ETIHAD AIRBUS A380 Takeoff Abu Dhabi | Flight Deck GoPro View
Video from the channel Just Planes about Airbus A380, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 16:46. Language: English. Video type: Onboard.
What it covers
Recorded from a fixed camera in the flight deck, the footage follows an Etihad Airbus A380 departing Abu Dhabi: pre-start preparation, taxiing along the taxiways, the takeoff run and the first stretch of the climb. The departure is shown without cuts from start to finish.
Details shown
The two pilots run through the pre-start checklist, confirm the fuel quantity, load the takeoff data and set the altimeter with a QNH of 1012. During taxi, ground control's taxi instructions can be heard, and at the holding point, the flight controls check. During the takeoff run the decision and rotation speeds are called out; after takeoff, the crew engages the autopilot, discusses the climb route to get above the weather and receives new heading instructions from control.
Context
The A380 is Airbus's large twin-deck aircraft, and this kind of footage shows the division of tasks in the cockpit, the use of checklists, and communication with control during a real scheduled-service departure.