Boeing 747-200 Max Weight Takeoff

371 ton take-off from RWY 08 Ostend. V1 164kts, Vr 176, V2 186kts. The aircraft gets airborne with approximately 800m of runway remaining. Filmed from the jump seat.

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[mjl1966y]

I noticed a couple interesting things. Any feedback would be very cool.

1. A/T is OFF during takeoff, indicating TOD EPR was not used. Did they set the thrust manually for this takeoff?

2. Early in the climb, A/P is set for an IAS climb and then, a little later on, is switched to V/S mode. Wondering why they didn't stick with IAS and climb EPR?

[Balleka]

@mjl1966y The AT was never used for take off, too unreliable, so the captain advanced the thrust levers and the flight engineer would fine tune the EPR to the calculated TO thrust setting(set manually and indicated by the red bugs on the EPR guages). The calculated TO EPR was checked against TOD on the EPRL computer (Guage to the right of the EPR guages) as a gross error check.

[Balleka]

@mjl1966y

2. The flight director was set at 12 deg nose up for TO as initial target pitch attitude, once airborne IAS selected to maintain V2+10, then VS 500(fpm) at 1500' in this case to allow the A/C to accelerate, CLB thrust was called for by the pilot flying and set by the FE at 1500'. Once the A/C had accelerated to 250kts, IAS was reselected to maintain speed below FL100. VS would then be used again to accelerate to cruise climb speed of 330kts for a 370 ton A/C

[speedbird33]

hi

very nice video,i noticed that vert spd,alt sel,were on and the captain was making changes to both alt and vert spd but the a/t switch is deactivated and all three a/p paddles were in the O F F position,could you explain that? and also does this a/c only use ins nav?

[Balleka]

The auto pilots and auto throttles were not used for take off , the target altitude is set as per ATC instruction and the flight director would give the required pitch information to maintain the vertical speed set on the VS wheel, and capture the set altitude. The command air speed bug (auto throttle target) was used in our SOP's to indicate the desired target speed.

[Balleka]

So on take off it is set to v2 initially then 250 kts once flap 5 was selected during the initial acceleration and then to the desired climb speed after passing FL 100

[Balleka]

@emirates0777 yep I R a pilot

[chemerich]

Once you are in the sky, you'll never want to come down.

[j1992g]

Turns out, this aircraft is now in storage at ostend :(

[Poyekali]

a vintage hand on vintage engines of a vintage aircraft

[mist8k]

its actually quite quiet in the flight deck

[andy4b767]

I wonder how pilots of the 747-100 and -200 used to fly with gauges to a glass cockpit, it's much harder for me personally

[davetileguy]

You forgot to set Carb heat!!

[alex471996]

So I assume that this video was made in early 2010, does this mean there are many 747 - 200, it has always been a dream to fly older planes as opposed to new ones, I don't know any passenger airlines that would train people on 747 - 200 / 737 -300s. There are freighting companies that fly old 'second hand' planes but none that I know of in the UK.

Is flying any sort of 'analogue' flight deck a realistic dream in 10 years time?

[sheka216]

cool video

[julianderiver]

que avion mas lindo!!!

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