In the Cockpit ULS Airbus A310 Classic Freighter from Istanbul Airport

Video from the channel Just Planes about Airbus A310, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 24:20. Language: English. Video type: Onboard.

The cockpit of a ULS Airlines Cargo Airbus A310 freighter flying under the Turkish Airlines callsign from Istanbul Airport. The video combines two legs: cargo flight TK 6313 from Istanbul to Helsinki, lasting about three hours, and a leg under the callsign Turkish 6258 departing from Stockholm-Arlanda and returning to Istanbul. It shows the pre-flight exterior inspection, the preparation and taxi briefing, takeoff from runway 35 left, the cruise, the approaches and landings, plus a transit check in Helsinki.

Before departure, ground staff check the wheels, sensors, landing gear, horizontal stabilizer and elevators, and confirm the cargo is secured. In the cockpit, the taxi and takeoff checklists are followed: thrust and SRS mode, rotation, slat and flap retraction and autopilot engagement. In cruise, at flight level 360, the crew compares it with the optimum level (370) and the maximum (390) and explains that control gave them a direct routing instead of the published standard instrument departure. One pilot describes the aircraft as a semi-automated twin-engine jet from 1992 and shows the FCU, from which the autothrust and vertical modes are selected; the profile mode takes its data from the FMS. In Helsinki, a technician carries out the transit check: nose gear free of cracks or hydraulic leaks, number one engine's blades and sensors, and the APU compartment. On arrival in Istanbul, the approach instructions with speed reductions, the autopilot disconnection and the use of spoilers and reversers can be heard.

The A310 appears here converted into a freighter. The captain says he wanted to be a pilot since childhood and has around 150 hours on this type. The crew says goodbye back in Istanbul: they left at around 11 UTC and returned at 19:35 UTC.