Madagascar 2.
We've lost engine one!
And engine two is no longer on fire!
Hollywood vs. reality
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 sunny Los Angeles, California.
The weather is great. I think it's in the mid-70s.
It's in the middle of December.
Really, what more can you ask for.
And this is a view from my hotel room.
Today, I'm doing the Hollywood vs. reality on Madagascar 2.
It's very similar to the movie "Sully". It's also based off of a true story.
It's about a lion, a hippo, a zebra and a giraffe escaping Africa
being flown by penguins.
Let's get into it!
Check flaps, check engine.
Check coffee maker, check.
That's got to be the second biggest slingshot I've ever seen.
But it's gonna have to do.
Attention, this is your captain speaking.
In the event of an emergency,
place the vest over your head.
Then kiss your... good-bye.
New York City, here we come baby!
Pray to your personal God this hunk of junk flies.
Personal God, hunk? What?
We are go, sir.
Full disclosure, I've never flown this aircraft
so I'm not familiar with their checklist and systems
but there are some things that they've gotten right
and some things that Hollywood has gotten wrong.
First, one of the things they've gotten right is they're doing a checklist.
Now, it's standard in all airlines that one pilot is reading the checklist
while the other pilot is checking to verify that those things are done correctly.
It's called a challenge and response type checklist.
And that is correct.
However, one of the things that caught my eye is that he mentioned struts.
Now, struts can be a few different things on the aircraft
but I think what they're referring to is the landing gear here
and there's five lights.
You have the red and the green mixed together in the same line of these struts
and usually you're not gonna have green and red mixed together like that
and it's gonna be something that's ready to go.
Something that also caught my eye was here showing flaps 60.
Now, usually if flaps go past 40 degrees,
they start to act more like drag and less like lift.
The flaps are something that we use on the aircraft
to help the plane fly at a slower speed
but maintain lift.
We use those flaps for takeoff and for landing
so we don't have seven and eight mile long runways to takeoff and land on.
As for the coffeemaker being on the checklist, that's 100% accurate.
I know a lot of pilots that have to drink coffee
or want to drink coffee during the whole flight.
I even know of one instance where the pilots refused to go
until the coffee actually arrived on the plane
so that actually is very true.
You may have noticed that one of the pilots was verifying that controls were free.
That's something that we do.
You want to know that the controls are free and there's not something locked
or jammed or something like that.
And you want to do that while you're stopped
not going 100 miles an hour down the runway.
So that's actually something that it's correct.
And finally, you see the flight attendant inflating their vest
in part of the safety briefing.
That's something you will never see a flight attendant do.
They always say:
"Make sure you evacuate the aircraft before you inflate your safety vest".
So that's something that Hollywood did not get right.
Let's get back to the movie.
In case of a lost in cabin pressure,
place the mask over your face to hide your terrified expression
from the other passengers.
Excuse me, miss.
Aren't these supposed to be attached to my seat?
No, sir.
OK, boys, launch!
Launch!
Gremlin!
Hey, Mort.
Hi!
So you saw that the gear was down as they were flying out over the ocean.
That's something that a pilot would never do.
Shortly after takeoff, we verify that the aircraft is actually climbing in the air.
Once the aircraft is climbing, we actually bring the gear up.
The gear is usually a very big source of drag, especially on larger aircraft.
I realize this isn't a massive aircraft
but there'd be no reason to have it down at that point
so the gear would go up right then.
Now, gremlins are a real thing on aircraft.
It's a word that pilots use when there is a system
that is continually having problems and they can't understand exactly why.
For an example, if the electrical system
keeps having some weird fault that's happening
a pilot would say: "Man, I think we got some gremlins".
Now, it's not the same gremlins that you're seeing here on the movie
but that is a word that we actually use, is gremlins so,
that is actually real even though it's not that type of gremlin.
Also, you see the pilots flying into a thunderstorm.
That's not something that normally I would do or most pilots would do
but I guess if you have no experience flying through thunderstorms
then maybe that's something that you would do
and I don't know if there's a lot of thunderstorms
over Antarctica where penguins did their flight school
but that's not something that would normally happen but
I guess if you were a bad pilot then you might do that.
So maybe Hollywood got that right.
All right. Let's get back to the movie.
We'll go out for pineapple, my bobbly-headed boobily-boo.
Skipper, look.
Analysis.
It looks like a small incandescent bulb
designed to indicate something out of the ordinary,
like a malfunction.
I find it pretty and somewhat hypnotic.
That too, sir. Right!
Rico? Manual!
Problemo solved.
Sir, we may be out of fuel.
What makes you think that?
We've lost engine one.
And engine two is no longer on fire.
Buckle up, boys.
Don't look, doll.
This might get hairy.
I'm not sure why Hollywood loves these flashing red lights and buzzers.
We do have them but they aren't usually just a random red light
in the middle without any explanation as far as what is going wrong.
However, what the captain did was correct.
In different airlines, they will have different names
but there will be a manual on the aircraft
for any type of an emergency.
And you would ask for that manual
so that part was correct.
However, we don't then smash the light.
That is not correct
but that is correct.
If you do have a light, you would ask for that manual
and then you would also ask for an analysis.
In some cases, you would ask the other pilot what's going on
depending on the phase of flight you're in.
Usually, in cruise, which is the phase of flight they're in right now,
you would both be able to see what was going on and you wouldn't generally ask
but you would ask that manual
and then just do whatever that manual will asked you to do
as part of the checklist.
Another minor thing here that they didn't quite get right is
they referenced engine 2 as being the left side
and engine 1 as being the right side.
Those are reverse.
We've lost engine one.
And engine two is no longer on fire.
Lhe left side engine is one.
The right side engine is 2.
And that's honestly not a big deal.
I think they did that in the "Sully" movie as well
but it's really not a big deal but this is something that I noticed.
All right. Let's get back to Madagascar 2.
Attention! This is your captain speaking.
I have good and bad news.
The good news is, we're landing immediately.
The bad news is, we're crash-landing.
When it comes to air travel, we know you have no choice whatsoever.
But thanks for choosing Air Penguin.
Raise your arms, Maurice!
It's more fun when you raise your arms like this!
I can fly!
Goodness, doll, you're shaking like a leaf.
Rico, you've had your fun.
Pull up.
Gear down.
Gently. You just want to kiss the ground.
Just a peck, a smooch, like you'd kiss your sister.
I said, kiss it!
Now just a little brake.
Just a touch.
A little whisper.
I believe that's checkmate.
So as the movie Sully showed us
if you lose both engines, you're not just going to fall out of the sky like that.
Obviously, that was done by Hollywood for dramatic purposes of this documentary.
However, if a plane were to nose over rapidly,
you would lose gravity for a little while.
So that part is correct and the lemur is correct.
That if you put your hands up, it is a lot more fun.
Raise your arms, Maurice!
It's more fun when you raise your arms like this.
I know pilots do it all the time when we hit air pockets.
Something else that did catch my eyes, the captain was asking for brakes.
And the engines are gone and the wheels are gone
so there is no thrust reverse and there are no brakes
so I'm not really sure how he's asking to just tap the brakes.
I also like how he is asking the copilot who's flying the aircraft
to do things and then when he's trying his very best
he's getting berated
that could happen in some cases, you will get captains that are like that.
But I'm not really sure what he's expecting this person to do
there's no thrust reversers from the engines and there's no brakes to stop
so there's really nothing else that he can do.
All right, final scene of Madagascar two.
Commence emergency landing procedure.
Flaps up! Deploy!
Oh, we're here.
What in the world?
All right. Planes and parachutes is something that people talked about a lot,
and the reality is commercial aircrafts do not have parachutes
but there are planes that do have parachutes.
I was just flying one just a few weeks ago.
So Hollywood did get that right
but you will not settle on the ground that smoothly
and it will not be in a commercial aircraft.
Also, as far as for the captain's decision of when to pull that,
obviously a time when you've lost all of your wings
in the outer shell of your aircraft
along with your wheels and landing gear,
that would obviously be a good time to do it
or possibly a little bit sooner.
As far as for the oxygen mask dropping, that actually it could be a real thing.
It's not actual tanks that are creating that oxygen.
It's actually a chemical reaction.
I talked about it in an earlier video where I explain how the chemicals mix together
to create oxygen for your oxygen mask
so you're not seeing tanks there and that part is accurate.
However, the pilots and I didn't really see from the flight deck side,
the pilots oxygen is actually from a tank. I didn't see those.
Pilots with their oxygen masks on or where it was coming from
so I don't know about that.
But as far as passengers are concerned, that Hollywood did get correct.
Now, one thing that I really did like about this film
is that the captain, no matter what is going on,
losing the shell of the aircraft as well as the wings and the landing gear,
is doing whatever he can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
In real life, that is exactly how it would be.
And it actually kind of reminds me of that movie "Flight"
where even though things are going really bad,
the captain, in that case Denzel Washington, is doing everything he can
to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
If you haven't seen the Hollywood versus reality that I did on "Flight",
I'll put a link to it right here.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Until then,
keep the blue side up!