Since the thread has gone a little quiet how's about a "traditional" San Diego landing from the cockpit?
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I'd bet good money this is a former PSA flightcrew, who were equally known for their lackadaisical sense of humor and a finely honed skill that made lining up the sometimes difficult approach into KSAN look easy.
Here's a couple of annotations to add to the experience
0:04 - "Of course they keep you high though, which makes it harder to get down": Due to the presence of Gillespie Field under the latter part of the flight path and traffic just below coming into North Island, ATC has a tenancy to keep landing aircraft at altitude for longer before authorizing an approach. This requires a steeper, faster decent than usual.
0:31 - "I still don't have him in sight": With just a single, congested runway minimizing the gap between landing aircraft is critical. With the weather clear most aircraft are using visual approaches, which rely on the pilot using his vision and judgment to provide adequate separation closer than flight instruments could allow. If the the crew doesn't spot the other aircraft ahead of them soon they will need to abort the landing, which luckily in our case doesn't happen as the FO catches the fellow jet a few seconds later just as it's crossing the edge of the runway.
1:44 -
"Roger no delay traffic is on a one mile final now" "Yeah no kidding" "Son of a- quit talking and get off the runway": The aircraft landing before them missed its turn off and is taking too long to taxi off the runway. Our pilots are annoyed at him for prioritizing reading back the controller's instructions to clear the landing area over performing them. Our aircraft is less than a mile away and will land in approximately a minute, and with all the talking the other pilot now has less than 30 seconds to finish leaving the runway before our flight must abort.
2:12 - "My car!": The five story Laurel Parking Structure is infamous among airline pilots for causing countless stressful landings. Due to a design error it was originally built sticking up into the landing path of aircraft, forcing a lawsuit and a costly rebuild to lower it to the exact maximum height allowed for a structure this close to an airport. Aircraft pass less than 100 feet over the top level, which is likely the closest a normal person can get to a landing aircraft in the US.
3:41 - Arm hanging out the window like a boss. Airline pilots tend to be a little more buttoned up these days.