This video is filmed onboard an Airbus 310-300(Reg C-CRYI) of Royal airlines, based at Canada. The film is a round trip from Toronto Pearson airport to London Stansted airport. Onboard flght 744 is Captain Neil Sharp and his copilot, taking us on his ETOPs flight across the North Atlantic.
We first join the pilots at the briefing room at Toronto airport to discuss the flight plan and the weather situation at the alternates and the final destination of Stansted. Afterwards the film crew follows the copilot on the walk-around while the Capt enters flight information into the FMS, the copilot also does a good job at explaining on what he looks for during the walk-around. Then we would rejoin in the cockpit during which the pilots are having their briefing, we are to take off on r/way 24R during an extremely stormy night at Toronto.
Once reached FL330 (33000ft) Capt Neil sharp contacts Gander control to get their oceanic clearance because of the large amount of other traffic also wanting oceanic clearance ours wasn�t received for some time, the oceanic entry point for ROY744 is 5250N, which is roughly over St John Newfoundland. During the crossing Capt Sharp explains about the A310�s flight instruments and the systems i.e. The DME function, the ETOPs procedures overhead panel etc. All which makes the job of the flight crew a lot easier and keeps the PAX happy, the F/O also has a share in the explanation and describes the FMS.
During approach viewers would be disappointed because of the weather preventing a chance of a nice view. As this video is a round trip Capt Marino takes us back to Toronto on the same aircraft.
Once this video had been watched the viewer would immediately have a much greater knowledge of the operation needed for the A310 to serve the passengers. During the whole video the cameraman really did a great job filming the flights, best is that the 2 engines a heard very clearly during t/off and landing. As well as viewing the sound is great too as mentioned about the engine noise, ATC during the whole flight can also been heard very clearly. The round trip really is a bonus for viewers to witness the T/OFF and the landing at both airports. |
