When you're out flying in a small plane,
something you never want to have happened is this.
It seems this pilot made a big mistake and flew directly into some power lines,
but let's see how we got there.
First, I wanna talk about that horn that you heard as soon as he rotated and
until he hit the power lines.
Listen here as the horn starts making a noise.
That noise is a stall warning horn.
And what that indicates is that the wings are about to stop
being able to generate enough lift.
And the last thing you wanna do is have that stall warning horn go off
when you're really close to the ground.
When your plane is flying like this,
the wings are not generating the same amount of lift
to get you away from the ground because it's in a steep bank like this.
It even looks like he may be descending.
And clearly this did not work out.
The easiest way I could explain this lift to you from a wing is,
is when you're a kid and you put your hand out the window.
When you put your hand out the window, if you were to have it like this,
the wind is gonna be hitting the bottom of your hand.
And that's gonna wanna push your hand up.
However, if you had your hand like this,
the wind is not gonna be pushing your hand up at that same amount of force that
you had when you had your hand like this.
That same concept applies to how he has his wings here.
Now I know some of you are not going to believe me and
some of you don't think I'm a real pilot, but if you do go try that,
just make sure you have someone else driving
while you're trying all these different hand angles,
because I don't want you to get into a wreck.
And then you tell the police:
yeah, this fake YouTuber pilot Kelsey told me
to go try this thing while I'm driving my car.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just saying
you have your hand out the window,
you'll notice how the force on your hand when it's like this
compared to this,
and it's the same thing that's going on with this pilot
by being in that steep bank.
He's not generating the same amount of lift as he should be.
With the stall warning horn going off
and the pilot choosing to do this excessive angle of bank,
you can see why he isn't getting away from the ground.
Now, I had a very similar situation to this
once when I was flying a small plane,
just like this at a very high altitude airport.
And we took off and the stall warning horn was going off the entire time.
Now I knew exactly what was going on.
And I also understood or I think I understood.
It was a long time ago.
I also understood that concept that we can't get into a steep bank
because if we do, we're gonna stop generating lift.
And we were low to the ground because we had just taken off.
So I made nice shallow banks so we could keep climbing
because we were near a mountainous area.
So I made this nice shallow bank until I could continue to climb
and get away and higher as far as the altitude that I needed in towards
this valley area that we were going to.
And you will notice that commercial airliners like on the 747,
I'd say 99% of the time when we take off,
before we make any turn, we're at least 400 feet above the ground.
And the reason is because they know that when you're close to the ground,
you have things like telephone poles and power lines and buildings and trees.
All those things are close to the ground.
So they want you to get at least 400 feet before they have you start any turn.
Now of course there are exceptions to every rule
and that is something that we brief.
If there's some turn that's gonna happen like at the very edge
of the runway before you get to 400 feet,
that is something that we talk about.
And we talk about that because it's abnormal.
So pilots generally when they're flying commercial airliners
will always go out of, let's say,
let's take Los Angeles, LAX.
You're gonna be at 400 feet before you start any turn.
The soonest they'll have you turn when you go out,
if you're not on a normal departure is a wait for you to get to the shoreline.
By the shoreline, you should be at least 400 feet.
Even when you're heavy and it's hot.
So you can get to 400 feet and out there it's the ocean.
So it's kind of hard to hit something over the ocean,
but by waiting to 400 feet, they're avoiding this situation right here.
A friend of mine that's a helicopter pilot told me a piece of advice that
I'll always remember.
And I noticed something happening in this video
that's based on what she had told me.
And that is if you're ever flying and your body starts to tense up,
trust your gut.
Realize that there's probably something that's not right.
And you should make a choice, make a decision, do something, look around,
try to figure out why your body's tensing up.
If you're leaning forward or you're feeling that in your gut,
something's not right.
Trust your gut.
You can see right before this pilot hits,
I think he realizes something's about to go wrong
because you can see his body starts to tense up here
and his shoulders start to scrunch up.
I'm gonna guess this is an inexperienced pilot.
And he made a poor choice.
And the reality is that being a pilot,
the main thing you have to do is make good choices.
This was a poor choice because he got into this Top Gun bank
just a couple hundred feet above the ground and
did not work out very well for him.
This is actually the second part of the video.
And you can see how it played out here.
Despite that lady having blood on her face,
she looks like she's physically okay.
And the other guy seems okay and the pilot seemed okay.
Now had that pilot maintained wings level
and got to 500 feet before he turned,
he probably would've been okay.
This is the picture here of the plane after it all went down.
Over here on the left side of the picture,
you can see some power lines.
I'm guessing this plane hit the other ones that were on the other side of these trees
and then actually hit the trees, cushioning the impact.
But you can see just how beat up this plane is.
And this just goes to show you that even though these planes look like
little tin cans with lawn mower engines,
it still can take a massive beating and you can walk away.
And that's why I always tell pilots,
if you were ever in a situation where things look really bad,
keep fighting and get yourself to the best possible situation.
Don't give up because this pilot didn't have a choice.
As soon as he hit the electrical lines, the party was over.
But there's a lot of cases where I've seen pilots where they give up.
Their engine fails and they just go,
oh, well. Now it's all over.
No!
Look how smashed up that plane is
and those three people walked away.
Had he ended up killing someone,
I'm sure he would've felt terrible but all three people walked away.
That's a mistake that I'm sure if he ends up flying again,
he will never make that mistake again.
And I just wanna show this to you because it's something you can learn from.
Don't think because you got your 50 hours that you're some Top Gun pilot
and do something like this.
Learn from this situation.
This is an Argentinian private jet.
And before I started reviewing this,
I decided to double check and verify that because I've made that mistake before,
but I was just an Argentina and I was pretty sure but I had to verify.
As you can see here,
this LV indicates that the plane is registered in Argentina.
As you can see,
that is in a normal profile that you will typically see a plane doing.
And the person that sent it to me, they asked me:
Is this unsafe or dangerous?
Or why did the plane do this?
That looked more like, when you're in flight school,
and you're learning how to do a soft or short field take off,
you do this thing where you try to get the plane
off the ground as quickly as possible
and then you go right over the runway and speed up.
And the reason you do that is you want to get the plane,
obviously off the runway if it's a very short field runway,
you want to get it off of the runway and in the air,
then you can speed up and then climb away from the ground.
That's kind of what it looked like they are doing here.
Which is not normal in a private jet.
You'll see planes doing this all the time
if you hang out near an airport where people are doing flight school
but you almost never see it on a corporate jet.
Have I done this in a 747?
Well, yes I have. I did it in a simulator, not in real life.
But I did this exact same situation.
We did something where we did a short take off.
I just wanted to try something out.
We did this really short take off where we did exactly this exact situation,
where you get up in the air and then you'd hold your altitude, speed up
and then once you get enough speed that you would normally
climb away from the ground at
you would climb away from the ground.
The thing is you saw this pilot actually start to lose altitude.
You see here, the pilot is actually losing altitude,
which is not something that you want to do just after takeoff.
So one possibility is that this pilot was just messing around,
doing a short or soft field type takeoff. That's one possibility.
And another possibility is
that they accidentally bumped the power back
or they were just playing around.
I mean, there's a whole multitude of possibilities here.
But the thing is
I don't think that these pilots or the people that were on board
were ever at any risk,
because you can see here that their climb out was very strong.
So it's not like the plane didn't have enough power to get up and fly away.
So whoever sent it to me, you are correct.
This is not normal,
but I don't think that anybody was in danger.
I think that pilots were either messing around and having some fun
or trying something different.
Or maybe they,
I did the 747 thing in the simulator.
Maybe they don't have a simulator.
So they wanted to see,
Hey, if we're ever in a scenario where we need to get off
of a really short distance,
let me just show you what this plane is capable of.
Now, except for the part where they started descending a little bit,
which again,
they didn't get close to the ground but they did start to descend.
But other than that, there's really no danger in doing that way,
but it's not a normal profile that you'll see pilots do.
You've heard me talk about crosswind landing before,
but essentially what it means is the wind is not coming directly
down the middle of the runway.
It's coming from the side,
which means the plane is approaching the runway at an angle.
And we call that "Crabbing".
And when you see a plane like a 747 with this angle on it,
it's a pretty decent amount of crab.
Now there are two different strategies that pilots can take
when they're doing a crosswind landing.
My style, the way that I like to do it
is that I wait till I'm 10 feet off the ground
then I push the rudder in and straighten the plane out.
And I just found that for me that works out better.
And that's the reason why I do it that way.
I also think it's smoother for the passengers, but for me,
it just an overall easier system.
It's the way that I've always flown planes.
I've always landed without having any crab in there
just because it also is easier on the landing gear.
It's easier for the people in the back of the plane.
So their face isn't getting slapped onto a window
if they're looking up the window.
But a plane like this can handle landing in the crosswind exactly like you saw.
One of the nice things about a plane landing in the crab like this
is that your plane is going to track right down the middle of the runway.
And it's a lot easier to keep it tracking
and you don't need to worry about when to push the rudder in.
But watch what happens to the right wing.
As they land, it comes up.
Which of course causes the left wing to dip.
There's two reasons that that can be created.
The first is that the pilots are focused on
now having to straighten out the rudder.
Now that they landed on the runway, they're having to,
we call it "Dancing on the rudders".
You're going back and forth,
trying to get the plane to keep down the middle of the runway.
Obviously that's the priorities
is keeping the plane going down the middle of the runway,
especially on a wide body aircraft like this,
because there's not a lot of room for error.
You can't go to the left or the right,
or you're gonna be on runway lights or into the grass.
And you never wanna have that.
The other thing that can happen is that by doing that,
by being focused on the rudder,
you can leave your ailerons or in this case,
your yolk neutral.
And what that allows to happen is that the wind now comes underneath
that right wing because the wind is coming from that right hand side
and blows that right wing up in the air,
causing the left wing to go towards the ground.
That's one possibility.
The other possibility is realize how much further this right wing now has
to travel forward rapidly to get the plane being straight.
And what happens when a wing starts moving forward, especially a wing tip,
which is really far away from the main center of the plane.
That means it's traveling a long distance and it's traveling very fast.
Well, a wing going forward is going to generate lift.
Which is exactly what happened.
The plane is coming into the runway crabbed like this.
And as soon as they touch down, look at the distance
this right wing tip is gonna have to travel in order to get even
with the rest of the plane.
Because it's a long way back.
So you have one side generating lift and one side not generating lift.
And if you don't put the correction in what you have is
wind coming from that side
and you have a wing generating more lift than another wing,
which means it's gonna want to go up in the air,
pushing the other wing down.
So my guess is
the reason this left wing is coming down here is probably because
they didn't put any correction into that right wing.
When I say correction,
what I mean is that as soon as your plane touches down,
you're not done flying.
The plane's still going just a couple of knots slower than it needs to actually fly.
So you have to put a correction into your wings
to keep your wings level
and you have to turn them basically like
if you were doing to bank your plane to the right,
you'd have to turn the controls to keep that right wing actually level.
It's kind of counter-intuitive.
So as soon as you land,
you now have to bank your right wing down
so it doesn't go up.
And it takes a lot.
You got your feet moving,
you got your eyes keeping down the middle of the runway.
And now you have to keep your wings level,
especially on a large jet like this.
On a smaller plane, not a big deal.
As the planes get bigger,
those engines, we call them pods, are now really close to the ground.
So as soon as you land, you have to put that correction in,
but you can't go all the way to the right because as you go all the way to the right
you've now slammed your right wing into the ground.
And if you just do nothing, you can slam your left wing into the ground.
So you have to do just like every flight instructor says that I hate
you have to do just enough to keep the wings level, which is an annoying thing.
Usually I just get a little bit in there and then I just kind
of add more as necessary.
You ought to obviously start with some as soon as you touch down
and then you can kind of fell it out.
Now as you slow down, it's not an issue.
But at that very high speed,
those first few seconds, it's vital that you get enough in there
so that way you don't slam your right wing down or let your right wing go up
slamming your left wing on the ground.
And that is why I don't like to crab like this.
I have a different rhythm which is at 10 feet,
which is right about here when they start to float,
I put it enough rudder to straighten out the plane.
Now, before I talk about why they floated,
I'll tell you that the other possible scenario here is that the pilot
put in the wrong wing correction.
Now I've talked about that.
You were supposed to put your right wing down towards the ground.
There's a possibility that this pilot, for whatever reason,
got confused and put his left wing down.
Raise your hand if you've done that before.
And I did it,
but I caught it before it became a problem,
but I had very similar situation to this.
We landed and then for whatever reason,
my brain malfunctioned and I thought
left wing down.
And as soon as I did that,
I was like, well nope, that's definitely not it.
And then I got right wing down.
So I was able to correct it before I ended up striking a pod.
And obviously these guys didn't strike pods either.
So I was able to correct it before it was a problem.
And you could see that the correction was put in pretty quickly.
But the thing is you don't wanna have it get that close
because it gets very stressful for everybody up there on the flight deck.
Now let me talk about why they floated a little bit right before they touchdown.
You see here how they're floating a little bit before the touchdown?
That's not something that you wanna have happen.
The problem is that when you're coming in on a day like this,
where the wind is probably gusty,
you need to keep in extra speed.
And the problem is when you have extra speed is that speed has to bleed off
somewhere before the plane touches down.
So usually what I do when it's really windy
and it's a strong gusty day like that
is I don't try to make it a soft landing,
especially because on my strategy at 10 feet above the runway,
I straighten the plane out.
If I try to straighten the plane out and now make a really soft touchdown and
just kinda like goose it on the ground,
I have the possibility of floating
and by floating and keeping the plane straight down the runway
with a strong crosswind like that,
it can actually blow the plane to the left side of the runway.
So as soon as I straighten out here with this wind from this right hand side,
this plane is now off the center of the runway
and you never wanna land off the center line, especially on a larger jet.
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Until then.
Keep the blue side up.