The buzzing noise are indindicating that the horisontal stabilizer is moving up or down for trimming.

Brings back happy memories of my heyday in aviation! Flew the MD's for many years with two airlines(MidEx being the last). Although I moved "up" I always will have a special place for the MD. Rode like an old Dodge on cinder blocks at times(due to the relatively stiff wing) but always performed when needed. Miss the steam gauged cockpits as well...back before we all morphed into "slaves to the magenta line"!

This is a very good video, but like the comments below, the only reason I see the long flight to the States is either the airplane was sold, or being scrapped. Either way, this is probably a ferry flight. By the cockpit layout, this is either an MD-88 or MD-90, which both still have some life left. I've ferried DC9/MD-80 before with removable extra tanks in the cargo bays and in the cabin area on top of the center box, and range was extended to about 5,00 miles plus. I know we did Hawaii-LAX, and Japan-LAX or SEA. No ETOPS required for the ferry, so we flew over the open water and hope the engines stayed healthy, which they did. This is probably the best airplane ever built, period. And these last MD-8x models had the right combination of automation and human interaction. I still look up to the sky when I see one on approach or climbing out, and just watch and go back in mind to my prime days. Thanks for sharing this and the other videos.

The md-80 families are legends. This aircrath is unic

MD-80 great plane. i love their cockpits!

Great HD video! Impressed with the performance of the MD80!

If you haven't seen it, look up Kent Wien. Why I've fallen for the MD-80.

Love the stabilizer trim buzzer, so unique compared to other aircraft

Excellent cockpit. Crew coordination was professional and right on point. That’s true airmanship at its finest.

Yeah, I didn't read the description well enough; whoops! BEAUTIFUL cockpit!! So clean, and I love these videos!!

Incredible quality video considering it was uploaded 10 years ago!

My Dad is retired TWA(before they went belly-up) he flew both the 727 and the 80. He preferred the 80.

3,500 Vertical-Speed Climb #Is a ROCKET

Great video, thanks for posting.

It's so much smoother once you get off that runway and into the air.

This could be an excellent instructional video aside being as marvelous as it already is. I have always like the MD-80 it is a very well-renowned aircraft by many pilots and passengers alike. It's very informative and the clarity is unbelievable! Damn good work! -VIR092

i love this cockpit!

First video of yours I seen. Subscribed. This is awesome sauce. Thank you.

Great video, thank you

Was lucky enough to ride in the jumpseat on 2 of these before the cockpit ban . Absolutely incredible experience, I have about 100 hours & got utterly involved sitting behind the centre console. Lots of elevator trimming like you hear here.

Very nice videos!! 5 stars

I LOVE THE LAYOUT OF THE DECK EVRYTHING IS WELL WITHIN REACH, GOOD CALL-OUTS ON TAKEOFF.

Excellent Video! To favorites

Probably the only aircraft in the world with such a quiet cockpit. Thanks for the upload. Enjoyed it.

"Stab Trim In Motion" warning horn was a little overdone by Douglas engineers!

Amazing video quality, bravo!

I'm a X-Plane pilot. I love fly the MD80.

That Takeoff was like watching the Dam Busters.

To be paid to do this! Well done and hope you still love doing it. Every takeoff is like the first one, that's why flying is such a thrill. Well, to me anyway.

Many thanks!!!

great vid. super nice detail...

@blueangels5 your wrong, thats only on small aircraft, in the case of the md-80 and other commercial aircraft there is a small steering handle to the left of the yolk that hydraulically controls the nose gear.

An airplane typically gets it's lift from the wings, and the thrust is from the engines. Don't thank me, I was happy to provide this information. I feel like I have helped people understand airplanes.

AMAZING VIDEO! KEEP IT UP!

Brillinat Mr Peteresen. Hope you make many, many more videos. I have subscribed.

Great video!!! thanx

I fly an Md11, but I really wish I got to fly the 80, 88 or 90.

Amazing bird. God bless

great video!!!

Gotta love that nearly 4,000 fpm climb rate, as they pass through 8,000ft msl!!

The whistling sound is the a large fan for cooling avionics on the ground.

Grande macchina MD 80 ho nostalgia

devsalma, To steer the plane on the taxiway, you use the tiller which is a little wheel or stick (depending on plane) that is on the captain (or both on some planes) side. It turns the nose wheel on the ground. It is not modeled in FSX, so you use rudders.

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@oOHagbardCelineOo Hey, the maximum altitude for a MD-80 might be 11 500meter, but not feet. A normal jet flies at around 30000 - 40000feet regularly. That is about 11-14km high.

They are very reliable aircraft if they have an experienced maintenance crew and pilots. They are also pretty old so they require more downtime for check than other aircraft. If you look at the safety record most crashes are maintenance or pilot related and only a hand-full are aircraft defects or errors.

Very quiet cockpit!

@60SixHouseBeats He has a connecting flight in Dusseldorf. Another aircraft and airline.

@anurek123 Via the rudder pedals, these two pedals which control the aircraft's vertical stabilizer and the nose wheel.

very nice

@rockgodpatrick Oh, glad to know.. but i thought the restriction was also to avoid birdstrike on the windshield with a high speed.. that could result in a broken windshield..

That and the DC-10 were the last comfortable airliners.

@Killinggrapes This signals you when the elevator trim is in motion.

Wow! that sucker climbs like a rocket!

this is awesome

The newest heavies are ok. However I love the older ones like the majestic MD-80 . Thanks for the vid.

@aybam12 actually it is you who is wrong. Most modern jetliner cockpits i've been in, 737, 757, 767, 747 all have what is called a "tiller wheel." Rudder Pedals are much too sensitive to control the nose wheel during a takeoff run. All aircraft use rudder pedals to steer the nose wheel, but they also have the tiller wheel to control it as well. Look up Northwest Flight 85 incident, and the importance of this wheel.

thanks

nice vid! thx for posting

What does the loud beeping mean? is it like an altitude marker or something?

What a nice plane!

What is the buzzing sound telling the pilots?

EXcelent !!

@skydive911 Long haul flight? It was a flight from Copenhagen to Paris. MD80's are still in use for domestic flights and international flights within Europe by SAS.

All analog and mechanical cool

I need some help with thrust when I click takeoff thrust the message right under it lights up it sais something in red first off, What does the message mean, and how doI prevent it thanks

Seems they are unable to read the HSI during the flight?

@sixstringmania i THINK there's a button on the yoke (flight controls, steering wheel... whatever you want to call it) I know that's right for some light aircraft i've been in anyway.

MD80. It says in the title.

What airline is it

What the pilot press at 3:33 with that click sound?

If I were an airplane pilot, I would press all those buttons to make people happy !!! hahahah kiding

cool,sweet,nice!!

Thanks - Very nice video.

@sixstringmania for outside cabin its PTT.. tower, other traffic ect

Very beautiful instruments display beat back flat screen any day , , beautiful dc, md family line. I see ias is above 500 atl 10, and passig, great vid

its very quiet after the takeoff. I know that from the simulator. awesome plane and good video!!

Sweet

Its the trim horn.

I wanna be a pilot!!! I'm working on it!!!!

Awesome, awesome video, many thanks! Now if you could just find your way into an A380 ;-) What was that strange buzzing alarm that happened a few times during the video?

@xyeahtony1 Right they would have to be spring loaded if you were to use the pedals for stearing, I can only guess in a way this might be better for control purpose.

@11TreySimons yes i read that too.....but an md80 wont make it from Dusseldorf to miami

thats a really quiet flight deck

i was expecting it to be a bit quieter than in a normal plane but wow its basically a glider in there lol

Oh my god, this cockpit it's a dream :)

@easyJetAirbus Thanks mate :-)

is it still the most quiet jet cockpit in history?

The fuel is in pounds (lbs), not gallons. So it did burn 250 pounds on taxi and takeoff. JET A weighs 6.84 pounds per gal so it burned 36 gallons in that time frame.

Exactly, mine too!

Where's the stereo?

What is the constant buzzing noise?

Must be very quiet up there all the way up in the cockpit

Most aircraft have a vertical climb out rate between 3500 and 6000ft/min. Depends on the aircraft.

Notice how both sets of controls are active but not connected like a Cessna. Cool!

@thevidguy11 your wrong, no aircraft has a "small steering handle" they all use rudder pedals. some airbus aircraft might have a flight stick (like a helicopters control) that is off to the left. but in your case you are wrong.

The nosewheel tiller.

Flew MD87 Gander to Frankfurt non-stop, no problem

AWESOME font in the beginning. Great HD vid. I can even see the hairs on the Capts arm and the peeled up yoke.

what air craft is it