Good morning.
I'm at Newark Liberty International Airport,
and I'm about to board a flight
to a city that I've never been to before.
I'm pretty excited to visit...
Madison, Wisconsin.
We're going to take Delta flight 1454
from Newark to Detroit Metro Airport
and then Delta flight 608 to
Dane County Regional Airport.
This should be interesting.
It's not the first time I've flown into
a Class C airport.
The last time was Richmond International Airport,
but it's a new airport,
so it will be fun nonetheless,
and I'm interested to see what's going on in Detroit
as you might have to see you later
depending on how things go.
[KEWR Clearance] Here, uh... Delta 1454
is cleared to Detroit Metro
via the NEWARK FOUR departure.
Radar vectors COATE, [omitted: Q436 and REXXY]
direct JACCI, then the FERRL ONE arrival.
Maintain 2,500. [inaudible]
[KEWR Ground] Delta 1454
wind 140@7 runway 22R at W
cleared for takeoff.
[DAL1454] 22R at W, cleared for takeoff, Delta 1454.
[KDTW Tower] Delta 1454, Metro Tower.
Runway 21L: departure windshear alert
35 knots gained 2 miles off departure
and wind 310@12. Runway 21L, cleared to land.
[DAL1454] 21L, cleared to land, Delta 1454.
[David] Okay.
I am in Detroit now,
and I have about an hour and a half
before my next flight,
so I am going to go see whether I find
the LED tunnel.
Well, that was lit.
Now, I'm going to go look for that water fountain
that was featured on Smarter Every Day once
where he said that it uses
laminar flow.
Oh, that's quite interesting.
That is laminar flow! Look how non-turbulent that is.
And I'm on the escalator.
I just got off the tram,
and I'm gonna go wait for my next flight now.
This is also going to be interesting because
as far as I can remember,
I have never been on an Airbus before,
so this A319 today will be my first Airbus.
There she is.
Checked bag?
[Handler] Yup!
[David] Thank you very much, sir.
First time on an Airbus.
If you are seated one of our exit seats today,
with extra legroom comes extra responsi-- [PA cuts out]
and it's to review the safety information card
in your seat back pocket.
If you are unable or unwilling to perform
these functions listed on the card,
please let the flight attendant know.
We'll be happy to find you another seat.
In just a few moments,
we will be turning off the cabin lighting
for the duration of the flight.
Should you need any additional light,
one and located in the panel above your seat,
indicated by the button that looks like a sunrise.
These panels are a little bit different,
so if you anticipate needing that light,
take a few moments to identify that button now.
Also in that panel is your flight attendant call button
and personal air vent.
*engines spool up and stabilize*
*takeoff thrust set*
[DAL608] Hello, Departure! Delta 608 checking in at 1,900 for 7,000.
[KDTW Departure] Other aircraft, say again?
[DAL608] Yes, uh, Delta 608 checking in, 2,400 for 7,000.
[KDTW Departure] Delta 608, Departure. Radar contact.
Depart SAAMS, direct MTRCT.
[DAL608] Okay, depart SAAMS, direct MTRCT, Delta 608.
[KDTW Departure] Delta 608, climb and maintain 17,000.
[DAL608] Delta 608.
[KDTW Departure] Delta 608, contact
Cleveland Center 120.45.
[DAL608] 120.45, good day, Delta 608.
Hello, Madison Approach. Delta 608 is descending through 14.2 for 11,000 with information Q.
[KMSN Approach] Delta 608, Madison Approach.
Expect vectors ILS runway 36 approach.
Descend and maintain 5,000.
[DAL608] We'll expect vectors for the ILS to 36.
Descend and maintain 5,000, Delta 608.
[KMSN Approach] Delta 608, turn left heading 240. Vector sequence.
[DAL608] Left turn 240, Delta 608.
[KMSN Approach] Delta 608, turn left heading 210.
[DAL608] Left turn 210, Delta 608.
[KMSN Approach] Delta 608, turn right heading 270.
[DAL608] Right turn 270, Delta 608.
[KMSN Approach] Delta 608, do not exceed 200 knots.
Then, descend and maintain 3,000.
[DAL608] Okay, no faster than 200 knots
and down to 3,000, Delta 608.
[KMSN Approach] Delta 608, 7 miles from
OZMIX.
Turn right heading 340.
Maintain 3,000 until established on the localizer.
Cleared ILS runway 36 approach.
Do not exceed 200 knots.
[DAL608] Okay, right turn heading 340,
maintain 3,000 until established.
Cleared for the ILS 36 approach.
No faster than 200 knots, Delta 608.
[KMSN Approach] Delta 608, reduce speed to not exceed 180 knots.
Contact tower 119.3.
[DAL608] No faster than 180 knots
and over to Tower 19.3. Good day, Delta 608.
Hello, Tower, Delta 608 is outside OZMIX,
inbound on the ILS 36.
[KMSN Tower] Delta 608, Madison Tower.
There's a regional jet on a mile-and-a-half final.
Runway 36, cleared to land.
[DAL608] Cleared to land runway 36, Delta 608.
[KMSN Tower] Delta 608, turn left, contact ground .9.
[DAL608] Okay, left turn, ground .9, Delta 608.
Hello, Ground, Delta 608 is just clearing 36,
parking at Gate 7.
[KMSN Ground] Delta 608, Madison Ground. Taxi via A to the ramp.
[DAL608] Via A to the ramp, Delta 608.
Hopefully, you could see the rear of
the aircraft back there.
We are now in Madison.
This is Dane County Airport,
and I just have to say something.
So as I was deplaning,
as I was on my way out of the aircraft,
I said hi to the pilots,
and the captain allowed me
to sit in the captain's seat for a couple seconds!
Yeah, I got a photo.
Oh my gosh.
I can't even describe!
Oh my gosh.
Man, right now, I just have a little bit of time
in a Cessna 172, but...
Oh my gosh. Oh, wow.
So, so, like I said, that's the first time
I've ever been on an Airbus,
and I get to sit... I got to see the cockpit.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
That was amazing.
All right, okay.
Hopefully, hopefully, this video.
Hopefully, you can see how excited I am.
I can't even describe what it was like.
It was like. It was so surreal being like.
Oh my gosh! There's really no yoke! What! Ha!
Took a picture of the MCP in the...
or I don't know if it's called an MCP in a Airbus,
but obviously, you know, I'm not.
I don't do that for a living,
but yeah, got pictures of their radios, the pedestal,
the throttle levers, you know?
Wow. Wow.
Okay.
Well...
it's off to baggage claim now.
That's mine. Oh.
Ah, okay.
This trip to Madison is mostly unplanned on my part,
so it's going to be pretty spontaneous
aside from the one thing that I'm actually here to do.
Everything else is gonna be pretty spontaneous,
so this is gonna be fun.
I still can't get over... I...
I still can't get over that... the...
the fact that I got to sit in the cockpit for a second.
That was cool.
That was really cool.
[Driver] Hi!
[David] Hello, are you Rebecca?
[Driver] Yeah.
[David] And I'm David.
[Driver] Well, hello, David.
[David] Hello.
[Driver] Nice to meet you.
[David] Yes, very nice to meet you as well.
[Driver] Off we go.
[David] Yep, to the hotel.
[Driver] To the hotel?
[Phone] Head north on International Lane
toward Anderson Street.
[Driver] You visiting here?
[David] Affirmative, I'm visiting here.
I'm gonna be here for a couple days.
[Driver] Welcome, David.
[David] Yeah, thank you.
[Driver] Take care, David.
[David] Yup, thank you.
[Driver] Wonderful transporting you.
[Front Desk Guy] David?
[David] Yep.
[FDG] May I see your photo ID
also a credit card for incidentals.
[David] Okay, thank you.
[FDG] Yours, credit card and photo ID.
[David] Oh!
Nice view of something.
I don't know what that is.
Oh, what's that down there?
Ah, look at that.
Ah....
Where's the light?
All right.
Nice.
Okay, all right.
Could get used to staying in this kind of hotel.
Ah.
Well, it's the afternoon on the next day.
Behind me is Lake Mendota,
and what I'm going to try to do is
walk all the way from this lake to Lake Monona
on the other side of Madison.
I've been told it's not hard, so I'm gonna try.
Here I go.
Before walking over here,
I hadn't even bothered to check whether
there was some sort of rooftop area
where we could have tables and chairs.
Didn't bother to look it up.
Just came here, saw it, and spontaneously decided to
come up here,
so I'm doing very well
on that whole spontaneous part now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Where should I go now?
I'll probably just hang around and then
decide on someplace to go
or not decide on some place to go
and just walk.
We'll see what happens
Okay, so I've noticed this mildly infuriating thing.
If I line myself up with those colored tiles in a line
and I position the fountain in the center of the shot,
the capitol building isn't lined up.
Come on!
All that you had to do was rotate
the entire rooftop terrace a couple degrees.
Great, so now the fountain
and the capitol building line up,
but the tiles don't.
*sigh*
Okay what I've decided to do is
try to get down to the water
because we're on a terrace right now.
Want to get down to the water.
Yeah.
Hmm, well, that looks promising.
*elevator chimes twice*
Two chimes means that it's going down.
Thanks, Technology Connections.
It looks like this is some walkway
where I can walk,
so I guess I'll just do exactly that.
Well, I just spent some time at Lake Monona.
I don't know what the next scene
that you're going to see is
because I haven't decided on it yet.
I am going to decide it spontaneously,
so you'll see whatever
coming up.
*elevator chimes once*
Okay, so I think that what I've decided to do
is check out the Great Dane.
Ooh, do they have an LPI?
Look! They have an LPI!
It's a very... it's a very walkable city, I guess.
That's cool.
All right, I'm now inside the restaurant,
but I am outdoors.
They have this place in the back called the "Garden."
It's still within the restaurant,
but, like, you can sit outside,
so that's cool, I guess.
Well, my food's here.
It's mac and cheese, right?
I came to Wisconsin, so I should eat some cheese, right?
Anyway
again, I don't know what you're going to see next,
but you'll see me wherever.
Oh, nice, caught the lights turning on.
Well, you can probably see
the capitol building behind me again.
I've decided to check one more place out
and then I'm gonna call it a night.
Well, there's the comedy club.
I'm not actually going to go in
because I don't have time to stay for a show,
but now I know where it is.
So yeah.
Anyway, that's gonna wrap it up for tonight.
I'll see you tomorrow morning at the airport probably
because I'm flying back.
Good morning!
I'm at Dane County Regional Airport again.
I don't think my aircraft is here yet,
but I'm gonna go to my gate.
Well, there's Gate 4.
I don't think the aircraft is here yet.
Nope.
Huh, that's funny.
"On the fly"? Get it?
'Cause we're at an airport?
Heh, get it?
"Touch-and-go"?
'Cause we're at an airport?
[KMSN Clearance] Brickyard 3556, Madison Clearance.
Cleared to Newark Airport as filed.
Maintain 5,000.
Expect FL310 10 minutes after departure.
Departure frequency 120.1. Squawk 6251.
[pilot response omitted]
Brickyard 3556, readback is correct,
and you do have an EDCT time 1649, time now is 1638.
[KMSN Ground] Brickyard 3556, Madison Ground. Push your discretion.
[RPA3556] Ground, Brickyard 3556
with you, ready to taxi.
[KMSN Ground] Brickyard 3556, Madison Ground.
Runway 18, taxi via A.
[RPA3556] 18 via A, Brickyard 3556.
Tower, Brickyard 3556. We'll be number one,
holding short 18,
and we'll be ready to go after wind check.
[KMSN Tower] Brickyard 3556, Madison Tower, roger.
Brickyard 3556, runway 18, line up and wait.
[RPA3556] Line up 18, Brickyard 3556.
[KMSN Tower] Brickyard 3556, turn left heading 140.
Runway 18, cleared for takeoff.
[RPA3556] Cleared for takeoff 18. Left turn 140,
Brickyard 3556.
*engines spool up and stabilize*
[David] There we go.
*takeoff thrust set*
There's the ILS antenna.
Feel that rudder pushing us.
And there we go.
[KMSN Tower] Brickyard 3556, contact departure.
[RPA3556] Departure. Thanks for your help, good day.
Departure, Brickyard 3556, 2,300 for 5,000.
[KMSN Departure] Brickyard 3556, Madison Departure,
radar contact.
Turn left direct BAE, climb and maintain 10,000.
[RPA 3556] Left turn to BAE. 10,000, Brickyard 3556.
[KMSN Departure] Brickyard 3556,
contact Chicago Center 133.3.
[RPA3556] 33.3, Brickyard 3556.
Brickyard 3556, 8,500 for sweet 7,000 with T.
[KEWR Approach ARD]
Brickyard 3556, Newark Approach.
Altimeter 29.78. U is current.
[RPA3556] 78. We'll get U, Brickyard 3556.
And 3556 has U.
*autopilot altitude alert*
[KEWR Approach ARD] Brickyard 3556, thank you.
Brickyard 3556, turn left heading 080.
Descend and maintain 6,000.
[RPA3556] Fly 080, 6,000, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach ARD] Brickyard 3556, turn left 060.
Descend and maintain 5,000.
[RPA3556] 060, 5,000, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach ARD] Brickyard 3556,
contact approach 120.15, good day.
[RPA3556] 20.15, Brickyard 3556, good day.
*autopilot altitude alert*
[KEWR Approach North] Brickyard 3556,
descend and maintain 5,000.
Brickyard 3556, turn right heading 090.
[RPA3556] Right turn  90, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach North] Brickyard 3556,  turn right heading 110.
[RPA3556] Right 110, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach North] Brickyard 3556, speed 210,
then descend and maintain 4,000.
[RPA3556] 210 then 4,000, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach North] Brickyard 3556, turn right heading 150.
[RPA3556] Right 150, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach North] Brickyard 3556, speed 190...
correction, make that 180,
then descend and maintain 3,000.
[RPA3556] Slow to 190, then 3,000, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach North] Ah, 180.
[RPA3556] Oh, 180, sorry.
[KEWR Approach North] Brickyard 3556,
a mile from Teterboro. Turn right heading 190.
3,000 until established on the localizer.
Cleared ILS 22L approach.
[RPA3556] All right, 190, 3,000 until established,
cleared ILS 22L, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Approach North] Brickyard 3556,
caution wake turbulence, entrail of a heavy Airbus 330.
Maintain 180 or above. Tower 18.3.
[RPA3556] 180 or above, Tower 18.3, 3556, see ya.
Tower, Brickyard 3556, ILS 22L.
[KEWR Tower] Brickyard 3556, caution wake turbulence. You're 6 and a half miles entrail of a heavy Airbus A330.
Wind 140@6, runway 22L, cleared to land.
[RPA3556] Cleared to land 22L, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Tower] Brickyard 3556, caution wake turbulence
from the MD-11 departing parallel as well.
[RPA3556] Thank you.
[KEWR Tower]
Brickyard 3556, helicopter traffic will be holding
east of the field, passing behind you westbound.
[RPA3556] Thanks.
[KEWR Tower] Brickyard 3556, at the exit, turn right P to G and hold short runway 22R.
[RPA3556] Right P G, short 22R, Brickyard 3556.
[KEWR Tower] Brickyard 3556, taxi via G,
cross runway 22R. Contact Ground.
[RPA3556] Cross 22R at G, Brickyard 3556, and over to ground, see ya later.
Ground, Brickyard 3556, cleared 22R G. C86.
[KEWR Ground] Brickyard 3556, taxi via A behind the SAS.
[RPA3556] A behind SAS, Brickyard 3556.
*seatbelt chime*
*engines shut down*
Okay, and I'm back in Newark now.
By the way, I don't think that I mentioned earlier,
but that was the first time that I've ever been in an E175,
so, yeah, that was interesting.
All right.
I guess that that's the end of our journey.
So thank you all for watching,
and I'll see you guys next time.
