A pretty cool and professional vidio and recording of an approach into SFO.

enjoy,


http://laughingsquid.com/how-to-land-a- ... l-airport/

bumper

Professionally done...

...both the production and the management of the flight. In the final analysis it was really all about watching the airplane fly itself. Give the ole boy credit though. He did click off the autopilot the last 500 ft.

I'd have much rather watched him hand fly a 200 and 1/2 approach: no autothrottles, no flight director, 20 kt. crosswind component gusting to 29, blowing snow.... with a slick runway.

That would have been a demonstration of airmanship.

Bob

If you want an honest assessment: The gear was extended somewhere between 6000 and 4000 MSL. Unless he was doing a "down the bay visual high dive to 28R" (nope) or he was way high for his position (nope), that's way early. Also slowed down way early which means he had to hang the flaps. I had the audio off so the controller may have had him slow early but typical assigned speed is 180 kts from the intercept vector to a point about 6 miles out then slow to target speed. Want to watch fuel disappear quickly, get that 747 down low, dirty and slow. I'd guess that this approach cost an extra 2000 pounds of fuel. Just my 2 cents worth.

Mr. Ed wrote:If you want an honest assessment: The gear was extended somewhere between 6000 and 4000 MSL. Unless he was doing a "down the bay visual high dive to 28R" (nope) or he was way high for his position (nope), that's way early. Also slowed down way early which means he had to hang the flaps. I had the audio off so the controller may have had him slow early but typical assigned speed is 180 kts from the intercept vector to a point about 6 miles out then slow to target speed. Want to watch fuel disappear quickly, get that 747 down low, dirty and slow. I'd guess that this approach cost an extra 2000 pounds of fuel. Just my 2 cents worth.

He had him slow to 160 pretty early on the approach to keep from overtaking a 75 on the parallel...

Chris

That was really cool. I like how they printed the checklists on the screen while the pilots were going through them.

I'm with Z3Skybolt...I'd like to see the heavy snow cat III.

Here's a quick cat III into Milan:

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This one's not quite as bad, but eases you into it better.

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1SeventyZ wrote:That was really cool. I like how they printed the checklists on the screen while the pilots were going through them.

I'm with Z3Skybolt...I'd like to see the heavy snow cat III.

Here's a quick cat III into Milan:

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This one's not quite as bad, but eases you into it better.

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Trouble is...

CAT III are required autoland: where as CAT I ( 1/2 mile) and at some airlines CAT II (1,200 RVR) can be hand flown.

Anyhow....I have some great "real world" cockpit video of takeoffs- approaches and landings in a DC-9(24 years ago) MD-80 (20 years ago) a B-727(10 years ago) a B-757 and B-767( one year ago.) All of them handflown. Autopilot, autothrottles and flight directors turned off.

They are a lot more relaxed examples of airmanship and typical line flying than the slick productions like Virgin Atlantic. But I don't know how to present them here and besides.....this is a backcountry flying forum.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Bob