US Airways 1549 cockpit video in a A320 Full Flight Simulator

[bvestationfan]

at this time, there isnt time for pilots to keep pushing that Master Warning and Master Caution light. CAPT is in charge of flying and the FO needs to relight engines as quick as possible instead of just pushing the reset buttons a bunch of times

[40till5]

It called you a retard for landing in the river.

[straightpipediesel]

Great vid! Just a nitpick: the engines were windmilling fast enough so they never had a power or hyd interruption. They were in normal law all the way until impact.

[sevendst]

The sim is $15 million dollars. The procedure start an engine is 3 steps.

[maverick967]

Where did you get the sim?

[Fumeti]

wich is the procedure before and after ditching?

[ladiesman5770]

1:42 is were they hit the birds

[gaspeli]

what software did the use?

[clopium]

A question from a non-aviator - what are all those buttons they keep pressing? Once the bird-strike occurred I expected them just to extend the flaps and use the yoke to fly the plane. Or am I being naive? Why do they keep pressing buttons?

[KidCraigBOUNCE]

There are so many systems on the airbus that need to be either restarted or shutdown. That is what they are trying to do. The yellow and red buttons that they seem frustrated with are caution and warning lights. They are distracting, so they are constantly reseting them.

[hsd628]

Initially the autopilot heading setting. Later on it's possible they're turning off stall / over/underspeed alerts. I'm a non-aviator too, btw, so don't quote me :P

[PuffMac]

@clopium You don'y just turn the keys and fire up the engine on an aircraft. There are many systems which need to be tended to.

[yscreth55]

where can I find a flight simulator like this in Virginia?

[magicstorm1]

@yscreth55 i think they may cost hundred thousand of dollars.

[yscreth55]

i dont want to buy one. I want to try like 1hr. But SIMs cost millions of dollars

[PuffMac]

@yscreth55 Try a couple of thousand. Many Flight Simulator users have constructed their own sim now.

[gaspeli]

sevendest i have a question what you must do when the electronic fail of the plane to become the elctrical power back?????????

[KidCraigBOUNCE]

You must either deploy the RAM AIR TURBINE which is powered by a fan that deploys under the aircraft to produce power. or you must get the APU started. The Auxiliary Power Unit.

[gaspeli]

is i now what APU are and ram air turbine.

ok thank you very much

[alexthorpe13]

Thank you for flying Us airways hope you enjoyed the ride :)

[dcallstar51]

Wow thats cool

[Mesyszor]

What sim is it ??

it isn't CAE or Thesla one ??

[nikthepilot]

great job:d

[bktodc]

I'm assuming that was in real time? You guys did good. Where did you borrow the sim from. I would give my left nut to get a chance to fly one of those.

[sevendst]

I work in the sim shop.

[bvestationfan]

@sevendst do you have a A340 or A380?

[wompasdub]

@bktodc you and me both

[PilotjamesR]

say about 10 million pounds. If its a fully functioning, fully axis moving sim

[attilagregory]

Do not understand one thing .. both engines stopped simultaneously as a result of bird strike? or compressor stall?I noticed that the MFD Capt. continued working.. Due to the APU right?

[jarrod1970]

APU was manually switched on subsequent to the failure.

If you lose both engine generators with the APU not running you go in to the emergency electrical config. This gives you the primary flight display (PFD) on the captain side only, and the captain navigation display (ND) if the hyd electic pump is operating - normally only if the engines are running, or windmilling with sufficient speed. Very limited electrics in the aeroplane.

[jarrod1970]

This emergency configuration can be supported by batteries, the ram air turbine (RAT), or hyd driven generators - if you have engines running or otherwise proving suffiicient hyd press.

As soon as the APU became available (lowest light in the middle on the overhead panel) the aircraft came out of the emergency electrical config and the rest of the electrics recovered.

[videowatcher101010]

that was the most blatant attention seeking ive ever seen

[sofakingr3tarded]

When you talk about sounds I was dissapointed not to hear the screams of 'Mother of God!' and 'Jesus!'. Also the pilots failed to let go of the controls and cover their faces with their hands just before the moment of inpact as is industry standard, who are these amateurs?

[whoddaya]

Can't be too sure, but do you watch Russell Peters?

[CommanderDenton]

These "amateurs" are people who know their work. This was a technical reconstruction of cockpit events. Not a TV drama.

[rdsbarros]

You're very good! Congratulations!

[drairways]

Hey Guys, I was just wondering what does the ditch switch do? They had reported on CNN that they pressed this switch before the water landing!!

[ja737s]

It makes the the entire aircraft water tight

[rarebasses]

I actually heard that they had forgotten, in all the chaos to push that switch.

[drairways]

Well I suppose we cant blame them, Im sure it was pretty crazy, no time to get the ditching check list out and go through the emergency procedures.

[rangelso]

that's a serious piece of hardware, U should get better NY scenery though...

[BLESSEDone333]

wow that was cool

[blitzkriegvonbristow]

just after the bird impact both left and right hand seat PFD and MFD go off momentarily, but why did it take so long for the right hand PFD and MFD to come back online? is it a sim glitch or would that actually happen, because i would have thought that the APU would still be running and therefore no significant electrical disruption would occur. any thoughts?

[alexwasoncehisname]

ya ... i was confused by that, too and why did the stall horn go off several times? the plane maintaned a speed of about 220 knots until just moments before the actual landing ..

[sevendst]

We did the scenario a couple of times at first with the APU on and then without. I'm sure they would have still had there APU running.

[mutestyles]

@sevendst He said in the TV interview he didnt start the APU till after the strike

[bvestationfan]

@blitzkriegvonbristow the APU hogs fuel, so its normally turned up except during a loss of power, AFTER the engines die out

[rotcmaverick]

Simply amazing. Lowering the nose and seeing no option but the river made me cringe with fear.

[adelal]

It makes you appreciate just how quick everything would have happened right from take off to landing... good job.

[ArmandStanger]

are you being sarcastic? if not, you should hang yourself

[ArmandStanger]

I have commented before and I will comment again. This is the ultimate and most realistic simulation of the incident in question. BBC's 'pilot eye view' video totally sucked but still made it to the front page of Digg and is receiving praise from stupid diggers. You guys have done an amazing job. Perhaps you shuld meet Sullenberger in person and show him this video and see what he thinks of it?

[Chitch50]

Excellent!! Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Well Done!

[cypriotpilot]

Awesome very good video!Very good ditching!

[danielvillava]

EXCELLENT Recreation!! The procedures are the same! As they must be. Stall right before splashdown nice!! Great work guys.

[ArmandStanger]

You guys kicked some serious ass with this video. Keep making more :)

[s2v8377]

Interesting recreation of AWE1549 "Cactus 1549's" emergency landing into the Hudson. I figured they departed KLGA's RWY 31 however I see it was RWY 4. It's amazing they were able to control the aircraft to make a safe emergency landing. I'm glad this one had a happy ending especially since it was bitter cold that evening. Airbus should be proud of how well the A320's airframe did in this incident.

[s2v8377]

The Aircraft was an Airbus A320-214 (N106US)

[jeepmods]

"Flight attendants prepare for landing; cross check and all call"

[mgbeecher]

Interesting. Would have been totally believable if you had braced for impact.

[iorr98]

Brilliant comment! they would most likely all be dead if the actual pilots had done what you suggested.

[BatteryIncluded]

Right, and bring the simulator out to the river too?