I watched this video yesterday. Overall its okay, but a little long for the fact that its kind of shallow. tl;dw, with spoilers The video is mostly about stopping distances of planes, mostly the...
I watched this video yesterday. Overall its okay, but a little long for the fact that its kind of shallow.
tl;dw, with spoilers
The video is mostly about stopping distances of planes, mostly the 747. The airport itself is at roughly 1/2 scale in a variety of ways and this means that large planes, like the 747, absolutely do not have long enough runways to land on. This is true for all the runways in the game.
Couple random fun facts (from the video, I didn't check them):
The entire world of GTAV has a smaller footprint than the Denver airport, the largest in the world.
The 1000ft markers on the runway are present, but at more like 500ft. This does help confirm that it is roughly 1/2 scale. If you trusted the airport paint as a reference then there is actually a little more than the safe minimum runway length for a 747. In other words, if you scaled the airport up to the size that would make the 1000ft markers be at 1000ft rather than 500ft it would be big enough.
Some of the little propeller planes would have plenty of space to land.
He asked a commercial pilot what he would do if he had to make an emergency landing in Los Santos. The answer was basically to use the runway at the major airport knowing that an overrun is basically inevitable. Since all the airports are too small the best bet for survival is to depend on the emergency services of the largest airport rather than trying other risky things, such as beach or water landings.
The video ends basically with him saying to devs to ignore anyone asking for more realistic airports because airports are huge and shrinking them is better for gameplay.
I kinda wish it was longer, to be honest. I appreciate these videos for their content, but also for the obsessive nature of it. Obsessions tend to drag on for a little while.
I kinda wish it was longer, to be honest. I appreciate these videos for their content, but also for the obsessive nature of it. Obsessions tend to drag on for a little while.
It's honestly about average length for his videos and I couldn't see him talking about it for longer but that said I felt like it was exactly enough time for everything he put into it.
It's honestly about average length for his videos and I couldn't see him talking about it for longer but that said I felt like it was exactly enough time for everything he put into it.
I can see it going longer if he took that tangent to talk about the markings and signage at the airport... but that probably has enough content for a separate video.
I can see it going longer if he took that tangent to talk about the markings and signage at the airport... but that probably has enough content for a separate video.
I watched this video yesterday. Overall its okay, but a little long for the fact that its kind of shallow.
tl;dw, with spoilers
The video is mostly about stopping distances of planes, mostly the 747. The airport itself is at roughly 1/2 scale in a variety of ways and this means that large planes, like the 747, absolutely do not have long enough runways to land on. This is true for all the runways in the game.
Couple random fun facts (from the video, I didn't check them):
tl;dw:
It was a bit long, and that was annoying. But if it had been about half as long, would have been around right, perhaps. :)
I kinda wish it was longer, to be honest. I appreciate these videos for their content, but also for the obsessive nature of it. Obsessions tend to drag on for a little while.
It's honestly about average length for his videos and I couldn't see him talking about it for longer but that said I felt like it was exactly enough time for everything he put into it.
I can see it going longer if he took that tangent to talk about the markings and signage at the airport... but that probably has enough content for a separate video.