Flight Crew Activities

During a Typical Flight

Seungwon Noh
Feb. 2012
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Typical flight phases
 Flight crew activities
 Flight Crew Sign-in Summary

 Sign in 1hour prior to the departure A/C, Time

 Operation/Planning
Routing
 Best routing
 Flight plan contains routing, weather,
alternate airport, fuel requirements,
etc.
 Examined by flight crew

Sample Flight Plan

 Flight crew activities
 Pre-flight
 Preparing the aircraft for departure
 FMS & Autoflight initialization

 Pre-departure
 Finalizing FMS & Autoflight parameters
 Receive confirmation of the flight’s rout-
ing from ATC

FMS Control Display Unit

 Flight crew activities
 Gate Departure F/C: Ramp. Speedbird 177, request
push back.
 Ready for moving the aircraft out of Ramp: Speedbird 177, clear to push
to face East.
gate area (Ramp) F/C: Speedbird 177, clear push,
face East.
 Start Engines (Change the radio frequency.)
F/C: Ground, Speedbird 177, taxi.
 Taxi-out Ground: Speedbird 177, clear taxi.
Give way to a company 757 on your
 Get taxi clearance and routing to the left, follow the parallel taxiway for
27L.
active runway (Ground) (Change the radio frequency.)
F/C: Tower, Speedbird 177 is with
 Takeoff you.
Tower: Speedbird 177, roger. I’ll call
 Get takeoff clearance and takeoff you back, you’re number three.
Tower: Speedbird 177, after depart-
(Local) ing Air India line up and hold 27L.
 Flight crew activities
 Terminal Area Departure
 Follow certain standard departure procedure
 Using an autopilot Mode Control Panel

 Climb
 Continuously monitor aircraft performance
 Coordinate an optimal cruise altitude and speed with ATC

 Cruise
 Monitor flight path, maintain fuel balance, communication with
ATC/AOCC
 Prepare for the possibility of diversioin
 Changes after NextGen
 Major Features of NextGen
 Required Navigational Perfromance
 Dependent Surveillance (ADS-B)
 Digital Communication
 Area Navigation (RNAV) / 4D Trajectories

Changes
 More precise routing, departure and landing
 Share accurate location of aircrafts
 Reduce voice communication
 Optimal routing
Summary