In this video we ride along on the A320neo flight deck to Funchal in Madeira – one Europe's most difficult landings, famous for its unpredictable winds and remarkable runway stretched over the sea on top of massive support beams. Lufthansa brings us along in the jumpseat from Munich (MUC) to Funchal (FNC), a roughly 4hour flight, and along the way we get to hear some fascinating info from the captain about operating to Funchal as well as a number of other insights into being an A320NEO captain. Look out for some nice views of Mont Blanc by the way, and some other nice scenery too. But nothing can beat the landing views into Funchal, including Porto Santo just to its north and the 180degree right turn over the island to land on Runway 05. Enjoy!

Landing footage courtesy Pedro at Madeira Airport Spotting. Subscribe to Madeira Airport Spotting for the best Funchal videos:    / madeiraairport  

Wing shots courtesy JeeHae Youm at Lufthansa. Follow @lufthansaviews on Instagram for lots of great behindthescenes LH content: https://www.instagram.com/lufthansavi...

LH1790 on 2 October 2022 Flightradar24 playback: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/fl...

SECTIONS:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Welcome to Munich
00:48 Preflight on the flight deck
01:56 Takeoff!
03:01 Weather on climbout
05:30 Calm skies
05:59 Madeira weather report
06:18 Capt. talks Madeira winds
07:48 Madeira license requirements
08:54 "From now on it's my leg"
09:19 Monitoring weather enroute
10:09 Mont Blanc
11:00 Lunch in the flight deck
11:25 Charts for Atlantic crossing and Madeira arrival
13:42 Capt. talks Equal Time Point
14:34 Porto Santo
15:21 Madeira in sight
16:53 Final approach
17:46 Landing

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