tom cruise and mission impossible 2 hollywood versus reality
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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 something i was taught a long time ago was don't be critical
about something unless you're willing to be able to do it better i know nothing about
making a good high-end high-quality blockbuster movie but i do know aviation so not only am i
going to be critical of this hollywood versus reality in this mission impossible 2 movie
but i'm going to explain how they can get the same result and have it be somewhat realistic
i want to tell you the sun is blasting my room i have the curtain out so if the colors look weird
that's why all right let's get into
it two and a half hours from atlanta got your window now we have a great
view of the rocky mountain this is your captain again we've experienced a slight
but abrupt drop in cabin pressure as a precaution i've released the oxygen mask
sit back relax there's nothing to worry about despite about 80 percent of my videos being
about all the things they did wrong when they do something right i'd like to notate that something
hollywood got right here was the time of the flight two half hours while you're over the rocky
mountains out to atlanta would be about right because they're already in cruise so that makes
sense if you're thinking about it if you're living in denver and you've done a flight to atlanta it's
going to be longer than two and a half hours but they're factoring in the climb out and the taxi
and all that type of stuff once you're up in a cruise that extra distance is really not a big
deal in the time but this next clip makes no sense because you can hear the engines roll back and
then the electricity flickers on the plane this is your captain again we've experienced a slight but
while it is true that the engines do generate the electricity on the plane which i know is kind of
a crazy concept but the engines are generating the electricity that's for your plane and if
your engines go all the way back that's known as being in flight idle now if you've run on a
commercial plane before you've been at flight idle because usually under descent will bring the power
all the way back but the plane and the engineers have designed it so even at flight idle there's
still plenty of electricity to be generated for the aircraft so this whole concept of the engine
is rolling back and then lights flickering like this that makes no sense at all however if your
engines do get shut off while you're in the middle of flight then you are going to have
an electrical problem the objective of this scene was to deploy the oxygen mass as you can see the
captain hitting the switch up here which is not where that switch would be on a 747 i don't know
why they're showing it there let's start with something that you may not know this is a 747
400 and on the 400 there is no flight engineer it used to be when you did a long flight on a 747
one of the more older versions there was a third person that sat in this seat back here
and that person was known as a flight engineer on the 747 400 you're gonna have two three or four
pilots depending on the length of the flight so in this case being two and a half hours from landing
the pilots aren't going to be up there typically we're going to go about an hour before landing
that gives us time to review all the plates where you're going the approach and all the things that
you need to do and be aware of what's going on and then you hit the top of descent you start
going down when you hit the top of descent a lot of times the engines will go to flight idle if you
ever hear the engine go all the way back that's flight idle and you'll see the electricity doesn't
go away so in reality in this exact situation you'd have two pilots up there which is one less
person for the captain to be distracted with in order to accomplish his goal which is deploying
the oxygen mask he could have told the first officer hey look out the window take a picture
of the mountains or they could have done anything get up and get my bag get something out of my bag
or whatever it is or wait for the first officer to go to the bathroom there's a ton of options and
in this situation where the first officer goes to the bathroom a flight attendant would be up
on the flight deck and really wouldn't know what all those buttons up there doing so then in that
situation they could have hit whatever buttons they wanted and the other person wouldn't have
known but this panel here the captain could have messed with the pressurization of the aircraft a
few different ways the fast one would have been changing the landing altitude so the plane would
think that it's landing at a higher airport or you have some of these other buttons or switches
that you could use in order to raise the cabin pressure and people's ears would start popping
in the back of the plane so in that case where they raise the landing altitude everybody's ears
would start popping the captain could say oh we're depressurizing now a first officer which knows
anything would be able to look and say no the landing altitude's been set at the wrong altitude
but let's just imagine that that first officer was new and got nervous and wasn't paying attention so
in that scenario you could get them to put their oxygen masks on and then the captain could tell
him hit the oxygen mask for all the passengers now that's over on the first officer's side so
it'd be easier for the first officer to reach up and grab that than from the captain's side
but it looks like this and you would just tell the first officer to go and hit that switch so the
captain has got the first officer to put on his oxygen mask he's got the first officer to deploy
all the oxygen masks for everybody in the plane and now he has accomplished his goal of getting
everybody to start breathing the oxygen which obviously is going to be a problem for everybody
now if you want to know what switch he was flipping in the movie what's actually there
is this switch right here which is the light switch to turn on all the lights
on the flight deck it's really not that exciting for center this is transpac 2207 747 heavy we're
unable to maintain cabin pressurization we've initiated a descent to one six thousand captain
all right first things first hollywood you guys love to do this but i mentioned it a bunch of
times pilots don't wear their shoulder harnesses within about five minutes after takeoff we have
them on for takeoff after we're in the air there's really no point to have them we take
them off immediately they're not comfortable to sit in or move around in so there's really no
solution for these except just taking them off so you want to make it more realistic remove these
anytime the guys are sitting up there in flight and while we have this picture up here what in
the world is in his hand what is he talking into and why does he have his headset on if he's going
to talk into this strange version of a hand mic now some pilots do use the hand mic if you're ever
listening to air traffic control sometimes you will hear what sounds like an echoey or they're
in a big room and it's very loud if you ever hear air traffic control transmissions and they're
making those and it's coming from the pilots and they're usually doing a very long flight
that's typically what they're using is the hand mic the audio is just not as clear
but instead of wearing the headset for a really long time they'll put their take their headset off
and put the speaker on there's a speaker that's on the flight deck they'll put a speaker on up there
so they're not wearing a headset and they're just talking like normal and then they use the hand mic
to do all the radio transmissions that they need to do and they can hear air drive control talking
to them via the speaker just for reference this is what the mics look like on a 747 so i have no
idea what this guy is talking into over here i'm not going to get deep into the systems of the 747
but there's some points in this buttons here that you've set up hollywood that are just ridiculous
so i'm going to just explain the big ones that are really important for you if you do a later movie
when we're in the cruise portion of our flight we're usually in mock which is a percentage of
the speed of sound and you see that referenced here by this m and we could go to an indicated
airspeed which is what you see here by this ias but you would never be going that slow at that
altitude to give you a reference point 168 which is where they started off at the beginning of this
168 could be a landing speed on a 747 on a windy day and you're really heavy i've landed at that
speed so 168 you would never be all the way up without any flaps out in the middle of cruise
at that speed that makes literally no sense at all you would be in mach and then you'd be
going something like mach 86 or mach 8 5 which means you're going 85 percent of the speed of
sound that would be something that would be normal that you would see it would just say eight five so
that would be a normal thing that you would see up there not 168 indicated airspeed never also just
by reducing the altitude it doesn't automatically make the engine slow down like you hear right here
and the only time you have all three autopilots engaged is during the landing phase
never in cruise it's just one autopilot during cruise that's engaged and this is something i
want to talk about because i mentioned it before during this situation of having the plane get
depressurized there is a case where the pilots are trying to get down as quickly as possible and
then we're trying to get down to ten thousand feet now he said sixteen thousand feet which could be
possible if you're over the mountains you're not gonna go to ten thousand feet because you could be
into the mountains which is a way worse situation than the pressurizing so that whole sixteen
thousand at initial that could be something that could happen and then once they clear the
mountains they'll get down to ten but you're gonna get try to get down as quickly as possible because
at sixteen thousand you could still breathe at fifteen thousand you can breathe also but
you're gonna wanna get to ten thousand that's the altitude that everybody's gonna breathe at easily
without any problem so you're gonna be going for that as quickly as possible so you wouldn't
be going down at fifteen hundred feet a minute which is what they're showing right here you see
this thing right here saying 1500 that's saying the plane is going to descend at 1500 feet per
minute which is very slow for those of you that are bad at math just to give you some rough ideas
if you were at 390 which you could easily be at this phase of flight your light and you're trying
to get up at the very high air where it's easy on the plane and it's really fuel efficient if you're
at 390 and now you've had a rapid depressurization of the aircraft and you race it and get down to 10
000 feet and you were to start to start to descend at 1500 feet a minute it would take you roughly 20
minutes to get down to the 10 000 feet now that is too long in the grand scheme of what you're trying
to do you don't need to race down you don't need to speed up to go down you just need to get down
quicker than that because some of the people's oxygen is going to run out by that time now i
want to tell you like i said before you're able to keep breathing even though your oxygen mass stops
working but the pilots are going to want to get down quicker just so there's no issues at all
the other thing i want to note here is that if i was the first officer and i had my mask on like
you see this guy has his mask on here if i had my mask on and the captain didn't have his mask
on i would be saying captain put your mask on because maybe he forgot or something like that
you wouldn't be sitting there with your oxygen mask on him not having his oxygen mask on at all
okay i gotta pause this right here because this is something that is very unrealistic
uh no pilot's gonna be wearing a tie once during the cruise portion of the flight
once you get into cruise once you usually get in the flight deck if you're gonna be on a long
flight once you get on the flight deck the tie is coming off because at that point you've already
walked past all the passengers you're not going to be there talking to everybody you're going to get
in the flight deck and you're going to take your tie off so this whole concept this guy is this
long international flight and now he's coming off of the flight deck and he's still wearing
his tie nobody's gonna be wearing their tie if i saw somebody that was still wearing their tie
after like nine hours across the ocean i'd be like what's wrong with you dude so nobody's gonna be
wearing their tie during that i just saw him the other thing is is that the 747 is typically where
he jumps off there's typically something right there so the the layout isn't exactly right it's
not a huge deal but typically if you tried to jump off the steps of a 747 you were his height you
would end up hitting your head a lot of times when i go down i kind of have to duck a little bit so
you could not jump off i mean it's possible they have a modified 747 where that's not the case
but what's not possible is this guy wearing a ties he's coming out of the flight deck and then
jumping down the steps but what is realistic is that if there was space to jump off the steps you
know pilots are like children i would definitely have done i probably would have broken my ankle
by now but i definitely would have been jumping off of the half of the steps that's realistic
remember to pull the no2 tank and dump it
terrain terrain pull up pull up terrain
i talked about in a few other movies but this hatch that it shows them dropping out of that's
a real thing i talked about it in an executive decision that hatch exists the room is not as big
as they're showing there but it does exist i've climbed down in and around it i don't know if i'm
supposed to do that but i even put some photos of it on instagram but the room is not that big
as they're showing in there which whatever that's not a huge deal it's looked smaller in there than
it did in executive decision where they had like a little party going on in there but that room does
exist and it would be honestly one of the best places to jump out of because you don't have to
worry about going over the wings uh or missing anything you're gonna go right at the bottom of
the plane there's nothing there and then obviously you know the tick tock guy that said jump out of
the front of the plane and then you'd have to dodge the wings and the engine so whoever came
up with the idea of going out the bottom that was cool and that made sense and it obviously
looked super cool jumping out like that i'm not a skydiving pro so i'm not sure how this will work
but the speed of doing this at 180 knots seems like it'd be pretty fast to me to accomplish this
exact same thing what he could have done is push all the flaps out and then set the speed and made
it a lot slower than 180 which is where they're at because that was the last speed that he set up
there so you'd slow it down a bunch throw all the flaps out and now what's going to happen is the
flaps are going to come out and as the plane slows down the flaps are going to come all the way out
and now the plane is going slow which is going to make jumping out of the plane a lot easier
and a lot more realistic now because you set the speed to 180 i don't know what it's actually at
but it's possible you would get this shaker which you see here so if the pilots are taking a plane
that's close to a stall which would be what would be happening if you would slow the plane down a
lot without putting the flaps out which is what allows us to actually fly the plane a lot slower
the plane would start shaking that yoke that his face is on that that thing would start shaking
and it says hey wake up bro uh this is something that you should be paying attention to obviously
they're not expecting you to be sleeping but it's saying to get your attention wake up and look at
this now here's something that you may not know if the pilots don't do anything about it in a lot of
planes it will actually start to push so means if you go really really slow on a lot of planes what
will happen is the shaker will go as your warning and if it takes it all the way to a stall before
it actually lets it stall it will actually push the plane over to prevent it from getting into a
stall now not every plane has that feature but it is a safety feature that are in a lot of different
aircraft just a little tidbit for you that [ __ ] whiz is what we call it ground proximity
warning system that [ __ ] whiz is not attached to the shaker that shaker thing is for a stall
the other thing is saying hey you're getting close to a mountain climb up pull up terrain pull up
pull up terrain so those two things are not intertwined so i don't know if they're making
the shaker b because they're getting really slow if that was their intention then well done
if they're saying that it's attached to the chip whiz then that has those two things have nothing
to do with each other so by dropping the flaps all the way out they could have accomplished
everything that they were doing including running and jumping and jumping out of the plane and
all that stuff the other thing that they missed is they didn't depressurize the plane or not
that i saw they would have to depressurize the plane so with everybody passed out he
could have depressurized the plane dropped the flaps out slowed the plane down and then
ran down and everybody would still be passed out because your oxygen mask is going to be feeding
you this sleeping gas for 15 or so minutes i guess i i don't know i've never tried to
put sleeping gas in the plane but let's just say it's 15 minutes so he could have depressurized the
plane put the flaps all the way out slowed down ran down jumped off the stairs because why not
and then jumped out of the plane but that depressurization is important without the
depressurization you're never going to be able to open the hatch or jump out so that is the other
thing that was kind of missing from this thing is depressurizing the plane he did the oxygen
mask which is great but that doesn't depressurize the aircraft i recently had someone tell me about
a new movie that was coming out and they said it's based on a wide-body aircraft and they're
going to be doing this whole thing and you know do you want me to email the producer and the director
and see if they want you to be on set and i was like yeah sure i he sent the email i never heard
anything back but who knows maybe one of these days i'll be on set i'll be able to make these
movies make a lot more sense and so you're not rolling your eyes all the way through
the movies like that is not possible until that day comes if you want to see me talk about more
747s check out this video here and if you want to see some hollywood versus reality featuring a 747
check out this video up here i look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up