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General >> Hangar talks >> Three days in the life of a pilot https://www.captainsim.org/forum/csf.pl?num=1313860907 Message started by NNewcomb on Aug 20^th, 2011 at 5:21pm

Title: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by NNewcomb on Aug 20^th, 2011 at 5:21pm

Check out this video made by an American Airlines F/O: http://youtu.be/bYEllK8L5YM

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by boeing247 on Aug 20^th, 2011 at 6:20pm

Nice! That's pretty cool.

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by LOU on Aug 20^th, 2011 at 6:29pm

Too much like work! :P

Especially when your copilot is a dog!!!

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Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by boeing247 on Aug 21^st, 2011 at 5:25am

Hey, a dog is man's best friend. Which, if what you've said about the crap F/O's get from pilots, is not true for copilots. ;)

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by CoolP on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 11:00am

OMG, is he really flying that thing? �:o Classical 'dogfight' situation, huh?

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by boeing247 on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 5:24pm

Oh, lord... ;)

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by John007 on Aug 26^th, 2011 at 2:28am

nice video i agree OH LORD ;D

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by pj747 on Aug 26^th, 2011 at 2:52am

Cool video. My dad just finished his fifth Salt Lake City-Paris trip (3 days) i na row!! Thats all he did this summer. Three days, two flying, one in paris, gets to sleep on airplane.

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by Bret jsarena on Aug 29^th, 2011 at 12:30pm

Seriously GREAT video!!! Must appreciate your work!!! I am also feeling very nice after watching it!!

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by Sonoace on Aug 29^th, 2011 at 5:21pm

Wow. SLC to PAR? That's really long then. What plane did he fly? A330? :-?

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by pj747 on Aug 29^th, 2011 at 10:17pm

SLC-CGD (Charles de Gualle). Its a Boeing 767-300ER. Yes, its a long flight, takes them straight over Iceland. Due to Skyteam, Delta doesn't do LA-Paris, yet. He's doing another one today. Its a three day trip, high hours.

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by Sonoace on Aug 30^th, 2011 at 2:22am

Wow. The longest my Dad ever did was probably KTPA -> KSEA. Long though. I think just over 4 hr's depending on what model of the 737 he is flying.

Title: Re: Three days in the life of a pilot
Post by pj747 on Aug 30^th, 2011 at 3:54am

Ooo! Southwest's biggest plane is Delta's smallest! Hehehe...sorry, just had to.

The longest route Delta flies from Atlanta to Johannesburg, South Africa to Atlanta. The flight takes 17hr and 5min and covers 7,334nm. That route is operated by a Boeing 777-200LR, it is the fourth longest scheduled route, behind Newark and L.A to Singapore, by Singapore Airlines in an Airbus A340-500 and Sydney to Dallas in a Qantas 747-400ER.

The Johannesburg to Atlanta flight consists of four flight crew, each taking two breaks. There's two captains and two FOs (most airlines have three FOs and oen captain) but the seniormost captain is the PIC and responisble for the plane.