today we're headed down to brazil if you look here you could see that one eye is a little bit red but
i had no idea that this is how it would look in 24 hours one terribly bloodshot eye coming
up let's go and i know what you're thinking brazil kelsey they have horrible beaches the
women are known for being very ugly and they're terrible at soccer yes all those things are true
and that's one of the sacrifices that i make as a 747 pilot today we're headed down to sao paulo
brazil and i'm going as a dead header which basically means i'm a passenger on a flight
to get into position and pick up a plane tomorrow going out of brazil
it also means i'm not responsible for all my pilot duties and that's why i can vlog this
all right so loading's complete you can see the door shut back there always carrying these
bags luckily it's nice out here but carrying these bags up the steps can be heavy sometimes
all the doors are closed up we're going to be getting down here pretty soon now as a crew member
if you're operating on the flight you're required to wear your uniform until the top of climb like
when the plane initially levels off however since i'm a dead header i'm not required to do that
which means i can put on my my hoodie i call it my cruise relief hoodie but i can put that hoodie on
now and just be more comfortable through the flight so i'm going to change real quick
all right and that's how fast i can change into my casual clothes let's go fly after
a little delay because of this we finally got a push back and we're headed to brazil
looks like we're next for takeoff
this is a sign that i'm able to get up and move around on the aircraft on the 747 freighter there
isn't a normal door there there's a curtain and that's why only crew members are allowed to be
on the aircraft because all of them have access to the flight deck tonight we have a three-man crew
you can see both pilots are up there doing their job and this guy right here he's doing what we
call the math test this paper right here is how we check to see how we're progressing in our flight
it allows us to notice if something is trending bad for example with the fuel we're able to see
where our fuel is actually at and where we're supposed to be at so that way we can make a change
before there's a real problem spinning around from the flight deck here you have the galley this is
where i heat up all my food and then over here is the bathroom why do you have the galley facing the
bathroom i don't know i didn't deside in the plane down here in the back of the upper deck are the
bunks and this side on the left is typically where the fo sleeps to get comfortable i have to make my
bed everybody has their own style and the way they make their beds but this is typically how i do it
well we got about five more hours to go in the flight i'm gonna decide if i'm going to take a
nap or not because i got about a day and a half here in brazil and i don't want to be tired when
i'm leaving so i'm going to look at my schedule here and then kind of decide if i'm going to take
a nap or not so i can figure out how late i want to stay up this is kind of the tricky part about
while we're out on a deadhead you're you've got the whole time and you run a risk if you go take
a nap right away then you're in trouble then in a day or two when you're flying your your
schedule your clock's all messed up luckily we're going north south and so it's not as
bad because i'm on a normal rhythm but i'm just going to lay down watch a movie kind of relax
maybe take a little nap or so and uh yeah eat some food actually i wonder if they wonder if
they saw peanut butter and jelly let's go look i should probably mention that this is pesto
i have no idea why it's on the outside of the bread but at first when i saw
it i thought it was mold but it's actually just pesto i thought i should mention that
this is how our sandwiches come come in just a big bag of sandwiches and no peanut butter
and jelly after i got done pouting about the other pies eating the peanut butter and jelly i headed
back to the bunk and checked on my schedule to plan out my rest for the following flight
at this point my eyes starting to itch more but i haven't realized just how bad it actually is
of course on a flight this long i'm gonna watch some movies uh i mean study
see kids see how happy studying makes me so make sure you go to school
and of course i did some work on youtube which always makes you really tired
what you doing to work here on my computer working on a viral debrief and then i stood
up and looked at this mirror there my eye is so red but if it's not fixed by the time
i wake up tomorrow i'm probably gonna have to go see a doctor because there's no way i can fly
with my eye this red and all itchy starting to get more and more itchy
and i have little eyes so i don't know what the hell got in there
so what if i got the weather i like to kind of have an idea of obviously even though i'm on a
dead head what what the temperature the weather is going to be like that was that thing that i
printed off here you can see it kind of gives you a breakdown of everything uh tells us the
temperature the runway they're landing and all the stuff that a pilot would need in order to
land and then what i would need in order to know what i need to wear when i get off the plane
so when when the pilots make that announcement in the back and they tell you hey the winds
are out of this and and the temperature is this they printed off this type of paper
and then they read off of that so i just went and printed this off because the guys were up
there and i didn't really want to bother them i want a deadhead so i try to stay out of their way
welcome to sao paulo brazil
even though this was a deadhead it was a pretty long day and my eyes getting redder by the minute
it's five in the morning i gotta get to sleep i i have about five hours of sleep if i want to
get up and get the free breakfast and i i think we all know that i'm gonna get up and get the
free breakfast i definitely can't end this vlog without showing you what actually happened and
went wrong with my eye i'll be honest i thought it was a piece of dirt and i was mostly praying
that it wasn't pink eye but the airline sent a doctor my room and he sent me to a hospital
that deals with only eye issues and here's what i found out so i'm here in the doctor's office
looking to fix his eye before i show you this picture if medical things make you squeamish
you're going to want to look away he says an eyelash somehow has grown inward into my eye
which i've never seen before he says it happens sometimes but uh he's not put this stuff in here
to see just how scratched it is but it looks like i'm wearing makeup so kind of a new look
i'm trying out if you want to see some videos of my first vlog check out this one here if you want
to see a pilot's landing on a 747 that was not nearly as good as the one that my captain just
did check out this video up here i look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up