Welcome onboard my first flight on the Airbus A330neo! On 23 June 2024, I flew from Vancouver to Frankfurt for a layover there before heading to Utrecht, Netherlands to take part in the IIMHL Global Leadership Exchange! It is a global mental health event uniting service providers and voices of mental health advocacy across the world. I was one of three Frayme Groundbreakers chosen for the event after the work we've done for their Learning Institute in February!

The A330neo has long been on my bucket list to travel on, and seeing that the number of delivered aircraft has been quite low for some time, and with no Canadian airlines ordering or operating it, chances to get on the A330neo has been quite low. However, in 2022, Condor ordered the A330neo to replace its 767 fleet, and started using this aircraft to different Canadian and American cities, giving me the chance to try it. The product was spectacular and we had good food and an excellent crew.

This video was a number of firsts for me: filming an eastbound transatlantic flight, with the GoPro Hero 12, and with the NFlightCam camera mount outside of general aviation. We got to see the midnight sun, although such a flight is one of the most challenging and unforgiving to film in full, as once did my camera overheat (with the loss of ~2 mins of footage) as well as the need to keep the window shades down for part of the flight, which I used layers of blankets to wrap around my camera while filming.

Thank you to the Frayme team for such an opportunity and for helping out logistics for this trip!

Camera: GoPro Hero 12 Black

Filmed 23-24 June 2024

Aircraft: Airbus A330-941 [A330-900neo]
Registration: D-ANRH
MSN: 2024
Delivered: Dec 2022
Engines: RR Trent 7000-72
Configuration: C30W64Y216 (310)
Seat: 35A
Callsign: Condor 2455 (CFG2455)
Flight time: 09 hr 23 min
Departure: Vancouver International Airport (CYVR/YVR)
* scheduled: 17.50 PDT, actual 18.39 PDT
Arrival: Frankfurt-Main Airport (EDDF/FRA)
* scheduled: 12.30 CEST (24 Jun), actual 13.02 CEST (24 Jun)

My Flickr: [ Ссылка ]
A330neo: [ Ссылка ]
GLE 2024: to be uploaded soon!

Global Leadership Exchange video: [ Ссылка ]

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HIGHLIGHTS:
00:00:00 - intro
00:00:06 - boarding
00:00:49 - cabin overview
00:01:40 - seat overview
00:02:25 - purser's welcome announcement
00:13:45 - captain's welcome announcement (German)
00:15:48 - captain's welcome announcement (English)
00:21:08 - pushback from gate D68
00:21:35 - safety video
00:22:50 - engine start
00:25:22 - deploying flaps & slats
00:27:32 - taxi to runway 08R
00:30:10 - control surfaces test
00:38:26 - takeoff on runway 08R
00:42:12 - spectacular views of New Westminster and Vancouver
00:59:50 - Thompson River near Kamloops
01:17:58 - reached initial cruise altitude of 35,000 ft (FL350; 10,668 m)
01:18:15 - crossing into Alberta
01:34:16 - meal service
01:40:52 - step climb to 37,000 ft (FL370; 11,278 m)
01:54:50 - crossing into Saskatchewan
02:30:48 - crossing into Manitoba
03:00:15 - entering Hudson Bay
04:00:59 - entering Nunavik
04:17:12 - crossing the Hudson Strait
04:24:09 - entering Nunavut, on the southern end of Baffin Island; at this point seeing the midnight sun
04:47:04 - crossing the Davis Strait; leaving Canada
04:50:35 - step climb to 38,000 ft (FL380; 11,582 m)
05:30:04 - entering Greenland
06:04:35 - crossing the North Atlantic Ocean
06:39:25 - step climb to 39,000 ft (FL390; 11,887 m)
08:26:10 - entering Northern Ireland
08:36:02 - crossing the Irish Sea
08:47:00 - entering Wales
08:49:49 - breakfast service
08:51:58 - entering England
09:14:31 - crossing the English Channel with Margate visible
09:18:47 - entering France close to Lille
09:20:57 - entering Belgium (Flanders)
09:27:14 - top of descent
09:28:04 - entering Wallonia
09:30:31 - descent announcement
09:35:01 - Liège
09:36:44 - descent & weather info from first officer
09:39:52 - entering Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz)
09:53:58 - deploying flaps & slats
09:54:49 - entering Hessen over the Main River
09:58:07 - landing on runway 07R
09:59:26 - taxi to gate B44 (terminal 1)
10:05:55 - parking at gate B44
10:06:50 - engine shutdown
10:07:59 - our flight profiles on Flightradar24

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