Alitalia MD-11 in-flight and landing at Kai Tak cockpit-video

[Frank N. O.]

My friend Chris aka CPD from Racerplanet forums just posted this (he's the virtual Concorde sim-pilot and co-developer/tester I've mentioned earlier)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7035427478887561787
This looks very confusing and hectic, can some of you lucky people that understand italian give a short review of what they're talking about?

Greetings
Frank

[happylanding]

Hello Frank,
will look at it at tell you. BTW, the noise is quite high....I do it as best as I can....and let you know.

[happylanding]

Frank, looks like an approach preparation to airport of Hong Kong. they talk about weather, and approach procedures (the pic sitting at left says that one doesn't exist anymore and ask the one sitting at right for any confirmation). BTW if you carefully see at the 02.10 something alike the PIC sitting at left has 3 stripes and same happens on the right (I wonder if it's okay, anybody can give me the answer? ). but after landing the PIC at right doesn't look like being the same and has 4 stripes. I think it could be an approach to an airport the first part, and after a landing somewhere else. Isn't it two records put together?

[Plthijnx]

i thought i noticed that too but it's the same guys the whole time. and the captain does have 4 stripes......i did notice that it was a smoking flight

[Frank N. O.]

Thanks for the info, I was just curious since it looked a little more busy than I've usually seen.

Frank

[happylanding]

Thanks for the info, I was just curious since it looked a little more busy than I've usually seen.

Frank

it's what I thought first, when I saw it...but actually it's just a routine flight!
BTW, yesterday I read a magazine article about aviation security in italy that was quite worrying. to begin with, it seems that ICAO protested agaist ENAV (what in the US is FAA) since a) pilots and tower personnel do not know english and english phraseology, b) the personnel required to check flight and companies should be around 60 and the personnel is 0, given the budget cut c) a black market of replacement pieces for the aircrafts (part of engine and so on) is flourishing and the pieces are not certified and not certifiable and dangerous d) personnel in tower and information does not seem really attentive and send aircrafts in "risk of collision". I ignore if all that is true, but it's not really a good news, were it true just a quarter.

and to finish with, when there was the last soccer game, where italy was playing, four flight of alitalia could not take off, since the pilots were in front of television, watching the match......

Tomorrow I go back to Switzerland and I will start using again my laptop so I  think my messages will be written quite better. I can't understand this keyboard and internet access is quite uncomfy. Have a good evening mates!