Eurowings A320 | Stuttgart – Larnaca | Real Airline Pilot — Transcript

Join Airbus pilot Emmanuel flying the Phoenix A320 from Stuttgart to Larnaca with detailed pre-flight and flight preparations.

Key Takeaways

Thorough pre-flight checks and system setups are critical for safe flight operations.
Weather conditions at destination and alternate airports influence fuel planning and route decisions.
Flight planning includes detailed navigation and performance calculations for departure and arrival.
Realistic flight simulation requires balancing graphical detail and system performance.
Communication and coordination with ATC are essential parts of flight preparation.

Summary

Airbus pilot Emmanuel introduces the flight from Stuttgart to Larnaca using the Phoenix A320 in highly detailed Stuttgart scenery.
The flight duration is approximately three and a half hours on a Eurowings summer routing.
Pre-flight preparations include setting up the aircraft systems, checking weather conditions, and reviewing the flight plan.
Weather at Stuttgart is clear, while Larnaca and alternate Paphos have thunderstorms expected to clear before arrival.
Fuel planning includes 10 tons total with contingency, alternate, and final reserves calculated.
The pilot performs system tests including APU fire test, engine fire tests, and sets up communication frequencies.
Flight Management System (FMS) is programmed with departure, arrival, and alternate procedures including ILS approaches.
The pilot discusses limitations such as VRAM usage preventing a walk-around video in Stuttgart.
Takeoff calculations and noise abatement procedures are completed for runway 07 departure.
The video provides an immersive, realistic simulation experience from cockpit preparation to flight initialization.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the channel. I'm Emmanuel, I'm an Airbus pilot and today let's fly the Phoenix A320 from your Allen's absolutely fantastic Stuttgart scenery. We're going to take it on a Euro Wings summer routing down to Lanaka, which is a three and a half hour flight. Now, I'd say we are not going to waste any time, but instead get right into this one.

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As we have only about half an hour until we are ready to go.

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So let's walk all the way up through that jetway and into our aircraft.

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And start getting ready for today's flight.

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So, looks like Lufthansa has just started their engines behind us.

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But once we're up, that should get a little bit quieter here as well.

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So, let's open up that door, please.

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Like all the way.

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Here we go.

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All right.

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And with that, welcome to the flight deck of our Airbus A320.

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A little bit more silent in here as well, isn't it?

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So, let's go ahead and start setting our airplane up for today's flight.

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The engine masters are off, mode select on norm, weather radar is off, landing gear lever down, wipers off, and the batteries have more than 25 and a half volts each.

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Then we can turn the power on and while the airplane is booting up, we are going to have a look down here into the electronic flight back.

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Now, let's import our summary flight, Stuttgart to Lanaka, and then we can have a look into the flight plan, starting with the weather charts.

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That's our route of flight, more or less a straight line, and on the significant weather chart, there is nothing on there as well.

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Going into the weather itself, though, things are getting a little bit more interesting.

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So, we are going to start with the airport weather in Stuttgart, which is absolutely clear and the temperature of 5 degrees.

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Going over to Lanaka, that's where things are getting more interesting, especially with that prop 30 tempo, variable 20 gust 30, 3,000 meters in thunderstorms.

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Now, our alternate in Paphos has the same thing, but stopping at 1300, and our scheduled arrival time is 1730.

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So, that weather is theoretically supposed to be gone for about two hours from our arrival time.

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Nonetheless, we do still have those showers of rain within an hour and a half of our arrival time.

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And over in Paphos, it's the same.

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Now, since the really bad weather is supposed to be gone by the time we are arriving.

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I'm happy to go without too much extra fuel and to accept Paphos as alternate over here.

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So going up in the OFP, we've got an on-time departure at 1355.

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Which is in 25 minutes from now, that's going to lead to an on-time arrival.

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Our weights are not critical, we are rather lightweight today with only 121 passengers.

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Cruising at level 350, 70 and 90, and then we can go down into the fuel section.

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Where we've got 9.7 plus taxi, hey, let's round that up to 10 tons, and I'm totally happy with that.

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So, going over to mass and balance, plan fuel, we are going to select 10 tons.

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Like that, apply and load, GSX for boarding and refueling.

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And with that, we've got the most important stuff out of the way.

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So, let's go ahead and start dealing with our aircraft.

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Looks like it has finally powered up.

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So, let's go ahead and select the lights on full bright for the time being.

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Same over here, over here, and over here.

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And the same down here with the intake lights.

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And on the overhead with the intake lights over there as well.

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Then, let's move right down.

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Delivery is going to be 121905.

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Let's pre-select that frequency.

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And then we can do the APU fire test.

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Which is looking good, and I am going to start the APU straight away.

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Because it is rather cold outside.

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I'd rather have it a bit warmer here.

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So, APU is coming online.

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And areas one, two, and three are going into nav.

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Now, going back down, recall for three seconds.

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One, two, and three is clear.

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And then we can move down into the data link.

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And down to the ATSU.

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AOC menu, flight in it.

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And do the data request.

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While we're waiting for that stuff to arrive, let's move over into the EFB one more time.

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And select our charts.

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We are using the Lido charts as that is what Euro Wings uses in the real world.

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And for the departures, runway 07 sits are already selected.

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Yep, and our sit is on here as well.

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Good.

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So, we got that.

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Then we can do our departure.

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Take off calculations, runway 07, dry, synchronized preliminary load sheet.

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Synchronize the live weather and calculate.

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Take off limit 83.3, and that's all looking good.

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Okay, flight initialization is done as well.

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Let's go ahead and request our weather.

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Echo Delta Delta Sierra with the Metar and send.

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Then we do have a couple load sheets here.

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Preliminary edition number one.

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We don't need that.

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Edition number two, that looks better.

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So, Euro Wings 6 Uniform Romeo on the 23rd of March, Stuttgart to Lanaka on the Hotel Foxtrot.

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That's our aircraft.

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Two pilots and four cabin crews.

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Limited by maximum zero fuel weight.

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And going down then, 121 passengers.

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Portable water full, 10,000 kilos in the tanks.

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We can accept this.

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And finally for the weather data, the QNH is 1017.

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So, that's set once, twice, and three times.

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Okay, good.

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So, lastly, the oxygen quantity is good.

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The hydraulic quantity is good.

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Engine oil quantity is good.

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Flaps are up, and that is in agreement with the lever.

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Ground spoilers retracted.

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Let's release that parking brake.

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And test the alternate brakes.

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And that's looking good as well.

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Parking brake is set again, and with that, the preliminary cockpit preparation is complete.

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So, since our passengers are going to arrive soon, let's just go ahead, turn up the lights.

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So that you can head out for the walk around.

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Refueling is in progress.

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Now, I would absolutely love to do the walk around for you guys here, but unfortunately, I had to find out that the Phoenix is using so much VRAM that when I'm here in Stuttgart, which is a super highly detailed airport.

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And I'm using the super highly detailed model of the Phoenix, if I go out for the walk around, the video editor completely hangs itself up.

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So, yeah.

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Unfortunately, we can't do the walk around over here.

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So, our colleague can go out for the walk around.

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And while she's out, we will start with the pre-flight procedures.

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So, that's that.

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Refueling is still in progress.

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Batteries are charging, okay.

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Fuel pumps stay off for the time being.

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Engine fire test is looking good on engine number one.

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And looking good on engine number two.

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The right hand side is all set.

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And then we can move down to the front.

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QNH is in there.

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23rd of March 26 is looking good.

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VHF1, VHF2 and interphone.

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Ground will be 118605, that's pre-selected.

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And the weather radar is all set.

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Middle is set.

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The right side is set.

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Then let's get right down into the FMS.

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So, here is our flight plan.

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And then we can get going.

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And someone is just ringing the doorbell.

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But that's just the standard stuff.

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Nothing I actually need to open.

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We'll keep it that way.

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Okay.

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So, flight plan in it request.

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Nav accuracy downgraded, aircraft position, GPS primary.

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That's all checked.

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Okay, Echo Whiskey Golf 6 Uniform Romeo.

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Cost index 15, flight level 350.

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And the ground temperature is like what, 7 degrees.

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Like that.

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Flight plan, Stuttgart, departure 07.

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Uptile for Hotel, insert.

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And the arrival into Lanaka is via the ILS approach runway 22.

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With a Bonec 1 Romeo arrival.

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Now, do we need a via for that?

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Let's see.

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LCA, Otiza.

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No, we haven't either.

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That's fine.

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Okay, insert.

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Now, for our secondary flight plan.

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STRX1, that's based on EDDS07/071.

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And 25 miles straight ahead, like that.

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With a holding 071 inbound, right hand turns.

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That's all looking good.

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And return back to Stuttgart for an ILS approach to runway 07.

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And this is all looking good.

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All right, then for our performance.

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55.6 and 25, 10,000 kilos fuel.

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Average tailwind of 17 knots.

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And for the fuel figures, we got contingency 0.3.

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Alternate 0.8, final 1.1.

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And taxi 0.2 looks good.

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Giving us 7 minutes extra fuel.

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Now, let's go for our takeoff data.

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Flaps one, 62 degrees.

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48, 48, 48.

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Noise abatement procedure number two.

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Engine out acceleration in 1500.

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That's perfect.

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And EDDS07, like this, is all looking fantastic.

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So, looking up here, we might as well climb level 370 straight away.

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But I am going to enter the step climbs as per the plan.

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So, 370 at Poded.

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And then 390 at Lima Mike Oscar.

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Okay, that's all looking good.

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And that leaves us with an extra fuel of three minutes.

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Okay, so be it.

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Then, Uptile for Hotel departure, that should be an easy one.

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Straight ahead 1700, Delta Sierra 030.

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And from there, we do continue to Uptile.

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But let's see if we can find that on the sit PC as well.

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Yep, 030 Uptile and initial climb 5,000.

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So, this is all correct down here.

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And initial climb altitude 5,000, like that.

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All right.

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Then we are all done with our setup up here.

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Down here as well.

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Let's go ahead and see if we can already get that IFR clearance.

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So, ATSU, AOC menu.

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ATC request, pre-departure clearance.

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So, our gate number is 15.

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Station EDDS.

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And ATS is Alpha.

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We'll say hello.

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The rest is looking fantastic.

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So, let's send that clearance request.

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All right.

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That's all underway.

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Then, we're pretty much done with that type of stuff.

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So, let's go ahead and start the departure briefing, please.

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And fueling is complete.

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Descending 1500 on the QNH 1008 via Lima Charlie Alpha.

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Cleared ILS X-ray runway 22, Euro Wings 6 Uniform Whiskey.

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Correction, 6 Uniform Romeo.

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Okay, nice and easy.

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So, 1500 is blue, and we'll just fly the standard approach down there.

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A little bit of weather everywhere, that's completely fine.

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You can go onto the weather radar over here.

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Actually, I'll tell you what, no.

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You're going to stay on the radio, please.

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Then, I can have a little bit of fun.

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Vertical speed minus 400.

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Okay.

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Let me just help the plane a bit.

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Vertical speed minus 400.

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Okay, so, um.

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60 degrees, engine anti-ice on.

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And that is on.

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Okay, parking checklist.

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Parking brake off, chocks, brake set.

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Engines off, wing light off, fuel pumps off.

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Parking checklist complete.

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Ground from cockpit.

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Good evening, how are you doing?

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So, the airplane is in a good shape.

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And please confirm that the trucks are in place.

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That's confirmed.

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Rather that.

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Parking brake is released.

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And then I see you up here in a few moments.

Topics:Airbus A320EurowingsFlight simulationPhoenix A320Stuttgart airportLarnaca flightPilot walkthroughFlight planningPre-flight proceduresRealistic flight sim

Frequently Asked Questions

What aircraft is used in this flight simulation video?

The video features the Phoenix Airbus A320 aircraft being flown by the pilot.

What route does the flight cover?

The flight route is from Stuttgart Airport (EDDS) to Larnaca Airport (LCA) with Paphos as the alternate airport.

Why is there no walk-around video shown at Stuttgart airport?

Due to high VRAM usage from the detailed Phoenix A320 model and Stuttgart scenery, the video editor crashes if a walk-around is attempted.

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