my first impression was landing but I can't quite explain why. I used to be an air traffic controller so I have some amount of "machine learning" in this area though not a lot from this angle or this kind of aircraft.
The angle didn't quite look right for a takeoff though after looking at a few takeoff videos of similar airplanes it seems they mostly try for steeper takeoffs but there's a lot of variability. There are conflicting requirements, you want to get as much altitude as possible as fast as possible so you have more options if there's any problem but you also want to gain speed and your initial angle might be limited by stall speed or other factors ( http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_12/attack... ).
Even if I had 50% of being right it's always nice to be able to explain to oneself how good you are and when you get it wrong you can blame something else ;)
I assumed the parent meant something slightly different from just learning - something along the lines of: observation of instances of planes taking off and landing but without conscious consideration of the features that differ between the two sets of "training data". Not really learning per se as that would require some form of study of the planes and their differences??
I'd say the most appropriate term here is intuition (which I'd say is definitely regular ol' learning, but that's a matter of definitions and semantics).
The angle didn't quite look right for a takeoff though after looking at a few takeoff videos of similar airplanes it seems they mostly try for steeper takeoffs but there's a lot of variability. There are conflicting requirements, you want to get as much altitude as possible as fast as possible so you have more options if there's any problem but you also want to gain speed and your initial angle might be limited by stall speed or other factors ( http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_12/attack... ).
Even if I had 50% of being right it's always nice to be able to explain to oneself how good you are and when you get it wrong you can blame something else ;)