Aeromexico pilots request Amsterdam sightseeing
Join Date: May 2000
Location: SE England
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Seems a fair request as it was new year. If you don’t ask you can’t get.
What the pilot didn’t know is that fireworks were banned in Holland this year to discourage COVID spread (that well known COVID vector of gunpowder?) so there shouldn’t have been much to see. That and that Amsterdam is famously one of the most noise constrained airports in Christendom.
What the pilot didn’t know is that fireworks were banned in Holland this year to discourage COVID spread (that well known COVID vector of gunpowder?) so there shouldn’t have been much to see. That and that Amsterdam is famously one of the most noise constrained airports in Christendom.
Join Date: Nov 2016
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Originally Posted by saffi
I never experienced it on my many trips to DAR but friends said KLM sometimes flew scenic tour of the Kilimanjaro on the short JRO-DAR hop coming from AMS. Don't know if it was true.
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Used to circle Mont Blanc
A common trick was the DC10 out of Rio to Sao Paulo flying low along copacabana in front of the Meridian and the crew who had brought her in from Switzerland drinking ciparinias.
One took it to extremes below the top of the hotel and someone sent a photo to SR.
One took it to extremes below the top of the hotel and someone sent a photo to SR.
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Netherlands
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Originally Posted by BDAttitude
All of which will probably never happen again in times when you will have your RT request on the interweb even before you landed. Which of course is illegal by ITU regulations but no one cares, unfortuneately.
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Originally Posted by Dan Dare
Seems a fair request as it was new year. If you don’t ask you can’t get.
What the pilot didn’t know is that fireworks were banned in Holland this year to discourage COVID spread (that well known COVID vector of gunpowder?) so there shouldn’t have been much to see. That and that Amsterdam is famously one of the most noise constrained airports in Christendom.
What the pilot didn’t know is that fireworks were banned in Holland this year to discourage COVID spread (that well known COVID vector of gunpowder?) so there shouldn’t have been much to see. That and that Amsterdam is famously one of the most noise constrained airports in Christendom.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Amsterdam
Posts: 20
Originally Posted by Squawk 6042
I've flown that route many times in recent years with KLM. Arrival in JRO and the sector onwards to DAR has always been after dark. If on a day time flight.it would of course present great views even without deviating off route.
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Originally Posted by Speed_Alive_V1
Love the incredulity in the voice of the controller haha...She's like "whaaaat is this guy serious??"
You'll wake up all of Amsterdam!
You'll wake up all of Amsterdam!
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Dublin
Posts: 825
Many moons ago on a BA 757 into Geneva, with the airport closed due to snow and having been in hold for about 30mins, the pilot announced that we had the option to wait and we were 2nd in the queue or divert and go to the back of the line, as we had the fuel he'd elected to stay and that we’d been given permission to do a little sightseeing. We flew down over the Alps and completed a very nice orbit of the Matterhorn.
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Lufthansa used to do a nice low level flyby of Table Mountain and Cape Point on departure out of CPT.
They did that on every departure. That was around 10-20 years ago ...
Back then they also did that to promote the LH flights into CPT.
They did that on every departure. That was around 10-20 years ago ...
Back then they also did that to promote the LH flights into CPT.
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Back during the 747-8 flight testing, we were coming back from doing some Saturday testing in California and the pilot decided we'd take the scenic route. We flew right over Crater Lake in Oregon at about 20k, then just as we got to the Oregon-Washington border, he request a descent to 14k and a vector towards Mount Rainier. ATC asked if that was for testing, and the pilot replied that it was for some 'special conditions'.
Beautiful summer day - we flew by Rainier (a 14k peak) so close that we could clearly see the people hiking across the glaciers - who surely wondered why that big 747 was flying so close by.
Beautiful summer day - we flew by Rainier (a 14k peak) so close that we could clearly see the people hiking across the glaciers - who surely wondered why that big 747 was flying so close by.
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Location: phoenix, AZ, USA
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For years flying out of KSFO we would do the “Bay tour, own nav, 3000’ feet” right after takeoff when switched to NORCAL departure.
By saying that ATC knew that you were aware of the routing and would routinely grant it. This was always off the 01L runway. You’d fly right over the middle of the Bay bridge, Alcatraz and split the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. You’d depart the golden gate on a 220 degree heading and resume the climb. Did it in the 737, 757 and Airbus.
Another fun tour was departing south out of KSEA. Our flight plan would take us near Mt Ranier, so we’d ask for a VFR climb maintaining own terrain separation and do a slow climb right by the mountain, about 15 miles off.
Got to enjoy the job when you can.
By saying that ATC knew that you were aware of the routing and would routinely grant it. This was always off the 01L runway. You’d fly right over the middle of the Bay bridge, Alcatraz and split the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. You’d depart the golden gate on a 220 degree heading and resume the climb. Did it in the 737, 757 and Airbus.
Another fun tour was departing south out of KSEA. Our flight plan would take us near Mt Ranier, so we’d ask for a VFR climb maintaining own terrain separation and do a slow climb right by the mountain, about 15 miles off.
Got to enjoy the job when you can.
