Cool stuff.

So as we were taxiing out for departure the other day, happened to snap a video of a Fed-Ex A300 coming in for a landing. As you can see in the video the Bus manages to land and taxi off in less than 4000ft. There is a pretty impressive smoke cloud that bursts from the tires upon landing. You can tell the pilots were trying to get the Bus planted on the runway and stopped in a short distance. In the lower right hand corner you can see the 4000ft remaining sign. They must have been empty or pretty close. That's pretty impressive for a plane with a max take off weight of 375,100lbs and weighs nearly 200,000lbs empty.




This is a pretty low quality video of a departure in a Lear 25. I should have had the camera on the other side of the cockpit. I'll take another video later and post it. But as you can see, everything happens pretty quick in the Lear. In the span of 78 seconds we go from being cleared for take off to about 2000ft agl. That was a pretty mellow departure a far as Lears go. If I was trying, I could have pitched up another 10 degrees or so and really skyrocketed up. Usually we save those departures for noise abatement departures and uncontrolled fields when we have been cleared to a higher initial altitude.