Pan Am Training Video: Airbus A-300 Aircraft Familiarization (circa 1984)
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2025
- This video, presented by Purser Celeste Evans, was filmed onboard N203PA "Clipper New York" a A-300B4-203. The aircraft served Pan Am between 1984 and 1991.
Special thanks to Linda Reynolds for saving a collection of safety and training VHS tapes from the Pan Am Training Academy in Miami, Florida after the airline closed on December 4, 1991.
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Always an interesting tour back in time! This airplane, N203PA, is special to me; in 1986, it would be my very last flight with Pan Am. If my memory is correct, brushed aluminum Pan Am meatball logos were installed on the dark blue (carpeted) areas of the bulkheads.
Thank you! I love these aircraft tours!
I can’t express the love I have for these aircraft familiarization videos. Thank you for sharing!
Cabin class was comfortable and spacious in those days. Seats were solid and cushioned, probably at least twice as thick as they are these days.
My right ear enjoyed this very much
Ya, sorry about that. This VHS tape is about 40 years old.
Thanks sooo much for sharing all these pan am videos..I subbed a few days ago when your PA 747-100 vid was recommended to me! Great stuff! I have to say I laughed every time the FA pulled down the “movie screens” and they squeaked lol..need some WD-40 on them rollers lol! Please keep the great vids coming if ya have more of these gems up your sleeve! Thanks again..
In some of the other videos they show the "video system" and it's a giant contraption with literal film reels.
wow another incredible find :)
Fun fact, clipper New York is still active with a cargo airline. So you can technically say this bird still has pan am heritage if you notice the windows they covered that were once passenger windows
I can’t deny - I had that exact same haircut in 1984
Hello, My name is Linda, I got demoted from the Queen of the Skies 747 to an A-300
I really hope there are more of these videos...they are just soooo classic and informative! I wonder if Pan Am operated the 757s back in the days...were there such videos made? Keep it up. Sending all my ❤ from Malaysia 🇲🇾
Hi there! Pan Am never flew 757s, but we have many more videos to share! Stay tuned!
@@PanAmMuseum Please show training videos for the L1011, DC-10, and 747SP!
Never had 757s only good airlines did and Pam am sucked
They did not - but they almost operated A320s (and even purchased them which went to America West).
@@tommyholden602 isn’t it Braniff
Don't forget Pan Am were at the cutting edge then, being one of the very first to use twinjets on transatlantic services as soon as ETOPS was permitted (from the following year, I think)
I wish Pan am and Twa didn’t ceased
What about eastern airlines and northwest orient airlines too
@@jefferypardue7509 yeah
@@jefferypardue7509 The old aviation was better than the new ones
@@hxney_bee3336 Today Airlines are run differently than in the 20th century with long haul aircraft using seats that fold into beds and with all those aircraft cramped full of entertainment screens that have movies and TV shows and advertisements. And local domestic flights usually have people crammed in there like sardines.
Is Celeste still around? I’d love to hear her thoughts / memories on these videos.
Curious about Celeste's career. . she was so polished and professional in these training vids. Where did she go after PA?
I believe she went to Delta when PAA suspended operations after working for 12 years. She then left in 1997, but I may have the wrong Celeste
Is this original cabin for A300B4? Looks very modern for being first plane model from Airbus. I am asking because cockpit of B4 looks much older with three man operation filled with analogic gauges from 60s.
Does she call it 'cattle' class or 'cabin' class?
cabin class
That's what I also heard first time! Had to rewatch that part to make sure.
She means "cattle", for sure. Even if the correct term is what passes her lips...
cattle class back then, today is scum class
no sleeper seats on the A 300s?
I love this. Pls upload more. Go further and do United Airlines. Their 767s🤗
We'll certainly keep an eye out for United videos, but our focus is on Pan Am and National. We have more coming! Stay tuned!
@@PanAmMuseum thank youuuu
This channel is literally called Pan Am Museum Foundation. What has Delta to do with Pan Am
@@MrJimheeren United & Delta bought pieces of Pan Am.
So I assume this was a newly delivered aircraft, yet Celeste mentioned they would be modifying future aircraft with remove of the first class bulkhead and G2 galley - What's the story here? Pan Am changed their mind after the first deliveries? Interesting.
The first A300s for Pan Am were originally destined for (if I remember correctly) Libyan Arab Airlines that were NTU (not taken up) due to an economic embargo on the government of Libya. This was a good move to take delivery of airplanes that had been stored for some time. I was told that it was beneficial to both Airbus and to Pan Am.
The galleys, seat sets and other equipment were not Pan Am standards. We referred to these aircraft as the “atlas” equipped aircraft. These were, in fact brand new. Some elements that were not standard stand out in the video, such as the brown seat back tray tables in cabin class, and the brown slide bustles at each door. Eventually, the galleys, tray tables and slide bustle covers were replaced, however, we kept the salmon (pink-ish) and light blue seat covers for several years. It was in the last years that we standardized the seat covers to the navy blue fabric.
@@Shrimpo7 Thanks, that does make sense. I believe the first tow or three were sitting in storage with Airbus for about 1-2 years.
What about a crew rest area?
The 300 was not a longhaul plane, despite being wide body. The typical flights didn't require the fitting of crew rests. The maximum range was comparable to an A320 nowadays, and they don't have crew rests either- ;-)
Is the engine noise really necessary in a training video?
That's not engine noise. That is a combination of ventilation (which you want to have running because you can't simply open a window) and the 400 Hz hum of the electrical system, which was very common on older aircraft types. The main engines were certainly not running, and most likely not even the APU (ground power and AC connected).
I absolutely love that background noise, brings back so many memories...
@@Colaholiker my assumption is this was filmed on a trainer set. Not an actual aircraft.
@@buddyrevell6369 The background noise is pretty realistic though. I have been inside cabin trainers, and since they lacked air conditioning and the 400 Hz electrical system, the noise was different.
Yes. We were warned that the training phase of the job would be emotionally taxing. Keep in mind that our guests experience these same annoyances!
Was the A300 used for domestic and S America? I don't think the early ones had trans-Atlantic range.
Domestic, Caribbean, short-haul Latin America. They didn't have the range for transatlantic.
ETOPS was not a thing yet, so transatlantic services were only possible with 3 or 4 engines. The 310 was the first Airbus that got transatlantic service certification.
1984
Thought it was David Bowie from the thumbnail
Now that you mention it. What about Angela Bowie?
APU is pretty loud
They had accessible toilets, yay!
Did you see the “No Cell Phones” sign?
5:20 more than one jump seat stewardess ended up smashing a handsome last minute stranger. Probably
Those seats look gross. They remind of that weird folded blanket at the foot of a cheap motel bed that you should never touch with human hands.
wtf is a spigot
A water faucet
How many more words do Americans want to invent to avoid calling it a tap 😂
@@MiggleMYT spigot is usually used to denote an outdoor faucet, that you would hook a garden hose to. Not sure why she called it a spigot, should have just said faucet.
Tap usually refers to a draught beer faucet here.
@@risksrewardsrelics51 well I've learnt a new word
@@MiggleMYT what’s a tap?
A300s are complete death traps
*Brad:* "I'm sad, dad. My MAX 8 broke up on me"
*Dad:* "Be glad, Brad; there's plenty more in the sea!"
@@visionist7 lmaooooooo