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| LOT Polish Airlines Il-62 at Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport | Starting to taxi | |
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| Crossing runway 15/33 on the way to the active (which, actually, is the same runway...) | Finally arriving at the start of runway 33 after a brief detour | |
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| Rolling | The takeoff from EPWA | |
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| Autopilot engaged on climbout | Making a right turn past central Warsaw | A view of the city from above |
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| Engaging the FLCH mode at 10000 feet, I discover exactly what kind of climb rates the quad-engined Il-62 is capable of :o | With the nose this high there might be a danger of deep stall... except the plane is actually climbing that fast, and the angle of attack is quite low | It didn't take too many seconds to climb past 30000 feet... |
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| ...and here I'm leveling out at 35000 feet | Passing Siedlce and turning north | |
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| Cockpit view | ||
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| Passing Suwalki in northern Poland | Now arriving in Lithuania | 80 nm out, time to descend |
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| 18000 ft | Approaching Vilnius... | |
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| ...just as the weather updates - low overcast reported at EYVI | Entering the clouds... | ...and flying right into a snowstorm |