In this video we bring you the full 787 Dreamliner cockpit experience as Gabe Leigh flies with Etihad Airways in the jumpseat from Abu Dhabi to Osaka Kansai International. Over the course of 50 minutes you'll see just about everything that goes into completing a flight on the 7879, from preflight discussion to taxi and takeoff, navigating busy airspace leaving the Gulf, looking at the flight plan and weather enroute, changing from feet to meters over China, and finally descending into busy Japanese airspace and the approach into Kansai International looping in over Osaka Bay.

It’s Etihad’s 20th anniversary this month – and that coincides with a period of expansion and development at the airline. New routes are being added, the beautiful new terminal has just opened and more. It was really nice to get an insight into their operations, and meet some of the people that make up their team, at this exciting time. And of course, especially to get to spend the flight, on one of those brand new routes, in the flight deck. What an incredible experience this was, with an excellent flight crew, and we can't thank Etihad Airways enough for helping to put it together.

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SECTIONS:
00:00 Intro
01:31 Preflight
04:01 Pushback & taxi
06:23 Takeoff
12:06 Busy airspace
14:28 Watching out for traffic
16:16 Cruise, flight plan & weather
20:30 Differences flying over China
24:15 Cost index explained
25:36 787 vs 777
27:33 Crew rest (and my rest)
30:04 Morning over China
31:20 Maintaining 39,100 feet
34:23 Prepping Chinese airspace exit
35:39 Top of descent
35:54 JAL reports moderate turbulence
41:41 Cleared for approach to KIX
43:50 Cleared to land
45:40 Landing Osaka


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