Bremen-Heathrow on BA (Huge!)

[ChrisKilroy]

'Speedbird 9601' special charter from Bremen, Germany to Heathrow. British Airways doesn't operate this flight, but it was fun nonetheless.

An overview of the very busy Bremen Airport. This scenery ROCKS! Time is just before dawn, in snowy, misty conditions. Condor just finishing up being catered; preparing to depart.
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Our aircraft begins to board as Lufthansa sits at the gate, and another 737 obediently follows the "follow me" truck to its gate.
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A view from the other side of our aircraft.
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Finally ready to go about 25 minutes later. Jetway and airstairs being pulled away.
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Jetway now fully retracted, ready for pushback (now where's that damned TUG?).
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Taxiing out to Runway 09 at Bremen. The snowy edges of the taxiways and raised taxiway lights are a nice touch.
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Taking Runway 09 for departure.
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During the takeoff roll. Takeoff power is set, the auto-throttle has just gone from TO/GA to THR HLD, and our Flight Director bars command a healthy pitch-up attitude.
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Climbing above the overcast bound for Heathrow.
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Making our presence known to people below. Yep, FS2002 now supports contrails!
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Just completing the Channel crossing, overflying the Clackton VOR and turning toward Biggin VOR.
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View out the right side approaching London.
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Now THERE'S London! Getting ready to join the final approach course for 27L at Heathrow.
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Heathrow in sight. Airplane will be manually flown from this point on. Approaching glideslope capture.
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On about a 2 mile final for 27L.
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Approaching DH. Flight Directors are worthless.
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Over the threshold.
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Clearing Runway 27L and beginning taxi to gate 25.
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Safely parked at Gate 25, waiting for the damned gate agents to pull the jetway up to the plane. :D
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Chris

[AcePilot]

hey those are some cool shots .. i was wondering.. where did u get that scenery and how do those jetways accually work?

[RichmondAir]

Chris,
Nicely done. So nice to see stories of flights!


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[aken]

hey!
love that pics. thats just the kind of pictures i like to see.
bremen and heathrow are very nice with those updates.
soon i´ll also get that 737, really nice!

for the one who asked what scenery it was:
it is Gary Summer (i think thats his name), its a shareware, you can use it for 30 days before you have to pay. can be found at www.simflight.com and then go to fsharecenter.

just go to a gate, follow the indicators that shows how you must put your plane to stand right. then just set the parking brakes so the plane doesnt roll away. then the gates comes out to your aircraft. very simple.

ones again, keep does wonderful pics work up!

[Dave_West]

Hey Chris, we must have been making our identical flights about the same time! :-lol
Lovely series of photos, you have done Bremen better justice than I did in mine. Superb scenery isn't it?

I think I am going to have to purchase myself a Dreamfleet 737 aswell. I'm missing having an FMC in FS2002. Did you know that the BIG1E STAR is only very rarely used, when the LAM hold is full and they want to transfer some to BIG? Shouldda used the LAM3A like I did, but that's the beauty of sims I guess, you can do whatever you want ;-)

Best Rgds,Dave. :-wave

[Ravens]

Hey cool pixes well i already downloaded this scenery it is a great scenery but one thing is that this scenery didn't really fit well on the game because the AI traffic keeps landing off of the runaway not on it but the AI traffic dosen't land there a lot. Well wonderful pixes and keep up with the good work


Nick

[ChrisKilroy]

The included documentation clearly states (repeatedly) that the scenery is incompatible with the FS2002 AI traffic.

[Chriz_86]

Nice Pics!!!!
where did you get the scenery of heathrow from???
and why do you only use your wing tanks and not your centre tank? i know it isnt nescessery but just asking ;)
regards chris