the life of a bachelor pilot is very different from one who's married so what
are the best things about being a bachelor and a pilot I'm going to
explain it all 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 Hong Kong
this is the view from my hotel room unfortunately I didn't know this but I
could have requested a view on the other side of the hotel that had a view of the
runway and the water but I got here really late at night and all those rooms
were taken being on the road and away from your loved ones is definitely one
of the downsides about working in aviation recently I was hanging out with
a couple of the guys who were married and we were just laughing about how
different our lives are in this video I'm gonna give you the five best things
about being a bachelor and a pilot let's get into it number one if you watch the
video that I did on pilot scheduling you know that all my days working are
usually clumped together which means all my days offer also clump together so
number one on the list is being able to travel anywhere in the world that I want
to go and when I want to go I do what I will for example a couple of months ago
I ended up with 48 hours notice packing my bags and flying out to Barcelona I
have a bunch of friends out there I did another video collaboration with another
youtuber and being able to go where I want to go with no planning is one of
the coolest things about being a pilot and a bachelor it would be a bit hard if
you had a girlfriend and a couple days before you're supposed to come home you
called them up and said hey listen instead of going home I'm gonna go meet
my friends at Barcelona or I'm gonna shoot over to Asia and hang out with
some friends of mine they're on vacation that's a little bit of a harder
conversation to have when you have a girlfriend
he loved to party I envisioned that phone call looking a little something
like this on the other end ah number two applied moral when I was
flying just passengers but it's having really cool lay overs with a really fun
crew it's kind of like getting paid to be on vacation and all it costs you is
some food and drinks when you guys go out every month when the schedules come
out you're able to look over the different cities there might be long
layers and for example you might see a 30 hour layover in a city like Miami
or New Orleans or Vegas and what will happen is you'll be able to text your
other flight attendant friends or another pilot friend that you want to do
the trip with and you guys can all bid for that trip together and a lot of
times what will end up happening is you end up on that trip and so when you get
there you have 30 hours or more to go out and have fun in that city the reason
that can get tricky when you're in a relationship is sometimes those trips
are gonna roll into a weekend or other plans that you might have so if your
girlfriend has me planned to go to her great-aunt 95th birthday party I want a
party I want to get drunk I want to get naked it's a little hard to tell her no
no I got this thirty hour layover in New Orleans that I want to do with a couple
of flight attendant friends of mine a funny story that actually happened at
the end of when I was flying only passengers I had a couple of flight
attendant detecting me saying hey there's this trip that were on it's got
these really cool lay overs but there's a myth they're missing a pilot please
pick it up so I looked at it and it was on some days that I head off so I picked
up the trip well when I got on to the plane one of the pilots was actually
talking to one of the flight attendants and kind of trying to flirt with her a
little bit now on the plane sometimes when it's empty it can be loud they're
pumping air in in this case they were what I did is when I walked on the plane
and I saw that they were kind of towards the middle of the plane and it was a
little bit loud I walked over to the phone in the front of the plane where
you can make a PA which is the announcement system that you hear your
flight attendants or your pilot's making an announcement so I when I grabbed that
phone I just made a PA and I go daddy's home and I hung up the phone and both
the flight attendant looked over and they saw that I was up at the front of
plan two came running up and gave me a hug and we were that was gonna be the
start of this really cool trip I know the other pilot was looking at me as he
walked up the plane and I'm pretty sure he was thinking I hate him I hate him so
much number three when you change the aircraft that you're flying or the base
that you're flying out up you're also going to change the type of flying that
you're doing the destinations the layover is all of those types of things
could change that is something that's very easy to do for me as a bachelor I'm
able to change aircraft or change bases without any problem the reason changing
your aircraft might be a problem is when you change your aircraft you're usually
looking at about two months of training to learn all the systems of that new
aircraft and usually that's very labour-intensive you're spending a lot
of time setting and you don't have a lot of free time
so it's kind of a hard sell to your girlfriend or your wife to say hey I'm
gonna leave for two months because I want to learn this new plane because I'm
tired of flying the same lay overs every month and even though we as pilots love
the whine and cry and complain about just how bad we have it flying this
aircraft and how we need to change our aircraft I kind of envisioned that
response something like get over it number four now this one actually
surprised me right now in my current situation if I want to go on a cool trip
or save some money to buy a new truck or a bike or something cool I'm able to
pick up some extra flying when you fly on your days off that's really where you
can make a lot of extra money as a pilot now my friends that are married often
tell me a lot of times if they try to pick up extra flying their wife or their
girlfriend or their husband or whoever it is is annoyed by the fact that they
are not coming home that being said I do have one really good friend of mine who
told me his wife was sick of how much he was at home and he needed to go out and
pick up some extra flying so they could pay down some bills so I guess there's
an exception to every rule but honestly when he was telling me that in my head I
was thinking about this mean number five and this is not something that any of
the pilots mentioned but I've been seeing it on TV a lot lately and that's
being able to go onto a reality dating show and letting women fight and claw
over all of your attention that just seems like something that would be a
little hard to do if you weren't single if you've ever wondered how we as pilots
annoy the flight attendants that we work with everyday I'll put a link to that
video right here I look forward to hearing from you until then
keep the blue side up