Viral debrief.
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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.
Now it's good and bad that people seem to have their phone in their hand
everywhere they go
but something that is good about it is that we've got some clips
that are shot in that TikTok
or Youtube Shorts mode
which keep getting sent to me
so thank you for send them to me in both formats
but this one I collected a bunch of them in that vertical format
that you see on your phone.
Let's get into it!
No!
No! No! No!
Okay, people make mistakes
and pilots are people despite what some of us might think about ourselves.
And I've been in a car crash before
so I know it can get you rattled and confused but
this part really confuses me.
He has already hit the other plane
or the other plane had hit him.
I can't really tell, it's a bit too far away.
But right here they're both stopped.
And this guy in the biplane is like:
"Oh, yeah!"
Watch this and he just runs into him again.
There isn't really much that I can add to this or break down
I can't really tell exactly what's going on
but what I can tell you is that if you've ever hit a plane
or in any capacity
even if it's just a wingtip and it's minor
and your plane will fly fine,
any little touch of any aircraft on another aircraft
or something else that's on the ground
and you definitely need to stop, shut down your plane and
do all the necessary things.
What you should not do is this right here.
And I'm not really sure what this guy is going to do here
who's running over on the ground.
This is going to be a weird investigation when this starts to come out because
they're going to be investigating everybody that was involved in it
and the guy who's running up, he's doing the right thing, staying far away
because with engines running and propellers spinning,
even if somebody's acting stupid
that's not the time to try to take over the controls from them.
This is a really weird one I have no idea
how you get into a situation where you hit somebody are stopped
and then hit them again.
I feel like there should be a requirement
if you're going to do plane spotting that there should be a windsock out there.
So I can tell what's going on.
If you aren't familiar with what a windsock is
it is this thing right here.
And what it's used for is it lets us know the direction of the wind.
It lets us know the speed of the wind by how full
or how filled up that wind sock is.
It gives us a lot of information.
Now I'll be honest,
when I'm flying I typically never look at that thing.
However, in smaller planes, I have and I used to pay more attention to it
but when I'm watching a video like this and there is no windsock,
it's hard to tell exactly what's going on.
If there was a wind sock there,
I could see more how strong was the wind in the direction of the wind.
Now you can see that the wings are rocking here as they're coming in
but on a small plane like that that's not really a big deal.
As you're coming into land, you're always going to be making minor adjustments
in order to keep the plane running down the middle of the runway.
That's pretty standard
and on a smaller plane like that because the wings are not that far out
or not that wide,
it's less of a deal to have more rock.
It's not something that you should make a habit but it's less of a big deal.
You're going to be rocking the wings like that on a 747?
That's going to be a massive problem.
But on a smaller plane like this less of a big deal.
Now I've done this many times.
Watch here as the plane levels off.
It should be on a constant descent towards the runway
but it starts to level off and then fly level
and then you see them dive toward the runway.
This happens to new pilots and experienced pilots.
I've done it many times.
One of the times that I see it the most common though
is that when you're flying in low visibility.
And when you're flying an approach and low visibility
and you break out from the clouds
and now you have a site on the runway,
typically what happens because you're not having in gauging the speed,
it's all coming to you right in a quick second
what happens is pilots get a little nervous and they pull back on the yoke
because they're trying to give themselves a little bit more time.
The problem is is you need to keep going down.
So sometimes what I've seen happen is they break out from the clouds.
As soon as they break out, they look outside
and stop looking inside
and following their instruments to keep them going down towards the runway.
When they break out outside then they want to take a second to process everything
and in doing so pull back on the yoke a little bit
and I've seen it where they go back up into the clouds.
And then you don't really have a choice except to go-around.
This is a Jet stream.
This is the first turbine aircraft I used to fly
and I used to fly it all the time on low visibility approaches
and there is no autopilot on it.
Anyone who has flown that plane will say they're glad to have flown it
and they're glad to be done flying it.
It is a great aircraft. It really hones your skills.
There's no autopilot and a lot of cases there's no flight director
and so you're having to manually fly
and do everything on that aircraft and it will make you a great pilot.
But it is a handful.
If you look out the window and are not paying attention
for just a couple of seconds,
you can be way off course and on its side.
It has a lot of unique aspects to it
but I really am glad that I had the opportunity to fly it
because often what I was doing is flying in South Texas
and in the mornings, early morning flights when we'd be flying in,
there's a lot of times that we had to go down to 200-300 feet
before we could see the runway.
And having to manually fly an aircraft every single day
and we were doing four or five or six legs a day,
having to manually do that all the time, it makes you a great pilot.
Now what I learned because I was a newer pilot when I was flying this,
well, newer in comparison to where I'm at now,
but sometimes what would happen is I would break out
and as soon as I could break out from my peripheral vision I could see the runway.
So I would stop looking at my instrument and I would look out.
And just like what I talked about earlier,
your brain wants to process everything and it takes a second.
Your brain wants to process and when you want to process
you want to slow things down.
You pull back up
and I never went back up in the clouds where we had to do a go-around
but there were times that different captains I was flying with Mike or PJ,
would say:
"Hey! Keep it coming down!"
and I'd have to kind of nose it back over to keep coming down towards the runway.
I never had something like this though.
My guess is that the pilot leveled off here
and one of the other pilots said keep it coming down
or they saw they were getting very high on the glide path
and realized they needed to nose it over, which is very dangerous.
What I learned from doing this a bunch of different times
was that when I would break out from the clouds
I would and if I had an autopilot,
which I did in this case,
but if I had an autopilot I would look outside for one or two seconds
before I would disconnect everything.
That would give my brain a second
to adjust and process everything that was going on.
When I didn't have an autopilot what I would do is
look outside, look back inside to verify
that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
Back outside, back inside.
And then back outside and do that quickly
and in doing that, it gives my brain a
second to process everything that's going on
while verifying that I'm doing what I'm
supposed to be doing from my instruments inside.
And by doing that inside outside inside outside really quick like that,
it makes sure that you're going out towards the runway.
Now this is a picture from my Instagram
and on a clear day, you can see these lights over here.
Which these pilots may or may not have had.
But what you want to see is two red lights and two white lights.
I know it's kind of blurry
but two red and two white mean you're exactly where you're supposed to be
on your glide path coming down.
So in the case here where the pilot were to
level off like you saw them level off there,
it's possible went from two red and two white
to three white, to four white
and then if there was another pilot there
or there was only one guy there, they'd realize: "Oh! We're getting too high"
and then chase it and push it down.
Which is really dangerous.
Here's why.
Look at the pitch angle of the plane here.
They aren't very far from the ground and if they were to continue like this,
they would have crumpled the nose gear and destroyed the plane.
Now listen to them put the power in to get the go-around started.
Now could they have salvaged that?
Absolutely.
It could have been saved. they could have done a lot of different things
to save that landing.
But why?
There's no reason.
It's always better to do a go-around, come around, try it again
because if you try to salvage that landing
and it doesn't work out,
they're going to analyze everything that you did
leading up to that point
and they're going to be able to evaluate or see:
"Hey! You did not do all these different things.
At this point, you should have done a go-around and you didn't".
So this pilot did the right thing.
They weren't stable. they had the nose going directly towards the runway,
it wasn't going to work out very well,
go back around try it again.
You're never going to get in trouble for a go-around.
You are going to get in trouble if you
crumple the nose gear of your plane though.
Now I know some of you are waiting to see what I was going to say
about this last part of the video here.
Some of you might be wondering why am I not talking about the gear not going up.
During a go-around, it does take a couple of seconds
and there are things that need to get verified before you can put the gear up.
Often, you'll have to put the flaps up one or
two or three settings depending on your plane.
The next thing you got to do is verify that
the plane is climbing away from the ground.
You're obviously not going to want to put the
gear up until you're going away from the ground.
All those things need to be verified before things start happening.
And since this clip got cut short,
there wasn't really enough time to see all those things
that did they happen before they put the gear up
so it was hard to tell.
Now if they'd got another five or six seconds,
then it would have been obvious that they forgot
and it's easy to get overloaded when you're doing something like this.
A go-around.
I know I've gotten it wrong a few times before
but since I was just in Mexico
I know that this is the Mexican registration
and just to be sure I verified it on Wikipedia.
So I have no idea why a plane would be taxing along a dirt road
but seems like everybody agrees that that's where he should be
but what surprises me is when he spools up the engine here.
Listen to this.
Now because these engines are much higher
than you would typically see on let's say a commercial airliner
that you will generally fly on,
it's not that big of a deal
because it's far away from the ground.
If you were to do that on let's say a typical airliner that you might fly on
a Airbus a320 or a Boeing 737,
you notice how those engines were low to the ground like that
and what that means if you were to spool up the engines like that,
it will start sucking in a bunch of dirt.
You don't want to have a dirt in something that costs
a couple million dollars to operate like that.
Those jet engines are sucking in a lot
which means that if you were walking in front of one and you might be
5 or 10 feet away,
it could, with enough power,
actually suck you into the engines.
So with those low engines like that and you heard them add some power,
those engines are going to start sucking in the air that's everything around it
and if it were low enough to the ground, it will start sucking in dirts and rocks.
Not really something that you want.
Obviously, this is a planned thing.
I don't think the pilot just missed the runway
because you can see a bunch of different people helping them move around.
Including this guy right here.
That is the signal to set your brakes.
There's actually a correct signal which tells you to stop your aircraft
but when you're off-roading your private jet
I guess it doesn't really matter.
So you'll see sometimes
at night, you'll see these two wands cross or you'll see guys cross their arms,
that is the signal to actually stop the plane
and then he did this motion right here.
That's basically saying set your brakes.
And then this will be to release them.
So this sign of setting your brakes I guess is good enough.
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Until then,
keep the blue side up!