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@Bigbuddyandblue2 жыл бұрын
I imagine this every time I fly. Sometimes, when flying on a clear, bright sunny day, if the sun is positioned just right, you can see the shadow of your aircraft zipping along ground for some perspective.
@doubleemcastillano4642 жыл бұрын
That’s typically when they are close enough to the ground to not have the shadow covered by clouds. Normally on approach before landing.
@benroberts61192 жыл бұрын
Even without any clouds, being close enough to see the shadow means you’re relatively low
@Bigbuddyandblue2 жыл бұрын
If there is no shadow of the aircraft on the ground, ( which is most of time ) I’ll put my finger or better yet, a pencil or pen point, on the window on a road or highway, and see how fast it moves along the ground. (Anything to keep me entertained on a long, boring, cramped, uncomfortable flight😁
@ShadowVexxW Жыл бұрын
yes, it's true I've seen it before
@Thisizmyname Жыл бұрын
@@Bigbuddyandblue thought I was the only one who does this exact same thing lol. It’s definitely a form of entertainment for anyone who’s fascinated by aviation.
@megadavis53772 жыл бұрын
Highest tailwind I ever experienced was in a severe jet stream in 2004: 231kts directly on the tail, (I took a photo of the PFD/ND), and it lasted for less than five minutes over West Virginia at FL370. Our filed true airspeed (TAS) was about 460 kts. 460 + 231 = 691. So, our groundspeed was 691kts; that's 794mph. It took us just a few minutes to get all the way across West Virginia, and only about four seconds to cross Charleston. And it was perfectly smooth. It was the only time in my life that I was traveling at what would have been - if we had been down low like this video - faster than the speed of sound. But of course, the speed of sound at 37,000 feet is right at 573kts. So, we were below that speed at 460kts TAS. And our indicated airspeed was about 250kts or so. I'll have to find that image...
@stanton12702 жыл бұрын
same thing happened to me on a dreamliner from tokyo to lax. The flight there took 12 hours and we went up towards the north pole. On the way back we had a 200+ knot tail wind so we cut straight across the pacific and got back in 8 hours.
@RoosterFPV2 жыл бұрын
794 MPH is supersonic...
@user-ys4nl3wo5z2 жыл бұрын
@@RoosterFPV do you know what ta and ias is??? if not don't speak..
@Zenheizer2 жыл бұрын
@@RoosterFPV well not, when the air is moving with you
@phil_nicholls2 жыл бұрын
@@RoosterFPV Speed of sound varies predominantly with temperature. On a day with ISA conditions (a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a pressure of 1013.2 HPa ), the speed of sound is roughly 750mph. As the temperature reduces (as it does with altitude until you reach the tropopause) so the speed of sound reduces markedly. Interestingly, the effect of reduced pressure at altitude, means that for a given IAS (Indicated Airspeed), one can get remarkably close to the speed of sound at height, compared to flying at the same speed at lower levels. Another interesting aside, one can get bits of the aircraft going supersonic, while the main airframe remains sub, or trans, sonic. When close to the speed of sound, some of the airflow may well be accelerated in excess of the speed of sound, particularly over the top of the wings, and just where the fuselage reaches its widest point, so some control surfaces may well experience supersonic airflow. One of our 787’s got caught in severe mountain wave crossing the Andes a few years back, and the highest recorded speed was Mach 0.96, the report stated that it was likely that some parts of the airframe experienced supersonic flight! The highest I’ve experienced in a civilian aircraft was 0.92, which was more than enough excitement for the night, as we were supposed to be at 0.85!
@dannyzero6922 жыл бұрын
Isn’t it crazy that this is the safest form of transport humanity has ever invented?
@michaelbarry7552 жыл бұрын
If cars were as expensive as planes, they'd be driven much more carefully. If the average idiot could fly a plane, they'd be falling out the sky on a daily basis
@lewisth92422 жыл бұрын
@@michaelbarry755 good point
@FSXgta2 жыл бұрын
Not really. Requires strict licenses compared to most other transport
@dannyzero6922 жыл бұрын
@@michaelbarry755 good point.
@fredsf12 жыл бұрын
Safest transport per mile or km travelled. Per trip is not the safest.
@topfelya2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a Concorde doing low flypast
@ddcupload73732 жыл бұрын
It would be mind-blowing
@zathary5642 жыл бұрын
There are better ways to demolish houses
@tedmihalca2 жыл бұрын
one of the reasons the Concorde is not around is because of the sonic boom
@pawelzielinski13982 жыл бұрын
@@tedmihalca I think more important factors were high operating costs combined with low number of passengers the plane could take, aging aircrafts + the fatal accident in Paris in 2001. Sonic boom was apparently OK for 30+ years of its operation.
@tedmihalca2 жыл бұрын
@@pawelzielinski1398 it was OK but an ongoing issue!
@HostileLemons3 жыл бұрын
Great video! I always wanted some perspective on how fast aeroplanes flew!
@rubenfernando24572 жыл бұрын
Me too
@Newlolz9892 жыл бұрын
Hit an airshow around your area friend. Best fun ever
@jonassarvas692 жыл бұрын
Yep, me too!
@zekko6002 жыл бұрын
Bro said aeroplanes
@rubenfernando24572 жыл бұрын
@@Newlolz989 I mean from the crew perspective
@c.jackson2 жыл бұрын
It's crazy how distance can affect perspective and perceptions so much from the ground looking up it doesn't look like they're moving that fast at all but boy are they
@RhodokTribesman2 жыл бұрын
Parallax is the root cause iirc
@sovka83942 жыл бұрын
to be honest i expected it to look faster 😅
@PCthesecond2 жыл бұрын
Why the planets look still even though they are moving around 50,000 miles per hour
@ighfee Жыл бұрын
also explains why when you watch footage of the space shuttle taking off with a camera mounted pointing downward, the ground falls away very quickly at first but then tapers off, even thought the rocket is accelerating at a huge rate
@av8ionUSMC2 жыл бұрын
As an air traffic controller, the highest ground speeds I’ve seen on civilian jets personally is 660kts and slightly less. The first was a Citation X and the others usually a Dreamliner with a 120-170 knot tailwind. But the tailwinds I’m seeing in the comments blow my mind. As an enroute controller, if you don’t factor the jet stream into your traffic situation, you’ll make an ugly situation much uglier and imminent when you give a routine 10-20 degree turn etc. Anyway, good to see others explain the difference and correlation between IAS, TAS, Mach #, ground speed, especially as it relates to altitude, temperature etc. Solid info every pilot and controller should know.
@cuddlemuffin.95452 жыл бұрын
These tailwind speeds are pretty rare. I have had a 260 knots tailwind before, lasted for 10 minutes or so, I'm 99% sure I'll never experience that ever again. Glad I did though, we completed a good chunk of the flight in 15 minutes time
@bostavely2042 жыл бұрын
Your really an atc!? I've ALWAYS been in awe and never met one , so much respect 🙏. An ex firefighter.
@av8ionUSMC2 жыл бұрын
@@bostavely204 likewise, thank you for your service. You had a very respectful job as well! I am very passionate about aviation. Always wanted to be a commercial pilot but it worked out well for me. I love what I do. Sometimes it’s a little stressful but most of the time it’s not bad at all. Adrenaline gets flowing and those of us who enjoy the job enjoy the challenges.
@benjaminjo54302 жыл бұрын
ok, now transalte knots into km/h
@av8ionUSMC2 жыл бұрын
@@benjaminjo5430 I’ll help you out. I’ve always known 250kts is 288 mph. I’ll let you do the math from there…
@bennysh2 жыл бұрын
The average speed of commercial planes is 880-926 km/h (475-500 knots; 547-575 mph). It's possible that some airlines drop the cruising speed to 300 knots, to save fuel.
@ian40402 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. It's a little unnerving when I'm flying and I start thinking about how fast we're going and what that would look like near the ground. Freaks me out.
@thedrumman20192 жыл бұрын
Good thing planes are statistically safer than cars and they have to go that speed to stay in the air. Its how they get lift
@outermarker58012 жыл бұрын
In that case don't think about the forces at play just outside the window...
@generalyellor81882 жыл бұрын
@@thedrumman2019 No, they do not have to go that speed to stay in the air. In fact, nowhere near that speed. Half it.
@mammyrammer42092 жыл бұрын
@@thedrumman2019 Apples and oranges.
@travisnelson31092 жыл бұрын
@@generalyellor8188 at high altitudes jets really do have to go that fast because stall speed increases with altitude. They may only have a few dozen knots to play with. But yes at lower altitudes they can fly much slower especially with flaps extended
@Matt100space2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Can you make it again but flying above a well known city? The perspective of something familiar would be fascinating!
@cocofellas2 жыл бұрын
Make it above New York and crash into the World Trade Center!
@jeanlafrance87462 жыл бұрын
@@cocofellas too soon
@charlesjay88182 жыл бұрын
@@cocofellas fly it over Moscow and crash it into McDonalds hahaha.... oh i forgot McDonalds are closed, they left lol
@rulingmoss55992 жыл бұрын
Lmao leave the city for once in your life
@peeper20702 жыл бұрын
I think they did something like that once a couple of decades ago Idk when
@tylerbeaumont2 жыл бұрын
It really is insane how quickly a plane can travel. The ground speed of many commercial jets can, in the right circumstances, even be higher than the speed of sound at sea level, meaning if a firework were to set off directly beneath a jet flying a direct vector above you, the plane could easily pass over your head before you even heard the bang. I can only imagine what it would be like to watch a Concorde fly overhead with optimal tailwind in one of these kinds of scenarios. The plane would be shockingly far behind you by the time the sound of the firework reached your ears even without good tailwind and whilst travelling much closer to the ground than in my hypothetical example above. The fact that you can get a ride on one of these incredible pieces of engineering for less than a train ticket from Glasgow to London is honestly incredible when you consider how immense the cruising speed is and how insanely high up you are during a normal commercial flight
@maryagyemang98702 жыл бұрын
Stop the cap
@starstencahl89852 жыл бұрын
@@maryagyemang9870 Wym? Everything he said is correct
@PrimetimeNut2 жыл бұрын
Why are you talking about fireworks? Why not just talk about the sound of the engines?
@stancetheworldmedia79452 жыл бұрын
Commercial jets do not travel faster that the speed of sound, they have top speeds…
@Cod4Paradox2 жыл бұрын
Just blatantly false info lol. No plane breaks Mach 1 when still on the ground. It would cause a shockwave and damage the surrounding area.
@dankdonkey28822 жыл бұрын
I never looked into it before, but apparently a commercial plane at cruising speed (~570mph) is only 35% slower than a common 115 grain, 9mm bullet at ~880mph.
@danielplumley26492 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but that 310mph gap is a big difference. Even if a 9mm was flying at just 310mph it would still cause heavy damage to whatever it hits.
@Incommensurabilities2 жыл бұрын
@@danielplumley2649 Still, an aircraft travelling near(ish) the speed of a bullet is impressive!
@danielplumley26492 жыл бұрын
@@Incommensurabilities true!
@Tales412 жыл бұрын
@@danielplumley2649 what lol, it's a 9mm bullet normally if you want to actually damage a passenger jet get a 30mm cannon
@danielplumley26492 жыл бұрын
@@Tales41 Bruh what are you talking about 🤣 My point was that 310 mph gap between the speed of a plane and the speed of a 9mm is a big difference. I didn’t say anything about shooting a plane with a 9mm.
@OfficialSamuelC2 жыл бұрын
Fun tip, on FlightRadar24, find a plane, zoom in really really close so the map is down to close to road levels and you get an idea of how fast it’s passing homes and roads in real time (instead of zoomed out like usual over large swathes of land).
@shreeveda2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I have been enjoying this for a few years now. It's kinda addictive too.😀
@ighfee Жыл бұрын
yep look at the distance scale, say 200m and you'll see the plane is covering that every second.
@Loki-sk7bi2 жыл бұрын
Now I want to see how fast Darkstar flies from that perspective at Mach 10.
@georgemorley10292 жыл бұрын
Seconded.
@charleslinlinker14792 жыл бұрын
Third
@floodgates62102 жыл бұрын
Fourthed
@brrandondarrrell2 жыл бұрын
Fivth
@daniilzhukov29522 жыл бұрын
Sixth
@beyondfossil2 жыл бұрын
Good video. I've always imagined this when flying too. I've used the jet's tiny shadow way down on the ground as a reference. Because, since the sun's light rays are parallel, the speed of the plane's shadow is pretty much exactly the speed of the plane at any given time. I can directly see the plane's shadow zoom by over houses, roads, hills just like what's depicted in this animation. :)
@satyam03032 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic! Really provides a perspective. Now I really wanna know what ISS’s speed would look like on ground level.
@Ashvegas272 жыл бұрын
Take the new Darkstar on msfs 2020 up to Mach 10 and then x2 speed... Mach 10 = 12,340 kph, ISS travels Mach 25= 28,000 kph!
@satyam03032 жыл бұрын
@@Ashvegas27 that’s a great idea. Sadly don’t have msfs. I was thinking of speeding up this video by a certain factor to get it up to 28000 kmph 😄
@Bruh-zx2mc2 жыл бұрын
@@Ashvegas27 And the Earth goes around the sun about 4x faster than that. The Sun goes around the Milky Way 10x faster than the Earth goes around its orbit.
@gophils2342 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the Awesome video. When I took a recent flight , l looked out the window as seen the planes shadow along the ground . It gave me a little perspective on how fast we were actually going. I am 54 and been lucky enough to take over 300 flights. Flying still amazes me.
@albertbatfinder52402 жыл бұрын
Seeing the shadow is a rare treat. I don’t know why it feels exciting, but it does. If you’re ever on the ground and a shadow passes over you it evokes an ancient evolutionary shudder that many animals (including marine animals) feel when a predator swoops down.
@marcel13722 жыл бұрын
@@albertbatfinder5240 You are correct. a planes shadow passing over you is so sudden it may take a moment to comprehend the cause but then you realize . it is a blessing from the the ultimate machine. the greatest of man's creation. a reminder of life , moving autonomously, merely passing thru yr personal world
@oldmech6192 жыл бұрын
I have flown real low in helicopters. Big problem is birds. They can take out a windshield or engine. Then there are wires. Very deadly. I hit a wire, I know.
@resto-dw7gv2 жыл бұрын
@@oldmech619 are you dead?
@oldmech6192 жыл бұрын
@@resto-dw7gv Dead? Nope! I have come close far more than most. I hit a telephone wire of takeoff. Landed on a car driving down the road. Scared the hell out of the driver. I lived.
@AntonioVivaldi16782 жыл бұрын
That doesn’t look all that fast, but think about this. Most airliners cruise at an indicated airspeed of around 320 knots. Emphasis on the indicated part. This means that if you are flying with the wind, you could be flying at over 500 knots, 250 knots if you are against the wind, flying sorta sideways if it’s a cross wind etc. Yea, wind is that fast up there. So, that speed that you saw isn’t actually how fast you normally fly. That’s how fast you fly when you are against the wind, which is a major cause of flight delays. Edit to hopefully clear things up: Yes everybody in the comments, altitude, air density, and temperature do make more of a difference to true airspeed than wind does, but that’s already shown in the video here. The indicated airspeed is 250 knots, but it’s clear that the plane is going faster than that when the camera moves down. My comment was to the people who were saying it was slower than they expected. I was commenting on the fact that it could be even faster with a jet stream behind it. Yes, jet-streams can be up to 250 knots, and yes, the air is still smooth as glass even at that speed.
@mctavishsoap38152 жыл бұрын
Also the air is less thick isn’t it? I’m don’t know what the right terminology for this
@LingTheBug2 жыл бұрын
@@mctavishsoap3815 it is! It's less dense, there's less molecules of air per given volume compared to, say, at sea level. There's also far less pressure up there as well!
@larryfatty53772 жыл бұрын
The wind is no were near 250knots up that high. You have indicated airspeed which is usually in between 200-300 knots on the airliners and then true airspeed. True airspeed is the indicated airspeed calibrated with the atmospheric pressure and temperature. Since the pressure and temperature are so low at such a high cruising altitude, the true airspeed is higher than the indicated airspeed would be. Now you can add the wind up at that altitude onto the true airspeed, which the wind is usually between 50-150knots in variable directions.
@AntonioVivaldi16782 жыл бұрын
@@larryfatty5377 My friend I encourage you to look up how fast jet stream winds are.
@kimkizzermacalam57232 жыл бұрын
It's because it's still a bit higher, you can see the trees. If you're gonna see that perspective while driving in a car, then it would look a lot faster.
@north-shoregcs38942 жыл бұрын
I remember I was visiting the black hills in July 2010 and we stopped in Sioux Falls to see the actual waterfall on the Big Sioux River. As we are walking from the parking lot to the waterfall, I hear a plane coming in to land above us. Almost at the same time, I see a giant shadow of the plane zip across the entire park in 2 seconds. Really put into perspective just how fast planes are even when landing.
@thatguyalex28352 жыл бұрын
Planes typically land at 140-180 mph (220-300 km/h), so that is quite fast. :)
@marcusjohnson74412 жыл бұрын
@@thatguyalex2835 Basically, the fastest I've been on the ground, is when a lot of aircraft just get started. I want a F16 now 😄
@alquinn85762 жыл бұрын
@@thatguyalex2835 I was on a southwest flight once where the flaps got stuck and could not deploy. I think we landed at over 250mph 😱
@ighfee Жыл бұрын
i've seen that on a beach before, the sand stretched a good 10km into the distance and you could see the plane's shadow just rip over it at a fantastic rate.
@ahmadalshakargi22812 жыл бұрын
idk if this is just me but every time I'm on a plane I'm amazed by the idea that human figured how to create vast transportation system using jet engines and figured how to maintain it safe and taken for granted
@josephhernandez59862 жыл бұрын
Nothing like going 800 to 1000 feet per second close to the ground! 😄 What I do to get a better prospective, I'll just take the plane to about 500 feet above ground level and travel about 450 to 500 knots ground speed. (517-575mph) and select the passenger window view. That's a great way to see also.
@pugothing2 жыл бұрын
But the plane would break into 4 pieces
@justbob5882 жыл бұрын
You would be unlikely to see such a speed that close to the ground as you won't get the same tailwind component speed that low, meaning you won't go as fast. Which is a shame because it really would be a perfect way to visualise it!
@demonking25262 жыл бұрын
@@justbob588 ^ yeah its a shame :/
@GlitchMan10112 жыл бұрын
What if someone mods the game to make ALL of the airspace have the same physics/mechanics as being 38,000 feet high? I imagine it would be hard to take off
@demonking25262 жыл бұрын
@@GlitchMan1011 It would be hard but not impossible. But you would certainly need a much LONGER runway. You would basically need top air speed going over the wings to get enough lift to take off. More lenient on sea level with 1000 Mbars of air pressure
@johnnynephrite61472 жыл бұрын
Last time I flew to Asia, I passed a couple planes going the other way. The closing speed was incredible. probably close to 1100mph.
@nabilshaikh81342 жыл бұрын
Thats impossible
@21borders152 жыл бұрын
@@nabilshaikh8134 no it’s not. If you’re traveling 500mph and you meet a plane that traveling same fast, opposite direction you would see it fly past for the same amount of time that you would from a static position and the aircraft traveling a 1000mph
@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX2 жыл бұрын
@@21borders15 lol except in real life planes would never be allowed to get anywhere near each other mid-air to where you could meaningfully compare speeds visually
@21borders152 жыл бұрын
@@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX I’ve seen something pretty close where it was a little to the left and quite a bit below our plane
@toranamunter2 жыл бұрын
@@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX actually in RVSM airspace, on busy routes jets will often cross on direct opposite tracks with just 1,000ft vertical seperation, no lateral seperation. It looks spectacular from the front, and gives a great impression of what 1000+ knots looks like 🙂
@fabulamesam2 жыл бұрын
It’s crazy! I honestly never knew planes went so fast until my boyfriend who is a huge aviation enthusiast told me about it. It’s insane to me
@blessedboy62 жыл бұрын
Let me tell you this This is one of the best videos i have ever seen in my life One of the videos here on youtube Thanks for the upload I always wondered about that speed
@AFE_072 жыл бұрын
250kt at 38000 feet is around 480kt ground speed
@GG_Booboo2 жыл бұрын
That is so impressive, looks like fast forward! When you're in a plane or look at them from the ground the look like they're moving so slow, just shows how massive our planet is!
@ryuzaki68652 жыл бұрын
What has size of our planet got to do with this? 🤔 it's the distance of the plane from the ground that's causing it to appear to move slowly.
@MrxAskar2 жыл бұрын
@@ryuzaki6865 you answered ur own question. its because of earth being so big, the plane is able to fly higher and seeing them move slowly?
@ryuzaki68652 жыл бұрын
@@MrxAskar not necessarily, not every plane flies at that height to perceive everything at ground level slowly.
@ryuzaki68652 жыл бұрын
@@MrxAskar and if your concern is "to be able to fly higher" to perceive everything at ground level slowly, you can always aboard manned satellites to do so, once again size of the planet is not a factor.
@PhenomonAwesome2 жыл бұрын
As a Paramotor Pilot this shows great perspective as to what I would look like to an airliner and we were to cross paths
@dabulls1g2 жыл бұрын
I drive past a small airport on my morning commute and you can see how fast they really are moving and its like nothing I’ve ever seen. Great video!
@mavic61552 жыл бұрын
I always take a Tomtom with me in a plane, and it sometimes fixes to the roads on the ground. It warned me for a speed cam because I was doing 500mph.
@xanid2 жыл бұрын
bro that's even worse than not having your phone in aeroplane mode
@mavic61552 жыл бұрын
@@xanid Not really. A cell phone has way higher power than the WiFi and Bluetooth of a TomTom. Passengers only have to switch off devices during landing and take-off procedures.
@mechanicalturkproductions73492 жыл бұрын
@@xanid the only reason you can't use phones is because when the plane is far away from a cell tower the phone has to use more power to get to it and that messes up the radio. gps doesn't do that.
@x4r2 жыл бұрын
why tf would someone bring a tomtom on a plane?...
@mavic61552 жыл бұрын
@@x4r For example, TomTom showed we were approaching Paris, so I started a competition with the kids: "Who sees the Eifel tower first?" We clearly saw it! Same with the street of Gibraltar and other locations.
@pureaccuracy8742 жыл бұрын
Easy way to do it on a plane: look out the window at one spot on the wing, and count how long it takes to cover some features on the ground like forests or lakes
@Magooch862 жыл бұрын
Ha, I do this but put a finger against the window and pretend my giant finger is dragging across the earth at 900kph. What a nerd.
@Aribbonofsoundmen2 жыл бұрын
@@Magooch86 you into giantess pron, my man?
@sowmyan34582 жыл бұрын
@@Magooch86 BROOO SAME lmaoo
@kirthooper46252 жыл бұрын
Seeing your planes shadow can be a good eye opener as to just how quickly you could become part of the soil
@scorpionwins63782 жыл бұрын
This looks like a really badass music video of the late 90's-early 2000's.
@askhowiknow55272 жыл бұрын
That camera looked like it was going 250 knots IAS at ground level - not the 400ish ground speed at 36,000 feet
@09shadowjet2 жыл бұрын
Just to let you know: for ETE planning purposes, you don't look at your airspeed. You look at your groundspeed (GS). At 38,000 feet, your airspeed can be at 250 kts but your groundspeed (your actual traveling velocity) can be at 400+ kts.
@wiktoreriksson45662 жыл бұрын
And the 250kts here is IAS, not TAS
@09shadowjet2 жыл бұрын
@@wiktoreriksson4566 ah yes thanks for adding that up! I forgot to mention IAS and TAS. 👍
@geoffplywood61122 жыл бұрын
Does GS take account of the longer distance travelled at altitude due to curvature of the Earth? I've no feel for how significant that might be though . .
@09shadowjet2 жыл бұрын
@@geoffplywood6112 No, that would be the great circle distance. Groundspeed (GS) like the name suggests, only measures your speed relative to the ground in which it's essentially the "real" speed that you're traveling.
@Teh_Random_Canadian2 жыл бұрын
@@ChadDidNothingWrong Not a pilot but I believe you are correct. Same goes for if you have a strong tailwind, your airspeed will drop while your ground speed will increase
@SgfGustafsson6 ай бұрын
I got the same feeling seeing the trees come up on the camera as when you go right at the top of a cloud and then “hit” it. To me the speeds look the same as here, super cool!
@londonspade58962 жыл бұрын
Bruh I always try to imagine this when I'm flying over fields, seeing how quickly they pass the edge of the window... I knew it would be this fast, but seeing it from ground level gives an unbeatable perspective. Jets are FAST
@naajohnnorthcott82672 жыл бұрын
I saw a Sea Vixen at an air show, less than 100feet up and nudging supersonic. It approached in absolute silence, bumping up and down about 6inches and shock waves visible on the leading edges. It passed less than 100yards from me. I felt rather than heard the sound. Now that seemed awfully fast.
@jaymac72032 жыл бұрын
You just gave me an idea to try this with the Dark Star lol
@quenter13922 жыл бұрын
A good way to see this if you are on a plane and there are no clouds, is to look at the shadow of the plane.
@OALM2 жыл бұрын
The closest you can get a feel how fast an airplane is flying is when see the shadow whooshing by you on a sunny day
@martinward712 жыл бұрын
But a typical cruise speed of a passenger jet is closer to 520+mph not 250 knots (287mph)
@royfontaine55262 жыл бұрын
This is true
@captainshipman73772 жыл бұрын
250 kts was the indicated airspeed at altitude. The plane probably had a ground speed of over 400 kts though
@siedel26942 жыл бұрын
That‘s nonsense. 250kts IAS in FL380 can be basically anything depending on temperature and wind. Therefore more important would be the TAS and respectively Ground Speed.
@AdamYorkshire892 жыл бұрын
My father jumped off the local multistory car park when I was 6 years old. I always imagine his last image to be the ground coming towards him this fast. RIP
@spicydaddy25262 жыл бұрын
dropping through the clouds tethered to the plane was a very cool way of showing this
@adarsh47642 жыл бұрын
Would love to see the ground perspective of the Concorde plane flying at mind-boggling Mach-2 speed!
@mumin842 жыл бұрын
just turn on 2x playback
@mangeshsodnar84262 жыл бұрын
@@mumin84 that's awesome 😍😍
@sinjinkincaid2 жыл бұрын
in all honesty it doesnt look crazy fast, but then when you think about it, theres no land vehicle that can go that fast (at least with passengers)
@@leonrydell2064 so u telling me bugati supersport is faster than mach 6 acheived by x-15 which is 6 times the speed of sound
@andrewlittle45632 жыл бұрын
@@evonneong9930 taken slightly out of context there, the reference was clearly to the video specifically and nothing to do with official aircraft speed records...
@emiratesaviation332 жыл бұрын
@@leonrydell2064 nah those cars ain't as fast. The only car is the Thrust SSC
@megoaat2 жыл бұрын
@@leonrydell2064 even if they could go that fast, it would only be for a few seconds at a time before having to come to a stop
@panostsak2 жыл бұрын
I love speed relativity!! Always wondered how a plane's speed would look like if it was going to fly past in front of me or even other things such as a satellite orbiting the earth or even a comet. Imagine watching them approaching from a distance and then flying past you a few feet away.
@thecozyintrovert2 жыл бұрын
I always love when you go by some clouds and you can kind of get a sense of how fast you’re going.
@petergriffin3832 жыл бұрын
Please do more! Also, can you give us a perspective from standing on the ground looking up at planes flying different speeds? I'd like to see what Mach 1, Mach 2, Mach 3 look like while standing on the ground looking up.. I hunt for UFO's so knowing what different speeds look like from the ground is important.. and at varying altitudes please... Thank you for this, excellent video!
@buizelmeme62882 жыл бұрын
1. Looks like a high speed rail 2. Omg! How long did the game developers take to model every tree on the ground? It's incredible!
@friendlydispatch62832 жыл бұрын
The terrain is mostly satellite imagery
@toonpik72 жыл бұрын
Either models are reused or they do a combination of that and procedural generation to make those tress
@Boneless_Chuck2 жыл бұрын
I am a Flight Sim game developer. Each tree takes about 12 days to composite and paint. Every branch has thousands of needles and then there are pine cones, nests, dead twigs, etc. to be done. That's why software costs so much!
@mrduuud2 жыл бұрын
At first I expected it to look faster than this, but after a bit, I realised it was pretty fast.
@thesethreekings2 жыл бұрын
Thanks - I think about this virtually every time I go on an aeroplane!
@TheLondonForever002 жыл бұрын
Fastest I've ever been was 748mph on a flight back from Florida. We was in a jet stream and it cut our flight time by nearly two hours.
@ighfee Жыл бұрын
yep same here, i was on a plane from perth to sydney and i had a look at the airspeed, 1150km/h, almost the speed of sound 😜
@firstlt22 жыл бұрын
There is a simple way to see this while flying. Keep your head still and keep a reference on some point on the aircraft such as a wing leading edge, then observe how quickly the ground passes by this point. It works great in the 20's but higher even cars are difficult to see, but it gives a good sense of the speed
@flybeep16612 жыл бұрын
Somebody has no clue what he/she's talking about and has no clue what parallax is. Your comment is BS.
@firstlt22 жыл бұрын
@@flybeep1661 "the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions, e.g. through the viewfinder and the lens of a camera"...I believe that I specifically said to keep one's head still. If you move your head you will get Parallax, unless you do not know what Parallax actually is.
@mmarsbarr2 жыл бұрын
This is a great demonstration! Sometimes when i look out the window i look at the edge of the window like a 'ruler' imagine that line across the ground to get that same sensation of ground speed.
@PsychoKat902 жыл бұрын
I do the same :)
@MR-dc4od2 жыл бұрын
When I was really young I realized that if I held still and put my head against a seat or something and looked out the window, I could use the edge of the window to see how fast the plane was going along the ground, and I quickly realized it goes really darn fast.
@ozone72 жыл бұрын
To be honest I expected it to be much faster! It still takes a few seconds to pass a farmers field... I'd like to see well known streets and buildings! New York or L.A. Then the relative to a fast car could be appreciated ;)
@kiely45612 жыл бұрын
It would take a car minutes to pass the same fields, what were you expecting warp speed? Lol
@alejandroperez53682 жыл бұрын
@@kiely4561 no, it wouldn't on a highway. It would take a car about 30 seconds max to cross one of those fields
@royfontaine55262 жыл бұрын
Minutes 😂
@kiely45612 жыл бұрын
@@alejandroperez5368 you’re presuming the car would be on a highway, if it was on a country lane obeying the speed limit it would take at least a minute or two to pass those fields, trying to compare the speed of a car in comparison to a plane is abit ridiculous given the car has to follow roads, other traffic and speed limits, A plan is literally covering thousands of feet a second
@kiely45612 жыл бұрын
@@royfontaine5526 Did I say something funny son?, a car doesn’t have the Luxury of darting over the top of fields as the crow flies, it would take atleast a minute or so to pass that vast farm land respecting the speed limits
@russelllinkous94152 жыл бұрын
Cool video but I would say double the speed. At 38,000 ft planes travel 400 to 500 knots, not 250.
@carrotnose25892 жыл бұрын
Indicated airspeed is 250 but true airspeed is about 450 yeah
@fromnorway6432 жыл бұрын
The indicated airspeed at 38,000 ft is much lower than the true airspeed because the air is much thinner there than at ground level.
@MrOuija-rr8kq2 жыл бұрын
It’s insane we have been able to make such a heavy object go this fast.
@rixxy92044 ай бұрын
Ya i love this feature in FS2020. It's especially cool when flying over towns/cities.
@SkyChaserCom2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. However the ground speed is nearly double that! The aircraft at altitude is doing 250 KIAS (indicated airspeed). The TRUE airspeed is nearly 500 knots. So the speed is actually doubled as fast as he simulated.
@gabzsy49242 жыл бұрын
I doubled the video play speed by x2 and it made a lot more sense.
@timwilson73262 жыл бұрын
True speed is double not ground speed
@ballaking10002 жыл бұрын
But the camera is directly under the plane going the same speed as it.. So whatever the difference is from air/ground speed should be irrelevant..
@vineetkaddu12142 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Is it possible to do something like this with international space station level speeds 28,000 Kph
@theendlessvoid71242 жыл бұрын
Everything would just be a blur lol
@jimmymcjimmyvich90522 жыл бұрын
Next thing you will ask for a comets perspective!!! You are infinitly unsatisfiable!! (un spellable too) ))))
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
I've frequently imagined what it would look like to have the ISS or a SpaceX craft whizz by perhaps 1,000 ft. off the ground at a ground speed of 17,000 mph. I mean literally, your eye blinks and it's gone.
@AA-xk1uv2 жыл бұрын
@@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 like a cat
@vineetkaddu12142 жыл бұрын
I had actually watched such a simulation on Discovery or somewhere like that. They had ISS flying at about 200 metres or so at it's orbital velocity. I wanted to get a perspective of just how fast things in orbit actually are moving.
@HOR0228802 жыл бұрын
Flight of the Navigator did this really well back in the '80s
@ethorii2 жыл бұрын
I used to live a few blocks parallel to SeaTac flight path. When the sun angle was right, I got the shadows of the planes racing across my living room floor. That was fun for the kids.
@bruno842 жыл бұрын
I assume those 250kt are Indicated airspeed. If so it is worth mentioning that it corresponds to a true airspeed of 400+ knots.
@Madmax938982 жыл бұрын
Yep that's what i thought
@shoelessjoe19052 жыл бұрын
That is fantastic 👌 I haven't flown a lot but it's so freaky when your nearly 40,000 feet up in the air and it doesn't seem like your moving...great perspective
@markfox15452 жыл бұрын
*you're. That's the contraction of you are. It's really not difficult.
@shoelessjoe19052 жыл бұрын
@@markfox1545 Thank you for correcting me Grammer Nazi...
@mufmager2 жыл бұрын
This video made my day, I always wondered how fast it'd be like a plane in ground level
@nitroxylictvАй бұрын
When you see a plane in the sky, and it appears to be moving slowly, just assume its going insanely fast. Most commercial airliners stay around 400-500 mph.
@rdspam2 жыл бұрын
Planes don’t cruise at 250kts actual ground speed. You need to run this at 2x to get a decent simulation.
@shub27262 жыл бұрын
This is the video we have all wanted to see but never thought of searching for
@privatesnapper25712 жыл бұрын
Hats off for the camera man that actually fly with the airplane I think his name is Kent, Clark something…
@paulschneider72712 жыл бұрын
ONCE a pilot told while flying that you can imagine two soccerfields in length were passed in 1 second.
@cogwheel422 жыл бұрын
Low contrast of fog makes it seem slower than it would otherwise. This would look even more impressive with sunny weather.
@isaacster50272 жыл бұрын
Seeing another plane while you're flying is super creepy and surreal. Especially when you're up super high above the clouds and at the quickest stage. Literally zooms by
@garrom56522 жыл бұрын
Now this is how you provide a sense of relative motion
@poshko412 жыл бұрын
Why has it taken my entire adult life to finally get some perspective on house fast an airliner is actually going?
@yeahrightbear88832 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I dreamed of simulators like this.
@Voodoo_One6 ай бұрын
Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see Blackbirds speed :)
@CreepinCreeper1452 жыл бұрын
The 250kt speed shown here is the Indicated Airspeed (IAS/KIAS) which is the speed of the wind that the pitot tubes pick up when flying at any altitude. A similar type of airspeed is the Calibrated Airspeed (CAS/KCAS), which is the IAS that is corrected/calibrated for the accuracy of the pitot tubes and how the tubes are installed. True Airspeed (TAS/KTAS) is the IAS or CAS (interchangeable, depending on who you ask) that is corrected for the temperature and altitude at which the aircraft is flying in/at. This is the actual speed at which an aircraft flies when there is absolutely no wind. The higher an aircraft flies, the colder the outside temperature is (about 1-2°C lower per 1000 feet depending on where you are in the world) and the faster the aircraft flies due to less density/air particles slowing the aircraft down. This is a linear function up to 36,089 ft where from the base of the tropopause up the temperature remains constant at about -56.5°C. Ground Speed (GS) is the TAS corrected for any wind acting on the aircraft (headwind/tailwind component). This is the speed that is shown here in this video with the drone flying near the ground at the same speed as the aircraft, this is actually how fast the plane is flying over the Earth.
@Peter_Parker3612 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation! I've never understood the difference between IAS and TAS. ^^ So TAS is basically GS but relative to the (moving) air around the airplane and not relative to the Earth?
@shafty30472 жыл бұрын
Props to the camera man for being out there in that crazy wind
@stevenpayne37072 жыл бұрын
Indicated Airspeed is the speed shown on the airspeed indicator. Calibrated Airspeed is indicated airspeed corrected for position installation error. Equivalent Airspeed is calibrated airspeed corrected for compressibility. True Airspeed is equivalent airspeed corrected for temperature and pressure altitude. True airspeed is the speed of your aircraft relative to the air it's flying through. As you climb, true airspeed is higher than your indicated airspeed. Pressure decreases with higher altitudes, so for any given true airspeed, as you climb, fewer and fewer air molecules will enter the pitot tube. Ground speed is true airspeed +/- tailwind/headwind component.
@Edward-xv3bo2 жыл бұрын
This is something that's been in my head for years. So satisfying experiencing it. Thanks!
@yomeyo66222 жыл бұрын
i always wanted to see a visual representation of the speed of an airplane, thanks for providing this!
@reggiep752 жыл бұрын
Interesting perspective and was always curious of a plane speed at ground level. Nice! 👍
@paulrandig2 жыл бұрын
You get a pretty good idea about that when sitting on a plane on a clear day and spotting the shadow of the plane on the ground.
@nedretrop21732 жыл бұрын
Very cool idea! first time I've seen anything like that.
@husainiismail90762 ай бұрын
You can feel this physically. Next time you go for a swim, try to see the bottom while you swim and notice the difference when you're floating compared to when you're swimming close to the bottom.
@Double.J2 жыл бұрын
Dude, I felt like Superman!! When he’s just out for a slow chill afternoon cruise, lol 😆
@andrewcliffe47532 жыл бұрын
Once when young was overtaken very close in a Cessna by a “slow” 500mph Vampire jet. Took my breath away
@VaibhaVnvishaL2 жыл бұрын
This is what i ve searching from a decade thanx mate
@derin1112 жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing this as I’ve often wondered what it would be like. Funnily, it actually seems a bit slower than I had imagined!
@yashpandey3.3.32 жыл бұрын
Its surprising how whole air crew is assembled here in this huge virtual world.
@MacdubsVR2 жыл бұрын
What a fkin 5 head thing to try. Extremely satisfying
@Raze1452 жыл бұрын
Air resistance decreases as altitude increases so that’s why the indicated airspeed differ from groundspeed.
@ratman57272 жыл бұрын
Exactly, -air density changes dramatically at altitude, -which is why they fly up there. Can you imagine the slow speeds and fuel consumption if they were to fly at low altitude? It would be insane.
@joseaguilera39392 жыл бұрын
This is the first time I get to see something like this. I always wanted to. Great video, thanks!!!
@wildwombat19612 жыл бұрын
This is better than I thought, well done
@Sbangfpv_2 жыл бұрын
You picked the perfect weather condition to conduct this test. Touché
@Jetdot372 жыл бұрын
Mans speed running the fields
@theohaigy2 жыл бұрын
I can hear the theme tunes of The Neverending Story and Flight of the Navigator in my mind while watching this.
@BrentWatkins-creative-services2 жыл бұрын
Next: What driving a car would look like if traveling at the same speed as a commercial airliner.