Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 - spectacular flight over Greenland en route to Los Angeles

A must-see flight taking us from Frankfurt via Greenland, Canada and Northern USA to Los Angeles.
Brilliant weather conditions all along the routing with clear skies and spectacular views of the eternal ice landscapes of Greenland plus amazing approach and landing footage in Los Angeles.
Flight time was 11 hours and 35 minutes.
Aircraft: D-ABYH
Date: September 28 2014

[@sunking2001]

No matter how you look at it...air flight is a miracle.

[@PaktiawalZazai]

lmao

[@sunking2001]

That's all you have to say?...lmao? C'mon man...you're capable of a little bit more...aren't you?

[@PaktiawalZazai]

hahaha i laughed cause i was kinda agree with you. i was watching this and i was like, how heavy this shit is and how many people it can carry from one place of the planet to the other. :)

[@Chazii]

I agree

[@ghostkill13]

Honestly it is man. Crazy how it works and how it was discovered. We would be 100 years behind in world advancement if it wasnt for Airplanes

[@karg_z]

747....is still the queen of the skies......this aircraft's track record and legacy will never be match up with......

[@ShivamKumar-rn4mp]

Indonesia n Ethiopian i think u forgot

[@daquavioushornswoggledilly1553]

I think the 747 is the KING of the skies, not a380

[@BernardBethea6339]

Not even the new Boeing haters can depuit that but they will find a way to do it

[@sidhuprakash1949]

Really huge concentration of civilization is LA

[@viktorvasilik5477]

Yes, the 747 is the queen of the skies, and the Airbus A380 is King!

[@krasnodar3641]

Spectacular view from the greatest passenger plane ever. It will be a sad day when the last 747 disappears from the skies.

[@phil123711]

We need lots of 747-8's.

[@fpo1964]

Beautiful video no clumsy music, no incorrect edits, no camera jerks, "really made me feel as though i took this flight from Frankfurt to LAX " I think that is the top most accolade you can receive protyreus in the world of virtual aviation.

[@kevingray7917]

Absolutely

[@Zeczam]

With such an amazing view, of the world below and those engines - who needs in flight entertainment?

[@protyreus]

fully agreed !

[@69Phuket]

You always get the order to pull the blind down: Orders are meant to be broken...But never on Lufthansa!

[@user-bs6ps8tt7f]

Protyreus HD World

[@allanbrito7185]

who flights in the night and can't enjoy this view :(

[@69Phuket]

Maybe the pilots see UFO's increasingly or they want to hide the chemtrail planes?

[@ShadowHawk4219]

Oh that was a beautiful ride, what a well done vid. Brings back memories of being in roughly the same seat, on one of those magnificent beasts, the majesty of all that power as you take off lifting all that plane, fuel, people, baggage, looking like you are barely moving when you are up high as you look at the beautiful Earth below, the reality of how fast you are moving when you move through spotty clouds, and finally, the marvel of how the plane maneuvers with the engines revving up and down, the banking and positioning to line up with the runway, and the realization of how fast you are really moving as you get a few hundred feet off the ground, and finally the respect and admiration to those who designed, built, pilot,and maintain and guide these beasts down safely. I have nothing but respect and admiration to all of the people involved, from start to finish. Just beautiful.

[@iRxyanDestinygtaandmoreL]

im downloading the sound of this video just so i can sleep listening to those beautiful engines

[@marcuskramer3514]

I couldn't believe how beautiful Greenland and Iceland are from the air. I had the privilege of being on a flight on a ridiculously clear day. We could see probably twice as far as shown in the video. The contrast in color between the deep blue ocean and the white of Greenland was breathtaking. I was amazed by the number of huge icebergs that were freshly calved off the tip of one of the massive glaciers.

[@rodrigocarvalhobra]

One of the most beautiful videos about flying i've ever seen on youtube. Congrats!!

[@dceballos067]

That route is truly majestic.

[@kastenmuller4003]

ok

[@kastenmuller4003]

ok

[@Wixom2200]

Yes!!!!

[@roysmith5293]

It’s like I’ve gone all around the world without leaving my house

[@flightcruiser1]

Iceland is green and Greenland is ice...

[@holasoyalejandro9822]

because it was green in the past when the vikings came to settle there but its a misnomer because 80% of the island is ice

[@opaldix]

D2: The Mighty Ducks

[@anwalborn]

...because fuck logic

[@msclipspro]

Haha I thought the same xD

[@rudiechinchilla6746]

Haha , it seems there s something wrong with those names, u re right !!

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

I LOVE flying the polar route when going from Europe to the U.S. and home -- it's great and faster!

[@frankdavis7590]

Today I recalled flying over Greenland as a child and marveling at the flawless sheets of ice and snow and the endless mountainous vista through the window. I just had to relive that experience :)

[@muhammadsaeed-pw5vz]

It looks like Greenland covered with blanket of snow. Landscape marvelous thanks for uploading. I wish everyone enjoy ones flight

[@decodeddiesel]

I have taken the flight from Frankfurt to Denver on a 747-400, and I remember the scenery being very similar to what you filmed. The vastness, the shear emptiness of the arctic is really something to behold. It makes you feel very small. Every now and then you see a trace of man, but most of the time it's just nothing. Completely untouched. You really are on the edge of the world there. Also I have to say, what an amazing machine the 747 is.

[@KoT-ew2dk]

this route does not go through the arctic, but planes fly. how is this possible?

[@xythras]

The depicted route is inefficient and improbable on a Globe model. But on a Plane Earth model, it makes all sense: as the shortest distance between 2 points is the straight line. Media always gaslights viewers depicting a route very curved to the north, almost parabolic, when the straight line (use whenever possible in transportation) has, in practice, a very minimal deviation from straightness.

[@openseas11]

Just look how beautiful and calm the Earth is without human pollution, garbage and traffic. The pure untouched snow and ice without a single footprint or tire marks. Love it.

[@brkitdwn]

Jimi J yes but it's still being drenched with co2

[@gregoryvierra6114]

But yet you are part of the problem and not the solution, right? How is your carbon footprint doing, Jim?

[@AmericaWest90]

I fell asleep during the cruise sections. The GEnx-2B is the best in the world at doing just that. Long live the Queen!

[@clmco36]

In my opinion the Boeing 747 is the best passenger plane ever created! I hope the 747 is manufactured forever

[@Odontomango]

They stopped it :( Last 747 has been built.

[@Gabrie177]

Thank you for such great video, I was watching this at full screen with the headphones on, I thought I was in the plane itself and fell asleep... wow simply amazing how quiet the engines are on the 747-8 ... much quiet than the A380 .... way to go Boeing

[@javierluque1378]

GEnx engines are quiet.. the 747-8 & 787 have these engines.. i can hear a mild growl as the 747-8 takes off comparing to the 787..

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

Sure, we have the Airbus and a couple of others in the world that carry more passengers today, but the Boeing 747, all of the series, still takes the prize in the skies!

[@Gethaiify]

Much quiet than the A380 ? you have never been in A380 ! But I agree, 747 is great plane , more class than A380 but make more noise than A380

[@helthuismartin]

What an amazing planet whe live on.

[@timurflorescu8379]

helthuismartin and its sad that we are destroying it

[@aluandjalal1324]

@@timurflorescu8379 You’re dumb my dear

[@nyer070]

@@aluandjalal1324 so are you

[@tommozzarella2671]

Its a plane _ minus the t

[@Wixom2200]

Yes. Give credit to Jehovah God the creator who has given this beautiful planet to us.

[@andrewpippa5590]

I'm contemplating the natural beauty of Greenland to this flight's destination: no comparison. What man has wrought!

[@stokerwieczorek969]

This is proof that we need to preserve our earth’s climate as much as possible.

[@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime]

Human induced catastrophic climate change is a Marxist hoax.

[@fromnorway643]

@@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime *_You_* are a Marxist hoax.

[@ivanrincon9964]

Fascinating and spectacular beauty! !!

[@jamesrobinson6382]

I remember traveling this route and seeing this incredible sight many years ago. I was so awed that I stared until my eyes started to hurt. I have crossed the Atlantic about 50 times and flight still amazed me. What a planet!!!

[@mw01720]

Flew LH423 and 754 and their return flights this summer on the -8 and it was a truly amazing experience. I picked seats over the back part of the wing so I could watch the control surfaces as we flew.

[@FunFunFun8888]

Beautiful Boeing 747 first started in 1969 and still flying today!! Some747 flying are 35 years old and yet the A380 are all being scrapped before they even reach 10 years of age!!

[@dunkdisord3r420]

Wow cant describe it. Completely amazing

[@protyreus]

Jose Sánchez thanks very much Jose

[@tanjatkocz148]

+Protyreus HD World hey i fly with you in this plane thats a good landing i flying with Ali

[@maryjohnson4039]

Thankyou for a beautiful video. Enjoy our Mother Earth day tomorrow 4/22/19.

[@pierrede3977]

Fantastic, thank you for this beautiful and great pictures, it remember me when i go also to LA, it was in 2013, i make a trip in Harley Davidson, USA are great

[@Serj001]

How wonderful to see For 11 hours of flight all seasons of summer, autumn, winter, spring And again summer, just super.

[@michaelmesolellaesq]

This was really great, no goofy music, no bad narration, great great video, great sound.

[@maxburgess7040]

This really shows how there really ARE beautiful and untouched places left in this world, despite all the bad things that are reported every day. I've always wanted to fly over the polar regions. I've been to Alaska and let me tell you it is truly AMAZING but the best way to see it is from the air. Great video! Ill bet being on the 747-8 was nice too! :)

[@strafrag1]

Great video. Most of us will never get to see Greenland. Excellent video. Thanks.

[@donaldclifford5763]

Looks like an alien planet. Easy to "read" the geology.

[@nicklas7174]

Haha i live in greenland

[@ahmedj.naseem8823]

strafrag1 kxkxi

[@totosukatendel8656]

@@nicklas7174 Please let us know some info related to Greenland, tq

[@Videokeizah]

The most beautiful flight video on youtube.

[@laeequenadvi4746]

Spectacular views of the eternal ice landscapes of Greenland, amazing approach and landing footage in Los Angeles. Thanks

[@SLine992]

Possibly the best inflight video i have watched.. amazing job well done!

[@protyreus]

many thanks for your feedback, much appreciated

[@97loren]

Wonderful landscape for amazing view !

[@protyreus]

+97loren I was lucky to fly on an unsual clear day over Greenland

[@georgeworsfold2068]

Great view over Greenland. LA is huge!

[@jt1903]

Watching from Brazil! Hopefully one day I'll be looking at these beautiful places around the globe from above. Fantastic views! I can't wait for my time to come.

[@kennethhoffman8845]

I made a similar flight from London to Denver. When the scenery gets as hostile as this, you hope everyone who built the plane and the crew that is flying it know how to do their job.....

[@jorca2367]

Ali Frazier An accident in such a place must be terrible !

[@Sammakko7]

Nope

[@AshleyPomeroy]

+Ali Frazier I remember the whole "4 engines 4 long haul" thing - that was for the A340, but you can imagine it applying here.

[@robertfeher6136]

Lufthansa + Boeing = best combination to ensure safety.

[@kevingray7917]

I checked your KZbin profile for the video and it isn't there.

[@bobbypaluga4346]

Thank you, great video of a beautiful aircraft, incredible scenery

[@constructionfreak3158]

I have been on this route several times... and also had an opportunity to have window seat. Thanks for refreshing those memories. Great Video.

[@charlesjenkins6006]

Incredible view of Greenland/Iceland. Truly magnificent. LA is a big city and we didn't see the Valley.

[@gansdavid]

This was a stunning video.. I watched it twice.

[@kastenmuller4003]

ok

[@kastenmuller4003]

ok

[@gansdavid]

@@kastenmuller4003 ?

[@SteveWard3928]

Wow!! An absolutely beautiful video. Great work!! A definite thumbs up!! I take it those are ice bergs in the water and not boats or ships. Flew to Los Angeles about 3 weeks ago........NEVER again.

[@brammachiels2755]

Crazy to think that it's an ancient landscape completely desolated and untouched by humankind. Absolutely stunning!

[@osrodrig]

Spectacular and breathtaking icy views.

[@natpr13]

This is spectacular. OFFICIALLY! Amazing veiw! Amazing scenery! Stunning!

[@VmarcogV]

747 is the best!

[@paulwalker1443]

A common approach over the San Fernando Valley, then east and southeast with a big western sweep into LAX. Really highlights the expanse of LA.

[@Mark-sj5et]

I must say, this has got to be the most entertaining of these type of videos

[@kadircetin8792]

Gerçekten çok güzel bir çekim Teşekkürler,Sehr schöne Aufnahmen vielen Dank.Thank you very much for wonderfull video

[@s_h136]

Loving the 747-8i

[@daquavioushornswoggledilly1553]

I too

[@jisdarc]

Came back again to enjoy this stunning views...!!

[@chittagong1234]

Breath taking spectacular scene over Greenland, engines so powerful but yet very quiet....Awesome video , thanks for posting.....

[@apieceofdirt4681]

Damn!!! What a sweet looking Boeing 747-800. She sounds so graceful!!! I would love to fly on one of those new planes but I'm really to chicken shit.

[@robertracy6860]

@Marty McFly vehicles are usually referred to as she, boats, cars, planes

[@kittyNya38]

Marty McFly Because she’s the queen of the sky

[@Saa42808]

LA is really huge city.

[@shikaloba5928]

Its not all LA

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

3 milion i think but metropolian 12-13

[@mjt2231]

m 74 more like 18 million

[@luisyadri71]

@@shikaloba5928 almost all it's LA

[@alexluke84]

The sheer size of area is hugeee...thousands of square miles

[@milenkopastaljon]

Nisam se nikad vozio avionom i drago mi je sto sam vidio ovaj snimak. Hvala

[@rogerstuder3680]

Thank you very much ! It was like Holiday to me. Just fantastic! Thanks.

[@sadisadihotmailcom]

One of the best video i've ever seen

[@miriyo75]

Wonderful video! Thanks for uploading!

[@helpstopanimalabuse8153]

Great that you omitted the boring taxi to the runway & just started at the takeoff. Awesome video

[@Olant.]

Worlds best Views from Airplane Ever ! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks for the Video ! 😊💪👍

[@dottoreeff]

Großartig ! Thanks for posting !

[@yamahabradley]

About 15 years ago I was returning to Toronto Canada aboard a Air Canada A340 Airbus and the APU failed which forced the pilot to fly a more Northerly route over greenland. While we were over the west coast I spotted a (what I thought was a huge iceberg, with a lake in the center of it). Two days later there is a picture in the paper of what they said was the largest iceberg seen in years (it was 7Kms by 11Kms long) Neat!!

[@smvanwers6300]

Correct. APU stands for Auxiliary Power Unit, they're located at the very tail end of the air planes.

[@totosukatendel8656]

@@smvanwers6300 What is APU fuction, if misfuction why the plane fly northerly.? Tq

[@smvanwers6300]

@@totosukatendel8656 I explained what the APU does. Why the change in flight direction, I cannot answer that.

[@nazeeham5187]

Thank you for taking us with you in this wonderful trip of yours...so spectacular!

[@gaatutube]

Such a pristine place !! Beautiful Flight. Greenland is full of ice and Iceland is full of green.

[@JeffGR4]

Thanks a lot for this fantastic upload-I absolutely love the gorgeous 747-8!!!!

[@abu760036]

Beautiful scenery

[@hotelgulf]

Such raw natural beauty. Stunning. Also loved the LA approach. A wonderful “unnatural” place. Thanks! 🌞😎

[@gcoudert]

I experienced these views en route to Las Vegas from London and they are truly stunning. I had to the States six times before that but Greenland was cloudy every time. Thanks for sharing!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Love those engines winding up! Sounds fantastic! Sadly there aren't any 747-8s that fly to Australia so I think I'd need to fly to Hong Kong to catch one (I've spotted Lufthansa's 748 a few times when transiting there). Greenland looks amazing too! Thanks for the video! 'Liked' and 'subscribed' :)

[@07willows]

Fabulous video: simply stunning. I was totally captivated. Thanks for sharing.

[@bigtoptheclown5713]

Spectacular Video! I have flown over the Artic Circle from France to Los Angeles on Lufthansa 747, but I wasn't able to get a window seat. So awesome!

[@dharmendramalhare7398]

Very very very big city I have ever seen so for.... This city includes the whole world. Miracle bro!!!!

[@murraymint1775]

Boeing 747-8 Beautiful airplane!

[@lillyvalley65]

Muito legal! Já voei num jumbo 747 da British Airways. É simplesmente fantástico voar nesses gigantes dos céus.

[@caseymcgreen1845]

33 years ago, I flew the same route, and the plane was the same type, very nice Memory

[@blakebrown5189]

I flew the LAX -> Paris CDG route in the AF-A380 and I woke up at one point as we were flying over Greenland and it was the most surreal landscape I have ever seen. Truly breathtaking and beautiful and it felt like I was looking at this truly magical place...I'd gone to sleep somewhere over North Dakota and woke up again over Iceland and it was a different world. I think it was the most spectacular view I've seen on a passenger jet flight, up there with the Grand Canyon / Hoover Dam area (I think driving through Utah was the most spectacular landscape I've seen from ground-level....truly unreal).

[@wvlekker]

Awesome and incredibly beautiful.

[@HEZNAH]

Wow, amazing, beautiful trip, interesting video, very interesting footage, amazing photography at RP 3.50, you are creative.

[@747-pilot]

Wow!!!! what a lucky guy you are! To get such a fantastic seat with that killer VIEW of the engines in all their glory, as well as the killer scenery below all in one, and the fact that the weather cooperated so well with no haze etc to ruin the view. ;-) ...thanks for posting the video and letting us live vicariously through you :-)

[@sixstring5630]

Thank you for sharing this on-board video, it's the best I've seen, by far.

[@jsgermany3955]

Wow! This Video is ... SO BEAUTIFUL!!! Spectacular views of white mountains and icebergs in the water. And finally a wonderful approach and very good touchdown in LAX. Like the view of the rotating GEnx - Engines too. Thx for sharing with us, Protyreus! Greets from Germany, Mister X.

[@FSXMultiplayerforum]

Amazing! Brings back old memories, I made that trip in 1990.

[@khanspiro]

FSXMultiplayerforum my birth year

[@ctPPONGPONG]

just wow, absolute beautiful views, that's why I always pick the windowed seat up

[@borey123xx9]

Incredible being able to see somewhere so remote, cold and brutal while being snuggled up drinking coffee

Breathtaking landscape! Amazing video! Thanks!

[@robihart15]

That was cool, felt real after a while!👍

[@spider2666]

One of my favourite ever vids, keep coming back to it and rewatching over and over

[@J_131]

Paris to Los Angeles also puts you over Greenland. It is such a sight to see! It's truly spectacular!

[@davidzavesky3677]

super video and super boeing 747

[@ltdowney]

Greenland is so beautiful from the air. We should all be thankful to see it as it is now. It may not remain this way in our lifetimes. 😟

[@StevenOBrien]

Agreed, I'm happy to see a passenger 747 while I still can.

[@LHStarAlliance]

😂

[@ivanvides3038]

i dont have any words to describe this amazing video.

[@CoDWiiPS3Gameplay]

Those engines and wing look amazing! It looks somewhat of a 1950's design mixed with a futuristic design as well! Fantastic!

[@SirDeanosity]

+CoDWiiPS3Gameplay Those engines look to me like an artist drawing.

[@lcchen008]

So fast, 24 mins from Green land to LA!

[@tenvelli]

lmao where's Nebraska Colorado the rest of the us?

[@ahmadmohammad1530]

flat earth

[@TheMatthyssen]

@@tenvelli nebraska doesnt even exist you peasant

[@tenvelli]

@@TheMatthyssen reason for calling me a peasant?

[@apolloskyfacer5842]

@@ahmadmohammad1530 Flat learning curve.

[@KingIstvan]

Beautifully done!

[@andrew46908p]

This video is absolutely brilliant!! Congratulations to the director for uploading and sharing such beauties.

[@materecclesiaechapel3958]

Enjoyed this video and agree with the comments of no unnecessary and annoying music, steady camera and great scenery. Many are saying incorrectly that this is a polar route. Frankfurt to LA crosses broad section of Canada and the lowest portion of Greenland but not coming close to the arctic circle.