awesome😊
If anyone thinks the planes are passing over them too low, then they shouldn't be standing there!
Looks like a perfectly normal approach for landing to me.
They need to go to the Valleys, and that would astound them to see pilots flying at shoulder height, you on the road above and a plane just zoon past, pilot sitting there, looking ahead, and dive-bombing helicopters. You have to have some guts to be in a helicopter, to rise above the mountains, and then dive down, straight down, face first.
I can’t stop seeing those cow shorts!! 😂😂
Wow Wow Wow !!!😲
So where is the insanely too low part? Those final approaches were on a perfectly fine glidepath. If people chose to put themselves near the boundary fence, that's their prerogative, but don't put shade on competent pilots doing their job.
Try the West Beach at Lossiemouth. Just great flying.
I'm surprised the police let you stand there. I bet if i showed up there i'd get done for trespassing or something.
ive been to conningsby many times the pilots landing is text book, professional & excellent - my experience is some pilot will abort landing on aporoach before flying over the road at the airbase perimeter especially if someone standing directly in the flight path /runway approach - Fun it may seem but it's potentially dangerous, not sure if it is prohibited at conningsby i always stand to the side of the approach flight path Never under it
Mate, the fucking state of those shorts.
It blows my mind how LOUD these things are when doing maneuvers!
Have you ever heard them in real life? I can see why they call it the typhoon. I have heard these beasts at airshows, and nothing like it, a huge boom and roar that sounds like a giant taking to the air.
Ghosts of The London Underground Part 2@@dougaldouglas8842 Same here - I've seen them twice at airshows. I can't understand how something can be that LOUD!!! 🤣
@@MrSpanks Same here. How can they be so loud?
That must be the entire serviceable fleet!!!
I wonder what it would look like if, for some reason, one had to do a go-around and lights the burners right about at the wooden fence? 🤔
Also: Those cow print short-shorts are bold 😅
That's the coolest vid !
Pure beauty ❤️
Wow that's awesome, how many was there, 12 - 14...
Seen similar at Lossiemouth when I was working on their TFST project. But not as many as that. Seen alot of performance take offs.
Does the pilot see all these folk hanging around I wonder??
It was The king’s birthday parade in London 17th June 2023 22 typhoons left raf coningsby to fly in formation over London 👍👍👍
The only insane thing here is placing yourself (and kids) that close to the path of the most dangerous flight phase of any aircraft.
Indeed.
And that twat on the fence.
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I wouldn't trust my kids running with a spoon but I trust a highly trained pilot with a multi million pound jet. The odds of them making a fatal error is slim at most.
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I have never understood spotters that stand in the undershoot, directly under approaching aircraft. I had to move one at Lossie who got most upset when i said standing on a double ladder directly in the path of approaching aircraft was a really dumb idea.
A well-written headline get you 'clicks'.
Forever recorded into history, those black and white cow pattern short shorts…..lol
Way too low... Are you an expert Typhoon pilot?
Where is this place please can I have the post code??
Great stuff.
I'm surprised that the publìc can get that close. It's a security risk...
How are they "way too low"?? They're making their LANDING RUNS! It looks like they've cordoned off a little spot for people to stand while this process is happening; mighty nice of the RAF! I was in the USAF and our govt. would NEVER allow civilians to stand this close to the flight line!
Ideally they should be at 0 feet when they touch down.
@@DIRTYdeeds613i think he means radar
@@DIRTYdeeds613 AGL.
This is the RAF. If they're way too low they're already digging a tunnel. Also landing.
What an extraordinary pair of shorts that chap is wearing. Most odd
The guy in the foreground did he dress himself or did he have help from Coco the Clown?!
I’ve seen a few planes getting really low when they’ve been landing.
How low do you expect it it to get before it lands.
Stood just there a couple of years ago when one of the had to hit the thrusters and do a Go Around... loudest thing I've ever heard.... had to drop my camera and cover up so never doing that again without ear defenders! Pretty Awesome though 🙂
I didn't realise we had that many Typhoons unless they were just pretending to land and go around in a constant loop.
It’s the typhoons from the trooping the colour fly past I think? All 18 of them. 👍
Think we have about 100 operational typhoon aircraft
Didn't realise we had this many planes.
I believe the RAF have 130 operational typhoons in service 👍👍👍
That was after the mock dogfight with the Lakenheath F-15's. All the Typhoons were shot down although they did claim one Eagle.
Can anyone help find out the name of this place
Watching them take off is even better!
Nothing says muppet more than the guy in the blue shorts
Leave him alone. He looks delightful ... ly ridiculous.
Fantastic....what spectacle...👍
This video does not do justice to this plane. The noise, when taking off, is horrendous, deafening, a beast of sound. I have been to airshows, and when I could not see what plane was taking off, until it came over the houses, the Eurofighter was like a typhoon. You knew when it was on the runway. I love this plane. The U.S claims it has no plane as good as this that we have.
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