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The rudder positions are shown on one of the screens above the center console, AFAIK.

@@johanwilhelmsson1199 Ok, I can see it when I zoom in on that screen. Thanks!

@@birdman4274 She did not hear the frequency correction because I asked at the same time to extend the flaps to position 3.

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Yes I noticed. Just an observation. I think she responded 118 decimal 5 But got onto correct tower freq bit later on 👍👍

Good question. When the gear is extended, large gear doors are opening and closing during the process. Theses doors provide a huge amount of drag. When delaying the extension of the gear to 4 DME or so, we use this additional drag to slow the plane down. Also, flying the final approach in the A319 with gear down and flaps full until 4 DME would make way more noise, use more fuel and we would be very close to the maximum speed in this configuration. I did both variations of the approach several times. With an A321 it is very easy because of the high approach speeds. You can just configure the plane a little later than usual and everything is fine. With an A319 it is more difficult because of the low approach speed. The A319 is also a good glider and does not want to get slower.

Right? I never heard the landing clearance.

Yes, you missed it. We were cleared to land at 1:08:33. There were some issues with the audio recording during the final approach. This is the reason why it is very difficult to understand. I am sorry about the bad audio on final approach.

I see it now. Another great flight!

@@ApproachandDepartureVideos Okay, thank you very much for answering :)

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We can speak English or German. The crew decides which language they use. Sometimes, it is a mixture.

Mostly for the controllers. Pilots just need to concentrate on their callsign instructions and concentrate on their own flying.

@@birdman4274 Yeah the ATC was doing an excellent job. Us Passengers take it for granted!

I noticed this too. She misses the correction, contacts the tower controller handling take offs and has to be referred by him to the correct frequency. Possibly Heathrow tower sometimes operates on the single frequency of 118.5 and this is what she'd expected?

@paulmooney1655 She was also asked by the captain the set flaps 2 at the same time. It happens.

@@angussssy What you see here is something which happens to every pilot once in a while: He or she does not understand an ATC message correctly and changes to a wrong frequency. The frequency was corrected by ATC, but at the same time I asked her to do a configuration change of the flaps. To do this, she has to check for the speed and other things. It is noisy in the cockpit (For the videos, the noise is partly surpressed). Depending on her audio volume setting, it may have been very difficult to understand ATC in parallel to my request. Then she changed to the frequency. It was the other tower and they gave us the correct frequency. Everything calm, safe and professional. No need to worry or talk about. By the way: As professional pilots, we follow this guidline: First aviate, then navigate and then communicate. This was exactly what happened here.

Most important people. Without ground staff nothing happens.

Yes! Always amazed and impressed by how clear and concise their instructions are as well. They do an amazing job.

This is instead of the procedure done in the US. Across the pond they clear every aircraft that goes to tower to land almost immediately even if they are number 2 or 3. In Europe it's different. Land after is used in the UK where the runway is not clear but should be when they touch down and the controller is very busy.