today is going to be an extremely long day that's pouring rain we're at 158 tons of
gas we're going from Miami to South Korea we're getting to dodge some of
these thunderstorms one of the longest days that you're ever going to see a pilot have
a massive girl to fly on man I've got to be crazy flying stuff that big
it's a couple of minutes the notification for my airline's gonna come through from this point you
have 3 hours until the plane is scheduled to take off my guess is this total day is going
to be a little under 21 hours but as soon as this alarm goes off we're going to start the clock and
get it going then we're gonna okay well with a couple seconds I guess I'm just gonna start the
clock right now to see how long this day ends up being so you can see during a 16 hour flight
what I do to stay entertained I have a checklist before I leave a hotel room in that way I don't
forget anything that's really important I have to verify that I have both my chargers from my
personal phone my work phone my personal iPad my work iPad my computer that I do my editing
on my airpods so I can listen to music and have noise canceling while I'm in flight my sunglasses
my badge my passport because it'd be hard to get in Korea without it my wallet my phone I just checked
everything let's head down and wait for the crew so it's about 30 minutes before the van supposed
to pick us up I don't normally come down this early since I'm vlogging everything I'm having to
move at a much quicker pace to get everything done I have already written down the paperwork stuff
that I normally do before every flight to verify check the weather that's all done now I'm just
waiting down here for the crew and we're gonna load up and head out grab a van head over to plane
get everything legally signed to fly the plane today we're on a 747-8 typically referred to as
a dash 8. the dash 8 is a little bit different it's got much bigger engines new wing style it
is a beautiful aircraft now we're at the fun part I got the crew to go up to the plane a
little bit early so I had time to do my walk around responsibilities and well talk to you
these planes are so big but they're my normal look where the tires come up to me I'm 6' tall
this is a massive girl to fly on and you have always got to watch
these little fins people will ram their head into them do something stupid like probably making
a YouTube video but those things that would hurt your head on that see these pins right here here
those pins are how we check to make sure that the brake pads aren't worn down too much now you
see back things things right here those are known as cookie sheets cookie sheets are gonna go up
there and freight will go on them we don't have a lot of freight because we're so heavy on fuel
but they're almost done obviously there's some other freight that's going to go
probably in the belly area which we're not responsible to check this is the fueler are up here
obviously we've got about a 167 tons on board going to be a long flight it actually took 6 fuel
trucks to fill this up to get our plane here up to 167 tons time to get up and get the rest
of my chores done before we blast out of here I always crouch down to make sure they properly
close the door time to go flying right now we're getting tugged around inside the Western U which
is this area right here on the airport and we're going to be taking off of runway 9 it's time
to start the engines and I need to really be paying attention doing this pilot thing
we're headed out to Incheon I'm actually going to take the first rest which is about 3 and a
half hours I got my computer out on these long flights typically what I do I do editing for
part of the timing to close my eyes watch a little movie hopefully get some rest but then most of the
rest is going to happen on the back side of the flight and then I'm going to be sitting up there
for a little over seven hours and then I'll come back here and probably nap the rest of the flight
and so let me give you a tour here I'm going to show you my side of the bunk I got it all set up
for the other pilot this here is our phone in case you need to get a call these are all the different
seats up here this is the galley area we've got a couple of different coolers here it's a little
special ice tray here which is almost out of ice which is not good here it's all the water
area this thing will actually kick it out the door when it comes to slide all of our medical stuff is
up in here here we have the different lights and we can control the temperatures and zones up here
when it gets to editing and then I'll hop up on the flight deck in a little bit I'm gonna try
to do what's known as quarters most pilots do have so that's going to be you know roughly a
seven hour break in the middle and if you don't get rest during that seven hour break it gets
really hard the second half of the flight so I try to do quarters I'll get three and a half hour
breaks or something like that that way if I don't get rest on the first break then I can have rest
for sure on the second break on a day this long and you're definitely gonna need to take a nap
well I finished my break oh it's a little bit of Netflix I did some editing and then
I took a little bit of a nap woke up I keep these airpods in they have noise canceling on
a long flight like this there's a lot of external noise which you can hear in the
background with Mike keeping your hearing protected is important I'm gonna be up on
the flight decks for the next I guess seven plus hours here time for me to go to work
I replaced the other fo and spent part of my time with the captain and then when his first half of
the flight was over I took over as the relief captain of the flight most of the time we're up
there looking out the window at some of the cool things that we get to see along the way which is
why I really like flying with the Sun so this fire that was going on over looked like Utah ATC also
gave us a new squat code which is one of the ways they identify us they say it's randomly generated
but come on 7407 and now I'm gonna go back and sleep I I feel tired I've been about 14 and a
half hours going I'm gonna take a nap for about the next three and a half hours or so then we'll
have about one more hour until we land and we'll see how long it takes us to get to the hotel time
for a nap no more vlogging I got woken up about an hour out and as you can see here we're getting to
dodge some of these thunderstorms as we're trying to get to the airport without visiting Kim Jong-un
once we landed we got a ray CPS here to the parking area we got to get off
to this little tree we finally landed that's pouring rain just in time to do
a walk around perfect now we just need to make it through all the custom lines
with this nice special crew line and a beautiful city here of Incheon South Korea
here's what I can tell you it's been about 20 and a half hours since the original wake-up
call and that doesn't include all the time to get everything done before at the airlines you don't
count as being on duty until an hour and a half from the time that that alert goes off they have
never done this flight before or me like 10 hours is good 16 and a half just the flight portion
ended up being about 16 and a half hours that's a long time for me I had a couple of meals luckily
I did end up getting a nap after I went back on break I took a hard a hard three-hour nap that was
great it made me be pretty awake for everything that needed to happen but now I'm 100 ready
to take a shower and be done I look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up
thank you