A380 Hudson Fysh comes home to SYD Tuesday 9th November

[Mrmaxwell]

It’s go time…

 

[jase05]

The plan shows waypoints of the flight's route, each one has unique alpha codes.. that's why it probably does not make a lot of sense, but av geeks would know. eg: MOLLY is located in the Philippines. while TARAAL is at Greenwich Park, on the North Shore of Sydney.

There's other data such as planned flight levels and so on, but hopefully that explains it in very much layman's terms (stop laughing, jb! )

I’d actually be interested in seeing that flight plan deciphered

 

[Franky]

The plan shows waypoints of the flight's route, each one has unique alpha codes.. that's why it probably does not make a lot of sense, but av geeks would know. eg: MOLLY is located in the Philippines. while TARAAL is at Greenwich Park, on the North Shore of Sydney.

There's other data such as planned flight levels and so on, but hopefully that explains it in very much layman's terms (stop laughing, jb! )

Thanks, I get your drift…

 

[NickCorr]

Thanks, I get your drift…

I went here;

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and pasted in the flight plan. Shows all the waypoints on a map.

 

[Ktan89]

Damn it! wasn't lucky enough to see it land at Syd.
Looks like it's coming in from the West

 

[Pele]

Damn it! wasn't lucky enough to see it land at Syd.
Looks like it's coming in from the West

Bugger. I am also on my balcony hoping it was arriving from the north.

 

[Ktan89]

Bugger. I am also on my balcony hoping it was arriving from the north.

It just didn't a West to East fly by..

Not sure if it will go north or south. Hopefully NORTH.

Maybe it's going to swing around the city.. and the harbour and land from the north

 

[Pele]

It just didn't a West to East fly by..

Not sure if it will go north or south. Hopefully NORTH.

Maybe it's going to swing around the city.. and the harbour and land from the north

Yep I can see him now

 

[OATEK]

Flew over the airport, will land from the north and there are several TV News helicopters lurking over the harbour to catch the final approach.

Edit: Looks like they have permission to fly west over the harbour! Maybe landing on 07?

 

[Big John]

Looks like it flew past the Harbour Bridge for well deserved photo op.

 

[Ktan89]

Yup this heli going into position to capture the landing from the west after the bridge flyby.

 

[OATEK]

Live on Channel 9 online, coming in to 07.

 

[Kendall Roy]

Welcome home big fella!

Never thought I'd see you again.....

 

[coriander]

18hr47m according to FlightRadar24

 

[jb747]

Re the flight plan… DCT means direct, so not on an airway. Basically you go to a waypoint, then track along an airway to another waypoint. So, for example NERIG Y343 ASKOR, means that you joined the Y343 airway at NERIG, and you’ll get off at ASKOR. F330 etc is the planned altitude. The last number 1839 is the planned flight time.

This is only a small part of the complete plan as given to the pilots, and is only related to the route as given to ATC. Manually loading it into an FMC would give you the complete route, but would also include dozens of other waypoints which are on the complete plan. The nav plan also includes fuel burn by leg, safety heights, etc, and then there is a fuel and weight planning section. So, no, you won’t find 250 tonnes in this section, simply because ATC don’t care how many tonnes you have.

 

[Franky]

Re the flight plan… DCT means direct, so not on an airway. Basically you go to a waypoint, then track along an airway to another waypoint. So, for example NERIG Y343 ASKOR, means that you joined the Y343 airway at NERIG, and you’ll get off at ASKOR. F330 etc is the planned altitude. The last number 1839 is the planned flight time.

This is only a small part of the complete plan as given to the pilots, and is only related to the route as given to ATC. Manually loading it into an FMC would give you the complete route, but would also include dozens of other waypoints which are on the complete plan. The nav plan also includes fuel burn by leg, safety heights, etc, and then there is a fuel and weight planning section. So, no, you won’t find 250 tonnes in this section, simply because ATC don’t care how many tonnes you have.

Thanks , appreciate that...

 

[justinbrett]

The plan shows waypoints of the flight's route, each one has unique alpha codes.. that's why it probably does not make a lot of sense, but av geeks would know. eg: MOLLY is located in the Philippines. while TARAL is at Greenwich Park, on the North Shore of Sydney.

There's other data such as planned flight levels and so on, but hopefully that explains it in very much layman's terms (stop laughing, jb! )

Waypoints are actually not unique so there's more than one MOLLY (eg, there's another near El Paso, Texas) and more than one TARAL (another near New Delhi, India). Same deal with the 2/3 letter waypoints which represent a VOR or NDB transmitter, they are also reused - but with huge distances between them so it shouldn't cause a problem.

It's all in context to the air routes you are using, and if you are using points DCT you'll be asked to confirm from a list with the lat/lons specified.

There's actually both a HOOKS and a NOBAR near SYD and also near AKL - theoretically you could have the same waypoint in your flightplan twice referring two two different sets of coordinates.

 

[Rangalad]

New Enhancement.

Simpler and fairer.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Happy to see that Fysh came home! And somewhat appropriate the first to come home in the hopefully post health crisis future. For those who know their QF history, he was instrumental in keeping the airline flying through WW2 and remain intact without losing control of all assets to the military effort. Though obviously they did lots for the war effort (and so did their people including those lost).

 

[jb747]

Waypoints are actually not unique so there's more than one MOLLY (eg, there's another near El Paso, Texas) and more than one TARAL (another near New Delhi, India).

If you type a waypoint in to the FMC, it offers the choices, sorting them by distance. 999 times out of a thousand, the closest is the one you want. There was an accident in the early days of electric jets (a 767 I think), in which they chose the wrong one, and found a large hill in the way.

For this flight, the navigation flight plan was 9 A4 typed pages, and the NOTAMs and other messages, were 39 pages.