It's only the computers flying until it all goes wrong, then it comes down to 2 people having to work really fast based on stuff they only train once every 6 months for and with 1-600 lives depending on them to get it right.
100 flying hours a month, 900hours per year. Doesnt include travel, turn arounds, etc.. Start at 3 am, 5 am take off, finish at 4 pm if lucky and no delays. Travel home 6pm... Thats 4 to 6 flights per day...and 15 hours since leaving home.
He forgot that pilots sit at 8000 feet cabin altitude as they cross those oceans... that they get very high radiation exposure, that they are gone from their lives probably 5-10 hours for every hour they actually fly... He forgot that he gets paid about 10 times or more what pilots do to sit at a desk and blame everyone else for the bad things that happen. Talk about an easy job...
He is kind of right. It easier to fly a B737 nowadays than a C172 considering all the planing and performance calculations without any computers. That’s how I learned how to fly. I would take hours of planning and calculations. Today, it can take a mere 5 minutes to flightplan and get all the numbers. Then it takes even less than that to put it in the FMS. Now; you still have to be extra careful what you punch in the box. But there are no more looking at a 4000 page book trying to figure out your take off speeds for a known runway condition.
A 737 pilot has done hundreds or possibly thousands of hours in Cessnas or similar small aircraft. Military trained pilots may be an exception. But nobody starts at the top.
I have seen so many cadets fail the base training because they just could get the flare right, level off in the circuit or get the descent. They all told us they are sim gods and excellent at their 172.
He's respecting his pilots now when there all leaving Ryan Air..to work for Arab emirates much better work conditions and pay. I don't hear him calling his pilots glorified taxi drivers now🚕✈️
18 hour week? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. 5 on 4 off with each of the 5 days working are generally 10-11:30 days. 5 of those don’t come to 18hr week. He’s just treating the public as idiots by dividing 900 hours of flying per year by 52 weeks. He hasn’t bothered to include the several hours of not flying per day that also form part of the duty day.
5 of those days might be standbys sat at home... both pilots and cabin crew work almost part time compared to other professions. although its not 18 hour working weeks as MOL states, its more like 30 on average. Which is very little in comparison to other jobs
@@Rambo9700 you can only fly a max of 900 block hours a year which equates to 18 hours a week. (Obvs thats without turnarounds, briefings, delays, positioning etc....) so in a way MOL is right, its a lot less hours than a typical workers week. Same for cabin crew. Jve worked both on the ground and in the air.
@@Rambo9700 i said might be. Its impossible to be called out every standby, over a period of a year. Sure you might go through some extremely busy months in the summer, but by legalities over the year it will work out a lot less
Well the actual flying is not easy but not that difficult as long as all goes well and according to plan. Flying manually, setting the autopilot, programming the fmc etc thats all standard ops. Now when it comes to ground operations, especially for the captain it geta challenging because they need to negotiate slots, make sure we are on time, think about boarding, any specials etc Eventually, pilots have to think non stop "am i still on track, what are the challenges, how is the weather" etc etc So pilots are thinking and planning all the time.
Completely agree with what he said, pilots are very skilled at what they do and if something goes wrong, there job is incredibly important and needs a high skill set…however, the majority of there working life is easy with modern planes becoming more and more automated
You have no idea of what you talk.... Keeping the automation from killing everyone has become a skill of its own. If it is so easy, why aren't you doing it? Do you not want to make 400k a year for doing easy non work?
Ok I appreciate this was some time ago but clearly I have triggered a few people. I would love to become a pilot but it requires a huge investment in order to even put your first step on the ladder with a private pilots licence etc before moving on to commercial pilots licences etc…all costs a hell of a lot of money which I will probably never have. 400k a year…what airline is paying that????
It's true. Most of the time it's an easy job where computer does most of work and they don't work many hours. They're highly paid, but deserve respect for times when weather conditions make difference
La1 they still have to do so much behind the scenes that people don't see... not to mention the responsibility they have on their backs. It's not just in adverse weather conditions where their talent shows but also when there is an emergency too.
Do you no what's 12hours per day in the sky !!??? Its verry dificult , ...if you stay just 4hours in a plane for traveling for example , the only thing that you wanna do is sleep ... so can you just imagine 12hours PER DAAAYYY !!!! And olso ryanair have just Boeing's 737-800 , its a very old plane with any new technology ... they have the most of the time manual controls ,... So please dont say something stupid like that , like michael O leary... thanks ( a pilot normaly , by KLM for example is paid 14 000 per month ,, in ryanair for very bad conditions he's just paid 2000 per month ))
X One, Ryanair has one of the most advanced Boeing fleets in the world, their average age of planes is 6 years I believe, no pilot sits 12 hours a day in an airplane, he just told you they do about 18 hours a week! A WEEK! Not daily! Weekly!!!!
First off, pilots maybe work 40hrs a week. But they only get paid whem they are IN the cockpit. They dont get payed extra if theres delays, they dont get paid extra if they have to sleep in a random hotel. They dont get paid extra for the time that they spend OUTSIDE the plane...
900 hrs does not mean 900 hrs of work it means at least 1800 hrs of work. Also nobody wakes up at 3 am and finish the day at 6 pm. So pls just talk about what you have experience on and there is not many profession that you should know hundreds of pages of knowledge by heart otherwise you die and even if you know sometimes you die anyway (we all know what I am talking about).
Love how people telling him to shutup aren't pilots 😂. 3 of my mates are pilots one is an fo for Ryanair. He says it's the best and one of the easiest jobs he has. He even brings his tablet with Netflix on board as he says he gets so bored sometimes
The most difficult thing about being a pilot is Landing and Departing. Or when something goes wrong and you have to take control of the Plane manually. Being a pilot is very difficult!
Hi,im an airline pilot and I would be interested in discovering what an auto terrain avoidance is. Apart from that,you really think that the role of the pilot was to keep the airplane straight and leveled and now that we have autopilots we have nothing else to do in the cockpit?
I work as a bus driver. No auto pilot no auto land no baggage loaders no flight attendants to fix up whinging passengers no mechanics when your out in the middle of nowhere (try changing a bus tyre) drive for 12 hóurs ( this is Australia by the way) stay for 8 hour break in shitty hotel then drive 12 hóurs again ( by yourself no co driver) for a fraction of pilots pay. How do you even compare them to bus drivers. Oh before you bring up the safety part..come on a trip when dozy truck drivers are on the wrong side of the highway.
I’m not paid for what I do, I’m paid for what I CAN do.
"Easy job". What is easy is to sit in front of a camera stating your opinion.
Haha
Nothing. But then, that's not his job.
an opinion which you could expect from some random guy at the pub, that knows nothing about aviation, not from the ceo of an airline...
It's only the computers flying until it all goes wrong, then it comes down to 2 people having to work really fast based on stuff they only train once every 6 months for and with 1-600 lives depending on them to get it right.
How to get into trouble by talking about a job you can't do.
So on one hand you respect them, on the other you don't. So which one is it O'Leary ?
100 flying hours a month, 900hours per year. Doesnt include travel, turn arounds, etc.. Start at 3 am, 5 am take off, finish at 4 pm if lucky and no delays. Travel home 6pm... Thats 4 to 6 flights per day...and 15 hours since leaving home.
This guy should sit in a cockpit and fly as a pilot for 1 week for his company....we'll see and hear what he'll say about easy job!
So true
easy jet
He forgets that pilots that actually cross an ocean to get to a destination suffer from jetlag on a daily basis...that contributes to fatigue MR!!!!!
Buhu
Not Ryanair. They pretty much only fly in what? Two time zones?
He forgot that pilots sit at 8000 feet cabin altitude as they cross those oceans... that they get very high radiation exposure, that they are gone from their lives probably 5-10 hours for every hour they actually fly... He forgot that he gets paid about 10 times or more what pilots do to sit at a desk and blame everyone else for the bad things that happen. Talk about an easy job...
@@billdexhart5179 if you wanted to stretch it, they fly through most of the “seven seas”
He is kind of right. It easier to fly a B737 nowadays than a C172 considering all the planing and performance calculations without any computers. That’s how I learned how to fly. I would take hours of planning and calculations.
Today, it can take a mere 5 minutes to flightplan and get all the numbers. Then it takes even less than that to put it in the FMS. Now; you still have to be extra careful what you punch in the box. But there are no more looking at a 4000 page book trying to figure out your take off speeds for a known runway condition.
@@Elnino2910 1000 KG V 70,000KG + 438 X more equivalent in engine power.
A 737 pilot has done hundreds or possibly thousands of hours in Cessnas or similar small aircraft.
Military trained pilots may be an exception. But nobody starts at the top.
I have seen so many cadets fail the base training because they just could get the flare right, level off in the circuit or get the descent. They all told us they are sim gods and excellent at their 172.
You Respect No One and You Don't Care about anyone But your Self
And the responsibility ?? 200 or 300 or 400 life behind you ?
70% of Human Errors during flights come from fatigue. Not sure what this dude is talking about...
He's respecting his pilots now when there all leaving Ryan Air..to work for Arab emirates much better work conditions and pay. I don't hear him calling his pilots glorified taxi drivers now🚕✈️
Springer spaniel actually Emirates has very bad work conditions
@@George-ow1pc How?
He must be one of those experts.
18 hours a week???? whoa i'll have some of that!!
paulkazjack yeh and 20 flights a week too? 😌🤔
Easy peezy!
paulkazjack yeh sure lol...
But that's 18 hours of flying time. This excludes time spent on the ground
It's not true though.
The press said it was Pilot Sullenberger that landed the plane on the Hudson River, when all along it was the computer!! Who knew. Tchhh!
So only flight hours count ? What about airport times, boardings, briefings, training, disruptive work hours ?
18 hour week? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. 5 on 4 off with each of the 5 days working are generally 10-11:30 days. 5 of those don’t come to 18hr week. He’s just treating the public as idiots by dividing 900 hours of flying per year by 52 weeks. He hasn’t bothered to include the several hours of not flying per day that also form part of the duty day.
5 of those days might be standbys sat at home... both pilots and cabin crew work almost part time compared to other professions. although its not 18 hour working weeks as MOL states, its more like 30 on average. Which is very little in comparison to other jobs
high flyerjon unlikely to be sat at home. Standby gets used a lot.
high flyerjon Roster day is generally a 10 hour day minimum. Very rare to survive a standby.
@@Rambo9700 you can only fly a max of 900 block hours a year which equates to 18 hours a week. (Obvs thats without turnarounds, briefings, delays, positioning etc....) so in a way MOL is right, its a lot less hours than a typical workers week. Same for cabin crew. Jve worked both on the ground and in the air.
@@Rambo9700 i said might be. Its impossible to be called out every standby, over a period of a year. Sure you might go through some extremely busy months in the summer, but by legalities over the year it will work out a lot less
Well the actual flying is not easy but not that difficult as long as all goes well and according to plan.
Flying manually, setting the autopilot, programming the fmc etc thats all standard ops.
Now when it comes to ground operations, especially for the captain it geta challenging because they need to negotiate slots, make sure we are on time, think about boarding, any specials etc
Eventually, pilots have to think non stop "am i still on track, what are the challenges, how is the weather" etc etc
So pilots are thinking and planning all the time.
Completely agree with what he said, pilots are very skilled at what they do and if something goes wrong, there job is incredibly important and needs a high skill set…however, the majority of there working life is easy with modern planes becoming more and more automated
You have no idea of what you talk.... Keeping the automation from killing everyone has become a skill of its own. If it is so easy, why aren't you doing it? Do you not want to make 400k a year for doing easy non work?
Uhm may I ask where you got that number from? Where do you make 400k? OK, maybe in Emirates or ethihad but elsewhere?
Just because they're automated, doesn't absolve them of their duties. Computers just reduce the workload.
Ok I appreciate this was some time ago but clearly I have triggered a few people. I would love to become a pilot but it requires a huge investment in order to even put your first step on the ladder with a private pilots licence etc before moving on to commercial pilots licences etc…all costs a hell of a lot of money which I will probably never have.
400k a year…what airline is paying that????
It's true. Most of the time it's an easy job where computer does most of work and they don't work many hours. They're highly paid, but deserve respect for times when weather conditions make difference
La1 oh so you must be a pilot flying Boeing 737’s otherwise your comment is pure ignorance
La1 they still have to do so much behind the scenes that people don't see... not to mention the responsibility they have on their backs.
It's not just in adverse weather conditions where their talent shows but also when there is an emergency too.
Do you no what's 12hours per day in the sky !!??? Its verry dificult , ...if you stay just 4hours in a plane for traveling for example , the only thing that you wanna do is sleep ... so can you just imagine 12hours PER DAAAYYY !!!! And olso ryanair have just Boeing's 737-800 , its a very old plane with any new technology ... they have the most of the time manual controls ,... So please dont say something stupid like that , like michael O leary... thanks ( a pilot normaly , by KLM for example is paid 14 000 per month ,, in ryanair for very bad conditions he's just paid 2000 per month ))
X One, Ryanair has one of the most advanced Boeing fleets in the world, their average age of planes is 6 years I believe, no pilot sits 12 hours a day in an airplane, he just told you they do about 18 hours a week! A WEEK! Not daily! Weekly!!!!
First off, pilots maybe work 40hrs a week. But they only get paid whem they are IN the cockpit. They dont get payed extra if theres delays, they dont get paid extra if they have to sleep in a random hotel. They dont get paid extra for the time that they spend OUTSIDE the plane...
He should have do it then !!! Smart ass
He is much more successful than pilots
900 hrs does not mean 900 hrs of work it means at least 1800 hrs of work. Also nobody wakes up at 3 am and finish the day at 6 pm. So pls just talk about what you have experience on and there is not many profession that you should know hundreds of pages of knowledge by heart otherwise you die and even if you know sometimes you die anyway (we all know what I am talking about).
Not an easy job lol
If he respects them, he should train them to land comfortably! 😂
That is boeing procedure on short runways.
Landing them sooner and harder saves them loads of money in fuel.
Love how people telling him to shutup aren't pilots 😂. 3 of my mates are pilots one is an fo for Ryanair. He says it's the best and one of the easiest jobs he has. He even brings his tablet with Netflix on board as he says he gets so bored sometimes
The most difficult thing about being a pilot is Landing and Departing. Or when something goes wrong and you have to take control of the Plane manually.
Being a pilot is very difficult!
Lies about netflix pilots aren't allowed to entertain themselves with anything other than the flight systems
And you believed your friend...why wouldn't you.
I agree with the man legend
Legend
People are so mad because he's right and is speaking the truth 😂
Im a pilot and no,those a just a bunch of bullshit
@@hangar1891 a pilot my backside
@@bigboots8785 nah,an actual 320 pilot
@@hangar1891 well for someone who claims to be a pilot , and educated your English is a bloody discrace . Your a Walter Mitty dreamer
@@bigboots8785 lol nah,my english is fine mate,icao 5. And you sound a bit butthurt,are you someone who tried to be a pilot but didn't make it?
pilots = glorified bus drivers
auto level, auto heading, auto terrain aviodance...
You sure dont have a clue what pilots do
Hi,im an airline pilot and I would be interested in discovering what an auto terrain avoidance is. Apart from that,you really think that the role of the pilot was to keep the airplane straight and leveled and now that we have autopilots we have nothing else to do in the cockpit?
a You sound like you struggle with simple tasks if you genuinely believe that.
I work as a bus driver. No auto pilot no auto land no baggage loaders no flight attendants to fix up whinging passengers no mechanics when your out in the middle of nowhere (try changing a bus tyre) drive for 12 hóurs ( this is Australia by the way) stay for 8 hour break in shitty hotel then drive 12 hóurs again ( by yourself no co driver) for a fraction of pilots pay. How do you even compare them to bus drivers. Oh before you bring up the safety part..come on a trip when dozy truck drivers are on the wrong side of the highway.