15 OCT 2021! New York JFK 🇺🇸 MD-11F Lufthansa Cargo Retirement flight Pilots Axel, Günter & Simon

airclubs.com [Music] hi guys welcome to airclips.com welcome to another fantastic episode of the ultimate cockpit movies today you will see an absolutely fantastic movie about one of the last lufthansa cargo md-11 flights from new york with a fantastic crew speaking about fantastic crews you will already have noticed our famous md11 captain standing next to me hi hi patrick nice to see you again it's great welcome in our home welcome here you see the md 11 is still here for me but meanwhile i'm retired i did my last flight beginning of this year it was a quite emotional flight to atlanta and back to frankfurt you tried to make a documentation of it but something went wrong i don't know what i do i screwed it guys sorry focu for destroying your memories here sorry guys um in pandemic times it was impossible to ride on the flight deck and so i tried to make a full ultimate cockpit movie of focus a fantastic retirement flight without being on board and as focal tooled already i screwed it great pictures not so good without sound so really sorry for that but from the pictures that we are seeing here i'm pretty sure it must have been an awesome experience for you foco oh yeah yeah but as i said it was quite emotional for me because knowing it's the last time i'm going to land the md-11 in frankfurt this is something that's that goes deep into your heart and i flew the md-11 for almost 23 years and it was a great time you came with me once some years back and i really love this airplane it's a wonderful airplane and it's the charlie charlie that's going to do the last flight it's the last md-11 at lufthansa cargo and this airplane was built exactly at that time when i did my typewriting in long beach and it was delivered at that time in 1998 so it's it's it's also some emotional moment for me deep connection deep connection absolutely absolutely guys but in order to compensate for me having screwed a wonderful movie about focus re retirement flight um i managed to get one of the very very last and the 11 flights at lufthansa cargo now with another fantastic crew consisting of captain axel and the first officers simon and gunter and i think now it's time to enjoy a fantastic ride from frankfurt to new york yeah welcome aboard again enjoy your flight enjoy welcome to our flight 8160 my name is exo excellent favoring and today i'm your captain i will be flying you from frankfurt to jfk new york together with my colleagues hi i'm gunther scholar i'm the senior first officer on this flight and it's a pleasure to welcome you on the mighty md-11 one of the last trichet airplanes and then it's a turn up to me i'm your first officer on this flight my name is simon holderit and we all three will tell you so many exciting stories during the cruise flight that you have the perfect image of our wonderful plane before we get started on the airplane please follow us to our flight operations center where we do our crew briefing and get all the papers we need for our flight excited to have you on board so let's go [Music] everybody checked in yeah everybody checked in okay let's start lh8160 that's a correct flight number to new york jfk we are on time flight time will be eight hours and nine minutes yep but that will be a touchdown about 15 minutes ahead of schedule so that's good we have a load of 70 tons and the takeoff weight of 255 tons yes uh the technical status of the aircraft is good i haven't found anything in the pillow did you see anything no no just break number three has been replaced and yeah could be some brake differential pressure temperature indication okay nothing else the routing the weather and route looks pretty good some clouds overheard between uh england and ireland and besides that should be pretty okay for the first half of the flight we'll we'll have to cross two jet streams oh that will be a little bumpy a little bit bumpy but only moderate turbulence occasionally as i can see and here we have to cross an area of isolated embedded uh thunderstorms goes up to a level 400 so yeah we won't be able to fly overhead yeah that's according to the to the front to the cold front which is going through here yeah okay and the weather new york let's have a closer look okay wow looks very good and the wind is favoring runways 3-1 the visibility will be good and looks like there won't be any major changes perfect weather for flying yeah perfect weather and the alternate newark also looks very good philly could be a little bit gusty later on but shouldn't be one of our topics yeah great if we have a look at the nodems uh i haven't found anything special on the no temps so far yeah frankfurt just the standard nodems yeah from taxiways concerning our yeah our taxi route most probably and new york something with the navigation database we would check this yeah yeah oh yeah right four issue nine from this one three left missed approach okay but yeah so we blend for three one yeah a men have missed approaches they might not be updated on the charts yet but they're in the fms yes already you've been there recently right here last week you know the way perfect i think we'll find it at least one let's have a look at the dispatch info this one trick at least normally and this time yes instead great if it comes to when it comes to fuel um i i don't see any major reason for extra fuel only the one thing the cold front we have to cross with the embedded thunderstorms maybe it would be my idea to take the con 99 instead of the contact 90. so that would be an additional uh 1200 kilograms okay which gives us about 10 minutes yeah then we have some time to cross around it i think it's a good idea because traffic has really increased in jfk as well and last time they took us pretty early down and uh that was some some more fuel we needed there yeah if you if you want more no i also extra not absolutely necessary but if you increase the contingency that would be fine yeah sounds good to me yeah sounds great and that's good and 400 taxi for runway what do we have for takeoff runway one eight today yeah yeah that makes sense okay 400 kilos will you enter it are you all right yes sure to enter it perfect thank you great then so 73 plus 477 plus one three on top yep correct 72. huh great 72 yes that's totally block fuel and gives us 11 minutes okay and we complete the papers and then we're already ready to go gentlemen thank you thanks us [Music] [Music] hello yeah so let's see how far loading is uh if the fuel truck is already there let's see that we can go on schedule time yeah i shouldn't be a problem it's pretty early we're good in time yeah the weather is fine oh it's a marvelous day for flying i envy you a little bit that you are on controls today honestly it's fantastic i'm now wearing a mask you could see my yeah so can we see here already yeah it's a most beautiful aircraft on the airplane i would say it is definitely everyone every time exciting walk into that plane that's true and it's easy to recognize you just must look on the third engine no no one ever has so i can see two of our of our md11 so that's a whole current fleet oh which one is that alpha that's our plane oh nice so they're loading it's good so there's a lot of freight today on the apron so busy day for freighters again as we know it yeah during the last one and a half years and i think also our load today we are not fully loaded but there are almost 70 tons that's pretty good it's quite something yeah yeah maybe it's just the volume which is the limiting factor and the waiting power i had these the last times from chicago back home and i was a little bit disappointed in the beginning because it was just about 55 60 tons but when i asked the load masters i don't know it's not a weight it's the volume was the limiting factor we were completely full that's really nice so where was your last flight guys where or when where and when that's a good question uh eight days ago to new york actually mine was chicago but it's already uh two weeks ago i had vacation that's why i didn't fly for two and a half weeks nearly at the same for me i was in cairo okay tel aviv in cairo around and uh happy to come again to united states yeah me too yeah it will be nice definitely but simon it's not the first time we fly together it's true i've seen you in the office several times we once met in campinas but now finally on two together yeah looking forward to really will be nice and with axel we were recently in simulator simulator yeah oh yeah last year we had one flight back from chicago that's right yes he checked me too and i was nice i think thank you axel is one of our md-11 check captains uh which is also draining the crews and also doing the the annual simulator checks so of course we know this dismissed quite well great okay here we are let's go after you thank you thank you okay so let's take the safeway yeah let's take the safeway oh looks pretty good so far sorry if you want to do all the checks in the back again okay up to your seat yeah thank you accept the fire extinguishers yeah okay thank you very much grace let's go up the 6 meter 20. come on thank you okay guys it's only 35 minutes until departure time right now we're in front of the aircraft i will do my walk around of course the technicians already have checked everything but it's part of our flight procedures that we do a final walk around as well you always start in front of the aircraft you can see three tubes they're called p2 tubes we use them for measurement of our air speed if you wonder why they're three if we're only two pilots just the system of redundancy we have one probe for the captain one for the first officer and one as backup as a standby instrument here we have the front tires they look very good i didn't see any marks by the way these are the only two tires which of course don't have brakes but nevertheless we have to check them if all the boards are in place or like this strut is always a place where you could detect the small hydraulic lead leak it looks very clean it's good and if you won't know what this cable is for it's just the electric electric power cable for external electric here we have some more probes there's one for the total air temperature and one for the angle of attack which we also need for stall protection and some other systems just follow me and i'll show you our static airports these four holes they are also used for air pressure we need them for our altitude measurement the top one is for the captain and the bottom one for his first officer the other two are not in use and there's one for backup here we can see the cargo's already been loaded i can see that the lock is in the correct position i can see a small green lock pin engaged so that's good and then we can continue to the engine basically we look if there's some obvious damage maybe a large bird strike or some foreign object damage but it all looks very very good when i continue to walk around the engine i always take a look underneath there's also some a little probe where some press the fuel or oil can drain some from the drain mast but it all looks very very clean so that's good yeah then i continue to the first main landing gear it's four tires and i checked the brakes if you have a look here this pin indicates the brake where where uh when this pin is uh going through this mark then it's time to replace the brakes so as you can see this brake is really really new and as well here i can check the brakes and as well if i can see any hydraulic leaks or anything some fluid but it all looks very good continue with the wing and i have a look at the leading edge flap sleds and see if i can find any damage or anything but it looks also very good here we also check the navigation lights two green lights they both work so that's good too and as well here we have more navigation lights are also working up here you can see a a tube going out of the the wing it's uh this is used to um gets a rid of fuel if you need to do some fuel jettison in an emergency this is where the fuel comes out also on the other wing so in case of an emergency we need to reduce our weight we can dump about 2.2 tons of fuel every minute so far i've never been i've never used it so it's good the exhaust pipe of the apu our auxiliary power unit it's a small gas turbine we needed to start the engines and also for electricity and air conditioning right now it's switched off so it's nice and quiet so we can talk during the walk around little plastic thing so i better pick it up so it doesn't get into the engines when i stand here i always have a look at the second engine engine number two it's beautiful to my opinion but you're probably wondering yourself oh he's checking the engines underneath the wings what is he what is he doing with that engine it's a good question of course you see it's like 10 meters up in the air i'm not able to check it but to be honest we find any damage from foreign objects from the ground they won't be able to be sucked in uh overhead the aircraft so that's one reason the other reason is that our engines of course regularly get checked by maintenance they climb up in there and check if the engine is working and of course we have a lot of engine parameters on our displays on the cockpit so we can make sure that the engine is running and one fun fact the engine really doesn't start right at the inlet it takes 6 meters and 33 centimeters until the engine starts right now we are underneath the wings as you can see we have a clean configuration that means no flaps and slats extended the flaps can be extended to an angle of 50 degrees looks quite impressive we now have the chance to demonstrate it once for you just a second and they should be extended now on several steps as well as the sleds you can see they're coming out right now as a first step and when the sleds are extended you can see that the flaps begin to move for landing we have different positions and our landing flap setting is 35 and flaps 50 which we are about to show you right now and as you see it takes quite a while and now they're almost extended just follow me [Music] so this is flaps 50 it almost looks vertical it's hard to imagine that the airplane is still able to fly with this flap setting and on the other side you can still see the sleds and together with the flaps it gives us much more lift when we are flying slow for takeoff and landing okay now we will move it back up and continue our walk around also two navigation lights on this side they're red and flaps and slats everything looks very good let's continue to the engine no complaints swell on this side the main ending gear looks good no traces of hydraulic fuel fluid or anything brakes look good tires are okay okay and then we have one landing gear left it's a special feature of the md11 center gear also looks good brakes look good pressure is good and i can show you one more one more thing that's called the center accessory compartment every airplane has a battery like a like a regular car you drive and you want to know where it is it's right in here let me just open it for you let me see if i can get to the light switch and if you have a look in here at the aircraft battery and also some more computers are stored here let's close it up again good yeah up here we have the outflow valve but you already know that if you have seen the movie with england claudia and as well here we have the static air boards on both sides of course and as well as a standby port that's it we have completed everything and i can continue with my work up in the cockpit thanks for joining okay everything fine yeah that's perfect yeah three engines two wings and twelve triers yeah yeah perfect great 42 degrees what do you so we can start the apu what do you think so my v1 154 versus 156. vr167 versus 168 yeah v2 173 versus 174 vcl 271 great cockpit checklist cockpit depends removed pedostatic checked cabin signs on fcp set speed bench taxi 156 168 174 taxi one five six one six eight one seven four altimeters one zero one three three hundred ninety feet one seven 1713 390 feet fuel 72 100 kilograms 72 100 kilograms sd status checked system out auto takeoff data inserted inserted order break take off takeoff warning check flap takeoff selector 20 cockpit checklist completed okay so everybody's from broadside yeah so let's close the door and get going okay [Music] in flight so we already received uh our android clearance via data link great and we just uh must call frankfurt delivery when we're ready for startup okay and we'll do our briefings when gunter's here and then perfect we'll make it on time yes sounds like a plan if he's able to move the jump seat quickly enough yeah that you will see later yeah oh this is like uh oh we can see how we performed yeah eyes on you so okay so let's see if i still remember looks fully back full to the middle have a seat turn around and it does not work ah okay and then up to the roof very good so let's do a quick cockpit briefing for me it is very important that we really function as a good team everybody is a team member everybody everybody is important so let's make all the decisions together and to know no one uh doing his own decision where i want to work as a team very good that's most important for me and today it's a special fight we have our eclipse viewers watching us but nonetheless i want that the main focus is always one hundred percent of the of our job of our work that we get safe to recording or standard operating procedures to new york and besides that i hope we have a lot of fun too super surprising great ready for our departure briefing correct go ahead yeah we received the one delta departure 5000 feet naf and prof basically we're going straight ahead two miles past frankfurt vr set on vr1 with a left turn of onto 22 degrees and the turn we shall not exceed 220 knots and then at 13.1 dme from frankfurtwear we do another left turn according the waypoints stored in the fms it's all double check i said the first altitude 5000 feet the msa on the north factor is 4 300 feet transponder code is set departure frequency 120 155 is set as well transition altitude 5000 feet case of engine failure after go we have an acceleration altitude at 1900 feet and we proceed straight ahead to our point um for our x1 and then i would say we go to the south so we can stay at 4 000 feet the msa is 3500 in the south sector we are above max landing weight so if we have the time we can dump fuel if not we make an overweight landing and we also can use full take of thrust if we like to but let's first wait until gap see how the climb performance is in case of engine failure then we can still decide if we need additional trust okay reject the takeoff briefing with 370 meter stop margin and until the goal call i stop for our mandatory items thrust loss aircraft not controllable or not flyable and atc call as well for any master caution or master warning great there was two ball nodes but they're only referring to basic enough yeah thanks great yeah then we can ask for the pushback clearance i guess okay frankfurt delivery good afternoon this is lufthansa cargo 8160 foxtrot 216. we are fully ready request startup [Applause] 21 decimal eight five five good afternoon of tensor cargo 8160 on fox saw 216 request push back please next i will connect to my face standpile often the cargo 8160 so now our colleagues from the triple seven beat us they just asked for the pushback clearance so we have a wonderful big printer on md11 which is printing this format so inform one of the unique features yes information whiskey uh still zero seven center temperature q h one zero one two now okay one zero one two three hundred seventy feet 1 002 370 feet so it's 33 degrees slowly it's cooling down here a little bit ah thank you you're welcome maximum cooling that was gunders question for max cool [Laughter] max cool for cool guys that's okay i mean it shouldn't take so long for the triple seven they only have two engines yeah but they are big maybe it's taking a longer time to spool them up that's where you do it you hurry to be on schedule then you have to wait for the colleagues but this is the sound of the triple seven yeah the low frequency spool up of the engines it is [Music] so then meanwhile i bring myself in the position of best view i think this is really the best seat it is in all aircraft such a great overview seeing you guys working having the best windows all around fantastic yeah maybe i got some inspiration from star trek did you no i don't know uh the guys who designed the seat oh it could be but the commander is there on the left so it's the wrong seat then by the way 15 minutes after departure we will fly overhead my garden oh really yeah it's always really it's always going uh about my uh above my house when we're going to do so we hope you cut your grass i did this morning actually oh wow so we will check that later i know that my little daughter and my son they will be in the garden and they will be watching the flight on flight radar and they will will be waving to the aircraft seeing father they are up in the air really cool [Music] pin inserted before start checklist before start cabin secured mobile off off off engine ignition alpha beacon on system modes auto party brake released before start checklist completed ground from cocked brakes are released and when we are clear of the triple seven behind us ready for push back ready for engine start standing by so foreign so nice even the tower is appreciating our airplane we're starting up three one and two ready yes engine number three start [Music] [Music] parking brake is set remove towing system and steering pin engine number one start [Music] [Music] engine number two start so so thank you enough to start items brown from cockpit yeah thank you very much uh please give hand signal and have a good day see you next time bye after star checklist after start apu off ndi is all of system modes auto after start checklist completed takeoff items control check rudder take off checklist tiger fly controls checked checked flaps 20 20 spoilers armed trim 7.9 aircraft nose up 0-0 ead checked checked takeoff checklist completed okay anytime taxi i love tanzacargo 8160 or request taxi hello november november 16th often the cargo 160 right on november november one sixth hold short lima left side clear right side clear zone off on bruv will be full length to hold short into lima yeah also all of them are okay [Music] so we follow the remaining 50 of our current md-11 fleet what a nice view it is outstanding yeah what are we every time when we see one of the planes yeah blood pressure going high like little boys yes so november 1 6 is the second to the left yes [Music] thank you for your kind md 11 words bye-bye so we already been reaching yes yeah ready when you're waiting good afternoon frankfurt tower lufthansa cargo8160 into lima sorry into november 1 6 hold short before lima we are fully ready eight one six zero lima two one holds the runway seven center okay take off recap straight ahead until two miles past frankfurt vr and then the first half turn was 220 knots martial is taking pictures as well on the right yeah after the car go ahead one six zero line up around my zero seven center so better radar approach sector free yeah left side clear so we just used our 400 kilograms very good for a taxi auto flight is armed thanks okay he got the crossing clearance before us yeah i take terrain off display yes [Music] takeoff's last set 80 checked go rotate gear up gear up ah good feeling right yeah one six zero one two zero decimal one for five bye-bye like a departure good afternoon lufthansa cargo 8160 heavy passing 1 600 climbing 5 000. cargo 8160 voya srd climbing flight level 1-1-0 zero is retract transition standard flight level five three standard double five three another one two seven decimal six to five toe long and radar good afternoon lufthansa congo 8160 heavy passing flight level a2 climbing via srd and flightable one one zero on cars to kouzon lufthansa clark cargo at 160 heading 310 climb level 170. thanks beautiful gentlemen yes wow what a weather i take a weather radar as well clear enough right fix and refuel quantity yes and seatbelt science auto cpr our autopilot one is engaged yes initial flight level would be three to zero three to zero yeah great thank you nice so only eight more hours and they were there yes almost nothing eight eight hours of fun because every minute on this plane is so as we are in three i guess it's time to prepare our launch our bed and i guess it's me for the first break right sounds good to me yeah okay so i'm gonna let you here learn okay go outside tell you when i'm ready and afterwards you give me a call maybe 10 minutes before my break ends so have fun see you later guys see you later i've done the cargo 8160 climbing level two three zero so now we're here in our recreation area and in the galley as it's my break now i'm gonna build up the bed put in the curtains and make myself comfortable for the break and you're gonna watch how i will build it up maybe a little later if i'm awake earlier we're gonna have a look in a freighter room and see what's happening there so it's two things what we have to put up so we can put them in front and it's starting to get comfortable now it's time for this guy here to have it comfortable for the feet as well the curtain we used to prepare because during a longer flight time it's going to be a little colder and a little more chilly the seat belts we keep and we have some sleeping kits here one each pillow blanket so the bed is finished one more thing we have to care about because as everybody it's nicer to sleep if it's dark so we turn down the light here now the bed is ready to have your privacy we have some extra curtains of course so i'm going to make a rest now trying to have some sleep to be fit for the remaining flight then and see you little later take care good night so we took off about seven minutes ago in frankfurt and on a couple more minutes we'll be flying overhead my hometown cologne and then we will be crossing over at the netherlands england and ireland and then we'll get you some more details of our route later so we have a good feature here that we can request some wind actual wind data um this wind data will be updating our flight route which is stored in our flight management system and so you get just better estimates uh according your landing time in jfk and also uh our flight management will offer us the optimum flight level and for this it it must have the actual winds so now i inserted the winds into the system and now it's calculating yes with this wind so we get our better optimum flight level which is providing the best specific range and it's the most fuel efficient flight devil and now we will see what what flight management system will will say and then later we can arrange our cruise flight according to that adc com established so we are locked on with uh maastricht atc center very good thank you do you see the rhine river right in front of our nose yes and there's a big bend can you see it yeah and right right where we're crossing the rhine river uh it's my hometown exactly where we crossed orion maybe a little to the right uh we're directly flying over my home so itc message yeah current atc unit master center okay yeah it's pretty much near the cologne-born airport yep wonderful the rhine valley is something very special yeah that's true [Music] two thousand two thousand so we had a lot of loved luck with the shortcuts already yeah that's pretty good not a bad start yep yeah so well i'll prepare the operational flight plan and insert all our fuel and time checks just be head down for some minutes okay no problem oh and gunther started break at 10 sorry gunther started break at 16 10 yes i keep that just in mind [Music] we just want uh to continue our introduction which we made before we started our briefing and explain you a little bit what flying makes so special for us how we came into flying what kind of passion we have with it and especially how is our careers ongoing so far yeah what breaks me into flying i think like uh like most of uh of the pilots which you have of our colleagues for me it was an absolutely child stream i grew up near an air force base and every every day i we have a lot of planes flying over our house and my my eyes already were more into the sky than on the ground and i remember one funny story one time a teacher teacher of mine called my mom and she said well why simon is looking in the school always outside the window and my mom just asked me because she didn't know maybe she thought something i have some thoughts and i just said i'm looking out to the planes because they are so interesting to me so the passion was always there and after i finished my school i went to military service and i had noticed the right direct way into aviation because i honestly must say that uh when i finished my military service i was not so confident to to to apply for the very strict and tough recruiting which is lufthansa are doing and we know a lot of people apply and only at this time when only three to five percent of several thousand applicants would make it so i started first going to university i have hobbies like i'm very interested in culture and history and art and i studied at university for three years history political science and catholic theology and i started and then i felt deep in my heart i must change something at least i must try i really must try to apply for lufthansa you have one time in your life you can try it and i i said i i i will regret it in the future and i applied besides i made all the required tests at university i tried my best to to do the recruitment and it was around one year and finally i got to go you can go to lufthansa pilot school and for me it was this big day in my life which i always remember and basically really every day i'm of so much gratitude that i i am here that i can do the job which i really like and i think this is when i give can give one advice to everyone if you have the need or the feeling of flying just just do everything to fulfill your dream three years pilot school and then in bremen and phoenix i started in on the short haul range short haul fleet and munich i flew air with 320 which was a very interesting time because we fly all over our wonderful european continent many destinations you practice a lot you're encouraged to fly a lot of by manual you do a lot of manual flying and i was doing this for six years and then i had also won this stream of mine because i ever since i'm a fan of pick of the md11 and in your co-pilot korean lufthansa you have the chance to go to lufthansa cargo for at least three years and thereafter you can decide you're going back on a long-range type of lufthansa or you can continue and since a couple of years i'm flying for the on the md-11 and yes it's the best i ever can imagine and that's so far for my career and of course the next step will be in the near future after we will lose our wonderful plane the typewriting to boeing triple seven will will await me and yeah so i might pass the ball to axel and tell you a little bit about your career which is quite longer than mine so far i'm not at all no [Laughter] you started early you started very early on black and white tv was still on exactly no no i started my career in 1998 after i finished high school i started at the lufthansa pilot school and when i was a child i never had the idea to become a pilot but i was very interested into space science yes of course my father here was an engineer engineer he worked for the german space agency wow and so i even got to meet astronauts when i was a kid which really impressed me but when i grew a little old i realized that becoming an astronaut would probably above that what i would be able to achieve in my life but aviation started to become more and more interesting to me just before i finished high school uh one friend told me hey there's a lufthansa career event in cologne you want to go there and i said oh yeah nice idea and the friend who was really interested in to becoming a pilot after the event he said no that's nothing for me but i i was on fire i thought wow that's 100 the thing i want to do and yeah so it began i one year later i could start at the lufthansa pilot school and after two and a half years i was in the type rating for the airbus 320 same thing you did was a wonderful time for four or five years exactly and then i felt that i was ready for the long long range flights and there was a movie on german television was a report was about lufthansa cargo i think it was named 66 hours around the world was uh i know it is around the world yes yes yes and i saw that film and i thought that has my name on it i want to do that too i would like to go to lufthansa cargo and two weeks later we had the new application conditions that you as you explained that you can go to lufthansa cargo for three years yeah get an extra type rating i applied in a couple months later i started on the md11 unfortunately around the world trips were gone a couple months before i arrived here but doesn't matter my intention was to stay three years here i was 16 years ago yeah so i really feel home on the md11 but now i would be interested what does the md11 make so special to you yeah that's a good question and uh i don't know how it's about you but even people which i know my family everyone wants to know what's about special about the md-11 and we heard even the the the ground and tower controller on the ground said wow now we see two md-11s and even for them is special so there's something which drives the people about the md-11 and so am i um first of all for me it's like if if i would describe it in a couple of words it's like a racy beautiful challenging fast and absolutely likable plane this would be my objectives to uh to describe the plane so raising beautiful yeah i mean the shape of it it's absolutely standalone you see this this huge trihole or aircraft three engines uh very heavily swept wings really looks like a chat we have some you know we have some trainers on the cargo 11 they say the md 11f the f stands for fighter not for freighter and that's how it feels yeah and i mean the flight characteristics it's a challenging plane and i like it because what we learned once in pilot school and what is like the basic knowledge or the basic flying like pitch power system knowledge you find it in this is my my view in the perfect manner all combined on the md-11 you are trained so good you need such a a sharp scan and everything and yes and and this makes it so special for me for the md-11 uh i would bet that maybe it's quite similar with you yes i can exactly tell you what the md11 makes so special for me it's not just the plane the md-11 gave me everything and beyond of what i ever expected i could achieve or discover when becoming a pilot it's uh just fantastic i mean the long layovers the trips on the md-11 it's incredible i'm so thankful for everything i was able to see in the last 16 years and the airplane itself was it laugh at first sight maybe not i would call it respect at first sight i always loved the shape how the aircraft looks but as you said it has some special characteristics or you need features but once you really adapt to flying the md-11 it's a lot of fun after all it follows like every other aircraft the rules of physics and when you get the hang of it it's so much fun to manually fly the md-11 yeah and the best thing it never gets old it never gets boring it's yeah because every landing every approach is absolutely different you have different weights you have so much uh atmospheric parameters which have so big influence on the landing i think there is absolutely no other blame which is affected by it in so much and i also remember that my parents or everything in your creator family or friend circle even they they were one time flying with you on the plane even they talked so much about the plane and how beautiful and how wonderful the atmosphere is so this is like so even the other people are so much affected by it obviously yeah it's it's a mystery really maybe one question is the cargo flying is it family friendly or not and this is a good question it's perfect when i came here i was 27 i didn't have a family or anything i just wanted to discover the world and on the md11 we had the longest trips i think there were up to like 14 or 50 years and i tried to get as many of those trips as i could because i wanted to see something and of course as time goes by and get a little older when you start a family you probably don't want to be gone that much but we also have a lot of short trips uh yeah like this one going to new york and back we are gone like maybe 48 hours yeah so that's okay and now i only get the most of the short trips and all this works very good for me and my family so so now we have talked a little bit what do you think maybe it's time for first fun fact about the md11 yes um shoot okay i don't know if you're aware we have a nickname for our md-11 cockpit can you guess what it is simon will explain it to you yes it's a funny word and you have the overall view in our cockpit and when we did the type rating when you finished your simulator training at one time some guy will show you the the real plane you go into the maintenance hall and you can touch everything and i remember the first when we came into the cockpit the first time entering the md-11 cockpit this uh pilot this czech captain said guys look look at this beautiful winter garden and it really is now you see the windows they are all around you they're pretty low and what they recently yeah uh on a on a flight back from chicago to to frankfurt that we had so beautiful stars northern polar lights and i looked out the window you can look vertical yeah up and down imagine this you look outside you can vertical up and down it's it's fantastic and of course this specific window frames give this a little angry look yeah uh from from the outside perspective which is very dominant and a very big characteristics let me show you something i have to stand up for that yes i have control i have control i will be off the headset for one second now i'm very excited actually maybe i even can learn about some years something new about the plane so i'm back on the headset so when simon said that the windows are very low i hope you can still see it i'm sitting in the back jump seat and when when i'm sitting next to the window the windows go all the way down to my legs so when i look out i can see nothing just glass it's a huge window and it's an incredible view so it's it's a well-deserved nickname of wintergarden my break is over now i nearly found about an hour maybe one and a half of sleep outstanding because it's uh german time just early evening and i didn't expect to find so much sleep but what do you need after a little nap to get awake and to be ready for duty ride the fresh coffee so take my cup it's fresh brewed and don't ask me if it's the best coffee actually it's a it's a good coffee but definitely there are better ones but you get used to it and it's part of the game and the job maybe some of you guys know that we had one plane with a special livery one and 11 many years with a special livery it was like defeats you saw some little feeds and this is like it was like the logo or the symbol of the cargo human care association it's like a special a special very special project which is now run by many years by uh our legendary former fleet chief focusing also maybe some of you guys know him from earlier videos i think we will see some link below now yeah and we have started many years with a big investment of of lufthansa cargo together with the anglican church of nairobi in kenya to build an orphanage in nairobi we have around 120 children cargo human care supports and of course many of us pilots are involved in this program we have we are foster childs a lot of german doctors are involved coming regularly there but also a lot of private persons relatives companies all around the world giving so big donations to this wonderful project in africa and right now we expanded it's not only the so-called mother's mercy home the orphanage we also built a medical center which provide a medical service for the people living in kijangu which is a part of west nairobi yeah every flight to nairobi was special because we were packed with so many luggage yeah all the grooves they brought not only their luggage they brought also six to eight other luggages which he collected shoes or shirts from private persons or from our households and we brought to nairobi and nairobi we had regularly two three days off and of course i remember i went many times to the mother's mercy home i know that you went to and see our foster child and see also how our project and our donations are going and uh we know that this film this wonderful airplanes film from gorgeous guy patrick is for free but if you will feel free to support our cargo for lufthansa cargo project i think we will be so honored and so happy for me it's always impressive it's just there just has to be one person to start everything and how everything gets bigger and what focus didn't achieve with the project and how many people he inspired and it became such a big project it's incredible and you can really see where all the donations are going and [Music] [Music] now we got our hf frequencies as backup because there's no normal radio coverage over the north atlantic so what the simon is now about to do is that we use our second use of communication normally if we talk to the air traffic controllers we use our radios they're working with vhf frequencies like at a fm radio station but on the atlantic ocean the range would be sufficient for that so the old school it's the use of shortwave which is now going to try but the more convenient means of communication is our satellite communication which is like writing text messages on your smartphone but first we have to check our shortwave radio [Music] [Music] good afternoon this is lufthansa cargo eight one six zero heavy flydouble three two zero city dlc again the next uh request circle check thank you so right now if you look in my navigation display again which is the right display you see on the top right corner the number two 2.1 this means it's 22.1 minute until the next waypoint so if i look at the time it's time to wake up winter yes i hope he had some good rest you want to do it or shall i do it go ahead because it's wonderful to ring the bell [Music] we use we use the seatbelt signs for this because it gives in the cabin or in the career compartment this is the official name yeah some some sound and then the colic which is lying in the bed he just knocks on the door or on the wall that we know he received it so now i have some minutes to pack my stuff together because gunter as a senior first officer he's going to take my place and i'm sure he will tell you a little bit about this function too when he gets here i used to have my coffee when i watch air clips just for you patrick good to know you morning hi good morning it's bright in here yeah so did you get some sleep actually yeah i did one one and a half hours nice so then i will make some space for you good and i will try to get some rest too i see so now we initiated a step climb because uh optimum flight level is now 340 which providing the best uh specific range and fuel consumption and uh yeah obviously there's no traffic above us so here we go okay so i have control you have control thank you good so reporter i have the flight plan please just to take an overview yeah here's uh no this weather is old but okay the clearance was like requested it was like requested no changes so far outstanding you're flying really very efficient perfect you're flying safe efficient and on time that's the way that's how we do it exactly yes gunther you're you're co-pilot as me but you sit on the captain's seat so how can it be yeah be oh it's the reason that you sit here so maybe it's a big interest for our air clip fans as well well as i said in the introduction in frankfurt i'm a senior first officer which means after some years as a co-pilot i got the opportunity to do extra training some simulator missions and some extra trips with a trainer to be senior first officer which means i'm the one who take over when the captain as now is on his break and have his rest so as we are in a two-man cockpit i take over and at least it's a little a little step already in direction of being a captain one day it's nice i really do love it i was nearly nine years on the right side now since about three years also being allowed to sit on the left one i like it see and i'm still flying 10 years really you're 10 years here already i'm 10 years yeah and i didn't know it's like the the maybe we can explain the system about seniority and how um yeah how someone get the next step in your career because that's why you wasted nine years you got senior first officer i'm flying 10 years but in my time right now there are no senior first officers needed exactly that's the point because after four maybe five years people already got the chance to do this extra training and to be senior first officer but for now yeah they don't need any more maybe maybe then on the triple seven i do hope for you because it's really nice to take a little bit more of uh responsibility and to have the view from the left side as well absolutely i can imagine yeah but he didn't start it as senior first officer yes you started as first officer on 320 7-37 i came from city line it's a pretty long story my way into the cockpit but um i was uh with lufthansa city line before for three years and then i had the chance to come closer to the mother mother lufthansa in this case to lufthansa cargo i had to stay here for five years but i fell in love with cargo aviation and so i'm here now for 12 and a half years wow nearly 13. sounds like a love story he's a love story absolutely it's um yeah it always was my big dream and no i don't want to give it up yeah i love cargo aviation yeah definitely and what's making the md 11 for you so special we are i told a little bit our preferences so we are quite sure that you will tell the same but maybe in your own words i'm i'm mostly sure that it will be the same uh well it is you have to you have to say it too it is a beauty our md 11 she is really a beauty with this big engine number two there in the tail and the whole shape from the aircraft it's it's outstanding and in combination with our destinations it's a really challenging aircraft yeah and we're also told that yeah yeah it's just it's just really special it's kind of old-fashioned and i'm very proud to still have the opportunity to be here and well the modern fly-by-wire aircraft will be the future anyway it's like the perfect mixture of automation but uh and conventional flying you name it you name it exactly so you're here now for 10 years it's incredible so i see you only in the office the first rotation together yeah incredible it's good but this is like we're this is like also the cargo spirit because you know basically all of the colleagues even we have around 500 people but still exactly that's what i like so much in aviation yeah and in cargo um in being cargo pilots um when i come to the office mainly i try to be there a little bit earlier to have a little chat with the colleagues yeah and with the people in office with dispatchers it's so nice you know everybody you come to the office you drink a coffee talk also even about a little bit private life that's that's really unique you're not a number they know you by name and that's really nice it's really good maybe yes now we are two co-pilots the captain is away i get uh from from people from outside a lot of questions what is the first officer doing in the flight so now we are amongst us so maybe we can share and maybe correct a little bit uh the thing because i think there are some misunderstanding misunderstandings outside i mean this this major question uh so you're the co-pilot so you're not flying right is it that what you're talking about oh yes oh i heard it so please tell the people the truth okay so even the co-pilot if you believe it or not is a pilot and just apart from now where the captain is pilot flying on this flight on the next flight i have the honor to be uh pilot flying but then i will do it from your seat and i will have the chance to make the take off flight and landing on the way back on friday yeah and sure the the boss the captain has the responsibility and even if he is sleeping but we do the same work and on the next flight the captain will do the paperwork we'll do the adc the radio and um the other one is on control yeah and i think what is really special in lufthansa is we have a very flat hierarchy yeah and also in our career as first officers we are trained uh educated either it's in simulator or on the line to take over responsibility to form our command ability because one time you are trained to sit on the left side you're not trained to stay co-pilot yes and the decisions even when we have the simulator checks and when everything is burning and ringing and whatever um it's it's never like a single man show captain is asking our opinion what is your mental picture he's asking uh we are asking him and then we form something and uh i remember one sentence which uh captain gave to me and he said always remember simon the co-pilot has a very important function he is let's say the only one which can stop a captain in making the wrong decision exactly that's the point that's really the most important it's not like that you start arguments but in one of the decisions maybe the captain is wrong then you must be there and say raise the hand and say stop yeah maybe we are on the wrong side and as it is just a different view you can give to the captain and just it's normal everybody can do mistakes and that's where in two today that's why we're in three yeah six eyes see more than two eyes or four eyes and that's the way we do it so nice to be above the clouds yeah i really i really do like this more or less silent moment not too many people on the radio just to have a look out enjoy this marvelous view around here it was very very very special flight it is uh one of my favorite trips i did in former times when we still we're flying the south america trip yeah oh it was i loved it so much although it was 12 days and we started in frankfurt from there to dakar zine guy we stayed there for one night over the south atlantic to campinas close to sao paulo one or two nights there then via manaus to quito ecuador and this was it was one of the biggest highlights i've been on this trip 45 times wow it's it i did it sometimes twice a month i loved it so much it was so so unique so challenging so beautiful i'm a mountain person i love nature yeah so it was absolutely my dream destination and there we used to have a minimum two sometimes three or luckily four days off outstanding from there by uh kudasan the beginning and afterwards via bogota to puerto rico two or three days there relaxing from hardshop of course and back to frankfurt after 12 days and in this last flight i will never forget it was a night flight we took off in in burinken and when we reached cruise level over the sea no foreign lights no big really very nice dark night stars all around and um i think it was the game in eden yeah and there was one shooting star after the other yeah yeah it was i think it was 10 15 20 minutes it was outstanding i couldn't count to 10 without seeing any shooting star and what it was all over the night outstanding and if you are in this side you see them so long like exactly over the whole horizon so we turned down the lights everywhere yeah just at the window nobody had to talk it was just wow yeah amazing i loved it so much recently i had the first time in this many years i saw polar lights really the first time yeah i never had because i always had such a sudden rooting and they were following us for hundreds of kilometers like a curtain next to you yeah i love it and uh you're like well i mean when it's starting to move slowly and you mentioned manaus uh people i remember people ask uh what kind of freight do you have most of the time we don't know yes but i think in my now as we know because we smelled it it's mangoes and the full plane is very nice 90 tons of mangoes out from a nause or from nattal yeah but like today we don't know yeah we don't we have to know i was asked before from the ground stuff and i couldn't tell them yeah honestly um if there is nothing dangerous or living animals or anything we don't know what we what we transport we must fly some more years for cargos oh i i would love to i would love to and if i have the chance i will definitely yes no i had as i said before after five years cargo aviation i could switch to passengers and little later i even had the opportunity to join the a380 fleet or to stay here and uh become senior first officer and not a minute to think about it yeah it was the same for me uh i also had the chance to go on 380 but i felt like uh every part of the every cell is so connected to to this plane and to our wonderful cargo lifestyle and yeah okay so we're reaching 30 west the mysterious number so why is it such a mysterious number yes just because it's the big border between shenwick oceanic area and canada oceanic so you've been based in munich before yeah i was based in munich it was a great time it is we have also a lot of austrian uh colleagues swiss colleagues people from south germany i have to interrupt you guys if you didn't realize i'm austrian maybe you've noticed i really is there a chance to notice to find out no i don't think so i know so maybe well i'm free of any accent am i no okay can't i really no that it's a very nice accent so barnabas burst was your famous uh what's your most likable destiny no it's obvious as you may imagine already it was quito ecuador it was so many things to do there so many activities you could do there from mountain biking hiking climbing but since we don't have it anymore riding exactly you replaced it by something or um well the other highlight was zhong jing oh we were there for five days layover and i was on the yangtze trip on the boat five times i've seen the the big gorgeous on the yangtze for five times um we passed the big dam um five times outstanding yeah this was really other people really pay a lot of money to have the opportunity to see that i really enjoyed it since i'm a senior first officer i mainly do the enlarged routes and that's mainly north america yeah that is right yeah because most of our flights especially uh for russia hong kong there's only made by two pilots exactly because you fly the route charger or via india and every lag is not so long that you need to first uh scene over honestly i do miss hong kong as well yes oh that was a very nice destination you wanted to be a pilot also yeah we have a lot of we have a lot of things in common on our on our way into onto this place which we are now um i always was fascinated by aviation since i was a child whenever i heard the airplane even if it was a small sports aircraft or a big airliner i always had to look up in the sky and search for the airplane and it was something like a dream but it was the same like with you yeah it seemed to be so far away and then my very best friend started to be a pilot with austrian airlines we went to school together and we were always in touch and i thought oh my god that's so fantastic he's he's a pilot and it was really cool and then he was on long range and it was fantastic i will never forget it he invited me to join him on a flight to beijing in a cockpit in the cockpit it was always the dream for me to spawn at least one time be allowed to stay in the cockpit just on a jump seat it was it was outstanding so he uh he managed some standby tickets for me and i was so nervous at the gate and and then boarding and i went to my to my seat to my regular seat and um well they started to push back i had no clue about what's what's going on there and then suddenly i heard i heard the voice from the captain calling my name and asking me to come in front of the cockpit wow and to come in front to the cockpit and it was like i was so nervous a little bit hectic and it was really as as it was yesterday i called the flight attendant it's me it's me may i just uh go in front it says yeah come on follow me and they brought me there in the cockpit and it was still pushing back and i took place and they showed me how everything worked and started their engine and then there was sitting there taxiing out slowly and then the moment i will never forget it when we got our lineup clearance and the aircraft slowly was lining up with the runway and you saw the long runway in front of you the nose was heading to the take-off direction so we got our lineup clearance and when the aircraft was aligned with the runway and you had this long black rubber stripes on the runway on the on the edge and it was runway 1-1 in vienna what kind of aircraft was it it was a airbus a330 and i was sitting there and i was so happy that the two in front were so concentrated because i was emotionally so packed and i realized that a tear was coming down because i was so happy a dream came through came true and and still now i got goose pimples it was uh it was an amazing feeling and then they took take off thrust after the clearance and we took off between the clouds and and then i knew i want to do that too i need to do it but it still was so far away and and time passed and then another friend of mine always put a little bit of pressure on me and thought come on maybe it's not so far away just just try just at least apply and maybe the dream will come true yeah and exactly that happened wasn't it too easy applied for austrian airlines because it was my home country but i was told at that time i was already 28 then i was told for lufthansa as well to apply but they wrote to me a nice letter informing me that i fulfill the criteria the basic criteria for lufthansa city line and i was quite surprised because i also just thought they only take ready entries which means pilots we've already do have licenses and do have atpl or at least any pilot license and i didn't have any so still again i got a little pressure to come on and apply and i did and they called me back and suddenly i had the opportunity to take part in a special program lufthansa city line had epinizio course which meant i could do the testing before if the testing is positive i did the the training for lufthansa city line already and if i would pass and i did finally the training in the way they would like to they offered me a job and so after waiting time of two years i started to be a co-pilot first officer on the archie 85 the afro also very special yeah you even had one more engine exactly stepped back from four oh my god some people called it five apus to to a really nice beautiful tri-chat airplane after three years city line i had the opportunity to come here and as i said before fell in love with cargo and the md-11 and that's the reason why i'm here and now folks whenever you have a dream try and it might come true do it if i was not fighting for my dream most probably i would now sit somewhere in the class and be a teacher for economics really nice i studied it but in the end i was wondering myself why i have well at least enough semesters to be a double doctor but i didn't finish my degree because uh at that time i was already working at the airport and at the check-in for a louder air in that time okay and they will well as i start to get connected with aviation from the other side and but it's it's aviation and and now i'm there where i am and i'm just thankful thankful to my parents thankful that i tried it for the support i got and yeah it's really nice to be here and i enjoy every minute even if it's early morning late night or if i'm fighting for sleep every good side have has this other side but i never would like to change the job so your family also absolutely supports support well honestly after my very long period of studying ensure i worked beside on the airport yeah i didn't tell them in the beginning that i wanted to be a pilot okay so i did my testing before yeah and when i passed all the tests i came home and said mother father just i'd like to inform you i'd like to become a pilot and they said you what well i do love aviation i want to be a pilot and by the side i already passed uh all the tests and it's just to start the training in the next two or three months wow and is it what i can't believe it that's an announcement yeah and from that time sure i had the full support and i needed it because i had to uh pay for my training and i couldn't have done it without their help [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] as you may have realized we had a little break captain is back again i changed the seeds and simon is now in bed having his break so we already passed landfall we're in new york oceanic area in the airspace it's still quite silent because our communication is still via cpdlc and we expect our next call with boston radar after passing the next waypoint our remaining flight time is at the moment not even two hours and when we reach the coast we expect a descent along long island hopefully with a clear sky it's always a nice view oh winter finally there's another traffic honestly there was one about an hour or two hours ago when you were sleeping okay yeah it's uh still these times where it's not too much traffic you have a look on my navigation display that's the right display you see a little blue diamond with a plus one zero on top of it that's a symbol for another aircraft the one zero means it's 1000 feet above our altitude and the plus yeah means that it's above but would be 1000 feet below there would be a minus now finally clouds are clearing up below us marvelous sunset never ending sunset on the right but still it's beautiful how the sun is reflected by the sea okay fuel check oh that's another part i like about flying and doesn't get old i mean it's nothing really special but it looks so nice if you see the ocean the reflection of the sun and the waves and it's getting closer to sunset the light color changes already it's beautiful it's it is it is really beautiful just the small things that yeah never get old no it never gets boring it's different every time even if it's the same route yeah i think simon has to organize his hair before he's coming to the cockpit maybe maybe ah i hope he didn't hear that no he wouldn't no but i'm gonna tell him you can be sure no i mean there are no cameras here or anything i think we can i can see oh it's already the first silence i think that's uh martha's vineyard coming up okay yeah right i'm gonna leave you alone okay i have everything i have a look down in the back yeah so he doesn't have to care about the bed and the galley okay he'll do everything so he can come in front great simon welcome back thank you thank you did you get some rest did you get some sleep yeah it was good really yeah let's have a look in the freighter room the cargo area in flight here we have the smoke curtain and the crash net it's a really strong net just to keep the cockpit safe it's pretty narrow let's have a look out just four windows here in the back [Music] there we are and back in front let's see if i can change somewhere to the other side perfect let's have a look at [Applause] so there we are back again since it's now quiet would be a good time for the approach briefing if you're already i'm already set up and all year is up to you well as i said there might be a chance for a three one right i will brief you three one left that's our favorable runway well we'll ask for it and yeah if not i would just do a second approach briefing yeah okay yeah i list three one right the highest msa will be 2 900 feet over at manhattan but we're coming from the easterly side our msa is 2 000 feet that's exactly the altitude we're going to start our final descent on the glide slope at 5.7 miles will be a three degree angle on the glide slope and the final altitude is at meals it's 1800 feet and our minimum is 220 feet yes that's checked and confirmed flaps 35 for landing i expect a power setting of about 64 to 65 percent and one fine for me and the flare height 30 feet and we have 3400 meters of runway so auto brake minimum is sufficient we will leave the runway to the right and in case of missed approach at 500 feet we'll do a left turn onto a radial 190 of jfk view r to chant and the first altitude will be 3 000 feet yes but my career i've had two or three go arounds in new york and they always gave us uh during the go around a level altitude at 2000 feet so yeah we should be surprised did i miss out on anything or do you have any ideas remarks or oh perfect uh in case of the gay will give us uh trevon wright you still stick to 35 or going for flaps 50. since the landing distance is 1900 meters the runway has 2 500 we can stick to flaps 35 but i would change the outbreak setting to medium okay perfect what i did mention our minimum diversion fuel today 6.2 tons so that gives us room for one go-around and we have a lot of runways in new york so ah right there we can i think we can also start to see long island coming up yeah it's so wonderful approach and seeing it on the daylight it's i'm really looking forward to yeah right at the beginning there's a town called montauk it's i think it's pretty famous for for vacation holidays i really wanted to go there but i i've never had a chance so yeah yeah then the time is too less kevin is secured perfect very good yeah direct trade flight level two four zero so we already started or discussed our approach briefing okay but basically the same that we discussed before okay i briefed the runway three one left flap 35 for landing auto brake minimum that's all i need to know and simon also did a landing distance calculation to be redundant [Music] heavier right on heading two six zero ah beautiful huh wow i will stumble and hear the decks have a clear one fifteen hundred okay i will take up the speed ah what have you cargo 8160 heavy fly heading two at zero and track and intercept localizer runway driven left approach one thousands one thousands oh is i identified on my side we are still the frequency on mine waiting on identifiers let's extend let's extend manhattan skyline is coming up yeah nice approach on retrieval on the left lufthansa cargo 8160 heavy preceding traffic is on one o'clock chicago 8160 heavy speed on discussion tower 91 professor see you on here 8160 heavy intercepting the visual approach 31 left cargo 8160 heavy run rate treatment left leg i think the other traffic is going for a 3-1 ride i believe oh enjoy the approach enjoy the approach yeah directly into the sunset yeah wow sun is low everyone i'll start reducing speed a little bit yeah now look at the pitch 10 degrees 10 degrees sleds yeah that's also only on the md-11 flaps 15 flaps 15. so what do you say the pitch changes now too seven and a half yeah that's what i would say too exactly over here labs 28 flaps 28. get on gear down contact flaps 35 left 35 landing checklist landing gear down for green down for green auto break minimum spoilers armed flaps 35 35 ead checked checked lending checklist completed 1800 final altitude checked wonderful annual flight here checked checked another 400 approaching minimum runway ahead inside 30 20 10. spoilers deployed cargo 8160 heavy right on papa charlie right on papa hold shot mike charlie so right right yeah papa and then down to mike charlie i will write few minutes with the apu yeah so so okay i'm reset [Music] and we can switch off the engines 2 20 in the morning german time welcome to new york and how are you guys doing oh very good no complaints uh aircraft is fine they're never really complaining no it never does it's a very easy aircraft i love this guy yeah he is fantastic i just cannot say it i always call him mr lovely because he is the word yeah yeah it's british she is british like he's so polite yeah yeah he's outstanding as i just said we are towed into our final parking position here because the park spaces are so narrow to each other and a lot of cargo on the apron so to avoid any damage with a jet blast we will stop on the air and switch off the engines and the rest 100 200 meters can i have your parking brake set please thank you very much see you in a while don't uh you know you have to stay out there in the north coast until customers have done their uh inspection they're here now so it shouldn't take too long okay thank you very much marking checklist parking exterior lights only off except enough lights in the eyes of a stop trim three degrees aircraft nose up sd status check system mods auto spoil loss 3 track flaps let's up reject fuel switches parking brake release weather radar or fatigue transponder stand by epuair of parking checklist completed leaving airplane checklist leaving airplane irs of emergency power of emergency lights of apu on external power of battery on leaving airplane checklist yeah dear actress viewers this was the last checklist and this is the end of our flight and our working day has been a real pleasure to have you on board i hope you enjoyed the flight with us and hope to see you sometime again it was great to have you on board and we hope that we will have a lot of likes for you also patrick will will be very happy and all the best for you thank you nothing more to add it was nice to have you on board stay safe take care and see you next time so park off yours now we are in new york we had good sleep and now see where i'm standing at the brooklyn arbor and looking on the beautiful skyline of new york of manhattan and you see the very famous brooklyn bridge now i show you my favorite place in new york it's the so-called highline park it's abandoned railroad and it was transformed in the past three years to such a beautiful park inside new york left and right you see some wonderful amazing buildings people can walk inside new york on a higher ground level and there you can see the newest skyscraper on the horizon well here we are again we had a nice landing in new york and it was also for me quite emotional to see this crew performing and to see the md 11 again in flight and i hope you also enjoyed it with a great crew axel simon and gunter and i'm very very thankful to the crew please don't forget to give them your thumbs up and a few nice comments they will appreciate they've been working hard for you for this memory of the film and i appreciate that and i hope you do that too speaking about giving back with thumbs up i would like as a very final word um to plant the seed in your mind that maybe you want to consider giving back a little uh simon has been talking in the movie about focus fantastic involvement and engagement in his lufthansa cargo charity organization cargo human care and again i would like to reiterate what simon said if you enjoyed this film and you got it for free and you got a a penny to spare is it a dollar is it whatever you you maybe want to give to people in need here's the guy making sure that it arrives exactly where it needs to right so please think about donating a little down here is the link thank you so much if you consider that as an option yeah patrick simon axel gunter thank you very much for mentioning cargo human care it became part of my life in the last 20 years and still after i retired i will take care of it it's something i would call it almost a full-time job and i will take care of cargo human care also in future i will be there in kenya every six weeks or so and talk to the people and absolutely take care that the money arrives where it's really need it with the people the children the patients in our medical center and i will really take care that the money arrives there every penny that's spent will arrive there thank you once again patrick thank you for uh supporting cargo human care keep it up stay safe and look forward to the next ultimate cockpit movies thank you very much for now bye guys bye airclubs.com [Music]

Channel: Air-Clips.com

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Id: 3wzS6fn8BA8

Length: 148min 46sec (8926 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 15 2021