A380 first landing at SFO..Anybody can do it

[beana51]

Airbus A-380 First Landing at SFO.....NOW ...THIS IS REALLY WORTH WATCHING !


Use full screen !






The pilots sit away from everything, no yoke, etc. Captain pulls up a keyboard once in a while to enter info but the plane does most of the work.....



The humongous A380 makes its first landing at San Francisco airport. It seems extensively automated. The air traffic controller gives them heading, altitude and speed, and they dial it in. Pretty interesting.



For best results go "full screen" on your monitor. It will seem like you are in the cockpit.



http://www.wimp.com/approachlanding/

[Warhawk1130]

That was very cool! thank you for posting that!

[andersel]

EX-CELL-ENT !!! Great video.

[srgalahad]

This link was posted hear a year or two ago, but here's a refresher -A380 cockpit panorama http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htm

[Sascha66]

Looks like that is flown entirely manually. You can see the gentle inputs on short final with the sidestick. Lufthansa company policy allows manual landing and pilots routinely make use of that. Very nice video, thank you for posting!

Btw, this is the exact approach that Asiana 777 failed recently.

Regards,
Sascha

[bstolle]

1.Lufthansa company policy allows manual landing and pilots routinely make use of that.
2. Btw, this is the exact approach that Asiana 777 failed recently.

1. I don't know a single airline which doesn't allow pilots to perform manual landings.
2. Definitely not the case. If the ILS would have been working, the Asiana 777 most likely wouldn't have crashed.

[stiz]

the approach and landing are different stages

[bstolle]

Huh ?

[beana51]

FAA Tells Foreign Pilots to Use GPS When Landing at SFO


http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local...-217338431.htm

[alehead]

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Andrew Entwistle

[beana51]

Try this Andrew similar article Vin


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...francisco.html

[n4gix]

The best quote in that linked article is this:

“If we’re going to put a pilot up here, we need to have him or her knowledgeable of what it means to be a pilot,” Nance said. “That means when everything else goes to heck in a handbasket, you can fly the airplane.”