The description of typical flying day in India
It is quite cold January early morning day at New Delhi as I meet part my crew at hotel reception. Here in north India the air temperature is around 10°C during night, but i will be much more higher where we are heading today: Madurai
After getting into car driver take direction to New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport. It is quite unsual for Europien people to see how is traffic passing behind the car windows. The red lights on the traffic lights are not accepted very often and we appear sometime in very tough situation face to window oposit direction driving cars. But who cares, here in India seems to work only one rule, and not even only on the streets - Who is the first to survive :-) (or get more money)
Finally we got to the briefing room, we meet the rest of our crew and we can start our preparation. Before each flight all crew members shoul pass alkohol test.
The company´s dispatcher have already prepared an extensive pack of documents and we have to walk thrgough more then 50 pages, taking care to ensure we do not miss any vital information. The waether forecat in these time is very friendly, despite closing monsun season, and predicts very good and pleasant flying condition. On the first leg from DEL-DXB we can expect some cold front speading from southwest UAE to NortEast. Even approach to Dubai may become a little tricky, landing condition looks quite friedly.
We have to check NOTAMs, whitch alert pilots of potential hazards along the planned route taht could affect the safety of the flight. This includes datail of temporary construction work at airports, full or partial runway closures, system downgrades ar any other abnormality that is not otherwise detailed in our regular documets and charts.
Some pages of cryptic data later, we move on to the en route charts. There is jet stream over Iran and Pakistan, typical for this annual period and it gives us average 80 kts head wind component on the way to Dubai.
We have to also consider loading of aircraft and its weight limites. This line is almost full of pasangers and cargo as well.
Finnaly proceding to our cabin crew to provide briefing about expecting contition for out today´s flight.
Like anyone going airside at the airportwe have to pass a immigration and customs procedures and checks. This everyday routine is the most annoying thing in all the flying crews lifes. But I must say fortunatelly for all of us, this can provide quite high level of safety for all aircraft occupants. By the way we have at least priority to get time prepare our aircraft for the way in time.
The way through all terminal area to our gate is quite long. It takes almost 1,5 km and 40 minutes from briefing room to reach our parked craft at gate by walk.
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Different kind of relaxation |
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We are expected "May we start boarding ? " |
All On Board
Our passangers, cargo and fuel are loaded and I done walk around check procedures. Proceding with cocpit and cabin preparation we can begin our journey towards Madurai.
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I am suppervised sometime during walk around as well |
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All ground checks done, so let´s fly |
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... somewhere here |
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... we could see this... and late closer to Dubai we could see this !!!
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Video below shows TimeLapse approach to Dubai  |
Taxing for departure at Dubai |
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Trashy picture during departure from Dubai |
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... somewhere here |
Video below shows TimeLapse approach to Madurai. On the end enjoy moving people servising our flight.
Finnaly he we are. Most danger part of our duties still to come ....
.. this is it. The way from the airport to hotel by local transport. Sometime it looks like
"wooow look we cannot survive this"
