Ah Yes Ram! - This was vt-ala's video that I tried to post here along with some pictures but wasnt able to due to protocol restrictions as I am new here - Loved the above video and these were my observations...
-DIAL is certainly taking it's eco-friendly credentials seriously. Normally the flying escort for such landmark flights is a noise polluting, fuel guzzling, carbon credit chomping airforce fighter plane - a cruel bir of war designed to kill / main. DIAL instead chose to use a bird of err.... peace (ok trained doves are not so easy to come by so a trained crow will do). It even circumambulated the incoming guest exemplifying our sacred 'Athithi Devo Bhava'. If you have any doubts please revisit the video.
I inferred that the welcome escort was remotely controlled by the IAF BBJ sometimes used as the Bharathiyya Air Force 1 on the adjoining taxiway. :!:
- Humour aside, T3 looks so impressively long in this video - note how it seems to go on and on as the camera pans to follow the white whale.
- Loved the dramatic gusts of thrust reverser spray accompanied by the rather quiet receeding engine cresendo.
- The pilot Mahindra Scorpio and the A380 piercing the curtain of welcoming water reminded me of flower curtain parting to reveal the bride's/groom's face in Bharathiyya weddings.
- Love the close ups of the attaching of the aerobridge and the mechanical arm swinging in to touch the fuselage.
- The nose wheel doors of the A380 look absolutely gigantic -much wider than the nose gear width.
- Composition of the shot from inside the tractor's cabin and from outside gave a feel of how powerful it must be to seemingly effortlessly push the beast back.
- Fabulous angles obviously taken by an insider - many thanks for this and the unique perspectives from which this video was taken - otherwise not seen by aviation aficionados like us.
- Gives a new angle to the modernity and the advanced featurs of T3 - loved the feel of the squeaky clean, contemporary servicing pipes underbelly and the precision stop of the nose wheel at the gate - impressive.
- Glimpses of peoples reaction added a warm humane touch to this well edited video. Also indicated how well insulated the interiors are from the outside elements - noise, dampness etc.
- Loved the dramatic circular drive around the departing superjumbo not to mention the sparkling runway lights on the underbelly of the shiny bird.
- Overkill of flying escorts (trained resident crows- birds of err... peace) as the whale jet takes off. I know this is a fond baraathi farewell to the landmark flight at a new Indian terminal but it can prove a needless distraction to the pilots. There are more effective methods of population control methinks
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All in all a fabulous video well edited with rare angles the average joe/janardhan may not probably get to see again. A gracious thanks to vt-ala.