How YOU can land a passenger aircraft! 12 steps

hi everybody that are working to mentor and yet not a video podcasts always a hope you're doing absolutely fantastic today on the video guys who the passenger be instructed to land a Boeing 737-800 only by instruction from air traffic control if that was the last option available if all the pilots were gone cabin crew gone and you had access to the cockpit and you with the last resort I'm going to give you about 20 steps that have to be done in order to get the aircraft safely down on the ground but I want to emphasize at this point guys that this is just shown to reassure you the nervous Flyers out there that it's possible it is not to be seen as an instructional video and should under no circumstances be seen as [Music] [Music] right guys so first of all welcome up to a very empty cockpit okay this is a flight that is on route between London Stansted and Bremen in Germany it's maintaining 21,000 feet and for whatever reasons the pilots are gone cabin crew are gone and you were the last one standing kind of like in the horrible scenario with the Helios aircraft where the pressurization panel was incorrectly set and it rendered everyone on board except one person incapacitated so the very first step that you will need to take is you will need to sit down in the cockpit and take a deep breath okay it's very very important that you don't panic at this stage so enter the cockpit sit down in the first officer seat that would suggest and just look around you okay everything is calm there's no alarms bleeping or anything like that it's just flying the last kind of instruction that the pilots gave the aircraft before they they disappeared so now the absolute first thing that you need to do after you've been sitting down is you need to find a headset okay because you need to start initiate some kind of contact that kind of traffic control because I want to really emphasize this that without contact with air traffic control and without them finding someone that can help to guide you down this is going to be impossible so the headset will look like this you put it over your ears and you speak into this piece here like that at the moment when you put that on you're going to hear a lot of different chatter from other radio stations you won't understand what that means it doesn't matter the next step that you need to do is you need to talk to air traffic control on the designated emergency frequency now most airlines would have set up their radio frequencies to have the emergency frequency on standby on their second radio box so the first thing I wanted to do is look down on the center pedestal at the top right corner there's going to be a box with numbers in it now there is a big knob and a small knob that you can move around and what I want you to do is I wanted to set one to one decimal five in frequencies one to one this mod five in between the windows on the radio box there is a little arrow switch if you push that after you've set the value that is going to make one two one five the frequency to use there we go now this means that box number two radio number two is now set up for communication but you still can't communicate unless you have set up the audio control panel so if you go two steps down there's a big kind of panel with loads of buttons with arrows on it so what I want you to do is I want you to press the second one from the left VHF - it's called you press that and put the arrow below it up to the mid position up to the 12 o'clock position it means that you now have the volume set correctly and you're now transmitting on the correct radio box okay now if you go straight down from that arrow there is a switch to the far left of the control that says or T or e singer or T says for radio transmission and IC stands for intercom what you want to do is you want to toggle that switch to the or T position to the radio transmit now when you do this you are going to transmit on the emergency frequency so the emergency frequency will reach all of the different stations the tower frequencies to control the frequencies and everything so you obviously don't know what your callsign is so what I wanted to do is you you were press it up and you tell them Mayday Mayday Mayday say the name of the airline that you're flying for and say where you're coming from and where you're going to and that you're a passenger trying to fly the aircraft so Mayday Mayday Mayday my name is Peter I'm a passenger on board mentor 360 Airlines and I'm flying from Stansted to Bremen I'm a passenger and I don't know what to do something like that that will meet you to go out to our traffic control and they will now you know try to contact you by your name and tell you a little bit what to do so that's step number one sit down and establish radio communication to the left of this box there is an another radio box with four Numerical numbers in it you can say anything it should have a little button in between which says 18c now there are two knobs on each side of the ATC button if you move them the numerical numbers will change this is the transponder and what you want to do is you want to squawk and you want to change the numbers in there to seven seven zero zero now your radio echo for air traffic control will be seen as an emergency frequency and emergency fly and it will be easier for them to find you so step number two is we need to now get control of what the aircraft is doing air traffic control is likely going to want to know how far away you are from a land will air port and how much fuel you have so what of all of these screens on the middle screen in the bottom right corner there are either a set of fuel indicators or like in this case a total fuel mouse so tell air traffic control when you see them that it's better again we have 4.5 tons of fuel onboard the samples give air traffic control an idea of how much time you have this up here is the panel that controls the outer pilot of the aircraft you are going to want to get the aircraft down in order to be able to start an approach if you look from the right to left here these are the course selectors we're going to talk more about those later on because there will be important there is a big altitude window that altitude window tells the autopilot what altitude it should be flying to to the left of that there's a heading window these two air traffic control is going to want to tell you what to set in right so in this case we are flying over the English Channel at the moment and air traffic control wants us to go back to stance them so they will then tell you to put the altitude window down to maybe 3,000 feet because there's no terrain around there's no mountains around you take this big knob up here 3,000 feet now as you might notice there are some lights coming on that's because the aircraft was not expecting to descend here you can completely disregard these lights for now it's a 3,000 feet and you would see that the altitude hold they out hold them button illuminates under here that's completely normal just telling that the aircraft is maintaining the altitude so it's not descending at the moment you're gonna have to tell the aircraft to descend and the way to do that is these buttons over here so you either have altitude hold which is just maintaining the altitude vertical speed with this which tells the aircraft how quickly should descend or the one we are going to use is Compton called lvl CHP which sounds for level change if you press that it means that the aircraft is going to reduce the trust and it's going to follow the speed it has now in order to achieve the altitude so 3,000 feet you press level change and as you can see the trust is now coming back and the aircraft is starting to descend over here so it's now achieving what you want it to run it now the second thing you want to do is at the moment the aircraft is following its track towards Bremen and we don't want to do that we want to go back to Stansted so our traffic control is once again gonna come in and tell you better are you there yes and we want you to try to turn the aircraft now in the middle of them Mau mode control panel you have a heading you have a window called heavy that has a numerical numbers inside of it three of them and it goes from zero to three five nine they will probably tell you to turn to a certain numerical number so in this case they're going to tell you to turn to heading two seven zero so you just turn this knob until it says two seven zero and once you've done that people down and you press heading select so as you notice now the aircraft is starting to turn okay so the aircraft is basically doing what you're telling it now so you're doing a great job but the moment you're both controlling the altitude of the aircraft and you're turning using the heading bug in a direction that air traffic control wants you to turn on it like I was saying the aircraft is now descending following a certain speed it's the speed that we've told it to now that speed at the moment you can see in this window here it says is match so it's either an indicated airspeed or a Mach number so if you've taken over the aircraft at a high altitude this might show a decimal figure instead so it's showing you a Mach number in that case you just press change over see over here and it will show you an American number like this because what we want to do is we want to fly a indicated airspeed because it's going to be easier later on when we have to start configure the aircraft for landing so air traffic control will now come in and tell you that you need to turn a little bit more to the left and they will tell you a new numerical figure so two six zero in this case so just turn that and the aircraft is doing exactly what you tell it to now you have a little bit of time here so I would suggest that while we're on route now descending down towards our destination and on the heading we want you start to prepare yourself so you're sitting in the seats there will be a little age lever a lever on your left hand side which that's h on it the hotel if you pull that up you'll be able to move your seat like this put it in a position where you can sit comfortably and you can put both feeds on the rudder pedals okay so the river rudder pedals here underneath if you can't move them there's a little crank between that can move the pedals in and out you can use that in order to put good position but just put it like that because the reason for that is that once you get down on the ground dearie the way that you keep the aircraft on the centerline on the runway is going to be with your brothers so your your steering it like you do with you know one of those old like model cars that used to drive when you were small you're just using your feet to keep the centerline okay so keep it like that just make sure that you're sitting correctly put your seatbelt on like that and if you want to see more about how a how the pilot's seat works there's a link up here for that okay I've done a video on that before all right so if we look at this picture now it's going to show one map picture it's not gonna make much sense to you so don't worry too much about that on the right hand side you can see your altitude and on the left hand side you can see your airspeed it is possible that air traffic control is going to want it to ask you what your speed and your altitude is so we'll continue to descend anytime that air traffic control is asking for you telling you your name use that little button on your remote control panel that says RT and you transmit using that okay there is a way to transmit using a button on your joke but I don't want you to touch the yoke unless you absolutely have to because there are risks associated with that including disconnecting the autopilot so use the RT switch when you want to talk to them now on our way in toward Stansted now air traffic control is going to help you to set up the aircraft radios in order to do an outer land so they're going to tell you that you need to set a couple of different frequencies up and that is need to set two courses up those are the main things so if we start with the frequencies if you go down to the center pedal tips that are again below the radio box that you were setting there's another box with two windows in it that's your radio - and it's an identical one on the left hand side as well in this case air traffic control we're gonna tell you to put one one zero decimal five on both of these radio boxes one more zero decimal 5 and push the arrow button in between the says TF force that's the transfer push that so you see one one zero two small five in the left hand window of both of these okay this means that the ILS frequency the outer land frequency you're going to use is now active the next step is we need to tell the autopilot what's the course towards the runway is and those or these two so they are corresponding with the two radio boxes so in this case it's actually preset because they reported from that runway so they want to set two to three in course 2 and 2 to 3 in course 1 that way we know that the aircraft is now set up for the correct frequency and the correct inbound course for the ILS smell we're down the 3,000 feet the problem here is that we are way too fast if air traffic control asks you what speed you're keeping you're keeping 286 knots here and that is not a speed that we can use for landing that's the aircraft telling us that we're 2500 feet above the ground which is normal because we're 3,000 feet indicated so what you want to do now is go up to the speed window that says is Mac and bring that back to the value that air traffic control tells you so in this case we're gonna bring it back to 210 the trust levels will come back and you will see up here on the speed window that the speed is starting to decrease because what we need to do now is we need to start configuring the aircraft to be able to land all right so right now you're doing great if you're at this position you're down at the altitude you're pointing the right way the aircraft is set up for the out to land so next step now is that air traffic control is going to want to start to slow you down even further okay so what you want to do is when the speed has come back to about this magenta bug that you've set that's gonna be 210 knots there's a flap lever here that these are the trust levels that controls the engine on the right hand side is a flap lever that controls the flaps that are going out on the back of the aircraft to help us slow down and land so the first thing you want to do is you want to take the flap and you want to leave you want to move it to the 5 position so move it one to five the trim will move that say autopilot doing this job do not worry about that wait maybe 20 seconds like this and then bring the speed back to approximately a hundred and eighty knots to start with that way you will always be safe okay 180 knots good the aircraft is now slowing down more and more now when we have the chance here we have a little bit more time over there is a couple of things that we wanted to make sure that the aircraft is doing after the landing we want the aircraft to stop by itself the way that we make sure that that happens is by doing two things above the center screen here there is a knob called outer break and it does exactly what it sounds like it will tell you how to how to break the aircraft bring that to the number three the next thing is on the left side of the of the thrust levers there's a little handle called speed break now what you want to do is you want to lift that up and move it a little bit back as in it's just like it's resting on the ledge so you lift it up and then you move it back a little bit I'll show you that again lift it up and back a little bit very little so that it rests on a Ledge like that okay so we're getting closer air traffic control wants us to to start getting ready to intercept the localizer now you don't know what that means obviously in this case first of all they tell us to turn a little bit right to heading 270 degrees again the aircraft has flaps five is 180 knots it's a three thousand feet the outer brake is set up the speed brake is set up flaps are coming out so the next thing to do now is they're going to tell us that we are cleared for the approach okay and what you need to do then and this is crucial guys in the middle of the mode control panel that comes that controls the autopilot there are three switches Ella warlock an approach in this case we've still very far out but in this case what you want to do is you want to press approach any time you press the button here and illuminates green year it means that it's a mode that has engaged and can be disengaged okay so in this case when you see approach green then and this is very important guys yelling you need to go up and on this panel up here there are four switches called CMD CMD cvs cvs one of them is already illuminated that's indicating the autopilot that's currently flying the aircraft now what you want to do in order to aircraft to be able to alter land if you want to illuminate the second of the piloting it as well do not press the one that's already green because if you do that disengages the autopilot and the outer part the aircraft is now flying manually so you want to make sure that you do not press the one that is illuminated but the other one so what you want to see is two green lights not one so press that now the aircraft is set to approach and we have both come on a and come on be engaged so out the pilot is set up so now really the aircraft will capture both the localizer that will guide it towards the runway and the glide slope that will make it descent so the next things that we need to do now is we need to continue to configure the aircraft to bring the airspeed back to make sure that it is safe to land we're still pretty far out so at this point you can probably reduce the speed a little bit further to maybe 170 knots or so you will see on your airspeed indicator here some indicators like in this case one and five that indicates the lowest speed that you're allowed to fly with the current flap setting so as long as you don't as you move the airspeed bug above the minimum speed the aircraft is safe and it's not going to fall okay you need to start anticipating what will happen when the aircraft hits the localizer it's going to suddenly start turning now this is completely normal this is something you know basically the aircraft is now following a guidance towards the runway so don't be afraid when that happened subsequently it will also capture a glide slope which means that it will it started to pitch down all of these things you have to be aware that it's going to happen and don't let it scare you okay very important so right now we are getting localized to capture so as I was saying the aircraft is now turning in my field quite violent you do not have to be afraid this is completely normal now the aircraft is tracking the localizer okay back at 170 knots the aircraft is turning now straight towards the runway and we're getting closer to a landing position so the next thing we want to do now is we want to continue to continue to configure the aircraft for landing this is something we would do quite close to the runway but since you're doing this for the first and hopefully only time then we are going to do it a little bit further out so the next we need to do in order to be able to land is get the landing gear down so landing gear is this big lever here in the middle of the cockpit it has a little gear on it it's easy to to find and what you want to do is you want to take that and move it down you're going to feel how did the gear comes out you're gonna hear that's a large like rumbling noise coming that's from the from the air rushing past the gear and after a while three green lights is going to appear that means that the gear is down and locked now you can continue to take flaps in to a landing flap configuration which is going to be the max flap in this case so air traffic control will tell you to slow down and in that case remove the flap to 15 when you move it to 15 you go up and remember we're to speed this on the mat MCP the speed needs to come back and you see the 15 bug here on the primary flight display just put the speed but over the 15 it's going to be around 155 next thing is to take the flaps into the landing flap position so flaps all the way down to 40 and bring the speed back to something like 145 now the reason that you don't know exactly what speed to set is because you have not set anything up in the computer the aircraft computer it is not needed okay that is needed when we do this when we fly commercially however in the situation you were in now the aircraft is going to do a fine job even without the the FMC the computer being set up so the situation you're in right now is that the autopilot is flying to do to out the pilot is controlling the aircraft the gear is down the collapse of 40 speed is back then out the brake is set for landing the speed brake is armed everything is set okay remember to continue to talk to air traffic control you know if they're asking for something they should tell you where to look so you should you know you should get guidance from this and tell them that the aircraft is now completely setup for landing and to have all emergency equipment sit standing by upon landing so we're now 10 nautical miles away from the landing runway there's a little figure up here that is counting down that's the the DME and you can just start to see the runway out through the window so at this point everything is set perfectly we just wait into the aircraft to be established on the glide slope now and once again I want to emphasize that off the landing the aircraft will not be able to the aircraft will not be able to control itself on the runway so you need to use your rudder pedals to just make sure that you stay on the asphalt doesn't matter how lies it looks but be careful not to do too big Corrections because it's quite sensitive so nice small corrections kind of squeezing the rudder pedals in the direction you want to go try not to over correct and there is brakes on the top of the toes don't press them okay because you're told the aircraft to break by itself so if you press those pedals it's going to disengage the the algebraic and the aircraft will not break myself you're gonna have to break yourself so just use the lower part of the pedals move them in a way that keeps the aircraft going down right so you notice now the nose is pitching down that's because the aircraft has just captured the glide slope so now it is flying down towards the runway tracking the centreline tracking the guide slope speed is correct everything is set perfectly now so in essence at this point you only need to sit and wait for the aircraft to do the job so let's see what happens and as you can see this is a very smooth maneuver and that's because you have already preset everything that needs to be set up so when we get down on the ground now just make sure the aircraft come to a safe stop on the runway we're going 1,000 that's the aircraft telling us to be a thousand feet above the ground it's taking that off the radio altimeter that you have up here in the right side of the primary flight display when we get down we're just going to shut down the engines and from there we're gonna let the cabin crew take over or let the emergency vehicles take over so as we're getting close to now put your feet on the rudder pedals that's the aircraft trimming back in order to enable the flare and all the also to enable a go-around obviously we will not go around from this we have to get this aircraft down on the ground 50 40 30 20 10 there we are the aircraft has landed now we would take reverses in this case which of these levels up here it's not really needed in this case learning on Stansted and as you can see the aircraft is following the center line quite well it's not too much wind but I use the rudder pedals slightly here just to maintain the center line and let the aircraft calm down to a complete stop three four three two line mail and there we are the aircraft has stopped the aircraft this is one piece you've managed to get the aircraft down on the ground what we want to do now is we want to make sure that the emergency personnel can come and help us out so what you want to do next is just kill the engines can you do that with these two buttons up here that takes away the fuel from the engines so when you do that the aircraft is going to go dark so it's gonna be quite dark in the cabin as well you're gonna get some emergency light and coming up don't be afraid that's perfectly normal but you're enabling the rescue equipment to come up so that's what we'll do now and that sound is the autopilot disconnecting because it was still connected at that point so right now you've saved the aircraft aircraft is down on the ground if engines are shut off emergency equipment can come on help everyone at some board and you've made a fantastic job that alarm is the IRS is saying that their own battery power it's completely normal because the aircraft is is without engines at this point so guys that's what I want to show you I want to show you that it is perfectly possible however there are several step that needs to be done in the right order in order to do so now if you want a quick version of this but all of the steps it's available inside of the mentor aviation app okay so you can download it if you want to keep it on your phone if you feel if you're nervous flyer and you feel like you want to have a guide like this we do well then that's available inside with a mentor aviation app you can download the app for free the video is gonna cost a few euros because it costs a bit to produce but you can get it and you can take it with you okay if you like videos like this make sure that you've subscribed to the channel and that you have highlighted the notification well have an absolutely fantastic day and I'll see you next time bye bye [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] right guys I really hope that you like that if you want more content like that motivation content but then check this out I hope that you have subscribed to the channel and that you highlight a little notification valve see you inside of the mentor evasion up and have an absolutely fantastic day bye bye [Applause] you

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Length: 31min 56sec (1916 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 25 2019

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[u/thekiller1217]

not necessarily hoping for it but if the day comes i have to land a plane using autopilot, thanks god for the hours spent on flight simulator

[u/Crawdaddy1911]

Only if he didn't have the fish for dinner.