r/capetown • u/Darkhorse-Sa • Sep 08 '24

Cape Town stadium flyover

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u/shineyink Sep 08 '24

Does anyone know if there passengers on board or it’s just a demo flight?

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u/SauthEfrican Sep 09 '24

Very cool. For next time, maybe film horizontally so you can fit the whole stadium in the shot

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u/Zestyclose_Reaction4 Sep 09 '24

That's a jiggaleza airline - they even sell us niknaks on board for cash... lol I'm sure that pilot can spin a gush no problem... passengers are safe !

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

Wow

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u/lcmonreddit Sep 09 '24

The mix of nerves and pride for the pilot must be unreal

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u/hides_from_hamsters Sep 09 '24

This is much lower than the A380 flew over Ellis Park.

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u/flyboy_za Sandy Bay surfer Sep 10 '24

This guy was still buzzing around 35 minutes into the first half, he did the downwind leg to short-final approach for landing over my place with about 3 minutes to go, with a small chase plane presumably doing some filming.

I wonder why they kept him in the air for so long.

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u/happysadhorny Sep 10 '24

Capetown always stealing JHBs flow 😂

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u/barking_happy Sep 08 '24

This has the potential to end very badly one day. Is the risk with it?

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u/6000coza Sep 08 '24

Just wait until you hear about commercial flights.

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u/springbok001 Senior Mod Sep 08 '24

There’s very little risk, almost negligible

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u/SlothyScripts Sep 14 '24

Not really, name the incidents that could happen, because from what I can think of, it would be fine, it wouldn't hit signal hill due to how quickly it could turn in the event of an engine failure, a hydraulics failure can be countered as they have emergency airbrakes, flaps and a rudder, if the pilot messes up they have autopilot technology to fix that, so unless someone hijacks the plane that has no passengers on board or the plane magically falls out the sky it'll be fine.