Today I flew Air India flight 142 from Delhi Indira Gandhi international (DEL) to Chennai Meenambakkam international (MAA) on an Airbus A321. The flight was scheduled to depart Delhi at 1230 IST and scheduled arrival at Chennai is 1515 IST.
The flight today is operated by VT-PPG. The alternate airport will be Bangalore Kempegowda international (VOBL/BLR).
Pax: 142/ 10.9 tonnes
Cargo: 2.5 tonnes
Zero Fuel Weight comes up to 57.1 tonnes
Simbrief dispatch gives us a fuel load of 9.6 tonnes which is broken up as follows:
Trip: 5.8 tonnes
Contingency: 0.6 tonnes
Alternate: 1.8 tonnes
Reserve: 1.2 tonnes
Gross Weight is now 66.7 tonnes
The aircraft at Delhi airport
We’ll be departing from runway 29 using the VEMEV RNAV departure. Estimating tailwinds 319/052 for the cruise.
Climbing out of Delhi on the SID. Yamuna River and the Agra Expressway can be seen.
After passing the Bhopal/BPL VOR, we descended to FL370 as now we’re eastbound.
Cruising at FL380 over Sri Ram Sagar reservoir on the Godavari River.
I love how detailed this cockpit is. Granted it’s not FS standard but i believe this is as good as it can get on a phone based flight sim.
Nagarjuna Sagar dam in Telangana state
Pulicat lake and Sriharikota where India has a rocket launching site.
The Indian East coast on the Bay of Bengal
On a VOR approach to Chennai
Arrived at gate.
We arrived at 1501 IST, 14 minutes ahead of schedule. Fuel onboard was 4.3 tonnes which indicate a consumption of 5.3 tonnes, 500kgs less than expected.
A good flight altogether.
The flight was performed on the Global Casual Server using a Samsung Galaxy M30S
Hope you enjoyed the pics and the write-up.