A380 First Landing At SFO

Pilot's View: Airbus A380 approaching and landing at SFO

This is really worth watching.  Airbus A380 first landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)...800 plus passengers.

The pilots sat away from everything - no tinkering of the control panel's knobs and buttons.  The captain pulled up a keyboard once in a while to enter information but the plane itself did most of the work...

The humongous A380 made its first landing at SFO. It seemed that it was extensively automated. The air traffic controller gave the pilots heading, altitude and speed.  They simply dialled in the data and then waited for the landing. Pretty interesting!

For best results, go "full screen" on your monitor.  You will get the feeling as if you were in the cockpit.

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巨無霸空中巴士 A380 載著800多名乘客首次降落舊金山國際機場...，值得一看。

除了在空中俯覽三藩市的景色，在整個降落過程，還可以看到駕駛室內的一舉一動。機師看來很優閒，毋須忙碌地用人手來調校儀錶板上的按鈕來控制飛機降落，全程只須依照機場的空中交通控制員所發出的指示，輸入下降的方向、高度和速度，飛機便自動下降到指定的跑道上。它似乎是高度自動化的。 

最好用全螢幕來看，令你有置身在駕駛艙的感覺。