SAA Airbus A340-600 Takeoff View from cockpit

[TheAvFreak]

Just out of curiosity, I am interested in seeing the cockpit of this aircraft. May I ask to visit while the plane is boarding/unloading at the gate?

Thanks!

[sp2141]

are children allowed into the cockpit at takeoff?

[klaxon12]

@sp2141 Unfortunately not, sorry

[sirArchitect]

Love this VID FOR DAYS!

[khalid6591]

i sounds like a pickup truck

[hecke101]

why



[hecke101]

Are you the third Pilot of this flight or a passenger?

Nice video:)

[klaxon12]

Respond to this video...

[klaxon12]

@hecke101

A passenger is never allowed into the cockpit anymore, I am Cabin crew. The P3 was sitting to the left of me.

[afcaj0od]

@klaxon12 i know since 9/11

but still everytime when i go on holiday with a plane...the pilots allow me to see the cockpit(parking)

not while doing the take off or taxi...corse

[kobhalt94]

@klaxon12 i flew many times in the cockpit as a simple passenger...

[TheMatpoi]

how did you get in the cockpit man

[SpiderRider3]

@TheMatpoi Bribes.

[djomercohen]

tbh, i prefer boeing...

i dunno the airbus is too automatic for me.

[klaxon12]

@djomercohen

Thats what they say: Airbus builds aircraft for passengers, boeing builds aircraft for pilots!

[acridotherestristis]

@klaxon12

Is that the reason your 787 Dreambird doesn't get off the ground?

[acridotherestristis]

@djomercohen

Do you wind your watch too!

[Triple777ER]

@djomercohen Have you flown either of them?

[jetfreak4]

My dream is to ride the jumpseat. I know some people would hate it, but not me.

[Ivanvideoscaseros5]

Que lindo video! Te hago una pregunta clave: ¿como hiciste para que te dejaran estar en la cabina durante el despegue? tenés algun conocido en la aerolinea o trabajás ahi? porque yo una vez traté de hacerlo pero cuando la azafata le preguntó a los pilotos después me dijo que no podía pasar cuando el avión estaba en vuelo, y al final me hicieron pasar cuando ya habia arribado al aeropuerto de destino.

Un saludo y espero tu respuesta asi me sacas la duda

Iván

[bevis113]

SAA is fantastic

[Ramaz1969]

wow! great video. Good therapy for those who are scared of flying. :-)

[clamslok]

would like to kno what is that string outside the window?

[klaxon12]

@clamslok Its not outside its inside, its the pilots headphone cord.

[clamslok]

@klaxon12

oh, i see, hahaha, it's illusion!~

[Anjunar87]

@clamslok =DDD first i thought that too

[clustergarde]

@clamslok -- the communications cable (it goes down to the ground) :P

[773x744cap]

@clamslok

that string is a part of rope they tied up cargo on the roof

hahaha I think it is inside radio wire

[t1000eg]

@clamslok hahah

[matthiashaenni]

NICE vid!!!

[Valante12]

SAA guys its SAA

SAA = South African Airways

[ducker1942]

nice

[TeamShmingle]

based on the accent is migh thave been Quantas cause they sound Australian

[mdmnmdllr]

@TeamShmingle - Apologies, can't be QANTAS ... they own no A340-600 series aircraft. Taking off from Frankfurt, my bet is Lufthansa.

[thefluffyelephant]

@TeamShmingle they're South African. South African and Aussie accents have lots of similarities...Seeing as they both have British influences.

[NereidaWatral33]

huhubrauche dringend beschäftigung bin so einsam! Jemand lust zu chatn

[Chriss153]

Which is the airline? Never heard an A-340 saying V1 Pretty cool

[cesar333]

Man the A340 have such a slow climb out.

[burcmm]

That is because it is fully loaded. This would be the same roll on a 777-300 or a fully loaded 747-400.

[travellingtheworld]

@burcmm or maybe it was a derated takeoff to reduce engine wear

[Syriaacex]

wai wai wai sexy 5/5

[arief5159]

wai nie sesuatu betul.. tedahh

[tjs468]

thats close to 9/11

[BusterBunker]

A340, the airplane that takes forever to get off the ground. I sure do love the MD-11 though.

[noodlebike]

I sure prefer the a340 safety record to the MD11. The A340-5 & 600's are no slouches, its the 2&300 that take forever to go airbourne..!!

[BusterBunker]

Well, we are entitled to our own opinions. There is just something about an MD-11 that no Boeing or Airbus aircraft will match. Yes, the MD-11 has had some safety issues, but it gets a lot of its bad rap from the DC-10. I'm not saying I don't like The A340, but I'm not jumping into bed with either though. I like the A332 much better though.

[noodlebike]

Best of both worlds in my opinion is the Tri-star. Safe, tri-jet and good looking..!! I often wonder how the Tri-star would have developed if continued.

[k0nn0r]

@BusterBunker The MD11 gets a lot of bad rep from landing and flipping on its back, too.

[fannypenis]

@noodlebike The RR Trents sure do make it rocket

[aceofbass83]

i love when i hear v1 and rotate its brilliant!!

[yourhot266]

@aceofbass83 I know then you fele the vibration through your body.

[lucasribeiro27]

Bumpy Take-off !

[Melonebird]

Weee!

I trust in pilots!:)

What else could i do???:)

Tom(Hungary)

[Unitedastwo]

well they are just human too and humans make mistakes all the time

lets just hope pilots dont make fatal ones lol

[marlo1204]

Out of curiousity, what are those rattling noises during takeoff? The rattling stops when the aircraft rotates.

[BIMMERKID2]

its the landing gear wheels running over the centerline lighting knobs on the runway

[marlo1204]

thank you

[Am99a]

pitch up 15degree and after that gear up.

[Unitedastwo]

the runway is just a alittle bumpy

[rmetal]

Stuff in the cockpit rattling from the nosewheel hitting the runway center line lighting.

[naisi]

@rmetal It's not the lighting :) It's simply the runway which is extremely rough in FRA.

[gman130794]

@Italblessings - it means pull up to make the plane rise and takeoff

[Italblessings]

What does 'rotate' mean?

[tonikroos4]

@Italblessings

To pull the plane up from runway.

:)

[csume1]

great video!!!!!!!! thanks!

[Exagerative]

That was a pretty shakey take-off, Never usually seems like that, was this the camera-holders fault? or was it just a bumpy runway.

[kimosab3]

both..

[wyomingbullfighter]

Is it true that Frankfurt has one of the worst bumpy runways?

[nicogi]

very true

[wyomingbullfighter]

Yeah actually just found that out. When we landed it felt like we were landing on gravel.

[WISEBL00D]

Kommandant, the captain or the first officer elect whether to takeoff and land or otherwise. If one takesoff, he/she is usually the one to land as well. I think the idea of a sidestick confuses you. It did me at fiest, but don't forget that all modern Airbus are flown according to fly-by-wire computers. The aircraft autotrims and prevents bank angles that contavene the flight envelope. In this case the pilot points the sidestick and the aircraft pretty much does the rest itself.

[charlieechovictor]

and on a boeing or an airbus when you're the CPT you fly with your left cause the other one is on the throttle... Especially on landing

[Kommandant10]

one question, which one is the pilot in the airbus? the joystick of the pilot seat is on the left, isn't it hard for them to use left hand? or the pilot sits on the right and uses right hand to fly?

[flynbryan41]

they are both pilots and both have joysticks.

[1kris007]

Even on boeing aircraft the captain would use their left and on the yoke and the right hand on the throttles anyways....

[lockstocknl]

its no different then flying with a joke.. In a "normal" airplane the co-pilot steers with his right hand and manages the throttle with his left hand. For the captain its of course the other way around. People always make a big problem out of something that is in reality no different

[trechan]

ITS A MIRACLE, this one didn't crash

[kdmq]

Bumpy runway, but nice vid! nobody has ever died on an a340 by the way

[Kevinessequamvideri]

If it ain't Boeing I'm not going. There are reasons why Airbus can't sell these things and 777sell like hotcakes.

[echatz]

If it's Boeing,

I ain't going

[SJB173]

& what do you know about boeing aircraft?

[blablubb12345]

Airbus had more orders than Boeing in 2008 and also leads in 2009.

[capshaq]

Boeing Airbus?? who cares both of them are outstanding

[heffron91]

comparing Airbus and Boeing has no fucking point.. -_-

[blablubb12345]

That was just an answer to a "Airbus can't sell their planes post".

[Stijs]

bad runway...

nice VID!

[Gerrit22041992]

Why bad. it isa good runway.

[Indian0J694]

That is Runway 25L, and it is bad. Check out the Airbus A340 landing of the runway strip.

[Gerrit22041992]

the bumps are often the lights, cause theyre nearly 2-3 cm higher than the runway itself

[EftelFan]

Possible. Although the pilot often manouvres the airplane a little bit out the center line, so the lights won't be touched;)

[wasde970]

so bumpy

[garcibus]

first of all, nice video, thanks ;)

then, i've been regularly flighting across europe for business for 6 years now, a great amount of my flights were on airbus A320, it always worked out fantastically...

(this was only a passenger opinion, i'm no pilot).

[Martins219]

Really guys, you gotta lighten up a little bit....or this planet will eat you alive....

[Martins219]

Joke guys, its a joke guys.....And just one question.....Do any of you people have a sense of humor? Have any of you flown an Airbus....And what if I had flown an Airbus....what would you be dong now....eating your keyboard? Any plane that calls a captain a Retard on landing, should not be flown....lol....yea....that was another Airbus joke. .....lol.......

[duk309]

You are one not funny bastard

[GinoRc]

LOL retard, retard! hhahaha, this people have no sense of humor.

This is a beautiful video! Awesome!

[hourbuilder]

lol, I just have to reply to shifflett777....firstly Airbus gets you from A to B?? Tell that to the families of the people on the A330 Air France last week that crashed off the coast of Brasil. Lights embedded in the ground? Are you clueless? If that were true how would you see them unless directly over them. Most good runways have the lights slightly to the left or right of the centreline, meaning you can be on centreline without hitting every light. Check 0:53s of this video, and you'll see...

[HugelyBig]

If the lights aren't embedded in the ground, how come they don't shatter when a fuck-knows-how-many-tonnes airliner runs over them?

[hourbuilder]

They are embedded in the ground of course, but they're simular to cats eyes in the street, the do stick out about the ground, and trust me you can hit every single one!

[HugelyBig]

Your contradictions are genuinely confusing me. You say they're embedded in the ground, but you say they stick out.

[hourbuilder]

Dude think about it, like an iceberg or a tree, 80% is embedded or underground/water, but there's still 20% that sticks out...same with the lights. The 80% is why you don't smash them up when you run over it, and the 20% is why you can hit them....understand?

[Martins219]

Not a fan of Airbus Aircraft. To me, a Boeing climbs....where as an Airbus...allows the earth to fall away due to the curvature of the earth.....just a joke.

[shifflett777]

Martins219,

I have one question, have you ever flown an airbus. If not, you have no reason to say that. You are basically saying, that piano needs the key of "F", but you've never played it. Whether airbus is better or worse, it gets people from point "a" to point "b". thank you!

[hourbuilder]

lol, we boeing boyz defo out climb the bus lads...Flew same dept as a A320 yesterday, 20 miles behind and he fell off the bottom of our TCAS (which means he was more then 2700' feet below) before we finished the deptarture....love the 737 :)

[golds079]

an great video really are, but it was an littele bumpy , and i like that , so really good video. more from this video. pls...

[hourbuilder]

lol, thats what happens when they run over every centreline light...

[shifflett777]

Actually, the lights are embedded in the ground.

[trollydodger]

The Centre line lights are at least 2-3cm above the runway and the majority of pilots often manoeuvres the aircraft to be slightly off the centre line

[NandiT1963]

Awesome video! boy was she bumpy.

[sullipilot]

Nice vid...She was bouncing pretty good there.

[edyken77]

Bumpy lights

[strongbowblade]

or maybe he asked if it was ok

[hosscollar]

Nicely done. I'm not a pilot, but it looked good to me. My A320's always break up after take-off in FS. I can never get the speed low enough for some reason. Good thing I don't fly for a living!

[Airplanek8]

Dont use full power on take off buddy :P not needed usually for normal take-offs. also you can set the autothrottle and set your speed that way you dont exceed it.

[jesuistahmid]

hoscollar, in FS, accelerate to n1=95% and thats good enough and you should be rotating at 160 kts and enough climb angle that you don't speed up too fast.

[DavidMcMahon1]

I have the same problem I just reduce throttle after take off (I thought you had to have 100% on take off!!)

[ya13er]

Will they allow for me to record a video from the cockpit like you?

[GrooveRocker]

i don´t believe....

because he hid his cam so the pilot couldn´t see the cam

[ya13er]

Impossible, how come??

Camera is not as small as a pen!

[alexmun133]

not really they dont let passengers use electronics but maybe since he was in the cockpit they allowed it

[piece12oforca12]

i love the airbus a 340

[moonrunnerlawl]

The 340-600 sure does have a long roll out

[klaxon12]

In this instance the plane had a full load of passengers,fuel and cargo, and was very near to it's take off limits

[18daryus]

nice

[cruxader27]

maybe the sound and the continuous vibrations on 0:14 to 0:40 are caused by the lights on the runway when hit by the gears of the plane

[serge933]

Yes you can hear and feel it mostly in the cockpit due to the Nose gear being right under and behind them, feeling most of the impact witht the runway lights which are NOT flat.

[Hatchetman6971]

Those Airbus planes shouldn't sound so bad in the cockpit. These hi tech planes are supposed to be built so solidly. WTF. But I have taken off and landed from Frankfurt so many times that this is a great video.

[ekovzy]

Hehe but after v1 is quiet.

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

Love the engine sound on take-off. What type of engines does South African Airways use on its A340's, Rolls-Royce?

[18vallancel]

The pilot must have put the plane straight down the middle because the nose gear is bouncing off the little modules which contain the centre lights. Passengers won't feel it because they're sitting over the body gears.

[thecptcraig]

It happens,but if you look the lights are offset to the right for this reason.

[gardemeister]

what a bumpy runway look like a beetfield .shame for eddf

[Nighthawk19640]

EDDF take off from 07L. It looks like A5 ahead and spotting aley on 25 R/L treshold

[BavarianProductions]

I think it's Frankfurt-Main EDDF

[DAIRX]

sorry, guys - It s clearly RWY7L.

[DAIRX]

is it departing RWY7L or is it RWY18 on this great vid?

[propilot1012]

They need to repave the runways. i have been there before and landing and takoff were very bumpy. i love this 'audio preview' it's so funny listening to the guy say what you wrote

[eduardocool]

what the heck!?

[10032050]

this is South African Airways at its best

[Shipdocks]

Right down that centre line. :)

[gardemeister]

yeah but the camera is right side f/o so it means 1 meter right of the center plane:)

[friendofbillbob]

Where were you going to?

[klaxon12]

This was a Frankfurt - Johannesburg flight.

[friendofbillbob]

Thanks. I live in Boston and during the summer months we have two flights to FRA. The 340-600 on the late afternoon flight (LH423) and then the 340-300 on the late evening flight (LH421)

[fajadody2]

klaxon12,do you live in Germany?

[klaxon12]

South Africa

[TonyFirelli]

how did you get in side the cockpit?

[klaxon12]

I am part of the Cabin crew

[djvinni]

lol :D

[uploader1010]

nice

[fajadody2]

you're saying that all that movement on the camera is caused by lights?

[klaxon12]

Yes, this is due to the fact that the front wheel of the plane is directly underneath the cockpit, and any uneveness or bumps are felt, although the shaking in the video is exaggerated due to the fact that I could not stabilise the camera adequately.

[klaxon12]

They are not potholes,but runway lights

[fajadody2]

damn, ya think that they can do a better job fixing all the potholes on the tarmac.  thats a bumpy ride.

[klaxon12]

They are not potholes, but runway lights

[AndJo13]

goooooood

[lufthansa94]

I did not say it (FSX) game is, I mean it looks like (FSX) you know not (FSX game .....: ( 

TO: colomboykevkev2007

[weareNOTemo]

i like to fly, but cockpit views scare me, so im watching these to try and get used to it...

[lufthansa94]

that is as in fsx

[colomboykevkev2007]

how can u be so stupid!

its not fsx its real life u idiot!

[lufthansa94]

I did not say it (FSX) game is, I mean it looks like (FSX) you know not (FSX game .....: (