i've been wanting to go to this airport
for a very long time and this is one of
the most exciting approach
in the world
good morning i'm michael miguel and this
is otto we are going to
fly to sunshine flight time of one hour
and 30 minutes and i'll be flying at the
flat level niner zero it's why funchal
is most challenging airport important
because of its uh strong winds and uh
high terrain on the on the side
of the runway the runway is not
too long also and the winds are changing
during the approach
and it's a visual approach for hanoi
zero five it's the most challenging one
sometimes you have uh the wind changes
uh your final
during the turn and in jail or rosario
you have sometimes you have tailwind
here difficult approach
oxygen masks will be automatically
released
in this case remove your own protective
mask and pull them up towards you
place it over your nose and mouth adjust
your left leg
to secure it and breathe normally after
placing your just in your own mouth
pull down a mask and place it on any
child
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we just departed the last piece of land
and now he's flying over
the atlantic um it will be alive i tell
you travel is only
very fun and exciting because it is also
tiring
i only slept like four hour last night
so you can see i'm a bit tired
on this early morning flight so
hopefully they will serve a nice
breakfast
to re-energize
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the breakfast on tap was good the
economy is actually buy on board which
is
pretty much standard now in european
carrier there's no more free food
in the economy what a shame a model
island is
feeling pure nature it's a beautiful
landscape very nice food
and the people is very friendly the
weather is
almost tropical and we will enjoy it you
have
that many landings there what is it like
sometimes very soft
and sometimes a little bit with emotion
did you have go around inside
we have go around wow i hope today we
don't have that
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thank you
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310
100 50 40
30 20
recon
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everyone clap about the landing right
how was the landing what do you think
about it
it was one of the best and actually the
people used to collapse when they landed
in malaya because it's
a special place captain miguel that was
a great landing everybody clapped in the
cabin everyone's so excited at the end
coming to maldira now today the wind was
was calm it was an eventful but
uh sometimes the wings the
changes the during the approach and
during the turn to
rama zero five so it becomes a little
more
a little bit difficult but that was was
good thank you so much adios
wow what a beautiful beautiful airport
here yeah i really really enjoyed
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this is my friend rui he's driving me
around town and we just did the
panoramic terrace at the terminal and
now we're heading out to some outside
spot outside the airport
to continue playing spotting
hey how are you man fine yeah how's it
going
hey i'm so happy to be here look at this
spot here wow
aren't you guys the luckiest spotter
like what a spot right on top of the
fresh hole
and this is uh pedro maldira airport
spotting right yes
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arrival and departure romeo
one one three zero expect rnt
approach
zero degrees
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so
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it's getting sunny four seasons in a day
but
as you can hear lots of wind noise the
wind is cut to 22 to 24
and now easyjet is inbound let's see how
this landing goes
we're quickly moving to another spa
which there's a lufthansa airbus inbound
we can see the whole airport
which is i believe built on a platform
so we're
going tunnel bridge tunnel bridge tunnel
bridge
like that between rallies
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this is my one of my favorite spots here
because
we can see the plane approaching passing
by by you
and then landing especially on
crosswinds is amazing because
you can see the plane like floating
before touching down
here uh the wind changed uh
quickly and one of the ways to to see if
the wind is
uh from which side we look at the madera
flag there's a bit
of a big moderate flag just on the
threshold of the runway
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i take you to now to the place that you
can get closer to the runway than
any other place here you you are just
five meters from the runway
without anything between you and the
runway it's amazing it's a
very nice place this is unreal because
i'm real there's a platform right next
to the runway it's
actually maple clean spotting yeah you
can almost touch
the plane
so as you can see we're currently
driving underneath the runway
where these pillars were supporting the
runway extension here in year 2000
and this is incredible it's a sports
center a karting
a go-kart circuit
shipyard cafes
it's incredible it's how tall these
peelers are supporting their own
it's around 180 pillars whoa
we are walking underneath the runway
with all these pillars supporting
this runway extension and interesting
the space is well used
this yacht parking car parking and go
kart here
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so
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this is my lucky day today flying the
retro livery isn't it fantastic
what a beautiful airplane thank you
thank you nice to see you guys welcome
on board my lucky day today thank you
am i lucky today to have a beautiful
first officer flying with me on this
flight today yay
welcome aboard i'm patricia the first
officer of this flight today
we are flying today 38 000 feet
1 hour and 20 to lisbon and
i will be landing all right and there's
always a captain's takeoff on this
airport
yeah let's go is there any difficulty uh
on takeoff out of here yeah the most
difficult part
is the landing actually uh the takeoff
is not
as challenging as a the landing
today it will be a little bit bumpy
phone departure
the first let's say 500 600 feet and
then it would be
smooth
thank you
oh
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you wanna
oh
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i always wanted to be a pilot because i
remember when i was a kid
my father always
brought me to the airport to see the
airplanes landing and taking off
and it was really a passion since i was
a kid
i started in aviation in 2018
in top express i did 800 hours
and then i get interpret portugal in
2019 and i'm very lucky to hear you
today
are now launching because after this
landing we are
flying through barcelona and
captain and i we are not allowed to
eat the same food because of food
poisoning
so yeah this is our food
today just a compliment to the cabin
crew
this is a portuguese thank you obrigado
with 12 knots and it's a variety between
three to zero and zero to zero so
probably during the final we'll get
supply turbulence as expected well
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minimum
30.
it was a little bit windy but we did it
yeah you made it really nice like i got
really great view on the right hand side
beautiful see the whole list one the
bridge really really really
beautiful yeah thanks for flying mia bye
guys