Airbus A-380 First Landing at SFO with 800 Plus Passengers (commercial, engines, Boeing)
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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.
Thanks for posting. That's a sweet video. It did seem like I was in the cockpit. I would like to see it at night with all of the controls and monitors lit up. The cockpit looks like one big computer and the beast flies by itself. The Lufthansas are gorgeous airplanes. I've always liked the airline's livery. BTW, amazing views of the Bay.
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.
Hi Bones - Actually, unlike Boeing, Airbus airplanes, including the A380, don't have the control yoke infront of them, they have a control device/handle (like a joy-stick) on each side, on the captain's left side, and on the first officer's right side. They also have the rudder pedals infront of them. Airbus does use a lot of automation in their flight control systems, as Boeing does in their later generations of commercial airliners. Those systems are designed to minimize the chances of pilot errors.
In the SFO landing they used an ILS approach. I haven't watched the entire video, but I will later.
Cool video. But I'm a little bothered that nobody's actually steering the brute.
When the auto-pilot is set, the Heading parameter takes care of "steering" the aircraft in the correct direction. All you need to do is select the Heading (in degrees) as instructed by the air traffic controller and the computer takes care of the rest.
I'm not sure about the A380, but I know on some commercial airlines if you have the auto-pilot set and you use any of the controls (Pitch, Roll, or Yaw) the auto-pilot automatically disengages. That's done just in case a sudden change in the directional heading is needed, otherwise one of the flight crew members would have to disengage the auto-pilot manually, and take whatever necessary maneuver is required.
I am not a 380 fan. However, I tend to like the automation. Less chance of a screw up. In some of the shots you can see the captain using the side stick. The sound of the engines was beautiful. I also liked the head on view and the swoop of the wings.
I can't imagine that the Lufthansa A380s carry 800+ passengers. It has to be more in the range of 500-550
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