File:Landing at SFO 2022.07.06.webm

English: Here we are on flight UAL 872 coming in for a landing at San Francisco International Airport (KSFO/SFO). It is July 6, 2022.

We started the same day in Taoyuan International Airport (RCTP/TPE, Taiwan).

Event list (all in San Mateo County, California, looking southwest).

(Note I have added subtitles that mention an item, at these exact times they cross the middle of the screen.)

• 0:00 Within Redwood City, California
  • 0:10 Bair Island, our first sight of land through the clouds. [Welcome to the USA!]
  • 0:20 Silicon Valley Clean Water plant
  • 0:24 KNBR radio tower
  • 0:28 Bird Island
• 0:38 Begin Foster City
  • 0:50 Bowditch Middle School
  • 0:52 Shad Park
  • 0:53 Dolphin Isle
  • 0:59 Shearwater Isle
  • 1:04 Surfbird Isle
  • 1:10 California State Route 92 (San Mateo–Hayward Bridge)
  • 1:25 Mariners Point Golf Center
• 1:30 Begin City of San Mateo
  • 1:33 Seal Slough
  • 1:36 Seal Point Park (brown earth, no shade)
  • 1:45 San Mateo Creek
  • 2:10 Coyote Point Marina
  • 2:10 Coyote Point Recreation Area
• 2:23 Begin Burlingame
  • 2:27 Anza Fisherman's Park
  • 2:53 The southeast tip of the Runway 28L lamp guide lights extension into the Bay enters the picture! (Unincorporated San Mateo County)
• 3:03 Landing on Runway 28R (True Bearing 298°, Magnetic Variation 14°E, 298 - 14 = 28[4])
  • 3:08 Landfall: Bay stops, airport landfill starts
  • 3:10 Cross Taxiway C
  • 3:11 Runway Threshold Markings
  • 3:12 Runway Touchdown Zone Markers
  • 3:14 Runway Aiming Point Marking
  • 3:15 Triple radio towers
  • 3:16 A bump as we make touchdown
  • 3:19 Cross Taxiway N
  • 3:22 Cross Taxiway P
  • 3:28 Cross Taxiway L
  • 3:30 Cross Runway 1R/19L
  • 3:31 SFO VOR transmitter
  • 3:33 Cross Runway 1L/19R
  • 3:38 Cross Taxiway E, looking straight at the airport tower
  • 3:38 Public address system: "On behalf of Captain (Barry) Yoder… welcome to San Francisco, city by the Bay. Local time is 6:25 AM Wednesday morning (13:25 UTC) … we would like to thank you for flying United…
  • 3:43 Cross Taxiway T
  • 3:53 Cross Taxiway D
  • 4:04 Cross Taxiway K
  • 4:05 Enter Taxiway Q
  • 4:42 Cross Runway 10R/28L
  • 4:56 Cross Taxiway Z
  • 4:58 "←A Q A↑ B1→" pavement markers. We begin on Taxiway B, whose marker is underneath the plane, so we can't see it
  • 5:10 Cross a service road (not a taxiway)
  • 5:30 We are on Taxiway B, almost at the junction of Taxiway B3. Near coordinates 37.622202, -122.392125, on our way to the International Terminal G gates…

See also Instrument approach, Initial approach fix, Final approach. Yes, one day we might make Timed text.