Flying in to Omaha

[nativeomahan]

I fly in to Omaha about 10 times a year, and last night the pilot took a route I don’t think I have ever taken. I decided to try my hand at videotaping the arrival from Phoenix. The video is over 8 minutes long, and started in West Omaha, near 192nd Street, then veered into southern Omaha, C.B., and on into Eppley.
Not sure how to post this. It is on my Facebook page, but open to public viewing.
Here is the link:

[Omababe]

I've seen that happen on occasion when coming from the west. A co-worker who is a private pilot says that it's because they initially plan on an approach from the north, but the winds change and they get final instructions to approach from the south.

[Coyote]

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[Brad]

Thanks for sharing Bill. I think we took that route once, but I was on the wrong side of the plane. That would make sense with what Omababe said since I try to look at Omaha's wind direction on my phone before picking a seat on the plane.

[zippy]

I can see my house from here! (at about the 30 second mark). Very interesting, how the lights actually make it easier to pick up locations, like Bob Boozer Dr.

[Mr.Nuke]

I fly in to Omaha about 10 times a year, and last night the pilot took a route I don’t think I have ever taken. I decided to try my hand at videotaping the arrival from Phoenix. The video is over 8 minutes long, and started in West Omaha, near 192nd Street, then veered into southern Omaha, C.B., and on into Eppley.

Assuming on the American flight? What seemed different about it?

I've seen that happen on occasion when coming from the west. A co-worker who is a private pilot says that it's because they initially plan on an approach from the north, but the winds change and they get final instructions to approach from the south.

The winds were consistent Friday night night and planes had been landing on runway 32L for several hours.
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-b ... ort_type=2

edit to fix a typo

[GetUrban]

Yeah, on the video it looks like a normal approach to Eppley from the west when the wind is blowing from a northerly direction, which Mr. Nuke's posted data shows. If the wind would have been out of a southerly direction, the approach for flights from the west would be more over the north side of town, north of highway 36, heading south from the 312 degree approach direction into Eppley 14R/32L.

Maybe a more "normal" western approach comes in further south of Millard, when landing into a north wind direction. Anyway, it was a good video. Thank for posting.

North = 0 or 360 degrees
East = 90
South = 180
West = 270

[RockHarbor]

What a great post! Thanks for sharing. I love flying into and over cities...including Omaha. It just looks so neat from the air -- almost surreal, like its fake, or something. I have some pics of Omaha you might like to see here. The Woodmen looks like a little toy block.

I'm such a "map nerd", and have looked at Road Atlas and city maps my whole life, that I can fly over a city really high up and I know what city it is just by the lay of the freeways, road, and sprawl, and downtown location. (For example, if I flew from Omaha to New York City, and I passed over Cincinnati, and the pilot never announced anything, I would still know it is Cincinnati down below me. That type of thing...)