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Pilots Eye TV - Landing an A380 at SFO
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If anyone is interested this is the approach they're flying:
https://resources.globalair.com/dtpp/globalair_00375IL28R.PDF
They expected this approach (to 28 right), but then early in the video you can hear the controller tell them to expect 28 left. The captain expresses some frustration since they had obviously conducted a detailed crew briefing for the right side. Then, a minute later, the controller switches them back to 28 right and the captain gives a "WTF" look to the first officer.
They are approaching the airport from the north, and once they overfly it are instructed to fly a heading of 140 degrees to (roughly) parallel the runway on the southwest side and set them up for a series of left turns to final approach. You can hear references to DUMBA and AXMUL waypoints, and late in the approach you can see them pre-set an altitude of 3000 feet in the autopilot in case they have to go around (see the Missed Approach instructions in the upper right corner of the approach page).
https://resources.globalair.com/dtpp/globalair_00375IL28R.PDF
They expected this approach (to 28 right), but then early in the video you can hear the controller tell them to expect 28 left. The captain expresses some frustration since they had obviously conducted a detailed crew briefing for the right side. Then, a minute later, the controller switches them back to 28 right and the captain gives a "WTF" look to the first officer.
They are approaching the airport from the north, and once they overfly it are instructed to fly a heading of 140 degrees to (roughly) parallel the runway on the southwest side and set them up for a series of left turns to final approach. You can hear references to DUMBA and AXMUL waypoints, and late in the approach you can see them pre-set an altitude of 3000 feet in the autopilot in case they have to go around (see the Missed Approach instructions in the upper right corner of the approach page).
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Just prior to touchdown, the captain is chanting "retard, retard, retard". I'm assuming throttles? He's got his right hand on the throttles, playing to the flight recorder? Or is he prompting the co-pilot to get ready for thrust reversers & what looks like spoilers?
I noticed the controllers routed another flight onto the left runway, apparently across the flight path of the Lufthansa plane.
I noticed the controllers routed another flight onto the left runway, apparently across the flight path of the Lufthansa plane.
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He's talking to his copilot who he discovered is a liberal democrat.
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That label has a different meaning ins der Vaterland. Might still get the same response.He's talking to his copilot who he discovered is a liberal democrat.
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The "retard" callouts are being made by the aircraft's synthetic auto-callout system. In this case the callout is nagging the pilot to get the thrust levers back to the idle stop prior to touchdown. This is important for two reasons:
First, (as we discussed in the other video about short field landings) it's important to get the thrust off as the aircraft nears touchdown because otherwise the landing point would be extended far down the runway.
Second, retarding the thrust levers to the idle detent disconnects the autothrust. The approach in the Airbus is normally flown with autothrust on, and if it's not disconnected prior to the flare the autothrust will simply do what it's designed to do, namely add thrust to maintain the selected speed, and adding thrust when you're trying to land is the last thing you want. In the video you can actually see and hear the Captain disconnect the autothrust at one point on the approach. It's not clear that he re-engaged it, but the auto-callouts suggest that he did.
By the way, the term "throttles" is kind of a Boeing thing. A throttle is a carburetor control, and Boeing kind of stuck with it when they moved to jet engines in the fifties. Airbus started with a clean slate in the seventies and decided to call them what they really are: levers that control a jet's thrust.
First, (as we discussed in the other video about short field landings) it's important to get the thrust off as the aircraft nears touchdown because otherwise the landing point would be extended far down the runway.
Second, retarding the thrust levers to the idle detent disconnects the autothrust. The approach in the Airbus is normally flown with autothrust on, and if it's not disconnected prior to the flare the autothrust will simply do what it's designed to do, namely add thrust to maintain the selected speed, and adding thrust when you're trying to land is the last thing you want. In the video you can actually see and hear the Captain disconnect the autothrust at one point on the approach. It's not clear that he re-engaged it, but the auto-callouts suggest that he did.
By the way, the term "throttles" is kind of a Boeing thing. A throttle is a carburetor control, and Boeing kind of stuck with it when they moved to jet engines in the fifties. Airbus started with a clean slate in the seventies and decided to call them what they really are: levers that control a jet's thrust.
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Thanks. My recollection is that just before the captain put his hands on the thrust levers, he engaged the autothrust. The camera showed AUTOTHRUST ON. I kinda wondered about that.
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