Transatlantic Airbus A220-300 Delivery: Air Baltic ULTIMATE COCKPIT MOVIE Montreal-Riga [AirClips]

good afternoon from Mirabelle in Quebec Canada we are here at the Airbus Canada production facilities where the Airbuses are being built and what these are being built my name is Paul Salafists I am a captain and head of flight operations at Air Baltic yes, hello My part and specifically to all the Eclipse fans, as Paul already mentioned, we are in Mirabelle at the

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production facility and my name is Giovanna McKee. I am chief pilot in our Baltic and also captain only a 220 and today we have a We have a very exciting day ahead. A very interesting day in which we will take our new plane from Mirabelle.

We will take a direct ferry flight to Europe back to our base in Riga. Latvia. We will do it shortly. Currently, we are behind us. We have our next aircraft that is in production, so the aircraft that flew today is our 18th Airbus 220 in our new Airbus 220 fleet and the aircraft you see behind us is the 19th aircraft that will be taking shortly, in a few days or possibly next week it's always an exciting process to receive new aircraft here at the Mirabel factory in Montreal, so we are very excited to leave in about an hour and frame the plane directly to Riga, the plane that was flying today .

It was accepted a few days ago and is completely ready to fly. The opportunity to fly the acceptance and

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flight is something special that we have had the honor of doing on numerous occasions with our growing fleet. It's a great thing to take a new plane. the latest in technology, the most modern airliner that exists in a completely new state and bring it from the factory, take it to its new home, where it will fly and do a lot of work for us, since they both are because The airline, the flight today will last approximately eight hours, but we will do a full briefing once we get on the plane and show you the route.

Shortly we will be gathering our things and we will be on our way to the plane. you, but the plane has just been towed to the stand, we can actually see it on our left side, it's parked with the stairs there and as soon as we're done with the briefing here, we'll continue on our way. To the plane, some papers were printed, of course, we try to keep it clean on the iPad, but we still remember the documents that we are printing and working with on paper, but basically, if you start going over what we have here today we will be operating as airBaltic or Bravo tango India nine eight zero one on our flight from Mirabelle to Riga which is a direct flight crossing the North Atlantic just some of the important figures for today's flight which We have a flight time of seven hours and 57 minutes , so almost eight hours are planned with a cruising speed of 0.7 eight and we should cross the North Atlantic at flight level four one zero, yes, we have to get up before we reach the North Atlantic. authorization, but I think that in terms of weight we should be good mm-hmm the tanks are always full when leaving the factory, that is one of the good things about taking new airplanes.

Part of the deal is that you buy a new plane and you also get full tanks of fuel. And then, in our case, it is 17 tons on board today, perfect. I think all the automakers could leave us. I take it from an example. Yes, it would be appreciated because we had a flight planned with an alternative destination which is Palanga which is in Lithuania, no problems with that. 30 minute flight from Riga if we need to go to alternate and of course with some full tanks we are not in a minimum fuel situation we should have a few extra tons once we complete the flight mmm we have today's route we put it on the iPad in our Jefferson letters, it's pretty standard, as we have been doing before leaving Mirabelle, we will cross into Newfoundland to position the hoist, which is our entry point to the North Atlantic ahead.

The route takes us just south, so we'll cross the southern tip of Greenland right at the tip of that and then we'll proceed westward, correction to the east, coming just south of Iceland and we'll cross north into the Faroe Islands. , and then he didn't. our departure point from the North Atlantic and then we are almost in the final stretch that crosses just north of Oslo in Norway to the south of Sweden from Stockholm Sweden and then to Riga in Latvia waiting in Riga I think the wind forecast is an approximation from heading south heading north to land on runway 36, taking into account the weather conditions, we have both been doing this flight several times, so we have a pretty good experience and know what to expect on the route and both here in Airbus' base of operations.

Here in Mirabelle and obviously also in Riga. Time-wise, I haven't marked anything of particular interest that could be operationally. Nothing you don't know operationally significant about the climate. Riga is forecast to have good and indeed pleasant weather. The temperature will be It's good, it's getting warmer and we're expecting just some light clouds when we arrive for our landing, which will be early in the morning. The alternative destination is fine. As for the weather, on the route we have several interesting places that we could use as our loot. Ultimates Goose Bay on the coast of Canada mm-hmm I hadn't been there before I think so, yes, yes, when we hear the queue of hundreds of people from Toronto to Riga, new, we have a stop at Goose Bay to refuel. so it's there if we need it to help with the weather, actually some light snow, light rain is forecast, but still the airfield is definitely usable here we have some of the weather maps that appear with our route as we see that There really isn't much light.

It's not the ordinary picture that we have a very light wind that initially carries us as a tailwind and then becomes a headwind when we once cross into Europe, right, I think the overall impact on the flight was that we are seeing a completely uniform wind. a headwind, yes, a component of only two knots on the route throughout the route. Oh, this is quite unusual, but it's Shirin's stuff. A long flight time. Yes, we have a long flight time that I mentioned before, just under eight hours or seven hours. 57 I think the fastest I've done on this flight is about seven hours and 10 minutes.

Yes, we can see that the wind can play this role. Approximately 40 to 50 minutes of impact on major weather maps. There is nothing important on our route. Just a few more things we had. to make a manual loading sheet that has been completed, yes, so we are ready to start, we will load it into the FMS and we are also balanced with the empty plane on board, it will be us and some people from our team return to Riga, yes, quite light, about 55 tons takeoff weight and then with a trip fuel of about 13 and a half, then the landing weight is only 42 tons, 42 tons come in and then plan to land with about three and once and a half three or three rounds of fuel yes well finally just some details about the route we have a full briefing as this is not our normal scheduled operation we have some things to remember in more detail in the North Atlantic In fact we have here the Complete briefing on the North Atlantic.

A few things to keep in mind with this: First, our route intentionally takes us north, above the North Atlantic waterways. These are the actual tracks being used for this afternoon's return from North America to Europe and As you can see they are taking advantage of the jet stream to get better elevation towards Europe and our route is approximately here as I said below Greenland , so we are well clear of the North Atlantic traffic crossing over our plane, it is not with any HF equipment north of a nice calm, so we have VHF coverage here for part when we talk to Gander.

Gander is broadcast over a gloomy Greenland, so we also have coverage here and then we have a part here that we're actually waiting for. come into coverage with Reykjavik so that we are free of the North Atlantic routes, you know, Jetstream was or was not, we are under the hood, the same is under us and also at eye level three four zero four anything to the big picture, that's what we're looking at today shows the flight, yes, eight hours, yes, not much to see outside, it will get dark at some point mm-hmm, however, it's always an exciting flight bringing a new plane to Riga, so even though it's standard and straight, it's a It's exciting to do good.

I think the next step is to get to the plane. We will configure everything with the FMS. We will enter the flight plan. You will do a complete tour and check the action of the plane. I know it's a brand. Again, our technicians have also been very busy preparing the plane and making sure it's OK, but you'll also be putting your professional eyes in the air. I'll do it, let's do it easy, yeah, come on, so we'll take a tour. Now, I'm going to do a walkthrough that is basically no longer necessary because, as you can imagine, the technicians and engineers have been checking this airplane very, very intensively for the last few days, however, it belongs to the work of a pilot who immediately before. the flight he or she simply goes outside and has another look that really everything is fine and in a normal line flight what we would be looking for is any type of damage that there may have been either from the ground equipment a flyer that has not been placed in an appropriate way, specifically the sensors here at the front of the aircraft are of course very, very sensitive to these things, but nevertheless the skin of an aircraft is very, very vulnerable and we also want to see that there are no dents, damages or scratches. there, of course, birds, as you know, I'm specifically at this time of year, they can have a very strong impact if you hit a bird, so we want to make sure that you don't take damage like that in Everything, so I'll do a very quick now and I'll see that everything is really okay.

The front landing gear. I mentioned that the sensor is already very, very important to us. I always observe very intensely that these sensors are not there. Anyway I touched on the new Airbus at 2300, as it says very well that they are in the fuselage and we are very proud to receive this 18th example of our fleet, as you can see, normally this would be something I would pay special attention to. a little bit of liquid down there on the floor we have the APU running towards the air conditioning unit which feeds and produces fresh air in the cabin and this is just condensed water coming out of the air conditioning system, static discharges like You can see here the little antenna line that looks like things, they are static discharges, as you can imagine, depending on the environmental conditions, it is very important that any type of electrical charge on the plane is discharged overboard, I don't want to.

We're talking about lightning or something like that, they're not extreme cases, but nevertheless the friction, of course, causes and ignites the electrical static, so the main landing gear and it has our brakes, of course, brakes on both sides, the Front landing gear has no brakes. generally the brakes on these airplanes are electric so there are no hydraulic lines anymore so anything you can see here are basically electrical lines that go to the brakes and the tires that you have, like everything on an airplane , has redundancy, so you could just put it. one tire, but if one tire goes flat or, how to put it, suffers some damage during a landing or takeoff run, then you still have a second tire there, so it's all about redundancy, two pilots, two engines, two wheels on each landing gear. so if one breaks, you still have the other one and as you can see here on the landing gear, we don't really have any closure.

There is no, as on large airplanes, a door that would seal the compartment where the wheel folds. So you see there were the wheels, they fold up and then basically, this here is the lid of the wheel compartment, the development of the noise, we have the APU running, the APU is the third engine actually on board. Our aircraft is a small cone and stall turbine engine which is located in the tail. Here you can see the doors of that little engine down here and the exhausts there and it powers us with electricity we don't have right now. any other source because of course the engines are not running now, it gives us fresh air in the cabin, also warm or cold, whatever we want to do, so it powers the plane with all the essential elements and even here you realize how much This airplane is quieter compared to any standard airplane that you know on the market now, so it is loud, but nowhere near as loud as you would normally hear it and the environment around an airport greatly appreciates the lower noise and and the sound emissions from this plane also down here, we think the ground crew would do that again, but we notice that all the doors and hatches are closed and there are also many small compartments underneath for the ones in the wing.

Fear of the body here, what is this partof the fuselage. You see the seals are around here and this one here just extends around the body of the plane and contains a lot of systems, all the hydraulic pumps are here and a lot of other systems. well, and of course I have all kinds of little hatches and doors that need to be closed, so during my tour I also notice that they don't look like that, but that they are closed correctly and that we can take out with everything nice and well made, new engines Of course, like everything on this aircraft, they are new, but they are not a new development either and the difference in these engines here is that this is a geared turbofan, so it has a gearbox.

Basically ensuring that the engine has a much higher bypass ratio, which is twelve to one, which is absolutely exceptional where the airplane is in. excellent condition as I thought and as we expected, so basically we are ready for our Au

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ferry flight, so we boarded and finished the final preparations. See you soon miracle radio good afternoon this is our Baltic promotion in India 981 and we Will be fine for runway zero six parabolic way e01 verbal reading good afternoon sir we will be ready very soon just want to make sure and we are parked right now at the Bombardier platform and we just want to make sure that you have an active flight plan for us come on in a minute I thought you had a flight plan for me thank you and Mirabelle radio line departure echo Romeo Oscar Bravo Romeo Oscar November is Mike Oscar Bravo uniform Bravo echo Bravo Mike Oscar the member Charlie echo Romeo don't go to the party Ravello D has been received thank you very much this old copy tell L read that back so clues of more than six for us to Riga by the Mirabelle nine exit Opera by Bieber on the Moss Yankee Quebec Bravo mobile app and then respond and after that, like a file and the squawk six two one one, we won't leave without validation and I'll call you again for a taxi as soon as too.

Thank you very much for the taxi. I'll call it 101 decimal 8. everyone takes 981, yes they actually did this last time too, where the initial part of the authorization was changed, these are with these positions, but we have answer and then it's 500, so it said just the first part of the routine until those interested calm down. You see, I just entered the route, I checked it twice and we see that it makes sense, we have the total distance of three four four five and that matches our flight plan. Here we will have the opportunity to actually sooner, when we get our our North Atlantic clearance will double check the Atlantic points that are on the FMS website currently makes sense and that gives us a flight time of approximately seven hours 48 and landing fuel of 3.2 tons, so that is for the route and is initially planned in the FMS you configured.

Flight level three Nine zero, but we know we're shooting from four one zero, yeah, over the north coast, so actually, that's it, we can start with the pre-flight checklist. In a few minutes, here come the pre-flight checklists, ready and we're off to a plane. don't come on board and check the emergency team that checked Givens on board, so it was confirmed that we have here and the top panel that are checked, except for the research spray, and they checked this place, just come back, yeah, this was thrown back into it. advance this point, so let's drink well, nice detector, the complete circuit breaker is sucked from the ankus and the information is fine on the molds I that look normal with the verification, all subjective multimeters apply, so the latest information about Quebec It was nine or six five minutes sent through super genre. cell on the other side, check, said well, it's checked, the pedestal, medications, brother, oh yes, that was also ejected, side levers, check the left, check the right, oxygen masks, the passengers of the left district checked around product arrests, perfect, excellent complete flight checklist, so let's briefly discuss the performance, really, yeah.

I don't have to complete mine, so 2:05 11 was the temperature okay h2 906 moment to six-five and I'll remove this shape 55 or 55. I've done two calculations across its length and then across its entire length. Initially, yes, I am wearing the full length and have lapels; yes, with a tank of one and a flex of 36 36 degrees on the flexible yoke, one with seventy-nine point three million and rejection and then 133 34 and 38 and an acceleration and stopping distance of twenty-three twenty-four that is well verified, so before we start the checklist before we start the checklists we have the tiger briefing yes the take off briefing we are here on the Bombardier pad as we discussed once we got out of the tango , that Mara bell tower. the radio that expects 0-6 will have a long-lasting problem, there are some planes in the circuit, but a fairly short taxi due to its short taxi to the saint 0-6, yes, and then we are already cleared, already on the way out of Mirrorball nine that is configured nearby never get lost here on runway zero six and that's very simple, go ahead, all bearings are from zero to three thousand, yes, then radar vectors are expected for a route, chapter three thousand seven , but that is verified, so the chances of safety are 3000 percent in the northwest quadrant. for a departure it indicates 3100 notes and for non-normal ones operating with our standard procedure before 80 knots, if any abort the takeoff after 80 knots, study one of the significant failures, such as stopping the procedure after it won, we are out , we have to take off, wait for the current 855 for a little overweight, but no problem returning, well, that's good here in Maryland, we also deal with problems, that's the case, otherwise standard procedures, any question is clear no thanks ok i will get a briefing.

You have completed the perfect APU under external wear on the APU. bacon, bacon and parkerich, that's before the star chick is complete and the

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could put that house on, right? We're completely closed, perfect, so we have free space in the basement and I think the gentleman across the street is in the lesson and ready for us, that's perfect, okay, so we are completely ready here for the start sequence, starting with number one, okay, let's do it, thank you and the ignition stable, okay, good start with number one, now studying them to start well, that is under just three small related pressures, thank you. step, okay, terrain, we have a good start on number two, disconnect, remove the trucks and we are ready to go.

Thank you, thank you, thank you very much, see you next time, bye, see you. I can offer you the default taxi checklist. I will be more. so glad that completely before the taxi hydraulic checklist three sorry Otto, three weeks to be in the APU the flaps don't like the wing anti-icing test not necessary now the anti frown so strong in the anti roll I'll get over the Flight controls checked Nastya at FMS, it's set up and just to confirm, take off one, what are the speeds briefly to indicate revenge, oh that's perfect, just the 36 is set up for the flow 36 to reach again the speeds, yes, but they accept that no, they are exactly.

Don't you just have to post them? Yes, my chocolates posted on the server. Yes, yes, we have the clear signal. My offers. Otherwise, the ornaments are said to get six point seven, two green, they look fantastic and my cousin's information, let's review. Well, sorry, sir, perfect, just reviewed and without. before the taxi checklist is completed, you want me to get you a taxi, yes, so that's with superpower, talk to dispatch for dispatch. Baltic 9/8 still one, we're ready to roll. I think nine eight zero one thing you can continue with, we are introducing the taxi thank you very much for your hospitality we will take this beautiful bird to its new home have a pleasant evening and see you soon have a good flight sir thank you for being well great radio variable hello again I will take 9 8 SC 1 Bombardier skipper and we are starting our taxi now approaching the games around nine eight zero one daisy earth Roger track zero vkontakte el tango Bravo and Caleb for the track el tango Bravo kilo track before sixty and nine six five on the altimeter all the technology water okay just going through the door now in the car so clear and now it's going to be straight to the tango right yeah we'll be all of them for just a minute or two run away zero six little touches so more or less in the right direction or hope Today the flight time is around seven hours and eight minutes, so that means we hope we are done.

I think it now seems a little before 6:00 am. local time, so we will arrive in Riga early in the morning. The lines are called Rigga, the route is the same as always, so it's just south of Greenland towards Iceland to look all the way to hope, but it should be nice to see the doctor build more custom stuff, so thanks for The work is always by the susceptance number. 18 in crafty Lima the Romeo Gerhart Cup and I will do our best to give you a good slide today, so sit back, lie down, enjoy, let's go home, okay, this is kilo, I'm back with you and tick analyst, no the kilo to fall short with nine. eight zero one today divide by P 1 1 I 1 19100 I will take 92 the Baltic 9/8 Mesilla in 19:1 with you O'Neill around 1901 Roger here authorizations I would escape zero I understood that the departure from Montreal is in two one two four six five is in the morning when one two four six five confirm that frequency twenty four is six five one in the air and we are approaching holding point zero six, we are completely ready for the part where our discussion will take nine eight is the only that comes out annoying, there is a perfect part that is valid, yes, now let's do that quickly before we go, good, perfect, so the cabinet is ready, break, artyom chaika sent the control and, without the incident, the tank of the checklist is complete, we are authorized to access the correct side.

The sector is free, there is no problem. Can you make a left turn for a long moment? Now, downwind, I'll have the TV player out and we'll throw things. We'll be heading up the runway, so let's go. Yes, what are belts? They're stupid, okay? the seat belt sign, please sit down and fasten your seat belt. Thanks, zero six girl, we have clearance for everything, just listen to that guy, okay, okay, clear, super, so we're ready to go, okay, ready, oh, let's make it completely ready. Yes, enjoy and of course all of you also enjoy the takeoff momentum of the flight set.

I mean, you know, this first sense, the big one, also turns time, the carob selections, let's move on: my date there, Roger hugging around the first percentage of montrose u20 in the five. left of 5003 laughing to get on first Kevin moved on it was time to discover Malchus good night about technology and still one Mirabel reflects the poacher complaining 1008 about that by p90 there were no jokes but there was unidentified fun - 1001 6000 holding on in two in 6,000 check that people change a license verify perfect only I don't want to do it again from 7/7 it says that for a quarter of the duty if it takes four five five to one six thousand I will take 1901 when it is a wide receiver Let's go because we go directly to the pair and I'll take nine eight seven Bieber Bieber heading our own sequence sequence selected plop zero selected hello we could recover five in two to connect maybe candy here and cut me not so good at something and I break you I know it's more than it uses food that just accounts now director I can't really have to think of a checklist so I guess the guy chickens 22m I'll take 9 8 7: there we are good, took thousands of old senders of old rails turn one on you better not be a fake floor with a terrible tick 1981 okay then, it will be a good standard start in the city, let's try to cross 10,000, it's a good time, now I can do that, the lights and the action belts too so that the lights are also sorting exactly as we expected, the exit was built, just the word spread and we're almost there, only seven hours 41 to go, 742 deal, damn, and six in the morning; plus, it'll feel like six, so initially. level 49-0 spend a little time there before taking the opportunity they caught the nerd without hurting him it should be a cost it starts working yeah actually text Rika the word they flew fantastic for the first win Candido and a car, We both understand it, take the 30 or 40 specimens.

Look, African, you can find the sigh. Java. The effective alternative is visible. Oh, big time, no one. I want entry 9 since we know the economics of boat service or here one who is a partner. one has, could have another good night, take nine eight zero by passing one more than 2 6 6 4 to 18 about the trip there, could come back,find a small smart unit or its own plumbing for Illya Sarah, public nine eight zero eight two Niner zero set two nine zero check heard the traffic, so I also sent an ACARS message to operations at sea. I don't think I need what they need.

Content of your toy in corn. Voice made in the hallway. Take nine eight zero. I think you already know. the children's toys before expressed that the other two marked run, it is a good address, your host is our entry point for the north, we have to record or obtain authorization an hour before and the hoist is actually like the host from the coast, which is approximately one, two, three, level three. going through three seven sir over the three seven zero three seven two checks and I left my level change marked so I'm titling a message coming, I'm spoiled.

Good news, Timaeus boy, yes, someone is waiting for us, yes, he is looking forward to coffee. He's not bigger, the engineers are always shouting in the kitchen, yes, so with 145 seats in the back, the Brezhnev crew is a great choice. Hello, my name is Sandra, I am technical director of Air Baltic, normally the assembly of the aircraft is starting. six months ago and then many parts are assembled and the factory includes so many different supplies from different areas of the world Europe Asia, you will say that they produce too many people, they take some time just to collect, so the assembly of the plane is starting normally with the collection of the so-called tubes, so they just put the office owners together and then put the wings on, then we replace the landing, they just put the plane on the ground and we go to the different death stage, then come the ancient. electrical systems, all other systems are coming to the interior, so the interior at this time is the longest part of the assembly.

Right now, it's almost two and a half months in, but Airbus is trying to ramp it up to make it faster, okay? We are back now and the flights are proceeding very smoothly, very good, very calm, they were on our part of the flight in the North Atlantic, we are currently halfway between the east coast of Canada and going up and halfway to the basement, now we're crossing our place a waypoint for your position report this position is fifty-eight more to zero-five-zero west so soon and elidio this is at least part of the flight surveillance radar that your husband follows, yeah and I think I willDo that quickly now just to report where we are, gander radio in the Baltic nine eight mr. a medical report now Baltic nine eight zero one position five eight north sir five Sarah West in two one three nine estimating six one north and zero four zero West in two two two four and six north zero three zero West next about a company that maintains flour will fall to Mac seven eight this frequency the four zero Western Baltic nine eight zero yes, that's marked Oh, very well done, so we are currently sailing in Mackay 0.78 gives us a forward speed here because we have a very light tailwind . a telling component of about 17 knots, giving us a ground speed of 475 knots to point out the fuel efficiency on this aircraft, we currently have a fuel flow of 1700 kilos per hour, which is where of course it is very light .

Let's say that because we only have four passengers on board, there aren't too many of them now, so there's really no payload. However, the fuel flow is of course extremely low. She can hear that: classic transport planes of this size currently have UTC time. 21:48 the timer has passed 2 hours and 40 minutes since departure exactly five hours until we planned to land there were 2 hours and 40 minutes this plane has burned 5500 35 kilos of fuel the distance traveled 1000 just reaching 1200 2,200 nautical miles left to still make half the flight, the plane left acceptance just a few days ago in Mirabelle and has not yet reported any commercial flights, so there are no passengers on board, only people involved in the production. of planes and our team has also been on board.

It was a very special feeling, but it is so clean, new, clean, intact like a new car, it smells good. We know that once the plane lands, we have a pretty standardized process for the plane. to be prepared for commercial flights, we can do it very quickly and in fact the team comes on board and makes some changes in terms of some configuration changes that need to be made in the computers, which we don't do and we don't make a verbal but Then we also prepare the cabin, collect some of our equipment and the loose equipment that needs to be brought on board and I am sure that the world of airplanes will land in the morning.

Hendrika early in the morning. I don't know what the exact plan is. It's when we go a little further, we can contact operations and find out what the exact plan is for this aircraft. We could imagine that the plane will be in operations on the same day, the same day, so within a few hours of its arrival, it will actually fly, yes. It is not the first time we have done this, so far we have had very short delivery times, so we have transported the aircraft from the production facilities to Riga and then of course we have a commercial interest in putting this aircraft into production as soon as possible. soon as possible. as possible and there is no longer much work to do, everything is prepared and, as Paul said, it is necessary to place magazines on board the passenger security cards and then, approximately, you can take the plane on its first commercial, So far everything is ready.

Preparations would have been made even before we talked about the delivery of the plane. I think we actually hold the world record for the fastest commercial aircraft being put into service. Commercial Service Once we were comfortable with the process last summer, we delivered a plane. I landed on the ferry flight and within 60 minutes, that is less than an hour, the plane took off or departed for its commercial flight, so of course we were planning and making sure that everyone was really like a big crew like in Formula One waiting. our arrival and doing everything necessary, but it was literally less than an hour that the plane was already in commercial service after the arrival, the direct flight, let's now go a little more about the acceptance process, so at Mirabelle we have a team , a team formed by flight. technical and operations staff and we also have people who coordinate the process and, finally, our legal teams also participate, but in general, the plane goes through the acceptance flight with an hour in which our specialists are technical pilots and prepare the airplane with emotions and with a test pilot or a factory pilot from Airbus Canada where they can fly together with a certain flight profile to verify and demonstrate certain functionality of the aircraft.

This is probably the most important process of acceptance through the acceptance flight. All systems are shown to be operating and obviously if any issues arise during that process, they are rectified before the aircraft becomes our property, so we have some pilots who are trained and capable of performing this flight. . Gerhard is also one of those attack pilots who can do this flight profile. and to make this technical acceptance, he has a few words about the acceptance flight. Yes, of course, these acceptance flights are of course for the purpose of ensuring that the aircraft is in perfect condition as we assume ownership. a manufacturer, so the plane physically still belongs to one of us at that time and before we send the money for the plane and physically take possession of it, we want to make sure everything works and meets the standards we expect. production, which is a standard process, and the first acceptance flight lasts about four and a half hours, is highly dependent on weather conditions, we need certain weather conditions to accomplish certain tasks and of course we need to have a certain area in which we can To make this flight, we need to have it reserved for us, so around four and a half hours, one flight may take a little longer than the other and that is where we perform certain tasks that are very clearly defined, it is a of our pilots flying, so they would be the technical pilots, I have the qualification and both established and it is one of the Airbus Canada pilots because of the legal side that they still have ownership and then there are certain tasks in the

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done at the same time , we check the Kevin gear at certain altitudes, of course the cabin pressure varies between the aircraft being on the ground and being at its maximum cruising altitude of 41,000 feet and we have a cabin pressure difference of about 8,000 feet and We can Look, now we're sailing here at a flat level for 1 0 and we have the cabin down here and an altitude of 7800 feet, so of course there's a significant pressure difference and we just want to make sure that everything inside is behave that way. we must behave well, lockers open, toilets work the way they are expected to work, of course the kitchen equipment, as well as ensuring that passengers welcome us, get their service with food and drinks in their own way, We hope to serve you. normal flights that serve passengers, so all of that is tested during these flights just to make sure that we have confidence in this specific additional production number.

Of course, they are all produced to the same standards, but as we all know, there are always small details. differences when it comes to fine tuning and we make sure everything is done. We have great support with Airbus, as we always have from the beginning. This plane is how I would say that excellence is the way. In fact, we have the support as a customer, the attention to detail and the support that we receive from all the employees involved of the manufacturer in this aircraft delivery process is magnificent and we are very, very satisfied with the support. we got there and yes, then it could be that we would have to depend on a certain part of this flight which could have different reasons, it could be that we couldn't see a certain detail, it could be that we were not allowed to travel by plane.

Traffic control has to do a certain part of that flight, so it might be that we have to put it in a second or even a third cycle in this acceptance area on the plane and, as I said before, this one here, for example, It had 18 cycles. a standard would be between 10 and 15, so we see that at an early stage, even before we enter the scene and start our acceptance process, that the manufacturer's production pilots have done many flights at an earlier time just to fine-tune . and making sure that everything is ready for us to finally start acceptance, so once the plane is up from a technical perspective and from a documentation point of view and basically it is agreed that it will change hands, that's when the lawyers will be involved in terms of making the transaction transfers the agreed amount from one account to another and finally there are some signatures that are placed in some places and the plane legally changes ownership from Airbus, the producer, to us or is it through a process lease that the lessor is the owner of the aircraft we obtain the documentation for the aircraft that we have, I think the document folder that is together with all the documentation required for the aircraft and, of course, the insurance is current, all the documents registration are where these documents are already prepared.

So the aircraft is technically ready to fly and also legally ready to fly and currently we have a pretty standard configuration here on our displays, we have five displays in total, where the two outer ones on the center panel are of course related to our flight instrumentation and these can't be changed unless there is some sort of non-normal setup, a non-normal situation where we would lose a couple of screens that would go blank and then of course it would reconfigure and take the big screen into a more format small and compress other information on that main instrumentation screen, so that this is the normal configuration that we would then handle with the instrumentation on the outside ones and then on the two internal screens we have maps to show and we keep it as a standard that we would have on the request to the right of the center left screen, then we would have our so-called "damn" on an information screen that gives us all the essential elements to make it possible to point it out.

It tells us something about our engines, for example, at what speed they are actually running, what kind of temperature they are producing at that moment and at the same time we get information about the fuel flow and then about essential aspects like oil temperature and pressure in the engines themselves, which are very important and vital functions, the target is good, so any finger here in working condition is vital information and that contains, of course, in the engine parameters, it contains the fuel in the threetanks we have available. We have two side tanks and the center tank and then we have the cumulative amount of fuel available in the system flight controls so we can see what the position of the Elrond elevator rudder is at all times here we have spoilers or we flood spoilers or flaps and every time that changes are made. that will be shown and given here, so this is a normal flight and normal cruise condition that we now have the green for, but we are well centered.

All fuel. I think we touched on the hydraulic system and also the same principle that we saw in the other diagrams. We have three hydraulic systems and we see the status in terms of percentage of temperature amount failing, this is completely normal and is in green, so in previous times you needed to know basically everything by heart and you would have many elements of memory, so the Memory items are things you should do in case of memory abnormality, so you should remember. Okay, this system doesn't work completely normally. Now I need to make data and out of that of course, or things like that when When it comes to memories, they are very incorrect, vulnerable to people making mistakes too, it's just natural and in how to say something natural to the human being, you would forget something or you would make a mistake, so that's a lot.

Nowadays it's easier to just look for whatever you have and make sure you don't make mistakes. You can say that, how to say that the pilot's job, the pilot's life becomes simpler and there is definitely something in it, it becomes more sophisticated when it comes to other things: you didn't have GPS navigation in previous times, you didn't fly certain approaches in certain weather conditions in previous times, etc., so there is simply a change in what the pilot needs to do today and yes, there is a lot more automation and a lot more support, we just want to make sure that passengers can trust that we will operate this aircraft at any time in an absolutely safe manner without making these mistakes that you naturally could make as a human being.

To give you a lot of support because it has modern computer technology behind it and the presentation of modern computer technology, you can just display all of that and at your convenience, one, two, seven, eight five, crossing over to Iceland, it's about take nine eight seven Thank you Ellen I see that was beautiful it was a 10 out of 10 you could use that then communication is a textbook nice pretty nice position makes me blush yes, but the next task is we have our position our next position but he gave us the order to switch to the Iceland radio flying towards the FI, our Iceland limit, so this is something we will have to look at the charts and try to find that IFR limit.

Please put it on our page so we know when to do it. I'll be talking to your... I didn't, maybe you have to do it now and just show us that it's a little mental exercise that we're going to have to do, a navigation exercise to find this fi, our limit for for Iceland and there it is Of course, where the charts are useful and displayed very well, we use an EF B to season the electronic flight bag and the EF be solution, we have a portable EF b solution, so it is not integrated into the aircraft, which It has a lot of advantages first of all you don't need to change the hardware of the aircraft frequently as technology advances, you can simply do it with the EF e.

In this case, it is a simple iPad that works as is, but it contains the course software included and the maps that we use basically reflect our flight that we are doing, as we can see. The pass has pointed out at an earlier stage that we are really going to progress and we have just passed through Greenland here and then. Iceland is here and it told us something about FI, our boundaries and they are clearly marked so once we get there that is where we would basically make our change so this is our Waypoint that we will never get to currently. sister, north-south is our West and before that, at some distance there is this dotted line that is the border between Gander and Iceland and the exercise would be to try to find where exactly this is now we have something on our marks here DC before have a plane get close to this, so it's currently 20 miles away, it's on our trajectory, so it looks like they're heading in the opposite direction and since we're on the same trajectory and heading towards each other, Fortunately they are not at our altitude.

We can clearly see that the plane is 1000 feet below us, yes, but 10 miles away right now the plane, as we can see here in the screen stacks, is pointing at it, we can scale it down a little bit to 10 miles away, so it's just a brief moment to Come on, we can see that it's holding very steadily a thousand feet below, there's a minus there with a zero, so it's um, it's in hundreds of feet shown, they rise, ten hundred feet, it's a thousand, we can see very clearly that the altitude remains very, very stable. and that is very simply due to the fact that we all fly with standard altimeter settings, so when we fly according to a flight level and then fly with them, we can see that Paul's arc pointed to the standard altimeter setting, which is basically one zero. one three if we take it in hectopascals exactly what we would use in Europe, it is a standard configuration and all airplanes would have the same configuration above a certain altitude and with that we all have the same distance, so let me make sure. that there is no risk of collision and difference in the altimeter readings, so participant who flies today on this ferry and I am the pilot monitoring as pilot monitoring, I do assistant work if you want to say, that means first of all.

I do all the ADC communications and position reports are on an Atlantic crossing, of course, part of the ATC communication lets them know where we are, where we want to go, what our intentions are, etc., and the other things Of course, when it comes to certain configurations, the pilot who flies, which is Ponce, wants to have my job to implement them, so I do the assistant job on a normal day of line flying when we go out and do a flight of passengers we normally fly from A. to B and then, of course, back from B to a and it will be one pilot who will do the first route and the other the second route and with that we change our jobs or the content of the job, if you want to say in the sense that one flies and the other is cysts and yes, my job here is to help.

I do the paperwork. I check fuel for certain waypoints etc, so we're back. We are currently just before Iceland, as you can. Look, very soon we are reaching the lightning position and we are still on our way towards Riga and meanwhile the sun has set on the north side and on the wrong side, so there is still a lot of clear blue sky, so let's say on my side here on the right it's getting pretty dark we have the full moon we usually go into a romantic mode and then I lift a handle and hold hands and things seem like songs no this time it's not so nice but but but actually there's a field of clouds very low, we can't really see any of the ground now, where we were, we only had one more mode, so we have the sun behind us actually very soon. we would wait for the sun to come up or it's starting to dawn again in Europe and we'll see it on my left there.

As for time, we are in a loft in the loft it is 4 hours and 17 minutes and there is still time to go. It's 3 hours in 23 minutes, very good, well above the midpoint. By the way, that's our Baltic. Here we were the global launch operator for the largest version of this aircraft, the one we operate, which is the 300 version, so he was the global launch. The operator Airbus, the C Series, at 300 times less than Airbus at 2300, is Paul, so we have many firsts and Pulse has been the first to actively fly out of customer acceptance or made the first flight of this aircraft. what we did together as a team, never less friends made that flight and we are all very proud, of course, of this whole process that we have been involved in to have that opportunity as a human being, as a pilot, as It is a great experience to experience the company as such and we have had many wonderful moments just with this in the introduction of this new aircraft.

Yes, maybe one of the first we had together last fall, so in case of a faulty flight, a very special VIP. There are few in the world who reach the youth level, yes, it was the Pope, we were in a very special and very honorable position to be able to take him on a plane to tour the Baltic countries, so he visited the Baltic States and we were elected . provide transportation for him and that was a very, very special experience overall, yes, with modern technology where you have computers behind everything, all this data transferred from one system to another is not only presented here on screens in the flight deck but, of course it is also logged, so the behavior of the system is something we can't even see and it doesn't necessarily have to be abnormal, it could just be normal system operations, but all this data is logged.

It is collected and automatically transferred to our headquarters, to the maintenance department, so that they have an active picture of how the plane actually behaves and has a technical tool, so that once we arrive in Riga and land there, we may see technicians there who simply want to do a check on a certain system or who simply know a certain behavior of the system that is within the limits and for us pilots, but we could say that I have some attention from the technicians themselves, so than with modern data collection technology. record it and be able to transfer it, the intensity of being able to observe the behavior of the tool itself is much easier.

Yeah, one thing I definitely need and want to mention is pilot people and maybe I will too. a few words about the Academy and since last April over a year ago about the training because with their training portfolio also ab initio for the instructors of course they are airline pilots active with us and they work part time within all that work . Commitment, they work as instructors at the Academy and, of course, it is an excellent opportunity to have all the diversity of what aviation can offer a pilot, instructing how to fly online and doing different jobs throughout the month.

It is a good opportunity in which many pilots welcome everyone. Some of them just like to fly maybe through a TV every day, others would like to get back to life. There are more diverse variations when it comes to pilot selection, of course, the young students who come from the Pilot Academy already have a good, very good chance of entering, first of all, specifically if they are trained with us, they have been trained with, first of all, very modern equipment with excellent standards that we require our pilots to have and all the training that it has.

What has been carried out in the Pilot Academy has been, of course, where they are very clear about the approach of operating a modern aircraft like this, so, as they have excellent and new equipment in the Pilot Academy, it is a very good base to start on an On planes like this we have a lovely climate in our company in terms of people working with each other and we would like to maintain that and we would like the person who joins us to also know that that It becomes an environment where it's just fun. work with the people in our company, so we look at the person's personality and if he fits only if that's what she, of course, we have room, they were more than welcome to look for female pilots, unfortunately, the number of women pilot first of all available on the market is quite low I would like to encourage women to join this fantastic job we are a multinational company we focus on a single language we speak English with each other pauses Latvian I am German we communicate in English it is aviation standard, that's what we do and everyone in the company has that as their first business language, so I mentioned the Pilot Academy, which is a way of knowing that it's actually a step back.

It's pretty amazing that you know there's a way someone can go. from scratch and not even two years later, if he is sitting on this in his

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flying this, the pilots who join us join us at different levels of experience, of course we need experience, if not, I don't leave the Pilot Academy where we know exactly every step they have taken during their training and where we have influence on the training itself. So first of all we require excellent education background and experience on the airplane we fly like a dash 8 q400 it is the fastest.

Terrible suitable commercial turboprop on the market and pilots need to really know what they are doing before getting a direct entry captain's seat at this company. It is worth saying that there is no direct entry captain boarding this plane here,They all have to come from our own corps of pilots who have to work for the Baltic and be able to demonstrate their competence, their ability to work in our team is integrated, constantly show their competence, so we just want to move to people from positions other than the left seat on this plane. Yes, the position we offer in the market is quite interesting.

In fact, it is a direct entry captain position for the turboprop and it guarantees those captains that within a year and a half at the latest they will be in the left seat of this A220 and I think you can really look for an offer like that, which It's something quite unique. Well, here we are again at dawn and we are in the final stretch yes, very much in the final stretch back to very familiar familiar territory over the Baltic Sea Baltic air over the Baltic and soon we will begin our descent to Riga just looking I see that we have been flying for seven hours and ten minutes and thirty or thirty-five minutes left.

Some more statistics. So far we have consumed twelve thousand five hundred and forty-five kilos of fuel on board. We still have four thousand four hundred left, so that's enough. We could still continue traveling much further distance. The perfect, perfect flight. So far, nice and smooth, neither plane has been running great, it never really got dark, sure we had a thorn and the northern sky had some light the entire flight on your side, this other part was dark but the Flight was nice, smooth and enjoyable so far. Do you feel, yes, totally fine? At home, sued, so yes, the red-eye special is coming to an end, as we will begin our descent in five to ten minutes, just as we set up the FMS, but we can run our matchmaking for a while. short briefing on the approach to our home base, so in Riga the weather is good, actually very pleasant, the cabin is fine, yes, light wind five to seven months from the west, so it is exactly for the west, it could be any track, but there are only 118 of us to dry, dry Riga. runway and 15 degrees Celsius so nice morning it's going to be warm and it should be a nice smooth finish in terms of what we have the infamous yeah I'll start shortly it looks like in three to five minutes we'll start our descent inwards so So far we are trending towards the alpha arrival and the SMS with the wooden transition for ILS 1:8, we are actually already linked to the two good ones, which means we are waiting for the arrival not even to have arrived. relevant safe arrival data your ILS frequency 1/8 triple warning a final approach heading one seven eight the glide slope angle is three degrees of a threshold cheers 31 we know this is correct graph I set up a platform for performance with the speed one one- nine our landing lady weighs forty-two point four tons checked, many bridges were checked so that the approach is 1/9, we have the automatic brake set to a low one, we are very light, our normal SOP would be a brake medium automatic, they can actually start a descent real operations over take nine eight zero one director Gordon and use a floor over four one zero requesting to listen to follow one one zero I'll ignore it say one okay, it's so pleasant one one zero is established why don't you mark? will enter vertical velocity, so V is formed vertical velocity selenium verified with the reference velocity of one one nine one clap your hands hey and just final review of the approach the ILS approach for runway one eight we have the plate for January 25 frequency triple one has verified in the FMS final approach crossing one seven eight we have a safe altitude of 1700 feet for this arrival and also for the return we are going through the Gooden and we will be ready to take it also a little shorter for the arrival artery allows us to do it, so it's going to be 2500 feet or even 1500 intercept the localizer, you know, let's check, okay, sure it took me to mom's game of donkey 240 and the missed approach is to go up to runway 1 7 8 1200 and it's radial left 1 7 3 and 2 reg will be going up 2500 times yeah when we abandon we're going to abandon the left hoping to do that on Charlie and it's going to be a very short taxi because we're going to 2 1 8 so I'll just have to make sure I follow the cool down period of 3 minutes for entry.

Spikes will probably hit snaptun faster than three minutes. That's my report. Any questions about that. No not at all. Not good. So in this case, doing the descent approach dissonant approach checklist so that we have the wing as an open element FMS, the minimum was set to 240 and the order was set to low. I assume the approach briefing was verified, it's complete, it's identical, the good thing is always. I hope to check this started out okay that's coming thank you they're getting to the top at the set point yeah that's checked check check one three five one two for the little one oh yeah fill out the checklist if you want , let's make it super.

There is no turn in Auto and the detailed approach checklist is complete. Check okay, we can see the Horn of Western Latvia at the bottom so it will be a good day. Yes, your ATC. I will take the passengers by passengers or crew. We will let you know: there are less than 20 minutes left until everything is perfect. This clear sky, morning temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius, so it should be a nice and more pleasant day. We thought the landing is at 6:00 in the morning, so it's already too late, sorry. I'll have a very short taxi a trophy our team is waiting for us that's all rosalie see time I'm going to rest well big elaborate thing from the devil my name a candidate multiple zero one haddock approach operation vectorization identified impeccable professional Sharon takes to an eight Continue no I would expect six the optimal touchdown to sell above that usually mercury 34,000 feet one zero one nine one zero one Nine what's the leader yeah so that's 4000 sets and we can go with them too one zero one nine well and The track miles were verified, so it's pretty much accounts receivable, actually, what bounced?

A small girl, calm, cool, couple Ten thousand nights, belt please nights and built, let's filter the 4,000, what is the check, let's continue with Mellie voltic, Nana's rates in a while, but we are. connect these 10 2005 so that everyone presents having 2005 for what is feasible because 13:19 8k 2570 lose 500 check the marked course that means that if you give me please I will enter vertical speed in a smooth and extended second line of Foxtrot again super the center line extended firm get this girl perfect cloud layer 6000 feet I think abroad surely can't be forgiven I never miss a thing the Baltic 4:09 arrogant elaborate identified track markings 6-0 touchdown I hope center director five thousand six Mitch onesie donate it qnh one zero one eight the job completed will be accomplished man 49 there's a Kenny G 1 0 in it 1:09 approximately thick 1981 one zero one eight and that's a sin to see the cruise ship coming in for a day yeah tough lose, yes, excuse me, taste good, some hustle, type one, please connect one, selected the Baltic nan, that is, let them let me take one on the left, one on the left, both are, do you listen to the x-ray , the tip of my little things they want us to do.

Go ahead with your name, let's check with what: Just for your account, you're kind of bummed out. I love selectively getting the calories, in quantum form, from the touchdown tonight, reaching a complete zero, play Oceania on a trip to the station, okay, I'll pass captured. clear the approach from the pod heading 24 0 motocross demerit just listen to three four five to ten 2500 left 18 3 4 5 and the central my father feels for the honest people about good morning Baltic November 8 or 10 information Yankees request free speed a brief public approach a total number of November for a sequence the request was copied after the rooms are small, they look like one, you know, that's where I spoke, a check, now the stomach was better: the locator nine miles above from 1981 4901 can accept tickets that ours donated for 1 0 passes for anyone How funny, they recognized me as garbage Willie Baltic nine eight zero I want to protect our streets in our landfill degrees 6 knots eliminate Gretna 2500 it will take millions in a 2500 to check that we are clear drawn small uh select land here on the selected learning sequence were pre-selected and I'll take it manually so all the photos are connected, no Ronald, that's the autopilot verified.

Paul selected and the best or learning the chick salt meters one zero one eight seven asks Sena Koscheck what is a flap 1 8 for again and the cockpit is ready with that, that's before the learning check is completed, we can land here, check the landing of the lid and they really managed to beat the crowd, we made three planes behind us 1,000, we are stabilized and a little Eggman contactor a little of our Crossman 2627. let's save them my second half of the criticism more hundred minimums 100 50 30 2010 like Thanks, Charlie Papa, that in any type of technology. I want you to stay on this treatment, okay, Charlie Papa, yeah, and to18, this plant, yeah, same guy. started timing on my side for me do the sequence after landing the guitar delete total mileage five echo exit squawk four three six zero maybe you would start to look familiar yes, it was here before I think that's okay, that's a good answer Bozek , young Kilimanjaro Eric thanks in charlottesville a quorum a taxi nice and slow now we don't have one yet we need to cool the engines a little before we can shut them down kill them charlie drone cynical first here's two one eight two what we need are coming text message voice come down no, don't make a big celebration for our arrival here it's disappointing Wow, that could be it, but the most important thing is that we see, yes, waiting for us, God, this is always waiting for our Briggs plane, huh, oh, we have a few seconds to Toronto, yes. yeah, sure, don't get dirty, don't stray, the external energy is running out, yeah, that's it, there we are, we're Garrett, yeah, huh, so it seems that after seven hours and 45 minutes in the air, the elf Yankee Lima, Alfa Romeo is back.

She arrived at her new home exactly as number 18 in the fleet. Some of the others are here and will be doing some flights just like this one later on, so it's been a pleasure flying with you today and we can wish Alfa Alfa Romeo. many, many happy landings, happy and safe landings, aha, that's true, okay, let's definitely do it again