The last couple months I've been flying to Korea a lot.
And in the news, in the US and Korea,
they've been talking about this man a lot: Kim Jong-un.
And it reminded me about a few years ago when he "piloted a plane".
I'm not trying to repeat what happened in "The interview" movie
but I'm pretty sure speaking about Kim Jong-un
in any way other than extremely favorable
puts you on the naughty list.
You've heard the stories, huh?
With some help from the clips from the movie "The interview",
I'm doing the first-ever North Korea wood versus reality.
Coming up!
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If you haven't seen the movie "The interview",
as I was writing and coming up with the idea for this video,
I couldn't help think about that movie.
and I watched it again and I started laughing all over again.
So I've taken a few of their clips and we're gonna put them in this video.
Please, tell me you know that that's a stupid idea.
If you haven't already seen the movie, I'll put a link to it down below but,
let's get into it!
Well, the secret's out now thanks to the leader of North Korea.
I've told you in a lot of my videos that when I learned to fly new aircraft,
that's usually two to three months of ground school learning to fly that plane.
The reality is that it's really two months of partying
and then we flip through the flipped cards.
Something that did catch my eye though is, and
I can't tell because his jackets very dark,
it doesn't look like he's wearing a shoulder harness.
In the U.S., you're required to wear a shoulder harness for takeoff and landing
and in every other country that I've ever seen.
But I guess that doesn't really apply when you're the leader of a country
and can make your own rules.
He's bothering *** peanut butter and jealous.
We're off to a good start on North Korea wood versus Reality.
Let's see what's up next.
They say that he grabbed the yoke by himself.
But this is the yoke
and this man also is grabbing the yoke.
So I don't see how Kim Jong-un is grabbing the yoke by himself.
And again, my Korean is a little bit rusty
even though this was translated by a Korean
but maybe the translations are off but
it clearly is shown that he is not grabbing
the yoke and flying the plane by himself.
All right. Let's get to the next scene.
There's some truth in that statement of what they just said.
It's true that when flight instructors are training, a lot of times they're sweating.
And sometimes nervous.
But that's mostly because that a lot of flight instructors especially in the U.S.,
are doing flight instruction in Southern California, Arizona, Texas and Florida
and they're flying planes from the 80's that don't have air conditioning.
So, it's a little bit hot.
They're also sweating and scared because the people they're flying with
have never flown a plane before.
And by some of the actions that the student
pilot is doing while they're in flight,
makes the flight instructors think:
"The student pilot is actually thinking"
Will you be so cocky when I slay you in front of the whole world.
You Yankee mother ***.
Flying is actually one of the safest forms of transportation.
It's been proven time and time again how safe flying is.
And of course that assumes that your pilot is not this guy.
Another thing that I noticed that I
thought I'd mentioned is that you normally,
if you were becoming a pilot, you're gonna have one instructor.
That's even if you go to any airline, you're
gonna have one instructor that's there
that's instructing you.
Kim Jong-un here has an instructor in the right-hand seat,
and then he has another pilot. You can see them crouched over here on the side
that's giving him instruction.
So, normally you don't have that.
Normally, you have one pilot on your right or your left
depending on which seat you're training for
but in this case, they have two instructors that are there in the plane
to help him not fly
because he's flying it by himself
but they're there for whatever reason.
Okay! Let's see this next scene.
I guess he's pointing at the airport here.
It doesn't really make any sense to me what he's pointing at.
And then the other screen that you seen pointing to here is actually a moving map.
The location on that screen is pretty close to what he's pointing at.
It's actually where the icon of the aircraft is.
That is to help give situational awareness when you're flying.
It will show other planes that are around you,
it will show you the runway, it will show you a bunch of different things but
what he's pointing at looks like about where the plane would be on that screen.
Because it shows you all of what's around you
so as far as I can tell, he's just pointing at the plane that he's at
and confidently saying:
"That looks like a plane".
I will say though that the captain who is
sitting in the right-hand seat at this time,
the captain actually made a pretty smooth landing.
I know it's sometimes hard to see when the cameras are being held
because there's some motion
but it looks like overall he made a pretty smooth landing.
So, good on him for that.
Kim Jong-un on the other hand just seems to be
sitting here kind of frozen with his hands on the yoke
as they go down the runway.
And after you land unless it's very windy,
there's very little reason to actually have your death grip on the yoke like that
on a large aircraft like this.
You want to have a hand on there in case something to happen and
maybe that's what he's doing.
He's there to protect in case the captain of the aircraft does something stupid.
He can step in. I don't really know.
But the way he's holding it, doesn't really make any sense
and generally when you're out flying, there is one
person who has their hand on the yoke and the throttle
and the other person is sitting there just in case something goes wrong.
So the fact that Kim Jong-un has his hands on the yoke
when the other guy's clearly doing everything,
doesn't really fit the idea that he's flying the aircraft.
All right! Let's see what's next.
How many people are there on the flight deck of this aircraft?
You have two pilots.
One sitting the right seat, one sitting in the middle seat
and then you have this guy dress up in a military officers uniform
leaning over.
Seems like asking a bunch of questions to him
while they're rolling down the runway.
Come on guys! Sterile cockpit, you know the rules.
Now while I was getting ready for this video,
I came across this little gem right here.
Kim Jong-un is obviously dubbed over what he's saying
but I really would love to hear what he's explaining about on this aircraft.
He is walking around this aircraft and they say he went and flew on it.
But the only video that I could find is him
taxing very quickly down the runway with a plane full of other people.
There's no video of it actually taking off.
As most you know, I'm always trying to learn new things
and with his confidence level as the things that he's pointing at
I'm very curious to what he's explaining to.
I have a couple hundred hours and this type of aircraft.
It's Cessna
and a couple hundred hours, it's not a lot of time at all but
the things that he is pointing out on this
aircraft are really not that important at all.
I do however appreciate how confident he is
in these things on the aircraft that he's pointing to.
It definitely would have made this North Korea
wood versus Reality a lot more entertaining
if we could hear what he was actually saying.
But this is what we got.
I've read a lot of comments and I've seen people suggest that
Kim Jong-un should fly the plane by himself.
The Cessna is designed as a single pilot aircraft
meaning that it's designed for one pilot
and one person to fly the plane alone.
And they're suggesting that a reporter then sit in the back seat
and record everything that's going on
and narrate as he flies the plane by himself.
The thing you need to realize is that world
leaders and the leaders of most countries
are not even allowed to drive a car by themselves.
For example, the president the United States can't drive a car.
So if that's his argument that
that's why he doesn't fly the plane by himself,
I guess he has a fair argument.
But reality I think, there's actually two reasons.
The first part is the world leader thing.
And the second part is if he doesn't want to have a reporter
sitting in the backseat of his plane saying:
Ladies and gentlemen, Kim Jong-un has just pooed in his pants.
Speaking of people who say there are pilots and actually know nothing aviation,
If you haven't seen the Hollywood versus
Reality that I did on "Catch me if you can"
starring Leonardo DiCaprio,
I'll put a link to that video right here.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Until then,
keep the blue side up.
The end!