Yeah, I’d be less concerned with the hitting of smoke than with the possibility of hitting the building that the smoke is coming from.
Just blows me away that a pilot thought it’d be cool to put $100 million worth of metal that close to that many people.
As long as we have the inevitable double down the refuge will never die.
I read a bit on a pilot forum that suggests that this was not as unsafe or foolish as the Internet at large seems to think it is, but I’m not a pilot, so… I don’t have much to add beyond that.
Pretty simple.
P.S. It didn’t look 41-46 feet above the stadium to me, but… also have seen jets flying a lot closer at higher speeds at air shows, etc.
At most sports stadiums in the US, when the military does a fly over, the aircraft rarely gets closer than 200 ft to the stadium. And we know that with military pilots, their standards of precision flying are some of the highest in the world, they can be trusted flying close to buildings much more than a passenger rated aircraft, the pilots of which we don’t know what kind of flying experience they have.
These pilots got way too close to the stadium - dangerously close. Either the pilots violated planning and got too low or the airline got greedy pursuing the visuals of the flyover and instructed the crew to fly way too close. Whatever the truth is, it’s a really bad look all around.
I’m not a pilot, but I do know the golden rule is you want as little margin for error as possible, especially when thousands of lives are at stake.
With my friend this weekend who is a pilot in the navy and his reaction was those guys would never fly again.
And you’re a douche, but since it might be the only thing you do well… 
I don’t know how to tell you this, but your douche radar might be broken. Or the perpetual sound of it going off has you led to believe it’s everyone other than yourself.
And I mean that disrespectfully of course. Please just leave. Everyone here would love that.
You could just not respond. It was unnecessary escalation out of nowhere, and now you’ve started a pissing match into the thread.
If he annoys you so much, just do an eye roll and move on. Or block him.
Reasonable take and you’re correct. I regret disrupting others experience.
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I know for the RCAF Snowbirds, it’s 500 feet above the highest obstacle. And it goes without saying that their planes are way more agile than an E190.
