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A310 Landing Training - The movies (16.01.2005)
By chance, some spotters were taking pictures at Prague/LKPR, and thanks to Jan Vodrazka, who sent me four movies, you can be part of the game and see in motino pictures and sound, how my first A310 landings looked like. No comments... :-) All movies in WMV-Format (Windows Media Player required) All movies courtesy of Jan Vodrazka. Thanks very much! Due to high server loads, I had to password protect these movie files! Get your password by email (gear-up at gmx.ch), or download them at www.flightlevel350.com (look for "Hapag-Lloyd" - "AirbusA310").
(wmv, 11.7MB)	D-AHLX/A310-204 Rups Droste's first approach (single engine), and single engine go around. Due to the simulated single engine operation (the other engine is running at idle), the "dead" engine spools up when the TO/GA levers are triggered, but is immediately retarded again. You can hear the engine spool-up, and then going back to idle. Then Rups' is "kiss-landing" the big bird on single engine operation, and taxies out. After taxy back to the holding point (not shown), it's up to me: My first real takeoff in an A310!
(wmv, 17.2MB)	D-AHLX/A310-204 My touch and goes. The first two are a bit bumpy due to the crosswind (check the rudder movements!) and the extremely lightweight aircraft (just around 85 tons instead of around 120 tons landing mass). But the third landing is smooth, and the fourth is okay. After the fourth tough and go, one engine is cutted to idle to simulate an engine failure as well, and the last landing ist flown with simulated single engine operation. Note that after the touchdown, I may use both thrust reversers, and together with the huge ground spoilers, they lift the nose of the lightweight aircraft off the ground, so very late during the rollout, the nose gear touches down for a second time (smoke cloud).
(wmv, 6.0MB)	D-AHLZ/A310-204 We have exchanged D-AHLX which went to the maintenance hangar with D-AHLZ which came from there, and are performing a rated thrust takeoff. Usually, reduced thrust is set on takeoff to save engine life, but every now and then, we gotta have some fun. So check the incredibly short takeoff run, and the climb attitude (you can see that I was trained to rotate shallow to 18° nose up to prevent a tailstrike on takeoff, but with this light aircraft, I could have "torn" the aircraft away from the runway, and nothing would have happened. Afterabout 10 seconds I try to maintain the safe climb speed V2, and have to raise the nose to a pitch of about 28° nose up. The vertical speed indicator was stuck to "+6000ft/min", the highest possible indication it can show, up to nearly our cruising level of FL240. :-) Performance? Oh yes, available... :-)