Pilot's view: Airbus A380 approach and landing at SFO

[LeeH]

Dang, that is one big flying bus!

Pilot's View: Airbus A380 approach and landing at San Francisco. [VIDEO]

[Rtrorkt]

ugly plane. Done that approach many times in the back of the bus

[motion]

Cool vid, thanks. That thing is huge. Flying by keyboard looks very cool. Captain is a bit of a drama queen!

[Scott Douglas]

Dang I wish I didn't get airsick so easily.
Thanks for posting that. That was very cool.

[stealthn]

That was kool,

I can turn knobs and use a keyboard too does that mean I can be a pilot?

[MT930]

Originally Posted by motion

Cool vid, thanks. That thing is huge. Flying by keyboard looks very cool. Captain is a bit of a drama queen!

+1

Give me an West Texas Drawl on the radio and a Boeing Next time.

Pilots sound like a episode of "Sprockets"

The plane is a large marge.

[fingpilot]

The approach controller gave them a change of runway to 28L, then realized that the call sign category of "super" meant ILS 28R was required. The captain got the keyboard out to reprogram the autopilot (which can be a PITA because you have to pick the intercept point out of a long list). The controller corrected the clearance, and the Captain reacted.

I don't think drama queen was it. I have seen drama queens, and that was mild.

[berettafan]

Saw a show recently on most dangerous runways/airports in the world and it was very cool. Some require prior certification before use!

Craziest one required a banked turn over a dense city near hills and had multiple 'go/no go' points of reference. Seemed like you had to be perfect from the very start of the approach to hit it. Asia somewhere.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Saw a show recently on most dangerous runways/airports in the world and it was very cool. Some require prior certification before use!

Craziest one required a banked turn over a dense city near hills and had multiple 'go/no go' points of reference. Seemed like you had to be perfect from the very start of the approach to hit it. Asia somewhere.

Watch some of the YouTube videos of landings at Kai Tak in Hong Kong (closed 1998). Scary stuff.

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by stealthn

That was kool,

I can turn knobs and use a keyboard too does that mean I can be a pilot?

My wife, the RJ captain, frequently states, "Anybody could do what I do." I just smile and nod.

She said that while there are obviouisly differences between an RJ and an A380, that what's going on in the cockpit in the video is the same thing going on in her cockpit on the approach to SFO.

[sammyg2]

My little brother runs a company that has four corporate jets. One is for the owner to use whenever he goes anywhere, the others are for charter.

He flies the boss around and he jokingly refers to his job as being a "glorified bus driver".
I sat right seat on a couple trips, seemed to me there's more to it than he lets on.

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

My little brother runs a company that has four corporate jets. One is for the owner to use whenever he goes anywhere, the others are for charter.

He flies the boss around and he jokingly refers to his job as being a "glorified lust driver".
I sat right seat on a couple trips, seemed to me there's more to it than he lets on.

Fixed it to make it either a "sammyism" or recycled it for added interest.

[herr_oberst]

"That's a bit sporty"

I thought that was pretty funny.

[Icemaster]

Originally Posted by fingpilot

The approach controller gave them a change of runway to 28L, then realized that the call sign category of "super" meant ILS 28R was required. The captain got the keyboard out to reprogram the autopilot (which can be a PITA because you have to pick the intercept point out of a long list). The controller corrected the clearance, and the Captain reacted.

I don't think drama queen was it. I have seen drama queens, and that was mild.

Thank you, I was wondering what that was about.

[kiwiokie]

A plane of that size is never going to look svelte but IMO they did a nice job managing the proportions. I guess Lufthansa sanctioned this video? Pretty elaborate camera work for an amateur job.

[flatbutt]

So odd seeing a pilot with no yoke in his hands.

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by kiwiokie

I guess Lufthansa sanctioned this video? Pretty elaborate camera work for an amateur job.

This is the original source:

One Cockpit - Two Pilots - Six Cameras | Welcome to - PilotsEYE.tv

[mikeesik]

Great.
Sure takes awhile to land it.

[romad]

Other then pay these airplanes truly diminish the reasons one would want to be a pilot.....just flight managers.......they even program the go around, just sit and watch. You need a ILS day VFR?.....I would fall to sleep on approach. Love the part where he reaches down and turns a knob too one zero zero and said, " now that was a sporty turn"...funny and sad. Also where any of you dismayed at the FO's radio procedure?

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by romad

Other then pay these airplanes truly diminish the reasons one would want to be a pilot.....just flight managers.......they even program the go around, just sit and watch. You need a ILS day VFR?.....I would fall to sleep on approach. Love the part where he reaches down and turns a knob too one zero zero and said, " now that was a sporty turn"...funny and sad. Also where any of you dismayed at the FO's radio procedure?

Actually I thought the FO was more focused than the Captain. The FO just said on the radio and to his Capt. what needed to be said. The Capt. was more verbal probably because he might be a tad nervous. Overall good cockpit procedure.