Pilot's View: Airbus A380 approach and landing at San Francisco

[JuST Peter]

Now this is really worth the watch!
              The Airbus A-380 First Landing at SFO with 800 Plus Passingers.
The Pilots sit away from everything! No Yoke, Etc. The Captain pulls up a Keyboard once in a while to enter information,  but the Aircraft does most of the work.
          This Humongous A380 makes its First Landing at the San Francisco Airport. It seems Extensively Automated. The Air Traffic Controller gives them Heading, Altitude, Speed, and they Dial It In. Pretty interesting!
          For the best results,  go to 'Full Screen' on your Monitor. It will seem like you are in the Cockpit with them.
 
              http://www.wimp.com/approachlanding/

[StinkyPete]

Most impressive.

[Shiney]

Amazing

[Biggles]

There are a few notable features.  For me the main one is the whole flight procedure for the A380 is simpler than for say an old  Boeing 737.  The checklists are laughably brief.  In a Dash 8 with which I am most familiar, for instance, there are 119 checklist items from start up to shut down, excluding the call-outs for an instrument approach (which the autopilot conducted for them here, even though they were in visual conditions).  The extraordinary fact is, tghe bigger the aeroplane, the bigger the pay packet, even though they are simpler to operate.  The last I heard a Qantas 747 international flying captain was getting $250,000 pa.  It would be a lot more now, and more again for an A380 driver.

The water washing was in fact a display welcoming the first A380 landing in San Francisco.  It's a traditional celebration.  They turned on one for my last landing in Tabubil, the base I was operating out of when I retired from PNG.



Nowhere near as spectacular, but very moving for me at the time that the locals chose to do it.

[STeveo]

I used to work on 'Twotters' a long time ago.


 

[Dick B "Yewie"]

There are a few notable features.  For me the main one is the whole flight procedure for the A380 is simpler than for say an old  Boeing 737.  The checklists are laughably brief.  In a Dash 8 with which I am most familiar, for instance, there are 119 checklist items from start up to shut down, excluding the call-outs for an instrument approach (which the autopilot conducted for them here, even though they were in visual conditions).  The extraordinary fact is, tghe bigger the aeroplane, the bigger the pay packet, even though they are simpler to operate.  The last I heard a Qantas 747 international flying captain was getting $250,000 pa.  It would be a lot more now, and more again for an A380 driver.

The water washing was in fact a display welcoming the first A380 landing in San Francisco.  It's a traditional celebration.  They turned on one for my last landing in Tabubil, the base I was operating out of when I retired from PNG.



Nowhere near as spectacular, but very moving for me at the time that the locals chose to do it.

I flew Dash 8's in and out of Tabubil a few times during my working career. Maybe it was you flying!

[Whizz]

Nice aircraft, but a superb bit of video!! Very enjoyable! Ta!!

[Biggles]

Nice aircraft, but a superb bit of video!! Very enjoyable! Ta!!

It seems there is a TV channel dedicated to aviation video.

I flew Dash 8's in and out of Tabubil a few times during my working career. Maybe it was you flying!

Not impossible.  I flew them for Airlines Of PNG and National Jet Systems between 1998 and 2004.

[Pezzz]

I used to work on 'Twotters' a long time ago.


 

Me too ... Sunstate was using one for the jump across to Great Keppell Island from Rockhampton where I stayed for a year or so before coming back to Perth.

[Biggles]

Great basic airframe with pretty good access to its bits.  That's how it appeared to me, anyway.  I used to conduct pilots' Ground Schools and we would visit Talair's, MBA's and Airlines of PNG hangars to illustrate the engineering lectures.