Bonjour !!!!
Wow what a great day it is. Finally, during the past weeken I got a chacne to fly a whole flight. Then editing took me a lot of tiem and finally here at the
results. Hoep you will like them.
PS. editing took me three days, posting shtos took me two hours
So please BE PATIENT AND LET THEM LOAD
*WARNING THIS IS A MMEEEGGGAAA PPPOOOSSSTTT SO LET ALL OF 95 SHOTS LOAD*
Aircraft: Boeing 747-400
Airline: Air France
Registration: F-GITF
Flight No: AF4986
Callsign: Air France 4986 Heavy
Cruising Altitude: FL400 (40000ft)
Cruising speed: 250kias
Distance: 2827.1nm
Date: 15 July 2007
Scheduled flight time: 6:30h
Actual flight time: 6:29h
Scheduled departure time: 6:30 am (6:30)
Actual departure time: 6:30am (6:30)
Scheduled arrival time: 6:00pm (18:00)
Actual arrival time: 5:59pm (17:59)
Origin's time zone: GMT+1
Destination's time zone: GMT+3
Origin airport: Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG); Paris; France
Runway used for take off: 08L
Take off aircraft number: 2
Weather: Light clouds, light headwind (4knots), temperature +22 degrees celsius
Runway conditions: dry
Runway length: 8840ft
Runway surface: Concrete
Destination airport: Dubai International Airport (DXB); Dubai; United Arab Emirates
Runway used for landing: 12R (Visual)
Landing aircraft number: 1
Weather: clear sky, wind 0 knots, temperature + 31 degrees celsius
Runway conditions: dry
Runway legth: 13143ft
Runway surface: Asphalt
No. of passengers: 426
Cargo: 50817kg (112000lbs)
Fuel: 60%
Fuel left: 8%
:::Part I:::Paris Boarding:::

Overview of CDG Airport. As you can see we are parked at the main terminal next to some heavies

Main gear inspection to make sure that take off and landing will be succesfull

Tail shot

Winglet inspection. Just before I turned the navigation lights on

Compare the size of the truck with the size of our engines

Yay ! Pylons !

French double decker

Taken from the terminal

4 engines
Wayy to goo

Just a shot of the airbridge that was connected to our plane

International traffic: Malaysian, Lufthansa, Singapore, Qantas, Air France

Disconnected from the airbridge. Almost time to go

Time to set instruments, autopilot, fmc and radios

Business class

Final preparations. Making sure taht everything is locked properly

Checking upper deck's emergency exit. My favourite cabin shot
:::Part II:::Taxing and take off:::

Pushing back and requesting taxi to the active

Taxiing to the active runway

Flaps 10. Take off speeds set. Autothrottle armed. Trim ready. Landing lights on. Waiting for clearance to take off from runway 08L heading to Dubai.

Clearance recived. Lets roooooooooooool

V1 rotate !

Nose up, while the main gear is still on the ground.

Passing the empty terminal o.0

And she goes up

Wooooow. Speed

Going up slowly

From another perspective

Positive rate of climb. Gear up. Taxi lights off

Ready to contact De Gaulle Departure

Flaps up as we are climbing above the Paris subburbs
:::Part III:::Cruise:::

Climbing through FL350 to FL400

At 40000ft

No. 1 then 2 and 3...engines :P

Going with 250kias

Fly high

Engines working non stop on the max to safely bring us to our destination

Overcast as we are flying over south-estern Greece

Gotta love the reflection on the wing

Frenchman at 40000 feet

100% cloud coverage

Party at FL400 ? Why not :P

Now over the Persian Gulf

I love tail shots

Fu****g huge winglet

Getting close to Dubai

I was bored so I went to the passenger section and took this pic :P
:::Part IV:::Landing in Dubai:::

On approach to Dubai Intl. Airport. You can see Dubai's downtown, the famouse hotel and "the Palm".

Gear down. Flaps 30. Taxi lights on. Spilers armed. Final

Going for visual approach :P

Praying not to efff up the landing

Emirates Sky Cargo buildings and cargo apron in sight

Over the treshold

Arriving

Bonjour Dubai

Last corrections

Main terminal at our 2

Ending our long journey

I hope the gear will survive the touchdown

Ignore the papi. I was perfectly on the gs

Prepare for touchdown

Smooooooooooooooth

Kissed the runway at 145 knots

Ahh looks like the sun si seting. Hmm yeah well it's about time (we arrived at 6pm local)

Nose gear is about to touchdown

Spoilers deployed. Time for reversers and nose kiss
:::Part V:::Gate Arrival:::

Just left the runway

Dubaian sun

Third jumbo to join the partay. saudi Arabian and KLM already there.

I'm a frenchman in Dubai :P

Who is prettier ? The plane or the Tower ?

Arriving at the gate

Arrived !! Wohooo !! Rest time

"Ground we are ready to connect the airbridge"
"Roger"

Getting some tan

Gate F17...wonder who will get F16



Bye bye Jumbo

Wow this Terminal looks hot both from outside and inside :P

Everything off

One of the most important things in the cocpit

This was my office today

Leaving her dark and cold

Economy class on the first deck

Hmm I would hate to sit beside the stairs...

Last wingshot I took before leaving my jet

She is resting...she will stay here until 1am to fly back to Paris.

I was offered to go visit the tower....HELL YEAH !!!

Tower view of main Terminal...pretty emtpty...Ultimate traffic sucks

Must be fun to drive under all that air bridges

Last shot for today - showing one of the msot beautiful towers in the world !!!
Well that is about it. Thank you for watching and congratulations to all those who were patient and made it to the end :P
The flight, editing and postint took me a lot of time and effort so please leave me a comment with ur opinion.
Thank you and wait for next set :P
Merci
PS. I would like to thank:
Precision Manuals Group (PMDG) for the awesome Boeing 747-400
Aerosoft for great Paris scenery
Fly Tampa for beautiful Dubai scenery
Flight1 for best addon ever Ultimate Terrain Europe
and finally XS.to for free image hosting

Patryk K.
Wow what a great day it is. Finally, during the past weeken I got a chacne to fly a whole flight. Then editing took me a lot of tiem and finally here at the
results. Hoep you will like them.
PS. editing took me three days, posting shtos took me two hours
So please BE PATIENT AND LET THEM LOAD
*WARNING THIS IS A MMEEEGGGAAA PPPOOOSSSTTT SO LET ALL OF 95 SHOTS LOAD*
Aircraft: Boeing 747-400
Airline: Air France
Registration: F-GITF
Flight No: AF4986
Callsign: Air France 4986 Heavy
Cruising Altitude: FL400 (40000ft)
Cruising speed: 250kias
Distance: 2827.1nm
Date: 15 July 2007
Scheduled flight time: 6:30h
Actual flight time: 6:29h
Scheduled departure time: 6:30 am (6:30)
Actual departure time: 6:30am (6:30)
Scheduled arrival time: 6:00pm (18:00)
Actual arrival time: 5:59pm (17:59)
Origin's time zone: GMT+1
Destination's time zone: GMT+3
Origin airport: Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG); Paris; France
Runway used for take off: 08L
Take off aircraft number: 2
Weather: Light clouds, light headwind (4knots), temperature +22 degrees celsius
Runway conditions: dry
Runway length: 8840ft
Runway surface: Concrete
Destination airport: Dubai International Airport (DXB); Dubai; United Arab Emirates
Runway used for landing: 12R (Visual)
Landing aircraft number: 1
Weather: clear sky, wind 0 knots, temperature + 31 degrees celsius
Runway conditions: dry
Runway legth: 13143ft
Runway surface: Asphalt
No. of passengers: 426
Cargo: 50817kg (112000lbs)
Fuel: 60%
Fuel left: 8%
:::Part I:::Paris Boarding:::

Overview of CDG Airport. As you can see we are parked at the main terminal next to some heavies

Main gear inspection to make sure that take off and landing will be succesfull

Tail shot

Winglet inspection. Just before I turned the navigation lights on

Compare the size of the truck with the size of our engines

Yay ! Pylons !

French double decker

Taken from the terminal

4 engines


Just a shot of the airbridge that was connected to our plane

International traffic: Malaysian, Lufthansa, Singapore, Qantas, Air France

Disconnected from the airbridge. Almost time to go

Time to set instruments, autopilot, fmc and radios

Business class

Final preparations. Making sure taht everything is locked properly

Checking upper deck's emergency exit. My favourite cabin shot

:::Part II:::Taxing and take off:::

Pushing back and requesting taxi to the active

Taxiing to the active runway

Flaps 10. Take off speeds set. Autothrottle armed. Trim ready. Landing lights on. Waiting for clearance to take off from runway 08L heading to Dubai.

Clearance recived. Lets roooooooooooool

V1 rotate !

Nose up, while the main gear is still on the ground.

Passing the empty terminal o.0

And she goes up

Wooooow. Speed

Going up slowly

From another perspective

Positive rate of climb. Gear up. Taxi lights off

Ready to contact De Gaulle Departure

Flaps up as we are climbing above the Paris subburbs
:::Part III:::Cruise:::

Climbing through FL350 to FL400

At 40000ft

No. 1 then 2 and 3...engines :P

Going with 250kias

Fly high

Engines working non stop on the max to safely bring us to our destination

Overcast as we are flying over south-estern Greece

Gotta love the reflection on the wing

Frenchman at 40000 feet

100% cloud coverage

Party at FL400 ? Why not :P

Now over the Persian Gulf

I love tail shots

Fu****g huge winglet


Getting close to Dubai

I was bored so I went to the passenger section and took this pic :P
:::Part IV:::Landing in Dubai:::

On approach to Dubai Intl. Airport. You can see Dubai's downtown, the famouse hotel and "the Palm".

Gear down. Flaps 30. Taxi lights on. Spilers armed. Final

Going for visual approach :P

Praying not to efff up the landing

Emirates Sky Cargo buildings and cargo apron in sight

Over the treshold

Arriving

Bonjour Dubai

Last corrections

Main terminal at our 2

Ending our long journey

I hope the gear will survive the touchdown


Ignore the papi. I was perfectly on the gs

Prepare for touchdown

Smooooooooooooooth

Kissed the runway at 145 knots

Ahh looks like the sun si seting. Hmm yeah well it's about time (we arrived at 6pm local)

Nose gear is about to touchdown

Spoilers deployed. Time for reversers and nose kiss
:::Part V:::Gate Arrival:::

Just left the runway

Dubaian sun

Third jumbo to join the partay. saudi Arabian and KLM already there.

I'm a frenchman in Dubai :P

Who is prettier ? The plane or the Tower ?

Arriving at the gate

Arrived !! Wohooo !! Rest time

"Ground we are ready to connect the airbridge"
"Roger"

Getting some tan


Gate F17...wonder who will get F16




Bye bye Jumbo

Wow this Terminal looks hot both from outside and inside :P

Everything off

One of the most important things in the cocpit

This was my office today

Leaving her dark and cold

Economy class on the first deck

Hmm I would hate to sit beside the stairs...

Last wingshot I took before leaving my jet

She is resting...she will stay here until 1am to fly back to Paris.

I was offered to go visit the tower....HELL YEAH !!!

Tower view of main Terminal...pretty emtpty...Ultimate traffic sucks


Must be fun to drive under all that air bridges

Last shot for today - showing one of the msot beautiful towers in the world !!!
Well that is about it. Thank you for watching and congratulations to all those who were patient and made it to the end :P
The flight, editing and postint took me a lot of time and effort so please leave me a comment with ur opinion.
Thank you and wait for next set :P
Merci

PS. I would like to thank:
Precision Manuals Group (PMDG) for the awesome Boeing 747-400
Aerosoft for great Paris scenery
Fly Tampa for beautiful Dubai scenery
Flight1 for best addon ever Ultimate Terrain Europe
and finally XS.to for free image hosting

Patryk K.
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