Flight deck to Madeira on the Lufthansa A320neo!

In this video we ride along on the A320neo flight deck to Funchal in Madeira – one Europe's most difficult landings, famous for its unpredictable winds and remarkable runway stretched over the sea on top of massive support beams. Lufthansa brings us along in the jumpseat from Munich (MUC) to Funchal (FNC), a roughly 4-hour flight, and along the way we get to hear some fascinating info from the captain about operating to Funchal as well as a number of other insights into being an A320NEO captain. Look out for some nice views of Mont Blanc by the way, and some other nice scenery too. But nothing can beat the landing views into Funchal, including Porto Santo just to its north and the 180-degree right turn over the island to land on Runway 05. Enjoy!

SECTIONS:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Welcome to Munich
00:48 Pre-flight on the flight deck
01:56 Takeoff!
03:01 Weather on climb-out
05:30 Calm skies
05:59 Madeira weather report
06:18 Capt. talks Madeira winds
07:48 Madeira license requirements
08:54 "From now on it's my leg"
09:19 Monitoring weather enroute
10:09 Mont Blanc
11:00 Lunch in the flight deck
11:25 Charts for Atlantic crossing and Madeira arrival
13:42 Capt. talks Equal Time Point
14:34 Porto Santo
15:21 Madeira in sight
16:53 Final approach
17:46 Landing

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[MadeiraAirport]

Fantastic production, such a great video you made, thanks for using my images, was a pleasure to meet you and to show Madeira Airport 👍👍👍

[wianmostert]

Litteraly the best video i have seen in a very long time. Kudos to Lufthansa and Gabriel with his excellent filming skills.

[richardc]

Fantastic. I can almost smell the “new plane” smell. Beautiful

[eftu]

These flightdeck videos are just pure gold! Good job!

[TomSunderland]

Is it only me who thought the pilot in this was 74gear at the start 😂😂

[aplanespottingjediknight]

I'm saving this one to my playlist for multiple views ... What an incredible video! I am so grateful to organizations like FlightRadar24, Lufthansa, and Madeira Plane Spotting for providing access to experiences like this. Absolutely informative and entertaining - THANK YOU

[claycarter]

Thanks to Lufthansa and Gabriel. Love these unique corners of aviation with all the quirks and thrills they offer.

Hi Gabe, I enjoyed the flight; thank you for taking us along.✈

[QueSeraFredE]

Wonderful capture of the flight to the beautiful island of Maderia. The final turn onto runway 05 is a treat to experience.

[mintyaviation]

Please keep these cockpit videos coming! Great camera quality, good audio, good editing - great watch :)

[kiwiwhispers]

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this superb content with us.

[alexj]

please keep these videos coming they are a godsent, perfect production quality.

[torgeirbrandsnes]

Great vlog as always my friend. In the old days there was a big hotel when you land on rwy 22 and the rwy was a lot shorter. All dep aircraft had to refuel on the mainland. Looking forward to the next. Be safe!

[nikkiredfern]

Fabulous! Loved the capt intro to the navigation and way points and how that all works.
My first, and only jump seat experience was back in the late '80s on board an Ansett 737 from SYD to AYQ, including the landing at AYQ. Amazing experience, skills and the most stunning views of Uluru so my avgeek journey began!
Thanks @GabrielLeigh another great video!

[youxkio]

I went to Madeira (I am Portuguese) on March 2000. They were still working on the extension of the airport as they had to implode the Hotel Atlantis. It was quite a scene to see. But he greatest climax was the airplane landing. Those cross-winds are almost always occurring and they are quite fierce.

[fosselyt]

Really love this kind of videos! If I would have a free wish: Make it like 45-60min in length! Thanks a lot for providing!

[medrep]

Very enjoyable and interesting flight video.

[marcusdamberger]

This video and the previous one over the north pole with the A350 were fantastic videos with enough detail to let you know what it was like to be on those flight decks with the pilots. Superb sound and video, and just enough narration between those quiet moments. I hope Gabriel and FlightRadar24 get's more invites to the flight deck in the future, these are engaging and fun to watch!

[selimkutlu]

Thank you very much for this marvellous Video and shots which iI have really appreciated and Congrulations for the Crew for this professional Landing.

[hephep]

Excellent videoes you guys have been putting out lately! 😍😍