crap
that kind of blows kind of sounds like what the pilots are
probably saying the flight deck right now
viral debrief episode 2 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 after the original viral debrief i had a
lot of videos sent to my instagram so i want to thank you all for that some
of those videos are going to be in this series
and if you have any videos that you want me to break down just go ahead and send
them to my instagram that's the easiest way right now
for me to read them but for now let's get into it
no way talk about a float right
how are you not going around right now
crap
that kind of blows kind of sounds like what the pilots are
probably saying the flight deck right now
obviously the pilots in this situation should have gone around they're either
carrying too much speed as they're coming in or they left the power in too
long as they're floating down the runway but they did do a great job maintaining
the center line with the wind swirling so
that's a very positive thing that they did well also i have never done this
approach i've seen it a bunch of times i realized it's very steep
i've never tried it but the new microsoft flight sim game is coming out
soon and i will probably try that on the 747 i'm just kind of curious to see if i
can do it or not but anyway the this approach coming in is a
very steep approach it's not that easy to do
so i'm not being critical of these pilots except for the fact that
they went way too far down the runway and should have went up and tried it
again here is the biggest issue these markers
right here on the runway are the thousand foot markers
that actually what the airline pilots are shooting for when we're trying to
land we're trying to get on that that gives
us a little bit of protection behind us and this pilot actually lands on the
thousand foot markers but they're going the wrong direction and seeing
those they would know they only have a thousand feet left to stop
which isn't going to be enough room when you're going downhill and fast which is
what they're doing and if you're wondering if they had their brakes on
notice these skid marks here when i rewind this you're going to see they
aren't there so he's slamming on the brakes to try to
get it to stop he's just going way too fast the other thing i notice
here is i don't know if he's contemplating going off to the side but
you see him drift to the side of the runway you see this little jet off here
it looks like he's about to shoot off that but then he decides that he should
just go off the end of the runway into the sand
which is the best choice instead of going off what looks like it might be
some type of a cliff i know that i had this experience
sometimes when i was a newer pilot is that
you just want to land the plane especially if you're uncomfortable
this is just poor decision making they got the plane lined up and things like
that and they were going down the middle the runway which is good but they should
have seen how much runway they've chewed up
and realized there's no way for them to stop in time with a plane of this size
and that speed so they should have gone around
how fun would that be to do on one of your planes
that's so cool
i know that some of the upper management at the airline that i work for watch my
channel sometime so if you're watching this
and you can figure out a way to safely attach rockets to a 747
i say next year i go to the air show with one of our planes we attach some
rockets on the plane and we show the blue angels what's up
genius all right so that's obviously never going to happen but here's what's
actually happening in this video here i know some of you are thinking this is
an airshow stunt but there's actually some practicality of what they're doing
here in the 80s there was a secret mission that was organized flying c-130s
and they were going to use rockets as a way to extract hostages from iran
here's some video of that plane that they were actually using what they were
planning to do is use these rockets to actually slow down and stop
and then they were going to use rockets to actually vertically take off
from a soccer stadium as you can imagine that was going to be very tricky
obviously they had some very skilled pilots if they think that they're going
to land a plane inside a soccer stadium being overweight and heavy and then fill
it with a bunch of passengers and then blast off basically vertically taking
off a c-130 like this so i think that's where all the actual
original design started and now the government has that research that they
did for that mission i guess they're using it on the air
shows so when my offer does stand to fly 747 for my airline at an airshow with
rockets attached i will not be doing it into a soccer
stadium he's so lame
that is so close
they must be heavy
if you ever go into long haul flying or flying heavier jets like a
747 or a triple seven or an a330 there will be times that you're going to
use a lot of runway however you usually won't be going to the very end of the
runway like these pilots do they would barely clear the fence at a
lot of airports there are several possible causes for using this much
runway which is probably too much runway but
here's what i think is going on i think they're overweight the first thing i
want you to note here is that it's a cargo plane
note this big door here for freight to go in and out and there's no windows for
people to look out the window so this is obviously a freighter
next you see how shallow the pitch angle is on rotation
the pilot clearly needs to get off the ground because they have no other
choices but it isn't climbing so they need to
get the plane off the ground so it can gain
more speed so they can continue their climb you see the pitch angle even as
they're continuing to fly is very very shallow
they're even blowing dirt on the ground below them a long way past where they've
actually taken off so my guess is that they're overweight
airlines that haul freight get paid by the tonnage by the way that they're
actually transporting so in some countries they will convince
the pilots to take on more weight than the plane is actually supposed to take
on for obvious reasons that's very
dangerous there's a lot of risk and there are many accidents that have
happened as a result of taking too much weight thinking
the plane can do it the reality is you could probably fly a plane that's
overweight that's happened people have done it people have gotten away with it
but if you ever do that and someone finds out that you did that there's a
good chance that you could lose your license
so doing something like that for the risk of your life and your license is
usually not worth it oh yeah somebody sent me this asking me
how dangerous this actually was obviously that's a
rain cloud or a rain shower that's happening there and it's
obviously pretty intense and some i know sometimes people that
watch these videos who are scared of flying see something like this and they
wonder how safe is this
now every plane has its own noise though obviously i'm not sure exactly what the
noise is for this particular plane so i don't know what that noise exactly was
minimums minimums minimums call basically lets you know
that you're at the mims and you have to see
the runway or the approach lighting or things like that to be able to continue
to land
okay
the real risk of this actual flight here isn't necessarily the rain
the planes are built and the engines are built to be able to fly through rain
that's not the problem what the real risk is something called a
micro burst a micro burst is basically a bunch of air getting pushed down from
the cloud it's a bunch of air getting pushed down
and what it can do is it can push down so heavily that it can actually slam a
plane into the ground on modern aircraft there's actually technology where the
computer is processing all the different information that it's getting from
outside so let the pilots know if they were
encountering something like a microburst with the crashes that happened in the
80s they wanted to create a technology to prevent that from happening again in
the future so in this situation they're flying into
what would probably be a pretty poor decision
sometimes it's hard to tell from just watching the video just how strong
is that rain i personally would wait five or ten minutes because something
that's that heavy of a downpour is gonna probably move off the
field within five to ten minutes so there's no reason to
put yourself in a risk situation of being
going down and hitting a microburst but again i don't know what the radar looked
like or any of the other things and sometimes
with a video it's a little hard to determine
exactly how heavy the rain is i don't know how low they were on gas but i
would have waited five or ten minutes before i shot that approach
and just let that cloud move off of the field
oh this went viral for sure back when this first came out i know
some friends that sent it to me and asked what was going on
man if you're in the back of that plane you are just getting rocked back there
they actually did a good job recovering it once they got
straightened that could have ended a lot worse for sure
you can see here the plane isn't lined up with the runway and that starts
actually a little bit earlier you can see the upwind wing here is up
and the plane is getting pushed off the center line one of the strange
things about flying a jumbo jet is that when you're on the flight deck and
you're flying into land you yourself are not supposed to be
lined up with the runway you're supposed to have your mains lined up with the
runway so in some cases you're actually feel
like you're at the very far side of the runway depending on how much
your plane is at an angle as you're coming in to land
and that's something you need to learn when you start flying large heavy jets
like this you need to just think about overall the
big picture and you need to have your mains the main tires in the middle of
the runway which is often if you're in a very heavy
crab like this is going to put you to the side of the runway
you see here on the nose wheel it's lined up which means the pilot is lining
himself up with the center of the runway which on a smaller plane works but on a
big plane like an a380 that's not going to work
and you can see the mains here off to the downwind side another issue you see
is the pilot flares too early you can see that initial flare
right here typically on a larger jet you want to
get a flare in about 30 feet now it's possible the plane was starting
to sink on them too fast with high winds it can be a bit of a wrestling match to
get planes onto the ground on these larger planes you have a
countdown system a cadence it will go 50 40
30 20 10. if that cadence is going too fast in some cases pilots will pull back
a little bit add some power or do something to reduce
that sink rate into the ground to prevent the plane from slamming
has to be a very quick reaction though you have to add power and pull it back
so it just gives a little burst of power which changes from the plane's thinking
to going forward so it decreases that descent rate into the ground
and prevents your plane from bouncing but it's very calculated you have to be
very smart about how fast and how much power you add and
how fast you pull it back it takes some practice to get good at it
but it'd be maybe what could be happening here i'm not 100 sure because
i can't see the flight deck video all right they flared too early and
they're off their center line as they come into land
naturally you're trying to get the aircraft back on the center line he
drops his upwind wing down here to get the plane
back on the center line the problem is with the larger aircraft
you can't get momentum moving left and right too fast because momentum
of this type of weight wants to keep going that direction
and with the flare too high it causes the plane to bounce
so you have momentum going to the right you have the plane bouncing and look at
the rudder here it's out from when he kicked out to go
straight but now that the plane is up in the air again
it's going to help swing the tail around even more
so between the momentum the rudder and the wheels being off the ground
it causes the whole back of the plane to jump to the side
now it's basically just a wrestling match to get it going back down the
runway you can see the pilots dancing on the rudder
to get it from going back and forth because you have a lot of momentum
that's moving around back there obviously everything is deployed so
they're not going to be able to do a go around once they touch the ground like
this they're not going to be able to do a go around
whoever is flying is doing a good job now that it's on the ground to keep it
from actually shooting off the side of the runway
because with how much momentum that's going there could have easily been an
over-correction from one side of the runway or the other
and that over-correction would have thrown them into the grass as someone
who's had more than their fair share of bad
landings there's someone up here right now that's feeling very embarrassed
however something very important to remember is that not many people can say
they've disappointed 18 flight attendants
at the exact same time speaking about disappointing flight attendants if you
haven't seen my series cockpit confessionals i talk about all the crazy
things that pilots and flight attendants do
while on a layover if you haven't seen that series i'll put a link to it
right here i look forward to hearing from you until then
keep the blue side up
