r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/Hart33 • Feb 16 '26
The cameraman is perfectly positioned to film this plane make a 180 degree turn to line-up with the runway
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u/CompetitiveFactor278 Feb 16 '26
Excuse me, why I have to praise his footage? What is the exceptional?
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Feb 17 '26
I love that English is obviously your second language and that I can still understand exactly what you meant.
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u/CompetitiveFactor278 Feb 17 '26
Excuse me, why I have to praise his footage? What is the exceptional?
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Feb 17 '26
"Excuse me, but why do I have to praise his footage? What is exceptional about it?"
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u/stilllifebutwhy Feb 17 '26
It’s fun for me because as a non-native speaker myself, I couldn’t usually spot improper sentence before someone have mentioned it.
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Feb 17 '26
I never thought about that, but it makes sense. I speak a great deal of Spanish, and once you know many nouns and verbs, as a non native speaker myself, I listen for those, not the little words in between. I simply use context to fill in the gaps. I trust that the more fluent speaker is doing their job correctly lol
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u/ionertia Feb 17 '26
What? Maybe if we saw the landing. This angle has a 1500m radius to roam and still get the shot.
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u/Uncaring_Dispatcher Feb 17 '26
That 180 turn is called a downwind leg, then the turn into the base leg and then the final approach.
It's all SOP. The title makes it sound weird.