It's a great place to watch arrivals!

Oh yes, that's probably one of the best airports for observing planes~

Obrigado!!

@@Flightradar24DotCom You are welcome!

We’ll duh, it’s real

Glad you enjoyed it!

Pedro is awesome!

Great fun doing that.

I don't fly at all, but going through those clouds would freak me out !

@@steve318k Chasing castles in the sky.

I fort it were a plane! (joke!)

Not a pilot but I’ve been here a few times. The land to the south is high enough to interfere with the glide slope, so all arrivals require the ‘fighter turn’ and only specially qualified pilots are allowed to land here. Needs huge skills!

Indeed they do!

Yep it was a very easy day there!

​​​@@Flightradar24DotCom I hope we will have an easy day, too, when we Flyer to Madeira in september...😳 I'm so scared stiff of the turbulences and windshear you always hear about!

lol.. somehow i hear the same 🤣

That's a cost of not needing to browse QRH when a fault pops up :P

I think it could be the throttles pulled back to idle

@@charlespflies The 3 clicks shouldn't relate to the thrust levers from what I understand. It's a feature by Airbus to notify a change in mode or landing capability (CAT) degradation, which will be shown on FMA. In the video linked at the description, PF has AP off and AT off but with FDs on when landing, so it's quite unusual to hear 3 clicks, because 3 clicks is most often heard after AP is disconnected manually, because disabling AP 1/2 with AT still on degrades from CAT3 to CAT1.

Thanks for the info. I remember this happening when I landed in Porto on an RNAV approach and heard three clicks just a few feet before touchdown. Not a pilot here so just assumed three clicks was after idling the levers.

@@charlespflies That's interesting, though thanks anyway.

I believe it was the autopilot reverting back into heading select as it had reached the final waypoint, the threshold.

It says "Retard" which is a command to reduce the throttles to idle. I have been flying for over 40 years in small aircraft and never needed to be reminded to slow down on landing, if it is a full stop landing of course! So I find it a rather strange idea that pilots flying every working day should need reminding? After all I don't think they have a voice to tell them to raise or lower the landing gear, but I believe they have speed limiters on lowering the gear, as in it simply won't come down if you are too fast? Over 250Kn I seem to recall, something that was part of the Karachi incident? They don't tell you when to lower/raise flap etc, so why do they think pilots need reminding to pull the throttles? Anyone know of the reason for this seemingly unnecessary command?

@@rogerblackwood8815 hey awesome exclamation thank you very much for the detailed information on the app. I thought it did say retard but I didn’t want to be politically incorrect and use that word but thank you very much for your information and your other information and you being a pilot for over 40 years, you’ve probably seen him vent through some different things up there. Kudos to you. Thanks again for the information.

@@rogerblackwood8815 that is because the aircraft uses a autothrust system where the thrustlevers stay in a detent until you get very close to the runway. If the pilots didn't retard them to idle the plane could switch back to a basic mode and accelerate again. So you would risk a runway excursion or worse hence the call out. Doesn't apply of course if the landing is done without autothrust

@@chaoz1666 My friend flew airbus for a few years with Emirates, we discussed many peculiarities of the type, but this one never came up! But your explanation makes total sense, are you currently flying them?

@@rogerblackwood8815 haha, I wish, no I am just an avid flightsim enthusiast

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No because of terrain.

stoopid? Indeed you are.