hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't know me my name is Kelsey i'm a 747
pilot i'm here with Stella Stella is a flight attendant she and
i made a video about a year ago and she's part of this new series that
i'm doing 74 burger where i take people up flying
i asked her where she wanted to go flying and
she has a terrible fear of heights so she said i don't want to go up at all
whatsoever but i asked her about 3 000 times and
she finally said yeah we were both on the layover here in LA
and so uh she wanted to stay as close as possible to the airport so that's what
we're going to do we're out here in torrance and what
we're going to do is uh just do some pattern work random take her up let her
do some flying and see what happens when the pilots go to
flight school she's going to do as much as the flying as she feels
comfortable with how are you feeling right now stella i'm
freaking out i don't want to go oh my god i'm afraid i didn't get scared
if i see this guy coming in look like he's good he looks he's going
to land on the ground well there's another one right here see
so he's coming in to land on that runway
it's a little bit shakier in these planes than in normal planes because
they they're more affected by the wind i'm like
hyperventilating i was really excited she was going to do
this because you know i'm always talking about getting out of your comfort zones
and everything you're doing this is way outside of her comfort zone since uh
she's excited to do this i'm excited to take her up
we're gonna go do the run up and then we're gonna take her up and do
let her do a couple of touch and goes how are you feeling right now like what
is what are you feeling like um my heart is
pounding my stomach is going in like a circle is
that because you're hungry or because you're nervous
i'm really hungry kelsey didn't even give me lunch i'm starving well we got a
little bit of a late start so probably because i took a nap
took a nap and i uh over i flew like 20 something hours to get over here
so we could do this video together i feel like i don't mind being in planes
and blind i like it but i like being in big planes that's most people most
people feel that way even when i was flying
smaller smaller jets people would be like oh this tiny jet this isn't even
real so here's the pilot briefing if at any
time when we're flying i say my controls just put your hands in your lap and your
feet on the ground my control if i say my controls you just put your
hands on the left just just like that and that means i'm
going to fly
i don't need you to come up here and watch me fly we're going to watch you
fly but if i say my controls if you say your controls then right as
long as you're flying it okay i'll let you keep doing what you're doing
i never know your spot i would do this well i'm excited you came out here
who knew when you emailed me over a year ago
hi stella i'm kelsey from 7-4 here that you would be coming up and
flying with me
so here's all of our engine instruments they're all on the green so this right
here is going to show your speed so here's what's going to happen we're
going to get out on the runway i'm going to push the power up
when you see this show when you see the speed come to there's little arrow
when you see that speed hit 55 put your hands on the controls like this right
so you got your hands and controls when it hits 55 you're just going to do this
just that little movement okay you don't need to do anything more just this
i have to do this yeah you're flying
i explained this to you like five times i don't know i thought
i thought you were going first and i was observing and then i was gonna do it
after i can't do it right now you're gonna do it so you're gonna be
just where's the arrow this r thing so this yeah you'll see this
coming you'll see this start speeding up right
oh this black thing uh this thing is your speed
but when you see that all you're going to do is this just that little movement
nothing more than that okay don't do it rolls off is that what i say
no you say my controls
not that much that was too much too much but it's okay hey stella it's fine look
ready just like this put your hand here again just like this just a little bit
okay try it that's it and then you just and
you're not gonna do it you're just gonna hold it there okay
so then once once it gets to about 65 knots
we'll just keep it going and we'll get up in the air okay
what we're going to do is go for this thing to hit 72 we're just going to
climb out at 72. okay 72 we're gonna come up just come right
back down here come in and land okay can i mess this up
well i'm going to be here so you're not you don't have to worry about anything
there's nothing you can do unless you do like yank it back or do something like
that that's the only way but i'm going to have my hand here with
you so just like that that's it go out and then you keep your
hand there right and then you just keep the wings level
will go up what do you mean level do they not keep their own
well you just it's gonna go like this so you just you just kind of just keep
making the controls to keep see this here these are kind of
your wings so you just want to kind of keep that level
keep that ground level forward all right tell everybody
had a good run you ready you nervous yes and i'm not ready
okay but i never will be ready so you might as well just go
and uh tower sling one three one three five whiskey tango holding short two now
right uh we're just gonna do patterns
this is the speed i'm used to talking because i'm used to going into places
like chicago or lax where things are
happening kind of quickly so this guy's going to come in then
she's going to say 135 whiskey tango cleared for takeoff
and then you're going to push this button right here that that's
that right there you're going to say 135 whiskey tango clear for takeoff
when she says it and i'll point to you number 135 whiskey
would you depart your request we're just going to do a right pattern for some
touch and ghost
3135 wispy tango roger holster only number eight
holding short tuna riff what am i saying five three four what was your departure
request so when she says 135 whiskey tango
cleared for takeoff you're going to say 135 whiskey tango clear for takeoff
she said no delay so i wanted to get going okay
we're on the right increment five three four hold straight rolling
in or eight holding short two nine all right get your hand on this
put your hand up here mike you send your down one
pull it back pull it back all right there you go now keep holding it you're
flying it pull it back a little bit more no no
no no no there you go there you go you're good
there you go there you go you're like you're good just keep it keep keep i'll
keep you going straight i'll get anywhere near the clouds keep
it going straight you got to keep that 72. kelsey i'm not
paying attention you have to do it i swear
keep it at 75. all right all right all right put your hand up here go where
am i putting my hand on throttle up here on this on the yoke
here
all right just you're hold for just keep you know you feel the pressure i'm doing
the pressure you need to be pulling back just hold it right there no i can't
you're holding on just hold on to it
still you're fine you're fine
for when we tear right through and go still hold on hold on to this thing
you're turning i'm not turning you're holding it
listen papa your number two following the assessment ahead of you they are
going to be going around see this thing here
no see that little yellow thing yeah that's that's
that's indicating your airplane on the right following cessna in front of me
all right so now we're going straight here right for touch and go alright so
here we are here for touch and go hold on hold on you're down i will call
your base are you a car baseball one through five whiskey tanko all right
so so you see you see this altitude here
follow traffic in the up yeah that's our altitude right we're a
thousand twenty-four right uh 120 square feet or 2020
feet okay so we're going to bring it up we're going to bring it up to 1100
power 2016 i'm holding sure you're good just hold on
hold on to that right downward departure hold it back a little bit this is a
security uniform holders hold short two nine right two
zero six here bring it to the left just gonna keep it straight let's keep the
plane straight no no don't kill me i'm here i'm here you're doing it you're
doing it right we're gonna do a right uh crosstalk departure right okay
just keep holding it straight there you go pull it back a little bit
right looking to keep that right at the left here you know if i'm trapping the
uplands also right down the departure follow them runway
on right clear for takeoff you're doing good
tune in right clear for takeoff we'll follow the traffic ahead of us 206
uniforms sling five tango whiskey traffic about
two miles ahead of you on extended downwind will be turning based shortly
so that's not 172 advise when we have them in sight
is that for whiskey tango and number one three five whiskey tango
yeah one through five container we got traffic at the one o'clock
playing one six five whiskey tango your number three following that's that's on
base throwing teen on your right clear touch and go
all right that convert that's 135 whiskey tango one three five whiskey
tango what am i think you said one three six
all right so we're number three touch and go behind the cessna i had our
moving two o'clock one two three five we see tango 152
all right so take a look outside stella you're flying
if my arm isn't going to do anything for you
my arm is not going to do anything your arm is saving my life this guy right
here right here yeah we're finally going to
him all right so here's what's going to happen on the landing because you're
going to do this landing kelsey you're going to you're going to
do as much as you can comfortably do okay
so we're going to follow this guy i lost him
all right he's in the mountains right there
right on the ridgeline yeah yeah yeah
so we're going to follow him okay and we're going to do as
much of the landing as you feel comfortable with i'm playing
here's what we're looking for you see you see those red the red lights next to
the runway yeah we're looking for those to be uh
two white and two reds uh three arrivals prior to
your departure just hold on you're looking for two to be red two to
be white and we're gonna follow that thing all the way down to the runway
okay like there's two right now see that see the two lights and then there's two
lights right you see those yeah so what we're looking for is
those to be two red ones and two white ones and we're going to
follow that all the way down to the runway
and we're fixing uniform we can continue flying you're good why is it going to be
cause we gotta land tango
can you make a uh small s turn to the north please for traffic
all right small last time here we go why are we turning
we're just slowing down
hey crew as you know this is a new project that i'm working on and like any
new project there's going to be a learning curve
shortly after this landing two of the gopro 8 cameras that we have
overheated and we lost the rest of the footage from the hour long flight
there's a picture of us on my instagram account at 74
gear go there and leave a comment of who you want to see me fly with next
they don't have to have anything to do with aviation it's just the people that
you'd like to see me go fly with and as you leave comments on each of
those i'll start reaching out to those people and see if they're available to
go flying they can pick where we go to and fly
we'll go there grab some lunch fly back and make a video and
obviously things are gonna have to get better unfortunately the section of the
flight where we talked about stella's channel and all the cool things that she
has coming up got lost but i'll put a link to her
channel in the description go check her out go subscribe she is
super fun to hang out with you're gonna love her channel
and if you never saw the original collaboration that we did together about
how pilots annoy flight attendants and how flight attendants snowy pilots
i'll put a link to that video right here i look forward to hearing from you
until then keep the blue side up