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Outdated said:
Many years ago my father dropped me off at Darwin airport, I was catching a red eye special down to Melbourne. My plane was 20 minutes late getting in and as soon as it landed the pilot and copilot climbed out, walked under the left hand wing and opened the engine cowling, both of them stood there pointing and scratching their heads.

I asked my father what was going on and he said they probably had an ibis go through the engine when landing. Then the pilots shrugged their shoulders, closed up the cowling and walked away. I said to the old man "What's going on now then?" and he said "It's not cooked yet.".

That flight ended up leaving an hour and forty minutes late. Half an hour in to the flight I looked out the window and was shocked to be able to see the Stuart Highway and I could see trucks and cars travelling along it. You never fly anywhere near low enough to be able to see such things.

Just as I was starting to get worried about that the pilot spoke over the PA system, he said that he'd found a favourable jet stream at 23,000 feet and we should get to Adelaide on time. We ended up in Adelaide about 15 minutes early, what's normally a 4 hour flight took only 2. And think of how much fuel he saved doing that too.
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I think planes should fly at this height. So if there is an emergency they are already almost on the ground so they don't fall 30 000 feet. :D

iu
 
Most flights are somewhere around 35,000 feet - 11 Km. Noise restrictions, but sound will only travel 10 Km through air, at 11 Km we can't hear them. Australia's probably one of the few places in the world where that pilot could get away with flying so low, not very many people living underneath to complain about it.
 
Forest Cat said:
I think planes should fly at this height. So if there is an emergency they are already almost on the ground so they don't fall 30 000 feet. :D

iu
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I recall reading about at least one popular holiday resort, but anyway, the runway approach was from the sea, over the local beach, and directly after that the runway (Cyprus maybe? I think Larnaca airport runway is like this, but don't know if there's a beach or just rocks before the sea). So the planes natural approach went over peoples heads on the beach at what must have been a similar height to your image.
The beach was apparently very popular despite the noise and disturbance, by dint of the experience, an unusual one as you pointed out, plus all the piccies there were to be taken! I can't imagine ice-creams were popular though!
 
Outdated said:
I'd be pulling a face like that too, but probably worse because I could well have sat on the bed first to take my shoes
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Eggsactly what I thought! It shell certainly been seen as no yoke! But a cracking picture nonetheless!
 
Boogs said:
I recall reading about at least one popular holiday resort, but anyway, the runway approach was from the sea, over the local beach, and directly after that the runway (Cyprus maybe? I think Larnaca airport runway is like this, but don't know if there's a beach or just rocks before the sea). So the planes natural approach went over peoples heads on the beach at what must have been a similar height to your image.
The beach was apparently very popular despite the noise and disturbance, by dint of the experience, an unusual one as you pointed out, plus all the piccies there were to be taken! I can't imagine ice-creams were popular though!
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Probably St. Maarten in the Dutch Carribean

 
Forest Cat said:
Vanilla Ice, Ice-T, Ice Cube, why did rappers call themselves Ice back in the day I wonder? Because they were cool? That's a little silly isn't it. :)
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And now there's Ice Spice too... at first I thought she was a new Spice Girl lol
 
Boogs said:
I recall reading about at least one popular holiday resort, but anyway, the runway approach was from the sea, over the local beach, and directly after that the runway (Cyprus maybe? I think Larnaca airport runway is like this, but don't know if there's a beach or just rocks before the sea). So the planes natural approach went over peoples heads on the beach at what must have been a similar height to your image.
The beach was apparently very popular despite the noise and disturbance, by dint of the experience, an unusual one as you pointed out, plus all the piccies there were to be taken! I can't imagine ice-creams were popular though!
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There is a beach in Boston called Castle Island where planes fly exceptionally low too, I have taken some crazy videos of planes both from the beach, and on a boat.
Not that low, though... that would terrify me!
 
Outdated said:
I can't remember what thread it is in that I was talking about this before so I'll post about it in here now.

For quite a few years now I've been saying that I don't understand why we haven't gone back to using cellophane as a replacement for plastic. Finally someone has agreed with me it seems.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...aging-to-save-produce-from-landfill/102718618
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Biodegradable bio-plastics are such an obvious solution, even for a partial change while moving toward non-disposable and other sustainable methods.
But of course, this is why, among so very many <preaching_mode=on; max_limit=overdrive> other far better ways to do things that minimise the damage significantly, these things have been suppressed over the last half century or so.
It's pretty depressing to know the fossil fuel industry (and it's enablers) have not only known about the problems now become unavoidable to notice, but have spent in the order of billions on a wide range of anti-ecological disinformation.
And the bottom line is, there's far far more money (and profit) in keeping the fossil fuel industry not only as active as possible, but more active than ever before! So for each and every enabler, there's the thought that "if I don't do everything in my power, to extract the very maximum personal enrichment regardless of the global consequences, then someone else will be doing it instead!" - and the worst of it? They ain't wrong baby, they ain't wrong! :(
 
Boogs said:
And the bottom line is, there's far far more money (and profit) in keeping the fossil fuel industry not only as active as possible, but more active than ever before! So for each and every enabler, there's the thought that "if I don't do everything in my power, to extract the very maximum personal enrichment regardless of the global consequences, then someone else will be doing it instead!" - and the worst of it? They ain't wrong baby, they ain't wrong! :(
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I live in a country that is known for oil and gas, so there has been a lot of discussion about this here. Some say we have to shut it all down now, the entire oil industry. But if we do that, other countries will just increase their production. And the thing is, we have the cleanest oil industry on earth, all the newest high tech equipment, everything is done as green and nature friendly as possible. Many other countries have a much worse oil industry, they pollute more. So if we stop and they increase production, it actually gets worse. It's a conundrum.
 
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