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Twilight Landing at LAX (Cockpit View) - 4:05
"Landing at LAX International Airport via the SADDE Six Arrival." (www.liveleak.com) Más...Interesting. First time for me on this site. Thanks
Talked to my neighbor Don, retired 777 pilot w/United. Thought video really neat, said he always flew straight in from the East with the 777 so never had the opportunity of flying this approach. Thanks for sharing.
Loved it. My daughter lives in Santa Monica and much of that terrain was very familiar to me. The music fits perfectly.
I know this pilot had done this landing many times, but I would be surprised if he did not get gooseflesh every time he did it.
I'm new to the FA site and was just poking around when I found this. I've seen the video before and it is indeed cool.
The Segment of SADDE Six shown starts at just before The Fillmore VOR (FIM). It's about 18 miles east of my home in Ventura. From FIM you go across Thousand Oaks on FIM R-148 to SADDE (intersection FIM R-148 at 20DME, Santa Monica (SMO) R-261, and Ventura (VTU ) R-093) hence eastbound along the Malibu coastline, etc., until you get to the IAF at Santa Monica.
Anyway, seeing it again made me think of the old names for Intersections. SADDE is basically over the old Saddle Ranch in Malibu, place where you once could go to get drunk, rent a horse, and fall off it. The intersection used to be called SADDLE until intersection names were standardized to five letters.
A couple of others which come to mind are LOBSTER (now LOBER) and HALIBUT (now HABUT). I'm sure you can imagine what you'll find in the ocean below them.
So my question is, does anyone remember the origins of other interesting intersection names, or is there a place where you can find their history?