Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 DREAMLINER [Blu-ray]

Amazing video
Not just the first 787 video in the Just Planes arsenal, one of the best videos there as well. Start with being 4:30 in length, with some filler, but not enough to become boring. Well spoken captains whose explanations are clear and thorough. Some excellent scenery, though a lot of cloud cover (it being near the equator and all) sometimes blocks the view of Africa.

While I would have been happier with a larger number of takeoffs and landings, we get enough, and from various angles of cockpit and external. There are fairly long stretches from different views, though Just Planes really needs to stop making a "movie" and just give us the video and let us choose the angle. For example, we do get lengthy external views on landing (not takeoff), but they sometimes jump 10 miles for no apparent reason, and we get African music, and creepy classical music, and no real sound at all, instead of ATC in the backgrounds. Just once, Just Planes, I'd like a flight with the...





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Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 DREAMLINER

Not up to expected Just Planes DVD quality
I was excited when I found out that Just Planes was releasing their first video of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Having a United Boeing 777 DVD and a Swissair Airbus DVD, I knew what kinds of things to expect in the video. The other DVD's must have set the bar extremely high because I feel Just Planes just phoned in their first Dreamliner release.

There was a good presentation on the Electronic Flight Book (EFB) and an extremely (IMHO) brief presentation about the differences in a 767/777 and the Dreamliner but I would have expected this film to have much more details in the in-flight presentation segments. I suppose when the other DVDs have practically a menu-tree by menu-tree explanation of statuses and configuraton options of the Flight computer and practically a switch by switch tour of the center console and overhead controls, just having the detail of just the EFB falls short of my expectations for a in-flight presentation of the most advanced Boeing jet to...





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