Air Force One Movie (1997) Hollywood vs Reality | Pilot Reacts

the movie Air Force one came out in 1997 it's a film where terrorists take over the US presidents Boeing 747 today I'm going to do a Hollywood vs. reality on the film Air Force One get off my plane 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 today I'm here in Anchorage Alaska as you can see the backdrop of this video is actually really nice now I want to be clear I've never been on Air Force One so there's a few assumptions that I'm going to have to make on a couple of topics one thing you should know is the Boeing 747 that the president currently flies on is referred to as a classic it's an older generation an older model than what you see me flying that means it requires three people on the flight deck you have a captain of copilot or first officer and an engineer so the first scene you're gonna see three people up there and that third person is actually required to be there on the flight deck to fly that aircraft the first thing I have the terrorists are actually already on board Air Force One and are in the process of trying to take over the aircraft let's get into it bridges lock that door now flight control this is Air Force One declaring emergency Ramstein Tower this is Air Force One we are Air Force One landing runway 09 I repeat runway 09 one two who are you to land in this first scene the main thing that is off is how the pilots and air traffic control are communicating even in an emergency air traffic control is going to be giving the pilots a heading and a direction and an altitude the pilots generally aren't going to be dictating I'm turning this heading and I'm going to this altitude that's generally not what's gonna happen another thing the pilot says is that it's on a 10-mile dogleg a dogleg means you're coming in at a 45 degree angle to the angle of the runway in most cases we intercept on a 90 degree angle that's called a base leg or were on a very long final which means we're just coming in straight to the runway so a dogleg means you're coming in at a 45 degree angle another thing that he says is they're coming in red hot I started laughing because no pilot would ever say that and if someone said that all the other people would be making fun of him all right let's get back to the movie no matter what happens we land this aircraft is that understood let me pause it here real quick because he says he's gonna land flaps 30 and there's nothing wrong with that we land either flaps 25 or 30 but you're not gonna have someone select flaps 30 this close to the runway usually you're gonna land flaps 30 if you're very heavy or you're on a short runway and you need to come on slower you would land flaps 25 probably in this scenario because you're trying to land and get on the ground as quickly as possible so selecting flaps 30 this close to the runway is not very realistic also I mentioned earlier Air Force One is a Boeing 747 which is a classic that classic addition means that the gauges the instruments that the pilots looking at are round steam gauges they're not the glass cockpit which is the computer screens that you're seeing here now it's possible they've upgraded the avionics or upgraded the instrumentation in the Boeing 747 but an original classic that you generally hear people refer to doesn't have this layout of a cockpit and like I said I've never been on Air Force One but if there's someone out there that's watching that can get me a tour...message me all right let's get back to the movie now right before he shoots the first officer the first officer reaches over and grabs a lever and pulls it down that lever if it's armed which it usually is be right before landing it automatically deploys so there's no reason that the first officer would need to pull that usually that someone's going to be armed and as soon as the wheels touch down that speed brake is going to come back that's gonna help push the aircraft on the ground that's gonna help reduce lift on the wings that's gonna help the brakes there's a bunch of different things that it does if someone actually forgot to do it which I guess is possible in this emergency situation it's natural that the pilots are gonna look for that to come back which means in this case the captain would reach over and pull that speed lever back so it wouldn't be up also realize that the Boeing 747 has auto brakes that means as soon as those wheels touch down and speed up the brakes start working and slowing the aircraft down the pilots aren't manually doing it so you see the brakes skidding and things like that the brakes won't do that they'll actually release and make sure that they have traction another thing that's very Hollywood in this scene is you see the pilot actually slump over and then the plane veers to the right this isn't a car it's not like a normal steering wheel that if something lets go it's gonna shoot one way or the other the way that aircraft is maneuvered is either using your feet on the rudder pedals and using rudder steering like that or a tiller this is a picture of the tiller and a 747 it takes a little bit of force to move this so a guy's slumping over and a seat isn't gonna be close enough to reach that tiller and there's not going to be enough force to push it all so I hopefully don't need to tell you that a 747 can't turn at this speed or generally turning around seven to ten knots when we're making a turn it's not a fast and furious car which you can drift around a corner sorry Vin all right let's get back to the movie first I'm not sure why everyone at Hollywood likes to think that the leading edge of an aircraft wing is sharp like razor sharp with hedge trimmers on the front every time you see a plane wing go through a bush or a tree in a movie it just slices everything off here's a picture that I actually pulled from my Instagram that shows the leading edge of a wing from a 747 as you can see it's a rounded front there's no hedges or razor-sharp anything on the front of this wing so it would not work going through there it would not just slice off a bunch of branches and when he finally turns to actually take the aircraft off there's several really Hollywood things that are going on here first and I couldn't quite make it out but it doesn't look like he has any flaps out when you take off a 747 normally you're taking off with flaps 10 or flaps 20 and that allows the aircraft to take off at a slower speed that's the reason we use it for landing as well so we can land at a slower speed so it's the same for takeoff you're gonna have those flaps out so you can get the aircraft up in the air and he's also taking off in a very short distance which means without any flaps there's no way he's gonna get off the ground in a couple thousand feet like you're seeing here and the last thing and I can't stress this enough is no matter what type of constipated face that you make your aircraft isn't gonna perform any better or do anything that it's not normally going to be able to do so if we're ever flying together and I look over and you're making a face like this please don't do that alright let's get back to the movie in this scene Harrison Ford is actually taking over the plane and actually going to be flying the aircraft I'm supposed to not fly no sir I'm alone major I'll need your co-pilot yes sir anybody there yes all right you got somebody that can help me fly this thing sir this Colonel Jackson we need to get you out of hostile territory I need you to look above the central video screen there's a series of led numbers now one of them should read 110 got it that's your course heading now just below there's a knob surrounded by hash marks and want you to turn that knob counterclockwise to 290 290 we're turning Bob but this course take out of Kazakhstan were okay baby now sir we can't land this plane on autopilot so we're gonna need to go over a few things now this in kind of surprised me because Harrison Ford in real life is actually a pilot yet he's talking without holding any buttons down now you can make a phone call and talk to someone through the flight deck that can happen but usually when you're talking you're transmitting you're holding a button down and his hands are moving around he's not holding a button down so as a pilot you would think that that's something he would have done if everything that we said on the flight deck was getting transmitted to other aircraft or air traffic control or passengers in the back most pilots by now would probably be fired and as a side note it's kind of funny they said they wanted to get out of Kazakhstan just a couple of weeks ago I actually had a layover in Kazakhstan here you can see as a picture I took on the ramp with a 747 right behind me and behind it are the mountains of Kazakhstan I just took it off my Instagram anyway let's get back to the movie the miss how far away are they that one coming that is countermeasures are activated number four engine is on fire moving right left father you have to compensate can I pull back at number 1 engine take it slow down have to trim it out how do I do that no Jesus Christ got a red light here so we'll just have to ignore the fact that all these fighter jets are not able to shoot down a 747 despite the fact that there are no other guns or weapons or missiles for the 747 to shoot back at these other fighter jets which are significantly faster now one thing that was very good is that when the engine was on fire the copilot in this scenario reached up and pulled the lever and turned it that is what you would do in the real event of an engine fire so that was correct Harrison also asked him if he could pull back engine number one now we don't know what altitude or what speed they're at but that would be another way to balance the aircraft out but he tells him to use the trim anywhere he tells them the get the trim rudder is actually in the right spot it's on that a pedestal kind of to the right of where he is and again I don't know what altitude or what speed he's at but he could have pulled back lever one because obviously these fighter jets can't shoot and they'll probably run out of bullets and have to go back and get gas okay let's get back to the movie Air Force one this is Liberty to 400 G on your left side Yuri Air Force one loud and clear dibs here get the door a Philly 10,000 beating 200 knots okay I just have to pause this real quick obviously most of you know that aircraft are like a 747 are pressurized and when it's pressurized it's not like you can just open the door latch and then punch it and it will fly out the little door that you see him actually open up it's just the panel to arm the emergency slide it's not like you can lift that panel up and then just punch that yellow knob and the doors gonna go flying off all that you would do is punch it and probably hurt your hand besides that if they were able to punch and kick that door out that door which is very big and heavy is either gonna fly into the wing and damage it or possibly into the engine there's a bunch of things that could go really wrong with kicking that door open a better idea would have been using the hatch that's on the flight deck it's a small hatch that opens inward that inward hatch would then be inside the aircraft and not flying into the wings or engines that would obviously make the flight deck very loud and very windy but since these guys have already avoided a hostage takeover from terrorists missiles fighter jets that couldn't shoot them down you know a little bit of noise from the flight deck isn't gonna really ruin their day okay let's get back to the movie this lots of other Asian Liberty we just lost another engine Liberty - for acknowledged sir time to go who's gonna fly the plane I'll take care of that sir another engine when you see engine one flame out the screen they show there is accurate that's what it looks like on a 400 which is what I fly but you see the engine for shutdown and then you see some instrumentation around Engine 4 that is not actually how it looked like it would look like this if the engine was shut down next when you see the military guy arrive on the aircraft Harrison Ford is getting out and he's squeezing around the outside of the seat there's not a lot of space over there this is a photo of what it looks like from behind the captain's seat on a 747 there's not a lot of space that someone's going to be able to slide passer especially not a full-grown man and again a 747 is not a car so you can't just hook a seat belt to it and hold it in place the more realistic option would be trim the aircraft out and then try to run off the aircraft or hopefully you've opened that hatch and went through the hatch door but like I talked about earlier but you're not going to be able to get a yoke to get held by a seat belt and hope that's gonna do it that is never gonna work if they done my hatch idea he honestly could have been flying it until the last second and then you could get out of that hat probably in five or 10 seconds so it wouldn't really matter at that point all right let's go over the final scene of Air Force one where they've gotten almost everyone off the aircraft now this movie was made now they could have just lowered Sully in through that escape hatch that I was talking about and then he could have smoothly landed on the water and everything would have been saved speaking of Sully if you haven't seen the Hollywood vs reality that had been on his movie I'll put it right up here I talked about the great job that Sully his first officer Jeff and the entire crew did to safely get everybody off the aircraft it was one of the earlier Hollywood vs reality movies that I did but it was a great movie so go check it out all right 74 crew i look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up

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Length: 15min 51sec (951 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 15 2019