Frankfurt-San Francisco - LH454/455 A380-800

The location of the latest PilotsEYE.tv is the cockpit of a Boeing 777 “freighter”. The flight promises a reunion with a familiar face from the Maldives and North Pole episodes (LTU): Joe Moser, presently Chief Pilot and Director of Flight Operations at AeroLogic, a joint venture of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo. Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong’s airport, was opened in 1998 and boasts the world’s largest freight terminal. Among passenger airports it is the 12th busiest in the world, with 53 million passengers a year. For the foundation of the airport, an adjacent island was leveled and joined via land reclamation. With more than 1,000 takeoffs and landings a day, the airport is on par with Frankfurt. This episode introduces three new cameras: Two capture the view over the shoulder of the pilot, showing at the same time the movement of the yoke and the plane. A third one is positioned on the nose landing gear, capturing breathtaking views of the main landing gear during takeoff and approach. The weather forecast predicts a rapidly developing tropical depression for arrival time in HKG (ICAO: VHHH) that could quickly turn into a typhoon. Will this approaching storm delay the landing in Hong Kong or even make it impossible? The captain’s coolness is comforting: “We’ll just fly there and take a look at it up close.”