~*~B767-300ER Gulf Air LIRF - OMDB~*~

[tommchowat]

Hey chaps,
Long time no see! Have been in the USA doing a tennis course at the Nick Bolletieri school of tennis, which was pretty intense. Arrived back home a couple of days ago, and after reformatting my laptop and reinstalling FS, I decided to take this beautiful plane out for a ride. Sorry this is one of my long posts, so I apologize if I bore any of you. I hope you enjoy it!

Some info:

Flight: Gulf Air GF50 Rome Fiumicino (LIRF) RWY 25----> Dubai Intl (OMDB) RWY 30L
Cruise: Mach 0.79 @ FL290 step to FL330 step to FL370
Distance: 2,326nm
Equipment: Boeing 767-300ER

Planning and calculating aircraft loads and weights.
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B767-300ER Parked at Gate B6, 6:30am local time
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The overhead panel lights up when the battery is pressed in, starting the APU
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Flightplan has been put into the FMC, reviewing the legs. Fly runway heading, then ATC will clear us direct to LAT
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Pushed back
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Taxi checklist completed. Taxiing to active RWY 25 via Golf.
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Cleared to line up and wait. Wind is 225 at 10.
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Reviewing the takeoff reference. Flaps at 15, rotating at 152 today as we're full of passengers and fuel.
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Climbing out of the airport. Gear up.
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ATC clear us direct to LAT as advised. Light rain as we climb out.
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Reaching 10,000 feet. VNAV takes over.
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FL180. Things are still a bit bumpy, some building storms around. Will wait to switch the seatbelt signs off.
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Cruising at an initial FL290, M0.79
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A view of this beautiful office. How could anyone want to be anywhere else?
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Slightly later, we're now at FL300. Looking at the cruising VNAV info on the FMC. On the top right you can see that we're told to climb to FL370 in 877 miles.
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Start of the autodescent to Dubai Intl Airport
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Descent info on the FMC
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Visibility not fabulous as we get down to 10,000 feet. Landing lights on, seatbelts on, landing checklist ready.
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Reviewing the final approach info. Runway information for 30L, gross weight of the aircraft top left, flap settings and speed on the right. Fully flapped selected for today.
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Got the glideslope. What a beast :D
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Great view of Dubai whilst we're inbound ILS.
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Plane landing itself. Autobrakes at 3, speedbrakes armed to deploy on touchdown.
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Beautifully smooth touchdown with autoland. Reverse thrusting, spoilers up and autobrake doing it's job
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Slowing this animal down. The nice hot UAE sunshine beams down and reflects off the left engine :)
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Taxiing past the Bravo Concourse to found our gate, B12. APU now restarted
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Parked, fuel control cut. APU takes over power from here.
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That's it folks. Feel free to leave a comment if you have time!

[javelin]

Welcome back old chap and excellent shots!

Take care,

Cliff

[Jonathan744]

Very Nice!

Glad to see there are a few other precision flyers around here :D .

[PHCO]

Tom- "Long time no see! Have been in the USA doing a tennis course at the Nick Bolletieri school of tennis, which was pretty intense."
--> Hey,hey,hey - do we have another Pete Sampras here. ;) Sounds interesting - welcome back! :D

AWESOME SHOTS!

[Peer]

Wow, very nice Tom, fantastic pics!! See you at Wimbledon!

[Ryan Shaft]

Very nice!:9 Love the Gulf Air scheme!

[meine]

You don't bore me at all! :) Truly stunning shots :D scenery and plane as well ;)

[flyboy208]

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/Attachments/up1/83229.jpg

Top notch post Tom! Perhaps your best yet - all of the views here really make for a real good feel of your flight - Welcome back! :9

[A3330]

AWESOME SHOTS !!!
what is the departure aiport again
and where can u get the dxb scenerey

also< is there anytype of scenery that has a hangar which you can ctually go into ???


thanks

also does level d have us airways 767 ?

[davestan_ksan]

AUTOLAND??? PAAAH!!! lol, just kidding my friend, GREAT post!! love the details of the flight you show like the FMC and weight! you are a pro!!!

ohhh and congrats on the tennis school, Wimbledon presents TOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!! YAAAY!!

Cheers my friend!

take care,
dave

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[tommchowat]

Hey all you chaps :7
Thanks Cliff, Jonathan, Flo, Peer, Ryan, Meine, Mike, A3330 and Dave for taking the time to look!

Flo: Not quite Pete Sampras... maybe Andy Roddick! :) Thanks for looking!

A3330: The departure airport was LIRF Rome Fiumicino in Italy. The scenery is by ISD (can't remember the website) The Dubai scenery is FlyTampa (www.flytampa.com). I'm not sure whether Level-D have a US livery, check here: www.leveldsim.com

Dave: If I get to Wimbledon, you'll have a front row ticket! ;)

Thanks again everyone!

[LFPG_pilot]

superb post!
i still have trouble in using the FMC.. i m looking for easy tutorials.
Take care
Francois

[A3330]

thanks tom !

[tommchowat]

Thanks for your interest Francois!
In regard to you needing help with FMC's, most addon complex panel planes come with a tutorial flight... all you need to do is print this out and follow the instructions, it'll tell you everything you need to know about the FMC - and once you know how to program and FMC on one plane, it's pretty basic on the other, not a huge learning curve! The level-d tutorial flight can be found at flightsim.com

A3330 - No problem ;)

[MikeM]

Yawn.... Haha just kidding! There's no way this post is boring, some really incredible shots here Tom! :9 :9 While you're in Dubai, you should play tennis on the Burj al Arab helipad!
http://www.burj-al-arab.com/tennis/

[tommchowat]

Har! That's possibly the coolest tennis court I've ever seen! Thanks for showing it to me! I'm going there this instant.