September has ended and that means that it is the halloween season and what better way to start the season that a little bit of a FLIGHT DOCUMENTARY!
This flight is busy. Flight across the pacific is no joke. Especially when you are flying diagonally.
This route is inspired by AC7304 performed by @FedEx4753. I have performed the flight myself lots of times and it feels awesome.
Anyways enough of that nonsense let’s get straight to the post.
In the picture below we see the aircraft cruising over the Pacific after a very long day across the ocean, flying at a high altitude of FL375 after several step climbs! This aircraft specifically in real life ( C-FIUV ) is 18.5 years old and is the 736th Boeing 777 to be delivered to Air Canada and currently has a configuration of 40 Business Class, 24 Premium Economy, and 336 Economy seats (Total: 400 seats) The aircraft had 2 incidents. The first incident was when a passenger had opened a door and jumped out to the tarmac in January 2024. 5 months later, the aircraft had suffered a no.2 engine compressor stall and spat flames during takeoff on Flight 872 from Toronto to Paris. The aircraft was taken in for maintenance and was put back into service on June 22, 2024.
Next we see the massive aircraft descending among the Canadian mountains, with the GE90 engines sucking up the sun as it lowers itself through the horizon. The spoilers are set to ‘Flight’ mode as the aircraft slows down to 240 knots airspeed. We only have a slight crosswind which will intensify as we start our landing.
As we go even lower, the aircraft now passes through downtown Vancouver and the wind has now gotten to 6 knots gust 7. The spoilers are still up while the aircraft slows down to 213 knots to deploy flaps 5.
We have now begun our landing but the spoilers are still up. Now the aircraft has gotten to 167 knots and the initial landing speed for this flight was 146 knots. The wind has now intensified to 9 knots gust 10 with a direciton that I couldn’t remember since this flight had been flown at update 26.1 ( not on beta ). Since the winds were powerful and we were overweight, we had to make a go-around and dumped as much fuel as we could during the second approach.
The aircraft is seen here on short final on twilight with spoilers armed, gear down, and crosswind 3 knots gust 0, the aircraft is getting ready for touchdown.
Here we start our taxi as we nearly overran the runway and couldn’t find an exit which was below 50 degrees so we took this exit instead. The aircraft here has already come to a full stop which gives the pilots a chance to put the flaps up and spoilers down. The thing we need to do now is to taxi to our gate so we can call it a day.
We have reached our gate with no struggle as the passengers disembark and shut off the engines. As you can see we keep flaps down so we can cool our brakes and dislodge any mud, slush or ice.
Here is the flight path from Auckland departure to landing in Vancouver in order.
Departure notes:
We had started our departure from International Stand 84 which is close to the International Terminal Building, we finished our checklists and departed with a V1 speed of 138 knots, rotation speed of 148 knots and V2 speed of 156 knots. The speed we maintained for takeoff was 208 knots with flaps 5 selection and we had a step climb from 28,000 ( the minimum AP+ altitude ) to 34,000 feet as we crossed the New Zealand airspace and Hawaii. We finally levelled off our altitude 6 hours into the flight with a climb rate of +500fpm.
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