For viewers unfamiliar with the area, if you pause at 9:34 you can see Heathrow on the left hand side of the frame, and RAF Northolt (into which King Charles III flew, yesterday) just above the captain’s thumbnail view. And at 15:09, just when rolling out on the 115 heading, you can see the parched grass of White Waltham airfield at the bottom of the frame (the aircraft passes over its western edge), where I did my first solo many years ago! A shame you weren’t vectored a little further west over my house just north of Reading. Great video!
Thank you for letting us "fly" with you. I've lived my whole life right next to Heathrow, watching planes coming and going, so it's refreshing to see what it's like from the other side.
Used to be terrified of flying. I'm getting a bit better these days but videos like these really help. Absolutely fascinating to watch such high quality videos and true professionals who obviously take a lot of pride in their work. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! Great to hear that the videos help to reduce your fear of flying. Have a nice day and whenever you fly again a relaxed flight!
Superb! I particularly liked the fact that you resisted the temptation to 'fast forward'. To my mind, it's much more interesting seeing it unfold in real time, even if there are some 'boring' stretches. I'm also grateful to you for doing Heathrow from so far out as opposed to just the last few moments. Look forward to watching more of your videos and I would love to see more of Heathrow if that's possible. Thanks!
Thank you so much for watching and for you very detailed feedback! Whenever possible, I try to publish the video as the real time recording. Sure, once we had to wait at an airport for several minutes for a parking position and nothing happened. This is a reason to fast forward. In my opinion, the viewer should be the person who decides if she or he wants to move faster forward or jump right away to the final approach or landing. The last time I flew to LHR was the day I recorded this video. I hope to come back soon and would love to produce another one. Best would be one with an approach over the city. Have a great day!
Experienced captain there - waiting for the engine to idle before continuing parking checklist. Loving these videos. Learning a lot I can take into the simulator. Even thinking of jumping ship to Eurowings!
Best cockpit view series out there! The camera angles are very good and it is awesome that we can see the PFD (ND in addition would be the icing on the cake) Thank you!
Enjoyed that very much, it's always great to hear a relaxed voice of reason next to you. Nothing bothered the Captain, just a smooth "everyday" landing. 👏
Thanks for sharing a new video, this time at this busy airport and with almost perfect weather, rare at Heathrow. I look forward to the next video to continue enjoying it. Thanks
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos its east London. the 3 ponds are Walthamstow wetlands area. my worldlace is on the flightpath to London city from the west. underneath the shard.
Thanks for such a fantastic video. I am now 60 and my childhood dream was to be a pilot. Sadly when I was about 9 it was discovered I was colour blind so that ended that dream. Thanks to Microsoft flight simulator I fly the 320. After a year of flying it my heart rate goes up when flying the approach and that's without using the virtual ATC. Then again I have to do the role of Captain and FO.
Thanks you so much for watching our video and for sharing your personal experience. I am so sorry that you were unable to become a pilot due to the color blindness. Nice to hear that you got into flying with the flight simulator. I wish you all the best and for sure always happy landings!
Fantastic Video, a great insight of the procedures used during an approach through busy airspace into a major airport. Videos like these surely offer great guidance to real world pilots and indeed aviation enthusiasts like myself who wish to replicate flights like this using popular PC based flight simulators. Once again, thanks for uploading.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! During approach and departure, the pilot monitoring has his or her hand at or near the sidestick because the push to talk button for the radio is on the sidestick. Also the pilot monitoring needs to be able to takeover the controls anytime, especially when the pilot flying does not use the autopilot. Have a nice day!
Thanks for watching and for your very personal feedback! Thank you so much for your hard work at ATC! Without the hard work of you and your colleagues we would not be able to fly! Have a great day!
Excellent video captain! I recently discovered your UA-cam channel and have to say, I love all of your videos. As a PPL holder who eventually wants to be where you are you're an inspiration to watch!
Thanks for watching and for sharing your feedback! I wish you all the best on your future pilot training and lots of fun and always safe landings with your private pilot license!
@@ytnsanwour last two flights in have been clear and sunny. Absolutely fantastic views, especially as we were holding so had exceptional views of London. Every time my daughter flies in it’s drizzly and grey!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos A great view for Dorney Lake, It looks just like a runway & taxiway, It is 2.2km long & 108m wide so just the right length for you to land on if they tarmac it over 😉
Thanks for a really interesting video - I'm not really a plane person (apart from going on holiday!) but its fascinating to see the interaction between the pilots and ATC and the workload on approach to landing. As an ex signaller (dispatcher) and now a train driver, I can now see why you all get paid more!
Thanks for watching and the good feedback! Especially during last minute runway or approach changes, the workload may get a little higher than usually. Have a nice day!
Excellent as always. This channel should have 10 times the subscribers at least. If someone interested watches once, they will definitely return for more.
That for me was a fantastic journey taking me back to my childhood days watching airplanes come and go and as I no longer live in the UK it was very nostalgic to see Heathrow in its most modern state which looks very diff'rent from back then.
Thanks for sharing your experience! The airport must have grown a lot over the years. And for me it is still very impressive how ATC gets that large amount of traffic in and out with only 2 runways.
WOOOOOOOW How great it is to see this team work, perfecly coordinated. Your understanding of each other is amazing. Love to see you both fly TY. Greetings from Argentina.
Hello Captain. Firstly I'd like to commend you on the fantastic quality and content of your video's. You seem like such a patient and very thorough Pilot, that clearly has a lot of experience and knowledge to transfer to the younger less experienced pilots. Secondly, thank you for allowing us to be a fly on the wall in your cockpit. What a privilege it is to be able to observe your day to day operation in the cockpit of your airline, what a great insight. I personally thoroughly enjoy watching your videos and as an avid flight simmer, your video's have helped me understand the real world procedures that help me replicate flying the Fenix A320-214 CEO in MSFS. I have joined the Virtual Airline Eurowings and I am flying to some of the destinations you have flown to in your video's. keep up the great work Captain! You will no doubt have many more A320 Virtual Captains subscribe to your channel.
Thank you so much for watching and your great feedback! Nice to hear that you like my channel and the videos! Please tell everybody about it. I wish you all the best and lots of fun with your simulator. Have a nice day!
Read back of ATC instructions is being done with call sign as the start here. I thought that would/should be at the end, like “descend FL100, eurowings 460”.
Thanks for your feedback. In general, the callsign shall be included in the readback. FAA, EASA, UK and other countries are slightly different in the regulations and instructions, if it shall be at the end, at the beginning or if it doesn't matter. My impression, flying in FAA, EASA and UK airspace is that as long as you put your callsign in the answer, ATC will never complain. Away from that: To improve the safety of operation, sometimes it is much better for a crew to transmit the callsign at the beginning. Here is the reason and the ideal sequence of events: ATC gives the instruction to descent to a certain altitude or flight level, the pilot flying dials that into the flight management system. Then the pilot monitoring checks whatever had been dialed in and reads that altitude or flight level back to ATC. If the set altitude and readback is wrong, ATC will tell. Especially in high density traffic areas like London, ATC expects a very prompt reply. So if first the flight level is read back before the callsign, the flight level may not be be finally set by the pilot flying and instead of reading back the number from the flight management system he or she can just reply what ATC told before.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos That's a good point regarding the timing. To delay the readback ever so slightly by stating call sign first, to give pilot flying a little chance to catch up. Thank you for that insight.
In the UK, the majority of operators will give their callsign at the end of the transmission as you said above. However, I have noticed German operators (namely Lufthansa and Eurowings) tend to say their callsign at the start of the transmission. I haven’t noticed any others do the same so far, not in the UK anyway! I assume airline SOPs may play a part in what order the pilots respond with their callsign.
@@m3stu To my knowledge, callsign first is how it's taught at the Lufthansa flight school. However, not all LH/EW pilots stick to it, so I doubt it's strictly mandated by the SOP.
Thank you so much for sharing with us your flight into Heathrow! I have had a lifelong passion for aeroplanes, especially the Jumbo Jet, 747. I wish my Dad had lived long enough to watch videos like yours as he too had a passion for aircraft. Very best wishes to you both. 🤝
Thanks for watching and for sharing your very personal thoughts with us. I think, the Jumbo is still a great airplane. I flew it several times as a passenger. The arrival of that large airplane at the gate, seen from the gate, is already very impressive.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos I first saw the Jumbo in the early 70s at Manchester Ringway. My late wife, our daughter and I had the pleasure of flying on the 747-400 to Orlando in 2005. I have the take off on video and I don't mind telling you that we all cheered when she left the tarmac! We were so excited. I later videoed from the porthole when over Florida. The difference in the weather compared to Manchester was stark lol! I'll remember those flights on the Queen of the Skies forever. All the best. 👍✈️ Paul.
@@npr1300A8 Paul, thanks again for sharing your personal experience. My most impressive Jumbo experience was just a few weeks ago also at Orlando airport. I was sitting in the gate area and this really huge Lufthansa B747 airplane arrived with the nose infront of the gate window.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Wow! I remember seeing our Virgin Atlantic (Pretty Woman) right up close to the windows of Orlando Int Airport. The A380 is a magnificent plane but there is something special about the 747's prowess. I've subscribed to your channel. My other passion are motorcycles. Please take a look at my channel. My late wife Lynn toured your beautiful country in 2013 (Mosel, Harz and Wissen) on our Yamaha FJR1300A. That series is on UA-cam, although my camera equipment back then wasn't up to the later ones. We were to return Germany in Summer 2017 to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. Sadly, I lost Lynn in the Spring of that year. You have a beautiful country. 🇩🇪 🏴
@@npr1300A8 I am sorry about the loss of your wife. Nice to hear that you did great trips together. They make wonderful memories. I will look into your channel. Have a nice day!
Thanks for watching and your great feedback! Good question. I asked the FO to keep the headset on because the recording continued for a few more minutes for our checklist and the debriefing. With the headset off, the audio quality from the first officer would be not as good as it is now.
In this video, I saw "vehicle crossing ahead" written on the ground at 24:20 minutes and I only saw this text at this airport. Can you provide information on this subject? Are there similar examples at other airports?
There are all kind of markings on the ground at different airports. Especially street markings for "painted streets" which are crossing the apron or taxiways. This is all done for the safety of everybody who uses the airports.
Amazing video as always! I've been bingewatching all of your videos as of late. Always love the way you communicate. The way you talk in your videos always makes me feel like you're a teacher/instructor inlcuding the debriefing at the end of your videos. Keep up the great work up there Captain! Is there a chance to maybe see you fly to Innsbruck? Greetings from Austria!
Thanks for watching and your friendly words! Your observation is correct! In the past, I instructed in the Airbus for several thousand hours for an airline. I still have a valid A320 Typerating Instructor license. Also, am a FAA CFII (Instrument Flight Instructor) and Ground Instructor. Right now, I do not fly to Innsbruck. So there will be no Innsbruck video in the near future. I am sorry about that.
Another great video. Would appreciate a similar video app. 27 L/R with a full hold. I dont go into LHR often but always use yours and similar videos as a very general awareness. This video was superb for ground visuals. Many thanks
Thanks for the kind words! I would love to produce a 27L and 27R full approach video during a bright and sunny day. It may take a while until I fly again to LHR. In between, I can only offer you my night approach with autoland to runway 27R. It is available here ua-cam.com/video/lQSB3SQ_2F4/v-deo.html Please stay tuned. Have a nice day!
How come at 10:16 the altitude quickly changed from 7000 to 7400? Was it because of QNH statement from ATC and, if so, what is that about? (I thought maybe it was a change to Above Sea Level from Above Land. But Heathrow airport is only at 25m ASL. So that doesn't account for the 400ft difference.)
Good observation. Here is the reason. We changed at that point from the standard altimeter setting to the local altimeter setting. Standard is 1013.2 and local altimeter setting was 1029. This are 16 hpa more. Each hpa is equivalent to about 30 feet. So the altimeter indication was increasing by about 480 feet . Enroute at altitude we all use the same altimeter setting of 1013.2 hpa. This is required for seperation reasons. During the approach, we change to the local altimeter setting. This is used by all approaching and departing airplanes in the area. The altimeter then shows the correct altitude above MSL. On the runway it will indicate the runway elevation.
Amazing video! Thank you so much!! It's such a shame we can't have videos of this quality of the checkerboard approach at Kai Tak as they really put you in the hot seat
Wie immer Klasse. Wer hätte gedacht das über London auch mal die Sonne scheint :P Sehr effizient gesquenzt worden. Glaube die KLM war genau hinter euch.
Vielen Dank für die freundlichen Worte! Das Wetter war wirklich gut am Flugtag. Ich hätte mir allerdings die Sonne erheblich höher gewünscht. Dann wäre der Ausblick im Endanflug schöner und klarer gewesen.
Awesome video, as always. Thanks for this one. Grew up in Twickenham, on the flightpath of 27L. Or 28L, as it was designated back then. Thanks for including all the taxiing too! Love it!
Great Video captain, just found something very interesting in your video. If you look at the sky just above the horizon from 3:50 to 4:05 you can see 2 flashes which are very similar to missiles? very weird
Thanks for the good feedback and your very good eyes. I even double checked the original video and observed the same. Speed and general appearance look to me like fast flying military fighter jets. But the strange thing is that they disappear from one moment to another. Maybe they used their afterburners or so. If somebody else has an idea what that is, please leave a comment!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Looks like the sun is reflecting from little scratches of the wipers, a few seconds later, there's another "flash" and you can see the scratches
Thanks for sharing, love your videos! I've noticed both of you resting your hands on your side sticks during approach, with AP still engaged. Is this standard procedure below a certain altitude?
Thanks for watching and your good feedback! This is the ideal relaxed position for the arm. Guarding the sidestick enables the pilot monitoring to push the push to talk button of the radio, which is located on the sidestick, immediately. The pilot flying is enabled to switch off the autopilot immediately and continue with manual flying, if needed.
Καλησπέρα φίλοι μου , υπέροχο ξημέρωμα πάνω από την μεγαλειώδη Βρετανία με μια " βελούδινη προσγείωση" σας εύχομαι ηλιόλουστα , ασφαλή και συναρπαστικά ταξίδια, σας δίνουμε χαιρετισμούς !!
Very nice video again, great how regulary a new video comes every weekend! It was very intersting to see how you dealed with the ATC speed constraint until 4 miles with the flaps 3 setting.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! The 160 knots at 4 nautical miles speed constraint is demanding, especially if your normal approach speed at that point would be much lower. During the approach in the video, we slowed down more than 30 knots over the short distance of just 1.6 nautical miles. The exact adherence of all the pilots to the speed constraints is the key for the maximum possible runway utilization.
As a Controller listening to the FO, his responses should have been the read back followed by the Callsign. His using the callsign at the beginning was a bit distracting. However I really love watching the flight deck videos, really helps show the other side.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your good and interesting feedback! I understand your point and would like to explain, why pilots sometimes readback the callsign at the beginning of a response. If he or she is doing this, it is usually done for a "closed loop" communication: ATC instructs to fly a heading/speed/altitude ... Then the pilot flying dials the values into the flight management system. During this time, the pilot monitoring starts reading back the call sign. Once the values are set, the pilot monitoring is reading back the set values from the flight management displays. This makes sure that the values from the instruction are set properly. Because if they have not been set in accordance due to a misunderstanding or so, it will show up during the readback. Another option would be to wait with the readback until the values are dialed in. But this is sometimes not the best or fastest solution in high density traffic areas.
I agree! I would love to publish videos with the ND picture. I record the ND with the PFD camera, but the ND part of it is unusebale due to the angle and reflections. I am still in the process of searching for different camera positions but until today I was not successful. The same is valid for the MCDU. I hope to come up with a solution soon.
Thanks for the great feedback! I also would like to see the ND in my videos. Until now, I did not find the right camera location which does not disturb the flight and gives a ND picture without reflections. The current PFD camera also records the ND, but due to the angle and a lot of reflections it is almost unreadable. I continue on that and hope to find a good solution for the ND in the future.
Great video. I’m under the Lambourne Hold. (The Lambourne Hold is a little airfield called Stapleford Airodrome). They leave Lambourne either 265 for runway 09 or leave 270 for 27 left or right. It’s alternate some mornings they fly over for 09 other times flying over London sometimes doing a zig zig over before The City of London West End and seeing Buckingham Palace Not below 3,000 feet for a straight in approach. But at 3pm every day the approach and departure changes. There is also Biggin or Bovingdon holds.
Thanks for the great feedback and your report from the approach area. So you will see all different kinds of airplanes from all over the world during every day. Greetings to Stapleford Airodrome. Have a nice day!
Thanks for your feedback! I 100 % agree and also want the ND (navigation display) in the videos. I try to find a solution. It may take some time. Currently, it is recorded together with the PFD. Due to the angle and reflections it is almost unreadable.
That was really good - thoroughly enjoyed that - thank you. Just a shame the approach was from the West, nicer from the East, especially in the morning sun. Many years ago I lived in Richmond and the Aircraft always flew overhead most of the time. At the same time I worked at Heathrow at Terminal 2. But that was way back! Thanks again EW crew.
Thanks for watching and your very personal feedback. It's great to hear that you enjoyed the video. I agree. Approaching from the East has nicer views. I published a night approach with nice views of the city and an automatic landing from that direction. Please watch also that video. You may like it. Here is the link ua-cam.com/video/lQSB3SQ_2F4/v-deo.html Have a nice day!
I used to live at various places not far from Heathrow for years.I am so glad that I now live at the other end of the country! Really interesting to see a pilot's perspective of the area in which I used to live though. I still don't understand how you snatch the instructions intended for you from the ether when there are so many other pilots speaking and being spoken to all around you. And I still don't understand how you absorb instructions when they are given to you at such speed! That having been said, I suppose the important thing is that you and all the other pilots *do* pick out what you need and your aircraft stay up in the air as a result!
Thanks for watching and for sharing your personal feedback! It sounds difficult to snatch the instruction for you out of all the radio calls. If you start as a pilot, it is for sure difficult. But after a few days of flying you are getting used to it. For us, we listen for Eurowings first and then we concentrate on the rest of the call sign. We also listen to the instructions for others to get a good picture of the situation around us.
Thanks for watching and the nice words! There will be departure videos once in a while. In general, the problem with departure videos is that the outside view at most of the takeoffs is not that nice as during landings. Reason is that we takeoff with a very high pitch and climb with a high climb rate. Pitch during takeoff is between 15 and 20 degrees, during the approach at about 2.5 degrees. Descent rate during final approach is about 600 to 700 feet a minute and during takeoff sometimes 3000 feet per minute.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos thanks for the reply! I think many of us would still appreciate videos of departures because some of us are more interested in what goes on inside the cockpit rather than looking at the outside scenery :D may I ask where you are based at?
Flown into Heathrow from both directions and yes, 09 is nice but I don't think you can beat an early morning arrival (middle of August) on 27R with the sun catching Tower Bridge, Houses of Parliament and the Millennium Wheel. Ace. Lovely orange glow reflecting off of it. Trouble is, whoever you fly with, you can't guarantee the weather or the direction for landing.
Thank you for the nice feedback! I would love to include the ND and the MCDU. But tis is easier said than done. I keep working on that and hope for some kind of solution. Please stay tuned.
This was already explained before. To make it easy for you, here is my previous answer: In general, the callsign shall be included in the readback. FAA, EASA, UK and other countries are slightly different in the regulations and instructions, if it shall be at the end, at the beginning or if it doesn't matter. My impression, flying in FAA, EASA and UK airspace is that as long as you put your callsign in the answer, ATC will never complain. Away from that: To improve the safety of operation, sometimes it is much better for a crew to transmit the callsign at the beginning. Here is the reason and the ideal sequence of events: ATC gives the instruction to descent to a certain altitude or flight level, the pilot flying dials that into the flight management system. Then the pilot monitoring checks whatever had been dialed in and reads that altitude or flight level back to ATC. If the set altitude and readback is wrong, ATC will tell. Especially in high density traffic areas like London, ATC expects a very prompt reply. So if first the flight level is read back before the callsign, the flight level may not be be finally set by the pilot flying and instead of reading back the number from the flight management system he or she can just reply what ATC told before.
For viewers unfamiliar with the area, if you pause at 9:34 you can see Heathrow on the left hand side of the frame, and RAF Northolt (into which King Charles III flew, yesterday) just above the captain’s thumbnail view.
And at 15:09, just when rolling out on the 115 heading, you can see the parched grass of White Waltham airfield at the bottom of the frame (the aircraft passes over its western edge), where I did my first solo many years ago!
A shame you weren’t vectored a little further west over my house just north of Reading. Great video!
Thank you so much for giving us this interesting information!
Hello neighbours, Reading here as well 🍻
@@james_murphy97 . . . *came* in this way . . .
Enjoyable to watch for this Maidenhead lad living down under.
Thank you for letting us "fly" with you. I've lived my whole life right next to Heathrow, watching planes coming and going, so it's refreshing to see what it's like from the other side.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! Nice to hear that you like those insights. Hopefully the planes are not too noisy in the area you are living,
i was just thinking how annoying it must be living there. guess not.
"refreshing"? Try another word
Used to be terrified of flying. I'm getting a bit better these days but videos like these really help. Absolutely fascinating to watch such high quality videos and true professionals who obviously take a lot of pride in their work. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! Great to hear that the videos help to reduce your fear of flying. Have a nice day and whenever you fly again a relaxed flight!
Superb! I particularly liked the fact that you resisted the temptation to 'fast forward'. To my mind, it's much more interesting seeing it unfold in real time, even if there are some 'boring' stretches. I'm also grateful to you for doing Heathrow from so far out as opposed to just the last few moments. Look forward to watching more of your videos and I would love to see more of Heathrow if that's possible. Thanks!
Thank you so much for watching and for you very detailed feedback! Whenever possible, I try to publish the video as the real time recording. Sure, once we had to wait at an airport for several minutes for a parking position and nothing happened. This is a reason to fast forward. In my opinion, the viewer should be the person who decides if she or he wants to move faster forward or jump right away to the final approach or landing. The last time I flew to LHR was the day I recorded this video. I hope to come back soon and would love to produce another one. Best would be one with an approach over the city. Have a great day!
Experienced captain there - waiting for the engine to idle before continuing parking checklist. Loving these videos. Learning a lot I can take into the simulator. Even thinking of jumping ship to Eurowings!
Thanks for watching! Great to hear that you love my videos! Have a nice day!
These videos are golden. PFD, pilots, window view… everything about them is great! They are real treasure for avgeeks, thank you captain!
Thank you so much for your friendly words and the detailed feedback! Please tell everybody about the channel! Have a nice day!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos I will! Thank you so much!
Until now, I've been enjoying videos that show views from the wing. Seeing these from the cockpit are even more exciting and enjoyable. Thank You.
Thanks for watching and for your personal feedback! It's great to know that you enjoy the videos with the views from the cockpit! Have a nice day!
Best cockpit view series out there! The camera angles are very good and it is awesome that we can see the PFD (ND in addition would be the icing on the cake) Thank you!
Thanks for the great feedback! I work on some kind of ND integration. Please stay tuned.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos you 're doing very well with this videos. Awesome indeed.
Happy landings o/
Enjoyed that very much, it's always great to hear a relaxed voice of reason next to you. Nothing bothered the Captain, just a smooth "everyday" landing. 👏
Thank you so much for your kind feedback!
Thanks for sharing a new video, this time at this busy airport and with almost perfect weather, rare at Heathrow. I look forward to the next video to continue enjoying it. Thanks
Thanks for watching and for sharing your good feedback! Have a nice day!
at 5.36 just above the first officer is my house. great for watching the planes to Heathrow and London city. nice video, thanks
Thanks for sharing your very personal feedback! Many greetings to the Heathrow area!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos its east London. the 3 ponds are Walthamstow wetlands area. my worldlace is on the flightpath to London city from the west. underneath the shard.
Thanks for such a fantastic video. I am now 60 and my childhood dream was to be a pilot. Sadly when I was about 9 it was discovered I was colour blind so that ended that dream.
Thanks to Microsoft flight simulator I fly the 320. After a year of flying it my heart rate goes up when flying the approach and that's without using the virtual ATC. Then again I have to do the role of Captain and FO.
Thanks you so much for watching our video and for sharing your personal experience. I am so sorry that you were unable to become a pilot due to the color blindness. Nice to hear that you got into flying with the flight simulator. I wish you all the best and for sure always happy landings!
Rc planes and drones with smart glasses are really fun too, alongside flight sims!
Fantastic Video, a great insight of the procedures used during an approach through busy airspace into a major airport.
Videos like these surely offer great guidance to real world pilots and indeed aviation enthusiasts like myself who wish to replicate flights like this using popular PC based flight simulators.
Once again, thanks for uploading.
Thank you very much for your detailed feedback! I wish you lots of fun flying the simulator. All the best to you!
I love the approach when you come in from the northeast, and have the city on you´re right hand side all along
Thanks for watching and for sharing your personal feedback! Have a nice day!
Fantastic CRM (cockpit relationship management) - fantastic captain
Thank you very much for the great feedback! Have a nice day!
Lovely. And a warm welcome to England. Thank you for the video :)
Thanks for watching and your good feedback! Many greetings to England!
With the captain being pilot flying it is interesting to the the F/O also has a hand resting on the side stick, fascinating video.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! During approach and departure, the pilot monitoring has his or her hand at or near the sidestick because the push to talk button for the radio is on the sidestick. Also the pilot monitoring needs to be able to takeover the controls anytime, especially when the pilot flying does not use the autopilot. Have a nice day!
Bin heut im msfs in egll gelandet. Toll das in real zu sehen, so kann ich noch was lernen. Super Video danke
Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das gute Feedback! Und weiter viel Spaß mit dem Simulator!
One of the Few Videos i have Watched from Start to Finish, Excellent Footage and have now Subscribed.
Thanks for watching and the great feedback! And thanks for the subscription! Have a nice day!
Thanks for sharing your 160 till 4 dme strategy. Stability is damn tight!
Thanks for watching! This strategy works great and is much better than flying with 160 knots with flaps full and gear down.
Thanks for another great aviation video enjoyed the visit to Heathrow I find watching these type of videos very educational well done.
Thanks for watching! Great to hear that you like my videos! Have a nice day!
Loved the video. I work alongside ATC, so it's great to see the management of the aircraft and ATC interactions from the pilot perspective!
Thanks for watching and for your very personal feedback! Thank you so much for your hard work at ATC! Without the hard work of you and your colleagues we would not be able to fly! Have a great day!
Excellent video captain! I recently discovered your UA-cam channel and have to say, I love all of your videos. As a PPL holder who eventually wants to be where you are you're an inspiration to watch!
Thanks for watching and for sharing your feedback! I wish you all the best on your future pilot training and lots of fun and always safe landings with your private pilot license!
Thank you for the video gentlemen, Brilliant coverage utilising 6 cameras. Surprisingly good clear weather conditions at LHR
Thank you so much for the great feedback! Have a nice day!
I flown into LHR many times and NEVER seen it like that. Freak weather!.. :)
@@ytnsanwour last two flights in have been clear and sunny. Absolutely fantastic views, especially as we were holding so had exceptional views of London. Every time my daughter flies in it’s drizzly and grey!
Thanks for all the video "callouts" e.g. Windsor Castle.
Makes the trip much more interesting.
Thanks for watching and your detailed feedback! That really helps. Have a great day!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos A great view for Dorney Lake, It looks just like a runway & taxiway, It is 2.2km long & 108m wide so just the right length for you to land on if they tarmac it over 😉
Thanks for a really interesting video - I'm not really a plane person (apart from going on holiday!) but its fascinating to see the interaction between the pilots and ATC and the workload on approach to landing. As an ex signaller (dispatcher) and now a train driver, I can now see why you all get paid more!
Thanks for watching and the good feedback! Especially during last minute runway or approach changes, the workload may get a little higher than usually. Have a nice day!
you would just love to learn with this captain - relaxed and funny humour makes it easy viewing.
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Excellent as always. This channel should have 10 times the subscribers at least. If someone interested watches once, they will definitely return for more.
Thanks for that really great feedback! I would love to have more subscribers! Please tell everybody about the channel! Thank you so much!
nice busy approach into LHR on a sunny morning. Well done. I love watching your videos :-)
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That for me was a fantastic journey taking me back to my childhood days watching airplanes come and go and as I no longer live in the UK it was very nostalgic to see Heathrow in its most modern state which looks very diff'rent from back then.
Thanks for sharing your experience! The airport must have grown a lot over the years. And for me it is still very impressive how ATC gets that large amount of traffic in and out with only 2 runways.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos not a few aircraft have to hold inbound with only two runways. And u can forget that third runway for the time being 😂😂
Nice channel Sir. Thank you or these videos. With 4 cameras!
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Always support you Captain...smooth approach and Salute Captain😍👨✈✈🛬
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Stunningly good production. I enjoyed every minute and have liked and followed.
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amazing quality and content, thank you. i've always wanted to see inside an actual 'normal' landing. good work sir!
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Excellent video. Thank you guys. Great flying.
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WOOOOOOOW
How great it is to see this team work, perfecly coordinated. Your understanding of each other is amazing.
Love to see you both fly TY. Greetings from Argentina.
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Awesome video buddy from Alan in Lowestoft
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Great video and nice to see the PFD especially on the ILS approach.
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Hello Captain. Firstly I'd like to commend you on the fantastic quality and content of your video's. You seem like such a patient and very thorough Pilot, that clearly has a lot of experience and knowledge to transfer to the younger less experienced pilots. Secondly, thank you for allowing us to be a fly on the wall in your cockpit. What a privilege it is to be able to observe your day to day operation in the cockpit of your airline, what a great insight. I personally thoroughly enjoy watching your videos and as an avid flight simmer, your video's have helped me understand the real world procedures that help me replicate flying the Fenix A320-214 CEO in MSFS. I have joined the Virtual Airline Eurowings and I am flying to some of the destinations you have flown to in your video's. keep up the great work Captain! You will no doubt have many more A320 Virtual Captains subscribe to your channel.
Thank you so much for watching and your great feedback! Nice to hear that you like my channel and the videos! Please tell everybody about it. I wish you all the best and lots of fun with your simulator. Have a nice day!
Best selection of camera use ever!!!!
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well that was fantastic and its made me happily subscribe. Brilliant channel
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@@ApproachandDepartureVideos very welcome and ive been watching non stop for the last few hours incredible level of detail, love these. thank you
Read back of ATC instructions is being done with call sign as the start here. I thought that would/should be at the end, like “descend FL100, eurowings 460”.
You are correct. When you answer to an atc call, callsign goes at the end. When you start the call then it goes at the front.
Thanks for your feedback. In general, the callsign shall be included in the readback. FAA, EASA, UK and other countries are slightly different in the regulations and instructions, if it shall be at the end, at the beginning or if it doesn't matter. My impression, flying in FAA, EASA and UK airspace is that as long as you put your callsign in the answer, ATC will never complain.
Away from that: To improve the safety of operation, sometimes it is much better for a crew to transmit the callsign at the beginning. Here is the reason and the ideal sequence of events: ATC gives the instruction to descent to a certain altitude or flight level, the pilot flying dials that into the flight management system. Then the pilot monitoring checks whatever had been dialed in and reads that altitude or flight level back to ATC. If the set altitude and readback is wrong, ATC will tell.
Especially in high density traffic areas like London, ATC expects a very prompt reply. So if first the flight level is read back before the callsign, the flight level may not be be finally set by the pilot flying and instead of reading back the number from the flight management system he or she can just reply what ATC told before.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos That's a good point regarding the timing. To delay the readback ever so slightly by stating call sign first, to give pilot flying a little chance to catch up. Thank you for that insight.
In the UK, the majority of operators will give their callsign at the end of the transmission as you said above. However, I have noticed German operators (namely Lufthansa and Eurowings) tend to say their callsign at the start of the transmission. I haven’t noticed any others do the same so far, not in the UK anyway! I assume airline SOPs may play a part in what order the pilots respond with their callsign.
@@m3stu To my knowledge, callsign first is how it's taught at the Lufthansa flight school. However, not all LH/EW pilots stick to it, so I doubt it's strictly mandated by the SOP.
Very nice, it was very dry all the brown fields. I spent a couple of years work at Heathrow watching the planes land and take-off.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! I agree, it looks very brown and much different from the green fields I usually saw when flying to Heathrow.
Fantastic video, such a beautiful and calm late summer morning, thank you for letting us see how it looks in your office 🤝
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Cracking video gents. Thanks for posting. New subscriber here.
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Great videos. Really like having the PFD on camera the whole approach.
Thanks for watching and the good feedback. I try to put the PFD camera in as many videos as possible. It may not be possible all the time.
Totally reminds me of my air force years. Thanks guys. Be well.🙂
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Thank you so much for sharing with us your flight into Heathrow! I have had a lifelong passion for aeroplanes, especially the Jumbo Jet, 747. I wish my Dad had lived long enough to watch videos like yours as he too had a passion for aircraft. Very best wishes to you both. 🤝
Thanks for watching and for sharing your very personal thoughts with us. I think, the Jumbo is still a great airplane. I flew it several times as a passenger. The arrival of that large airplane at the gate, seen from the gate, is already very impressive.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos I first saw the Jumbo in the early 70s at Manchester Ringway. My late wife, our daughter and I had the pleasure of flying on the 747-400 to Orlando in 2005. I have the take off on video and I don't mind telling you that we all cheered when she left the tarmac! We were so excited. I later videoed from the porthole when over Florida. The difference in the weather compared to Manchester was stark lol! I'll remember those flights on the Queen of the Skies forever. All the best. 👍✈️ Paul.
@@npr1300A8 Paul, thanks again for sharing your personal experience. My most impressive Jumbo experience was just a few weeks ago also at Orlando airport. I was sitting in the gate area and this really huge Lufthansa B747 airplane arrived with the nose infront of the gate window.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Wow! I remember seeing our Virgin Atlantic (Pretty Woman) right up close to the windows of Orlando Int Airport. The A380 is a magnificent plane but there is something special about the 747's prowess. I've subscribed to your channel. My other passion are motorcycles. Please take a look at my channel. My late wife Lynn toured your beautiful country in 2013 (Mosel, Harz and Wissen) on our Yamaha FJR1300A. That series is on UA-cam, although my camera equipment back then wasn't up to the later ones. We were to return Germany in Summer 2017 to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. Sadly, I lost Lynn in the Spring of that year. You have a beautiful country. 🇩🇪 🏴
@@npr1300A8 I am sorry about the loss of your wife. Nice to hear that you did great trips together. They make wonderful memories. I will look into your channel. Have a nice day!
Absolutely amazing and fantastic quality video thoroughly enjoyed this
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Superb video! I'm really curious as to the reasons why you asked your FO to keep the headset a little longer..? Are you able to comment, please?
Thanks for watching and your great feedback! Good question. I asked the FO to keep the headset on because the recording continued for a few more minutes for our checklist and the debriefing. With the headset off, the audio quality from the first officer would be not as good as it is now.
In this video, I saw "vehicle crossing ahead" written on the ground at 24:20 minutes and I only saw this text at this airport. Can you provide information on this subject? Are there similar examples at other airports?
There are all kind of markings on the ground at different airports. Especially street markings for "painted streets" which are crossing the apron or taxiways. This is all done for the safety of everybody who uses the airports.
Amazing video as always! I've been bingewatching all of your videos as of late. Always love the way you communicate. The way you talk in your videos always makes me feel like you're a teacher/instructor inlcuding the debriefing at the end of your videos. Keep up the great work up there Captain!
Is there a chance to maybe see you fly to Innsbruck?
Greetings from Austria!
Thanks for watching and your friendly words! Your observation is correct! In the past, I instructed in the Airbus for several thousand hours for an airline. I still have a valid A320 Typerating Instructor license. Also, am a FAA CFII (Instrument Flight Instructor) and Ground Instructor. Right now, I do not fly to Innsbruck. So there will be no Innsbruck video in the near future. I am sorry about that.
Another great video. Would appreciate a similar video app. 27 L/R with a full hold. I dont go into LHR often but always use yours and similar videos as a very general awareness. This video was superb for ground visuals. Many thanks
Thanks for the kind words! I would love to produce a 27L and 27R full approach video during a bright and sunny day. It may take a while until I fly again to LHR. In between, I can only offer you my night approach with autoland to runway 27R. It is available here ua-cam.com/video/lQSB3SQ_2F4/v-deo.html Please stay tuned. Have a nice day!
An absolutely great video, thoroughly enjoyed !!👍🏻🔥
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Your videos are simply the best
Thank you!!!!
Love the taxiway footage. Right till the end. 😀
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Thank you again for sharing this interesting videos to us. Love the perspectives and the quality!
Looking forward to the next one :)
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How come at 10:16 the altitude quickly changed from 7000 to 7400? Was it because of QNH statement from ATC and, if so, what is that about? (I thought maybe it was a change to Above Sea Level from Above Land. But Heathrow airport is only at 25m ASL. So that doesn't account for the 400ft difference.)
Good observation. Here is the reason. We changed at that point from the standard altimeter setting to the local altimeter setting. Standard is 1013.2 and local altimeter setting was 1029. This are 16 hpa more. Each hpa is equivalent to about 30 feet. So the altimeter indication was increasing by about 480 feet . Enroute at altitude we all use the same altimeter setting of 1013.2 hpa. This is required for seperation reasons. During the approach, we change to the local altimeter setting. This is used by all approaching and departing airplanes in the area. The altimeter then shows the correct altitude above MSL. On the runway it will indicate the runway elevation.
Amazing video! Thank you so much!!
It's such a shame we can't have videos of this quality of the checkerboard approach at Kai Tak as they really put you in the hot seat
Thanks for watching and the great feedback! I agree, Kai Tak would have been the perfect airport for a wonderful 4k approach video.
I Never Felt That Touchdown 🙂 Good Work Boys 👍
Thanks!
Wie immer Klasse. Wer hätte gedacht das über London auch mal die Sonne scheint :P Sehr effizient gesquenzt worden. Glaube die KLM war genau hinter euch.
Vielen Dank für die freundlichen Worte! Das Wetter war wirklich gut am Flugtag. Ich hätte mir allerdings die Sonne erheblich höher gewünscht. Dann wäre der Ausblick im Endanflug schöner und klarer gewesen.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Stimmt, dafür waren aber die Reflektionen auf dem Queen Mother Reservoir schön anzusehen. ^^
Awesome video, as always. Thanks for this one. Grew up in Twickenham, on the flightpath of 27L. Or 28L, as it was designated back then.
Thanks for including all the taxiing too! Love it!
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Great approach and landing. I love the Airbus :-)
The Airbus is a wonderful airplane. I agree. Have a nice day!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos, thank you, you too. Always happy landings and three green.
Thank you for making these!
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Great vídeo once again( fantastic job. Keep on it
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A very well produced video - thank you very much 👍😎👍
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Excellent video and excellent crew, thank you gents :)
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Very open and flat area to west of London....smooth approach and landing
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Great Video captain, just found something very interesting in your video. If you look at the sky just above the horizon from 3:50 to 4:05 you can see 2 flashes which are very similar to missiles? very weird
Thanks for the good feedback and your very good eyes. I even double checked the original video and observed the same. Speed and general appearance look to me like fast flying military fighter jets. But the strange thing is that they disappear from one moment to another. Maybe they used their afterburners or so.
If somebody else has an idea what that is, please leave a comment!
Perhaps it's just a little reflection in the window.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Looks like the sun is reflecting from little scratches of the wipers, a few seconds later, there's another "flash" and you can see the scratches
One of My fav channels to my home airport. Love it
Thanks!
Wow, awesome pilots made it look soo easy
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Thanks for sharing, love your videos! I've noticed both of you resting your hands on your side sticks during approach, with AP still engaged. Is this standard procedure below a certain altitude?
Thanks for watching and your good feedback! This is the ideal relaxed position for the arm. Guarding the sidestick enables the pilot monitoring to push the push to talk button of the radio, which is located on the sidestick, immediately. The pilot flying is enabled to switch off the autopilot immediately and continue with manual flying, if needed.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Thanks for the detailed answer, keep this videos coming, they're great! Maybe we'll see come CDG footage in the future?
Καλησπέρα φίλοι μου , υπέροχο ξημέρωμα πάνω από την μεγαλειώδη Βρετανία με μια " βελούδινη προσγείωση" σας εύχομαι ηλιόλουστα , ασφαλή και συναρπαστικά ταξίδια, σας δίνουμε χαιρετισμούς !!
Thanks so much for your friendly words and all the best to you!
I loved your video the best I have seen
Thank you so much for the nice words! All the best to you!
Very nice video again, great how regulary a new video comes every weekend! It was very intersting to see how you dealed with the ATC speed constraint until 4 miles with the flaps 3 setting.
Thanks for watching and your feedback! The 160 knots at 4 nautical miles speed constraint is demanding, especially if your normal approach speed at that point would be much lower. During the approach in the video, we slowed down more than 30 knots over the short distance of just 1.6 nautical miles. The exact adherence of all the pilots to the speed constraints is the key for the maximum possible runway utilization.
As a Controller listening to the FO, his responses should have been the read back followed by the Callsign. His using the callsign at the beginning was a bit distracting. However I really love watching the flight deck videos, really helps show the other side.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your good and interesting feedback! I understand your point and would like to explain, why pilots sometimes readback the callsign at the beginning of a response. If he or she is doing this, it is usually done for a "closed loop" communication: ATC instructs to fly a heading/speed/altitude ... Then the pilot flying dials the values into the flight management system. During this time, the pilot monitoring starts reading back the call sign. Once the values are set, the pilot monitoring is reading back the set values from the flight management displays. This makes sure that the values from the instruction are set properly. Because if they have not been set in accordance due to a misunderstanding or so, it will show up during the readback. Another option would be to wait with the readback until the values are dialed in. But this is sometimes not the best or fastest solution in high density traffic areas.
Really great Captain! Excellent CRM!
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Greta video, would've loved to see the ND as well as the PFD here too. And as an added bonus the MCDU.
I agree! I would love to publish videos with the ND picture. I record the ND with the PFD camera, but the ND part of it is unusebale due to the angle and reflections. I am still in the process of searching for different camera positions but until today I was not successful. The same is valid for the MCDU. I hope to come up with a solution soon.
Fantastic video ,thanks for sharing.
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the synchronized laugh at 29:56 is the best thing ever😂
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its crazy how much flight simulation has evolved!
I agree, but here you see the real world. No simulation!
Awesome video as always!
Could you record ND as well?
Thanks for the great feedback! I also would like to see the ND in my videos. Until now, I did not find the right camera location which does not disturb the flight and gives a ND picture without reflections. The current PFD camera also records the ND, but due to the angle and a lot of reflections it is almost unreadable. I continue on that and hope to find a good solution for the ND in the future.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Understood Captain, love the videos regardless
Amazing. Thank you !!
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Mr Captain, what kind of prescription glasses wear you to see upper panel and avionocs? Bifocal or prograssive? I'll be grateful for the answer.
My normal glasses and even the sunglasses contain progressive lenses. They work fine for me.
Absolutely wonderful flight with 2 pros
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Great video. I’m under the Lambourne Hold. (The Lambourne Hold is a little airfield called Stapleford Airodrome). They leave Lambourne either 265 for runway 09 or leave 270 for 27 left or right. It’s alternate some mornings they fly over for 09 other times flying over London sometimes doing a zig zig over before The City of London West End and seeing Buckingham Palace Not below 3,000 feet for a straight in approach. But at 3pm every day the approach and departure changes. There is also Biggin or Bovingdon holds.
Thanks for the great feedback and your report from the approach area. So you will see all different kinds of airplanes from all over the world during every day. Greetings to Stapleford Airodrome. Have a nice day!
The excellence of engineering that made it all possible 🙌 💯👍 the full front of pioneers right there 👏 just beautiful 😍
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Love these Videos! Would it be possible to also include the NAV-Display in the PFD View? That would be very interesting to see as well.
Exactly
Thanks for your feedback! I 100 % agree and also want the ND (navigation display) in the videos. I try to find a solution. It may take some time. Currently, it is recorded together with the PFD. Due to the angle and reflections it is almost unreadable.
That was really good - thoroughly enjoyed that - thank you. Just a shame the approach was from the West, nicer from the East, especially in the morning sun.
Many years ago I lived in Richmond and the Aircraft always flew overhead most of the time. At the same time I worked at Heathrow at Terminal 2. But that was way back!
Thanks again EW crew.
Thanks for watching and your very personal feedback. It's great to hear that you enjoyed the video. I agree. Approaching from the East has nicer views. I published a night approach with nice views of the city and an automatic landing from that direction. Please watch also that video. You may like it. Here is the link
ua-cam.com/video/lQSB3SQ_2F4/v-deo.html
Have a nice day!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Very many thanks for the Link - much appreciated.... Off to watch it now.
Yet another great video!
Thank you so much! Have a nice day!
I used to live at various places not far from Heathrow for years.I am so glad that I now live at the other end of the country! Really interesting to see a pilot's perspective of the area in which I used to live though.
I still don't understand how you snatch the instructions intended for you from the ether when there are so many other pilots speaking and being spoken to all around you. And I still don't understand how you absorb instructions when they are given to you at such speed!
That having been said, I suppose the important thing is that you and all the other pilots *do* pick out what you need and your aircraft stay up in the air as a result!
Thanks for watching and for sharing your personal feedback! It sounds difficult to snatch the instruction for you out of all the radio calls. If you start as a pilot, it is for sure difficult. But after a few days of flying you are getting used to it. For us, we listen for Eurowings first and then we concentrate on the rest of the call sign. We also listen to the instructions for others to get a good picture of the situation around us.
I love flying. That was fantastic thankyou :)
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Brilliant content, ideal for the airbus lover! Thanks 🙏🏻
Thanks for the great feedback! Have a wonderful day!
Great video! Will we see any departure videos in the near future?
Thanks for watching and the nice words! There will be departure videos once in a while. In general, the problem with departure videos is that the outside view at most of the takeoffs is not that nice as during landings. Reason is that we takeoff with a very high pitch and climb with a high climb rate. Pitch during takeoff is between 15 and 20 degrees, during the approach at about 2.5 degrees. Descent rate during final approach is about 600 to 700 feet a minute and during takeoff sometimes 3000 feet per minute.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos thanks for the reply! I think many of us would still appreciate videos of departures because some of us are more interested in what goes on inside the cockpit rather than looking at the outside scenery :D may I ask where you are based at?
Perfect landing Captain!
Thank you! Have a nice day!
Flown into Heathrow from both directions and yes, 09 is nice but I don't think you can beat an early morning arrival (middle of August) on 27R with the sun catching Tower Bridge, Houses of Parliament and the Millennium Wheel. Ace. Lovely orange glow reflecting off of it. Trouble is, whoever you fly with, you can't guarantee the weather or the direction for landing.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your feedback! I agree, this is the approach with the best views! Have a great day!
Lovely video thank you.😊
Thanks for watching!
This is brilliant. The only way you could improve would be a view of the MCDUs :)
Thank you for the nice feedback! I would love to include the ND and the MCDU. But tis is easier said than done. I keep working on that and hope for some kind of solution. Please stay tuned.
Great video!
Thanks!
Any particular reason your FO is doing "Call-sign" then message, when reading back, and not the other way around?
This was already explained before. To make it easy for you, here is my previous answer:
In general, the callsign shall be included in the readback. FAA, EASA, UK and other countries are slightly different in the regulations and instructions, if it shall be at the end, at the beginning or if it doesn't matter. My impression, flying in FAA, EASA and UK airspace is that as long as you put your callsign in the answer, ATC will never complain.
Away from that: To improve the safety of operation, sometimes it is much better for a crew to transmit the callsign at the beginning. Here is the reason and the ideal sequence of events: ATC gives the instruction to descent to a certain altitude or flight level, the pilot flying dials that into the flight management system. Then the pilot monitoring checks whatever had been dialed in and reads that altitude or flight level back to ATC. If the set altitude and readback is wrong, ATC will tell.
Especially in high density traffic areas like London, ATC expects a very prompt reply. So if first the flight level is read back before the callsign, the flight level may not be be finally set by the pilot flying and instead of reading back the number from the flight management system he or she can just reply what ATC told before.