Last Thursday flying back into Denver from IL one of the coolest things (in my honest opinion, (IMHO)) happened! We had made a bunch of turns in the air in different directions in the last 30 minutes of the flight, not really sure at the time what was happening, but I think the pilot was buying time to land and just getting lined up with the landing area.... It was super cloudy out the entire flight. When the pilot announced to prepare for landing, Cayle and I began looking out the window. Soon we saw another large plane just a little distance away from us traveling in the same direction parallel to us. We then disappeared behind some clouds and when we emerged, there were now 2 planes flying parallel to us! The first was less than 1/4 mile from us, and the 2nd was about a 1/2 mile. Or that's about what it seemed like in the air. At this point Natalie began to get a little nervous, wondering if we were all shooting for the same runway space... yikes! Because all we really know is that at the airport behind our house there is only 1 runway. Turns out we were all 3 landing at the same time on different runways. It was really neat! Flying in that large of jet in that close of proximity to each other was really cool!
Monday, the day after Christmas, the Eagle County Airport broke it's own record for the single busiest day in it's short history. 350 flights either in or out through the course of the day. I noticed, all day flights were leaving (privates) about every 5 minutes. We don't notice flights coming in though, and when I drove past the airport on tuesday, there were at about 200 planes in the parking lot!!! The most I have ever seen there! On the map, all the blue planes are flying into Eagle. It's kind of like a puzzle, the flight controllers have to get all the incoming into one runway, and all the outbounds out on the same runway in between the inbounds.... Sounds like fun!
Last Thursday flying back into Denver from IL one of the coolest things (in my honest opinion, (IMHO)) happened! We had made a bunch of turns in the air in different directions in the last 30 minutes of the flight, not really sure at the time what was happening, but I think the pilot was buying time to land and just getting lined up with the landing area.... It was super cloudy out the entire flight. When the pilot announced to prepare for landing, Cayle and I began looking out the window. Soon we saw another large plane just a little distance away from us traveling in the same direction parallel to us. We then disappeared behind some clouds and when we emerged, there were now 2 planes flying parallel to us! The first was less than 1/4 mile from us, and the 2nd was about a 1/2 mile. Or that's about what it seemed like in the air. At this point Natalie began to get a little nervous, wondering if we were all shooting for the same runway space... yikes! Because all we really know is that at the airport behind our house there is only 1 runway. Turns out we were all 3 landing at the same time on different runways. It was really neat! Flying in that large of jet in that close of proximity to each other was really cool!
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I bet Natalie was freaking out about all those planes!
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