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Originally Posted by polak
I'm shocked that there's DVD's like that for sale. I mean it's gotta be hours of watching the pilots do basically nothing?
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I've got the one that clip is from. 4+ hours well spent, oddly enough... I'll do my best to give a quick summary. The first 45 is spent with the dispatcher and you see the insane amount of work that goes into planning a 15+ hour flight that goes almost right over the north pole. He has to look at airspace restrictions, the jetstream, and a tons of other factors. They show the pilots reviewing the flight plan, and whether or not they want to make any changes.
Then you see most of the taxi and the takeoff in its entirety, with the guys explaining stuff along the way. Once in cruise, each the pilots (2 relief pilots as well) give a bio of their career, who they've flown for, etc. As they near the north pole, they show the difficulties of HF radio comms with people in Iceland. Landing in its entirety, some beauty shots of Hong Kong, then the return leg. On the way back you get a bio of the executive class purser, and he shows all the meals/desserts/drinks for the exec class cabin. More bios and explaining stuff. Landing in Toronto.
To sum up... they're far from nothing!
For avgeeks, these DVD's are a godsend.