tenet hollywood versus reality
that part is a little dramatic coming up
hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't know me my name's kelsey i'm a 747 pilot my channel
74 gear is all about aviation warner brothers or whoever did the promotion for this movie obviously
did a lot of promotion like they would for any movie but i didn't actually hear about it until
i saw a clip of a 747 crashing into a hangar and then i found out that they bought an actual 747 to
crash it into the hangar now i don't know what's cheaper buying a 747 to crash it or hiring a 747
pilot to talk about what's real but we're going to see in this movie how good of a job they did
let's get into it you want to crash a plane but not from the air that was so dramatic i
would have run a jet off the taxiway and breach the rear wall start firing
well how big a plane oh that part is a little dramatic this is me here team will work the plane
there can't be passengers norsk freight they use the hangar on the west side of the freeport
you want to crash your transport plan what about the crew whoa pop the slides chuck them off on
the move what's the problem that'll be fine i want to process here real quick just a few quick things
they're calling it a transport plane you want to crash a transport plan what about the crew
there is something called a transport category aircraft which also is technically correct
but i think what they're meaning to call it is a cargo plane but they're calling
it a transport plane the other thing they're talking about is chucking the crew out the side
now there are slides but those slides obviously if a plane is moving forward
those slides are going to run you straight into an engine
and it's a really long drop the ones that have the slides are on the upper deck so if you pop those
slides you got to go down two decks in training we actually do training to go down that slide
it's fun but it's pretty high i've talked to guys who have done it in real life because they've had
a problem or one reason or another and they said it was pretty scary to do in real life but it's
better than the alternative which is to grab these special cables and go out the top they showed some
videos of that that did not look fun at all and if you don't recognize this guy he is the son of
this guy so we're going to find out if they take this plane inverted or not let's see what's next
is everybody on this plane vegetarian because all i got here is vegetarian
so that looks like meat but i think that looks vegetarian i think they both look vegetarian
pieces you know okay
wow so if you were to take basically a whole scene and cut together a bunch of things that were all
completely hollywood that would be this scene here this is what's called a converted fader so
when they make the 747 they can make it where it is an original freighter or a straight freighter
and then they have some that are passenger planes that after their usefulness for
a regular airline an airline that flies a lot of cargo will buy them and convert them and make them
a converted freighter so there is some differences so the fact that they have a converted freighter
that is a real thing but let's talk about what's wrong here the ladder does not go to the upper
deck that way it's facing this door here which is called the l1 door it's called the l1 door
because it's the first one on the left l left side one that's actually where all of our food
and everything comes in the plane that's what it comes through that door right there and you
usually walk in that door and go straight up the steps as you can see it is closed which is not how
it would be because that door doesn't close until we're ready to actually push back and go to work
the reason that it's not closed until we're ready to go is because there's a set of stairs there
from outside there's a set of stairs and that's our primary evacuation point if there's a problem
we go out that way instead of going down the slide or anything like that it's the quickest way to get
off the plane safely next on a converted freighter this store they're walking through either doesn't
exist or it's never used i can't speak of every converted freighter everywhere but it's not a
door that you'll ever see used on a freighter the only plane that i've ever seen that's a 747 that
uses that door on the right side is the lcf if you aren't familiar with that i fly this special
modified plane it's called the dream lifter it's a modified 747 lcf stands for large cargo freighter
and that plane does have a right door that we use to come in and out but that's the only 747 i've
ever seen that uses that this little chunkster right here is the dreamlifter i used to fly it
all the time that was my primary aircraft for over a year and now i don't fly it as much but she does
have a right-hand side door so that door can exist next up here is the galley this galley does not go
on the main deck here as you see it the reason for having a 747 freighter is that you can transport
a lot of freight that deck that you see them on right now that's called the main deck and that's
where all the cargo goes and that's how you make money flying a 747 cargo plane by moving cargo
so you wouldn't put a galley right there in the middle that would eat up a bunch of space
right there on the main deck there are some other reasons as well that you wouldn't put it there
not just for that but you also have there's no oxygen there so if you have a depressurization
you're going to have to depressurize that main deck there's no oxygen down there so if you
went down there to get a meal there was a problem depressurized the main deck now you're down there
without any oxygen that's a big problem also there's no seats and those seats on the plane
aren't sitting sideways but there are no seats on the plane again on that main deck because that
space is used to move cargo and then you hear them asking these guys about their food preferences
looks like meat but i think that looks vegetarian the people who handle the food will come up that
other door that l1 door that i was talking about the stairs we come up the stairs we bring all of
our stuff down there the food comes up there everything goes in and out of that door there
but the people who are doing the catering they will bring up that food if there's something
weird or different or unique they'll talk to the pilots about it a lot of cases the first officer
will be there and if they think there's something weird they'll run it past the captain and there
are some times where there are additional people that are on the plane like you see
these people that are walking around they wouldn't be walking around that main deck there but there
are sometimes special handlers that are with us on a transport but they aren't going to be the ones
in charge of deciding what food or how much food or all that stuff that needs to be on the plane
the crew is going to decide that so they got asked the question those people are typically used to
moving around on these aircraft they would say ask the pilots they wouldn't come over and start
picking their meals out because that's not how it works so you know how it works there's kind
of a weird pecking order on the freighters this is typically how it breaks down if you have the
pilots up there the first meal the first choice will go to the pilot who's flying regardless of
seniority then the next one will go to the captain and then it will go on seniority from there so
let's say you have four pilots and the junior pilot the newest pilot is the one that's flying
he gets the first pick then the captain and then the next two fos based off seniority that's kind
of how it breaks down i thought i'd give you a little insight of how the meal selection goes
there is always a special captain's meal and sometimes it's a little bit fancier but usually
in my experience most captains go like i don't really care they just let whoever's flying pick
and then they go and they pick the meal that they want on the main deck here there's no space really
where you see these seats it's very tight you have a couple of inches maybe to be able to squeeze by
if the freight that you're moving is very small but again you make money with where those seats
are so you wouldn't have that there and you also don't have any oxygen there so there'd be no way
for them to breathe if there was a problem there's no oxygen down there for them and in some cases
we're not transporting a lot so you can see the amount of freight that they have the amount of
cargo isn't a lot so it's possible that you don't have a lot back there i have moved where there's
not a lot but take a look here this freight that they're transporting isn't even properly secured
there's a bunch of hooks and things that are set up to secure that freight so it doesn't shift
in flight and then the final thing that i noticed is look how the guy closes the door here when you
close the door it actually looks like this this is what a closed door looks like and i'm guessing
that he has some friends down there on the ground to drive the truck away that they just rode up on
not really sure but you can't just leave a truck sitting there next to the plane and then have the
crew say hey we're ready for push back they'll say you have a truck sitting next to the plane so
i'm not sure who pulled that truck away but let's just imagine that it happened had they done this
in real life it would have made more sense for these guys to go up onto the flight deck with
the food and then they could take a look around see how many pilots up there see how many people
are up there they could have got a better layout and then talk with the pilot because the galley in
real life is right next to and right behind the pilots here's a picture of me from my instagram
you can see right behind me here that's the galley that little light that you see right there is
the oven i was making some food because when i'm bored i eat all the time so besides the fact that
there is something called a converted freighter pretty much everything else from here is hollywood
not the radio
so the cargo area where the cargo planes are are usually nowhere near where the passenger planes
are yet they have these little bag carts that are just running around behind the plane even though
this plane is getting ready to push back which is not how that would happen in real life at all
i know some of you are going to say ha there's no door in the cockpit that's not real but that
actually is accurate there's usually no door on a 747 freighter that blocks the cockpit from the
back of the upper deck now again i can't say that for every 747 freighter whether it's converted or
original but they typically don't have that there is a locked door before the flight deck
but it's not to the flight deck like you see when we do a passenger flight when we do a passenger
flight it's a locked door right there where he's standing in the doorway there's a door right there
and it's built obviously to have a door right there but when you're doing a freighter there
is no door right there something interesting though is that there are two captains up there
which does happen from time to time so i'll give it a pass because that can happen in real life you
can tell they're captains because they have four stripes on their shoulders next i thought why does
he have this book out i've talked about this book before it's called a qrh it's basically the book
that we have out when we have a bunch of problems so we're trying to resolve an issue everything has
a step-by-step thing that we do if there's this problem do these 10 steps because they
don't want the pilots that's up there flipping switches and doing all kinds of crazy things so
they give you an exact explanation do one two three four five and we do a lot of training
to get into that book find the right problem find the solution for it go through the steps
it gives you everything step by step exactly what should happen the engineers that know this plane
backwards and forwards have designed everything and then if there ever is a real life emergency
that happens and something wasn't in there they later added in there i think i talked about
that specific thing in a radio interview that i did a couple years back in san diego but it's
just they don't want the pilots to start doing things because we can make it worse by trying
to interpret things in a real life scenario where there's a high stress they want to tell us exactly
what to do so we can resolve the problem quickly you may have noticed all these fuel control
switches are red and that typically means that there's a fire or there's some major malfunction
so these two captains up there are just cool as a cucumber with that book out to handle the fact
that there's a fire on these four engines and their plane is still getting pushed back and
taxied and moved along no big deal there's a fire on all of them because obviously those lights are
all lit up and he's got that book out to handle the fire is the only thing that i can interpret
based off of what i've seen so far now this is not a rule but typically if you have your engines
running there's no reason to be getting pulled forward when you have four running engines there
so if you're going to push back obviously you need it to go backwards but if you've started all your
engines which it sounds like they have you have no reason to be getting pulled forward that makes no
sense now it's possible i guess because they have four engines on fire they thought hey we'll just
let the tug pull you forward so maybe that's why they have the tug out there i'm not an explosive
expert but this is definitely not the best way to get this gold off the plane the taxiway is full of
other planes people driving around over there and people walking around planes and you're pushing
all this stuff after the explosion all this gold bars out the back of the plane why would you do
that there is a massive door on the side of a 747 so that is how all the cargo comes in and
gets offloaded from our plane so if you wanted to get all this gold off the easiest thing to do
would be open that door and put a dumpster truck or some type of truck next to there and just push
all the gold into it that would be a lot easier if you're trying to steal all the gold i'm not trying
to give you guys any ideas but i'm just saying that would make a lot more sense than blowing
the plane up and then possibly severing all the hydraulic lines and all the other things that are
back there and then pushing all the gold onto the taxiway which is going to draw a ton of attention
you could just open that door which would be quiet it would look weird but makes more sense and then
put a dump truck or something over there and push all the gold into that and then just drive
the drum tuck off the airport and of course you can send 10 of all proceeds to 7-4 gear
let's go
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where did that magic slide come from there's not a slide there on this door that's the l1
door they talked about earlier there is no slide that comes off that door the slide is actually
on the upper deck it's kind of a pain to get it to work because you got to open a door and kick
this thing over and do some stuff that door with that slide as you saw when they opened the door
the slide didn't come out in real life if you were to open the door and that thing was armed
as soon as you open the door that slide comes shooting out i've seen it happen in real life
as an accident on a passenger plane i was doing a walk around and the passenger plane next to me
accidentally forgot to disarm the door they opened it in a slide shot out it was pretty crazy but as
soon as you open that door if it's armed it shoots out then the magical slide went away which is true
because a lot of times slides can double as a raft so that's a possibility to cut the slide away but
if you were to cut the slide away and where it's at if you were to rip the slide away it would just
get sucked up into one of the engines over there because they're sucking in all kinds of air and
this thing is obviously filled with air so it gets sucked in and probably blow up or suck up and mess
up one of the engines which i also didn't see next you see him add power to engines three or four
yet you see no changes in the actual display which we use in real life to see what the engines are
doing there's no change in there you see right here this is shows what the engines are doing
and as he pushes it up there's no change in that screen right there and then i'm guessing that
he used this instead of using the tiller which would be right next to him to steer the plane i'm
guessing he used this power instead because they knew they had lost the hydraulic pressure from
blowing up the thing in the back which is really incredible systems knowledge that you know about
that but uh it would be easier in real life to just use the tiller and not have to run up the
power on one side it turns a lot easier that way something they did get right and i've seen every
hollywood movie get this right is this door does exist it seems strange like that thing's a real
thing but it is in real life that door does exist it's in executive decision it's obviously in this
movie it exists in real life i've seen it used in real life we had a problem once where the mechanic
actually went down through that door to check on something outside i've never climbed up from
the ground through it but i've climbed down into the compartment between the two where we have all
kinds of electronics and stuff i've climbed down in there i think i posted some videos or something
on instagram once we had this four hour thing that we were on the ground with nothing to do
and of course after four hours you know i'm like a small child then i'm going to get myself into
trouble so i did climb down in there but that room does exist and that door is a real thing
when i saw the camera start zooming in on their face towards the end i was honestly expecting them
to do something or say something like so cool i don't know why i'm just expecting something
like that now something that i didn't cover in the castaway movie that i want to address here
because a lot of people were upset about it in the castaway because i didn't talk about it is
for an engine to work it needs fuel and it needs an input something to tell it
to start adding more fuel and to accelerate that's how it works so take a look at this scene here
so that is totally not possible in any possible way because no one's adding fuel
so how is it accelerating if you want to see the castaway hollywood versus reality that i did
check out this video here and if you want to see another movie by this same director
check out this video up here i look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up