Jurgen Raps is a freaking stud. 40 years of experience taught him how to plant that A380 on that runway with a 15 knot tailwind. There really is no substitute for an experienced pilot who can anticipate air traffic control before they even speak. Not to mention the fact that he maintains a sterile cockpit from start to finish. Good man. We'll miss you in your retirement, Jurgen.

Watched this ten years ago as a pilot flying the Dash 8 for Flybe. Now I’m a pilot with BA about to start my conversion course to the A380. Dreams come true. Although I still miss the Dash 😂

10 years ago i watched this video for the first time and i was so inspired to be an pilot 10 years later i failed to be a pilot, feels bad to not acheive what i had dream. all the very best for all future pilots that are going to fly such engineering beauty's..

This professionalism is what makes air travel so safe. Makes me feel more confident flying.

As soon as I saw the water salute, I rushed to the description and, sure enough, final flights for the captain. Very nice landing and exceedingly professional and courteous-tons of respect for such a great flight crew.

Whoever did editing/splicing of film deserves an award. These pilots flying these birds, wow, nerves of steel!

It's so good to see Captain Raps letting passengers know what is on their wing etc. I've had plenty of flights all around the world and it very rarely happens.

I absolutely love the flow of the protocol on approach to SFO. The sights from high up looking down were gorgeous. Landing a "flying hotel" takes plenty of skill on a clear day and far more skill and experience during inclement weather. These German pilots did a great job of landing that big boy plane. Thank You for showing us all what the passengers never get to see firsthand. Loved all the electronic navigational instruments. The mechanical movements of the plane thrill me. This was my dream since I was a little kid. To fly a commercial airliner. The aviation industry lost a potential commercial pilot going back to the 1990's. The loss was greater for me than for them.

Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 looks so real, even the pilots look amazing

8 years ago, and still incredible.

I am always impressed by the Lufthansa pilots and their efficient and competent operations.

Wow… that was amazing. I would feel very comfortable flying with these pilots.

This is a way above average video. The various cuts from cockpit to passenger window to external to tower and back to cockpit as the flight unfolds make for a very interesting video. Many thanks for posting.

Jürgen Raps. Einer der sympathischsten Flieger überhaupt !

So calming when everything goes right and everyone is on the ball, which is most of the time. But at the same time, landing always gives a lot of adrenalin.

This has to be by far the best cockpit/piloting video on YT. Not sure I’ve seen other channels have the extra detail of showing the control surfaces as adjustments are made. Amazing stuff. Hope you guys do something similar for the A350.

On Sept. 1st 2020, after a 33 year and 4 month career with Continental/United, I was forced to retire by the FAA just because I turned 65. My last flight as a 777 Captain was from Seoul to SFO on Aug. 29th, landing also on 28R. Im lucky, I was able to do what I dreamed of doing since I was 3 years old, but it sure takes the joy out of retirement.

The different camera angles both internal and external are outstanding. Well done.

that's beautiful! The captain is retiring... this is why HE landed this bird rather than the first officer. what a class act...

Been a long time since I landed at SFO. Thank you, Gentlemen, for the scenery and pillow soft landing. I remember almost landing in the bay one particularly windy day. Safe journeys to you.

This is one of my favorite videos!! I’ve watched it so many times I’ve lost count. The takeoffs and landings are spectacular! The pilots are beyond great. I’ve watched the takeoff from Germany to San Francisco and the return trip to Germany. Love it !!!

The conversation in English language of these Lufthansa pilots is really great.

The more amazing thing is, he rides his motorcycle during the active operation hour of KSFO in the middle of the taxiways! Gosh, this pilot enjoys his life! I hope wherever you are, may you be healthy and good Captain Raps!

I watched this first landing of the Lufthansa A380 at SF airport. I was there along the waters edge seeing it personally.... (along with probably a thousand other fans) it was the first landing of an A380 in San Francisco. I greatly respect Lufthansa!

I was fortunate to have flown on this very flight. It was amazing. The crew was wonderful as was the food. It was a very smooth ride. Beautiful plane. Loved it. jp Wisconsin.

The ground air traffic controllers have a tremendous job to do... what a great team work..!!!

Wouahhh...Je suis toujours très très impressionné quand je vois cet A380 soit au décollage et/ou à l'atterrissage et bien évidemment, dans le ciel ! C'est tout un avion !!! Dommage que la production de cette merveille est cessée mais bon, il y a toujours un commencement et une fin à toutes choses ?!?! Cela m'attriste quand même !!! Merci à ces merveilleux pilotes en qui j'aurais mis toute ma confiance et je félicite tous les gens qui ont contribué à la réalisation de cet appareil qu'est le A380 et bien malheureusement, je n'y suis jamais monté ?!?!? 😯😉👍😪💖💞💖

I have a lot of respect for those pilots and their ability to land such a massive aircraft.

I'm nearly 50 years old but I still feel a child-like wonder when I watch these amazingly huge planes. One of the highlights of my life was being able to sit in the cockpit of a C-17 in 2006 (it was parked). I felt 8 years old again and I will never forget that feeling.

Everytime I see this kind of video, I cannot wrap my mind on how amazing that single act is in the hall of times, and we do it everyday, everywhere, like business as usual.. humans are amazing, everything it took to get to THAT moment of kissing the runway

This is called PERFECTION ! When you love your work, you don't work at all , you're just having fun ! You enjoy every minute, every second . You really can't have enough doing it .

I have the utmost respect and admiration for pilots. It still amazes me how they get off the ground. God bless all our pilots. Stay safe. 🙏🙏🙏💕

God bless to all the pilots out there big respect to you all

What a magnificent piece of engineering and what a great and professional crew to bring her into such a smooth landing.

Es gibt keinen Beruf den ich so sehr schätze, , Piloten sind für mich die GRÖßTEN. Das war ein tolles Videos. ❤❤❤👍

I Love watching these professional land a massive jet with such professionalism, inspirational!

What a great video. Outstanding German professionalism.

This will remain as an epic cockpit video and the Pilots greatest ever

It amazes me how they can communicate with so many diffrent accents and languages spoken over the wireless.

These pilots ALWAYS so professional set the standard for sterile cockpit focus safety I would fly with them anyday

*WELL DONE GENTLEMEN...THANKS FOR THE FLY ALONG, IT WAS ENJOYABLE!!*

Excellent Video!! The Best Landing video I’ve seen! The amount of different cameras, their angles, clarity of voices, views, ATC, music, editing, every aspect of Landing covered.....everything!👍🏻 Greetings from Mexico!🇲🇽

Thanks for the entertaining show. Brings back memories of my 15 years working SFO as an UA mechanic.

Such a great video with many camera angles. I have watched this video at least twice before. Happy retirement, Captain.

I loved watching all the technical skill necessary to land this beautiful airplane. Thank you for putting me in the cockpit.

I like the way the tower spoke to the pilots in German, and the pilots to the tower on English.

Wonder how these flying machines fly with so much baggage and descend so beautifully. Absolutely marvelous!

This was SO AWESOME, I am awestruck at how smooth and efficient the pilots work and communicate with each other. And the water salute while taxing was beautiful. I loved it, Thank you!!!

I like the German pilot and co-pilot. Very professional and precise. Serious and masterful. Good job.

Gives good appreciation for the amount of engineering, communication, coordination and resources that go into safe landing. Hope passengers get to appreciate it rather than just eat, sleep, sh!t and choose to complain about some minor discomforts.

Na herrlich! Mein einziger An- und Abflug in San Francisco war nachts, jetzt konnte ich endlich mal was sehen. Gute Sendung

I realize this is almost a 10 year old video, but still great today. Those A380's were really cool. Too bad not many airports could not handle them.

My father has travelled all over the world basically, and he mentioned that flying Lufthansa is a very pleasant experience in every way.

Beautiful video. Two pilots who love their job

Wahnsinn, ist toll es mal von ganz vorne zu sehen. BRAVO!!!!

I've been overdosing on The Smithsonian Channel's "Air Disasters"; and, it sure is refreshing to see an airliner land safely..

Beautiful plane Gorgeous big bird Nice smooth landing Great music at the end

My first landing at SF scared me to death. On final approach there was another aircraft to the right, as if we were competing for the same runway. As things turned out we were using the left runway and the other aircraft the right. Both aircraft landed simultainiously on adjacent runways. Never experienced that before - or after. Crazy, but that was 22 years ago.

I never tire of watching this. The captain instills confidence in Lufthansa. Danke mein Herr! I have had the pleasure of travelling on the A380, and will do as long as we have them. 🏆

showing the approach/landing from many different angles and camera positions is definetely a lus

This is why I usually fly Lufthansa from Europe to the US and back. Very professional airlines.

My first airline flight was on a DC-6 from SEA to SFO when I was eight years old. I asked so many questions that the crew put me in the jump seat and didn't kick me out until about five mile final. I was hooked for life.

I love how the algorithm has this pop up on my feed every so often. Gotten to enjoy this video several times now.

I like how the plane insults the pilot right before touchdown.

Such a beautiful bird! Never gets old watching these. Well done!

Airline pilots have the coolest jobs. Very demanding, I appreciate them all

NICE WORK! I love the friendly tension between the Pilot and the First Officer, the Pilots life and reputation is on the line if either one misses one mistake!

San Francisco airport is an outstanding and very professional airport with very professional and dedicated control tower personnel. Hats off to them!

what a big bird, beautiful to watch

My first Approach into SFO ILS 28R, it was a beautiful light rain morning. Of hundreds approach over several years that approach and ones into Aspen stand out in my memory the most. Great memories, nice video, except for the little hissy fit in the beginning.

A very nice approach and landing! Video is good enough to be part of a professional movie. The three men from ground crew with the thumbs up, was perfect , after the Captain said, “ we behave here,” with a smile.

I must say, those two are the BEST Pilots I have ever seen in my life on KZfaq. I hope The Captain is enjoying His Retirement very well. The coolest dudes in the Aviation Industry.

Fantastic video, cameras positioned everywhere - cockpit, ATC, the ramp, the ground along the ILS, and even a little Wagner at the end. Outstanding video.

The most professionally produced multi camera video of an approach, landing and ground taxi to gate I've ever seen. Nothing else comes close.

Very Very Nice, congratulations to the two pilots, from Germany to the USA, it is a wonderful world.

One of the very best aviation videos I have ever seen. Thank you so very much !!!

The best commercial aircraft videos period. The multiple cameras, the clarity of the video and the good personalities of the pilots all add value to the overall production. Thank you for sharing. A fan in San Jose, California

It's been several years since I've seen this video. I live in SF, and just love watching it. I'm sorry to tell the Captain, and Crew that the Cliff House has closed, due to Covid, lock-down, and a breakdown in negotiations with the Department of the Interior (It's located on federal land, in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area). However, there are hopes that it can be revived, later in 2022.

Super Landung 🛬 und einen schönen Empfang. Es muß doch schön sein Pilot zu sein. Einen schönen Aufenthalt in San Francisco

Nothing against any other pilots, but for me the sound of a German accent in the cockpit is reassuring!

In aviation, pilots are ALWAYS "flying the aircraft" whether it is on autopilot or not. They must check their instruments every few seconds as well as look outside whenever they are approaching an airport or taking off. Both those times (TO&Ls) are the most dangerous times of flying. You must get on the ILS, the scope, well, I won't go into detail, except to say that you are ALWAYS busy when flying an aircraft (or should be!). As a GA pilot myself, I can certainly verify that the most dangerous place to be in flying is around the airport! But it needn't be, if everyone follow the rules and pays attention to EVERYTHING! Sometimes mistakes are made, the ATC may make a mistake, or you may, or another aircraft may, but in general, a mistake will be corrected if everyone is on the ball and paying attention to what is going on around them, ALL THE TIME!

This could easily win an Academy Award for editing alone. Superb and informative video.

FABULOUS !!! Great panoramic views ! Really felt like being right there in the cockpit !!! Enlightens us, albeit with just a glimpse, on how crucial the ATC-Pilot communication and action both are !!! Salute to the pilots and to all the people behind the curtain ---in the Control Tower--- as well !!! Great teamwork--- the skilled pilots make it sound so simple, but it is actually deceptively simple !!!

I enjoyed this Video . I'm not a Pilot but, to just see the skill it takes to Fly a Plane is fascinating to me. Thank You.

This channel is great. These videos help inform me of how phenomenal pilots are at their extensive knowledge of flying a plane. These also helped lessen my anxiety of flying as well.

Watching this video is a good example of why there will NOT be flying cars for everyone. Everyone involved in moving planes requires respect and following orders or people die

Jurgen Raps, what a legend

The thought of hundreds of thousands of pounds of steel, aluminium, plastic and fuel flying 7 to 8 miles high at a speed of 600 mph with hundreds of lives on board never ceases to amaze me. Seriously, think about that. My great granny was born in 1879. As a kid, she traveled west at about 20 miles a day on a good day. It took the family an entire summer and nearly everything they owned to travel across the country. When she passed in 1978, humans could buy a ticket for a few hundred dollars, just a few days worth of work, and travel 600 miles in one hour. Sit back, eat a questionable meal, eat a bag of peanuts and have a Diet Coke while you are hurling through the sky at a rate of 6 miles a minute.

I never get tired of watching this video. I must have seen it a dozen times. 😊👍 ✈️

Amazing the technology all coming together to allow such a beast to gracefully fly. Great crew, excellent video!!

The A380 is a damn fine machine, a masterpiece. I can't wait to fly on one, it looks very comfortable. This is one behemoth of a plane.

Das war Capitan Rapps letzte Landung 😭😢Sehr Emotional.Viel Spaß noch mit deinem Helikopter Schein. Werde dich vermissen.

I have flown almost all over the world. My first time landing at this airport, I’ll never forget looking out the window and being FREAKED OUT how close we were to the water. I thought to myself “surely the captain would say something if we were landing in the water”… it’s a scene man…landing here. BEAUTIFUL view of the bay from the sky though.

Man, that computerized callout is brutal. Someone needs to teach that computer some respect.

It’s so good to hear “deutsch” speaking within standard aeronautical English 😊😊 Great LH!!

If anyone wants to know what Wake Turbulance means in full terms, here it is: Wake turbulance is caused by an aircraft wingtips from the aircraft in front of you. The bigger the aircraft, the bigger the vortices, and more turbulance. Pilots and ATC leave plenty of space from 2 aircraft. If an Airbus A380 took off, and you are in an a320, you would have to wait for up to 2-5 minutes for the vortices to clear. Thats all I have, comment below if I missed anything!!

I never get tired watching A380

Excellent video! Takes special men and women to handle that type of pressure! I flew for a few years for my company, and while the pilots were working like that, I was in the rear of the plane talking with Stewardesses and drinking coffee they would make for me during late night flights! LOL! What a time...

The overview of SF was good to see. My memory of the '89 bay area earthquake saw a mess. Love SF and Oakland.

A380, a real Spruce Goose of our time.