my dad used to drive the mini bus, picking up the stars for the Excelsior hotel. Probably about 50 years or so ago. He met Bruce Forsythe and Tommy Cooper. I can`t remember which one he said was genuine and nice and which one was up his own arse...but still a nice memory.
@lizhowardk7627 Honey 🍯 I am so very sorry for y /r papa (sin el acento) $ if I were able to fly to BHM i would have been very happy 😊 to thank him for his 30 yrs of work, but now I am an old idiot man who does not fly anymore , but I still wish him & his family all of the very best in life, & the best thing that u can do for him is to pray 🙏 for him & for y/r family members ❤😊😢😢
Thanks for the landing, always wondered what It looked like from the cockpit. You just checked off another thing on my bucket list in life. Thanks again
To me, this always means the end of a long voyage. I travel from Oakland, California to Seattle, then on to Amsterdam and finally Birmingham. More time in the air, but a lot less hassle than having to cross London from Heathrow to Houston. My wife drops me off at Oakland, so I don't have to worry about beeing stuck on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and I have friends waiting at Birmingham. A very relaxing journey.
It’s hard to become a trainee. Let alone a fully qualified driver. Takes about 8 months. Some places less, other places longer. Depends on your traction and routes. Very rewarding though. Just had an airline pilot start with us, he likes the trains better.
Always track your flights on flight radar and have spotted you on the cargo side car park. It’s amazing to see what you see and inspires me to be a pilot one day too! Thankyou
BHX - one of my favourite airports. Worked there a number of times and even got to fly in the Police Helicopter a couple of days, and a day in the tower :)
The guys who do this stuff are amazing! How do they do it! I have enough trouble with my petrol lawnmower! Should be boarding a flight to Birmingham tomorrow from Gran Canaria. We put all our trust in these guys even those who believe the earth is flat!
All the times I’ve flown into BHX I’ve always landed on 33 across the M42 motorway. Was interesting to see this approach. That one pilot needs some cough meds though.
Great video. Can anyone explain the final anticlockwise turn to line her up? When I've flown in from the south to land on RW15, I always seem to have passed to the west of Birmingham and had a clockwise turn. I assumed that was to separate aircraft movements?
The published approach onto 15 from the south is all based off the Honiley VOR (6nm SE of the airport). You are supposed to follow an 11nm long arc 18nm from HON curving in a clockwise direction over the City until reaching a waypoint called CHASE, this is on a 330deg radial and 18nm from HON or apporox 10.5nm NW from the airport. In reality you never follow the procedure as you are normally given radar vectors in a straight line from HON usually in a direction of between 305-315 deg on a right hand downwind. ATC will still take you out as far as CHASE give or take a couple of miles and descend you down to 2,500ft before giving you a right turn to intercept the localiser just north of Sutton Coldfield, approx over Aldridge. Occasionally if ATC have departures heading out to the West, or as you say ATC are busy and wish to organise movements more efficiently they will stager the approaches on alternate left and right hand downwind. 90% of the time you will fly over the City, the rest of the time you will be sent out toward Tamworth. Obviously coming from the East we would prefer the latter, but outbound traffic below us dictates what happens. Hope this helped.
LesD9 have you ever had it when you are landing and the plane goes really close to a road at EGBB? I think it’s a motorway but if you go along that road you get amazing plane views (you can’t stop there though but I saw an EK A380 on the road!!!!) also car park 5 is amazing for plane spotting
@@mysteryguy5177 You may mean the A45 to the south which was realigned when the runway was extended a few years ago. If you time it right, an even better view of landings can be had from the upper deck of the local bus services which use the service road inside the airport perimeter. You only get one shot each time tho'! You can see what I mean on one of the Street View series.
@@daveflyinghigh3209 BHX Postcode is B26 3QJ, google says B33 0QB for the North end viewing area (The one in the video), there is another at the South end by the A45 postcode B92 0DX
I flew in Birmingham a couple of years back on an Emirates A380, the plane was slammed on the runway ?? and then the troubles started. Three other planes had landed just before us, so immigration was swamped took an hour to walk the tapes. The UK passport reader could not read my UK one year old UK passport, so had to queue for the number one eye ball guy, great that worked. Into luggage claim area, now Birmingham Airport has levied a 0ne pound charge to rent a luggage cart. Trouble is most passengers don't travel with one pound coins, so the smallest note I had was a twenty, posted into the machine and received twenty one pound coins, great. The cart attendant suggested I barter with the rest of the passengers to get rid of the coins. The other passengers only had dollars and after waiting in the passport line I was in no fit state to work out exchange rates, plus the comment from the cart guy sealed it when he said the machine will soon run out. The Emirates car guy even phoned me to ask where I was, it was taking that long. Once in the car the driver said there has been a lot of bother with the 1 pound cart charge, the attendants are like hawks outside the building snatching carts away just as you lift your luggage. To make sure an outgoing passenger doesn't get it. Now I prefer reginal airports to Heathrow as their a lot less walking, but who want's to stand around because of poor scheduled landing with an immigration set up that can't cope. I don't know what the air lines pay for landing/take offs but surly something could be worked out about the cart charge. Or has this come about with the cheapo airlines using Birmingham.????
Wow such a great video. BHX is my local and I have watched aircraft land there for ages. It was nice to see the pilots view for a change. Those lights seems to shake the plane a lot when it runs over them. Do the planes not had suspension?
Can't be Ryanair... it landed too smoothly and I could not hear the usual ruckus from the passenger compartment! Then again... it could have been Mentour pilot... he seems to be the only Ryanair pilot who knows how to land without cracking the airframe! Check his videos out.
My Dad worked at Birmingham for over 30 years, ATC... His surname is Howard.... No one from the airport comes to visit him.... x
my dad used to drive the mini bus, picking up the stars for the Excelsior hotel. Probably about 50 years or so ago. He met Bruce Forsythe and Tommy Cooper. I can`t remember which one he said was genuine and nice and which one was up his own arse...but still a nice memory.
@lizhowardk7627 Honey 🍯 I am so very sorry for y /r papa (sin el acento) $ if I were able to fly to BHM i would have been very happy 😊 to thank him for his 30 yrs of work, but now I am an old idiot man who does not fly anymore , but I still wish him & his family all of the very best in life, & the best thing that u can do for him is to pray 🙏 for him & for y/r family members ❤😊😢😢
Correction of the airport code but since I am so very dumb I typed in the incorrect code , which is BHX Duh,Duh 😢😢😢
The least they could do would be to give him a day off.
Thanks for the landing, always wondered what It looked like from the cockpit. You just checked off another thing on my bucket list in life. Thanks again
Wow, what an experience! Thanks for sharing. I live in Chelmsley Wood just off the flight path we see you guys all the time. Nice to see what you see.
So cool, you don't realise how fast the planes are actually going until it gets closer to ground level..awesome vid❤
Nice video my friend!
Beautifully done...reminds me of flying in a Cessna CJ 19 years ago when I did trade shows. What fun.
To me, this always means the end of a long voyage. I travel from Oakland, California to Seattle, then on to Amsterdam and finally Birmingham. More time in the air, but a lot less hassle than having to cross London from Heathrow to Houston. My wife drops me off at Oakland, so I don't have to worry about beeing stuck on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and I have friends waiting at Birmingham. A very relaxing journey.
How do they find the runway. They are so clever to do it.
5:12 there’s about a 1/150 chance I’m driving that train!!
no carriages mate, what's going on hahah
2 carnage’s is why I know it’s one of ours!! Haha
@@sw01ller is it hard to become a train driver?
It’s hard to become a trainee. Let alone a fully qualified driver. Takes about 8 months. Some places less, other places longer. Depends on your traction and routes. Very rewarding though. Just had an airline pilot start with us, he likes the trains better.
did you ever see a plane coming above you?? if so then thats you!
VERY NICE for a change to watch a landing without looking at instruments! Thanks for a lovely video.
I swear Pilots have the best office.
Cracking viewing area in Birmingham for departures and arrivals and don't cost a penny either!
@Des M. Must be referring to the view from the top of the car parks...
Viewing from Sheldon Country Park, as seen at the runway 15 threshold and approach lighting
Probably went over New Oscott, Kingstanding and Erdington. I know, I live in New Oscott. Great landing
cool! My grandma lives in new oscott
I don't get to flyvery often, so these videos are great for me. Thank you. I love to look down at our country
Yes Carol, the country still looks fantastic when viewed from the air... on the ground it is a different story! Hehehe...
Always track your flights on flight radar and have spotted you on the cargo side car park. It’s amazing to see what you see and inspires me to be a pilot one day too! Thankyou
That was immensely satisfying, and they probably flew past my house which made it even more interesting.
BHX - one of my favourite airports. Worked there a number of times and even got to fly in the Police Helicopter a couple of days, and a day in the tower :)
That helicopter is a pain in the butt. Always seems to go off shift at 2-3 in the morning and comes in from the SW. Over our place!
Tower of London or Birmingham ?
@@TrevorPoole-y7b lol
I've got a spare Strepsil if you want mate.
Adam Noble Thanks, I'm ill
A plane once flown right over me whilst driving from Birmingham to Coventry on the A45. Was very very close. Was amazing
Use the Coventry road next time.
Awesome footage ..and a nice view of our factory on finals. Cheers for sharing
The guys who do this stuff are amazing! How do they do it! I have enough trouble with my petrol lawnmower! Should be boarding a flight to Birmingham tomorrow from Gran Canaria. We put all our trust in these guys even those who believe the earth is flat!
All the times I’ve flown into BHX I’ve always landed on 33 across the M42 motorway. Was interesting to see this approach. That one pilot needs some cough meds though.
great view into BHX, i love flying into this airport in the sim.
Well I'll be, I can just about see flugsnug in his usual haunt at the end of the runway.
GT Stang flugsnug would have got him.
Yes, oh yes! The best view ever. Thank you.
Buttered that bread didn't even hear the bump untill the nose wheel!
Did he really need to stop that close to the tow truck at the end?
Did everybody stand up and cheer when you rolled into the terminal?
On the approach to the gate, is there not suppose to be someone directing you?
I wondered that also but I guess they do things a little different at BHX. Guess it's no big deal. There are no acft nearby.
Tea break mate!
There is guidance. However it is electronically displayed. The stands in Birmingham are actually quite tight.
Great video.
Can anyone explain the final anticlockwise turn to line her up?
When I've flown in from the south to land on RW15, I always seem to have passed to the west of Birmingham and had a clockwise turn. I assumed that was to separate aircraft movements?
The published approach onto 15 from the south is all based off the Honiley VOR (6nm SE of the airport). You are supposed to follow an 11nm long arc 18nm from HON curving in a clockwise direction over the City until reaching a waypoint called CHASE, this is on a 330deg radial and 18nm from HON or apporox 10.5nm NW from the airport. In reality you never follow the procedure as you are normally given radar vectors in a straight line from HON usually in a direction of between 305-315 deg on a right hand downwind. ATC will still take you out as far as CHASE give or take a couple of miles and descend you down to 2,500ft before giving you a right turn to intercept the localiser just north of Sutton Coldfield, approx over Aldridge.
Occasionally if ATC have departures heading out to the West, or as you say ATC are busy and wish to organise movements more efficiently they will stager the approaches on alternate left and right hand downwind. 90% of the time you will fly over the City, the rest of the time you will be sent out toward Tamworth. Obviously coming from the East we would prefer the latter, but outbound traffic below us dictates what happens. Hope this helped.
@@Goproflying Thanks.
LesD9 have you ever had it when you are landing and the plane goes really close to a road at EGBB? I think it’s a motorway but if you go along that road you get amazing plane views (you can’t stop there though but I saw an EK A380 on the road!!!!) also car park 5 is amazing for plane spotting
@@mysteryguy5177 You may mean the A45 to the south which was realigned when the runway was extended a few years ago. If you time it right, an even better view of landings can be had from the upper deck of the local bus services which use the service road inside the airport perimeter. You only get one shot each time tho'! You can see what I mean on one of the Street View series.
LesD9 yes I know what you mean... thanks for the correction!
nice landing... just a little confused about GPWS callout
I thought there was a bloke with his little bats guiding the plane to a stop - nice video -thank you wmike -
Nice to watch a landing with the focus on the forward view only. Something different.
Yes, I liked it also. Great view
Who was the Captain, James Ingram? ;)
He was a very naughty person.
I don't know why planes don't have a front camera and have the footage shown on the TV's.
This describes my life
@5:26 you can stand under the planes as they come in/fly out.
Yeah it’s a public viewing location
What's the postcode for there?
@@daveflyinghigh3209 BHX Postcode is B26 3QJ, google says B33 0QB for the North end viewing area (The one in the video), there is another at the South end by the A45 postcode B92 0DX
How do they know where to place the nose wheel when there was no marshall?
there is a docking guidance system, you can just see it as it pulls on to stand
Awesome video, mate👍
Smooth landing, Bravo 👍👌👏
Amazing video
Thanks
PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT SOFT LANDING & brakes perfect . I subscribed 👍
Thanks. Hope I can come up with some new material soon.
Perfect .... right on the centre line.
What are the thingee's in front of the windscreen for?
I think they are deflectors
I flew in Birmingham a couple of years back on an Emirates A380, the plane was slammed on the runway ?? and then the troubles started. Three other planes had landed just before us, so immigration was swamped took an hour to walk the tapes. The UK passport reader could not read my UK one year old UK passport, so had to queue for the number one eye ball guy, great that worked.
Into luggage claim area, now Birmingham Airport has levied a 0ne pound charge to rent a luggage cart. Trouble is most passengers don't travel with one pound coins, so the smallest note I had was a twenty, posted into the machine and received twenty one pound coins, great. The cart attendant suggested I barter with the rest of the passengers to get rid of the coins. The other passengers only had dollars and after waiting in the passport line I was in no fit state to work out exchange rates, plus the comment from the cart guy sealed it when he said the machine will soon run out.
The Emirates car guy even phoned me to ask where I was, it was taking that long.
Once in the car the driver said there has been a lot of bother with the 1 pound cart charge, the attendants are like hawks outside the building snatching carts away just as you lift your luggage. To make sure an outgoing passenger doesn't get it.
Now I prefer reginal airports to Heathrow as their a lot less walking, but who want's to stand around because of poor scheduled landing with an immigration set up that can't cope. I don't know what the air lines pay for landing/take offs but surly something could be worked out about the cart charge. Or has this come about with the cheapo airlines using Birmingham.????
Good Moaning Vietnam EGBB is rubbish you’ll just have to go with it
Great video....
Great landing
Always see planes landing, cool to see it from a different perspective.
Beautiful video. What were the strange 'pshh' noises? Auto trim?
Most likely yes
They make a noise like they are huffing in annoyance at having to do some work
Spraying air freshener
That’s why he’s coughing
Air freshner required because of pilot flatulation.@@philtimson5449
nice Mike keep it up.
Very interesting perspective. Thanks for the video.
surprising to see the approach is right over a passenger rail line
That was nice.
what video game is this, can you get for the xboy?
Its real not a game!
Jet2?
Where is the Marshall guy?
Scrabbling round looking for the lost ping pong ball. I can tell him it rolled under the canteen fridge.
is there a reason there's no marshaller?
there is a docking guidance system, you can just see it as it pulls on to stand
amazing. BTW, Airborne for the cold..
Never heard so much noise coming out of the cockpit before it sounds like you guys are pumping up a basketball
that was a stab trim wheel it keeps the plane flying level i am glad it did not jam up it would have been very bad
A Ryanair plane?
Birmingham, Alabama? Or Birmingham in Europe?
@@NigeB1966 Okay. Thanks!
Great filming that was
Beautiful!
Would be nicer to see instrument panel and hear cockpit communications.
Always someone moaning. Everywhere. Never happy are we?
Is this a pump up plane ?
Richard Jones haha.
I think it’s the autotrim wheel maintaining correct altitude whilst turning.
This doesn't appear to be the Birmingham, Alabama International Airport. It doesn't have a runway 33 according to google earth.
Michael LeBlanc It is Birmingham, United Kingdom.
There's every chance I was pulling my pudding as this was being landed. There's every chance that it was bloody nice too.
Wow such a great video. BHX is my local and I have watched aircraft land there for ages. It was nice to see the pilots view for a change. Those lights seems to shake the plane a lot when it runs over them. Do the planes not had suspension?
The taxiway centerline lights SHOULD be flush, and shouldn't cause the aircraft to bump. Bad installation.
They are never really flush anywhere, and you can feel them even in bigger aircraft with larger wheels.
Anyone have an idea on the likely approach speed there?
J D 136 kts ish
What`s take-off..190?
Rattus Norvegicus Rotate maybe 145... initial climb 15 degrees bitch up round 190. Then decrease in angle of attack and increase of speed
Why does it sound like someone blowing up a balloon?
That's a proper 'greaser' by any measure!
I am almost convinced "hundred" is in meters, the 50-40 -30 is in feet... Strange...
Any idea of flight direction? Me just under flight path north to south
Pilot came into land over Stetchford/ Tile cross over the Radleys Road. You can see Lea Village and Lidl
From the north, over Bromford Bridge and Fort Dunlop.
@@bengeoghegan277 They passed directly over Fort Dunlop which is north(ish) of Elmdon.
A big thanks to all who responded. Indeed from north to south , who remembers Elmdom?
@@Mrfort indeed from North to South. Elmdon? Elmdon trading estate? I don't live far from Elmdon lane which is runs parallel with the runway.
Kuka siellä yski koko ajan?
greesed that landing!
Stunning
Kinda long?
Birmingham is EGBB my friend
1:33.........soo reassuring!!!! Lol
Better than simulator!
A lot of comments saying it was a nice landing. What if I told you it was Ryanair (listen to the fanfare after landing)...?
And? They have trained pilots as well. The fact that they treat their other staff and 3rd party in a different way is another matter.
And it was the First Officer flying :)
Excellent !
Whoever was coughing on that flight deck, I hope you got checked out back then.
Nice!
Great video
Butter
Landing ok. A bit quick on breaking
Nasty old cough mate, lovely vid and smooth landing. Great.
Caught a cold?
Someone do’nt sound too well. Great video!
737-800 approaching that zone of the airport makes me believe this is a Ryanair aircraft
Can't be Ryanair... it landed too smoothly and I could not hear the usual ruckus from the passenger compartment! Then again... it could have been Mentour pilot... he seems to be the only Ryanair pilot who knows how to land without cracking the airframe! Check his videos out.
Do airlines mind pilots doing this?
Landing the plane in one piece? Probably not... I would think they would recommend it as a rule!
@@GaryNumeroUno ha ha
@@GaryNumeroUno Yeah breaking them frequently leads to a very pissed off insurance company lol.
I bet this is Ryanair
Gate 1 is (was) always Ryanair.
Nice view.!
Special thanks to the TB ward for all the coughing
yes, sounds like a TB cough.
what is your instagram ?
"....and the coughing suddenly ....stopped......kind of?..................
tooter1able : Someone forgot to take his Robitussin ! Get him some now, before we all get sick!
tooter1able: Usually sits behind me!
beautiful
this jet must have the repairs made by boeing. the earlier once crashed, Ethiopian and Lion Air in Indonesia - it began as a $$$ saver.
Enjoyed the flight but no marshal when parking. Looked like he(she)missed smacking the tug only by inches.
No there was plenty of distance. The automatic guidance was on.
I can take off LOL Got to learn this :)