Pilots camera view flying an A380

[Jimbuna]

Pretty cool...I'd love to be a pilot :cool:

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

[u crank]

Excellent Jim. Great video.:salute:

It would be a great job.

[Skybird]

Saw it for the third time now, I think. There are several good videos done by this company, PilotsEye.

[Sailor Steve]

That was highly entertaining. Thanks, Jim.

My dad was a pilot for United Airlines for thirty-six years, starting as a co-pilot on DC-3s in 1952 and retiring as a captain on DC-10s in 1988. When I asked him if he missed flying he said "No". He felt like he had graduated from airplanes to office buildings with wings. That was just his own personal experience of course. Perhaps after all that time he was just tired of it.

Even though I don't like riding in airliners anymore, it was still cool to hear the very familiar sounds when the flaps and landing gear came down. Some things never change.

I think it's pretty cool how the autopilot, which used to only keep the plane flying straight and level, now does whatever they dial into the computer, and I loved the GPS that even told them exactly which taxiway to take to get to their gate. I also loved that they used several cameras so you can see everything that's going on.

Awesome stuff! :rock:

[Rhodes]

Very great, thanks Jim!:up:

[AVGWarhawk]

I would think the job as a pilot gets mundane after a few months. Take off. Auto pilot. Land.

[Jimbuna]

I would think the job as a pilot gets mundane after a few months. Take off. Auto pilot. Land.

Looking at all the automation I was wondering if that would be the case too :yep:

[JU_88]

Cool! nice one Jim :salute:

[Jimbuna]

Danke F :cool:

[Platapus]

Wow, just dial in the heading and speed. Cool!

[Sailor Steve]

"Come left to one-four-zero."

"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."

[GoldenRivet]

Flying is great fun.

Just today i helped a buddy reposition a couple of airplanes to the other side of the state of Texas for maintenance.:D

I enjoyed my airline days, for the most part. but i found the flying to be highly "technical" - perhaps that is not the best way to describe it... i guess what i mean to say is that it is very robotic feeling. Almost as if there was a disconnect with the passion of it i guess. There was a highly regimental procedure for even the most routine of activities in the airplane (with good reason of course)

"There is a difference between a pilot and an aviator; one is a technician... the other is an artist in love with his medium."

there are several variations of that quote but it is very true

it has been 4 years since my last FAR Part 121 airline flight, my full uniform and kit bag still reside in the hall closet almost as if waiting to be called to action again.

i admit that i still occasionally dream of it. Sometimes i am sitting in the pilot's lounge conversing with my old colleagues about the storms and the delays and asking how "the ride" along a certain route is.

other times i just dream that i am up in the flight levels, taking in the view.

I had a lot of positive and negative experiences during my airline stint and i wouldnt trade the memories of those days for the world.

But flying in the airline world helped me realize that even though airline life could sometimes be fun...

i've found that it could never best this...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8397299956_f9218c9524_z.jpg

thanks for sharing the video Jim... it brings me back to some happy days to see that

[JU_88]

How come the cockpit computer barks 'retard' retard' when the aircraft touches down? thats a new one on me... :O:

[GoldenRivet]

It is indicating that the thrust levers should be reduced. Probably to near idle.

[Herr-Berbunch]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=201011 :hmmm:

[Dowly]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=201011 :hmmm:

Aye, thought someone had posted it before.

[Platapus]

How come the cockpit computer barks 'retard' retard' when the aircraft touches down? thats a new one on me... :O:

Well they WERE landing in San Francisco. :D

[Jimbuna]

Well they WERE landing in San Francisco. :D

It was also a Lufthansa :)