Visual Approaches done RIGHT - Your guide to the most efficient A320 approaches! | Real Airbus Pilot

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[@purrple.shadows]

You know, your channel has become one of my favorites. Quality videos always!

[@A330Driver]

Thank you so much, I love to hear it!

[@akatsos]

I wouldn't have learnt the A320 so well if it weren't for you. You're invaluable, Emmanuel. We all can't thank you enough :)

[@A330Driver]

Thank you!

[@matthew414347]

"No! No terrain ahead! We're perfectly fine". Why did I find this so funny!? (also: thanks for an informative video!)

[@What_If_We_Tried]

Appreciate all your help for the flight sim community. Thanks for another great tutorial.

[@737sst]

Nice video. Would love to see one for a visual approach with the 737 as well. Very informative.

[@conaly082]

Thanks for using my Discover livery in your video. Glad you like it :)

[@A330Driver]

Completely love it! Danke dir für das tolle Paint!

[@thebrokenpilot]

Thank you for the content! Very useful as always.

[@TWCHHK]

Very enjoyable to watch as usual, thank you!

[@razorseal]

This was great! Thanks!!!

[@B_Aviation]

Nice one, I was always wondering how to do this one, this helped a lot, thanks for your knowledge.

[@Manuel-9-]

Nice video Emi!

[@geoffh2560]

Well you made that look easy! Really interesting to hear the guidance on a visual approach - I've seen a couple of planes doing this into Lanzarote GCRR, and it looks a lot more fun than a long drawn-out ILS approach.

[@baomao7243]

Wonderful approach and landing. Excellent. (Please show us more Caribbean!)

[@A330Driver]

Thank you! Curaçao coming soon!

[@simoxmino]

Love it!!

[@st3pn56]

This guy butters every landing like its nothing lol

[@A330Driver]

Haha, well, thank you 😄

[@MichalBystrowski]

I think he is a pilot

[@baomao7243]

⁠@@A330Driver Out of curiosity, do you personally also use the “3 seconds per 100 ft altitude” heuristic in GA aircraft ? (From my GA piloting experience, that sounds long…maybe because GA can make tighter turns? … but i am willing to learn!)

[@raminnaserioskouie655]

😂😂😂.

[@Przemek0011]

Masterclass

[@mikecoffee100]

Frohe Weihnachten

[@eunomercy]

Nice video!!! Do you always enter patteren in visual from downwind? Or what about entering patteren from base or even long final?

[@BraydenMorsey]

Hey emi great video as per usual i only have one question to bother you with do you use fs realistic becuase i have it but havent used in like a month

[@reticentsimmer]

1. Do you have tutorial on winter/cold weather ops in the 737NG? 2. Is there ever a case where the pitot heat needs to be turned on before engine start in the 737NG?

[@737sst]

I understand that the Probe/Pitot Heat switches are selected to ON after engine start-up. Supplementary Procedures 16 for Cold Weather Operations clearly state to put them on after the preflight procedure. Refer to the FCOM for proper procedure.

[@wilddoktor]

Any chance you could show how to do this in the HondaJet? I got an instruction on VATSIM the other night that said "Cross 30 miles South of Eugene (KEUG) at One Zero Thousand". I was northbound, FL280, with the rnav z 16L programmed in, and...had no idea how to comply. :-) So a G3000 tutorial would be awesome!

[@vmtias]

thanks for this video, really liked it!! Just one thing that i didn't get is why did you choose 1900' fisrt and then by seeing the chart you chose 1600', could you explain what made you took that decision, i think that's the only thing that i need to get this done :D!

[@njyde]

Great video! If you ask for a visual approach, won't ATC assume you want vectors for a straight-in visual approach?

[@A330Driver]

No, that would remove the sense of the visual. The entire idea is to shorten the route ATC could give you. Usually they’ll bring you in a position where you can see the field and then you go in your own way.

[@acnumber7]

Similar to LFKC Calvi approach, runway 36

[@TomKeen1704]

Diese Discover Anspielung ;) i love it gutes Video weiter so 👍

[@A330Driver]

Danke 😄

[@flyingpedal]

Thank you again for this video which answers some questions I had. I would like to clarify one point: what is the minimum parallel distance to respect from the runway for this type of approach or in the situation of go around?

[@A330Driver]

Minimum distance is your turn radius, which in turn depends on your speed. At typical jet speeds 2,5NM works nicely and gives you a good base as well.

[@flyingpedal]

@@A330Driver Nice! I take more than 45 seconds to thank you 😁

[@bobbyb3503]

But what do you do if you are not in a position to join the downwind? e.g you are vectored 90° to the runway and already a mile behind the threshold when being cleared? Any tips, techniques for a "freestyle" visual without the pattern?

[@klappspaten3211]

The only reason that you programm in an RNAV Approch is to have an vertical indication, right ? Of course the same with an ILS . But neither is a prerequisite ?

[@A330Driver]

I put the RNAV in simply because I needed an approach programmed, it could literally have been any other. You could also just select the runway without any approach in the FMS. Just make sure that your landing runway is in at all so that GS Mini will work.

[@smash_1389]

What if we are cleared for visual approach but for a straight in landing, or something different than normal pattern? Can you explain how we can determine altitudes, speeds, rate of decent, etc.. Thanks! :)

[@A330Driver]

Hi, then you just have to adapt. See where you are and what makes sense. If you can join a base some 4-5NM out that’s perfect, if you rather join final directly that’ll also work. Don’t bother too much with vertical speeds and stuff, aim for a 3 degree profile (your VNAV will tell you a path for reference if you extend the centerline), primary reference however is the look out of the plane. Look for the PAPI and establish on it. Extend the gear and flaps per normal schedule (distance info is available from the FMS).

[@smash_1389]

@@A330Driver Thank you :)

[@mrmisterno1]

What happens if you're too high on profile when you get the runway in sight? Is it a requirement to fly a traffic pattern with the standard altitudes when shooting a visual approach? A lot of arrivals and approaches brings you in rather high and if the cloud base is low you might be too high to make downwind at 1500 ft.

[@A330Driver]

You can always fly further out. 3 seconds per 100ft above aerodrome will bring you in perfectly. But remember: You have to have the runway in sight to even leave the published profile (or ATC vector you might be on.

[@georgiostsolis1339]

I have a question Captain. You do always fly a circuit when doing a visual approach or is it possibel also to fly straight in visual?

[@A330Driver]

You can fly visuals from any given position where you can see the field. Using the circuit adds structure to it though. But if you’re approaching on a direct track anyway then by all means just go straight in.

[@ejpilot3725]

Why is the approach blocks now purple but green?

[@A330Driver]

I'm pretty sure you could even order them in rainbow colors if you just paid Airbus enough money. Jokes aside though (pun intended), as far as I'm aware it's actually a customer option. You can choose the color. Or maybe it changed over the life of the airframe and newer versions had some changes implemented. I could imagine both.