Iceair B-757200W Low Pass over Reykjavik Airport

[ICEMAN757200]

Beautiful low pass over reykjavik airport, to welcome and celebrate the Icelandic HandBall Team succes in the Olympics.Escorted by 2 Super Pumas and a DC-3 with a short field landing afterwards.
heres the Link:

Vefupptökur - dagskra.ruv.is (http://dagskra.ruv.is/streaming/sjonvarpid/?file=4444742)

All happens on the 26´50´´ :D

[cribble]

Well done Iceland. Good Handball and well deserving of an honour.

Icelandic is a really interesting language but has anyone watched long enough to see any aeroplanes (except the two choppers at about 5 minutes in)?

I would love to see the clip if it were edited. I just couldn't be bothered wasting the bandwidth getting to the good bits.

[Grasscarp]

I gave up watching after about 10-15 minutes of people being interviewed and aerial shots of nothing much. Did see a few helicopters.

[tallinnman]

It's about a fifth of the way in - think they must have compared notes with Cathay. Great footage.

[ABUKABOY]

Beautiful low pass, well-worth persevering with the clip for.

And before all the usual suspects dive in with their "he's not trained for that, it's not an aerobatic aircraft, far too risky, stick to straight and level and gentle turns like you're trained to do, way outside your terms of reference as a professional airline pilot, showing-off like that shows you are not fit for command, what if......, etc, etc", just look again at how smoothly the whole thing was done in very favourable weather conditions. I'll bet it was discussed, briefed, risk-assessed, duly permissioned, and carried-out by a more-than-able pilot who probably did that sort of thing and more in smaller aircraft in a previous life.

Just remember, Disgusted of Tunbridge-Wells, if you're thinking of leaping in, that most pilots are far more capable and experienced than their everyday working-life will ever give them the opportunity to demonstrate.

[Avman]

Bang on :ok: ABUKABOY, and about the Dak too :)

[The Flying Pram]

You don't have to wait for the whole clip to play, you can use the progress bar and drag it to the "interesting bit". The Really low pass is at about 36:00

[VAFFPAX]

That was a stunning low pass. Fantastic. :-)

People, you can seek from the beginning, it's not too difficult. It's around a quarter in...

:-)

S.

[Swedish Steve]

How often do Icelandair B757 use the downtown airport?
I thought it was only for domestic flights?
Looks a bit cramped for a B757