when you decide to become a pilot you need to learn a whole new vocabulary and
then if you decide to become an airline pilot it's another set of words that you
have to learn in this video I'm going to tell you some of the key words and
phrases that you'll need when you go to the airlines
coming up
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
so whether you're a pilot or an aviation enthusiast consider subscribing in this
video I'm talking about 10 words or phrases that you're gonna need if you
decide to go to the airline's before you ask yes I did just get over a cold and
that's why I'm currently in what I call my James Earl Jones stage of recovery it
seems when I get sick for the next day or two after I start to get better I go
to this James Earl Jones stage where my voice gets a lot deeper a movie a lot of
pilots and aviation enthusiasts really enjoy is catch me if you can starring
Leonardo DiCaprio if you've seen that movie you might remember this scene you
turn it around on the red-eye I'm jumping puddles for the next few months
trying might keep running leapfrog to the weak and weary he's basically
showing up and he's pretending to be a pilot in this scene and when he shows up
he starts throwing out a bunch of aviation jargon now currently a lot of
pilots don't use those words so if you showed up into a cockpit now and started
saying those things all the pilots would look at you and go what anyway I'll put
a link to the catch me if you can video in the description below but let's get
into some of these aviation terms so I have 10 different aviation terms that
we're gonna go over and before I get into that I want to clear up one that I
get asked about a lot in the comments section it's keep the blue side up
that's not something that you're gonna hear a lot of pilots say to each other
while we're out flying around but essentially what it means is I'm talking
about the artificial horizon that you'll see in most cockpits this guy is gonna
be blue and the land is gonna be brown and basically what its meaning is keep
aware of what's going on around you let's say you get into the clouds and
you're a new pilot and you get disoriented it's very easy to get
disoriented if you're not used to flying in the clouds and what has happened in
the past is pilots get confused and they can get all the way inverted upside down
because I was inverted obviously if if you've inverted your Cessna or your
plane that you're learning to fly on and you're completely upside down that's
gonna be a bad situation stay aware of what's going on around you and make sure
that you are flying the right-side up all right let's go into these words here
so the first word I'm going to cover is another thing that I get asked about a
lot why do you call the channel 74 gear well I'm a 747 pilot so generally
speaking all Boeing pilots are going to drop the last
seven off of the equipment that they're flying and that's because every Boeing
aircraft end with a seven so 727, 737, 747 and so on the only exception that rule
is the triple se ven so you'll hear a pilot say hey man what are you flying oh
I'm on the 73 or another example will be yeah man I fly the 74
for this airline that will be an example of what pilots would say to each
other and they drop that last 7 off again the only exception would be if
you're flying the triple seven it would be the exact same thing yeah man I fly
the triple seven for this airline number two jump seat
jump seat is an additional seat that's on the flight deck there's two ways that
this word gets used the first one is if you're referring to just the seat itself
again it's just an additional seat in an every cockpit it's different if you
remember in that clip catch me if you can
Leonardo DiCaprio's kind of looking around he's looking around and trying to
find the jump seat and that's because on every aircraft that jump seats in a
different position so if you're trying to find it it can be a bit confusing and
nobody wants to look like they're the new guy and is unfamiliar with what's
going on so he's looking around trying to figure out where it is because
sometimes it's slid in somewhere or it has a weird release for you to be able
to get it out and it's different in every flight deck if you ever end up on
a flight deck and you're at the airlines and you're riding the jump seat the
captain or the first officer will say are you familiar if you're not familiar
meaning you haven't fit on that flight deck before it's better just to say no
I've never been up here before there's no harm in it and what they'll do is
I'll show you how to get the jump seat out how to stow the jump seat in an
emergency and go over all the safety features that are in the cockpit it'll
take you one minute and it's better than saying yeah yeah I know and you don't
know and then you look really stupid because now you've just lied to the guys
so your jump seat is the seat in it's also if you're trying to get home or get
to work and how that works is in the airlines if you're trying to get to work
or get home you can list yourself for a flight with any given airline in the US
if you're a US airline pilot if there's a seat in the back you can go and ride
in the seat in the back if there is no seat in the back because you are a crew
member you're able to ride up in the cockpit and riding up there you're
going to sit in the jump seat that jump seat is usually pretty uncomfortable but
if you're just trying to get home or get to work you don't really mind you're
just trying to get there so what you'll hear is a guy say I'm
gonna jump seat home or I'm gonna jump seat to work and that
basically means I don't have a seat reserved for me in the back and I'm
gonna try to catch a free flight whether you're gonna ride in the front or the
back don't refer to it as the jump seat number three dead head dead head is when
your airline is going to be moving you from one location to another location
and usually that's to operate a flight or to get you back to your base so a
dead head means that you either by yourself or with your crew will have a
seat in the back it's paid for by the airline and basically what you're gonna
do is show up and check in like a normal passenger and you're gonna sit in the
back and that is a Deadhead number four legs legs are gonna refer to the number
of flight that you're doing in a given day so you might hear a pilot say yeah I
got to do a two leg day and basically what that means is he's doing two flight
that day he might go Miami to Charlotte and Charlotte to Detroit as an example
and that would be a two leg day at the regionals you'll hear pilots say you
know I got a four leg day or a five leg day and that means they're doing five
different flights that day so the legs is always referring to the number of
flights that you're doing in a given day number five RJ RJ means regional jet so
you'll hear pilots say ERJ or CRJ that's gonna be there at the Embraer or
the Bombardier aircraft so for an example I would say yeah when I was
flying RJ's now I'm not saying CRJ or ERJ
I'm just saying back when I was flying RJ's and that's generally what pilots
will say for the most part guys don't specify unless they're getting into
specifics of a topic they'll say yeah when I was flying the RJ's or I fly an
RJ for this airline so RJ means regional jet number six upgrade time your upgrade
time is the time that it's gonna take you to be a first officer an upgrade to
captain so that's gonna vary depending on the airline and the aircraft you
might have on a smaller aircraft and upgrade time might be 1 or 2 or
maybe 3 years on a larger aircraft it might be 10 or 15 years to
become a captain on that aircraft that upgrade time is going to vary depending
on the airline and the aircraft so at the same airline you could have a
one-year upgrade time on one aircraft and a 15 year upgrade on a different
aircraft so that's the upgrade time so you will hear a pilot say something like
yeah I got my paperwork in for upgrade I'm still waiting to hear back or I've
had my paperwork in for upgrade for two years and
I think in the next two or three months I should be able to upgrade so the
upgrade is basically going from a first officer to a captain number seven
flight attendants FA generally pilots aren't saying and flight attendants
aren't saying FAs when they're talking about themselves but they use it a lot
in text as an example a flight attendant could leave her bag or a purse or a hat
or something on the plane and if that crews already left and you knew the
pilots you could text one of them and say hey man one of your fa s left their
bag on the plane and that is when they're talking amongst themselves or
you'll see a lot of times in forums pilots will say FA they're referring to
flight attendant number eight bingo fuel if you remember in the film review I did
on american-made starring Tom Cruise I talked about when the Border Patrol is
following him and they say we're bingo we need to go back to base basically
what a bingo fuel number is you are going to have a number at which you have
to go back in land most of the times if you go to the airline's your bingo fuel
number is gonna be more calculated for when you need to go to your alternate as
an example you're flying from Chicago to Denver you get it's a Denver and the
weather is bad and they put you into a hold so you're just doing circles over
the airport at that point you're going to look at what is your fuel burn and
how much fuel is gonna take you to go from Denver to your alternate let's say
Colorado Springs which is just in the south so what will happen is you'll
calculate what your fuel burn is now and what you're gonna need to get there and
then you're gonna say 20,000 pounds that's our bingo fuel and what that
means is when your aircraft gets to 20,000 pounds you're gonna tell air
traffic control or bingo fuel and we're going to our alternate so that's
basically a decision point so now you know how much time you have to play with
and you'll start looking at some ways to be more fuel efficient and you might
even let air traffic control know that we got ten minutes until we're gonna
need to divert they know if they can slide you in they'll get you in as a
priority so that's bingo fuel number nine sterile
cockpit now in the movie review they did for flight I talked about how Denzel
broke sterile cockpit and he was making a joke and in the Sony movie I didn't
really talk about it but solely did as well break sterile cockpit because he's
talking about the Hudson sterile cockpit means if you're below 10,000 feet or
you're taxing around at the airport you're only going to be talking about
things that are related to the safety of flight and that
while you're taxing there's a lot of dangers to have a runway incursion or
make a mistake and go down the wrong taxiway or while you're climbing out
after takeoff it's very important that you're listening to what that other
planes are doing around you because it's a very congested area so sterile cockpit
is a rule that got put into place that below 10,000 feet you have to be really
aware of what's happening around you now from time to time you will have pilots
that will violate that rule and they'll be talking about something that's not
necessarily related to what's going on and in that example Sully's doing it
he's looking at the Hudson and he's saying you know what a nice day it is
but technically speaking below 10,000 feet you're not supposed to talk about
anything that is not related to the safety of flight so you'll hear things
like gear up or select a heading anything like that you're allowed to
talk about you just can't talk about other things after 10,000 feet you can
talk about whatever you want that's sterile cockpit number 10 turns
turn to or out and backs or what pilots and flight attendants refer to depending
on a type of flying that they're doing as an example you're in Chicago you're
going to Denver and then you're going back to Chicago so when you're in
Chicago if you're talking to another crew member that you see on the jet
bridge you're walking by they may ask hey what are you doing and they would
say I'll do in a Denver turn so I say you're doing a Denver turn you're
leaving Chicago going to Denver and you're gonna turn and come right back
so when you say turn or an out and back it's always meaning you're having at
least two legs because you're going somewhere and coming right back that's
what a turn is alright crew there's 10 words or phrase I think are gonna be
really important for you to know if you decide to go to the airlines in the
comments section below let me know a word or phrase you think a lot of people
don't understand or one that you don't know or you want some clarification on
if there's enough in there maybe we'll make a part two to this video I look
forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up