On this episode of Cockpit Casual, Steve & Bob head to Hyderabad India to grab two Airbus A320 NEOs from the now-defunct airline, “Go First”. The project took place in early January of 2023 and these were actually the first two aircraft pulled by lessors prior to the airline ceasing operations. In other words, these aircraft would “go first”!
The duo from Nomadic flew from Philly to Doha on Qatar Airlines, then on to Hyderabad where they did some sightseeing around Charminar with the go-pros. The next day, Steve took left seat in the first aircraft and flew it to Istanbul via Cairo. After arriving in Turkey, they overnighted and the next day went right back to Hyderabad to grab the second aircraft.
The project took the better part of a week, and was a non-stop, action packed adventure from the start. As usual, the episode features original Jazz from Steve Giordano Sr and lots of great footage from the Cockpit and around the world.
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Endlessly interesting content. The music is great. Thank you!
Captain Bob looks exactly like music conductor Mariss Jansons.
Great content! Love the music. Keep the videos coming!
As a first time viewer seeing 2 americans flying to places like India.. im so suprised (in a positive way) seeing how you guys embrace the culture and explore the places. Im now a subscriber :D!
Another mesmerising video.
awesome video gents. BUT at 20:12 please those shoulder straps are essentail …
Hyderabadi biryani is renowned for its spiciness!
Seven?…😅 never heard that before, or even five..
1st video for yalls channel. Very interesting and great music!
Hey guys! I have a question. I know Indigo operates Airbus 320s from Delhi, India to Istanbul, Turkey without a fuel stop. Why did you have to make a fuel stop? I understand the headwind part, but empty airbus with full fuel, can’t it make it to IST in one leg?
My first time watching your channel. Pretty fascinating way to be doing a lot of piloting. I was impressed to see the Cisco Brewers T-shirt from Nantucket. My old stomping grounds. Great choice of music along with the GoPro set up in the cockpit. Looking forward to following your future endeavors.
Victor papa charlie India uniform. That is a pain in the ass to say!
Old Hyderabad is so filthy
Iya. Saya ingat semuanya. Mengulang jadi Ratu berkali kali dan ikut ujian Ratu berkali kali karena dihakimi massa padahal sudah jadi putri dari lahir. Terus bersembunyi karena dikejar kafirun dan dihakimi massa padahal kami Raja Ratu Islam asli dan tidak melakukan apapun yg salah. Bersembunyi bersama King Edward. King Edward yg asli dan Raja Ratu Islam yg asli harus diselamatkan. 😂
16:05 Love that saying, never heard of it before! Thanks for your content, it's very straight forward, no skilled editing, no pressure to show of your content, stay liek you are! You have an amazing job I envy, and I'm just an aircraft maintenance engineer 😀
why does it feel much comfortable to fly on left seat?
Better to shine than to complain about all the darkness
AWESOME!
Hi, sorry to bother you. I have a question, do you need to be type rated for this kind of ops? Thank you so much for sharing your hard work with such passion and professionalism!
Yepp, gps lost in iranian airspace near turkish border, but with glonass still good.
Hey Bro! @speedtapefilms
Why that comment about India's currency changing every time you visit?? 🤔
We aren't your vassels; observe what you say on SM…
Hi Dera Bad ! lmao. This is cool stuff
You guys are an inspiration !
Always a pleasure. Steve did u receive/see my emails/VM among the millions. Cheers. 🚀
Nice work guys 👌
Watching this and I can feel a sympathetic GI event coming on.
Saw some filipino crew whom I know!
Will miss the airline and the aircraft as well
I made my first ever trip to India this past winter, staying a week in Mysore. Your comment about the insane traffic, air pollution and people everywhere, but some how falling in love with the place absolutely rang true with me.
The Best Pilot Channel!!!!! no one comes close to you guys!
Always look forward to these videos. No matter how bad my day was or whether demons decide stop by to haunt me daily, this entire series puts a smile on my face. The planning and strategy that the pilots execute with great camaraderie are a joy to watch. It always seems that these flights complete successfully, despite any challenges that may head their way.
Obviously, I'm looking forward to the next episode – safe travels, guys. And thanks!
Finally new vlog
This was so cool to watch! As a private pilot (just purely for fun) I always thought commercial would be boring but this looks like you guys are having a ton of fun! I bet there is a lot of paperwork behind this but the flying and adventure looks so cool
Just found out about your channel through Twitter (X), and I can’t stop watching your videos, they’re intriguing and very fun to watch specially for an aviation enthusiast, keep up the good work, hope that you come back to India and post more videos like this one. Much
Love ❤
whats the most dangerous country you've been to? I imagine China as they hate americans
Hey Steve, I love your vidoes. With that said, I have a question. As someone who has multiple type ratings, how do you stay proficient in all of them? Do you have company SOPs for each type like the airlines? Do you memorize flows for all of them or rely on checklsits more? Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful adventures
As a pilot on the Embraer for KLM we do some long(ish) days up to 11 hours / 4 legs a day and sometimes when I feel like complaining about another delay and long working day I think about you guys and know not to complain because goddamn you guys are next level! Thanks for making these videos, so great to see another side of our aviation world but I wouldn’t want to trade with you haha! You guys seem to enjoy it and congrats to making the business and the YouTube channel such a succes. Cheers from a colleague at another crew hotel somewhere in Europe!
Why don’t you use “managed speed” for landing?
Bob not wearing his upper seatbelt part in the first takeoff 😂
Easily the best aviation content on YT! Thank you guys, love your films!
Chemtrails and Flat Earth nice Pics Guys.. Go on..
YAY!!!! Long Form Content for the win! Please keep making these long videos they are perfect. And perhaps you can hire an editor so that you can publish Biweekly? or maybe even weekly! Cheers.
SUPER VIDEOS ! 🎉🎉
I was in the Atiturk stadium in 2005 for the CLF Liverpool v AC milan as a side note guys we won Liverpool that is YNWA