Cockpit Video - Airbus A380

I have found a new guilty pleasure.  There's a German video production company that is making very high quality videos, recording the cockpit activity for various airline flights, most of them Lufthansa and other European airlines.





A380

The A380 is the largest commercial airliner ever built.  It has 50% more cabin space than the next largest ariliner, the Boeing 747-400.  The only airliner with two decks that run the entire length of the fuselage, the A380 can carry 500 plus passenger in three class configuration. It has a range of over 9,000 miles at a cruising speed of 560 mph, allowing it to fly nonstop from New York to Hong Kong. Takeoff weight is nearly 1 3 million pounds.  If you wanted to buy one new, it would cost you in the neighborhood of $400 million.  Only twenty airports in the world have runways certified to handle the weight and sheer size of the A380.






A380 Cockpit

 
Here is a link to a very cool A380 cockpit video...

http://www.videoaround.com/cockpit/airbus-a380-cockpit-tour.html


Here is another video that features Lufthansa chief pilot, Juergen Rapp in an A380 cockpit, explaining its flight control and flight management systems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oa6kRkyyIo&feature=relmfu






There was a time when I wanted very much to have a career as a pilot with the airlines. Color acuity deficiency killed that idea. Anyway, the A380 is the top of the mountain for a passenger aircraft pilot.  

The following link is a very cool cockpt video of an A380 pushing back from the gate and departing London Heathrow Airport.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJylJWwe1h0&feature=relmfu

The following is a cockpit video of an A380 arriving at Heathrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTSUGpRhTw&feature=relmfu