Pilots Debunk 11 Flying Myths | Debunked
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
- Pilots Zoya Agarwal and Rajalakshmi Eshwar debunk 11 myths about flying. They talk about why cabin air doesn't make you sick, the effects of flying on your body, and why you shouldn't worry about turbulence. They also debunk the myth that autopilot flies the plane for them. In fact, they give all the commands for it and monitor it regularly.
Agarwal is a pilot in command for Air India, flying the Boeing 777 aircraft. She is the first woman commander to fly over the North Pole, together with an all-female crew, on one of the longest air routes in the world. You can learn more about her work here: captainzoya.com/
Eshwar is a first officer for Air India, flying the Boeing 777 aircraft. She's been with the airline for the past 13 years.
Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:38 Bad turbulence can crash a plane
1:45 Lightning can bring down a plane
2:09 Cabin air will make you sick
2:46 Flying doesn't affect your body
4:08 It's more dangerous to fly during the night than the day
4:49 Flying is more dangerous than driving
5:42 Autopilot flies the plane for you
6:22 Pilots must have perfect vision
6:49 Pilots all have parachutes under their seats
7:02 Pilots sleep for most of the flight
7:53 Staying awake through a flight will cure jet lag
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It’s not the cabin air that’s toxic… it’s some of the people on those planes that are toxic.
So many people take off their shoes and put their feet up while flying. 🤢
Karens
It's the elevation that's toxic. Radiation piercing the hull of the aircraft... scary stuff but we need to fly.
🤣
I'm always sick after flying ☹️
Fun fact: planes and the information they gather, help us to predict weather patterns and give weather forecasts. Since covid and the lack of flights started our forecasts haven't been able to be as accurate.
That was interesting to hear
Sounds unbelievable
No. That is not correct. There are currently multiple redundant and primary systems in place for this. The flight industry is more of a tertiary monitoring and data gathering function.
True they do gather alot of data, not sure how well it’s been used though outside of the industry itself. But the whole weather system for (& possibly from?) the flight industry is quite advanced, thats for sure.
My bullshit-o-meter is turning in a false alarm
For the jet-lag, if you change your schedule to the timezone you are going to a couple of days before (if you can) that will greatly reduce your jet-lag once you arrive
Yes! You beat me to it, but you are exactly correct. It is so much easier to adjust in advance, but that requires forethought.
So true!! And the bigger the time difference the more in advance you should plan ahead!! So say if it's 1 hour,you could do a day or 2 prior.But if it's 10 to 12 I would do a week of 2 in advance.Then break your cycle for the day of the flight and get back into it when you've arrived :) I don't think pilots have this luxury though :(
Another thing is if you are getting somewhere in the day, don’t go to sleep, don’t take a nap. Fight the first day and go to sleep at bedtime in your arrival location. Daytime naps will mess your body clock up
This is very helpful I hate flying and I get very anxious, but I know it’s safer than ever it’s reassuring when pilots tell you thank you for making this awesome video.
Yes exactly
If you are generally interested in aviation, I can also recommend the UA-cam channel "Mentour Pilot". He is a pilot with loads of videos in which he explains all kinds of technical stuff and fun facts, but also analyses famous incidents and accidents (in a very professional way, yet easy to understand). One of his goals is always to help people with a fear of flying and to show just how incredibly much has to go wrong in order for an aircraft to have an accident - and in case of something bad happening, how much control the pilots still have in order to get everyone down safely (contrary to common belief, I'd say...). Those videos definitely helped me get a clearer sense of the situation when I'm flying.
I really like how they highlight diverse experts in their fields on this channel
Da fuk does diversity have to do with facts?
Is that the lens you see everything through - not whether the information is verifiable, but the superficial characteristics of the person delivering that information? That seems bigoted in the nicest, most politically correct way - but still bigoted.
Was thinking the same thing
@@b.calvinsaul1909 Nothing. The facts are the same regardless, but it's nice for kids of all backgrounds and genders to see themselves represented. So that they can see that they can be anything because it's been done before. They can hear it all day but until they see it it's hard to believe.
I don’t see how diversity does not affect competence. I don’t care how diverse my firemen are. I care if they can pull me out of a burning building.
It is definitely more important to pick experts based on the their skin color and what's between their legs, rather than their experience and expertise.
I'm definitely a nervous flyer and it was starting to affect my life (actively refusing trips etc), watching stuffs like these explained really helps address some of my concerns, so thank you!
If you are generally interested in aviation, I can also recommend the UA-cam channel "Mentour Pilot". He is a pilot with loads of videos in which he explains all kinds of technical stuff and fun facts, but also analyses famous incidents and accidents (in a very professional way, yet easy to understand). One of his goals is always to help people with a fear of flying and to show just how incredibly much has to go wrong in order for an aircraft to have an accident - and in case of something bad happening, how much control the pilots still have in order to get everyone down safely (contrary to common belief, I'd say...). Those videos definitely helped me get a clearer sense of the situation when I'm flying.
10/10. Would trust both of these pilots.
100%
I don’t think I ever flew with female pilots
@@yuliamel4162 you must have some point. Very common nowadays
@@yuliamel4162 I don't think either! Would trust these ones as well! Not being sexist but sometimes when women work in a male dominate place. As a women I feel more comfortable when a women is working (doctor is a huge example) I have actually had male doctors than female. Dentist female pediatrician female, regular doctor female physical therapist female.
Here's the turnaround orthodontist male, foot doctor male, walk in doctor male actually 2 male doctors that I like, eye doctor male, chiropractor male
@@jessicas2379 India has a lot more Women pilots than Global avg so you will find way more women pilots here than other places.
Great video! I hate turbulence and it's the one thing that puts me off flying! Not because I'm afraid we will crash, I just hate being thrown around and not knowing which direction or for how long!
same! One flight very early into the flight we went though some turbulence and the plane dropped pretty decently everyone gasped! The pilots came on and apologized they didn't see that severity of turbulence coming.
@@jessicas2379 Yes I had the same thing over Spain - literally dropped out of nowhere! I enjoyed flying before that... 😂
@@BirdNerdSophie I have also heard think of turbulence as driving on a super bumpy road
Benzodiazepines will fix your problem
@@jessicas2379 It's basically the wings of the plane wobbling.
I have a friend and he never experiences jetlag at all, he is a rather special sort of guy he can just fall asleep whenever he wants and wakes up with the alarm clock pretty refreshed.
He can just fall asleep on command and sleep for however long he wants to, meaning that if he wakes up he can just fall asleep again almost instantly even if he has slept for 8 hours it doesnt matter. He can have been up and active for 6 hours and just fall asleep again in almost an instant.
The perfect vision "myth" comes from the requirements of the military pilots. I think now the US accepts lasik but some countries don't because your eyes are still susceptible to get injured (scar opens) or bad vision can come back.
THANK YOU FOR THE FEMALE POC REPRESENTATION! because this could've very easily have been two old white dudes. and they're cool too, like thanks for taking from place to place but this is much more impactful!
Cpt Zoya Agarwal actually recently captained an all woman crew from San Francisco to Bengaluru , one of the longest flight routes in the world and was selected by the UN to be the spokesperson for Generation Equality
Facts!
It doesnt help that Air India is bottom of the barrel for airline carriers. The company and its employees barely have the IQ of a 10yr old. Air India is sketchy, scammy and ridiculously bad.
@@conm9891 if you’re gonna say stuff like that, maybe elaborate?
Please don’t understand this as hating. But I don’t understand how this makes it more Impactful?
If they tell you exactly the same stuff, isn’t the impact on your life exactly the same?
Yes drink water throughout a flight being dehydrated and with a plane descending pretty bad headache.
Jessica S, if you get a headache, it's most likely due to uneven air pressure in your ears. I used to drive a bus from Sacramento to Reno and back a lot. That elevation is 7,100' at Donner's Pass. You just need to equalize that pressure by a BIG yawn to pop your ears. Open your mouth as wide as you can to open the airways between your ears and nasal cavity. You could also plug your nose and try to inhale, or chew gum. The yawn is easiest and it gets you out of boring conversations too, LOL.
@@draintheswamp1588 yes I yawn as well. The pop I get feels sooooooooooo good! I was in Israel and we went to the dead sea which is the lowest elevation in the world the bus ride there was quite interesting when my ears were changing
Love these two ,need to see more! Great chemistry
One thing I found from my one long flight experience: so we flew from LA at around 1:00 AM local time, and I was determined to stay up until it was a decent time to sleep at the destination timezone. I managed it, and passed out almost instantly
Although I didn't sleep well on the plane because it was 13 hours and we were in economy, trying to transition to the timezone the day of seemed to help. I did go to bed early on arrival day at 6 PM of the destination timezone, but I was far from dead during the day the whole time we were there. The total timezone transition was from Mountain Daylight Time to the Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Coming back, our flight was at around 6 AM AEST, and because it was day and I had previously adjusted to AEST, I hardly slept at all during the flight (just dozed here and there) and was awake for pretty much 24 hours straight before we got home and I got to sleep. I was dead during the day for about a month. So bottom line? Try and adjust to your destination timezone a day or so before you get there
That's a lot of unnecessary suffering. Next time just take a pill once/twice and you're good to go.
Don't say "crash" when describing your flight! :)
@@lizbecker1677 That's fair. However, given the context it should be obvious I meant something very similar to "passed out".
In case this was missed, I just barely edited that part.
17 years wooooooow.
It was very informative and charming, Ty!
The vision question is different based on what you’re flying. The vision requirements for military fighter pilots are much more strict.
Accidents by cars happen every day. And I’ve seen more this year in small town which is honestly odd. I’m scared to drive every time I go out.
I just realized I’ve never seen female pilots before. This is nice.
Ikr!
The main reason why I can't take an airplane to see my family is my anxiety and fear of flying. The last time I went to see them was in 2014... I feel so sad and bad at the same time, but the way both pilots talked about those myths, made me laugh =) thanks for the video!
Flying is perfectly safe! The sheer amounts of systems in place and the intense training that the pilots go through every 6 months as well as the ways in which planes are built nowadays makes flying safer than driving.
I know it may seem intimidating at first but you'll soon find that there's nothing to worry about 😉
Ps: just as I wrote the flying was safer than driving, the pilots in the video said it as well. I'm watching and looking through the comments at the same time 😂
Go visit your family! When they’re gone you’ll wish you had
The more you fly the easier it gets. During the past six years, I've been flying two or three times a year. It used to scare the crap out of me, and now I don't even think twice about it. I think the more normal something becomes, the less frightening it is. So my advice is just do it. Accept that you're going to be scared at first and do it anyway. You can always let the flight crew know how you feel, and they'll go out of their way to make you feel more comfortable. Just think about all the fun times and great memories you will have with your loved ones.
I hate turbulences not because I'm afraid that it will bring the plane down, I just hate the general feeling of not being able to predict/anticipate that sensation of being dropped suddenly.
If I'm traveling by land/sea, I can kind of see that there's a bump on the road, a slope/hill, or the surface of the sea but in a plane I can't see shit and it makes me brace myself for a turbulence all throughout the entire flight.
It's tiring as hell and it makes my stomach hurts.
I love learning the little things like how the prongs on the wings discharge electricity absorbed by lightning. So cool
I had my first ever flight about a month ago and I honestly was more worried about the landing than anything else! It was a long flight but I really enjoyed myself and I plan to fly more often. It is faster, safer (I am usually the one driving the 8-16 hours), and I can get some extra work done!
this was AMAZING! TY! :)
Alcohol dehydrates but a beer is mostly water and 3-6% alcohol. This means that it's possible for certain low alcoholic beverages to still hydrate you. It's also a myth that soda dehydrates you. It's mostly water again, so it hydrates you. Coffee contains caffiene, which is a mild dieretic, which means that it causes you lose water, but it's called "a mild dieretic", and coffee and tea won't dehydrate you, they will hydrate you.
These are the questions I asked when it was mid/late 2020 and without a job.
great video! I love traveling but it's great to learn a bit more and to debunk some of these thoughts people have. I've only had terrible turbulance once and it only lasted a few mins on an already short 1hr flight, and jet lag you just have to adjust- if you want to enjoy your holiday. By staying up and sleeping/eating at their local time I could adjust within a day.
A great way to face your fear is just to do it, fly more and you might either be ok with it or start to enjoy it. I strongly disliked answering phones and I got a job as a receptionist and now it's much easier.
Great to see two strong female pilots!
It's an Insider vid, that wasn't even remotely an accident
Yeah get used to it
Yay ! Zoya ma'am is here to inspire 🥳❤️❤️✈️✈️👩🏻✈️
What a lovely, funny and profesional ladies. So much respect for the job
How often are the filters changed, I know the cleaning of a plan in change round is awful and never to a high standard. But also if someone on the plane is I’ll with something that is easily transferred in the air, your likely to catch it as your all in a confined space.
It is safer to drive
These are HEPA filters, able to clean the air several times a minute and filter out 99.9% of microbes and particles in the air. The filters are replaced as often as is required by the maintenance schedule and varies by aircraft type.
@@waly787 well 99.9 % is not that much is it. For instance it means that among a million particles with viral load, 1000 are not filtered out.
I used to watch a loot of air crash investigation when i was younger and it made me really scared of flying. Watching this makes me a bit less scared now.
I was a total idiot a few years ago. I was flying off to Spain and it was first time ever on a plane. What did I watch on tv? Mayday (it was just what was on cable). Brilliant. Luckily I wasn’t really thinking about it too much when we went to fly. I was more anxious about being plopped in a totally different country for the first time in my life lol
Nicely explained
For jetlag, why not just use melatonin to help adjust to the new country's hours? Wouldn't that help promote sleep? From memory (at least in NZ), you can buy melatonin over the counter at most pharmacies. I'm not a pharmacist, or a doctor, but I would have thought (at least from my physiology background), that if you use melatonin in short doses exclusively when arriving in different country's, it would help with adjusting to the new country's hours faster (again, I'm not a doctor).
what I have discovered is that being a overnight worker with bad sleep apnea means I don't notice jet lag. I'm always tired.
I've only ever seen white men as pilots so this was awesome.
You've probably seen less than 20 pilots.. not really a good sample size to go off. But yes, good to see the diversity 💯
This is Air India. Not a lot of Caucasians in India.
So theoretically if you can manage to get a full 8 hours of sleep on your flight, and you happen to be landing at your destination in the morning hours, would that "cure" jet lag? I understand the circumstances would have to fit, and you may have to force yourself to sleep at an odd time when the flight starts, but is that all it would take?
Shout out to these legends! Shout out to Raja and Zoya… hell yeah 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Love a female crew!!
Thank you ladies
This was so interesting!
“It’s not natural to be at such an elevation(5,000-9,000ft above sea level)”
Excuse me!
I live in New Mexico, 5,000 feet above sea level.
Well it's meters not feet . They did a minor mistake there. For your reference 5000 meters are 16400 feet , which is the lower spectrum of commercial aircrafts.
i think they meant feet. cause aeroplanes go well beyond 9000ft
i thought they were talking about cabin pressure not outside pressure?
Was I not paying attention?
@@yatogami7393 There’s no mistake. Theyre referring to the cabin pressure being equal to 5000 feet. It has nothing to do with the altitude the plane is flying at.
@@yatogami7393 hey sorry but they did not make a mistake. They are referring to cabin pressure not how high the plane flies
Awesome to see some strong women to debunk the lies yeah.
It's an Insider vid, that wasn't even remotely an accident
Barf
I'm gonna say this on a video where the debunkers are men and see how people react.
the air is not toxic, some passengers are.....
me being a 13 year old plane enthusiast answering all these quetions and getting them right makes me feel great btw my favourite plane is the boeing 777-300ER
As indian I am feeling proud
Same
cabin air on it's own won't make you sick, if someone is sick on the plane, that person can. The fan should always be on above your head it creates a barrier preventing the germs of your neighbours reaching you.
Lol ok
air filters can only do so much
I really miss traveling I'm hoping my family does another Vacation somewhere else so I can board a plane again and this is reminding me the times when me and my family board a plane.
When i took my first long haul flight (London Gatwick - Vancouver) i thought Jet Lag was a tiredness thing. I think it was the word "Lag" that threw me. I expected to feel tired and... well, laggy.
But no! My first night in Vancouver everyone wanted to go to bed but i was wide awake & raring to go!
It was then i realised that "Lag" applied to time, not my body.
Although, for the first few nights there were some parties so Jet Lag isn't all bad! To feel wide awake at the best part of the night was brilliant!
So now, that's how i treat Jet Lag. There was a UK psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, who discovered a technique called "Reframing".
He told someone who couldn't sleep that it wasn't insomnia, but that they were blessed with wakefulness & to get up & use this extra time to do something.
So, now when I'm somewhere where everyone is asleep I'll go walkabout. Especially by the sea in moonlight.
I get to see another side of the places i visit.
It doesn't last long. Your body clock adapts to the light levels & adjusts do eventually you drop into the time zone you're in. But those first couple of nights i find absolutely magical.
Two beautiful proficient pilots debunking the myths about flying is a great video to watch. I am a trainee pilot, from my perspective this video is going to soothe the fear of flying in many people. 🛩️
I still hate flying, I'm not afraid of it, I'm too busy fighting my motion sickness to be afraid.
Oh my GOD. I LOVE these pilots. Would watch a tv show of just THEM taking for hours on end if I could.
You might get freaked out when you see that turbulent winds cause the wings to wiggle - don't worry, they're actually surprisingly strong - and if they weren't flexible, chances are they'd snap off.
Thank you on your tip on Jet lag , but I just a wired person.
they both are sooooo Amazing 🔥😍
I wish I could take aviation as a career. But I am short in height.
I wish I could make aviation a career too but I am left handed :(
5:22 I feel like people are being mislead by this statistic and it's understandable. Statistic without the context can always be very very misleading. So, always keep that in your mind. Anyway, the frequency of people driving cars> frequency of people piloting airplanes. So, the data doesn't prove that airplanes are safer than cars.
It's like saying "look, in 2021 the deaths caused by nuclear bombs is less than deaths caused by vending machine. Therefore, vending machines are definitely safer than nuclear bombs. We should all have nuclear wars because of how safe it is"
That being said, I'm not saying airplanes aren't safe. Seeing their procedures and methods that the airplane crew takes to keep us safe makes me say that it is safe. I'm not even saying it is not safer than cars (or vice versa). I just don't like it when people get mislead by data/statistic. So, if the data is how many crashes there are / their frequency of use. Then, we can know whether it's safe or not.
Also, I just wanna point out another misleading data that I really really really hate because if how popular it is. Shark are less dangerous than cows or sharks are not dangerous or the odds of you dying due to sharks are low. Now, I'm not saying this is false or true. But people like to say this and use the statistic of how many deaths caused by shark vs how many deaths caused by cows to prove their claim. Of course there'd be less deaths caused by sharks. We aren't sea creatures that encounters sharks on a regular basis (well most of us). Black holes kill 0 people this year but it doesn't mean that it's safe.
I'm still afraid of flying
Love to see gender diversity taken more seriously. Very interesting video
It's clearly woke.
Why, oh why, would you focus on, or even mention, their superficial characteristics, rather than the information they conveyed?
Congratulate yourself on expressing the most politically correct form of bigotry. Do you think that improves anything in anyway? Seems like a virtue signal being used to hide a deeper hangup.
@@b.calvinsaul1909 oh another dude mansplaining me how to deal with gender oppression. Because of people like you this is still an issue. And no using „smart words“ will cover up your misogyny
Haven't seen a man so this is the opposite of diverse.
@@ebridgewater how? Because women fly planes as well? what?
A plane flying through a lightning will probably act like a faraday cage with no potential difference at any point within it let alone enough to harm
For jet lag, I just sleep through the flight.
It makes me feel fresh once I land at the destination.
I don't like flying not because of the flying part but the airport. I am always stressed getting to my gate on time and waiting.
I work at fedex express and I work on 767’s and the airbus where is the fuel stored?? Do planes have fuel tanks like cars??
You work on these planes and you don’t know?
lady on the right is so wholesome i love her
Also one more myth: only the captain flys the plane. NO! Both pilots fly the plane but they do not control the plane together. In simple words, one pilots flys while the other pilot monitors. Usually, a flight has 2 legs, an outbound flight from base and an inbound flight from base. Just to give an example, in the outbound flight, maybe the captain flys the plane while the first officer monitors. Monitoring means talking to ATC and helping the pilot flying reduces his/her work load. In the inbound leg, the first officer will be the one flying if the captain did the outbound flight.
No I only fly on planes with the captain flying because I do not trust the assistant. I do not take chances with my life thank you!!
@@christopherbazaka1564 how will you know who flys the plane on your flight? And no, first officers are “assistants”, they are pilots. They have the same training a captain received and they do the same exact job. The only difference is captains have more flight hours on a particular aircraft or in their career while a majority of first officers are much younger. They both do the same job so it’s kinda dumb what you just said, because some times, first officers can land better than captains.
@@nayannair2351 When I get to the plane the first thing I do is walk to the cockpit, pop my head in and tell the captain "good luck, we're all counting on you"
@@christopherbazaka1564 😂😂😂 that doesn’t mean he will fly the plane during your flight. They don’t just change their whole schedule just for you.
@@christopherbazaka1564 also what do you mean by good luck? It’s their job, that what’s they do, it’s not like they fly once in a year. Just because once in a while you have a plane crash, doesn’t mean pilots are scared to fly the plane or something.
I am so sad that captain Joe isn't on this and I don't know why.
Cashes can not happen untill they happen...and crashes happen because of multiple mistakes, not just one
Final Destination really effed up my mind and was scared of flying. Hehe
semi false that you can benefit from staying awake to beat jet lag. That I would rather stay away for 24+ hours to then fall asleep correctly at the destination's night and thus start a correct night/day cycle there than sleeping in flight and not feeling compelled to falling asleep.
It is definitely possible to greatly influence how your body perceives the time change; ideally tricking it to stay up or that it needs to fall instantly asleep because its night locally but day where you flew in from.
Air travel is the safest not only because of all the safety measures, but because you’re surrounded in every direction by open air, whereas driving, even above the vehicle it’s not really safe, you’re in close proximity to a lot of things that can destroy your vehicle and kill you. With aircraft or spacecraft , it’s taking off and landing that’s the dangerous part, whereas with driving it’s mainly the opposite.
I now get why people say pilots are sexy. It’s not the looks or the uniform. These are pilots! That’s hot. They’re not bus drivers or fast food cashiers.
So autopilot isn’t really auto at all. It’s more like in Star Trek where there’s no flight stick, but they’re still piloting the vessel.
7:05 caught lying “I mean... except”
Autopilot does such a good job you can sleep.
You are right and make a good point, the truth is they are lazy and don’t want to lose their easy jobs to automation that can already fly the plane!
What i do is just live like the people do in that timezone. When it's night I sleep and when it's day I try to stay awale
Some of these questions might be better answered by a scientist/doctor that specializes the science behind how the body reacts to those situations.
I personally feel it is safer to fly in the summer than in the winter.
Very good
Always people are shown the number accidents by cars,fights...it would obviously will be less..as number of cars are way more than flights.....for fair comparison it should always be shown like number of accidents for per 100flights/ 100cars!!....and accident per million miles is not a fair comparison
The numbers you hear are corrected. when compared 100 to 100 as you say, commercial planes are much safer.
I must say.... respectfully....both of these pilots are gorgeous.....specially the ms. lady on the right...she gotta helluva smile🤷🏾♂️
Air india my heart my first flight ❤❤❤❤❤💗
Far to many episodes of Air Crash Investigation has made me concerned about flying
Stop making trailer at the beginning, we'll watch the video anyways!
Overall great video, though.
* Literally anything being written down *
Pilots: "Noooo... no-no... NO!"
I love these women.
I don't believe the air quality / filtering one.
👍
How were some of these 'myths' even conceived?!
most likely they selected these dumb dumb questions from a pool of questions. I'm sure the more scary ones were ignored lol..
This was quite interesting to watch even though I don't fly anymore. I used to back in the days but then ever since I lost my passport and then pandemic started but it was fun to travel around. I miss the good old days. I have only been to Hong Kong a couple of times and Thailand. But I have no idea how it feels like to fly farther, like in the US or Europe. Only in my dreams, haha... I'll probably just travel the world via watching UA-cam videos until I'm old.
Flying is safer than driving they say yet I feel so much safer in a car than on a plane. When you’re 30,000 feet in the air something goes wrong you’re screwed, when your in a car something goes wrong u can just pull over to the side n can still call for help.
Not in particular: up at 30,000 ft you have plenty of time to
1) set best glide speed (the plane does not just fall out of sky)
2) find a suitable landing spot
3) do cause checks, call mayday if necessary, and other calculations
So really, if it’s double engine failure/cabin fire/etc. The crew can handle them all
and since most jets have two engines, one engine failure is not even a big deal
Even for us General Aviation pilots flying with one set of engine, we are taught early on how to deal with these in flight emergencies and we would not be able to solo unless we demonstrate we understand how to deal with them
- student pilot
And yet there's a lot more car crashes than plane crashes. You feel more safe cause you feel in control but there's a lot of situations that can kill you on the road and you have 0 control over them.
Yes I agree. You are correct, driving is safer than flying it has to be! You can stop the car you can’t stop the plane from crashing!
@@pianoguythe1955 I’m sorry but no, driving will always be safer to me because a plane cannot stop in the air from crashing and a car is very safe with airbag and there are no turbulences on the road! Maybe some people like you feel like flying is safer because you believe what the pilots sell you and you like roller coasters and skydiving but the reality is that I do not take any chances with my safety like other people. Thank
@@christopherbazaka1564 firstly, I would like to say that I can definitely see where you are coming from, and I think it’s important to address perceived reality from statistically established reality. Human brains are wired to like to have control over whatever they are doing; thus, it is understandable that you are wired to think driving is safer than flying because you are in control.
I would like to clarify a few things tho; lmao I absolutely HATE roller coasters, never been on one, I HATE heights, (idk don’t ask me why I am becoming a pilot), so all of your assumptions about me being adventurous are false.
Secondly, please note that I am a student pilot…(pretty exciting! Today is my first solo) these are NOT educated guesses or perceived reality of any sorts…I’m saying them from my own experience flying and talking to CFIs. I can confidently say that if something happens to me midair today, I as the Pilot in command can safely manage them.
Then why did the travel channel and others say that the air was nasty, not with three row seating now the airlines has gotten 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
"If you have a fear of flying, you're not scared of flying at all .You're scared of falling and dying. Specifically the pain you get when you impact the ground. That's what you're scared of."
-Someone
I’m scared of flying but more scared of lack of control while inside the plane. I put my life in someone else’s hands. Also crashing in freezing water and struggling to survive is the scariest for me.
@@Lotusblume.8 so you would feel safer if you had control of the plane
@@christopherbazaka1564 haha maybe. No I couldn’t do it. But my daughter can fly a 737 so I guess I’d feel safe with her as the pilot. Lol. She’s told me many things that have eased my fears but I’m still scared, lol. I just like the ground…
@@Lotusblume.8 aww thats sweet and very cool of her
Aw man - I hate turbulence. Regardless of how much I hear that it is nothing to worry about - when you are on that flight and the plane starts bumping it is like a subconscious reaction - yeeeeeeek!
As an aircraft enthusiast I knew the answer to every question in the video
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If jet lag is a big issue for you, adjust your body to your destination's time a day or two before you fly. Eat, sleep, wake up etc according to the destinations time.
After a flight you’ll still be tired.
@@Gaudine true, but your body clock will be adjusted to the destination. You will be tired but the effects of jet lag won't be as bad
@@kalvin.6991 I wouldn’t know I’ve never been outside of Europe. The time differences here are barely noticeable.
@@kalvin.6991 I’d like to go to Egypt to see the pyramids. I’d love to fly to Palestine to see Jerusalem. I want to see the city for which people fought over for thousands of years. I’d love to go to Japan and see the countryside and villages. Basically I’d love to travel around the world to take in different cultures and taste their food etc.
@@Gaudine that's such a good plan and travelling is such a joy. Good luck with it all. Happy trails.
0:08 wtf lady we were going to reuse that card. -Producer
it's slightly more dangerous to fly at night, because most crashes happen during take off and landing. During the night items on the runway may be at a higher risk of being missed by ground control. It's dark, lower visibility.
No. The pilots in the video are correct. It is not more dangerous to fly at night. The things you listed is your opinion of danger. I used to be ground crew and items on the ground don’t get missed just because it’s night. In fact airports are extremely well lit at night. And runways are triple checked before each takeoff. Also runways are pretty far way from the terminals where all of the items are.
flying affects your body in WAY more ways than what they covered. Never dive the same day as flying.
Flying at night in a 777, may be the same as flying in the day in a 777, however, that can’t be said for all planes. Single engine flying at night does present more risks than single engine flying during the day
"autopilot flies the plane for us" *takes paper and rips it in half* "NO"
Wow - this video makes me feel safe - then these two go back to work
JR
I've always been scared to ride an airplane but this video made me feel more safe and that i shouldn't worry too much
You can fly a plane before you can drive a car in New York
I bet they have a book full of horrible things people have told them.
Like a journal or a diary? Interesting
@@christopherbazaka1564 Dear Diary, today a man told me I should be home cooking and having babies instead of flying planes. Like a good woman.
I think journal.
@@Metonymy1979 You're right I'm sure these professionals do this in their free time, it seems like fun
@@christopherbazaka1564 Is this sarcasm? Not sure. Could well be. Comment sections are hard to tell.
@@Metonymy1979 yea lol its all good
Ok so their accents gave me unintentional asmr lol
Pretty much on point except for the air travel vs car travel data. That is a myth perpetuated by a lack of math and proportional objectivity. There are more car accidents yes but more people use automobiles. This doesn't take into account the types of accidents. You are way more likely to walk away from a fenser bender than you are plummeting to your death from 35k feet or a flubbed takeoff/landing.
How would you prefer to look at the data?
Deaths per capita per mile? Deaths per capita per hour? Deaths per capita, only? How are you looking at the data to come up with your assertion? In every meaningful way, commercial air travel is substantially safer than personal automobiles, buses, and trains. According to the data available for global, or just the U.S.A., causes of death, no other form of transportation even comes close to being as safe as commercial air. Even walking is riskier, whether per mile or per hour, rural or urban, especially if you include injuries and not just deaths.
you clearly don't understand how statistics works. If only one person travels and that person dies - then the chances of dying are 100% and that's horrible, but if the person survives then the chances are 0%. You're implying that the latter is happenning in air travel which it isn't. The amount of passangers on planes is big enough to say that there is no lack of data that can skew the statistics in a meaningful way.
I’m speechless
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