On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:24:17 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:



How close to the ground do you think a 747 gets when landing?
Hint: *Very* :=)

Especially right at the end. ;-)

If they are 5 miles from the airport they will be above 1000 feet tho.
They seem to drop like a rock on final approach, just based on the
seat back computer. Coming into Ft Myers they seem to drop out of the
30 sumpin thousand shortly after they cross the pan handle and it is
s slow glide down to about 15,000 around Venice and 4 thousand when
they make the turn to come into final approach. At that point it is
just a glide in with a minimal amount of power until they flare right
at the landing. The numbers are changing faster than the seat back
display can update. I assume a lot of it is noise abatement. They are
virtually silent coming in.
When I hear one throttle up it seems obvious he either got spun or he
was off the glide path.
They are coming in about every 3 minutes around here right now. Out in
the boat you see them stacked up as far as the eye can see.
Going the other way they climb out pretty fast