Can someone provide a list at a relatively high level for the order of operations involving a generic airline departure with passengers up to the point of pushback?
Specifically, what I am looking for is something that gives a breakdown of each of the events that need to happen and at what intervals for a cold and dark departure that involves passengers.
I suppose it would look something like
Provide power to aircraft
Request jet bridge connection
Continue configuring aircraft for departure
Open Door
Board Passengers
Close Door
Turn on Beacon
Request Pushback
Start Engines
etc…
Im using the FBW A32nx with SLC and I want to try and replicate the departure as accurately as possilble. Certainly Id love to fill in the outline above with all the correct steps and sub-steps going forward.
1)to avoid any misconceptions dude, a plane that is already at the gate at a major airport, unless it’s faulty that plane should already be powered on either by ground power or APU. basically turn around state.
2) passengers should be boarding while you do your pre-push back preparations. Request permission from ground for your flight plan, Load your flight plan, do your plane configuration . you should be done with all of that before the passengers are done boarding. As soon as that door closes you should be ready to request permission for push back from the ground controller. After you’re done with the push back and your plane is facing the direction it’s supposed to face, let the ground controller know that you are ready to taxi. Ground controller will give the routing to the runway you pick on your flightplan. When you get to the runway contact ground controller, don’t enter the runway yet, tell him you’re at runway ##. He will tell you to switch your frequency to tower if he hasn’t already, then you will contact the tower and let them know you’re at the runway and ready to take off. The tower will give you the wind and the elevation, which you should have already had if you’re using simbrief, after he or she will say clear for take off, you will enter the runway and take off. (YOU ALSO HAVE TO FOLLOW YOUR AIRLINE CHECK LIST procedures) this includes before start checklist, after start checklist, taxi checklist, before takeoff checklist. This all depends on how real you wanna get obviously, me personally, I have done all the procedures so many times that I remember them all by heart. But personal opinion, if you’re going to start doing airline flights it’s better to go in all the way or not at all. If you go in all the way you will learn the proper way, and the more you do it, it will become muscle memory.