Airline Pilots Talk About Life Inside the Cockpit | This Morning

have you ever imagined what the life of a pilot is really like well our next guests have taken to the skies for ITV's returning series easyJet inside the cockpit here to tell us all about the ups and downs and turbulence of life in the air our captain iris toucan and first officer Rachel Sylvester Murphy before we chat to them let's have a look at the show over crucial six months our cameras have been given unique access inside the cockpit staying top dog in these turbulent times means flying more passengers please don't get drunk on board an aircraft again on more flights there's various things that we can't predict I just broke the wiper following all the highs and lows fold your trays away prepare for what could be a bumpy ride okay iris and Rachel joined I feel like we should buckle up for this you never know safety first welcome to both of you lovely to have you here iris you were 6 years old when you mean you decided you wanted to become a pilot yes my father would always fly over our house here the Dutch Dakota Association as a as a passenger yeah and from then on we would wave at him in the garden and I wanted to be a pilot so the passion was there right from the right yes and what about you Rachel I think it was going on holiday seeing a female pilot and apparently I was just in awe couldn't believe it and thought Yeah right and I mean yeah I can understand why because if you look at sort of globally only 5% of pilots are female so the the I mean easyJet are trying to change this aren't they because they have to have a policy now and I think at the moment they've got 13% of their pilots who are women but they want to get that up to 20% yeah at the moment actually 18% of our new entrance is female right oh they're really growing the numbers okay we're getting more why is it a thing I mean even even now having the two of you here and saying oh we've got two female pilots and then it should be perfectly normal perfectly ordinary why aren't more young women going in to aircraft in aviation as it as a career yeah I don't know it's such a silly question there should be so many more yeah and I think that's why this show is so important to show that there's such a range of people and that anybody can do it you really get to see inside the cockpit well yes I do so I suppose one of the reasons may be the fact that they were put off because or it's inflexible the hours aren't flexible I couldn't have a family yeah that's one of the reasons why I decided to do to show as well to show people that it's actually very possible and that everything can work around it I think anybody that's a slightly nervous flyer I mean I'm not brilliant I'm definitely much better but I'm not brilliant there's no doubt about it but when you realize what you have gone through it all just appear pilots the training that's involved the training that continues actually because even when you're qualified in your flying you still have to train is it every eight months every six months six months yeah it's even better so alleviate alleviate Holly's Holly's concerns then it you know because you have said that it is the safest the only other safer form of travel is going up and down in a lift yes exactly and that doesn't get you anywhere so after the lift it's the airplane that's the safest the things that make you nervous right okay so very mind I am much better like really I'm really quite good now but things that do bother me somebody once told me that if there are three Bing bongs in a road that means there's an emergency so I spend the whole flight as soon as I hear one and then I hear another one I'm thinking don't go for a third because otherwise there you go and then I kind of is there any truth in that no that's not true at all it's just the seatbelt sign usually it's usually no it's that's not true no I'm from no ok it could be three people asking for comfy the other thing is when you're taking off I don't like it when the noise changes because that always makes you feel like the engine stopping or if something's had gone wrong or you just think why is why are we slowing down suddenly what's that it's basically the engine trust coming back so for takeoff you need quite a percentage of the engine trust but still they're operating at 70% I mean they're not even operating at their max way so we still have a lot of backup power if we need it and then at one point you accelerates that you go faster and because your nose goes down you speed up so that's like what you doing this money sometimes I think you're too scared sir to ask the question because you're fearful of what the answer might be turbulence is another thing that's absolutely fine yes it's normal happens all the time what is it then basically yeah is it gonna be yeah pockets of air unstable air changes in wind on level flying over the mountains and there the wind change here so yeah that'll cause the turbulence button for you guys and you said you know you're retrained every six months you go through courses of in effect what to do within any failures that it's unlikely to have happen but you know you all know exactly what to do what about the issues coming from behind you what about passenger issues how aware of the two most senior officers of what's going on at the back yeah we're aware the cabin crew will get in touch but fortunately it's actually very rare that anything happens it's awesome Utley than as you'll see on the show it doesn't really happen how much so we're fortunate a senior officer on a flight deck have the power to arrest somebody no that's not true I know these myths are true sorry yeah we call the police letting the cameras in was that quite scary I mean sort of having that because they're they're fixed aren't they so they record whatever is going on will it really see or whether it be absolutely fine so to let them in to be under that scrutiny with that worry no I think for the first five minutes you're quite aware of what you're doing and what you're saying but after that it really quickly becomes very natural so it wasn't intrusive in any way in any way no it was quite fun actually a big audience for the for the landings though isn't it yeah that's a little bit scary yeah you already have the hundred eighty people behind you plus the cameras but you do you honestly do forget that there that you see them in the first five minutes and then you're getting on with the job and they're not there and they captured a really wonderful moment in your life and your career because you were made captain yes yeah I got my four stripes both start a full stripes is Captain you stripes is first officer first officer and that's in the two of you that sit side by side and it depends on how many hours of flying you do to become a captain it's experience yeah it's ours and then basically you go through a massive amount of training when the company you think you're ready and you feel you're ready you where you can watch it on the show you can see then following the whole process and you are actually then sitting the wrong way around on you yeah can we put you in the right order please would you like hang on does that make me the person yes I like the captain mind your seat sir well by the way you can give it a go swap over but just make sure you there fall over back you have to sit down exactly they sit down at precisely the same time on this plane they're what you always are if there were any women that were you know thinking about this as a career what would you what would you say to them go for it yeah girl Fred don't doubt if you really really want this it's possible it's possible with a family it's you can do it the sky is the limit and understand a lot of people think you can't do it with children but okay is this your home every night it's you can even take them to school and pick them up and I worked in the middle it doesn't stop you at all oh well done you too thrilled to have a very easy jet inside the cockpit tonight at 9:00 on ITV and thank you thank you Andy thank you thank you you

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Id: Cii30B-tkso

Length: 8min 48sec (528 seconds)

Published: Thu May 02 2019