Crossing Indian Ocean to Madagascar in Corsair A330-900 Cockpit

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:00]Hello, I'm Christian. Today we fly to Antaro. Uh the flight time will be 1 hour 15 minutes, the cruising altitude at 38,000 ft with a nice weather. We thank you for choosing Corsair.

[00:00:12]>> Hello, my name is Frank. Uh I'm the first officer on this flight to Madagascar and I'll be the pilot flying for this first leg. So expect push back tell uh to the uh southeast and then taxi with Charlie.

[00:00:27]We take up cross runway 14 then runway one two backtrack after on the uh pad on the turning pad and then departure full length on it's a flex takeoff with the uh APU bleed in case of engine failure it's straight ahead at 1.7 from view site golf it's a left term heading 0 6 0 and in case of a return on The secondary flatland we have uh landing runway the 14 Yankee and uh if we need more time we have a old pattern uh also insert it.

[00:01:07]>> Yeah. Okay. Engine one start 74 via Charlie enter backtrack and line up runway uh one two. I call you back with your departing clearance.

[00:01:29]>> So Charlie next to the right. Yeah.

[00:01:31]Enter the runway. It's clear. Right.

[00:01:40]774. Would you accept visual departure right and turn after 12,000 ft? Uh you know what? Disregard the 774. After takeoff, left turn to intercept and follow radial 3 one correction 303 S delta G 3,000 ft initially 1017.

[00:02:02]>> Okay. Uh so the left 27 radial 30 from Delta Golf 3,000 ft. Corsair 774.

[00:02:10]>> Uh you want the taxi checklist. Uh take up briefing confirmation first. Any failures before V1, you go stop or go after V1, it's go. In case of engine failure, no action below 400 ft except for gear up.

[00:02:24]>> Not yet.

[00:02:37]So you have on your side on my side.

[00:02:39]Okay.

[00:02:43]And I can offer you the taxi checklist.

[00:02:47]Taxi checklist, please.

[00:02:49]>> Checked.

[00:02:50]>> Checked. Flapsing. Confus. Confus. Red windshield.

[00:02:54]>> Oh, no.

[00:02:58]A memo.

[00:03:00]>> Take off. No blue.

[00:03:01]>> Taxi checklist completed. The line.

[00:03:05]>> Take off runway.

[00:03:06]>> Uh, one, two, for length.

[00:03:08]>> Runway one, two tickets.

[00:03:10]>> Yeah. Right. Pax 22 supplied by APU.

[00:03:13]Line object is completed.

[00:03:17]Ready. Ready.

[00:03:19]774. Ready for departure.

[00:03:21]>> 774 runway 12. Clear for takeoff. 1 0 0 degrees 2 20 knots. Gusting 25. Report established on radial.

[00:03:28]>> Clear takeoff runway 12. Report established on rad.

[00:03:34]>> Ready. Yes. Take off.

[00:03:48]Man flex turn into s trust blue >> checked. Trust set >> rotate.

[00:04:05]Posive climb. Get up. Get up.

[00:04:10]Nav checked food heading heading.

[00:04:19]Let's set heading uh 1 0 0 to intercept the radial 27 27. Okay.

[00:04:34]>> Okay.

[00:04:51]Up and climb. I climb trust you two out of trust.

[00:04:57]checked.

[00:05:08]>> Golf 774. Climb 9,000 ft.

[00:05:11]>> Climbing 9,000 ft. Golf 74 9,000 blue.

[00:05:14]Check flaps zero. Check flaps zero.

[00:05:34]You know, very good afternoon to 850 850. Bonjour proceed direct and confirm estimate rasma direct to position rasma estimating rasma at time 1 032 sapp 850 >> let's copy the one32 report for descent report 8 the viewer so it will come fast I That's I didn't expect you're still good.

[00:06:38]774 once established climb level 3.4.

[00:07:07]All right. So, as you could see here on the map, we uh pushed back for stand number four and uh then we entered the uh runway via this taxi way here, Charlie. Then we made a left turn. We backtrack the runway one, two, that is our runway for departure. We uh made a right to left Uturn to align ourselves. Then we took off. We had the quite uh unusual departure clearance today. Uh this is because on the um re island they don't have any radar. So uh because of some conflicting traffic we had to do some basic IFR uh flying.

[00:07:45]And then we uh made Yeah. If I go this is our route.

[00:07:59]So pretty much straight ahead towards uh Tana. We've just reached our final uh altitude which is uh 30,000 ft and uh we estimate our descent in about 20 minutes towards Tana.

[00:08:26]So we're about to start our descent. So these are the performances of the landing in IATO.

[00:08:33]Um it's quite a high altitude airfield.

[00:08:35]Uh we are almost 4,000 ft performances wise. Um so the runway is 3,100 m long. We're going to perform a landing with the full flaps auto break uh low and we'll try to uh do a idle reverse.

[00:08:55]This is to uh save some uh life on the engines.

[00:09:00]So the computer uh just did its calculation.

[00:09:06]The actual landing distance will be uh 2,4 uh well 87 m and uh we have a 1.15 uh% increment and we call that the uh factor landing distance. This is for safety reasons.

[00:09:26]And you can see here the uh that's the calculated factor landing distance and the margin uh with the end of the uh runaway 240 m.

[00:09:37]And if we go there is the uh actual uh runway. So we'll be landing on that direction runway 11.

[00:09:51]And uh regarding the performances, we expect to uh save some uh braking and some reverses and uh slowly get to uh the end of the runway. There is a turning pad here. We'll make a U-turn as we did on departure in Lareno and then uh backtrack the runway again, exit via this taxi way echo probably depends on the uh ATC control and uh then we will probably be this is a taxi way and we'll be uh probably parked uh around one of these uh gates over here.

[00:10:30]746.

[00:10:37]>> Escing 5216 74 74.

[00:10:48]>> So we expect runway 11 Xray 74 74. Good distance 774 descent flight level 90 74 that's al blue 90 blue checked below. Yes.

[00:11:31]10,000 ft.

[00:11:39]So we have GPS primaries and indios car identified left side right there 774 approaching freight 9 go 774 descent 700 ft 1 020 please approach 6 runway 111 report >> check please approach is BH 120 seat belt on minimum 443 Fire condition drive six auto break.

[00:12:14]>> Auto brake low.

[00:12:15]>> A project is completed. I see.

[00:12:34]It's been managed. Checked.

[00:12:41]Speed star checked.

[00:12:47]Flaps one. Speed checked. Flaps one. And we are clear for the approach.

[00:12:53]Check. Intercept.

[00:13:07]Uh, Luxar Gla blue cat 3 dual AP1 plus2 checked flaps. Two speed checked. Flaps two lock checked.

[00:13:38]Flight SL star checked. 7,000 is set for missed approach. Check 74 contact 120 decimal one.

[00:13:46]74 by t 74 IV establish 6 run one 74 approach 11 one degrees two report 61 catch one 74 okay I disconnect Yes. Arrow pilot off.

[00:14:18]Cat 3 single. Checked >> 2500 down.

[00:14:27]You're down.

[00:14:41]Flaps. Speed. Check. Flaps.

[00:14:44]Three.

[00:14:46]Flaps full. Speed check. Flaps full.

[00:14:55]>> Landing checklist, please.

[00:14:56]>> Landing checklist. Take a memo. Landing.

[00:14:58]No blue.

[00:14:58]>> Landing checklist completed.

[00:15:04]774 for my final 774. tower land one 000 >> stabilized.

[00:16:15]500 400 100 above >> land checked.

[00:16:30]>> Minimum.

[00:16:30]>> Continue. Checked.

[00:16:33]300 200 100 80 70 50 40 30 20 5 >> spoilers green brake Go DL 17 knots. And you're braking. Check.

[00:17:24]>> Auto brake off. I >> roll.

[00:17:29]So, right, left for this mess.

[00:17:36]774 at the far end to vacate via eco taxi way for stand 23.

[00:17:48]>> So at the end of t we backtrack runway one then via echo just confirm stand 2 three >> st two three stand. There you go.

[00:18:26]Minimum 300 200 100 80 70 50 40 30 20 fire.

[00:19:00]Peace out.

[00:19:58]Yep.

[00:20:01]Heat. Heat.

[00:20:37]Parking brake is set pressure, please shut down. Yep.

[00:21:00]So hello everyone. We are here in uh Tana before our departure. So I'm going to proceed with a walk around which is basically checking every part of the aircraft that are essential to safety and make sure making sure everything is uh up to par.

[00:21:19]So we start with the uh AOA probe over there. So we just check that uh nothing has been uh damaged. We check the tires for any uh damage or scratch, anything like that and uh everything seems all right. We check that the wings are clear of damages or dents of any sort. We check the engine intake. Same thing inside the the engine. Just here it's quite windy, so the fan is uh already spooling.

[00:21:51]There's no damage to any of the blades.

[00:21:55]Now we check the uh integrity of the of the tail plane.

[00:22:00]And as you can see, you can see again this little static dischargers. Same thing as for the wing tip. We check that they're all here.

[00:22:11]It's Christian again. So now we are prepared a flight back to Larong from Antana. So the flight time will be 1 hour and 5 minutes. Okay, captain. So I've seen that you've inserted the uh Pipri one echo departure from runway 11.

[00:22:28]The minimum safe altitude is 8,000 with no uh altitude clearance for the >> 77 tower. Push back start facing west for push one echo taxi way to taxi via echo runway 11 one at corair 75 after the 180 will be ready for departure.

[00:23:09]775 tower runway 11 one clear for take off wind 12 0 degrees 1 2 knots after airborne can take an approach 125 decimal 7 cliff for takeoff runway one then airborne 125 decimal 7 course 775 Five.

[00:23:28]Good on it.

[00:23:58]So ready. I am take off.

[00:24:20]>> Man 58 SS convey to thrust blue.

[00:24:24]>> Check thrust set.

[00:24:29]Rotate.

[00:24:36]>> Positive climb. Gear up.

[00:24:39]Now check.

[00:24:41]Gear up.

[00:24:46]Pro 75 heavy. Climbing flat level three ner zero on the one. Departure.

[00:24:59]775 Ton identified CL 390 report.

[00:25:07]>> We are welcome five.

[00:25:10]>> So transact the cam 2 check zero speed checked.

[00:25:22]Heat. Heat.

[00:25:53]Heat. Heat.

[00:26:22]So uh we are now uh in cruise at flight level 39. So 39,000 ft inbound Linian Islands. So departing from what we had, we were on a stand 2 tree.

[00:26:38]We did a push back. Then we taxi via echo which is here. Then we did a back track for runway 11 one. So right then left turn. Departure was P32 echo. So it's a climbing directly to flight level 39. Zo. We are now on route uh for Lenon. Uh we expect in Lenon an IS approach for the runway 14.

[00:27:09]So the minima inserted with a 330 um and then uh upon arrival so we'll land on that runway runway 14 and we expect to vacate the runway via alpha.

[00:27:24]Then we will park here somewhere.

[00:27:27]Cor 75 heavy flat level 3 n z approaching kick request descent 775 kick two rival descent 3000 ship 1018 descent 3000 on Q108 for the uh kick one arrival course 775 >> descent and uh 45 magenta for the time being. Check count and trust descent check.

[00:28:20]Flaps one speed checked.

[00:28:22]Flaps one.

[00:28:23]>> All star >> check.

[00:28:30]Check. What did you set? Flaps two.

[00:28:32]>> Speed check. Flaps two.

[00:28:44]Okay guys, stop. Check.

[00:28:49]>> Get down. Too fast.

[00:28:55]>> Get out.

[00:29:08]>> 77 56 Mar checked. Flap three straight.

[00:29:17]775 runway 14 clear to land. Wind 140° 16 knots.

[00:29:23]>> Runway 14 75 16 knots.

[00:29:29]>> Yeah.

[00:29:34]Yeah.

[00:29:47]1,00 >> stabilized.

[00:30:30]500 >> 100 above 400 minimum.

[00:30:43]>> Continue. Check lens. Check >> 300.

[00:30:53]It's cracking >> 200 >> 100 80 60 50 40 30 20 retards five >> spoilers green wipers on Oh, check.

[00:31:34]>> 70 knots.

[00:31:35]>> Check.

[00:31:37]>> Auto break off.

[00:31:39]>> Check.

[00:31:48]775 first right via Alpha 10 number four.

[00:31:52]Right. Alpha and stand number four. Cora 75.

[00:31:56]Clear. Right on alpha. Still have 15 knots.

[00:32:12]Okay. Right.

[00:32:15]Stand number four. It's the one we had on departure.

[00:32:31]Let me take care of the lights. Yes.

[00:32:33]Thanks.

[00:32:36]And clear. Right. Check.

[00:32:44]Number four. Next left.

[00:33:07]AP bleed on. Thanks.

[00:33:37]parking brake check.

[00:33:40]>> So pressure and we remember that we don't they don't have anet tonight.

[00:33:45]>> So he's making the sign for the >> So is okay. Uh we have the 5 minutes shut down both engines.

[00:33:51]>> Yeah, sure. I'm just showing him my fist. I don't think he can see it.

[00:33:56]>> So, here we are, guys. We just arrived back in the Renon Island. I hope you enjoyed the flight and uh I hope to see you soon. Thanks a lot.