SIA328 comes to us from WSSS (Singapore) when arriving at EDDM (Munich)for a short stop to unload the German bound passengers and then continues on to EGCC (Manchester) to unload the rest of the passengers. Then SIA327 loads up at EGCC and does it all over again, only this time heading east.
SIA328 at gate 101 EDDM
EDDM to EGCC is an early morning two hour flight normally done in the 777-200ER but I have decided to do it in the PMDG 747-400 because Tom Goepel did an excellent version of their new livery for my favorite bird, just look his name up in the AVSIM library for some of his excellent repaint work.
I was reading too that SIA was phasing out it's 747 passenger fleet by 2012 so I wanted to fly one passenger leg in the 747 while they still do. I may get around to doing a leg in the 777 one of these days as I seen on the AVSIM forums that someone released a virtual cockpit texture upgrade to the PSS 777 I own.
Taxi to 26R at EDDM
Weather at EDDM was great this morning for flying with wind 300/04kts and cloud's 3'700 scattered at +16C. Using the GIVME5W departure off runway 26R. It was very bumpy on the way out and with the traffic over Europe in the early AM it took me a while to climb to my cruise altitude of FL380.
Line up and wait....
It was like a European tour as we passed over many of the larger European cities en route. Flying over Frankfurt, Brussels and London to name a few. Of course we encountered loads of traffic along the entire route keeping me busy on the radio and watching the PFD TCAS.
Other heavy traffic near EBBR
Just after passing over the city of London we started our way down to EGCC. Weather there was was a gusty 190/16kts with clouds 2'600 few and 2'900 scattered. I also noticed on the METAR that the wind at 5'000ft was 250/50kts and at 3'000ft 230/35kts!
Short final 23R at EGCC
Using the DAYNE2A arrival to runway 23R I hand flew the last 2'000ft or so as the Boeing auto pilot has no trouble with those changing winds. I floated it a bit and it carried me down the runway where I had to use manual braking so I would not miss my turn off.
Ramp area at EGCC
Just over 2hrs on the log for this leg. In the real world I imagine the crew would fly the return leg to EDDM and then call it a day, returning to WSSS the next day. I know Air Canada does this with their CYYZ-SCEL-SAEZ flight. And that gives me an idea for my next leg, maybe down in South America.
2 comments:
WOOT!!
Nice winds you got there, the approach must have been really fun.
Also, sweet taxi shot too, not the type we see often on the blog but very cool nontheless...
16C in Munich, huh? Still no summer for Bavaria...
Hey it was 7AM! +16C is a pretty good morning temp!
Tom's repaint is excellent, almost like a photo when you look at it in the sim. I had to get an exterior shot of her with those 3D taxi bridges at EDDM.
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