Thank you! Have a great day!!

dat kann'ste mit Deutschen English unterricht nicht vergleichen , ich musste schwer nachdenken für sämtliche vokabel die einheimischen sachten oft sorry - extreme stadt !👍

Thanks for your feedback! I completely agree! LHR ATC is great! There is never any doubt about their instuctions. Even if your mother language is not English. They create a professional and polite environment for this busy airport/airspace.

Flugfunk ist immer etwas schwer zu verstehen, wenn man nicht oder nur selten selbst fliegt oder funkt. Das dauert immer etwas, bevor man die einzelnen Vokabeln und Anweisungen nachvollziehen kann. In London wird immer klar und deutlich gesprochen, so dass man die Anweisungen sehr gut verstehen kann, auch wenn Englisch nicht die Muttersprache ist.

I think the British Accent certainly plays into this. It's perfectly clear, professional and concise in the context of such an application.

The great sausage factory of 120.4!

Thanks for watching and your detailed feedback! I completely agree! The Heathrow ATC controllers are wonderful! They are always polite and speak such a clear English that there is never a doubt about what they say. Have a good day!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! This was a very special day. We do not see such combinations very often: Great views of the city in the dark, fog and the green light taxi system. That taxi system is wonderful and a great help for a safe operation. Have a good day!

Thanks for watching! I agree, the taxi system with the green lights is a key part in providing a very safe operation on the ground during night or restricted visibility on this busy airport. Have a good day!

Thanks for watching and your detailed feedback! I agree, great ATC in London. We fly with well maintained airplanes. We trust the systems and we monitor and double check that everything is right. There is even a system installed which gives us a red Autoland warning light, if below 200 feet certain parameters are not ok. If something is wrong, we are trained to take over manually at any time and discontinue the approach or the landing. Have a nive day!

Thanks for watching and your personal feedback! Please tell everybody about the channel! Have a great day!

Thanks for watching and for sharing your feedback! Have a great day!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! Have a wonderful day!

If the weather is nice, this approach always enables wonderful views of the city!

Thanks for watching and your detailed feedback! Autoland is always something special because we do not do that every day. Follow the greens is a great system which helps a lot during foggy conditions or in the dark. Have a good day!

Thanks to you for watching and for your comment! Yes, the autopilot did a great job!!! The automatic landings are not always that smooth. Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching and all my best greetings to London! Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! I kept the ND visible during taxi due to previous requests and feedbacks of several viewers. Nice to hear that you like it. Have a good day!

Thanks for watching and the great feedback! Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching and for your friendly feedback! I agree, he is very professional and it is always a pleasure flying with him! Have a great day!

Yes, they are wonderful!

Many thanks for watching and your great feedback! Greetings to London!

Thanks! Have a nice day!

Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das konstruktive Feedback! Alles Gute und noch einen schönen Tag!

Thanks for watching! Have a nice day!

Thank you! Have a wonderful day!

Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das Feedback. Nachtanflüge über London finde ich auch sehr beeindruckend. Die Stadt ist ja immer sehr schön beleuchtet.

Thanks for watching and your great feedback! All the best greetings to Greece!

I strongly agree! Have a great day!

Thank you so much for the nice words! Have a great day!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! This was a very interesting morning. We do not see a situation like that very often. We expected the fog but we did not expect the nice views of the city. Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! I agree, follow the green is wonderful! Have a nice day!

Thanks for the friendly words. Usually there is one new video being published every Saturday morning. Please stay tuned. Have a good day!

Thank you very much for watching and for your great feedback! Welcome as a new subscriber! Have a nice day!

Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das spezifische Feedback. Das hilft sehr! Viel Spaß im Simulator! und noch einen schönen Tag!

Thank you! Danke schön!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! All my best wishes to London!

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much for watching and the friendly words! Have a great day!

Thanks! Nice to hear that you like my video! Have a great day!

Thanks! Have a great day!

Thanks for watching!

Thank you! Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching! Have a great day!

Yes, automatic landing. We only do that in foggy weather. And it is only possible at certain airports who are equipped with a very expensive CAT3 instrument landing system.

Tnanks for watching and your feedback! All the best to you!

Thanks for watching and the nice words! All the best to you! Have a great day!

That's right. Autolands are not done very often. Only if the weather is foggy and the airport has a CAT 2 or 3 ILS system installed.

Thanks!

Thanks for watching and your good feedback! It's great to hear that you want to become an airline pilot!

Thanks for watching and your detailed feedback! Kilo must have been finished recently. It took a while until it was done. Have a great day!

Thanks for watching and your great feedback! I will publish one or the other departure videos in the future. Please stay tuned. Here is my last departure video which was recorded at Kos island in Greece: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbeBibOXlq6ogqM.html Have a nice day!

Danke fürs Anschauen und das Feedback! Ja, immer nur den grünen Lampen folgen wäre super. Einen schönen Tag noch!

Thanks for watching and the good feedback! Nice to hear that you like the display views! Have a great day!

Thanks! Have a nice day!

Its a great system which enhances safety!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! One pilot is always the pilot flying, even if the autopilot is on. In case of an autoland approach in fog, the captain is officially the pilot flying. He controls the inputs to the flight management system and decides about to continue or going around before landing. He or she also takes over manually whenever needed and latest when leaving the runway. Also he or she moves the thrustlevers to idle prior touchdown. Have a nice day!

Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das ausführliche Feedback! Ja, der Anflug war sehr vielfältig. Das hat man in dieser Kombination auch nicht alle Tage. "Follow the greens" ist ein tolles System, das die Lampen so schaltet, dass man - wenn man den grünen Lichtern folgt - auch nur dort lang rollt, wo man langrollen soll. Falls man stehen bleiben soll, leuchtet eine Reihe roter Lampen (Stopbar) auf. In London wird die Rollstrecke so bis zur Parkposition angezeigt. Das kenne ich auch nur von dort.

Thanks for watching and for your friendly feedback! I have been to Edinburgh a while ago and published a video. But it is only one camera with an outside view. When I come back again, I for sure will record a multi camera video with cockpit insights. It may take a while, so please stay tuned. Here is the link to the Edinburgh one camera video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJt7pryq1dKlcWQ.html Have a nice day!

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Look forward to that! Thanks!

Thanks for watching and your feedback! Yes, „follow the green“ is wonderful. That makes the taxiing very safe and easy. Have a good day!

Maybe someone of the community will create a mod for it :)

@@manuelkimpel3788 That would be a good idea.

Thanks for watching and your friendly feedback! I published a Birmingham video in the early days of this channel. It was only recorded with one camera and does not show the cockpit. Here is the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNumqJamutecnqM.html I am sure that I will be back sometime and able to record a new video with the multiple camera setup. Please stay tuned! Greetings to Birmingham! Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching and the helpful feedback! Glad you enjoyed it! Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching my videos over a long time! I really appreciate your feedback and keep your suggestions in mind. I would love to show engine parameters but did not find an ideal camera location for the recording until now. I hope to come up with a solution in the future. Have a nice day!

I agree, this is the perfect system in the dark or fog for taxiing at such a complex airport.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching and the detailed feedback! I know that the aircraft is well equipped and maintained. That means that in general, I can trust the systems. Nevertheless, we continuously monitor everything and in case of a failure or a deviation, we are trained to take over manually (if needed) and to discontinue the approach. The Airbus also has an Autoland warning light. This is armed automatically at 200 feet and flashes if certain parameters are out of limits or 2 systems deviate too much. Away from all that, I am always happy to break out of the clouds or fog and seeing the approach lighrs. During low visibility weather, maximum concentration of both pilots is required on taxiing and navigation on the ground. Switching off one engine for single engine taxi in would have been an avoidable distraction. Taxiing was continuously. If ATC would have stopped us somewhere for a moment, we may have opted to switch off one engine during the waiting time. Follow the green is a wonderful system. It would be great if every CAT3 airport would have it. I assume that it is very expensive to install, to maintain and to operate. Greetings to Salzburg! Have a nice day!

As you see in the video, depending on the wind, the airplane variant and weight, it may be difficult to be established at 1000 feet above the runway. To give us the opportunity to follow these ATC instructions without violating the criteria for a stabilized approach, in these cases we have to be stabilized at 800 feet above the runway elevation. This usually works fine.

Thanks for also watching the LHR night approach. No, for us it is not different to do an autoland at day or night. We monitor the instruments and take over after landing or if we have to discontinue the autoland.

Thanks for watching and for your wonderful feedback! That is correct, we arrived from LAM. The intercept heading for the localizer was 240 degrees. You can see and hear that in the video at 1:43. This is a 30 degrees intercept and very common. Arriving in LHR, we usually fly the standard approach to LAM and hold over LAM. Then the clearance is to leave LAM on a certain heading. And after that further headings are provided until the intercept of the localizer. I wish you a nice day and lots of fun with your simulator!

Thanks for watching! This is the only non manual landing on this channel. All other landings are manual landings. The last completely flown non precision approach on this channel was an approach to Mykonos Island. Here is the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frxyiKRhnMjZkoE.html In addition, you find lots of visual approaches or instrument approaches which ended as a visual approach on my channel. Have a nice day!

Thanks for the great feedback! As far as I remember, they are standard during night ops at LHR.

Correct. Green routes are on every night.

Thanks for your great feedback!

Thanks for watching and your kind words! Engine anti ice has to be on if there is visual moisture and the temperature is at or below 10 degrees Celsius. Visual moisture can show up very different. The most common type is rain or fog. But a visibility of 1500 meters or less is also defined as visible moisture. Have a nice day!

Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das gute Feedback! Der Autothrust setzt bei einer automatischen Landung automatisch den Thrust auf Idle. Beim Retard Callout in 10 Fuß zieht der Kapitän dann auch die Gashebel auf Idle. Die Triebwerke laufen zu dem Zeitpunkt bereits im Leerlauf. Mit dem Aufsetzen des Hauptfahrwerks zieht der Kapitän dann die Gashebel auf Idle Reverse oder Max Reverse, je nachdem was erforderlich ist. Die grünen Lampen in LHR sind ein Leitsystem. Man folgt immer den Lampen. Sie werden individuell für jedes Flugzeug geschaltet. Vor einer roten Stopbar muss man stehen bleiben.

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos vielen Dank für die Erklärungen!!

Thanks for watching and the feedback! I trust the ILS. No heart pumping. This is all protected by multiple redundancy. Here are some examples: We have 2 ILS receivers. The signals which we receive are compared electronically. The ILS has a ground monitoring system which checks the quality of the signal. Also, the CAT3 ILS has to have a backup power source which takes over after a moment in case of a power outage. If the plane senses that something is wrong, a red autoland warning light tells us to discontinue the approach. And sure, if we are in doubt, we can abort the approach at any time and go around. My only concern is about how good or bad the landing will be. Sometimes the plane lands really nice, like in the video. Sometimes not so nice.

Thank you so much for watching and your question! If we want to use certain VORs during approach or departure, we tune them manually. If we do not do that, the Airbus may change the tuned VORs by itself during the approach or departure. This is true for VOR 1 and 2. We never use autotuning if we really need them, like on a VOR approach.

I agree! This is a wonderful system and makes taxiing very easy for the pilots! It enhances safety! I do not know about the workload for ATC. They have to program the system somehow. If somebody from LHR ATC is reading this, could you please explain what you have to do to activate the correct lights for a particular airplane.

Thanks for watching and your personal feedback! We switch on the engine anti ice when we are flying in visual moisture (clouds, rain, snow ….) and the total air temperature (temperature at the wings) is 10 degrees Celsius or less. Wing anti ice has to be switched on if we see ice buildup on the small (lighted) ice indicator outside of the cockpit window. Some airplanes also have an electric ice sensor which triggers an Ecam message if ice is detected. Have a nice day!

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Thank you for the response! Great video, stay safe and have a good Christmas.

Thanks for watching and your question! ATC instructs everybody to fly 160 knots to 4 DME at LHR. This is much faster than we usually would fly at 4 DME. So at 4 DME we need to reduce the speed as quickly as possible to final approach speed. That works best if the flaps are already at 3 and the gear is extended at 4 DME. During the gear extension, the gear doors open. This provides additional drag and helps in the deceleration.

I agree, it is a wonderful system and improves flight safety! Have a nice day!

Vielen Dank fürs Anschauen und das Feedback! Ja, wir sind von Norden kommend über Kilo gerollt. Für uns als Crew das erste Mal nach dem Ende der Bauarbeiten. Seit wann genau die beendet sind, weiß ich nicht. Einen schönen Tag noch!

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Danke für die Antwort!

Yes. The flare is done by the autopilot during autoland. This landing was very smooth. But the Airbus is behaving like a normal pilot. Some automatic landings are smooth. And some others are not that smooth.

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Thanks for your answer :)

LHR 27R CATIIIB RVR min is 75m-75m so below it is not good.

Thanks for watching and your question. 75 m RVR or more is required for this approach. If the RVR would fall below 75 m on short final, we would have to discontinue the approach. So the weather was much better than the minimum.

Greetings to Australia! Please tell all your aviation friends in Australia about my channel! Thanks in advance! Have a nice day!

Thanks for watching and for your question. If you do a manual landing during the night or in limited visibility conditions, you must make sure that you include in your scan the outside view and the instruments. The descent rate during the approach on short final should be groundspeed x 5 for a 3 degree glideslope. Keep the rate until the radar altimeter shows 20 to 30 feet, depending on the weight and if it is an A321, 320 or 319. With higher weights, start the flare at 30 feet, with lower weights at 20 to 25 feet. Your pitch during the approach will be usually about 2.5 degrees. During the flare, you bring it up to about 5 degrees. At 20 feet you move the thrust levers to idle. Now you just do some fine adjustments to your flare and wait for the touchdown. Let me know, if this works for your. Have a great day!

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos that worked just perfect. Tried manual landing in night on my sim. It was on the markers, on the centerline with -14fpm. Thanks for the help😊👍🏻

This is only required in dense fog. The airport must have special (very expensive) installations, the plane must be approved for it and the pilots need special simulator training for that. Also the number of arriving and departing airplanes has to be reduced if autoland operations are in progress.

It's cool that this video is at Heathrow - because the Brits invented autoland (on the Hawker Siddeley Trident) for exactly this kind of visibility! :D

Correct!

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos adding FCU to the screen will be very interested + I noticed that you disconnect the AP very soon ..

@@bazokazoro4563I am running out of space in the combined image and do not want to overload it too much. All the things which are dialed into the FCU are visible on the FMA display or at other places on the PFD. There would be no real added value showing the FCU continuously.

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Your quick response is very appreciated sir ..many thanks.

During low visibility operations you have to call when you are clear of the active runway (safety area). Other calls, like arriving at a certain position or the stand are usually only required if ATC instructs you to do so. May be the other plane was instructed prior by ATC to report when at the stand. We did not receive such an instruction from ATC. ATC anyhow knows where the airplanes are on the airport due to the transmission of our transponders and the ground surveillance radar system. Have a good day!

I agree! Very easy taxi. You won't expect that at such a big airport!

Thanks to the wonderful woman at the ATC who said that everytime :)

Thanks for watching and your feedback! I am sorry about the Bergamo video. It is not available right now. Have a good day!

Thanks for watching and the detailed feedback! I only know the "follow the greens"-system in London Heathrow. I have not seen something like this at other airports. Maybe at is available at other airports but I have not been there in fog or during the night. This system is wonderful. It makes taxiing in the dark or in foggy conditions on that big airport very easy.

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos I see... thank you for your prompt reply. I shall continue to watch. Although I have no particular connection with the aviation industry, I simply enjoy flying very much. Incidentally I find large airports such as Heathrow fascinating but in fact live very close to Birmingham Airport and it is very useful to me... I've been flying to various European mainland destinations recently, since before the pandemic and subsequently. Birmingham's comprehensive European network has made this particularly easy to do. So I guess this is a shout out to some of our "less sexy" airports, providing a very useful resource.

As I do have FAA and EASA ATP licenses and Airbus A320 ratings in both licenses, I visited over the years several training facilities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. My EASA Airbus rating was done in Toulouse in France at the factory trainung center. My US Airbus rating was done at the Pan Am flight academy.

Interesting comment. I completely believe in sterile cockpit operation during the approach and the departure. I do not think that the very short „position report“ about the London Eye on the right hand side violates the sterile cockpit. He also could have said: Visibility here looks to be much better than what ATC reports for the runway. I stiil have good ground contact on the right side, what about you?

I would love to record and publish a Tunisia video. But it depends on my schedule. Nothing is planned during the next days. But over the next months, I hope to be scheduled to one of the airports. Have a nice day!

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Super! Eurowings will fly DUS-MIR this summer.

An großen Flughäfen, wie London ... gibt es von der Flugsicherung im Anflug immer sehr genaue Vorgaben, was die Geschwindigkeit, Höhe, Flugrichtung ... betrifft. Das müssen wir alles zeitnah und exakt umsetzen. Wie hoch die Vertikalgeschwindigkeit ist und wie wir die erreichen, ergibt sich dann aus den Vorgaben der Flugsicherung. Wir tracken immer mit, ob wir im Rahmen des standard Sinkflug-Profils zu hoch oder zu niedrig sind und korrigieren entsprechend.

ATC sounds good to me. Nothing special in the first 5 minutes. This are humans and everybody speaks a little different, like in the normal life. Important for us is that the instructions are precise and easy to unterstand. The ATC people in London always do a great job! Many thanks to them!

I did not see that kiss. But I may have overseen it.

Thanks for watching and your feedback! Have a great day!

The wind and in a second transmission the actual RVR (runway visual range) measurement value of 800 meters. That is the visibility along the runway.

I do not release any dates and times. I hope for your understanding! Have a good day!

Thanks for your feedback!

The green light taxi system have been in use for many years - at least since 1974. However, these days it is much more software driven whereas 'back in the day' the whole of one side of the Visual Control Room was an electro-mechanical system operated by an Air Traffic Control Assistant; it was popular position to man as it was very satisfying and great fun.

Thanks for the detailed explanation! This answers also my questions. Have a nice day!

@@concise707 Appreciate the reply

Thanks for watching! Have a nice day!