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Planes flying around storms.
I hope everyone has been safe over the last few days. This gif shows the Hartsfield-Jackson airspace in Atlanta.
SAUCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWv4wyy_Jqg
plus1s4u
+1 4 by far the neatest shit I've seen this minute
Awesometp
Da souf
acarlmac15772
Damn it looks like they get really close and shoot gaps. It's like an aggressive driver in traffic. I guess to be fair they can run outofgas
Iusedupalltheglueonpurpose
Air travel blows my mind. Sort of a weird thing to be amazed by, but I've always liked flying (whenever I've had the chance)
MogliDiosmio
Neat ^^
Sirducky20
Green dot tower defence
MikeTheRipper12
NASCAR of the sky.
Fuglysack
Ha! One of my brothers is an ATC and that is exactly how he describes his job.
DontMakeMeDoThis
I like the loop that forms to the SW. One plane makes a break for it then the rest dash in.
Bootsman42
The one going in first must've been running low on fuel for them to just clear it in well before the rest.
BoltActionGearbox
Props to the guys manning the tower and controlling this mess. Just another day at the office for them.
ActuallyMyNamesMarina
Man, it looks like the airplanes were trying to make their own storm there for a few seconds
PinbotWizard
And that's how Atlanta got fertilized.
hu3vos
My first thought was, "They look like sperm." +1
GrannySmithAppleBottomJeans
That really is beautiful.
technobass
I love how some of them are like
UgandanKnucklesIsdeWae
Why are there no planes leaving the airport?
tf58
This only shows the arrivals. The departures are filtered out by the computer.
Killertortilla
SO they all smashed into eachother in the middle?
AlaSnackbar
Looks like a cool game
0xFFF1
What is this, Starcraft?
ptenopus
We need additional pylons.
HellYeahDude
You require more vespine gas
JustSomeRandomMan
i like how a bunch of them start playing tag near that storm.
donkamus
Wow, every one of those dots is 1-100+ stressed out people trying to do thousands of different things. It's like an annoyed ant farm.
sentx
1-100+ stressed out people and likely one air traffic controller playing grand master level Tetris
donkamus
God, I feel for them. I've seen what an expo worker deals with In a restaurant. This is like 1000x that with much higher consequences.
weirdozzie
ATC on fucking point.
StephiesJets0020
Long Island just got hit with the remainder of those storms Georgia got. Wicked.
Keithmoonmoon
That flight #72 though...
landisfloatingrock
You haven't lived until you've waited on Atlanta's hot tarmac for 5 hours waiting fora thunderstorm to pass so you can take off.
MrWizardRules
See you on the front page.
IGottaGuyForThat
That looks stressful as hell for all parties involved.
ARC7567
Oh shit I can see my home in this map. Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville.
BradHawkDown
Go hogs?
ARC7567
Sadly
madradglad
My dad's an air traffic controller and I like to visit him at work and see what's happening. It's really interesting.
PudgeMackenzie
Where at?
madradglad
Memphis International Airport. It's not exactly as exciting as Atlanta but it's fun.
PudgeMackenzie
Nice, those midnight FedEx pushes can be intense.
BradHawkDown
Being a controller for Atlanta would straight up be one of the most stressful jobs in aviation haha
altxatu
It's crazy here in SC. My mailbox blew over. It was set in concrete. Surprised we haven't had more downed trees around here. Stay safe guys
BiggieSmallsIsTheIllest
Power is out all the way in Maryland!
waeraj
Power cut off last night in Anderson. Lightning was nuts.
BillBraskyisasonofabitch
Northeast TN here, looks like we missed the majority of the bad.
leftypride
I'm in Northwest Alabama and I feel like we did too.
SuckItBlue
Mid TX here. Same; It looks like all the bad was...literally everywhere other than my part of town.
Snowberries
Do they really fly in circles like that for a while?
Aesurah
Yep waiting for permission to land, the ones that did a holding pattern around a red splodge in the top left are boss.
ThySausagePrince
It's cool as fuck flying around a giant, raging cumulonimbus.
Lexstock
Yes. It's called a holding patern.
BradHawkDown
Fuck holding patterns
Junktrunkjunkie
I was flying into hongkong during a pretty bad storm they circled around for an hour waiting for a safe opening to land.
Valgorn
Yes, it happened to me once. The constant banking started to make me sick. Almost tossed.
madradglad
Yea. They wait for a gap then book it.
PrinceMaggot
Yes it is a holdeng pattern
GotABonerWatchingHorsePorn
Crazy how nature do dat
ChrisBurgos1200
Yeah that is a holding pattern, sometimes 10 planes can be in one pattern. Each plane stacked on top of each other and they slowly move down
badpetrock
Yup
filthytank
It's a holding patter while they wait for an opening
ImakoSystemisntthatbad
AND THEN THEY STRIKE AND DEFEAT
ImakoSystemisntthatbad
AND THEN THEY STRIKE AND DEFEAT
Rman12
You know how planes magically make up on lost flight time?
gigglypilot
Change altitude to find more favorable winds, go faster, or both. The former is preferable, because the latter burns more fuel
moredownvotesplease
Have you never been in a plane before that had to hold for weather?
Snowberries
Flown many times but no I have never been in a holding pattern
doctorbees
Easy there. Some people haven't been in planes at all.
Somanyquestions
I have not. I've been on one that had to stop for more gaz because wind was too strong though.
levzin
Nope. I've flown close to 30 times, including to Hawaii and back 6 times, and never been in a holding pattern due to weather or otherwise.
thegelatoking
Planes can't hover in one spot. They have to keep moving to stay in the air.
Scubasteezy
I like you ????
BradHawkDown
Lol peasants. Helicopters for life.
HalloweenAintTillManana
Like sharks, but with water and not dying.
HodgePodgekin
What if someone on board continually flushes whilst the plane is in the holding pattern?
FoxySpirit
It's been a long time since planes had open sewage.
HodgePodgekin
Last thing I saw about it was Joe Dirt
thegelatoking
Chocolate rain
MacThunderfart
You, sir, deserve an upvote
NexiKuro
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
HodgePodgekin
Lol