LIKE A ROLLER COASTER! United Airlines B737-800 landing in Burbank, CA

[@paulsmodels]

This flight and landing approach was over the place where I was born and raised. Amazing to see how it is all filled in with buildings now. There used to be orange groves, and big empty fields when I was a kid living in the Valley.

[@sanddabz5635]

Yep. I remember!

[@quack10]

I LOVE landing on Runway 8 at BUR. I can only guess how many times but it must be at least a several hundred. Mostly going back and forth from school in the late 80's and 90's (and Vegas of course on Southwest and their 737 fleet.) However, It was usually an MD-80 or 90 , which was a whole different experience than the more advanced planes of today. More than once we hit hard and bounced so high the pilot had to go around. Most passengers freaked...I loved every minute of it. A free roller coaster indeed! Thanks so much for posting this. GREAT shots of Moorpark and the far west end of Simi, where I grew up. Very much appreciated. Thanks again and be safe out there in the skys!

[@sfbatraveler]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, safe travels to you too! sorry for the super late reply, really busy these days :(

[@SoCalSeaChaser]

I love landing at Burbank, come in hot to a fast stop, what a thrill ! People I fly with that never landed at Burbank, I tell them, you’re in for treat!

[@david_sdiego]

So that must be why one smashed through the fence and ended up in a Chevron station.

[@LEVELGAZANOW]

@@david_sdiego They didn’t have autobrakes on that aircraft

[@sfbatraveler]

yep. always coming in too hot!

[@fosterapp]

I worked on a project in Simi for one year 20 years back, the approach into Burbank brought back memories. Neither good nor bad.

[@Niteowlette]

Burbank is a tricky landing for pilots, especially during Santa Ana winds. I'm a retired f/a who has landed at BUR thousands of times and only had one go around (due to news helicopters following a high speed chase in the approach path).

[@sfbatraveler]

oh I'd love to experience a go-around at BUR!

[@4uidrum]

Saw my house at the begining. And at the end you can see the Burbank Sphere in the distance (where MSG tests everything before sending it off to the Las Vegas Sphere). Great video!

[@sfbatraveler]

thanks!

[@randywilliams2436]

Chicago Midway is another exciting takeoff and landing

[@fredgarvinmaleprostitute6451]

Orange County.

[@sanddabz5635]

So is San Diego.

[@sfbatraveler]

I've only flown in&out of ORD... I'd love to try MDW someday.

[@benjamingruca3591]

This video is great because at 10:47 you can see the start of the construction for the new BUR terminal that will fully replace the current outdated terminal 1 for 1 in 2026. Can't wait for the airport's much needed transformation!

[@grahamcracker659]

this is scare, my cat sad

[@timmellin2815]

So willl the new terminal be on the other side of the train tracks ? Not sure I get the picture. I always loved Burbank....the old terminal....plane just lands and then turns right off next to the terminal w/out any long taxiing time. Also like the old time steps to the plane.

[@benjamingruca3591]

@@timmellin2815 Well, thankfully, the new terminal will continue to board planes via air stairs. The short taxi time that you highlight is actually a safety issue. Several gates are immediately off the runway with no buffer zone, which the FAA has deemed a safety hazard -- though it wasn't at the time of first construction. The new terminal will sit just east of runway 15/33 off of taxiway A. It'll have the same number of gates as well. You can read up about it if you search 'BUR Construction.'

[@celebrityrog]

Flying in and out of ANY airport in Los Angeles except Ontario has me freaked out, even sometimes San Diego. Because these places have had multiple mid-air collisions - probably more than most other areas in the USA. The air traffic here with the amount of airports so close together is astronomical. You'd think the same about SFO-OAK-SJC but so far.... no midair collisions in my lifetime.

[@Heyjeh1]

I love watching airlines come in while on the back nine of Hansen Dam Golf Course.

[@robav8or]

KBUR is a fun one. We don’t even try for a smooth landing. The idea is to get on the ground and the weight on the wheels as early as possible for max braking effectiveness. The airport elevation is only about 720 feet. So doesn’t really impact the landing distance all that much. BTW: That wasn’t the FO making that PA. That was a flight attendant.

[@sfbatraveler]

true. it's such a fun experience! and yes, that's a typo, not FO but FP (flight purser).

[@klystron22]

Smooth like silk. A few obvious bumps and landed like a pro does.

[@sfbatraveler]

yeah, the captain landed this plane like a boss! super well-trained.

[@eljefemaximo5420]

You can see Moorpark, Simi and a the entire valley. If you sat on the left of the plane you could see CSUN and where The Office was filmed. Followed by a short fun landing. Burbank is better than LAX in so many ways

[@sfbatraveler]

agree. I like BUR way better than LAX!

[@MannyL-g3m]

That was one of the flight attendants that made that announcement. Its still sterile cockpit until plane gets to gate. No way the FO made that announcement while plane is still slowing down on the runway.

[@sfbatraveler]

@@MannyL-g3m that’s a typo. should be Flight Purser/FP instead of FO. the letters are next to each other😅

[@johnmclaughlin4292]

Notice how the spoilers did not deploy on the first contact with the runway (they bounced). It was only after they settled on the runway did they go up. I guess that is to allow for a go-around if the bounce was too harsh.

[@sfbatraveler]

yep! I noticed that.

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

Fly into Vegas on a 110 degree day!

[@canmetro75]

Flew into LAS 2 weeks ago. Insane!!

[@sanddabz5635]

Not playing dumb here, but exactly what happens on a 110° day when you land in Las Vegas that you're referring to?

[@sfbatraveler]

🥵

[@nemo227]

It was a good landing. I've landed there on PSA several times, day and night. All good.

[@sanddabz5635]

PSA...I remember them. The big smile on the nose!

[@nemo227]

@@sanddabz5635 That's the one. They did a good job moving passengers north and south in California.

[@sanddabz5635]

@@nemo227 I was in Junior High in 1978 when PSA flight 182 went down not too far away from my school in San Diego. I remember that day quite well. Sad.

[@nemo227]

@@sanddabz5635 That's the kind of sad day you can't forget. I hope you didn't have nightmares.

[@sanddabz5635]

@@nemo227 Thanks.

[@BBQNBLUES]

Looked Smooth as Silk to me.

[@sfbatraveler]

go thank iPhone's awesome stabilization😆

[@williamburke8242]

My Aunt Karen sometimes lands and takes off in Burbank Airport! My sister has been doing, too! You know on how one of them visited my family just to be reunited!

[@robertfolsom5237]

I made this landing weekly (from OAK) for 9 years….still one of the scariest airports to land in the US, ESPECIALLY in the rain.

[@sfbatraveler]

not scary, but thrilling for me :)

[@paulsanders1]

Burbank is always windy when coming in

[@sfbatraveler]

💨

[@justintomblin]

The announcement upon landing could not have been the First Officer as unnecessary cabin announcements are prohibited by FAA

[@sfbatraveler]

yeah that's a typo. should be FP (flight purser) instead of FO

[@sanddabz5635]

I thought it was a little questionable. Definitely seemed a bit too jovial about landing.

[@jcshobbiesandrecreation5873]

That was smooth as butter. Where is the roller coaster ?

[@sfbatraveler]

@@jcshobbiesandrecreation5873 thanks to the awesome stabilization of my iPhone😂

[@JulianBalgobin]

How did you know the flaps were at 40? Why didn’t the plane pull into the terminal? It turned left away from the terminal.

[@sfbatraveler]

@@JulianBalgobin the captain told me that

[@chrismredsox1]

B/c UA uses the B gates at BUR - SW is in A - there's not much room between the runway and the A gates so prob had to make a u-turn around to go to the B gates

[@BeechSportBill]

15-33 is 6,886 ft. That’s SHORT? Even 8-26 is 5802 ft. Fly the numbers!

[@sfbatraveler]

@@BeechSportBill we landed on 8-26, not 15-33

[@Pksparty2112]

Looked like there was maybe a little hop at first touchdown

[@tanvec]

definitely a hop, but I was always a fan of those things haha

[@simonlam33]

Last time landed on 15 with UA. BAM and straight to the gate, literally coming in hot!😂

[@Chris-kq7ir]

I landed into Burank 2 days ago and thought the landing speed was very fast, and the breaking was hard of course. Is that a normal thing for landing into Burbank?

[@sfbatraveler]

@@Chris-kq7ir yes it’s normal for such a short runway

[@FriendofMineralTown]

Yeah it’s always over in an instant coming into BUR

[@SoCalSeaChaser]

Best airport to land at; land fast, stop fast, and park at the gate all in a couple minutes. 😆

[@williamburke8242]

Burbank

[@chrisb8052]

The approach speed will be the same as landing at any other airport. If anything, slower. (B737 has flaps 30 and 40 landing settings; 30 is almost always used. 40 is for lower approach speeds, which is desirable for a short runway like Burbank). But yes, braking will be more aggressive. And no, that wasn't full braking. Watch a video of a rejected takeoff if you want to see full braking.

[@donstor1]

Runway in feet????

[@northstarpatriot8257]

Roughly 6800 ft...

[@donstor1]

@@northstarpatriot8257 thank you.

[@TBolt1]

You’re seriously too lazy to google it yourself? Or, have you not figured out how to use any search engine yet?

[@timlong9913]

Northstar gave the length of runway 15. Runway 8 which is where this flight landed is 5802'.

[@timlong9913]

@@northstarpatriot8257 No, that's runway 15. Runway 8 is 5802'.

[@JonCampos-kh2bw]

He sounded slightly buzzed

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

I wouldn't put it that way, lest the FAA feel compelled to investigate, but "altitude" is an odd reason to give for landing speed when the subject is Burbank.

[@qtancourt371]

In 2018 I was flying back from San Francisco, landing in Burbank. We hit the ground so hard I was amazed that the landing gear stayed up and didn't buckle. I have never landed at Burbank since. It's a crappy airport.

[@dennythomas8887]

That landing had nothing to do with the airport and everything to do with the pilot flying. They can plant them just as hard at LAX or JFK, it all depends on who's at the controls. I retired after 45 years of aircraft maintenance and have done just as many hard landing inspections/repairs at airports with 5,000 foot runways as I have at airports with 10,000 foot runways.

[@NeenerBananas]

We had a rough landing years ago flying Southwest from Vegas to Burbank. It was probably between 9:00-10:00 pm and we landed hard, braked harder. About a month later the very same flight did the same thing but ran off the end of the runway, across the road into a gas station and a car pumping gas. Something told me that probably happened a lot.

[@qtancourt371]

@@NeenerBananas Yes. On our flight we could see we were already too high up in order to get early enough on that short runway. I had heard that there was a near-miss mid air collision at Burbank also, since those runways intersect. It's just a crappy airport. I live much closer to Burbank but I put op with the hassle of flying out of LAX. And it's always cheaper out of LAX, even on Southwest.

[@Niteowlette]

​@@NeenerBananasno, that does not happen a lot, but SW did it twice, the 2nd time at Midway in Chicago. Both times coming in too high and hot.

[@gregstamoulis6387]

Holy moly that was awesome!!! Roller coaster for sure. A wonderful sentiment done by the FO toward his Captain. A nod of respect from one aviator to another regardless of experience!

[@KuostA]

that was 10000% the flight attendant, and NOT the FO making the announcement. The FO would NOT sound like that at all.

[@sfbatraveler]

@@gregstamoulis6387 it should be FP (Flight Purser) not First Officer. my bad.

[@1900intz]

I saw my house from there.

[@sfbatraveler]

nice!

[@wafflesnfalafel1]

nice - hot shoe that bad boy

[@Test.Unknown]

For some reason I thought this was the msfs2020 lol

[@MidWestShilohs]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn 😠

[@simonlam33]

Landing at BUR, aircraft carrier landing 😂

[@sfbatraveler]

well that's USS LaGuardia lol!

[@DonCarpBoeingPhan]

Go figure female pilot bounces twice and gets a pat on the back sorry no pats from 9:39 me

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

Then she'll have to settle for one from me, a landing gear engineer who knows why airliners are landed the way they are depending on circumstances (wet runway, short runway). It was the proper technique for the circumstance of a short runway and a bit of distance-eating float at flare: You get the wheels on the ground and don't worry about a little extra sink rate, still well within the capability of the landing gear. Too bad the Southwest pilot who ran his 737 off the airport and into a street didn't act with her professionalism. BTW it didn't bounce twice. Maybe you confused shock strut rebound with a bounce.

[@reltney20]

Oddly the plane will land about 1/3 shorter with manual brakes. Boeing makes that clear in the manuals.

[@LEVELGAZANOW]

Not true

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

It just depends on whether a) a particular airliner design puts more pressure to the brakes in manual braking mode and b) the brakes are torque-limited over some portion of the stop, meaning more pressure doesn't produce more braking force. I don't know the 737-800, but 1/3 sounds very high.