Reply #9: Why is everyone making a big deal out of the fact........

[Kingshakabobo]

......that he didn't start his final run in to the pentagon @ 8000ft? Starting at 8000ft, it would have been much more difficult to hit the pentagon at that height/distance. He is at 2000 ft. when he crosses his original path for his final run. I would have gone around and set it up the same way. I'm only a private pilot but that path makes sense. It wasn't any radical maneuver. As a matter of fact, it was more of an armature maneuver as a really experience pilot could have put the plane in a slip and dumped a ton of altitude over a shorter distance. It's hard to tell the distance from the animation but the "go around" was definitely an armature play. This was probably more in line with his basic training re: airport approach.


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