B747 Landing Operations

This Tutorial Briefing will cover the Normal Landing Procedures of the B747-400 and B747-8 jet aircraft using the PMDG simulation model. Emphasis is on the stabilized approach concept, sight picture on landing, and flare technique to touchdown.

[@yt427395]

Thank you, Capt Al for your dedication and excellent work! I am a retired GA pilot of 15 yrs. Sold my plane years ago as I don't trust myself to stay on top of everything that goes on in the cockpit at age 78. But, I do enjoy flying the 747-400, and especially learning from you about the Queen of The Skies. Keep up the good work!

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Thank you Donald,appreciate the feedback. You may or may not be aware I have an airline type training course for virtual pilots. If interested, you can find more information at www.Patreon.com/subsonicflighttraining . For $10/month, $60 total over 6 months, it is very cheap for what you get…

[@lordrichard1998]

This video helped me out massively, thank you for this extremely informative video

[@proudbirther1998]

Thanks Capt Al for taking the time to make another very informative video!

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Your welcome Proudbirther, as long as I have people like you saying these are ok, I will keep making them. If I had everyone saying, way too long man, speed it up, then I would give a down and dirty version with not a lot of detail. But, I think the true Airline Flight Simmers appreciator learning more and interacting with the simulation to the fullest extent possible, thus enjoying it more..

[@markcardwell]

This video is awesome! Some chalk talk by a badass Boeing pilot then in the simulator with close looks at pfd and ND and out the window while on the coolest part of flying- the approach

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Thank you...

[@massimilianobazzocchi8056]

I just started watching! Great video! Thanks

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Your welcome Massimilliano...

[@lucascardinfranco2011]

Excellent

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Thanks Lucas...

[@jeffhiew5795]

Great video. I notice your manual landing is very stable, are there special settings for your flight stick?

[@mishmish1968]

Thanks so much that was helpful , i hope to see more videos if you are off work as corona going mad keep safe and all of your family too .

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Your welcome mishmish, yes I have 3 more to be released shortly on Hydraulics, Engine Start, and Missed Approaches. My work came to a screeching halt for April...

[@mishmish1968]

@@subsonicflighttraining So we're gonna be very lucky to have more content , looking forward to the next video.

[@wong2230]

Thanks

[@subsonicflighttraining]

My pleasure...

[@mjmqubesi]

Very helpful...one of the questions i've always asked is: What reference do pilots follow to adjust pitch when landing manually?

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Basically looking down the last 1/3 of the runway, judging your sink by listening to the call outs, and proper flare technique, which is admittedly feel born by experience...

[@liubolun]

The video that greatly helped me in improving my PMDG stick and rudder skill. Do you suggest aerodynamic braking or lowering the nose soon after touchdown?

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Excellent! We do not recommend aerodynamic braking or continuing to hold the nose off as long as possible. At the same time, you are not lowering the nose either. When you touchdown, you do hold a slight nose up pressure to prevent the nose from slamming into the ground, and then you are not continuing that back pressure, but allowing the nose to fall to the runway in a nice, controlled manner under its own weight. It is a feel thing that is developed when flying the jet.

[@SuperGrombi]

Normally in a landing with the pitch you control the Speed and with your Thrust you control your Sinkrate.

[@subsonicflighttraining]

This is an age old argument what controls what, in smaller airplanes you think of it the way you said, not in these heavy jets. Pitch controls your rate and Thrust controls speed. On final, if your speed is slightly fast and you increase the pitch to lower your speed, you go sailing quickly off the Glide Slope. You have to maintain your pitch to stay on the G/S, and squeeze off power to reduce speed. As your speed adjusts slowly, you will have to adjust your pitch slightly higher to stay on the G/S. They are inter-related, you change one, it affects the other. These heavy jets are very pitch dependent on controlling the rate you want...

[@SuperGrombi]

@@subsonicflighttraining Ah, okay. I don't know, that it is this way with the big jets. I just know it from my PPL in the Cessna. Thanks for your explanation :-)

[@OrionRox]

Hello Capt, thank you so much for these high quality videos! I have a question regarding the pitch altitude with PMDG 748: do you think the pitch altitude is a bit too high with PMDG 748? I just checked the QRH and it says with around 700000lbs on 3 degrees glideslope the pitch altitude should be around 0.5 degree, however, I don't think I've ever seen 0.5 pitch altitude in PMDG 748, most of the time is around 2.5 degrees. Same in your video 11:56 and 14:02. So my question is, it it too high? Or it's normal in 748 with this weight stable on a 3 degree glideslope with 2.5 degress pitch altitude? Thank you.

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Hi James, yes it is too high, usually at VRef 30 + 5 knots at that weight, it is around 1 degree is what I recall...

[@firebird2186]

Hey there cap! was doing some research for couple days on the pitch attitude of 747 -400/8 during short finals with ref+5 approach speed. In the real world scenario i see (Most of the time) that the nose is pretty leveled while on GS with ref+5 , its hardly in a nose up attitude and during touch down the pilots just flare around 2-3 (max) degrees. however with pmdg 74 it's already around 2.5 degrees pitched up with ref+5 on GS and an "exaggerated" ,as you said, flare needs to be done to confirm a descent touchdown. What is causing this discrepancy? is the pmdg product poorly modelled? Or is it something to do with the CG/ headwind component?

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Most of the time the pitch varies from 1/2 degree at lower weights to 1 degree at heavier weights, so 2.5 seems pretty high to me on final with Flaps 30, if you were landing with Flaps 25, the pitch would be around 2 degrees on final...

[@mpggv8368]

it would be very much appreciated if a vid on programming the fmc could be made very soon, in the same good qaulity as above.

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Under Flight Management System, I have a video tutorial for the FMS-CDU Preflight which takes you through the steps for programming the necessary data to allow for LNAV and VNAV Operation…

[@subsonicflighttraining]

Here is the link for that… kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4TGcoSJg9uLbLc

[@mpggv8368]

thanks, will take careful note - a good overview is important and will be appreciated.

[@reannav2241]

what is the number of percent trim For?

[@subsonicflighttraining]

I think you are referring to the % trim on the Takeoff Reference Page. Final Weight and Balance will come up with a Center Of Gravity based on % MAC (Mean Aerodynamic Chord). This is used to calculate (by the FMC) the trim in units that the pilot can set of takeoff so that control forces are optimized during liftoff...