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So I live in air, sea and land.
But air, that's my job.
I'm Pertti Hämäläinen -
working as a Airbus 330 and 340 captain.
I've been working here for 23 years.
I'm a pretty outdoors guy -
doing a lot of backpacking in Lapland.
As a mental hobby -
I do some studying.
I've been studying environmental and resource economics.
When I started with the DC-9,
I think and I claim that we were flying very efficiently -
even though we didn't actively think about the environment.
Then came all the new planes.
All the new equipment, all the new computers.
The new flight management computer, what is the brain of the new plane.
But even the computers are getting better -
the calculation capacity is getting better.
Still there's a pilot who really thinks -
safely, economically and environmentally.
It takes some 20-30 minutes to prepare the flight.
We check the weather. We check the flight plan.
We check the en route weather and we check the NOTAMs.
As a pilot, we try to think of the correct amount of the fuel -
just for that route and concerning those weather situation forecasted for our route.
During recent years there has been lots of interest to make the planes lighter.
Certain equipment has been changed because they are lighter.
Inside a cabin, for example, new Marimekko dishes -
they are made with material that is 30 or maybe 50 percent less than the previous cups.
You can notice that Finnair keeps the timetable quite precisely.
If one flight, for example coming from Asia to Helsinki, is very late.
All the planes have to wait for the delayed long haul flight.
And to reach their arrival schedule, they have to fly with a higher cost index.
That means more fuel consumption and more environmental impact.
In every flight you can, in a way, challenge yourself.
And one way to challenge is thinking about safety, economic and environmental things -
at the same time. That would be the most efficient way to fly.
And if you learn to think that way. Then you will be a better pilot.