San Francisco-London flight UA901 with ATC audio: Takeoff, Sierra Nevada. River Thames 2015-08-18
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2021
- A full-annotated-in-2021 B747 trans-Atlantic flight video--complete with air traffic control soundtrack, altitude, location, & flight-path information. Begins with taxiing & taking off from San Francisco International Airport runway 28R, passing the industrial city of South San Francisco and west of the San Francisco shoreline, before turning northeast for a view of the city's downtown Embarcadero district towers, Alcatraz, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Mount Diablo, the Sacramento Delta, Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake, Reno, northern Nevada, southeastern Idaho, and Montana.
After crossing the Canadian border southwest of Regina, the flight continues northeasterly over the rest of Saskatchewan, then Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Far North Quebec and Arctic Baffin Island.
At daybreak, the course turns southeasterly above the North Atlantic between Greenland and south of Iceland. ATC exchanges can be heard as the flight enters the "Shamrock" airspace of Shannon, followed by NATS' "Scottish" airspace of Prestwick air traffic control zones.
Final approach descent begins over north and east London, affording views of central London landmarks: the Gherkin, London Eye & Westminster Palace (UK Parliament) along River Thames, and Hyde Park before landing to the west on Heathrow Airport's runway 27L.
(The video here is a newly reannotated edition of a previously annotated version which relied on You Tube's own annotation software; annotations on that version was erased by You Tube when it ceased its annotation support in 2019.)
Highlight of annotations (More descriptions appears on the video):
0:01-1:05 Duty-free & electronics merchandise at San Francisco International Airport
2:00-3:20 Passengers boarding UA 901
3:53-9:44 Flight-safety announcement
9:44 Pushback begins
10:30 Taxiing begins (to runway 28R)
14:36 Air Traffic Control (ATC) sound track begins
20:40 Takeoff run begins on runway 28R
22:15 South San Francisco, California
22:40-22:55 Colma, California (grave of Levi Strauss & other VIPs)
23:55-24:15 Lake Merced, San Francisco, California
24:50-25:15 Downtown San Francisco, California
25:20-25:30 Alcatraz Island (tiny island at bottom)
25:30-25:40 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
25:45-26:05 Treasure Island, San Francisco
26:15-26:20 Angel Island (State Park), San Francisco Bay
26:35-26:55 Alameda Naval Air Station (closed), Alameda, California
27:35-27:55 San Pablo Reservoir (near) & Briones Reservoir (far)
29:30-29:40 Mount Diablo
29:55-30:40 Suisun Bay
31:00-32:20 Sacramento River
31:25-31:45 Rio Vista, California
34:00- 34:40 Sacramento, California
35:00-35:20 Mather Airport, Sacramento, California
35:45-36:00 Nimbus Dam, Fair Oaks, California
36:20-36:40 Folsom Lake
41:00-44:00 Lake Tahoe, California / Nevada
42:50-43:10 Donner Lake, California
44:45-46:15 Reno, Nevada
45:20-45:50 Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO)
46:00-46:05 Marina Park Lake, Sparks, Nevada
47:05-48:45 Pyramid Lake, Nevada
50:55-52:25 Winnemucca Lake
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed lying in northwest Nevada. It is on the dividing line between Washoe and Pershing counties. Until the 1930s, it was a shallow lake, but was dried out by construction projects. (Wikipedia)
55:05-55:15 In-flight lunch
1:06:35-1:06:50 Drink & movie
1:07:10-1:07:40 Sloan Ditch, Montana
1:17:10-1:18:00 Missouri River east of Montana Highway 191
1:25:40 Crew request to lower window shades
1:26:25 Salt Lake Center handing control to Winnipeg Centre two minutes prior to entering Canadian airspace near Val Marie-Assiniboia, Saskatchewan
1:43:50- 1:44:25 Sample late-night big-screen entertainment footage
1:45:40 Last Montreal Centre instruction. Crossing the Atlantic.
1:45:41-1:46:20 Aircraft at position east of Greenland
1:46:30 Beginning of radio communication with Shannon air traffic control centre
1:48:15 Beginning of radio communication with Prestwick air traffic control centre "Scottish"
1:49:20-1:49:35 Scrambled eggs & sausage breakfast
2:06:30-2:06:50 River Conwy at Llandudno, Wales
Daventry ATC approach info to LHR 27L:
ivao.co.uk/atc/lacc/s28 on Heathrow Airport runway 27L
2:16:50-2:17:30 Cockpit landing announcement
2:34:15-2:24:40 Regent's Park, London
2:34:45-2:35:15 River Thames through central London
2:35:20-2:35:35 The Shard (across the Thames), 30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) & Liverpool Street, London
2:35:50 Waterloo Station, London Eye, Big Ben, Palace of Westminster (Houses of UK Parliament)
Site of March 22, 2017 Westminster attack
2:38:20-2:38:30 Hyde Park, London
2:42:35 Touchdown on 27L
Complete data of this flight from Flight Aware tracking:
uk.flightaware.com/live/flight...
Playlist of all trip videos from San Francisco to visits in London:
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Old golden days united 747 422 with PW engines & Channel 9 . :'( Miss this flights
Flights from SFO to Northern Europe fly directly over my back yard, here in Sacramento. At 20,000 ft and climbing, they are silent shiny specks leaving contrails. I wonder about who is on them and where and why they are going, just like when I fly, I wonder about all the lives and stories down in the little clusters of asphalt and orange lights. I never close my window shade. Flight is magic.
Yeah, I feel the same when I fly, I look down at the visually tiny clusters of towns or cities and know that they're doing different things about their daily life,, and I wonder if anyone there has stopped for a minute or even several seconds and looked up and seen the tiny speck of metal with vapor trails that I'm on. And I wonder if they stop and think "I wonder if anyone 35,000 ft up there is looking down here and wondering if we're looking up and seeing them".
I live in Kansas City, but I sometimes have seen tiny specks with vapor trails flying over my home. I know that they're not aircrafts on their descent to KCI airport because those aircrafts are much lower and I've seen them too. Those planes have no vapor trails and I can usually make out which airline they are. The planes 35,000 ft up are too far away to tell, they're just tiny silver specks with long vapor trails, and they're the flights flying cross country, or a shorter route that passes over Kansas City. Examples of these routes may be St. Louis to Denver, Chicago to Albuquerque, Cleveland to Phoenix, Atlanta to Portland (Oregon),, or a NY to LA flight may fly directly over KC.
I've flown over major cities also enroute to a destination, 3 examples I remember are me flying over Memphis on a KC to Atlanta flight, flying over Dallas on a KC to Houston flight, and once flying over Chicago on a London to Houston flight. Anyway, I've had many of the same interests as you about flying and airline travel
Such a very interesting video with all the excellent information. Watching from New Zealand.
Glad you enjoyed it! I hope to do more for you when global travel resumes in safety.
Beautiful Video as always! Thank you for letting all of us ride along on this adventure! Listening to ATC is always a favorite of mine as a Pilot myself, it adds a new dimension to the great views along the way! All the Best, Let’s Fly!!!
Thanks again! I just hope UA brings back its old "Channel 9" soon!
@@backpacktrot, I sure hope they will, as a Pilot, Channel 9 always made catching a ride on United a fun ride and always made the flights I was on enjoyable. What was nothing more than useless noise to many was always music in my ears cruising through the skies! All the Best to you in your travels!!!
Nice, another trot video! I've been watching your videos occasionally during the last year, imagining being there with you as you went to all of those beautiful places (especially the loneliest highway videos)
Thanks for viewing! I hope to return to the road and the air soon to bring you more ....
Backpactrot give us more Greyhound or Megabus travel please front seat.
Hello! I'm one of your big fan. I'm so happy to watch your work again this time! The very first time I watched your work was you flew from YVR to NRT on AC, and NRT to HKG on UA and I was amazed your kindness and thoughtfulness for watchers that you have made the small sectors so that those who looking for very specific scene, ones can jump and back so forth! Needless to say, the qualities of the every videos are simply beautiful! I regret I am not able to watch like it used to be and fully understand you have your personal life. But if there will be a chance, I am looking forward the brand new air travel series again( I know its very hard to hop on and fly because of the mess in the whole world right now...), so please don't mind me. I play your former videos again and again and every time I watch them, there are new findings! Anyway, I would like to show my gratitude how I appreciate you uploaded pieces of fine art work and keep enjoy flying! Sorry for the long comment. Thank you so much from Tokyo!
Thank you remembering me from that far back. Some day, I hope to redo the location annotations of more videos whose You Tube-supported annotations were lost when You Tube ceased supporting them in 2019.
Thank you so much for saying that!! I'll keep waiting for your trip report, even without the location annotations. Please do take care of yourself and stay safe!! See you around!!
I was missing the exhaustive description and the associated time codes.
Thanks for viewing. I hope I'll get to re-annotate (as new uploads like this SFO-LHR one) more of the previously annotated videos when You Tube stopped supporting its own annotation capability in 2019.
what camera did you use ?
Thanks! It was a Sony point-and-shoot with 30x zoom.
Molto interessante con la descrizione dei luoghi ! Grazie mille
...tanks!
Prego, Davidce11. :)