okay we'll be good can we come out I know a lot of flight attendants that
watch this channel that would love to be able to lock us in the flight deck
Aviation means part 4 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 today I'm here in downtown Anchorage Alaska and this is the view
from my hotel room it seems a lot of unit 74 crew love these aviation
memes because you keep sending them to my Instagram and if you keep sending
them I'll keep making them and it's been a few months and I probably have enough
to make 2 meme videos but today we're gonna keep it short and rollin gonna do
one let's get into it first day of flight school last day of flexible I
know these baby Yoda memes were huge truthfully I don't know if this would be
like last day of flight school maybe it would be like your last day of being an
instructor at a flight school those guys seem to be a bit worn after teaching
1,250 hours or 800 hours or whatever you need to finish I don't know if after
flight school you're quite Yoda types of headaches migraine hypertension stress
taxing ed hardy so our deep that Chicago and actually this is crazy just the
other day I was writing as a passenger on a flight and the woman sitting next
to me worked for the FAA air traffic control and actually we were talking
specifically about Chicago the reason Chicago is a bit tricky it's different
than most airports if you're a pilot you've flown in there before you know
that what they do is they just keep telling people what to do without asking
for a callback or a read back so you just have to listen to your callsign and
then just start doing that thing without reading it back if they give you a break
at the end of what they say then you read it back it's a little bit different
than most every other Airport that I've flown into truthfully it's not that
difficult once you get the hang of it and really like the number one rule of
Chicago which is Ord the number one rule is don't stop moving if you stop moving
they'll get really upset so you just kind of keep it rolling at least forward
and if they want to change the direction cuz you're doing something wrong they'll
tell you to go somewhere else oh good there's a free breakfast if you're a
flight crew you know that it's always about free breakfast I remember
specifically at the regionals we would specifically bid for overnights that had
free breakfast I don't know why but it just made my day and we would always go
out and you show up and you check in at the front desk one of my early questions
when I was checking at the front desk would always be so what's the breakfast
situation like because I want to know if there's a free breakfast and truthfully
there would be times where I would skip lunch because I would eat so much at
breakfast that I wasn't even hungry at lunchtime especially when you're new
starting from your career you're trying to save as much money as you can so free
breakfast is always important in fact I ate a free breakfast this morning and I
loved it oh my god you're so lucky you get to see the world the world that's
that's pretty accurate as this channel shows everywhere that I'm going in the
world a lot of the times I'm here in the hotels and it's cool I do get to see a
lot of the world unfortunately sometimes I don't make videos when I'm in really
cool places in the world because I'm out running around checking those things out
as you saw the beginning of this video it is very cold and snowy outside so I'm
not trying to spend any extra time walking around Anchorage I've been here
a lot of times but if you follow me on my Instagram you'll usually you'll see
in those stories when I'm going somewhere cool and I'll post up stories
of different places that I'm at when I have a chance but when I'm in a cool
hotel somewhere in the world I'll try to film but a lot of times I'm just excited
to go out and explore that city if I've never been there before you told me you
had a lot of money invested yeah in flight training it's true going through
flight school right now is super expensive
I found it expensive for me when I talked to some of the old captains I fly
with they're like oh yeah flight school it was like what two three thousand
dollars Mike yeah the seven days it's definitely something that's expensive
but if you watch some of those videos I did I think it's a great career to be in
it fits me and my personality really well it's something that I really
enjoyed doing and I enjoy getting paid to go around the world so for me it's a
really good fit and and the pay is great but it is definitely a struggle the
first several years any pilot will tell you that it's been difficult right now
probably the best it's ever been that may change in the future but there's
definitely a massive pilot shortage for sure I made a video about that maybe a
year or two ago so it is definitely something to get into but it is
expensive so I understand I can't imagine how glamorous flying will be in
the future the future so it's really funny is that I've seen some of these
Instagram accounts like passenger shaming and they show some of the crazy
things that passengers do I know that as a passenger when I'm flying in uniform
people usually are more respectful around me and I noticed that they don't
act and do stupid things especially if they see that I'm sitting in front of
them are next to them there'll be a lot more respectful than if that I was in
regular civilian clothes it's true that it has gotten a little bit out of
control compared to what it should be in that Hollywood versus reality I did in
castaway I talked about not taking off your shoes and socks but based on what
I've seen as I fly around everyday I still see people do that I don't put
that stuff on my Instagram I don't post that stuff when I see people doing it
because that's not really my place and I feel a little bit bad shaming people on
how they act in their manners that's not really my job but there are a lot of
accounts out there that love doing that me on my last day of reserved crew
scheduling now if you don't know what reserve means it's basically where
you'll have a few different types but one of them will be where you're at home
and other one might be at a hotel and usually on your last day or two you're
just thinking okay I'm almost done and I'm about to go home but what they're
saying in this meme is that as soon as you're thinking you're about to go home
cruise schedule will call you up and go oh no it's time to go to work now of
course I have a lot of schedulers that watch my channel that work at my airline
and so I love you guys so of course if you were going to call me to go on a
trip you would put me on something super awesome but for other people this
definitely might apply when ATC talks too fast can you repeat the part of the
stuff where you said all about the things I have a lot of ATC controllers
that watch this channel as well and I will say that I've landed it places that
are very busy airports let's take New York as an example I've land
and if I haven't flown there a lot they might tell me three or four things very
fast and expect me to know their airport as well as they know their airport and
unfortunately this is not the world I live in but there was a time I remember
back at the regionals I was in LaGuardia and I was a brand new first officer and
I called for a clearance and they had to give us a full new clearance of where we
were gonna go there's a lot of different things I had to write down while they
were talking and the person that was giving me the clearance was reading it
back so fast because they had it all printed off I'm having to write it down
and listen to what they're saying as far as spelling numbers everything like that
I'm having to write it all down really quickly and at the end of it I looked
over at the captain I was like do you get that he goes yeah maybe like half of
it so I called back and I got them and I said in a really slow voice I write
about as fast as I talk so we can do it three or four times or you can give it
once to me real real slow and you could tell they were irritated but they read
it back nice and slow the reality is it's like I always tell the pilots out
there air traffic control is there to help you so if you don't understand it
it's better to clarify it and at the end of the day you might ask him for it
three or four times but if you get it clear you're not gonna have any problems
if you make an assumption you can get into a lot of trouble especially when
you're flying out of places like JFK in New York that area or Washington DC it's
always better to X two or three times and get it right then take a guess and
be wrong in my defense the flight attendant said please familiarize
yourself with all the safety features aboard the aircraft I seeing this a
while back on the news and I don't know this is real or how this happened but
it's true we have life rafts onboard the aircraft I don't know how you would get
that to actually deploy inside the aircraft but and it would probably cause
a lot of damage because there's a lot of pressure in those co2 canisters to
inflate those rafts as fast as possible so people can safely get on them in the
situation of a water landing I remember one of the earlier meme videos I talked
about some flight ends accidentally blowing a slide I remember I was doing a
walk around and they accidentally forgot to disarm the door and when they opened
the door I see this huge slide shoot out and I
Dober I thought oh man and I could see both the flight attendants up there had
this look on their face all I was thinking was man I hope they're not on
probation but it was really kind of a crazy situation for me to see and I can
assure you that neither of those two flight attendants will ever make that
mistake again passengers talking to the flight attendants passengers talking I
know that flattens always say this to me they're always like but the passengers
are always so nice to you and honestly it's true so something that I did when I
always flew passengers and even now when I'm flying passengers is I like to stand
if I'm not flying or if I have a minute and I've done all my pilot duties I like
to stand and be there as people walk on the plane for two reasons one I'm there
to see anything to back up the flight attendants if somebody shows up on the
plane drunk or they're acting stupid or things like that and that still happens
today I like to be there because it sets a totally different tone if you as the
pilot say something to a passenger then what a flight attendant will say to them
and it also makes it kind of a cool experience for them as they're coming on
board if you're on a single floor of aircraft where the kids would come on
they look at you and you could kind of tell if the kids wanted to see inside
the flight deck so being there they don't have to intrude or ask the flight
attendant and they kids can just look at you and go you can see them kind of
looking past you to look inside the flight deck and I go come on and let's
check it out obviously on my plane that doesn't work
back now and I don't really fly a lot of kids now but it is definitely something
you should do or consider doing if you're a pilot is stand up there and
talk with the flight attendants while they're doing their stuff and just be
there to greet the passengers it makes it for setting a good tone for them it
makes them feel comfortable it allows them to see the pilots if you're a
nervous flier I know that I've had friends that are nervous fliers they
really like to be able to see the pilots and see hey they're a real person
they look aware of what's going on they don't look like Denzel from flight those
things really puts people at ease it helps your flight attendants out and if
somebody shows up and is acting stupid or out of control you're there to backup
your flight attendant so that's why I always did it when the planes almost
full and you see someone smoking hot walk down I wish I wish I looked that
good I don't know if you know this Southwest how it works when you board on
a Southwest aircraft and I jump sit on them a few times and as far as airlines
go they are some of the nicest crews to pilots they are really great to jump
seed on how it works on Southwest is that you board and you sit in whatever
cu1 and anybody can sit next to you and I'm kind of guessing that's what this
baby is doing he's sitting in that seat I've had it happen where I show up and
I'm in civilian clothes and I'm just a regular pane passenger and I go and I
sit down and you see some superhot girl walking down the aisle and you're
thinking please sit next to me of course they always go and sit three or four
rows back and I get some guy who looks like he's a lumberjack and he's like Oh
last scene I'll just sit in the middle yeah great fantastic but it is
definitely funny to see you can see people especially on something like
Southwest you can see people as somebody attractive gets on the plane man or
woman you can kind of see people kind of get it ready maybe sit up a little bit
more in their seat than they normally would someone else who has a lot of swag
when it comes to aircraft is Frank from catch me if you can if you haven't seen
the hollywood vs reality that I did on catch me if you can I'll put a link
to it right here I look forward to hearing from you
until then keep the blue side up