Pilot STARS! Captains Marina & Gerhard Airbus A220 Riga-Dublin Ultimate Cockpit Movie [AirClips]

[Music] i have the great honor now to have a conversation with mr martin gauss the ceo of airbaltic thank you very much for having me mr gauss you're welcome so um i hope you're fine you and your family are well yes we're all fine and after more than three months going through this i think we are very positive because we see flying already for four weeks now we see that the trust and what we did well before the covet crisis is coming back we have more and more passengers so very happy you see you see us in a very happy company because we are finally back in the air and fly air baltic has been strongly in the media there have been big big plans and a very successful growth before covet as it looked like and now like in every airline it came to a halt and slowly you are resuming actually more on the fast side earlier than others already but still how many aircraft do you have in operation as of today today we have 14 aircraft ready to fly we have 22 airbus a220 only so we have several things which happened after the crisis we took a decision to only focus on the airbus a220 300 we are the only airbus a220 operator because we have nothing else anymore what we operate we have 22 of them in total currently much more on order also more joining us this year and next year our average fleet age actually is a good number also our average fleet age is 1.9 years so we have the probably the youngest fleet in the world on top of this you've been uh the launch customer if i'm right for the a220 300 is that correct the launch operator they call it that's an operator we have today 22 aircraft as i said but we have firm order another 28 to come to take us to 50 aircraft and we have 30 options of the a220 300 which we would execute at a time when we believe okay we can fly more than 50 aircraft so with that we are amongst the biggest a220 or holding the order book delta airlines of course has a larger order book because they have a larger order but otherwise yes and the launch operator status we after swiss receiving the a220 100 launched they were the launch customer for the aircraft we then in december 2016 took our first aircraft and since that time have had a lot of international um recognition for flying the aircraft and and being a customer for airbus which has shown that that aircraft is a game changer so the a lot about airbaltic is about the aircraft and now focusing only on that type for the future also shows our dedication to it obviously airbus and also the other airplane manufacturers are now very busy receiving calls from the operators asking for postponements cancellations of aircraft orders and with that large pending order that you have with airbus from pre-covered times what is the change to your business plan what are your intentions with the remaining orders that you have still we took a decision when so we were the first airline to stop flying completely on the 17th of march after the government took a decision that the borders will be closed we decided that the airline will stop completely scheduled operations with that we were focusing for the future on staying because the most important thing was to stay we needed to secure future funds because it was clear that we would need additional equity to go through the crisis we also reduced our cost and we took a very important decision to revise our product we've said we will bring forward a decision which we'd taken in the business plan for the future to focus only on airbus a220 300 and that decision we took in that first week after being stopped by saying it doesn't make sense anymore to fly so many aircraft so let us take out the q 400 fleet 12 of them and we take out the four boeings which was still there they are parked here but they will not go back to scheduled operations so that was the biggest decision from the a220 looking now at the order book for airbus it helps actually because a lot of airlines will try to postpone future deliveries while we of course also need them in a different interval now but we still want to have all of them to go back to the number of aircraft we had before and as we are not flying the other types anymore that helps us actually and we are discussing currently with airbus how exactly to bring back um all these aircraft we have ordered so we don't want to cancel any of them but we want to change the individual delivery dates for this year we we still intend to take three more aircraft in now we have a lot of f geeks amongst our viewers as well and i'm very glad that i'm obviously sitting in the airline ceo's office with the most airplane models in any ceo office right behind you um there's a table with countless airbaltic models and um i i think that either you're a very keen collector of these models or there might be some other story behind that possibly no actually there is a story behind it um the aircraft models uh it's 80 of them it's the small helper models metal models they are lined up there and when we placed the order uh for up to 80 aircraft the idea was actually from uh our head of corporate communication from alicia breda she had the idea to decorate at the press conference with these 80 little aircraft the the desk and then they moved to my office and in my office we took each time one was manufactured and flown over from montreal to riga when it touches down here we physically put it from the left to the right and then what you see on the right side you see 22 aircraft which is what we have today on the other side you see the ones to come and i have to say that not only you spotted this in this office it's probably the most photographed thing in airbaltic because every journalist who in the past came asked for it and took interesting uh photos of it and it this this board which is behind me has been photographed and has been published a lot of times it is not that i like to have airplane models it's the opposite i have only two other models it's the aircraft which we fly here the bigger models but i like that it's a daily motivation not only for me for the management team which is also having the meetings in this office and we all are motivated by each of the aircraft coming and then putting these little models it it gives you every day a visualization of where we want to go we wish you all the very best of luck for this further mission to go thank you very much for your time and support here and thank you for the opportunity that we could have that interview thanks i took some two hours in that aircraft to fit all the cameras and that was actually yesterday evening and now it's early morning riga i'm just crossing the bridge over the river here i'm basically alone no traffic and i just got my life saver my circle k deluxe coffee in the morning heading off back to the airport for doing the photo flight to dublin this morning with captain marina from our famous q 400 film and with captain gerhardt from our heraklion film and the delivery film from montreal so i would really like to find out how did they experience the lockdown how did they experience the situation how did it feel like in the previous films they've been really promoting their jobs as pilots encouraging people to follow them uh what is left is that still the case or how do they see the future for pilots how do they see their own future in airbaltic um i want to find find out more about that and i would like to invite you to join me cheers so a very warm welcome to all of the eclipse fans joining us today um not the first time we've we've done one of the videos for eclipse we're in our home so to say in the home of our baltic here in riga in latvia and we're just preparing for an early morning departure to dublin and my name is gerhard ramke i'm chief pilot here at a baltic and have the pleasure to fly today with marina yeah hello everyone from my side also today will be a special flight from riga to dublin we'll going to have two captains today on a fly deck and on the right side um i'll be um i'll have a chance to fly with chief pilot well the chance how to say we work together every now and then the airline has become a little bit smaller we will tell you about that later on uh during the flight um and um how to say we're we've always been like a a big family now we're a slightly smaller family nevertheless we enjoy working together and meet each other every now and then i have the pleasure to fly the right seat with marina today not that often that we can have two captains flying together so this is a nice opportunity as well cs lima for today as it's already a beautiful aircraft for us i saw it stand 302 right from dubrovnik yesterday on the flight to dublin i think you checked the papers already so we have a tankering nicely and for the weather um dublin might be rainy but nothing special a little bit turbulence over the sweden uh forecasted but we'll see how it goes um i didn't see anything special according to the northamptons um for the fuel issue so um on the way back i think i would take something around um somewhere 7 8 i would aim for and with this one on top that would give us uh with a little bit extra on top of that uh with the taxi fuel um i would go for one three two around sounds good to me yeah yeah and with that weights are fine and so on we don't have any any issue there anywhere [Music] yeah so um seven eight both sides flat out three zero in a way uh two and uh flight level two five zero initially on the way back then we climbed three seven zero three nine zero uh we'll check with the table yeah and um anything um what i missed for the flight no not really [Music] the rest is discussed the aircraft looks fine um it's been uh how to say overnight at home so to say it's been cleaned disinfected so no everything here okay i think we should go and brief our cabin for them yeah that's a good idea good morning so good morning everyone yeah today we have a special flight um two captains on the fly deck and we have a little bit of a filming of our flight uh we have a beautiful aircraft for today uh cs lima it's on stand 302 came from the bravering dubrovnik yesterday already um so the flight times two hours uh 40 we can make it both ways the weather in dublin is might be a bit rainy otherwise no specials about that plus 14 degrees there plus 12 degrees in riga there might be a little bit of a turbulence somewhere over the sweden or closer to ireland otherwise it's okay we still have enforce high altitude climb procedure so we call you when we are ready yes so the question of the day yes it's operation location precautions for crash checks so it's located in slider yes perfect so that must be there yeah only in case of yeah fire get behind the panels etc sure and you would come in and let us know what you what you need it for and then we would most probably hand it to you yeah good uh what about mhm meals and drinks uh still water for me and we'll let you know about the meals when we have time maybe two yeah it's okay yes same with me please still water and on the way to would be just perfect thank you as uh we are going through airport we will need a mask as well um i have one i have mine with me one yeah yeah good yes we have to run through the passport check which means through the airport itself yeah good okay then see you now five minutes see at the passport check there thank you excellent thank you [Music] so [Music] [Music] hello everyone once again i'm going to perform external walk around of the aircraft we usually start at the front passenger door and i'm going to move a clockwise around the aircraft to check that there is no damage to the aircraft which left unnoticed to us so we start with the nose of the aircraft you can see a lot of sensors here they're all very important for us and we checked that there are no obstructions in them and so you can see for example two pitot tubes which are in this aircraft are named in a fancy way air data system probes ice detector probe alpha vein and total air temperature probes the right side of the nose looks pretty much the same the aircraft is symmetrical and so we have the same probes on the right side for example the pito tubes we have four of them in total for left pilot for right pilot for standby instruments and the fourth one for redundancy we chop we check all the gear so we check the general condition the tires the wheels the struts there are no leakages of any kind the lights obviously you can see also a small red light over here it's a another visual indication for a tow truck driver that the parking brake is set in the cockpit and the aircraft should not be moved and when we release the parking brake he will also see that we are ready we check the engines of course this is a pretty interesting engine of its kind on this aircraft the huge fan which we see is not directly connected with the engine shaft it's a geared turbafan engine which means the fan is connected by a gearbox to the engine and it rotates at the one third of the speed of the shaft which gives the every component of the agent to rotate at its optimum speed and makes the engine lighter and more efficient i check the general condition of the wing so the leading edge we see there are the slats and the training edge the ailerons and the flaps those are those little surfaces which are moving after the takeoff and before landing and passengers are sometimes wondering what is it why they're moving is it okay yes it's okay they're giving us extra lift at the lower speeds when we need it the most take-off and landing so um at the moment the apu is running we can see a little door which is not a little hatch which is not uh even with the fuselage over there so that's the apu air intake door so it's also a little bit noisy here we're currently refueling and we can see that the abu is currently supplying us with air we will initialize the system now so that the uh the aircraft understands who it actually is for now it knows that it has been on a previous flight it knows that it works for a baltic there's actually the data for the our flight 661 to dublin i'll put the adc call sign in there which is bti six alpha one there it is we do have a message down here we'll have a look it's a preliminary note sheet and um we'll use the printer for this to uh to have the data available when marina comes back in it's particularly important to have a fresh airflow especially at those covet and post-coffee times nowadays when before the first passenger enters the aircraft and only after the last passenger disembarks the aircraft all this time the apu is running to provide a fresh airflow for the passengers the aircraft is pretty symmetrical so i'll check the same things which i checked on the right side of the fuselage on the left i'll quickly finish my walk around and see you on a flight deck so i finished my walk around and i'm going to join gearheart with preparations on the fly deck see you so we're here marina is uh back from her walk around and we are uh now preparing the flight deck um we've always already received some acres data the load sheet is in the system itself and we've done our performance checks we pull we calculate them separately and then compare the data see what the fms tells us if that is basically the same and we've entered at that so far now we're just waiting for the passengers [Music] yep [Music] emergency equipment gear displays the ice detector tests circuit breakers the icas and infor yeah i've checked that before yes so it's done side sticks checked on the right oxygen mask checked on the right and the flight deck door is tested yes so the preflight checklist is complete want to quickly say hello to the passengers definitely good morning ladies and gentlemen this year captain speaking now we are fully ready for departure in few minutes we can close the doors and proceed to the active runway you know the flight time to dublin today is expected to be around 2 hours and 40 minutes and we do our best to reach destination as soon as possible later during approach in dublin i come back to it later as well information update at the ravelton the moment i wish you pleasant flight thank you 67 passengers 2 hours 40 minutes enjoy the flight with the papers thank you okay can you hear me yep excellent that's good so tow truck is here you could i can offer you the uh the four-star checklist um okay let's do it so the check of preview complete ipu and or external car apu is on the beacon goes on after the clearance park break on the stairs are being removed from the baltic um six alpha one stands three co2 standard push fluids robotic six alpha one start bush starter pressure proof six alpha one okay that is b4 star check is complete start and push approved ground hello the part of check is complete all the responsibility close and seek your toe bar and talk are connected waiting for your clearance perfect we are ready can i release a parking brake parking brake is released so from echo we've got we can compare that 81 you've got the same there yeah flap two speeds three eight three eight four one with an accelerated stop this of 23 99 exactly the same lift engine on up hello i'll take six alpha one uh is uh runway 108 available for us uh we'll card tonight thank you standing by all right so we'll see yep parking brake is set foreign thank you okay ground number one engine stabilized we're starting number two start right start right engine right engine thank please and that is uh hydraulic three low pressure related the caution is cancelled is like um okay grant we have two good engine starts you may disconnect yourself and thank you for your help thanks goodbye cool before it actually checklist b4 taxi checklist hydraulic 3a autumn the 3b flight controls coming up i took the runner live controls good morning ladies and gentlemen captain marina fedezila and the entire crew welcome you onboard this air baltic flight to dublin our flight time is estimated to be 2 hours and 40 minutes zyga yelena and evers will take care of your safety and comfort during our flight we care about your health and safety in order to limit the spread of the virus please wear your facial mask for the whole duration of the flight except when instructed by the crew in case of necessity to use oxygen masks we recommend using the disinfection wipe provided to clean your hands and surfaces around you please find it in the basic care kit that was good news the apu and no steer select on fms i'll set it up in a minute okay actually where we still have to change them in the second half yeah to go otherwise five point zero one two green i can see so i select the tax flow high already and the rest is standard perfect thank you that is before taxi check is complete let's see what he offers us round the ball take six alpha one taxi players we'll hold shorter folks so voltage six over so right side is four left is free and actually excellent microlist six off one continued runway one eight by fox to three cleared the wallet five echo quality five echo and uh fox and we're ready from echo baltic six and four then thank you thank you echo so fox to the right and then echo we also recommend practicing proper sneezing and coughing etiquette cover your mouth with a tissue or sneeze and cough into your inner elbow please try to keep safe distance from each other during the flight please always pay attention on signs in aircraft and crew who is there to make your flight safe and comfortable and we have a re-clearance via the valet 5 echo departure and set that up that's related to the uh to the change okay check we have lost our speeds which will reconnect in the event of evocation leave all personal belongings on board and now may we have your attention for safety video demonstration thank you and we wish you a pleasant flight 38 30 41 [Music] is checked and actually have a take off too if you can change it thanks very much that was a very good nice take off too we have there's no flex the conditions are the same flap two that's related to the performance yeah engine has a bleed source the trim is the same speeds are set and posted now that's all complete perfect then 81 is n1 and that's checked excellent we can quickly pick up our we clear the lineup we can wait on that runway and then have to remove the departure um i think i'll stop here for a second and you can tell the atc that we're going to laugh riga air baltic um six alpha one we're holding very shortly after echo will be ready in uh in a moment i sure you're holding shot for a while okay so runway 1 8 performance is cross checked with us and for 1 8 ballet five echo in the box uh climb four thousand initially still there and uh straight ahead three point three above two thousand right to valid that's in fms uh communication the same msa the same engine out procedure straight ahead four thousand yeah that's correct if you're ready yeah you're ready yeah baltic six alpha one four are you ready six alpha one wind 170 degrees two knots i have an aircraft takeoff clear for tank of one eight multi six alpha one the opening entering one eight lift the string the right side is three approach sectors lighting belts lights take off and if you can put the uh heading back to runway there we go so we have the kids i'm going to continue rolling them you ready said trust 30 minutes check p1 roll tents checked did check seriously is so we can look at the aftertable checklist we have to do the wing antennas test it in just a moment are you warm enough don't you good for you um it's good it's ten thousand lights and gets pretty smoother now belts also then lights are off filter water i'll initiate the uh three months test did you see that the little bird on the rotation [Music] is checked thank you i'll check them wait just [Music] according to the planet will decrease a little bit to plus five yeah so so 58 times our maximum is three seven zero at iso plus ten and if it gets to ice or below three eight zero is uh fine so we should have a look at the temperature a little bit it's already plus nine so the tendency is two decrease the small one three five one now i'll take six over one result [Applause] three six correction three eight zero is checked and once again three eight zero so i accept yeah perfect there's some kind of noise there yeah it's on vhf2 it's on the guard frequency [Music] [Music] so here we are we're currently cruising at 38 000 feet and we are well established in the cruise here um as you can see on the map we've just um we've just passed uh the uh the the coastline of denmark and we are further down um on our way then into the uk which we will be crossing and before we then reach ireland um that is basically our entire distance which we still have to go um and um it's roughly 520 nautical miles um which is then something like 900 something uh kilometers which we have ahead of us and um the cruise is very stable smooth conditions today we've got a blue sky here a couple of clouds outside as you might be able to see but nothing really what affects us which affects us in in any way and with that um the flight is just going excellent marina is the pilot flying on this lake and um she's on the captain i am assisting her as good as i can i might not always be catching everything but that is why it is two of us here in the flight deck marina has come not too long ago but long enough from the q 400 and you have met arena on one of the eclipse videos on as a captain on the q400 so how do you like the aircraft of course it's amazing aircraft i think there just truly cannot be a different answer to that because there is no reason not to love that aircraft so in comparison to q400 of course a silly short answer would be it doesn't have propellers but besides that of course we fly higher we fly further out on different speeds so of course the network of destination of destinations is a much wider so i've been to the places i haven't been on q400 and i've been playing this aircraft for um almost a year now yeah i think more or less a year on the left seat on airbus 220. i'm fully enjoying it what did you find most difficult when you change from the dash to this aircraft actually it's a difficult question to answer because i'm not the only one who would say that transition to this type is very easy going the aircraft is full of automatic systems which help pilot a lot so of course the pilot work i i wouldn't say it became easier um but the more systems we need to know on that aircraft more thoroughly more deeper but um um the type rating course is uh uh done in such a uh easy way that um i cannot even recall like specifically the the difficult uh the biggest difficulty of that aircraft so on this aircraft there are no so-called memory items so there is nothing to do from the memory in case of emergencies besides the oxygen masks which are for us to put in case of any uh fire involved malfunction or uh decompression besides that the aircraft really nicely helps us in practically every of uh malfunctions and tell us what to do so i think that was a transition from um more difficult uh aircraft to the easier in a flying wise and maybe more complicated system-wise aircraft yeah do you have any um anything for yourself to specify because as i said i cannot really come up with anything which is so difficult on that aircraft no that's the same with me i have been flying the q 500 as well before and how to say of course it's a it's a change first of all the q400 of course has a full class cockpit with that the presentation of data a map and so on is similar resolution is by far not as good as here but otherwise um presentation of data in general is of course um in a certain way similar screens are smaller so um that is of course a big advantage that we've got these huge screens where the information is displayed on we've got these excellent maps available it doesn't only help situational awareness just a pleasure to look at and really fun to to work with it um as you mentioned already the um the the lack of memory items so items which we have to do by memory and if something goes wrong um and and all the type of aircraft you would have to do certain things then by memory a lot of different flows switching settings turn off knobs activation of systems and so forth that is not the case here people might make mistakes it's in the human nature to make mistakes and with that of course the outcome might be even worse and that is made a lot more easy here you've got an electronic checklist system which you pull up and the the malfunction gets displayed and we work off the the um the electronic checklist and it tells us what we have to do there's a lot of knowledge which you have to have of course behind it when it comes to systems and how systems correlate but on the other hand um a checklist system like that helps very much to to deal with a certain situation so i i love that presentation and the fact that we've got that support actually yeah and of course the more modern um uh machinery gets um uh the the less of um how to say the risk of areas should be actually there yeah the passenger in the back wants us to deal with that in the best possible way talking about presentation of um information to us i think a very nice piece of display is the icas so it's a right side of my display number two which basically uh tells us visually if we have um any normal or special selection of any switch or button in the aircraft so it tells us also including any malfunctions on the aircraft it instantly appears there and basically with the one quick scan of the akas we can see in which positions in which status is our aircraft the moment uh there are three nodes there wing india is off that's a requirement for our aircraft above flight level 350 backflow high that's related to the fresh increased flow of air for the passengers during those times and no pet that's a standard item there now the plaque pack floor high is of course something which we have introduced now um with this uh aftermath or it's actually not even the aftermath we're still dealing with corona basically just within the last days the borders of many countries have opened up again and we find ourselves in the situation that we have increased rights now after having been on ground for a long time so within a period of nearly three months we've only done a few flights which were mainly repatriation flights picking up stuck passengers um who were on a yeah on on on a trip somewhere else it might have been vacation might have been business or family visits or whatever and um to bring these people home again that has been our main task and we've only done a few of those um so now that normal line operation starts up again with um of course significantly reduced passenger numbers for now we've put measures in place we've been working heavily on these things um for in this period of uh three months to see the optimum introduced to ensure that passengers are comfortable flying again a lot of different issues have been addressed discussed taken care of implemented as procedures we as an airline we want to be on the forefront of um of the industry movement to ensure that passengers really feel safe travelling with us and that there's no point of discussion in any point in at any time when it comes to how to say being protected as much as they can that we hand out a small little care package which contains a mask we do require that passengers wear their mask for the entire flight um it's basically there to protect the others as well um as much as we can and then vice versa of course the passenger this this specific passenger him or herself then before the boarding we do measure temperatures that's an automated procedure we've invested in a pretty expensive cameras who produce um an image checking the uh the the temperature not all is um really um scientifically proven that that would be a measure there of course um i would say apparently even people who do not have the symptoms and still carry the the virus um but we want to do the most we can to ensure that we have at least um i would say take into account all of these measures and i think in general people are usually very concerned about concerned during this period about flying that they're sitting so close together and the aircraft is a closed space let's say in a cabin but actually the air flow in the aircraft is done in such a efficient manner vertically from up to down in a way that it's not really mixed up with the air of the person who is sitting even on your side absolutely i also talked about apu uh quickly uh during my external walk around that as a procedure we have at the mandatory um to switch it on before the first passenger enters the aircraft and the switch it off only after the last one leaves the aircraft to keep this constant flow of air being refreshed in a cabin absolutely so before you would have switched the apu on either if you need electrical power which we don't need at that stage because we still have ground power connected so from the from the service unit on ground so we don't need electrical support but we have made it a rule that even um five to ten minutes before the passengers actually start the boarding we have the abu up and running to have that high airflow through the cabin so um to ensure that at a constant base the air is exchanged in the cabin and now we have these hipaa filters on board which are filters um basically taking anything out of the air which you could find in there and they would take 90 or above 99 of anything which you would have like um germs and and things like that they would filter them out the air itself with these hipaa filters and us working um how to say our air conditioning system in a more intense way um the air gets exchanged in the entire cabin every two to three minutes and with that um it is pretty secure that um how to say the way the air flows and so on it is not unpleasant for the passengers so you would not feel a big draft but on the other hand there's there's significantly airflow to ensure that nothing can really spread which you would have in your direct environment and as where you would think about fuel savings before and you would of course think about the environment as well um not running the apu until you would just basically want to start up the aircraft where you really need the apu now this has become absolutely secondary because primary focus is of course on the passenger's health and safety and that they feel in some way as well taken care of and with that of course we use it to distribute the air to the cane ladies and gentlemen we will be starting our service shortly in business class we will be serving a meal from our chef in economy class a priority of meals and selection of drinks is available for purchase if you pre-order the meal before the flight it will be arriving very soon you will find the food and drinks offers in menu cards which will be distributed in a few minutes please be informed that only credit card payments will be accepted for purchases that's all from us at the moment please sit back and enjoy your hospitality thank you of course how to say us as an airline we have been hit hard um us as an airline the the whole industry all of the airlines we were all on grounds very few were flying most of them have had to say had to put their their operations on the ground um many airline staff and other industries of course are affected as well but um when if we talk about flying and the airlines then of course many staff have lost their jobs unfortunately this has happened to us as well we had to decrease fleet sizes um and we had to release people in this time which was really a very very tough thing to do and it's been of course specifically tough for those people who have been affected we have roughly um put our pilot core um to um to the half half of the strength we had before um and um it was it was a very very tough process i think that we've managed it in a decent way respecting many many different aspects going from seniority over to social aspects before we had basically established who would be staying keeping their job and who actually had to go we had to change a couple of positions there were people who had already achieved their captaincy with within the company and who unfortunately had to then take a first officer position but from what i've heard up to now all those people are specifically happy that they still kept a job and did not have to leave and of course now we're very much focusing on ramping up the business again and our flights to see that those colleagues whom we had to release where we've put a guarantee on re-employment out we will re-employ these people in the sequence of the way we have to release them yeah but they basically can come back as soon as we uh ramp up our operations they are definitely looking forward to that yeah because i'm the one the lucky one who stayed there in the company and of course i'm super happy about it of course that was a tough period and there was a certain extent of uncertainty in the beginning but i think the company managed that uh in a very good manner so we indeed how it was already told we stopped practically all operations and i was not flying for around three months as majority of pilots i was spending my um so-called isolation period in in other countries so i was not involved also with any uh repatriation flights um so i had basically time for myself now that nevertheless um it was all well so uh communicated from the company including the unions um so while i was at home i still had all the information what was happening in the company which steps are taking uh our ceo kept us informed on a weekly basis um in the beginning it was even daily update of the information what the cap what the company did today what's the plan for tomorrow etc etc also the unions did a very well their job they stepped in and they supported us in every possible way but of course that could not be avoided the process of letting some people go but yeah hopefully that's a temporary solution yeah we very much hope so and that will get uh we've got very ambitious plans um for the future when it comes not only to the ramp up now we're adding flights every single week passenger figures are not still not what we really are hoping for people are of course um how to say they're holding back with their with their travel plans um at the same time there is still a certain uncertainty when it comes to other countries where you would need to go what are the measures there what is the development of a virus spread or how are the figures actually really now contained and so forth um so we hope that that will ramp up as well and that we'll see figures growing for the next years we've got an ambitious plan to to take a lot of deliveries um and um and to increase the fleet significantly so we're actually really really very uh very positive and i imagine that this the current let's call it a transition period is very complicated um as for the management also a little bit for the pilots in a way that our schedule changes according to the conditions outside and sometimes we neither our ceo knows if the flight which is planned for tomorrow going to be allowed to be performed or not so of course in those conditions we are very dynamic operations uh doing dynamic operations at the moment and we are ready um to have a changes in our rosters and uh yeah so we we are going with the flow as the situation develops sure very much of course are very important and we have a big focus on there that the flights which we offer on the market um that they really take place it's not always quite up to us we definitely want to ensure that we are not the ones cancelling any flights um if we put out the the um i would say the announcement that we are starting up a certain route then the passenger should be relying on that we are going to serve that route as well and that's what we really have a big big focus on yeah the plans are sometimes not always supported by certain events or states at least in this in this initial startup period we are getting to much more reliable conditions now as many countries are opening up their borders and how to say decreasing the the implemented measures um and that seems to be working very well we by far don't have the frequencies yet on on these routes which we used to have and um and of course we're by far not up with the entire route network the way we have had it and the way we are planning to establish it in the forthcoming months now but we'll see how that develops and we're very positive and that will work out for us quite well [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] so how did you actually get into aviation okay um i think um that would be not honest from my side uh not to mention that my parents are working in aviation um so i guess there was some kind of an impact from there but there was never a direct push force or even i think a suggestion like hey marina why wouldn't you like follow us i don't remember that at least but of course being raised up in that kind of environment there might be some kind of interest growing inside me because as much as i remember of course that i made the choice rationally so when i was about to finish school or a little bit before that i was just choosing um where to go where to continue so i took a list of all the universities we have in estonia my home country and estonia innovation academy was one of the choices and i was thinking what i'm good in not so good in and i thought i might give it a try and i think i even remember how i went to my parents to tell that hey i'm going to try to apply for a pilot position and you're pretty surprised so that's how i think i remember that it went in a way that my interest grew into that from myself but of course parents helped me in every possible way with any information they they had etc so yeah that was pretty simple and straightforward i went to our flight academy in estonia i got there i became a pilot my first job was in estonia i flew there as a first officer on a soft 340 for one and a half years and so relatively experienced i came to her baltic on a q 400 right seat from where i transitioned to the left seat and now i'm on the airbus well that's what we've seen already in other videos and so on but the eclipse fans have some of that yeah something like this now um we haven't really experienced in any way we do remember that at some point they saw this this corona time if you want to call it like that we've seen i would say disruption of air travel with the uh with the volcano um which went up in iceland uh quite some years ago and um here travel um uh went uh came to a standstill actually for quite a while it was i think some kind of 10 12 days i actually don't remember the length exactly but something like this is absolutely unprecedented i think since since the second world war something like this has not happened to them so yeah we're we're just really hoping that uh move forward gerhard if you want to maybe say a few words about your personal experience uh during this uh corona time because as i said for me as a just a captain on the airbus i was mostly sitting at home and not very much involved with operation um although i heard everything what is happening so maybe a little inside look okay okay so um yeah good the specifically the management i don't count myself to the management but as a chief pilot of course how to say i've been involved in many issues um and specifically putting the fleet on ground um how to say then organizing some very special flights the repatriation flights we've done cargo flights to china even to to transport medical supply we've done things like that there has been a lot of work which we've done in that time so the office has been pretty deserted there were only a very few people who came in we had severe measures in place to ensure that everybody how to say is separated from the other meetings took place nearly exclusively on um on on a media platform we haven't really met too much in in person and if so then with a with a big distance um some things you sometimes um have to say just can exchange if you meet the other person you know or in a specific room where you have to have other tools available but we've been working on on different things then first of all how to continue that was of course the top question and so of course nobody really knew how it's going to continue there were predictions there were i would say visions how how this would continue there was of course there were certain dependencies as well states had closed their borders they had how to say ruled out any international traffic be it by bus or by plane um what else you you might have um so with that of course there there were a lot of things to um how to say which which kept us on ground and made us say or restricted us to operate flights with a special permission which were for example these repatriation flights and then of course we from the first moment we wanted to prepare and be prepared for whatever might come different scenarios and of course the most positive one is that we just ramp up in a decent way the way we are doing it now ensuring everything that not only our passengers actually are on feel safe are safe are taken care of but of course that our crew members as well are i'm gonna say um taken care of we're sitting in an environment where social distancing of course is how to say fairly limited the space between us is always the same at least here on the flight deck now we can how to say enlarge it or increase the the distance when we walk somewhere when we have to say meet in the briefing room we could do that and we have done that we saw all those markings in the briefing room um before and um so we have we have and we we have put measures in in place which ensure um that that we have this distancing and that we wash our hands and that we disinfect them that we mirror the masks wherever they are required necessary and where they are useful and um yeah we've we've done tests amongst them the the people coming in for work and which we had limited so most of our office staff was sent home um they we had very quickly put measures into place um to ensure that they are able to work from home they all got their electronic means um and um and were able then to to set that up and and come in for daily meetings on these media platforms so that worked very very well amazing how fast we were actually able to adopt that in a great way and of course you learn how to say certain things for the future um is it really necessary to call office workers in and let them work on a daily basis in the office can we do actually more from home and just come in for some some essential stuff on certain days yeah i would just maybe add from my side not even as employee for baltic but general public but i feel pretty lucky that we spent that period in uh baltic states yeah i spent it in estonia because the numbers of infections were relatively low and i think definitely um a a good point uh was that the density of people outside is very low in our countries so that helped to to stop that or to limit the spread of infection and people abate in all the countries the regulations and that went pretty calm and relaxed i would say yeah there were no harsh measures implemented besides the social distancing closing certain um certain events of course and uh public places and latvia of course was one of the first countries in europe who closed totally the borders and with that did a very good job with that they really do yeah absolute infection to spread yeah i really must say we we have been very very lucky in in our countries and the spread has been in uh on a very low base and um you know that has helped very much um yeah and as i mentioned a lot of work from home of course people get their it solutions they get their computers their laptops and um are able them to work from home um maybe we should let the eclipse fans know as well that we do not intend to work from home in the future neither you nor me so we will not be sitting just with the side stick at home near future not in the near future although this is all fly-by-wire and there's no plans to put it on a computer yet and how to say operate from ground while the passengers are flying here so that's pretty good that we can enjoy this actually yeah but um it's good to see that that all works out um very well even the measures we have put in place for our employees and um and for the passengers of course and those are basically the things which we have been working on intensely um during during those months where we have been mainly on ground of course sadly it had to do of course as well with um with releasing people where we have met all of them when they came in to say goodbye and we put a big emphasis on that we are doing our very best to to make this airline grow again um to be able to re-employ these people or to at least offer re-employment if they want to come back um they have been released because of this crisis situation and not because we uh we're not happy with their work and i think that's a very important thing to mention as well yeah well those are our colleagues and i think they fully understand it and they're already looking forward to come back to the company yeah absolutely because even with the three months being on the ground i really really miss that missed those views missed their job miss those little chats in the fly deck yeah true absolutely yeah it is something good to have that back yes it has become very quiet at the airport as well and you always have the feeling there's something wrong although we're very happy if we say are able to produce less noise um for the neighborhood of the airport and it's always a very sensitive thing and we've already done that by introducing this aircraft which has a significantly lower noise footprint than any other model which you would find approaching our airport or departing so as this is the most modern single aisle passenger plane on the market it has a significantly lower noise footprint as well and that does make a denser difference but i still miss some kind of noise at the end well every day it will get more and more yeah noisy yeah you're right yeah hello my name is ivars i'm a cabin crew team leader a supervisor in company and i have been working for five years today we have a flight to dublin which takes two hours and 40 minutes to get there and the same time on the way back today uh we are on a very special aircraft with a latvian national flag livery which is uh also you can see it here on my little plane uh this was made for uh latvia's 100th birthday we also have uh two aircrafts with a lithuanian and uh estonian flag as well so people usually usually are uh quite excited to board those especially aircraft this pandemic came we knew about it of course and it was expected but i guess nobody thought that it would bring such a lockdown throughout the whole world around the globe and we were actually the first company that stopped our flights we were the first ones and now we are slowly resuming them i think that most of our colleagues i would say all of them like no matter they are working in the office they are technicians cabin crew or pilots they are really really happy to get back to work to fly again and everybody is really coming to work with a smile on their face and with a pride in their heart on board we do have a the service which is vine board service concept that every everything is for purchase nothing is included in the price however there is an opportunity to pre-order meals that you can find on our website and you will get served first with a nice hot meal with a starter and a dessert for all of our customers we provide really good prices of tickets and if you you can get the full service specter so from economy to business class and then if you want to add bags or meals it is optional and it's a very nice and a good quality product that we offer we are reaching the coastline of the uk and um i think maybe it's just time to move forward to get some some weather some fresh weather and um to prepare ourselves for the approach so i can if you like i can use the acres to get us some weather so runway 2 8 in dublin runway is wet so obviously it was raining there are several closed uh taxiways yes which we saw in the northerns already they are refurbishing the airport there in government yep i'll get back to that a little bit later i'll just take the weather 3208 knots it's raining still at the moment there's some clouds 12 degrees and we expect 53.5 tons for landing yeah i think we have um our plan for bucks buxo one x-ray arrival yep which i have here that should be plates 10-2 the same so then i just continue with the briefing flow yeah yeah so mainly runway one six three four is closed yeah except for takeoffs and landings at least and um yeah as you mentioned uh all those small intersections which are close to that runway are close closer northern part is closed mic one hotel one whiskey one whiskey two it also mentions it's close sierra to an alpha so um if we land runway uh two eight then we can use a high speed uh exit zero five four zero six and via sierra uh i think we go all the way um to the runway we cross that runway and if alpha one is indeed closed then we use bravo two yeah yeah and from there on i think we can use the foxtrot all the way to the north yeah yeah that's most likely what we will get and then we come in probably by a link for link five somewhere up and for the rest if you're ready to follow me sure at any time okay so um i start with the routing we planned for a boxer one x-ray arrival that's uh set in fms find that point yeah so it starts from here uh box so we have maximum uh uh speed two five zero we have to be below flight level one hundred that is a restriction over there autis then kiraf max p 230 at flit level eight zero and then we go uh kogaks on the same restriction supply and the normal lot more max 180 above three thousand um so the general speed restriction uh 250 below flight level 100 we come from the side with the msa 2400 and there is a little southern part of msa yes so from there on uh we go to ils two eight runway is in use as you mentioned that's a wet runway so i will check the arrival data the frequency for ls triple one three five final track is two seven eight two seven uh nine on the chart so which is one degree uh difference [Music] yes yeah we have a runway threshold elevation of 202 and we started lot more intermediate fix at 3 000 we might send 2 500 for maxif from there on with 3 degrees glideslope we go down to minimums 410 that's selected and borrow in case of go around we climb straight ahead to point a garnet max 3000 feet let me check it here show gun at 3 000 feet or below and then turn right with the maximum speed two to zero to join the radial 278 inbound dublin vor and climbing 5000 feet so that's in fms we can use lnf for go around um so that's as much as i can say uh from the chart and we check our performance so um you also calculated that yes sure with the runway uh coefficient code 5 the weather is inserted auto breaks medium flaps 4 for landing house protection stays in auto and i'll use the auto throttle for landing and i get this vref speed of one three four and i go around one four zero and one five zero the speeds are selected that's exactly what i have as well okay we've got an operational learning instance of fifteen fifty five percent cool yeah for the decent uh weights and with the same max seven eight transition flight level is uh six zero stabilization gate is uh 1000 standard um the elevation is 200 so we might use it according to pressure altimeters sure so after landing as we discussed we're going to vacate to the right sierra 5 or 06 than sierra and as briefed before with all the restrictions according to the nortons yeah yeah yes so yeah um aircraft's still good no specials that i can remember no and there's no special procedure like on some airports where we would have to report that we do not have any suspicious health case on board or something like that so we do not um there's nothing additionally for us to do yeah for us um yeah we also have an alternate it's shannon for there we need a thousand nine hundred to go and we have a tank ring on the way back and it shows that we have fuel on our way back also we have a pretty high amount of fuel yes yep cool so if you have nothing to add then from my side briefing is completed excellent you can initiate the sent or checklist descend and approach checklist um so the ant i always mean i'll skip when ready we will descend three threesome fourty-five six example three three zero set one ready excellent three three series checked on the fms set minimum uh 410 set the auto break medium is uh checked with the backflow high wing and outward medium excellent the apartment completed one open item of the wing anti-ice yeah i think i'll stun you something around 10 miles from now and we send all right information for the ground henning yeah that's also one of the measures nicely implemented by the company to decrease amount of interaction uh with the people on the ground so we have a system the data leak system on the aircraft with which we already notify in advance the ground handling at the destination if we need anything and so for today flight for example no fueling needed and they know that no fueling required and i expect them not to come to the aircraft you're absolutely right we're in earlier times of course you would even appreciate that contact with the local staff they would come on board they would come into the flight deck they would talk to us we would have a little chat a short exchange at least of essential information and so on and all of that now goes via data it is the right way to do it no doubt how to say to limit any possible spread it's very very important that we don't take anything home bring it into our crew center and then how to say a week later we have several flights which would not be able to operate anymore because we possibly have to stay at home or as you are sick or whatever it might be so in that concern very very important measures and um and it's unfortunate but um so i think i started my descent excellent good vertical speed perfect london baltic six alpha one is leaving for three three zero [Applause] level 2 9 s 0 voltage 6 foreign so that is executed noise airport six alpha one contact scottish one two eight decimal zero five five goodbye one two eight zero five four voltage six over one scottish good morning a voltage six alpha one descending flood or two niners here email to paxo you're brought to alpha one scottish controller one easy yes and i um go to the manual speed to 50 and i engage auto throttle to keep it on idle so i decrease the speed a little bit for the short turbulence might be expected six alpha one detent altitude three thousand feet q and h and one zero one four cleared on us approaching two it sending three thousand feet one zero one four clear the rls two out of i'll take six or four three thousand one zero one four and we're cleared for less once you've got four center cross checked we cleared the rns exactly and three thousand has checked yeah it's of course one of the advantages now with this low amount of traffic we get basically straight in approaches um just anywhere yeah direct number one high speed absolutely [Music] disconnected enough checked so i'll use the spoilers a little bit to slow down in the turbulence and keep the vertical right sure okay select flap one flip one select and we're clear for approach so we are approach from s1 localizer one glideshop armed checked select it all the crazed decreased vertical speed to capture the glide thousand to go one zero one four let's check with one two one four heading 279 light swap sure and uh 5000 for go around as a final go-round altitude perfect i think i see a slight rainbow on the left yeah i saw that as well about x6 alpha one fully established at 10 miles good morning 6001 fully established rs280 tonight six out for one good morning surface one three three zero degrees seven knots how many two eight clears pluto and two a double take six over one we are clear to land checked i can select gear down flat checked that is you can do a flat four atlantic checklist flat four selected the b4 learning checklist 104 passing 2020 set 1014 cross checked for indicating okay ready approach this will rate to the final speed one three nine and two okay checked autopilot plus hundred chipped minimum contact 100 50 30 20 10. theater cr5 and siri about x604 zero five and zero copied the right side is free left is free air ball six six alpha one you may potentially give way to vacating acr traffic at s4 contact now one two one death fight bye-bye we will give way to the uh vacating adr and uh we'll contact round now one to one okay giving way to atr exactly so that is still about the land on the radio can't see and yes we can do meanwhile after landing sure right here i'll start the fpu crowd good morning baltic six alpha one we are on sierra we will give way to a landing and vacating atr at okay fine uh we'll continue on sierra whiskey two whiskey three about six it's just through the clouds now so yeah a little bit too enthusiastic okay so whisky 2 is partially open obviously until whisky 3 where we turn left and there we cross the runway just too slow next one is whiskey yeah and left the string excellent in a time where there's not much traffic you see all those aircraft here it's just crazy right side is free left is still free and we're crossing runway one six left across the runway itself is closed so um yep sure we are we just realized that thank you um it's the main chart with the parking lots instant karma exactly yes so before left the stream and apron 4 and romeo 1-1 311 so i continue to the right the left string so apron's four yeah and we've basically got the uh the stand inside they can see it it's by that uh uh-huh fuel truck which we didn't request so i go left here left to string yeah and i see the marshaller so you can switch off the taxi light taxable is okay parking brake is on and we can do the shutdown checklist shutdown checklist no steer off the ip or my control test is not required is complete thank you [Music] you

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Published: Fri Nov 27 2020