Airbus A320 Video

[Airbus]

Ran across this viemeo video; Its about 18mins long of cockpit views and a aircraft walk around.

This guy has some other interesting videos also.

[vimeo]2525334?hd=1[/vimeo]

[WombatBoy]

This video is going to come in very handy for me in the future. Thanks for sharing

[garrettm30]

Thanks for the video post. I see these things and it never ceases to amaze me. The whole thing is just so fascinating. It makes me wish so much to be one of them. Or even the lucky guy working the camera. I wonder how he was allowed in the cockpit.

I think it's sad that interested passengers aren't allowed to visit the cockpit these days, although I do understand the security need. It's just too bad. I was just finished with my first year of high school when my family took a trip to see some friends in England via Air Canada. At some point during en route, a flight attendant asked me and my younger brother if we would like to visit the pilots in the cockpit. Oh, we very much WOULD like to! I didn't know much what I was looking at, but I sure wanted to learn. The pilots were very kind and friendly, apparently eager to show us young fellows a piece of their world. They were good to answer whatever questions we had, which of course were basic.

I don't recall what aircraft we were in, and I wouldn't have known much about it at the time. The flight was from DFW to Toronto I think, and if memory serves me, I think it was an Airbus. I wish I could remember what it was specifically. At the time, the concept of "autopilot" was interesting [funny, it's more on the boring end to me these days]. I arrived in the cockpit in time to watch the FMS bank the aircraft to a new heading when it reached one of the waypoints, and it was doing it all by itself. The pilots told me it could even land by itself (Cat. III? or were they just referring generally to approach?). "Even in bad weather?" "Even in bad weather! In fact, we have to use the autopilot during bad weather, but when it's nice like this, we like to takeoff and land it by hand because it's more fun."

It really is too bad the current generation of inquisitive youth are being denied that opportunity. Thanks Airbus for bring back these memories!

[StevenM]

A couple of years ago I was fortunate to fly from Eindhoven(NL) to Bologna(IT) in a Beechcraft King 1900D (iirc). My experience with flying was gliders (20+ years ago) and Il-2 flying B-25's and A-20's. After take-off I couldn't resist myself to stick my nose into the cockpit and spent the rest of the trip there sitting on my knees. The pilots explained me all the gauges and gave a good lesson on the navigating with VOR/DME.  They also explained the most stupid questions: (me) "So, and when do you engage the superchargers?" (pilot)"This planes has turbines....", (me)"Nice,....uh, what are turbines?", (pilot)"Jet engines ", (me) "Okeee...with props??"....

[Cat]

Wow... Great video. They make it seem so effortless!

Cat ~

[Jack Skieczius]

really cool video, loved watching it, thanks much for posting it man.