To the death of fun - Maho Beach/ Princess Juliana Airport

mikecweb said:
I never got why people want to stand behind them anyways. The landings are the cool part.
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Seriously. What's the big deal anyways. The last thing I really want to do is stand behind some airliner that's about tot take off and see if I have what it takes to hold on to the fence.
 
mshunter said:
Seriously. What's the big deal anyways. The last thing I really want to do is stand behind some airliner that's about tot take off and see if I have what it takes to hold on to the fence.
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Because a lot of us want to do this:

The fence is as close as we can get to that, and jet blast is close enough to vortices.
 
mikecweb said:
I never got why people want to stand behind them anyways. The landings are the cool part.
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Alcohol will make you do funny things. I did stand behind the A340 taking off (sober) just to see what it was like. But I was down on the actual beach so the only place I was going to go was the water. Standing by the fence is just stupid. For one you're right in the middle of the road, and 2.... the concrete things.
 
I'm big on personal responsibility, but it looks like that JB plane took a right before turning around on what appears to be chevrons on google earth. He's definately a lot closer to the fence than the average take off. You can't tell how far he spooled up before releasing the brakes, but if he's going to intentionally go on the over-run pad to add to 'the show on the beach' it wouldn't be a stretch to say there's a good chance of spooling up further than normal either. She may have been riding the fence safely all day, but then if the JB plane is a couple of hundred feet closer, and a much higher thrust setting , she might have never had a chance. I know I'll be accused of trying to throw the crew under the bus, but I'm trying to look at the whole thing here, and if he turned around on the over-run, and throttled up to near takeoff power, I find it hard to put full blame on the girl.
 
Video is here. Ouch. I think she could have held on fine. She just chose to let go without a clear plan on where she was going.


 
OldTownPilot said:
I'm big on personal responsibility, but it looks like that JB plane took a right before turning around on what appears to be chevrons on google earth. He's definately a lot closer to the fence than the average take off. You can't tell how far he spooled up before releasing the brakes, but if he's going to intentionally go on the over-run pad to add to 'the show on the beach' it wouldn't be a stretch to say there's a good chance of spooling up further than normal either. She may have been riding the fence safely all day, but then if the JB plane is a couple of hundred feet closer, and a much higher thrust setting , she might have never had a chance. I know I'll be accused of trying to throw the crew under the bus, but I'm trying to look at the whole thing here, and if he turned around on the over-run, and throttled up to near takeoff power, I find it hard to put full blame on the girl.
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I'll give an alternative view. The girl's a complete dumb-ass. How small an imagination do you really have to have to not put the math together - "Jet airplanes are really big and heavy" + "They probably have really powerful engines to make them move so fast" + "the fact that everyone has to latch onto the fence for dear life" = "This may not be a great idea". I know this makes me a horrible person but I actually laughed when she got blown into the barricade even knowing she may have suffered serious injury. Because it is kind of funny, in a sick way, when dumb-asses get hurt due to their own stupidity. But that's just me.
 
See how the guy next to her just held on to the fence? He was fine.

Regardless of what jetBlue did and the overrun discussion, if you get in that spot, you cannot let go of the fence.

I thought it was fun. Lots of little pebbles and bits of sand hitting you though, and you definitely have to just shut your eyes (I put my camera away and my jacket on) but if you let go of the fence, don't say the signs didn't warn ya.
 
This is clear example of Darwinism. Let's not forget, often as not, that safety regs are written not to prevent people being injured by others, but by their own dumb selves.

The lowest common denominator wins again. Granted, it's a bummer for the more adventurous, but I don't necessarily see it as a totally bad thing, either.
 
How come all the women in that video have drooping butts?

Jet blast and dumb-asses and not a perky tookus to behold.

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