I'm not a pilot. Can I land a 737?

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These 6DOF simulators are super fun. They have them at my local airport and I got to do one of their commercial ones. It was only after I had booked that I found out they also have an F18 one, so I'm definitely gonna go back after practicing my carrier landings in DCS.

👍︎︎ 83 👤︎︎ u/ZeroSobel 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

Pfft, he flew an airplane blindfolded, this should be a piece of cake 😂

👍︎︎ 21 👤︎︎ u/zachtheperson 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

Mentour Pilot is a great YouTube channel. I have bought a couple of shirts from his shop. Tom Scott is also great. To see them both makes me smile.

👍︎︎ 12 👤︎︎ u/hiopilot 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

That Airplane! Reference was wonderful

👍︎︎ 32 👤︎︎ u/gzoont 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

MythBusters did this years ago. The autopilots are so amazing the planes can practically land themselves.

👍︎︎ 36 👤︎︎ u/seanbrockest 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

All things considered, it doesn't seem that far fetched for somene inexperienced in a real plane to land it, without autopilot, with the help of ATC.

It didn't seem like much work to get the plane ready for landing. The last bit was getting it lined up, and perhaps someone with experience flying a plane in a game or in a commercial flight simulator would be better primed for it. Seemed like Tom struggled with the physics of getting the plane lined up, even though it was obvious far out that he was off course.

I'd want to see a comparison of someone with no experience, a "gamer" and a flight sim player.

👍︎︎ 20 👤︎︎ u/OfficialTomCruise 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

Tom Scott couldn’t ride a bike until a few months ago, I doubt he is a good reference of the motoric and spatial senses of an average person

👍︎︎ 17 👤︎︎ u/ballebeng 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

I don't know, but I'm sure he'll be completely out of his wits doing it while vocalizing his awareness of such.

👍︎︎ 14 👤︎︎ u/smokestack 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

Mentour Pilot is such a great channel to devour.

👍︎︎ 4 👤︎︎ u/nemodot 📅︎︎ Oct 15 2022 🗫︎ replies

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This is gonna be in a simulator. I'm just gonna set that expectation at the start. If you clicked on this thinking that someone had miraculously given an idiot an actual jumbo jet to land... No, this is a simulator. But this is Petter from Mentour Pilot, who is a qualified pilot and qualified training instructor, right? Yes, correct. I work with instructing new pilots and examining new pilots before they're allowed to actually fly the real aircraft, and after they're allowed to fly the real aircraft as well. And so over on your channel, you are gonna be doing the breakdown of everything you are about to tell me from your air traffic control centre through there. Exactly. That's the idea. Yeah, you're not gonna be in there with me. I'm gonna be on my own in the disaster movie scenario where I am the only one left conscious on the plane. And... I dunno, what do you think my odds are? I'd say they're pretty good. I'd say in the high 20 percentile, yeah. Right, okay. But in order for me to know that, really, I need to know: Do you have any previous experience at all? I've been in one flight simulator for a Comic Relief video many, many years ago. But they just put us on the easiest version. We were already coming in to land, and it was just: keep the controls straight, you'll be fine. This is a motion based simulator. It's gonna move. Yeah. Which we have been given for free for the whole day in exchange for me saying that this is the brand new Airline Flight Academy Simulator Centre in Dublin, with six state of the art flight simulators that provides top class training services, including B737 and A320 type ratings and industry leading APS MCC courses. (inhale) There we go. Excellent. Well done. Alright. Next time I see you, I will have either landed or... ...landed the hard way. Correct. And I'm gonna go this way. Thank you! (wheezes) Okay, I'm in position. Seatbelt on. I guess this is the first cheat, which is that I would never have got through that cockpit door, right? Absolutely. So we have to do this as a theoretical scenario where you have gotten access to the cockpit in some fashion. But in reality, in an emergency like this, a passenger would never get access through the closed cockpit door. And would never be able to magically conjure up an air traffic controller on their headset immediately. In this case, obviously we are communicating through handhelds, because you are in a simulator and I'm in a briefing room, and this is the only way we could do it. Yeah, that's fair enough. Alright. We are on autopilot at 15,000 feet. Let's land this thing. What I want to try to establish now is basically where you are, and then we're going to discuss how we are gonna get you down on the ground safely. So if you could see at the top of that display, there should be a box with three green values in it. Something like N1, hopefully LNAV, and something else. Can you say to me what it says in those three values at the top? Yes, I can. Left is MCP[Mike Charlie Papa] SPD[Sierra Papa Delta]. Middle is LNAV. Right is ALT HOLD. Perfect. That means that you're maintaining the altitude now. And remember that the autopilot that you've just confirmed is on is like a third crew member. That's the way that we pilots view it. That crew member is perfectly capable of flying this aircraft. So what we're gonna do from now on is we're going to try to tell that autopilot what to do, in order to get you safely down on the ground, okay? Understood, and we're aiming for Dublin Airport, is that right? Yeah, I have you on radar here, and it looks like you're pretty close to Dublin Airport. So that's what we're going to try to do. Now, the top— If you look below the glare shield, the top panel below the glare shield, it's called a mode control panel. It has a lot of windows with numerical figures in them and a lot of buttons. Do you know which panel I'm talking about? I believe so. That would be directly below the windscreen, the windshield. Yeah, that's correct. That panel controls the autopilot. Okay? You will see on the right-hand side that there is one button that says CMD [Charlie Mike Delta], and it would be green. Confirm. Confirmed. Yeah, that's the autopilot button. Do not press that because that disconnects the autopilot, and that will be a very bad day. (wheezing) Understood. Not touching that button. (laughs) Okay. If you can find the window that says Altitude on it. Tell me when you've seen it. I see it. It reads 15,000. Yeah. Just below that, there is a knob. Can you turn that knob until the value reads 4,000 feet instead? Confirmed. That now reads 4,000. The wheels next to what I assume is the throttle just started spinning on their own, and the plane is now banking very, very, very heavily to the left. Yeah, that's because it's following the LNAV track that it has pre-programmed. Don't worry about that. Okay, so the aircraft is now descending down to 4,000 feet. That's what we've told it, and it's now following, heading 2-7-0, so we're good, right. The aircraft is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, and what we wanna figure out now is how much time we have to do this. So in the screen that is second from the left, in the right hand corner there, there should be a value of how much fuel in total that you have on board. Can you read that out to me? Yep. Confirm total 3.8. 3.8, okay, that's perfect. So that's quite a lot of fuel. So we have plenty of time. Alright. So time is not an issue. From now on, it's gonna start to be a little bit more complicated, okay? Because now we have the aircraft on the controls. So now we're gonna try to get it into position from which it can auto-land. So first of all, I want you to get your seat adjusted, where you can rest your feet on the pedals easily. If this is an ejector seat, I'm gonna kill him! Yep, okay, I'm in position. Alright, so what we need to do now is, you're going way too fast, okay? We need to get your speed back in order to make a safe landing. So if you go up to the mode control panel again, and you go out to the left side, the second window from the left should read IAS or Mach. Can you tell me again what the number is in that window? 2-9-1. Okay, that means that you're flying 291 knots at the moment. Can you bring that value back to 220 knots? 2-2-0 confirmed. Perfect. (C major tone) Can you just tell me if the speed is reducing? No, it's not. There was also just a very loud beep that sounded like a dial tone for about two seconds. You can disregard that for now. That's because you are about to level off at your altitude. That's good. Okay. The speed is not decreasing. We're still at 262. Well, if you're at 262, and you were at 293, then it is reducing. Oh yeah, I'm just nearly panicking slightly. I forgot this was a simulator for a minute. Okay, good. Now we're gonna turn you, turn the aircraft again. So if you go back up to the mode control panel and look at the heading window again. Yep. Currently reading 270. Okay, can you turn that knob below that to the left until you get a number of 100 on it? 100 confirmed. The plane immediately started banking heavily to the left. Yeah, that's exactly what we wanted to do. 'Cause what I'm doing now is I'm actually turning you downwind for the landing, okay? I cannot overstate how unnerving it is to be in a motion-based simulator for the first time in my life. It is so convincing! Yeah, no, that's the idea. Right, so you are currently maintaining 4,000 feet, and can you tell me what speed you're keeping at the moment? 2-1-9. Now you are coming almost perfectly abeam the airfield now, which is great. So the next thing that I want you to do is, to the right of the thrust levers, there is a flap lever. Do you see that? I see it. I want you to move that flap lever to the five position. If you have to go through a gate, first one, and then you can move it to five. Yep. That caused the trim wheels to spin, a lot. Yeah, so what's happening now is that the flaps, those things at the back of the wings, they're now extending. That's causing a lot of drag and a lot of shift in the way that the aircraft needs to fly. So that's why the trims are moving. They're trying to readjust to this new configuration. But this also allows us to reduce the speed. So if you go back up to the speed selector. Yep. Bring that back to 180 knots. 1-8-0. I can actually feel us slowing down in here. Yeah. Yep. That's what we want. That's what we want. So now we're in a really good position, okay. The flaps are coming out. The radials are all set up. And basically, I'm just waiting to turn you in for final now. Okay, I could briefly see the ocean below me, so... Knowing Dublin Airport, I'm guessing I'm doing a right turn soon, I think. Correct, correct. But we're gonna take you, we're gonna take you out quite far, so that you have a long final. The other thing that we need to discuss is after landing, the only thing that this aircraft will not be able to do automatically is to maintain the direction once it's on the ground. You will have to do that using your feet, okay? Okay. The thing to remember is that you don't need to push almost anything, especially not at high speed. It's just basically a light squeeze left to right, If you see that it's deviating from the centre line. It probably won't, but if it does, that's all you need to do. So basically let the plane do everything until we're down, at which point, slight touches on the pedals to make sure we keep towards the centre line of the runway. Correct. Alright, let's land this. Confirmed that we are pitching downwards. Altitude is decreasing. Perfect. Perfect. That's exactly what— Now you're captured on the glide slope and the localizer. So now we're well set up. Now the next thing that you need to do is... I can see the runway. If you go up to those autopilot buttons that I talked about. You can see those four ones at the top-right part of the mode control panel. Yes, I see it. A/P Engage. Also, I have visual on the runway. The next thing we wanna do is we want to reduce the speed back to landing speed. So if you take the flap selector and bring it all the way back to flap 40. Flap 40. Got it. We just had the 2,500 announcement. Lot of trim happening. Yeah, because the flaps are extending to its full position, so that's perfectly normal. As we now get a little bit lower, I want you to monitor the flight mode annunciator, those three green bars on the top, and just tell me if something appears there, something different. Alright, we've just got green letters at the moment. I'll let you know if anything changes. One hundred. Perfect. What I'm looking for is something called flare. It should say flare, but it'll come later on. Minimums. Flare and minimums were just called. Remember now that once the aircraft touches down, which is gonna do by itself, once that's happening, then you are the one that's going to control it on the ground with the rudders. So don't do any big adjustments, very small, smooth adjustments on the runway, and just let it come to a complete stop, okay? One thousand. Understood, just passed through one thousand, and I've got the Dublin smokestacks over to the left of me. Alright. Here goes. Okay, can you see 'Flare' annunciated on the... on the primary flight display, on the FMA? Yeah, I have 'Flare' on the display in front of me. Perfect, that means that the aircraft knows that it's gonna do an auto-land. So that's good news. There are cars on the roads in this simulator! I just wanna tell you, good luck. We're all counting on you. I mean, we're counting on the autopilot at this point, but I'll take it. Yeah, you're getting close now, man. Very close. I'm just gonna keep my feet resting on the pedals. Ready for arrival. We are at 300 feet. Here we go. Let me know when the aircraft has gone to a complete stop. I feel like I should be holding this, and that's not my job. The computer's doing everything. I just need to just stay back, do not touch anything until we're down. There we go. Fifty. 50 feet. Forty. Thirty. Twenty. Ten. Flaring. There we go. We're good. Little bit of, little bit to the right, little bit to the right. Little bit to the right. (softly) Oh, let's hope that he comes to a stop! Come on, Tom. There we are. The aircraft is at a complete stop. We have landed. (wheezing) (slow, hearty clapping) (chuckling) My man, Tom! Thank you so, so much. Welcome to Dublin. (sputtering) (laughing) I mean, the computer did everything. It was knowing what to push and having the confidence to know what to push. Yeah. But you see how well this aircraft does things when you just tell it. That's what I meant by having a third crew member. Absolutely. If you just communicate, if I communicate to you, and you communicate to that, it works perfectly. And what if there was like strong crosswinds, weather, anything like that? It would handle it up to a certain amount. But I wouldn't take you in if the crosswind was too hard. Right. But the problem with higher crosswind would've been to stay on the centre line of the landing, which is why I was briefing about that— Oh yeah, we kept going to the left, and I kept pushing more on the right. But you're here, and you're on the ground. This is exactly where we want you, on the asphalt. (group laughing) So cool, man. Well done. Thank you. Well done. Okay, after the break, I'm gonna try that without the autopilot. If you are looking for a new career, then you might want to look at learning to code with this video's sponsor, Boolean. 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And if you mention that you found out about them from me, when you apply, they'll also give you a £500 discount. There's a link down in the description. Good luck for your future. And as for my future... well, it's time to turn off the autopilot. Okay, a few upgrades and a few very much downgrades. I've got a push-to-talk button down here now, so I don't need to keep reaching up to a microphone to touch things. But also the very first thing we're gonna do, as soon as the sim sets off, is turn off the autopilot. Wish me luck. Okay. Ready when you are. Okay. So on your... If you hold onto the steering yoke on your right hand side, there is a button by your right thumb. Do you find it? The one that says Autopilot Disengage? The very same, yes. Shall I push it? When you push it, you're gonna have a terrifying siren going off, telling you that it's just you and me now. So press it once, and when that siren goes off, press it again to get rid of the siren. (klaxon-like buzzing) (buzzing stops) Confirmed. We are on manual. Now, we're gonna concentrate more or less on what you see on your primary flight display. That's the screen that is straight in front of you. So what speed are you keeping at the moment? 2-2-4. Okay, now what I want you to do is I want you to bring back the thrust levers a little bit. Bring them back a little bit and feel what happens to the aircraft when it does so. Feel that it's trying to pitch forward by itself. Can you feel that? Yes, I can. Alright, pitch it forward, but not too much. Just a couple of degrees. And you'll see on the horizon, you know, the altitude indicator, that you have a cross in front of you. Just bring it down a couple of degrees, but don't let the speed decrease too much, okay? Just keep the speed going around the speed that you have now. Understood. It's less of a cross and more of a T-shape at this point. I appear to be descending quite rapidly. I'm gonna pull back a little on the stick. (C major tone) That's it, okay. That warning that you just heard is that you're away from your cleared altitude, but we're gonna disconnect— disregard that completely now. Okay. I'm holding the speed at about 1-9-8. We are descending. (C major tone) If the speed is 190, you're too slow. So pitch forward a little bit. When you say pitch forward, does that mean go down or go up? That means go down. It means push your yoke away from you. So push it, but very little. Remember, it's a big aircraft, this. So just push it forward a little bit, okay? And on your left-hand thumb, you have a trim switch. That's the one that moves those little wheels next to you. That's, if you feel that you need to use a lot of force when you're flying, you need to move that switch either forward or backwards to get that force away, right. You're trimming out the aircraft, making it easier for you to fly. Do you mean right thumb? It might be, yeah, it might be on your right thumb, I checked. You're actually in the first officer's seat, so that makes sense. Can you see them? Try them. Move them forward and see if those little wheels move. Got it. Okay, so use those. If you feel that the forces are being too much, then use them to either go forward or backwards in order to feel better, basically. I'm not gonna tell you how to do it. You're gonna have to find that out yourself. Right turn please. So bank to the right. Turn right a little bit. Confirming, banking right, 20 degrees. Perfect. That's it. Okay, how's your speed doing? 2-2-3. Perfect. Passing through 5,000 feet. Yep, I can see you, and I can see that you're turning as well, so that's good. Now what I would like you to do is add a little bit of thrust and just feel how the aircraft feels different when you do so. Add a bit of thrust and feel how that pushes the nose upwards. That's just to prepare you for what's gonna happen later on when we get onto the approach. Yep. Understood. Increased thrust. Yep. So keep the speed. This time you can set the speed to about 190 knots, okay? You with me? Speed— Okay, hang on. I need to level this out. I need to level this out. Speed is 2-0-8. Had a bit of a panic there, but I think I've levelled it out. Perfect, alright. So take the thrust off again and continue to descend. We want you down to 4,000 feet. I have no idea whether I'm going up or down unless I check the instrument display in front of me. That's the only thing you have. You need to look in front of you. At the moment, you are descending again, but very slowly, so you can take a little bit more thrust off. So bring the thrust levels back and we're going down to 4,000 feet. That's 1,000 feet to go. 4,800. Perfect. Now I want you to turn left, okay, left. And try to hit a heading of 240 degrees, 240 degrees. Got it. Where the hell do I see my heading? Yeah, so the heading is right below your primary flight display, right? If you look at that cross you have in front of you, if you'll go straight below that, you'll see your heading. Confirmed, currently reading... Currently reading 360. Turn left onto a heading of 180 degrees initially. We're just gonna have to stabilise here before we get in for the approach. Heading is 2-4-2. I am quite happy with how I came outta that turn, if I'm honest with you. I won't be smug for too long, but I'm happy with that. Yeah, that's good. Now you're getting a little bit too close to the airport though, so I want you to continue that left hand turn to heading of like 150 degrees, okay? Oh yeah, we were aiming for 180, weren't we? And I stopped at 240. That's me being an idiot. Repeat the heading you want, please. Put a heading of 150 degrees. Aiming for 1-5-0. Have passed 4,000 feet. I'm gonna try and stabilise. That's fine. Actually, if we can get you down to 3,000 feet, it's even better. Continuing to 3,000 feet, aiming for 1-8-0. Speed steady at 2-2-3. Okay, can you turn right, heading 2-4-0 degrees? Heading right, 2-4-0 degrees, confirmed. Staying at speed 1-9-2. I've gone up to 3,500 feet again, and I didn't even notice. Don't worry, get yourself down again, but make that right turn now, because we need you to align with the final. If you look out to your left, you have your navigation display there. You should be able to see the runway there. That will tell you something to aim for, okay? 2,500 feet. I'm pulling up. Okay, can you just read out what it says on your FMA please? Standby, flying! (chuckles) You're doing great. You're doing great, Tom. Yeah, I think I'm yawing up and down a lot here. Yeah, I can imagine. It's not an easy aircraft to fly, this, so you're doing great. Okay. Make sure you don't turn too much to the right, okay? You're on a heading of 2-9-0 degrees now, so just keep that diamond in the centre. I just noticed that I turned completely the wrong way. That was me being an idiot. No, no. Just keep that diamond in the centre, right? It'll tell you what to do. The idea is that you are supposed to be with— Do you see that white rectangle in the middle? That's you. And if that's in the middle of that cross, then you are bang on. Okay? That's what you're looking for. The diamond is way off to the left. Do I need to steer left or right? If the diamond is to the left, you need to turn to the left. Confirmed, doing that now. Small corrections. I know it's small corrections. I know it's small corrections. I'm just not making small corrections, because I'm panicking, because this is— So you need to turn left now. Understood! This is extremely convincing. There's so much to keep track of. I have a glide slope diamond! Okay. Try to get yourself back on the localizer, okay? 'Cause I think you're a little bit off on the right hand side. So you might've turned a bit left. Now when you hit the glide slope diamond, when that comes into middle, then bring the thrust levels back to about 50%. Okay, I have visual on the runway! Okay, what's the diamond on the right-hand side doing? It is dead level. Okay, start pitching down. Pitch down to about a little bit minus. You wanna descend with about 800 feet per minute. Understood. I'm not on the ILS. I can't see the— I'm several degrees off here. Okay, but you see the runway. Just point for the runway at this point. If you're visual, point for the runway and keep descending. Now what we need to do is you need to turn, put the gear down. Okay? Put the gear down. Gear is going down. Bring the flaps to 15. Flaps to 15. Repeat what you said about thrust earlier, please. Yeah, bring the thrust back. And if you look at your engine instrumentation — that's on the third screen, on your left — at the very top there, put the N1 value to 53%. Where the hell's the N1 value?! Don't matter. Don't matter. Pitch down. You're too high now. Can you see the runway still? Yes, I can still see the runway. Can you see if there's a couple of lights on the left-hand side? White or red? All white! All white! I know I need two white, two red. Yeah. So pitch down, take thrust off to idle, okay? This is not a good angle to be coming into a runway from. This is not good. This is not good. This is not good. Okay, so how is it looking? Are you descending? Not good! He's too— He's too high. Keep descending, okay? And I think you're levelling. You're quite aligned with the runway now. Keep descending, bring the flaps back to 30, please. Keep the thrust at idle and keep descending until you get at least one red. When you do that, start pitching up. I have two white lights and two red lights. I'm gonna try and hold it there. That's perfect. That's perfect. So the thrust should come up a little bit now, because if you're taking flaps 40 and you don't have any thrust, it's going to stall. So bring the thrust up to about midway. Understood! 1,000 feet! Okay, you have the gear down and the flaps to 30, confirm. Confirmed. Okay, just aim at the very beginning of the runway. Now, when you get over the runway, close the thrust levers and keep the altitude, more or less. Let it just sink down on the runway itself. Once you land, you have to use those brakes at the top of your feet, okay? The brakes to stop it. Otherwise it will not stop. I'm aiming for the taxiway. There's no way I can hit the runway. Glideslope. Glideslope. Okay, if you have a nice, long straight ahead of you, then use that and just make sure that you set it down on the asphalt, okay? Glideslope. Glideslope. Glideslope. Breathe. Twenty. Ten. No! (tinny explosion noises) And that was a crash. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry, man. Ah, it was— I— There was just so many things at the end there. Whew! (hooting) Oh, thank you for trying! Well, we got you... Did you crash on the runway or in the airport vicinity at least? I was lined up what I think was pretty well for a taxiway. Like, I tried to square it up at the end. Didn't quite get it, but I had a taxiway in front of me, and then I just tried to brake and flare and everything, and it just hit way too hard. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, yeah. But at least you happened on the airport perimeter, which means that you have emergency services and everything there, which is pretty much the best we could expect from this kind of situation. So, well done. I'll take that. Thank you very much, Petter. [Caption+ by JS* caption.plus | @caption_plus] More than welcome.

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