Best view from a window seat when descending into a city (Los Angeles, Boston)
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When descending into a city in flight, which city has the best view from the window seat? What are the highlights that stand out in the view from flight?
My favorites.....
Chicago: I was lucky enough to descend into the city at sunset/dusk when the skyline was starting to illuminate, all the gridded streets lit up, and view the contrast of Lake Michigan adjacent to the urban landscape. Quite the spectacle.
Seattle: Looking down at the ithsmus between two bodies of water, the green forested urban landscape, surrounded by the volcanic snowcapped mountain peaks of the Cascades and Olympic Mountain Range is absolutely stunning.
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San Diego, sitting on the left: Seemingly endless brown deserts (unless you are flying N/S on the coast), merging to purple mountains and valleys, suburbia, bay and ocean just visible in the distance, larger buildings popping up, sky scrapers just out the window- WE'RE GONNA CRASH INTO THE SIDE OF A BUILDING AND ALL DIE!- and, touchdown.
"Welcome to San Diego, the weather is sunny and clear, with some clouds and 74 degrees"
I took this on a flight from DC to Boston. Not really decending, but it was a morning flight (sun to back), clear day and so I sat on the left side of the plane just in case and kept my SLR with me in my seat. Ended up getting a nice shot.
Other than that, flying to Chicago Midway is always a good view of the skyline, especially in late evening.
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I took this on a flight from DC to Boston. Not really decending, but it was a morning flight (sun to back), clear day and so I sat on the left side of the plane just in case and kept my SLR with me in my seat. Ended up getting a nice shot.
Other than that, flying to Chicago Midway is always a good view of the skyline, especially in late evening.
That is just phenominal and breathtaking. How lucky are you to have all the right conditions and angles to get that shot?
I took this on a flight from DC to Boston. Not really decending, but it was a morning flight (sun to back), clear day and so I sat on the left side of the plane just in case and kept my SLR with me in my seat. Ended up getting a nice shot.
Other than that, flying to Chicago Midway is always a good view of the skyline, especially in late evening.
I get many great views of manhattan on morning flights especially from Philly to Boston, you are still climbing out of 10K feet after taking off from Philly at Manhattan, sadly I saw the WTC's about 30 minutes before they were hit on a flight to Boston (which the day was a clear as it it gets) and that horrible day.
Great image though, love the starkness of Central park in the image. Also this pretty recent, you can see the new Freedom tower in lower Manhattan
I took this on a flight from DC to Boston. Not really decending, but it was a morning flight (sun to back), clear day and so I sat on the left side of the plane just in case and kept my SLR with me in my seat. Ended up getting a nice shot.
Other than that, flying to Chicago Midway is always a good view of the skyline, especially in late evening.
I get many great views of manhattan on morning flights especially from Philly to Boston, you are still climbing out of 10K feet after taking off from Philly at Manhattan, sadly I saw the WTC's about 30 minutes before they were hit on a flight to Boston (which the day was a clear as it it gets) and that horrible day.
Great image though, love the starkness of Central park in the image. Also this pretty recent, you can see the new Freedom tower in lower Manhattan
Yea, I'm sure. Although, I think you have to be at 37000 feet to get most of manhattan/central park, brooklyn and jersey city in one shot.
But flying lower over manhattan would be pretty cool too.
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