A New Pilot Makes His First Ever Flight With Passengers! | EasyJet: Inside The Cockpit | ITV

today 47 year-old Stuart Friedman is at Milan Airport for his first day on the job both this the less glamorous side of it isn't it in the dark in the way only two weeks ago Stuart finished his 18-month training his knee was mine cool and today he's going to fly paying passengers for the first time it feels unreal that you're about to be trusted to fly this 50 ton plane for real good okay yep perfect well ladies start you see this thing is working take a flight plan luckily for the passengers he wouldn't be alone in the cockpit with him is no-nonsense swiss captain thomas Venga and I hope you with the frequency so on VHF 12 all this mistakes too and safety pilot Julian lambda for added backup normally what happens that all the paper comes to you and you organize the paper tunity that's your job sounds gonna be busy it's busy it's busy it's a busy job Stuart has four flights today captain Thomas will take the first leg to Bari in southern Italy then there's a 35 minute flight to Amsterdam and back which will be Stewart's turn at the controls [Music] when you start that first day it is a quite a nerve-wracking sensation by spine client okay you don't 100% know what to expect [Music] as Captain Thomas lands in a very rainy berry there's a problem [Music] and you check with your life that is what everything rain is forecast for Stewart's first chance behind the controls so it's probably best that they can see where they're going listen it's India Viktor Viktor yeah I just broke the wiper if light without a wiper I will the storm at the moment with the heavy rain no copy delay every year 2% or 11,000 of over half a million flights suffer a delay because of technical problems okay this is not the minimum equipment this year so basically it says the aircraft is equipped as well with a rain repair insistence a lot basically it's a chemical fluids you spray on the and the windshields likeliest winter believe it or not there is such a thing as a minimum equipment list which tells pilots which faulty equipment they can safely fly with so we use the rain repellent instead of the wiper arm the wiper is custom an extra 20 minutes on the ground and they've missed their takeoff slot noting that air traffic control can't handle with a good dose of Italian charm they say now the flight is release that was pretty straight to the point anyway we need to write a new slot if you taxi some people want to see you can you help them that they seem [Music] like to listen which one in one taxi in Bari Italy after 14 minutes waiting for a slot Stuart finally takes the controls for the very first time with 150 paying passengers on board and a broken wiper ok take [Music] after a grade-a takeoff captain Thomas is letting Stuart attempt his first landing with passengers at Amsterdam am i okay to plug things in here boy he'll be one of a thousand pilots landing on Amsterdam six runways today but this afternoon the huge airport is covered in cloud not the easiest prospect for a rookie pilot attempting his first landing on the job and word of his big day has spread to the cabin [Music] viki's is going very good once you see the wrong way if you have doubts and that's around no we say us control okay I'm here for these sir this is my job okay this afternoon the cloud is so low Stuart will only see the runway 30 seconds before he lands giving him just moments to adjust the planes direction for the runway it's a very intense experience you're flying this 60-ton jet at a hundred and fifty miles an hour or so towards the ground and things do happen very quickly that is the point where it does feel very real and you know that you're not in in a video game minimum [Music] the nose is too high if he doesn't correct it Stuart and his 150 passengers could come down very hard 20 [Music] at Amsterdam Airport 15 new pilot Stuart Freeman is attempting to safely land is 150 passengers 2,300 are but he's misjudged the angle of the plane with seconds to spare captain thomas has taken control to execute a safe landing it's not the start Stuart would have wanted but passenger safety comes first yes that's hard work let's debrief this speak at 200 feet we fly towards the I move on did you fly to the aiming point we drifted high that came here I have control yes he calls then we stopped to fly the aircraft the aircraft saw three fields Stuart has at least 50 more flights with a training captain so he's got time to perfect his landing the very last bit of a landing wasn't quite right so Thomas took over on the last sort of 24 so [Music] slide now has been a fairly intense thing [Music] you

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Keywords: new pilot, pilots first flight with passengers, pilots first flight, pilots first landing, easyjet inside the cockpit itv, easyjet cockpit, easyjet inside the cockpit, easyjet behind the scenes, inside the cockpit, airline pilot, new pilot mistake, airline behind the scenes

Id: sd4hSipKPh0

Length: 8min 16sec (496 seconds)

Published: Tue May 14 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Nice_Conclusion]

It says in the video, he didn't correctly aim for the landing point on the runway and drifted further down the runway than he was supposed to.

[u/spacecadet2399]

He floated *and* got off centerline, which is what often happens when you float. The captain explains that he "drifted off" - I don't think he's saying just that he drifted down the runway, though he says that too. But the phrase "drift off" to me means drifted off centerline, and his hand movement that he's doing just out of frame looks like he's demonstrating that as well.

I went back a bit in the video from the point you started it at and you can see the drift in the very last shot down the runway before the captain takes over. They barely showed it; it's not the best editing. This seemed to be a crosswind landing (most are), and the correct technique in an airliner is to crab on final and then kick out the crab at the last second before touchdown, so your forward momentum keeps you on centerline before the wind can grab you. If you stay in the air too long after kicking out the crab, the wind will push you off to the side and that's exactly what happened here.

It's common to float when you're new to an airplane, because you get a little nervous about where the wheels actually are in relation to the ground. Since you're angled upward and at quite a distance from the main gear, until you know the plane well it's hard to gauge how high you really are. Of course you have the automated callouts but those only help to a certain, very general extent, and anyway it can be tough to process those immediately when you're new and trying to figure out the sight picture at the same time.

[u/CarbonCardinal]

Floated too far down the runway. You're goal is to get it down with a specified area called the touchdown zone, which is about within the first 1,000' of runway.