Silkway Boeing 777 Freighter Cockpit: Baku to Belgium Roundtrip

Flight from Baku to Liege

• ✈️ The flight departs from Baku, Azerbaijan, in a Silkway West Airlines Boeing 777 freighter, with a flight time of 4 hours and 53 minutes.
• 🧑‍✈️ Captain Parvinov and First Officer Salvatore Torreso are the crew for this leg, with Torreso acting as pilot monitoring assistant.
• 🛫 The departure from Baku involves taxiing via kilo kilo one hotel Juliet Lima to holding point 34, with a line-up and wait on runway 34.
• 🌍 The flight path includes navigating through Georgian and Turkish airspace, flying over the Black Sea, and then entering Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, and Germany before reaching Belgium.
• 🛬 The landing at Liege, Belgium, is on runway 22 left, with the digital ILS providing approach guidance.

Flight from Liege to Baku

• 🧑‍✈️ The return flight from Liege to Baku is operated by flight crew including Captain Hiro Tanaka and Captain Alexandre Mitkovich, with a flight time of 4 hours and 15 minutes.
• 🛫 The departure from Liege is on runway 22 left, following the "all no niner Sierra" departure procedure.
• 🌍 The flight path is initially set to flight level 60, with clearance to climb to higher altitudes as needed.
• 🛬 The landing in Baku is on runway 35 bravo bravo, with the crew reporting established on the approach.

Pilot Career Retrospectives

• 👨‍✈️ Captain Alexandre Mitkovich shares his extensive career, starting in 1981 with the Air Force, then as a bush pilot, followed by flying various aircraft for Varig Brazil Airlines, and later in China and Qatar on 747s and 777s.
• 🇯🇵 Captain Hiro Tanaka details his journey from ground operations in Japan to obtaining a pilot license in the US, flying smaller aircraft in the Pacific, and then progressing to larger jets like the 767, 757, 777, and 787 with various international airlines before joining Silkway West.
• ✈️ Both pilots highlight their extensive experience and the progression of their careers across different continents and aircraft types.