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Old 10th Mar 2009, 09:12
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tom775257
 
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I have worked at two airlines flying the A320, each wanted a different departure brief style..

For what it's worth, the current departure brief I do is along the lines of:

(Basically reading through the perf page to begin with)
Right hand seat departure A321 Runway 33 Birmingham, runway dry, no notams or snags to affect us. No significant weather. Flaps 1+F, eng out accel 1830, Thrust reduction 1830', two eng accel 3330'. Transition alt 4000', V speed are 145, 151, 152.

Next F.plan page:
Departure is a Compton 3D page 10-xx dated 9th jun 08. MSA is 2500' within 25 of BHX, 2200 to the south east'.
MSA's en route above 10,000 begin at:
Notes on the plate top:
Discuss the departure following through on the MCDU and plan mode on the ND checking constraints.

Rad nav page:
Radio aids to back that up are:

Secondary Fplan page.
Discuss what is in the secondary flight plan in case of emergency, discuss weight in case of return to land e.g. overweight Cx required and runway sufficient (with no braking problem)

Then move into an emergency briefing... 'For any failure during start push and taxi.... etc.etc.etc'

At the previous airline they had a checklist for the departure brief, and literally you would go through it step by step.... a lot of it became 'company standard.'

Cheers, and good luck
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