Long Haul

Long Haul flight from Manchester to Orlando

Starting position	Manchester Airport Stand 27
Outside Temperature	11 Deg C
QNH	1027
Altitude	280 ft
Fuel On Board	67 tons
Zero Fuel Weight	158.6 tons representing 357 passengers and their luggage
Departure Runway	24 Right
SID	Wallasey 1 R
Transition level	5000 ft
Company Route
Squawking	As given by ATC
Destination	Orlando International Airport (MCO)
Primary Alternate	Tampa Florida
Initial cruise altitude	Flight Level 350

We will join this flight at the point where the Pilot Non Flying has performed the walk around, and the Pilot Flying has entered the company route into the MCDU and the flight crew is in the final stages of preparation prior to the take off.

When using the A330-200 PC simulation to follow this flight, these procedures will have been completed:

Program started and set into the Running Mode

Airport initialized to Manchester (EGCC)

APU on

ADIRU initialized and aligned

Fuel set at 67 tons

ZFW set at 158.6 tons

Note that the QNH, Winds and OAT may vary from this example depending upon the time of year when the program is run.

The flight will depart from Manchester airport, over the Irish Sea and towards MASI, which is the entry point for the North Atlantic crossing. The route will then follow the NATS Track Charlie across the North Atlantic to the south of Iceland and Green land before making landfall over Gander. The North Atlantic crossing will be performed using the Extended Twin Operations Procedures ( ETOPS) .

After Gander the route takes the aircraft down the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, over New York, towards Virginia bay, past Savannah down to Daytona beach before turning inland to Orlando.