AIRBUS COCKPIT TO FUNCHAL 🇵🇹 (FNC) / MADEIRA! | FULL EUROWINGS A320 APPROACH TO RUNWAY 05
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- Exclusive multicamera cockpit insights into an approach from cruise altitude to runway 05 at Funchal Airport (FNC / LPMA) on Madeira Island in Portugal. Cockpit, pilots, charts, and sidestick views. With briefing. Filmed in 4k quality. Produced with 6 cameras. With ATC (air traffic control) audio and ATIS (automatic terminal information service) audio. ATC callsign is Eurowings 1BZ (Eurowings One Bravo Zulu). Commercial flight number (which is printed in the tickets) is EW 9600. Airplane registration is D-ABHA.
The Captain is pilot flying. The First Officer in the right seat is the pilot monitoring. The Portuguese aviation authority requires that all landings and takeoffs at Funchal airport are performed by the Captain.
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Content:
00:00 136 nautical miles to fly / remaining flight time approximately 25 minutes
00:39 Passenger announcement in German language
02:12 Passenger announcement in English language
03:35 Approach briefing
19:00 Approach Checklist / Passing 10000 feet
19:45 Entering the Pilim holding pattern
24:09 Flaps 1
24:20 Contacting Madeira Tower
24:49 Airport in sight
25:00 Cleared for visual approach runway 05
26:17 Autopilot off
27:05 Flaps 2 / Flightdirectors off / set runway track
27:50 Gear down
28:10 Flaps 3 and Flaps full
28:30 VLS check
28:50 Landing Checklist
30:00 Overflying displaced threshold
30:03 Radar altimeter countdown 50, 40, 30 ...
30:10 Smooth touchdown on runway 05
30:34 Leaving runway and taxiing to the apron
31:10 After Landing Checklist
32:25 Arriving at parking position
33:40 Parking Checklist
33:52 Debriefing
34:35 Chocks in position verbally confirmed by ground crew
35:38 Cabin crew
35:40 Presentation of used charts / ATIS audio recording
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Splendid landing! First Office had not only cowboy boots, but attitude as well 😁
I like to fly with him!
I always love this approach. So much skill. Love the F/O wearing cowboy boots, his name should be "The pilot cowboy!"
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I am out of words actually. Thanks for that insight.
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Never seen a pilot do the "foot on the dashboard" before.. 😅
I imagine it goes with the boots :).
With the cowboy boot
Feet on the dashboard is quite common. Especially on the ground or in the cruise.
There's actually dedicated auto-retract footrests beneath the flight displays, for both pilots on most of the modern Airbuses (A320 onwards).
There are footrests installed which we use for that.
I wish Eurowings flew into London Stansted, would love to speak to you over the RT. This channel is such a gem. Each video is just like being able to do a fam flight for ATC, but from the comfort of home!
Thank you so much for watching and your great feedback! Best greetings to Stansted!
I'm still in awe of this channel, it's such an underrated gem. Thank you for another amazing video!
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Veeeeeeery nice.As always...Thanks Captain.
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Obwohl ich inzwischen schon beim Abflug bin habe großen Respekt für Euch. Sehe nun die Landung vor einigen Tagen von TAP Air Portugal an. Ich habe befürchtet dass die Kiste sich überschlägt. Auch wir mussten damals noch mit der LTU über einer Stunde über Madeira kreisen bevor wir unter schwierigen Umständen landen konnten. Allerdings für Menschen die Natur und Blumen lieben und keinen Strandurlaub erwarten ist diese Insel zu jeder Jahreszeit fantastisch! Großen Respekt habe ich für alle Piloten die bei diesen Flughafen mit den Scherwinden konfrontiert werden!
Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das sehr gute Feedback! Wenn der Wind ungünstig weht oder die Wolken sehr tief sin, kann es auch mal ein paar Warteschleifen dauern, bis man anfliegen darf. Die Landung, um die es hier im Kommentar geht ist die Landung eines Flugzeuges, dass in Funchal mit dem Bugrad zuerst aufgesetzt ist. Ein Überschlag ist dabei eher nicht möglich. Allerdings kann das Bugrad beschädigt werden, da es dafür nicht ausgelegt ist.
Amazing approach .. another great video
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Great landing and great video. Thanks very much for those insights.
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As usual smooth and professional - thanks for the ride along!
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Thanks for this very interesting video.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent!
Many thanks!
Always wonderful
Thank you!
Ich habe es genossen!! Danke.
Vielen Dank fürs gute Feedback!
Ah Madeira, one of my favourite airports, especially a landing on 05 👍 Danke Stefan 🙂
Thanks for watching and your good feedback! Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das gute Feedback!
Good morning Gentlemen thank you again for another fascinating video. best wishes.
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Been waiting for this special one! Classy manual approach captain! Bravo 🙌👏
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Immer wieder ein schöner Anflug auf die 05 in LPMA. :D Danke
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wow. what a beauty!
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Great landing and manual finals (again)! The Bravo exit was superb landing. Thank you, Captain!
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Another great demonstration on procedures learn so much from your stream
👍👨✈️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderfully produced video. Great views. Great crew.
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A great approach and landing. That turn on base to final reminded me of my time flying gliders 😃 Really enjoyable and dredged up lots of old memories. 👍
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Da war Alles dabei Warteschleife perfekte Landung auf dem Christano Ronaldo Flughafen zu Funchal auf Madeira bitte machen Sie so weiter vielen Dank für das Mitnehmen
Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen! Einen schönen Tag noch!
That landing checklist was within 10 feet of being against SOP ;) Great approach and landing. Love your videos!! I fly Euwowings regulary and hope to hear your voice over the PA someday! Keep it up!
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LPMA is always a blast to land on... at least now you can rely on a RNAV approach. It was so cool and challenging when it only was a VOR approach. Excellent video as usual!
Thanks for watching and your feedback! Yes, the RNAV approach is not bad. But it is very similar to the VOR approach. The big improvement is that we have a CFO approach, which includes the RNAV approach and adds instrument guidance of the visual part down to the runway. Most of the time, I prefer to fly a "real" visual approach with the flight directors off.
I am a real fan of your videos ! So professionnal… and addictive when you love this plane 😅. Thanks captain ! You’re the boss 😎
Thanks a lot for your kind words! Have a nice day!
Nailed it Cpt
Thank you!
Manual and not easy, complimenti
A nice weekend To you all
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Another superb video. Very enjoyable. That was a fast decel to just about make the turn off the runway to save backtracking. Hope everyone had their seatbelts securely fastened. Good stuff.
Thank you for sharing your good feedback! Nobody complained about the landing. The deceleration was not that extreme. If we use autobrake medium and max reverse or even max manual braking the plane needs even less landing distance. Here, the upslope of the runway helped in the deceleration process.
Great flight and landing ! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you very much!
The best channel
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Wonderful approach from hold captain, also nice Rnav landing. Looked like you enjoyed that landing as well very nice 🛬 👍
Yes, you are right, I enjoyed the landing and the approach. Have a nice day!
Madeira! what a beauty! and what a difficult approach...
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That was a smooth landing
Thank you!
Ah the SFO has delayed his promotion by a couple of years, sadly. He should have replied when you said how was it? “That was an excellent landing Captain!!!!”😂😂😂. Excellent as always, many thanks! Keith
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Greetings from Brazil. Please make the videos of full flight, evolving pushing back, taxing, taking off, cruising altitude; and then, descending, approaching procedure, landing and taxing to the gate. I Love watching the whole process. Nice videos.
Thanks for sharing your feedback! There will be more full flight videos coming. Here is the playlist of the full flight videos which I already published until now: ruclips.net/p/PLa2FUXnb0gRDxTwj--G07ivQQ80pe2eG4
LPMA macht im Sim schon Spaß. Real muss das der absolute Thrill sein. Tolles Video und interessant wie schnell konfiguriert wird. 😊
Und interessant wie schnell du die Sinkrate im final korrigierst. Mega Video. 😊
Vielen lieben Dank fürs Anschauen, die ausführlichen Kommentare und das gute Feedback! Bei dem schönen Wetter macht es auf jeden Fall Spaß, nach Madeira zu fliegen!
Mega Anflug und Landung. Bin gespannt, im Mai bin ich auch auf der Insel. :O
Vielen Dank fürs sehr gute Feedback! Es soll auf der Insel sehr schön sein! Ich kenne nur den Flughafen. Aber die Fluggäste und Kollegen, die schon mal dort waren, sind alle begeistert.
I like the cabin crew pcture at the end, all part of the team,
Thanks for watching and your helpful feedback! Whenever possible, I try to show the flight attendants. You are right, we are all one team. Everybody is an important part of this team.
Madeira is always a highlight! Remember as a passenger to sit on the right side... 😀 And believe it or not, there is a small "marina" under the runway extension to haul out boats. The whole structure is quite impressive from below - check it out if you are there!
Thanks for watching and for sharing your personal and interesting feedback! I have seen photos of the installations underneath the runway. I hope to have the chance to visit Madeira soon and will definitely checkout the area underneath this very special runway!
I am very appreciative of these videos Herr Kapitan, Danke! May I please suggest replacing the rear facing inset view with a view of the MCDU so that we can learn the more subtle nuances of FMGC manipulation? As much as we enjoy watching you and your colleagues, this may be a more educational option. Thanks for considering, and PLEASE continue these BRILLIANT video series. C
Thanks for watching and your very helpful input! I try to work on a solution for displaying MCDU and ECAM screens in the videos since a while. It is more difficult than I thought. Reason is that it must be done in a way that it does not interfere with our flight operations. So the possibilities are very limited. I hope to find a solution in the future. Have a nice day!
Hallo nice Video ,i watch often the live streams from FNC Airport ,when you switching from RNP approach to Visual ,is that kind of a shortcut 🤔
Thanks for watching! Changing from RNP to visual approach here does not change the flight distance that much. It is more like that we can fly our own vertical and lateral track and that we can configure the plane differently during the visual approach if we compare to the RNP approach.
Another excellent video. Q - on the approach to Funchal, aircraft are often forced to fly in a holding pattern. I have often seen this in FlightRadar24, where aircraft fly an extremely accurate pattern, often multiple times. I assume that the hold is controlled by the autopilot - how is that programmed/executed?
Thanks for watching and for joining an supporting the channel as a member! Yes, you are right, holdings are once in a while required during the approach to Funchal. The hold is programmed into our autoflight system and is usually flown by the autopilot. It consists of a synthetic waypoint and a certain course to the waypoint plus a timing or a mileage to and from the point. The details are shown in the approach charts as you can see in the video. Have a nice day!
Captain, nice app and landing.Just for sim-- why flap full not 3 in this windy conditions and why selected speed? THKS
I prefer to land with flaps full due to the lower pitch in the final approach and during the flare. Also the approach speed is lower and it needs less runway. Flaps 3 is good for very wild and changing winds. Selected speed removes the approach speed target changes caused by the groundspeed mini function. I prefer to add some speed and use selected speed at Funchal and Samos airport. At all other airports, I appreciate the help of the groundspeed mini function.
Very Nice Approach and landing. I think it's the first time i see the base turn done quite high (1600ft), i know the the minimuml altitude is 940ft but i thought pilots would maintain 1000ft then descent with the PAPI. RNAV-V is a custom company approach ?
Thanks for watching and your question! The RNAV instrument approach, which you have to fly in weather with low clouds and / or restricted visibility has a minimum descent altitude of 940 feet. This is the altitude you would maintain during such an approach until the final descent starts. Here we flew a visual approach. We usually fly visual approaches at a traffic pattern altitude of 1500 feet above the airport. So we continued at about 1600 feet (because the airport elevation is about 100 feet) until we started our continuous descent to the runway for landing. RNAV-V is a custom company CFO (company FMS overlay) approach.
Sir, I've been following you for a long time now, thanks for sharing the cockpit videos, I've learned a lot!
I would like to ask you a little question, why is it that when you fly LPMA you often use select speed instead of manage speed? I hope you can answer it, thanks!
Thanks for watching and your personal feedback! Selected speed deactivates the ground speed mini function. If the speed target is managed, it may change rapidly with changing winds. With selected speed it stays exactly at the selected value.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Thanks for the reply! I thought the Airbus ground speed protection feature might have made the airspeed less stable on a short final approach that required a 180 degree turn. Best wishes!
Another awesome video thanks for all you do to show us what you do !! Do you have a date and time for this landing as would love to watch it if Madeira aviation caught you landing !!
Sorry, due to privacy reasons I am unable to release the date and time of the flight.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos ok no worries just keep the videos coming there great 👍
Tolles Video! Danke! Wie warm/kalt ist es eigentlich im Cockpit? 😅
Danke! Wir können die Temperatur beliebig einstellen. Jede Crew macht das so, wie es am angenehmsten ist. Ich finde 24 Grad ganz in Ordnung.
sehr schöner Anflug. Danke dafür. Wie warm waren denn die Bremsen? 960m bis zum Abrollen. Würde mich einmal interessieren, wie weit die sich aufheizen. Danke. Generell DANKE für Ihre professionellen Videos.
Vielen Dank fürs gute Feedback! Die Bremsen waren nicht sehr warm. Wir haben maximum Reverse benutzt. Das reduziert die notwendige Bremsleistung. An die genaue Temperatur kann ich mich nicht mehr erinnern. Ich denke, es war nicht viel mehr als 300 Grad.
Ex LATCC Atsa subbed 👍
Thanks!
Hi Captain, nice video as always ! Can I ask on what criteria you deactivate the Flight Director to be fully manual ?
As soon as we do not want to follow the flight director anymore, we switch both flight directors off. We also switch them off if we are flying intentionally a raw data approach.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos thanks you ! In this video, why not follow the RNP approach with the FD till the last moment ? Because it is a specifically hard approach ?
@@Powellounet We used only the lateral guidance of the RNP approach until sometime during the downwind. Then we switched off the flight directors and continued without the flight directors during our visual approach. If we want to use the guidance until the runway we have to arm the approach and follow the lateral and the vertical profile of the approach. The vertical profile would guide as to less than 1000 feet very early in accordance to the instrument approach. This makes sense during low clouds or so but here the weather was fine and we could stay in 1600 feet and continue with a later descent. Here we were on a visual approach and we did not want to follow the flight directors. So the correct action is to switch them off.
Great video. Do you have any tips for becoming a commercial pilot
Thanks! Go to your local flightschool or flying club and do some flights with an instructor to get some real experience. Start with a private pilot license and find out if you want to do this to earn your money in the future.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos thanks for replying. Greatly appreciated
Beatiful visual approuch, but i think so very dificul.
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I wonder if you could have made PILIM without the hold if you put out flaps 1 early and reduced airspeed further
This is a good question! Best would have been to slow us down very early as we arrived at the ocean shoreline in Portugal. Flying from there with minimum clean speed (green dot speed) may have avoided the holding. But ATC may not have known at this early stage of our flight that a hold is needed.
I assume that Flaps 2 may have helped to avoid the hold. But this is not sure. Another option would have been to ask us to extend our downwind during the visual approach.
We finally did not have to fly the full holding. So it was not a problem for us. ATC at Madeira airport is always doing a great job.
Did you need to fly the holding because of your slot (because you were so early)?
I do not know exactly. We arrived before our coordinated airport slot. This fact is usually no reason for a holding. Reasons for a holding are a full apron, too much arrival or departure traffic or even bad weather which allows no landings. Here, I assume that ATC had to make some room for departures.
Good evening Captain, how you doing? Can I make a question about fly by wire? During FLARE MODE is there direct relationship between sidestick deflection and control surface deflection?? Or is always a roll rate and g factor demand but with less limitation? Thanks.
During flare mode, the Airbus behaves very similar to a conventional plane. There is some kind of a direct relationship between our stick input and the elevator deflection.
Nur eine Frage.
Aber warum ist im PFD nicht „Land“ zu sehen und das Callout fehlt auch. Ist das nur bei bestimmten Airports ?
Only for ILS approaches
Land gibt es nur im FMA mit eingeschaltetem Flightdirector bei ILS-Anflügen. Und den Callout machen wir nur, wenn Land im FMA steht. Hier war es ein Sichtanflug mit ausgeschaltetem Flightdirector.
Hopefully you were not scheduled for madeira today. Lots of holding, diversions and go-arounds. Did you see the TAP a321neo do a nose gear first landing this morning? Some paperwork for the Captain for sure😅
No, luckily I did not fly on that day. I saw the TAP landing video. I hope there was no damage to the airplane. This shows again that the wind at Funchal airport can be very challenging.
@ApproachandDepartureVideos The aircraft stayed overnight for inspection and was cleared to fly today.
Funnily enough, they boarded after that landing and were lined up on the runway when maintenance called and told them to return to the gate and de-board. Interesting day for sure 😅
Mega ❤❤
Thanks! Danke!
@@ApproachandDepartureVideos 95 Tage noch dann geht's los nach palma de mallorca
Do you have any Videos from/to Hamburg?
My last Hamburg flights have taken place during horrible weather. So I did not record a video. I hope to be back to Hamburg in the near future in good weather. As always it may take a while. Please stay tuned!
I have never seen those displays (?) between the stick and the loudspeaker on each side... What are those?
Possibly CCTV screens showing outside the cockpit door
Usually, this screen is shown instead on the instrument pages in the center of the cockpit. This plane has an extra screen near the stick.
May I ask why you elected to use selected speed for landing in this case?
This eliminates speed target variations caused through the groundspeed mini function.
Habe ich eigentlich letztens richtig gehört, GWI5JU nach Hamburg?
Ist möglich. Einige Flüge werden unter Germanwings-Rufzeichen durchgeführt.
@@ApproachandDepartureVideosja schon, aber die Stimme im Funk kam mir bekannt vor :)
What?! Where's the gusty winds? ;-)
Sometimes it is not that gusty at Madeira! Most of our passengers prefer to land in non gusty wind.
mega Jungs .schade dass das kein 737 Boeing ist ...
Danke fürs Anschauen und das persönliche Feedback!
Hello dear Captain, I actually went to search for this approach and landing on the Madeira Airport Spotting channel, and to my delight I discovered that both your landing AND the ensuing take-off featured on their live stream of the 23rd March! My joy was complete when I saw you both gave Pedro (the camera man and channel owner) a kind wave and even a few flashes of the lights! 😁Das war wirklich schön und er hat sich so sehr darüber gefreut! 😄
I'm pasting the link for you - your approach features at around 49:58 and your taxiing/departure procedure features at approx. 2:25:00. By the way, the roaring of the engines when you took off was just delightful! 🤩
ruclips.net/video/ndHGqvtm95w/видео.html
Thanks for watching and thanks for the information of the airport stream video of our flight. I like the Madeira Airport Spotting channel. If you are in contact with him, you can help me. For another approach, I wanted to combine his views with my cockpit views in one video. Unfortunately, I was unable to reach him to ask for permission.
What is CFO?
Actually I think it stands for Company FMS Overlay - Google says that’s a conventional approach that’s been coded into the FMS as an RNAV approach.
Company FMS overlay means here that an instrument approach (RNP) and a following prescribed visual pattern are combined into one approach which is coded in the flight management and guidance system and gives the pilots flight director guidance until the runway.
29:33 A classy way from the captain to tell the FO to shut up 😂
Not really, wind is the no.1 concern here and small bits of info on short final are helpful.
I agree! I appreciate the inputs of the First Officer! HIs monitoring of this approach, including the feedbacks, are very important!
die triebwerke sind nur "zur hälfte" ausgelastet ?
was fliegen an "reserve" verbaut hat 👍
Die Triebwerke laufen nur selten mit voller Leistung. Selbst beim Start können wir die Leistung fast immer etwas reduzieren.
How does he know that he is flying „strade“ and not to much left / right?
This was a visual approach which means that the main reference was the outside view. During the downwind part of the approach, we followed the track of the instrument approach which is displayed on the navigation display. During the base turn and on final approach, we positioned the plane manually in accordance to the visual approach chart and our current position in reference to the ground and the runway.
Würde man in Madeira nicht mit full rev und auto brk medium landen?
Wenn diese Aussage korrekt wäre, hätten wir das sicher auch so gemacht. Wir berechnen vor jeder Landung die Landestrecke und entscheiden dann, wie wir bremsen und reversen. Eventuell änderen wir das dann nochmal bei der Landung. Hier hatten wir ausgerechnet, dass Autobrake Low und Idle Reverse gut passt mit reichlich Margin. Ich habe dann jedoch max Reverse genommen, um nicht ein Backtrack-Verfahren durchführen zu müssen. Wir haben etwa die halbe Runway benötigt. Das demonstriert ja auch sehr schön, dass es bei dieser Landung absolut keinen Grund gab, stärker zu bremsen. Jede Landung ist individuell und die jeweilige Crew entscheidet, was für sie die beste Lösung ist. Manchmal ist sicher auch max Reverse und Autobrake Medium die beste Lösung.
why have a holding
To "pause" your arrival until runway is clear for you to land - could be other traffic and/or maintenance (as here on the fence I think) causing delays.
Holdings are done because the amount of arriving traffic in a given timeframe has to be reduced. Reasons may be getting too close to the preceding airplane or that room is needed for departing airplanes. Sure, also a blocked runway or the need to remove ice and snow in winter may be reasons for a holding. We also have to fly holdings if the weather at the destination is not good enough for a landing.
I hope you have been having trouble free flying. Here in Australia for some reason it is always on Jetstar airlines problems are erupting. Only a few months ago a man vaped and then urinated on seats. Followed by that someone claimed backpain and wanted to leave the plane as it was taxiing. Then others chanted war in Palestine and wanted to leave the plane so the pilot had to turn back and vacate the plane. The last one was some woman went berserk and after 2 hours of flying the pilot had to return to base! How frustrating for everyone and how terrible. The First Officer spent all his time trying to restrain this woman instead of assting in flying - could have been dangerous.
Thanks for watching and your interesting insights into the Australian aviation. I am lucky: Most of the time, I fly with very friendly and well behaving passengers. Very often we fly them to or from their vacation. So they are in a happy mood. I personally can not report such incidents. But I know from news reports that such things do not happen only in Australia.