There's a lot of misconceptions about being an airline pilot in this video, I'm gonna answer the five most common
misunderstandings that people have about being an airline pilot
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Hey crew, welcome to 74 Gear. My name is Kelsey. I'm a 747 pilot in this video
I'm going to be addressing the five most common misunderstandings that people have and questions
I generally get asked either when I'm sitting as a passenger in the back of the plane or if I'm out with friends and someone
Finds out. I'm a professional pilot. These are the five most common questions or misunderstandings that I'm asked while I'm out with them
Number 1 this is something that always bothered me is when I was a co-pilot
Well, I guess I'm a co-pilot now
but this is always something that bothered me is that people believe that the captain always flies and that the copilot or
F.O. as we're commonly referred to which means first officer is up there. I don't know what they think we're doing
But this misconception that that captain is always flying and the other guy up there is up there filming his YouTube videos
I don't know
generally what happens on a two pilot cockpit is one pilot is flying one leg of the flight and
the other pilot is handling all the radios and all the additional stuff and
Then it reverses
Roles and there's a few reasons behind that if you're gonna eventually be a captain one day
You need to know how to fly that plane
You can't learn any any way better than doing it and two it gives everybody a chance to do something different
I used to fly private charter aircraft and
every now and again I'd be at the bottom of the stairs helping people and people would say to me Oh,
Tell the captain he did a great job. I was the one that was flying and I wanted to always say that was me
That's smooth Landing. I did that at the end of the day. It doesn't really matter
But that's a common misconception that people have is that the captain is always flying and the other guy is just up there for fun
The way to identify captain or first officer is the number of bars on their shoulders if it's three bars
It's gonna be copilot or first officer. If it's four bars, it's going to be a captain
Number two is having perfect vision. That's another misconception that people generally have people will say
Oh, man, you're a pilot. You must have perfect vision
My vision is good and I don't have to wear glasses to fly. As long as your vision is correctable to 20/20
You should be able to pass your vision test to become a commercial aviator
every six months or a year
Depending on your age you have to go back for a series of tests and make sure that your health is up to standard to
Continue to be a commercial aviator you having your vision checked is one of those things while my vision is good
Thank you for noticing. It is not necessary to have 20/20 or perfect vision to be a professional pilot
So if you're wondering man, can I be a pilot my visions not good. I'm wearing glasses. It's totally fine
As long as you can pass an eye exam and they have correctable to 20/20 vision. You'll be fine to be a professional aviator
The third misconception that people have and this applies more in the US than outside the US is
That right after flight school you get to go fly big jets and that's not true inside the U.S.
Depending on the type of school and training program that you go to
You're gonna need somewhere between a 1000 and 1500
Flight hours in order to be able to get a job at the airlines and you're generally gonna be flying at 50 to 70 seater
size
Regional jets overseas. It's a little bit different in some countries you're able to
Get on flying an Airbus or a Boeing aircraft with a lot less flight time
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Number 4 is
Every pilot has to have a college degree in order to be a professional aviator that is true in some airlines
They want you to have a four-year degree in some cases
They want you have a four-year degree that was completed in four years or less and immediately after high school
It changes from airline to airline as far as what they're expecting. If you're wondering about being a professional aviator and
Flying for the airlines and you haven't finished college. Well, it's going to be different for everybody as far as should you finish
Who do not finish having a college degree isn't a necessary requirement?
to be an airline pilot
It will help you in a lot of cases as far as for career progression
So if you're in college right now and you're trying to figure out should I just stop and go to flight school?
You know what guys?
I'm done
I'm dropping out of school. I'm done. It's gonna be a question. That would probably be better to get answered on a case-by-case basis
This one is maybe the most common question I get asked especially when I'm out on a date I'm single
Number five this is the most common misconception that people have about commercial pilots. This is a question
I generally get asked when I'm out on a date with a girl and she says
"So do you have girls in every city that you go to?" And that's just not the case for everybody
At least there are some guys that are they're just playboys and they have girls in a lot of the cities that they go to
Different airlines are different some airlines
You're flying to the same place on repeat your going to three cities
And that's the only three cities that you go to and maybe in those cases you could cultivate a relationship
There where I fly I'm kind of going all over the world and the same with most pilots
They're not flying to the same two or three cities all the time
You don't necessarily have girls in every port and everywhere that you go
So if you've ever gone on a vacation, you're there for 24 hours, let's say how likely are you to?
Show up and in 24 hours: meet a girl, have her excited to go on a date with you, go on a date and sleep
With her, and then see her three months later, and she's just been there sitting around waiting for you
It's not the days of Pan Am when being a pilot you were at the top of the world and everybody wanted to know you
"See that blonde out front?"
Okay crew that wraps up the video about general misconceptions people have about
airline pilots and flight crew members
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