Quote Originally Posted by Gannon View Post
That would've been a beautiful pass over the downtown, if not for the fog.

I've never been on an pattern that did that...how often can you make an direct-over-top flight, MikeM?!
Anytime you're flying in from the northeast and Detroit is landing to the north. Just this morning, before they started landing south after 11 AM:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/F...040Z/KBOS/KDTW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...205Z/KBOS/KDTW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...220Z/KLGA/KDTW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...400Z/KLGA/KDTW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/T...329Z/KEWR/KDTW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/F...430Z/KALB/KDTW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...045Z/KBDL/KDTW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/C...200Z/KMHT/KDTW

Flights usually fly over somewhere between the Windsor airport and Wayne State, but they keep you high [[11,000' ) to let departures fly under you at or below 10,000'. It's rare to pass downtown southbound below 7,000' in this configuration. When Detroit is landing south, and you arrive from the southeast, you fly up the river and then make the U-turn back south somewhere between the bridge and downtown: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...900Z/KMCO/KDTW This gets you lower over downtown, but still usually 4,000' or more.