Viral Debrief. Coming up! Hey, 74 crew! Welcome back! If you don't know me,
my name is Kelsey. I'm a 747 pilot. My channel 74 gear
is all about aviation. Thank you so much to
all of you in the 74 crew for continuing to send me videos
that you want to see in this series. The easiest way to send
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share what you want to see. All right! Let's get into it! What? At first when I saw this video,
I honestly thought it was fake. Like something
you see at a carnival but apparently it's real. There is still one
thing that doesn't quite add up which I'll talk
about in a minute. If you aren't familiar with this
type of plane, it's called a Cirrus. It's a really cool
modern aircraft. I've flown not this particular model
but a few models that they make. They're really modern and normally
you don't have to do the hand propping which is what this guy is doing. You see him grabbing
that prop and spinning it? That's the way old planes
actually needed to be started but this isn't one of
those types of planes. Before we go any further, we
got to talk about the stupidity of what's happening here. He obviously isn't the first
person to ever start his plane and then have the
plane run away on him. People make mistakes. Myself included. But the point I want
you to notice is this: He starts the plane prop
and then runs in front of it while it's coming at him. Don't ever run in front of a propeller
while the plane is coming at you. That's a really easy way to die. Now let's talk about some of the things
that don't make sense in this video. He said and I read
on the report actually because I thought this was
fake when I first saw this. But he said that he
set the parking brake. Something that you should always do
is have someone sitting there in the seat. It's not very hard to step
on the brakes of a plane. It's kind of like a car break
but there's two pedals. You could easily get
someone who knows nothing. I mean you should have a
trained pilot but you could get somebody who knows
nothing about planes and say: "Put your feet here
on the pedals and then just stay like that
until I get in the plane". And then you ask yourself: "Where
could you put someone on that aircraft where they're on the plane
but completely useless?" You'd put them on the wing. Not in the seat. You'd have them
standing on the wing. One of the things that first caught
my attention was the doors closing. The doors on this type of
plane are like Lamborghini doors. They're actually really cool. But they do take some
force to close them. They don't just
close very easily. But as soon as the engine starts,
you'll notice that both doors close. Take a look. Then you'll notice that something falls
and then something else falls right here. And it's a person. Which means that this person
was standing up or doing something but they weren't in
the seat of the aircraft. I've flown the
Cirrus several times. These seats are set
kind of low, so you're not just going to just
jump up really quickly. I mean maybe if you had
like a code brown situation that might happen but I don't
think that was the case here. And then you'll notice
that both doors close which means there's people
sitting in both the left seat and the right seat. We don't know for sure that there
was someone sitting in the left seat because you can't actually see a
person there as they go by in the video. But we do know that
there was someone on the right wing because they
fell off the wing somehow. Even if that person knew
nothing about aviation, seemed like a grown person, you could tell them to sit there and put their feet
on those pedals and not move. Pretty simple. Watch this again. He starts the engine, he
runs in front of the plane. Both doors close. He jumps on the wing and he
struggles to get the door open which again, it's
a door. It goes up. It's pretty simple. I can promise you that if I can figure
out how to open the door to this plane it's not that difficult. But with the door open, he
could have dove down, head first and put his hands on the brakes. It wouldn't have been the
best way to stop the plane but it would have
probably stopped the plane until he could come
up with a better plan. Like turning off the
engine or something. I don't know for a fact that
there's someone in the left seat but it sure seems strange to me. In aviation, you're always having to
think ahead about what's coming up, what could happen. And in this case, you had
someone that was obviously an adult that was
standing on the right wing. You could have had them
sitting there in the seat and then in the event that
the person in the left seat, had some mental
malfunction and couldn't step on the brakes which is
obviously what happened then the person on
the right seat could do it. All right. Let's
see what's next. Pretty stiff crab
that he's in here. Nice! Nicely done! From the outside, it looked
like a great crosswind landing. I can assure you though for the passengers inside,
it was probably a bit bumpy. The wings of the aircraft
are rocking back and forth because the pilot is trying to
keep the aircraft landing gear, the main landing gear lined
up with the center of the runway. And the speed of the
wind is continually changing so you're always having to
continually make corrections. So it's good to have your hand
on the throttle and one on the yoke. You're going to be continuing to
make those corrections to keep your main landing gear lined
up with the middle of the runway. Now he's approaching this runway
sideways. That's known as a "Crab". It's really the safest way and the
only way to fly this type of aircraft with this type of wing design. With a smaller aircraft,
a smaller general aircraft, you can do something
called "Cross Controlling" which you basically dip
one wing into the wind and you stomp on the rudder. So that keeps the plane
going straight down the runway. That works for
a smaller aircraft but on these larger commercial
aircraft with these types of wing designs, it's not the best way to fly
these types of approaches. I mentioned this
in that A380 video that they didn't do great about
flaring and landing in the crab. Look at what the
pilot does here. They flare and they stay in the
crab and then land in the crab. The momentum of the aircraft causes
the plane to go straight down the runway. As you watch it again, you'll notice
that the pilot gives some rudder input to get the plane straightened
out a little bit, but not all the way. Look at the angle
that they touch down and after, it's just a
totally normal roll out. Crosswind landings are
definitely something that pilots struggle with as
they go through flight school and actually when they
become an airline pilot. It's a lot going on. You have both hands doing
something, both feet doing something and your eyes have to be watching
everything, interpreting the information and making the appropriate
corrections very quickly. If you're a pilot, it's something
that you'll just have to continue to practice as you
go through your aviation career. Some landings will be
great, some will be bad but if you learn from all of
them, it'll make you a better pilot. Something that is very important though
if you do want to become an airline pilot, there's something you need to
know about these types of landings. If it's a great landing
then you obviously need to take credit for it for
your superior airmanship. If it's a terrible landing, then you need to come up with a
great excuse of why it wasn't your fault. I sneezed, the
other guy sneezed, it was windy, it
wasn't windy enough. You need to have a whole bunch of excuses
loaded up because a real airline pilot always has an excuse for
why it didn't come out amazing. All right. Let's
see what's next! Oof That's not easy to do! Man! That is not easy to smash
a 747 in the ground that hard and cause it to
bounce up in the air. I've talked about it in that Microsoft
Flight Sim game that I was playing. That a 747 doesn't
bounce that easy and that's because I've been
through some horribly hard landings and never gotten
back up in the air again. However, there are a few things about
this landing that caught my attention. If you look at the smokestacks
in the background here, and where the smoke blows
from when the tires land, it gives you the impression that the wind
is actually blowing from left to right. But when you watch
the plane land, you'll notice that the left-wing
is lower to the ground which means they're
actually correcting to the left because the
wind was pushing them. But watch what happens
when they bounce up in the air. The tail goes into the wind. The tail on a 747 is massive. I thought when I first
started flying a 747 that in a crosswind it
wouldn't be a big deal. We're flying this massive plane. A small crosswind
won't mess it up. Not true! That rudder is so big. I talked about one of the first
crosswind landings that I had on the 747. I was going into Miami and I flared and then
I put the crosswind correction on the rudder
at about 20 or 30 feet. That's too high when
it's a strong crosswind. And what happened
is I put that rudder in and with that rudder
straightened out and lined up on the runway,
which all looked good, we still had 30 feet left
to go with that strong wind. It started pushing us off
the side of the runway. I think I had been flying the
plane for, I don't know, two weeks so I didn't realize just
how that would play out. It looks like the pilot steps on the
rudder here once they're in the air. Not a lot but there are two possible
things that are happening here. One scenario, since
we can't see the plane as it's out of frame
as it comes into land, is that when the plane hits the ground
and I literally mean hits the ground the momentum is carrying the backside
of the plane actually in that direction, or the pilot is stepping on the rudder a
lot more than it looks like in the video. The rudder is a thing that's
on the back of the plane. It's what we use to move the
backside of the plane left or right. We use it for crosswind
landings and things like that. But it looks like the backside of
this aircraft move a lot to the left. Either way, this plane
was not stabilized vertically or laterally when they
came in on the approach. Something that I was taught
in flight school and then I know that a lot of people
get taught in flight school and I think it's
a terrible habit. But when you're in flight school,
is your bad energy management. Meaning you come in too fast. I used to come
in fast all the time. You come in too fast and then when
you're about 40 feet off the runway, Your instructor
says cut the power. So you pull the
power all the way back and then you just kind of
let the plane glide in and land. What happens is is that if you get into
that bad habit when you get into jets, you'll do the exact same thing. And if you do that on
a jet like this and at 40 or 50 feet you chop the
power all the way back, your landing looks like this. I don't know what happened
because I wasn't on the flight deck but either way, there
could have been a massive gust of wind that went
away or something like that. I've been through
some very hard landings. I've never seen a plane bounce
up like this, especially this plane. I'm guessing that they
chopped the power. They came we're
coming at an angle. They chopped the power and then
they just basically fell out of the sky and bounced up
in the air like that. It's really a hard landing and it's
very hard to do on a plane this big. All right. Let's
see the next video! I'm not a cinematographer. As you've seen,
I've got stuff that is all kinds of different poor
ways that I do things but I would know that if I
was making a video of this, I would need to turn the
phone 13 different angles to take a video of one engine. One of the things that I
really like about this video that I want to share with those
of you who are fearful flyers is you can see that this engine cowling the
outside of the engine is blown off, right? And what that does is
it creates a lot of drag. I don't know if the engine will shut
down or what exactly happened there but if you notice, there's all this casing
that's around the outside of the engine and it's not a big deal at all. It's kind of like driving your
car with a big parachute. You just need a little bit more
gas to get where you need to go. Something that
happened to me kind of like this, not this dramatic
but something like this when I was in flight school and I
was doing my first multi-engine flight. The doors on the plane apparently
needed to be slammed shut. I did not know that and the
instructor did not tell me that. So as soon as we
rotated off the ground, the door flew open. Not excited to see a door fly open
once you just pull off the ground. Now, the instructor said to me and these
pilots probably heard the same thing, is the first thing that
you want to do is aviate. Fly the plane. And so these pilots with this
engine doing whatever it's doing, That's something that they know. So if you're flying and
you're in this situation and you see the part of the
engine to the side like that, but the plane is still flying, there's nothing to worry about. Those pilots know their
priority is to fly the aircraft. So they might need
to add a little bit more power which is what I
needed with my door open. I needed to add some more
power to get to the runway but you got to the runway
and it was no big deal. And that's why I was glad they showed the
end of this video with them on the runway. So for those of you
that are fearful flyers, you can see everything
worked out okay. The main thing that you want to
focus on if you ever in this situation is listen to announcements
from your flight attendants, listen to the announcements
from your pilots and don't flip your
camera around 13 different times to film it before
you send it to me. All right. Let's
see the next video. Someone sent this to
me on Instagram and they asked me why they were
flying so low to the ground when they were coming
in on the approach. And I can't answer
why they would do that but there are some things and some strange
techniques and some possibly bad habits that I want to point
out to you and hopefully you don't get in the habit
of doing these things. First thing to note is
watch the pilot's left hand. He's pulling the
power back here. I personally think it's a bit
strange that they're splitting up the power by pulling
out the middle or the outsides but I'm not an aerospace
engineer so I don't know why they would be doing that
on this particular aircraft. There might be a benefit to
doing it on this plane design but generally, you'd want
to keep them all together. Another strange thing that caught
my eye is this incredible cluster that they have on their
already tiny windows. I have no idea what
all this stuff is but I hope it's something
really cool like a laser or that it needs to be up there
because there's a lot of stuff. I made a joke during the Conair
Hollywood versus Reality that I did that I've never seen a pilot
with a ton of trash on their dash. Obviously, this isn't trash. There's some use for that stuff. That's up there but that's a
lot of stuff to have on the dash. I don't know what all it is and I'm
assuming it needs to be up there. Obviously, he's got GoPros
and other things that are mounted but it's got something
massive there in the middle. Anyway, I just thought
it was funny because I've never seen that much stuff
sitting there on the dash. Going back to the hands now. The pilot keeps
taking his hands off the throttle and bringing
it back onto the yoke. This is a bad habit to get into. Especially if you need
to add power quickly. That extra half second from
getting from your yoke to your throttle could make the difference. I can't explain why they keep
splitting the plane's throttles. I'm sure someone on here is going to
explain to me in the comment section why that's good on
this particular plane. On the 747, even when
we shut down an engine, We pull the throttle
back, shut down an engine, we bring that
throttle lever back up and we keep them
all in a straight line. Because let's say you have them back like
this and you have the middle ones forward and these other ones
to the side that are back. And all of a sudden you
need to add full power and you reach over quickly
because your hand is on your yoke. You reach over quickly and
grab just the middle and push it up. You could only push up two
of your four working engines. If you know why they
would do something like this, please let me know
in the comment section. I don't know why and I wasn't going to
do a whole bunch of research to explain why a pilot would do this. It doesn't make any sense to
me from a safety standpoint. Maybe there's
something specific on this aircraft which is why
they'd want to do that. To me, it would make more sense
to keep all of your throttle together and then just come in at the
speed that you need to do it. So we saw him pull
the power back early. Now he's adding power because
he's low over these houses here. Not a big deal. Every pilot has done that. He does look a bit
close to the houses but it's hard to tell since
I'm not on the plane. I did hear a 500 foot call out. That's a bit low for the distance
that he is from the runway. The other bad habit that
he could be developing or maybe they are
intending to do this but they're coming
in low, flat and they're landing at the very
start of the runway. If you have a malfunction and
you're really limited on your options, you're increased your
risk unnecessarily. if you haven't seen the video I did a
while back of the plane that's coming in and they're trying to land at the very
start of the runway and they misjudged it, and they hit the side
of the mountain there, that's possible
that could happen. If you had an engine
failure and you're aiming to land at the very
start of the runway, you don't have a lot
of speed or momentum. You have your landing gear out, you have your flaps out, you
have everything set up to land which means it's going to take a
second or two to add more power and if you've just lost an
engine, you've lost a lot of power and added a bunch of drag. So by landing at the very start of
the runway, you limit your options. If you like this style of
video and you want to see me doing the same type of
breakdown with Air Traffic Control, you're going to want
to watch this video here. And if you want to see a
little bit more of a fun video, you're going to want to
watch this one up here. I look forward to
hearing from you. Until then, keep the blue side up!
