can you land a 747 at St Bart's we're going to find out 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 someone left
me a comment saying can you land a 747 at an inappropriately short runway and i thought
i'm basically a professional flight simmer now of course i can do that i think let's get into it
all right so as you know i uh
i don't like to waste a lot of time so we're just going to go full power and
clean up everything and uh head over there to the island i wish there was a way in the and honestly
there probably is i just haven't figured out a way to get in there closer to the to the field
i uh as you can see i'm on a green screen it took me a couple of days to figure this out and
excessive air speed oh below 10. okay hold on the green screen so technically
you're not allowed to go 250 below 10 i know that's a rule but there is something that
you may not know and i actually i didn't know this before well i didn't know this or before i
started flying heavies i knew a little bit before but not not exactly before i better slow down um
you can actually do what's called a high-speed climb i don't know if you'll sometimes you'll
hear hear air traffic control you heal the pipes say hey we need a high speed climb a request high
speed climb things like that high speed climb when you're flying a heavy jet they give you
clearance to go above 250 below 10 000 feet and the first few times i was doing it i was like
i feel like such a rebel but because you can't with some of the planes when they're
fully loaded you can't get all the flaps up and everything cleaned up for the plane to fly
the most most efficiently without uh going at least 250 knots or going over 250 knots
where's this airport i know it's in the middle here somewhere a little slow so um
anyways you are allowed to to go above 250 if you request a high-speed climb some places won't let
you do it the one that comes to mind is germany germany will never let you do high-speed climb
most other places will let you do the high-speed climb but germany they they don't for some reason
they don't want to let you do it i don't know if it's something to do with noise or what i
think it's in this cove here where that ship is normally you always see them in the videos coming
the other way i've never actually flown into st bart's in real life um with or without a 747
but i think i think that's it that's got to be it right there all right we got everything configured
i got the speed brakes slowing us down oh it's got a little countdown to get in there that's pretty
cool let's get this back um don't touch yet don't touch yet oh am i gonna get this on the first try
all right this is looking pretty good co-pilot slow down i got this set
what there's no way that that's a crash i don't know if the wing hits some of the trees
or what but i had to think right down the middle
we gotta do this again all right oh speed brakes are out from before let's get the gear up
um what i was saying about the green screen earlier the uh
the hoodie that i had the blue hoodie and the blue shirt that i always used to wear when i fly and i
would wear it in these videos that was there was something wrong with it it was so close to the
color of the green screen i don't know or i don't know what i'm doing either way it didn't fit or it
wasn't working and i spent like two days messing around with it and i actually go i have to go back
to work i'm gonna be working i bid my schedules together so i'm working basically a month straight
and i think i'm gonna be playing the kodak scene which i'm kind of excited about
i'm kind of excited about anyway since the blue wasn't working on the green screen i i decided
2021 swap it up this is this is my new hoodie my new hoodie and my new undershirt that i'll be
flying with for 2021 and i did it all for you in the 7-4 crew so i could make these flying videos
so you'll you'll probably be seeing this somewhere on the gram if it's not there
already you'll be seeing you'll be seeing by time you see this video i may already post a picture
wearing this but or i may just save it let's get this thing i'll try this again
i'm going to try to land again so whiny with these speeds
i'm going to try to land actually on the side try to cut it as on a corner see if that works
equipment danger
what's funny so there there are speaking on the on the landing gear i guess it's saying
that i try to put the gear out too fast there is no warning for that if you drop the lever
where the landing gear is at the gear goes out that's there's there's no uh there is a
restriction there is a limitation on it but it's not 220 i don't know why they have that on there
so let's see if we can get in here and get this
done um i have to pack i have to go get food i gotta pack and i gotta go to work so
i gotta get this video done today before i head out or it's going to be a month
all right so we got everything set up here a little bit
a little bit of power let's power with the speed brakes out that's a great pilot in kels 137
we got everything set let's hit it on the corner
nice i just drifted i'm going to drift it over the left-hand side a little bit so that way we can be
on the left-hand side maybe we don't clip the trees and there there's no way that i'm hitting
something over there in the old microsoft game you could like drive through buildings and now my my
wing hits a tree and it counts as a whole crash i think you remember in the air force one i think
it was 747 was driving around ramstein and it was cutting down trees like it was nobody's business
and now it seems that my dash 8 hits a wing into the trees and it's a full crash no maybe
a spin but definitely not a crash okay that day's freaking power and speed breaks get the gear up
irritating i wish there was a way and if there is if you can let me know
how i can start closer closer to the runway because this is so far away
there's i don't know there's got to be a way to get closer i just haven't figured it out
i know there's a lot of there's a lot of you that play this a lot more than i have
time to do it actually i have to go to the real simulator soon for my annual well we
have to go every like six months but it's the one where it's all the exams and everything's on
why are we fire so slow i don't know because we're climbing
anyway the uh
i wanted to to let you know i had some friends over and they saw you can imagine this setup
that i have in the in my house people are a little bit confused when they when they see all this and
these two girls better slow down these two girls were looking at it and they were like we want to
play we want to play we want to play we want to play i'm like okay so i don't most people don't
know i don't ever tell people that i'm a youtuber i just say i'm a pilot uh because i don't really
feel like i'm a youtuber i don't know why anyway the i don't really tell people i'm a youtuber so
they're just like why do you have this and i tell them oh i'm doing testing for a company to see
uh to see how realistic it is and they're like oh that's cool so i i loaded up the game and i
loaded up some approaches i don't remember like la or something so i load up some approaches and uh
anyway they they really enjoyed playing it and i just want to put this out there
if in like five to seven years you have a female captain who who's doing like 250
to the marker and then throwing out the the speed brakes and the flaps and the gear all
at the same time i have no responsibility for that whatsoever just i mean official warning
or we got it slow now i better climb up we're not going to get over this mountain here
get up i don't want to get up too high but just enough to clear it
there we go what oh no no no no no no no no no no
there's no way that i hit that mountain i'm gonna play that back on replay when later on but there's
no way that i hit that mountain actually i'm gonna do a replay right now look right here you can see
i'm not anywhere near that mountain well i mean i'm near the mountain but
i'm definitely not so close that i'm hitting it i definitely cleared that that that's not
that's not good alright we gotta do this again all right i'm gonna do this again
the old one you could drive through everything and now you you can't even get close to stuff
so i got everything set here i got max auto brakes and now i'm just going to drift it
into the grass and then that will be far away from whatever those trees are on the right-hand side
that's saying that i'm i'm hitting them uh i i do enjoy playing these these are these are fun
because they don't really let us do this in the sim and i've had some people say that this isn't
real because i'm playing it in third person but uh that's the easiest way for me to do it
it's a massive sneeze i'll definitely have to edit that out
i i i do enjoy playing these games but like i said some people say that it's a third person's
cheating but uh i haven't figured out a way to see all the stuff at the speed that uh i would
normally see it in real life so it's really the easiest way for me now i'm getting some speed
like i said i'm going to go all the way into the grass this time
and
i was just doing like 370 but now that i slowed down it's about the 250. whatever
obviously if you ever fly 747 don't try this and they don't really let us play like this in the sim
well kind of in the real sim if you have all your stuff done and you have time and there's nobody
behind you in the sim slot sometimes they'll let you do some stuff i haven't let them let
me go to st bart's but uh maybe maybe soon also i keep getting a lot of messages from people saying
altitude too high well that's what happens when you hit a mountain when you don't really
hit a mountain applied joystick landing here oh yeah i should probably do that
um like
a lot of people saying are you are you not going to fly a 747 since they're all retired they're
still making 747s they're making the dash eights so i'm still flying 747 we have a whole bunch
and we sell the dash eights and those are pretty new okay now it floated
that was ugly let me get in the grass
okay so i can drive in the grass but i can't go in the plane or in the
down the middle okay i'll take that crash that's a real one fine okay here we go this is the last
one because i gotta get ready to go to work i'm actually like i said i'm talking earlier i'm gonna
fly the vaccine i'm really excited about doing that i don't i know we you know there's there's
all these protocols of like temperatures and it's got to be cold and it gets packed with dry ice
and stuff like that i'm just kind of curious to see how it loads on the planes if it's all
but like the whole plane which i don't think it will be because i think they want to keep
it separated out because if it goes bad sometimes what happens on these planes on these freighters
uh i wonder if there's a way to make that thing not wine at you um on these freighters sometimes
this the temperature can't get controlled like you want to control it but it's not it
won't the temperature won't go down and if the temperature won't go down and it gets too hot
for whatever reason the the um the vaccine if it heats up above a certain temperature it's useless
so i don't know if they're going to put the whole load up a whole plane luckily it's winter
so it's cool in a lot of places that we're going i don't think i'm going to be able to
take photos and stuff with it though i think they get
not not uh not allowed to talk about where it's going from or to or any of that stuff while it's
happening i guess they don't want people out there mobbing mobbing for the vaccine
but it is cool i gotta fly i to fly when nobody was flying
it was kind of weird then i got to fly medical supplies and masks and the respirators and all
that stuff while that was happening and now i'm going to get to fly the vaccine so
it's cool i'm really excited to honestly be a part of all of it it seems surreal but it's uh
it's cool to be a part of it and i'm very excited to not have to wear this mask anymore
too high decreased altitude abandoned current landing attempt watch this make this happen
i do not like wearing the mask so i'm excited to get the vaccine out as quickly as possible
so i don't have to wear this mask anymore all right let's focus on this landing we're a little
bit too fast here i want to slow down all right let's get a little bit towards the middle here
let's get it on the numbers which you're not supposed to do
and then we're gonna get it into the grass
dude i think i got it slow down
i think i got it it would have stopped earlier by the way because i had it on max
there's no way that that's a crash no way that is a crash look in real life if you did that and you
stopped like that on that hill one the plane was stopped earlier because i had it on max
and i think it would have stopped in that distance especially at the speed i was going and obviously
i don't know what the weight was but i think we would have stopped and even if we didn't stop and
we made it just up that hill that wing would have leaned over like that everybody would have been
fine that's not a crash if you want to see some actual aviation footage that i break down check
out this video here and if you want to watch me rip apart hollywood's version of aviation movies
check out this video up here i look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up