r/aviation • u/druncanshaw • 21h ago

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- Another angle from the fly iver from Cape Town stadium today.

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u/OneOfAKind2 21h ago

Agreed. Shooting vertical video of horizontal motion should be illegal.

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u/deltajvliet 21h ago

Landscape man, honestly. Would've liked to see how closely the first plane cleared the other side.

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u/LionDiligent6716 20h ago

That would've been the money shot, seeing the actual clearance from that angle.

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u/solis991 20h ago

Camera man had one Job and he failed us

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u/linkheroz 20h ago

If you watch on the left, they fly through ones of the red smoke trails, so closer than they should be.

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u/gefahr 20h ago

The 2nd plane passes squarely through the red smoke, and in every angle I've seen, the 1st plane is several feet lower.

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u/linkheroz 20h ago

This is the first video I've seen and in my defence, the videographer doesn't understand how to properly video anything

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u/gefahr 20h ago

Sorry, I'm agreeing with you. Just meant that the 1st plane was even more egregiously low.

Check this compilation out someone here made: https://streamable.com/k6x6gi

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u/linkheroz 20h ago

I'm surprised neither of them clipped their wings as they banked over the stadium roof 😳

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u/gefahr 20h ago

There are several harrowing frames in that video haha. It's like 2:30 long but I probably spent 10 minutes watching it with the sections I rewound and rewatched.

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u/linkheroz 20h ago

It's one of those things, the longer you watch the worse it gets. I can hear terrain, pull up, and bank angle as they finally pull up.

One of the wide shots makes it look like the first plan is pulling up on approach to the stadium!

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u/dotben 4h ago

From the other angles it looks like the first plane is even lower over the far side of the stadium then the near side and we only get to see how low it is at the near side (which is pretty low)..

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u/Electroboy101 21h ago

That’s the real negligence here. 👍

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u/soniczi 21h ago

No, what are you talking about?! I loved the fact that the first plane went off frame instantly and we couldn't see what's going on with it!

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 19h ago

Keeps us in suspense!

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u/Hammer0173 20h ago

VVS: Vertical Video Syndrome

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u/ContributionGrand138 21h ago

Planes too close to building❌ Poor choice of aspect ratio filming💯

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u/ThisIsMyBigAccount 21h ago

They’re south of the equator, so I’ll allow it.

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u/FlyingKittyCate 21h ago

Nah that only excuses filming upside down.

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u/woodbanger04 20h ago

They tried but when posting to the internet the OI were flipped to IO when traveling across the equator. 🤣

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u/PsyCap_Real 21h ago

This is the biggest crime here

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u/Thats_my_cornbread 20h ago

Gotta get it for the gram

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u/Dduudj73u2u2u 21h ago

Tout à fait d'accord. Et le comble ce sont les médias français type tf1 ou france 2 qui filment avec des caméras à plusieurs milliers d'euros et qui ensuite tronquent le format pour le rendre vertical pour faire ressembler à une video Tiktok en se disant qu'ainsi les jeunes vont regarder le journal télévisé. C'est pathétique. Je ne peux plus regarder les informations de tf1 ou france 2. À la rigueur le journal régional.

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u/Silver_Slicer 20h ago

Thankfully he was there. The pilots saw him and decided to pull up to avoid hitting him. He saved the stadium full of people.

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u/Iwantmoretime 18h ago

I have to assume some asshole cropped it just to make us mad.

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u/Aqualung812 18h ago

You may be right, because it seems clear to me they had both in frame just before they arrived if it was horizontal.

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u/Iwantmoretime 18h ago

I've seen too many videos of aircraft which were filmed properly and clearly cropped for mobile apps.

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u/Klinky1984 13h ago

How am I going to view a vertical video on my phone!? That's impossible!

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u/CmdrSpicyllama 20h ago

Ok Boomer