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Old 5th Dec 2019, 23:05
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Phantom Driver
 
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The pilot maybe at 100ft but the wing tip is about 70 feet above the sea which is a bit too close for comfort and to what end. He could have easily have increased height to a safe distance without altering the aircraft's configuration.
Think you'll find he did indeed get some more height somewhere round the circle . 1.25 min video was edited ( break in the middle ) ; you don't do a 360 in 1 minute with that angle of bank in a 727 . "100 " radalt call came at short finals and then again when he established for the second approach ; no guaranty that was the height maintained throughout the circle .
Nice low level flying in a big jet though .

Perhaps I am a bit paranoid but you do have to wonder a bit why there was somebody with a camera hanging out at the barbed wire fence at the start of the runway, and if you look in the second video there is a high speed zodiac that seems to be trying to track the plane...
Good question.....
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