[jrockway]

I'm also suspicious of the video: won't planes on localizer approaches all be flying the runway centerline? I just don't see the opportunity for as much horizontal deviation as the video shows. (Though I guess the video is taken pretty far away from the airport since the landing gears aren't down. Maybe we're watching departures instead of "landings" as the video title suggests?)

[eduardordm]

Not really. Approach != landing. Those are visual conditions, most airplanes we landing on CAT I (or visual) precision system. By the time the airplanes were so low no auto pilot was on, actually.

Looks normal (I used to fly for a living)

[jrockway]

I agree that approach != landing, but the title of the video is "landing".

[groovylick]

It is a landing flight path and is about 1 mile away from the airport. Departures are westward over Ocean Beach unless there is heavy fog and they reverse, pretty rare. The video is taken from the middle of Balboa Park under the Laurel street bridge over the 163 freeway. I can sit out on my deck and watch these plane's final descent and their horizontal position and altitude varies quite a bit and I'm about a half mile from where the video was shot.