Piloting AIRBUS A330 out of San Francisco | Cockpit Views

Hello again everyone and welcome back on board. We have just spent a wonderful 24 hours in the lovely city of San Francisco and have just arrived on board. Now we're going to start preparing the cabin and make sure all of our systems are up and running and ready to go, so up here on the top panel, I just turned on our helpers and um irs, we put each other on and then we will independently verify the position of the aircraft and align them as well. Up here I turned on the seat belt sign, the no smoking sign and turned on the APU to turn on the air conditioning in the cabin.

I'm just waiting for the refueling in process to finish before turning on the fuel. bombs and then once we talk to coordinate with the ground, we'll turn off the external power and, um, we'll disconnect the external power so that other than that, for the top panel, Airbus has the lights off, uh, philosophy, so , once we're ready to roll back, we're looking for just six lights on the top panel, we have this light etched here it should be on and we'll have our three apu lights and like I said, these are going to go out as well, so it's just going to be and this it's going to shut down so that's it and I'm going to load the box now, which is going to be done down here, we're going to load our flight plan for the night.

I just submitted this request. Alright, someone is helping me. a little bit with that while I'm busy chatting in about four minutes and we'll head out of Wesley Runway tonight which should give us a nice view of the city and also the Golden Gate Bridge again and then we're heading to Dublin, it's a flying time quite long for us, nine hours fifty, which is quite long for the return leg. The houses arrive in Dublin. A rather windy morning in Dublin. Winds reach maximum crosswinds for the west runway there in Dublin. I will be busy now so as not to delay the departure of our guests and we will speak to you again later on the flight.

Thanks, while Fiona loads the flight plan, I'm just checking the important systems on the plane. So at the top we turn on the Fedex buttons one and two on the engine, allowing us to look at the engine page and verify that the engine oil quantities shown are 22.7 quarts full on both and are also recorded in the master flight plan. checking the hydraulic system and our green system shows full our blue system shows full and our yellow system shows full and once again they are recorded in the master flight plan that is full oxygen in the cabin very important the production of the 330 cap is actually a cylinder that is lowered down in the e compartment and we are showing 1120 psi tonight which is important because there are four of us in the cabin so a minimum cylinder pressure for four of us on oxygen tonight would have been a thousand psi , so it is important to verify it. the master flight plan and finally the juice that takes us home is the fuel we needed. 60.9 tonight on our fuel dashboard is 60.9.

We are checking that the distribution is balanced and I am recording it in the master flight plan. There is also a lot of paperwork. so turn them off again now because we're done checking the engine oils and the rest of the cabin setup. I leave the pilot flying, who tonight will be fiona delivers good night clover 146.95 kieran please santana 2 foreign orca transition quebec 120 galley direct battle mountain lair presents rise through sid squawk 3377. safe 146 heavy clear to dublin tan 2 exit orca transition quebec 1 2 0 galley battle mountain and squadron 3377 so three three seven three three seven seven is on side two there and up for takeoff, good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking, my name is owen fitzgibbon in my name and captain kevin quinn in the cabin, first officer, if you are on shore, everyone is welcome on board, greasing a service to Dublin, still carrying the last of the suitcases, we are a little ahead of schedule tonight , we should be back in about 10 minutes, about 5:20, flight time to Dublin, so this afternoon it will be nine hours and 50 minutes, it's a nice afternoon to fly there.

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as we take off heading west here in San Francisco this afternoon. We will turn left after takeoff. I'm sorry. We turn right to take off. We passed the Golden Gate Bridge and headed toward the Sacramento area, climbing to 33,000 feet. The initial forecast for Dublin is in the morning, a typical January morning in Dublin, expect it to be quite humid and windy on arrival, but very mild temperatures, around 13 degrees Celsius, in the meantime sit back and relax, it makes us feel comfortable . I hope you enjoy the flight, fiona. He will take us to Dublin this afternoon and will speak to us again en route with more information about the flight route and update us when the arrival time in Dublin is in the morning.

Thank you. We have made the optimal configuration of the flaps. Good. The air conditioning is on. the anti-icing is disabled we will use flex today we are light enough temperature of 17 the q h 3 0 2 4 just to confirm 3 0 2 4 checks 17 okay zero wind and two eight left for the takeoff runway it is dry, yes, and a weight takeoff of 196. I guess we've burned 500 weapons, about 197, we could increase it a little bit, yeah, 1967 or 1968. 196,700 would be fantastic, I'm just going to recalculate for them, so We've checked all of these, I'm going to select this one later plus f to take off from my two-eighths length and then we'll go over all the figures, so we look at this anti-icing air conditioning off. a flexible takeoff 196.7 and we have verified the conditions, there are 2 8 left for the zero length change, it will be a flap takeoff once a flexion of 51 degrees is confirmed, a flexion of 51.

The engine acceleration is 1520 standards and then we have a v1 of 148 148 148 for a vr 148 155 v2 and just across 55. cross check 225 is our clean speed for that weight you check. I'm happy that we can leave this open in case sometimes they give us two eights right at the last minute, so If we leave that, we'll do it with Kevin, that's cool, we should change it, okay, honey, so I'll give you a briefing and then we will do a check and then we can push ourselves so we have been cleared in Santana. 2 departure from San Francisco, yes, so we have our plates on the tablets, but just for the briefing we will use our books that we can actually talk together, if that's okay, yes, that's on page 4-60 and it shows us taking off. clue 2-8 on the left and the initial part and then the written one will be on page 5-60, yes, so if we run both ways to the left, the heading is 284 and at 520 feet we are going straight to the king. kiros santana so in the flight plan we have 520 feet santana del rey kirila.

I have verified the tracks and distances in the box. The initial climb clearance is 3000 feet 3000 to set up and is displayed in blue marks that says here to contact one two. zero decimal nine and a recorded altitude is expected ten minutes after departure, so just looking at the image and then taking off to the west, those are the points that we just checked and then we're doing an orca transition that takes us to this runway . from zero three five to orca who is looking in the box there, he takes us to orca and the track is checked, we just take a quick look at the overview of the high ground and the safes of the sector with three five as we head towards north, there's a five one high ground on the right, if we had a problem we'll go back to runway two, eight on the left, yeah we'll have to keep that high ground in our minds, yeah if we're here we can always make a left turn yeah turning left towards c would be sensible yeah okay that sounds like a good plan and that there is an emergency turn just take a quick look at it so the emergency turn from my two eight to the left is on page four, dash zero four.

Yes, and it says that for takeoff we are going to climb to the runway in 3.1 from the SFO which is in the rad nav. We have it on both sides. I see it and it's set up here and at 3.1 miles is runway 301 and after. flat protraction continue to sector msa, so sector msa will be three five again and contact atc very well and suzanne, just a quick look at the taxi. We are both quite familiar with the airfield we are at today at stand 25 95, so since the Gulf area stand 95 is right halfway to the dock, here we will be pushing back, probably with the tail towards the dock, yes, and then once we have completed our checks and are ready for the taxi, they will probably authorize us for a taxi. to point ten on the right and then to contact the ground, once we contact the ground he will transfer us normally to alpha as we taxi out through alpha and then we will pick him up again here on the chart you are exiting via alpha.

The way to avoid it is to stay close to runway zero one normally on this foxtrot taxiway here on the right and there are two runways to cross that are being used as exits. Very clear that we have authorization for both runways, once we have authorization. traversing safe and continues foxtrot for a total length of two eights left the threats during taxiing this traffic could be leaving the different taxiways uh we will keep an eye on that crossing the active runways and as I mentioned before the last minute change of two eights left to eight right, if we get it, we'll stop, we'll take our time, we'll get the figures right, we'll make sure all the right things are in the box and are you happy to leave two eights left to come? back, even if we take off on the right, yeah, I think things are like, yeah, okay, aside from those threats, it's late at night, it's already one twenty Irish time, so, just be alert Due to fatigue, we have three pairs of eyes in the cabin.

All right, there are no weather threats outside of here tonight and sometimes outside the rescue runway there is that inversion that can happen whenever there is a temperature inversion, so we'll keep an eye on that. and I'll just keep a sensible image the flight director will do a bit of bubbling but you can have a good time no that's great fiona thank you very much I'll do a check please okay so before we start the check , like that again. I mentioned before checking that I have my six lights one two three four five six so cabin preparation cabin preparation is complete ramp good evening to you it's clover 146 heavy we are at booth 95 completely ready requesting thrust and start mark 146 heavy ramp good The night push is approved, signaling ready for the taxi.

Push back approved. We will let you know ready for the taxi show. Mark 146. Heavy cab. Ground copy. Our push back is approved. Now the parking brake is still on. Release the brakes. Please stop releasing now and you will be free to push him back. I always like to sleep, we have alpha so 59 6359, received, I'm calling with permission and they should have something for you. Round trip blue 188 approaching a taxi with chaplain alpha 188 San Francisco land track one to the left of alpha for now working in Las Vegas time until a heavy track left detour either one or even two eight heavy san land taxi

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Yes taxiway cloverleaf 146 heavy duty guitar front one left wait short runway one right drag the part out of the junction right one left but keep short one right understand the traffic is too far away and clover one forty six okay so we can cross the left side strong 887 turn left and land one two four point two five let's turn to land 24 25 united states at five eighty six I'm just going to run to a right sign upaway one right turn on to wait united five eighty six 146 heavy cross remaining one right hold short up eight left cross one right hold short left club 146 so we can cross we are clear on the right there is a guy standing in line lovely and the strobe light is well seven zero nine content of lemon or a caterpillar 709. in fish on twitter and I have tied a runway one well cleared for takeoff 9586 or a new one well cleared takes off another 586. sorry for that on the wrong button clear to go one correct confidence 5738 contact around one two four point two five by fifty-seven thirty united twelve forty-three across eight to eight left and contact one two four point two five sky is sixty-three fifty-nine shock hole in position in two eighths keep rolling wind three three zero seven eight one to the right clear for takeoff clear for takeoff now one to the right let's go sixty-three fifty-nine redwood and nine three eight chapter position in two eight wins three three three seven 23.90 coast guard six five two six radar contact passing four hundred caution turbo inside the

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