@@heklik Its because it is being replaced with more efficient planes, like 777 etc. MD-11 is aging at this point and cant compete with the newer planes that can carry more, while using less fuel, but it is still one of the most beautiful aircrafts ever made imo...
Flying the MD-11 has become a bit of a specialty. All are now in cargo service, and with the known anomalies, especially during landing, it must be a carefully honed skill which pilots take some pride in.
Just don't run out of elevator and keep speed up until ground effect. But then I only have 20 hours in the Alteon MD-11. But even the heavy DC-10-30's one needed to relax back pressure just as the flare finished and fly it right down to the numbers at Vref. Neither airplane liked crosswinds much in terms of ground effect.
Camera person has done a fabulous job with this video! If you have any interest in flying and want to see close-ups of the various instrument displays - enough to get into the pilot's mind and understand with situational awareness, then watch this. Brilliant stuff!!
Most of them have been retired by FedEx as of late 2024. UPS still has a few left but they're getting rather long in the tooth. I'm sure they'll still use them in other countries for a while yet, but to be fair they still use DC-3's to haul cargo in some countries
That was a very clean landing. Seems like a great airplane. I’m also highly amused by the choice of voice annunciator by McDonnell Douglas. Boeing went with the chipper midlantic news caster, AirBus chose an indifferent Brit (that keeps calling me a retard)… MD picked the computer voice from Star Trek TOS.
As a pilot for 45 years, and having spent many years flying the MD-11, this landing was about a 7/10. I say this mostly because of the plane's pitch and orientation when he approached minimums - also the timing of the reverse thrust application was off. Still passing and an ok landing, but not perfect.
Flew on a virtually empty DC-10 from SJU to LGA a thousand years ago. Believe it was Eastern Airlines. Stretched out at the very back of the plane across all five center seats… slept the entire way… best flight I’ve ever had incl Falcon trijet private and old United business class across the Pacific.
I have only flown on a DC-10 -40 with Northwest Airlines and it was a right down comfortable flight. The Series 40 has up rated engines for high and hot altitudes and did not even come out until after the early air disasters took place with American & Turkish Airlines. Both of those disasters could have been avoided if the maintenance department at American followed the proper or approved procedure in removing engines. The Turkish accident was from a less than ideal designed cargo hatch door system in which it was far from anything which could be considered fail safe. After the New Zealand accident in Antarctica, which was also human error, the DC-10 model, in general, was doomed. The MD-11 could not escape its earlier cousin's reputation and did not sell well. The Swiss Air fire took care of any hope the airliner being a sales success. I believe the MD-11 was better designed than the DC-10 and had a lot to offer. People were afraid of it so it found its niche in cargo. Now with more economical engines and more power, newer models of freighters will send the MD-11 to the graveyard before its time. I guess it does make a good freighter and can carry some heavy loads.
Problem was because of the way the mount failed when the engine detached it went up and over the wing, ripping out the hydraulics in the leading edge causing the slats on that side to retract. That's what caused the roll. If it had just dropped away it could have been handled.
Sure everybody puts the blame on bad maintenance but admit it - the DC-10 was badly designed and suffered from a lack of redundancy and susceptibility to a single point of failure that was nothing less than criminally negligent. No check valves to prevent fluid loss when all three hydraulic systems were severed. No pressure relief vents to prevent floor collapse when the inherently unsafe cargo door blows off mid-flight
Yeah, it is just that Boeing killed off production because it was competing against the 777. Also, it was not popular because it did not reach fuel burn/performance targets, and ETOPS killed the tri/quadjet because the 777 and A330 could fly across the pacific with 2 engines, so why need 3 or 4?
Folks this plane is inching closer to 40 every year hahaha. The 90's were a while ago. The plane design is closer to half a century old or more since an MD-11 is essentially a DC-10 stretched out and without the gauges in the cockpit
I wish I could've been a pilot, but I have a stutter and I wouldn't be able to communicate fast enough. Unless the other pilot would do the talking on every flight.
Oh man I wish I could have been a pilot too. I’m Dyslexic and have communication issues so I probably would not have made a good pilot but I seriously love anything aviation!!! I’m fricken amazed that we’ve come from the Wright brothers to today’s jumbo jets!! It’s amazing!!
I have one, I don’t let it stop me. Fun fact: you don’t really have to talk super fast, just not really slow. There are many ways to practice, and get it down, always believe man.
My father was the MD engineer in Frankfurt working with Martinair in the early 90's. I went to visit him and he took me for a tour of the shop and I watched the maintenance techs bleeding the brakes on one of the planes. Just like a car.
Nice. Notice that Identifying runways is surprisingly difficult from the air. My Private Pilot instructor and I once got lost about 2000 feet above and 2 miles east of our home field 6000 foot E-W runway. Embarrassing? Yes. Typical? Yes!
idk, I personally prefer it so say, the voice on the Airbus. That one is a bit full on. The robot lady in the MD-11 is less.. human, which to me makes focusing on the operation of the aircraft a bit more easier. Each to their own I guess!
I fly mostly DC-10 tankers or MD 11s on Infinite Flight simulator. Such a great plane to fly, responsive, massive amount of power, looks very cool with the 5 to 6 degree approach and 7-8 at flare. Fun to fly.
Just look at the view from the side window and compare the same view on the 747 video on this channel to get an impression of the difference in cockpit and window size.
I would say that's more to do with the Mike on the Camera more than anything. If a modern Cockpit werer really that noisy, those two would have had to shout at each other rather than talk normally as they are clearly doing.
It is that noisy. That's why they have headsets and are using the intercom. And that is also one reason, why the MD-11 has been demoted to freight flights. I personally think, that the MD-11 was a good aircraft, that lacked some refinement. But you could say that to quite a lot of US products back in the 80's, early 90s ;)
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the md-11 is such a beauty.
Ohh yes, she's the queen of beauty in the skies for me
Then why it's out of production ?
@@heklik Its because it is being replaced with more efficient planes, like 777 etc. MD-11 is aging at this point and cant compete with the newer planes that can carry more, while using less fuel, but it is still one of the most beautiful aircrafts ever made imo...
The most beautiful is Тu-154
@@heklikhmmmm? Maybe because of fuel consumption and costs? You think Saying that is gonna hurt the planes feelings?
Flying the MD-11 has become a bit of a specialty. All are now in cargo service, and with the known anomalies, especially during landing, it must be a carefully honed skill which pilots
take some pride in.
Just don't run out of elevator and keep speed up until ground effect. But then I only have 20 hours in the Alteon MD-11. But even the heavy DC-10-30's one needed to relax back pressure just as the flare finished and fly it right down to the numbers at Vref. Neither airplane liked crosswinds much in terms of ground effect.
What anomalies?
@@banjovic The plane was very susceptible to crosswinds and variety of other issues with the elevator
@@banjovic You fly in fast and it's a terrible aircraft to try and land
I put on my headphones and immediately thought I was in the cockpit. I had to pinch myself. That's how well put together the video is.
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could fall to sleep to that sound, radio and all. love it.
7:07 geez what a bank!
Camera person has done a fabulous job with this video! If you have any interest in flying and want to see close-ups of the various instrument displays - enough to get into the pilot's mind and understand with situational awareness, then watch this. Brilliant stuff!!
I'm going to be sad when the freight haulers finally retire this wonderful plane.
The Tri-Jets were always .... cool.
The Trijets would be around for a loooong time
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The MD-11 is actually a reasonably economical and very useful freighter for mst companies, so they're gonna retire them much much later.
Most of them have been retired by FedEx as of late 2024. UPS still has a few left but they're getting rather long in the tooth. I'm sure they'll still use them in other countries for a while yet, but to be fair they still use DC-3's to haul cargo in some countries
That was a very clean landing. Seems like a great airplane. I’m also highly amused by the choice of voice annunciator by McDonnell Douglas. Boeing went with the chipper midlantic news caster, AirBus chose an indifferent Brit (that keeps calling me a retard)… MD picked the computer voice from Star Trek TOS.
7:21 The way how they disconnected the autopilot.
The yoke
There’s a button on the yoke
Lol the alarm and after:autopilot 2500
As a pilot for 45 years, and having spent many years flying the MD-11, this landing was about a 7/10. I say this mostly because of the plane's pitch and orientation when he approached minimums - also the timing of the reverse thrust application was off. Still passing and an ok landing, but not perfect.
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@@kjsjohnson610 kinda? sir i’m……i’m not joking
I was loadmaster on ALL Martinair. Cargo planes, from DC3 until 747-400 1968/2008
Very cool Victor! Any thoughts on the MD-11?
One hell of a job you had!
Just best time of my life!!!!
Gee, you must be a lucky man!
Damn, you got to check out all of the cool planes. Your one hell of a lucky guy.
Life is so much better in the air!
7:20 auto pilot & 2500ft
9:41 approaching minium
The 3 people who downvoted the video can't even fly a KITE!
Nope, they are the Boeing engineers who didn't learned on how the proper overhead should look like ;-)
*charlie brown*
If these kind of videos don't inspire you to fly either in flight sim or real life, you ain't passionate lol
NathanCAY1010 =
I’m telling you, so amazing!
Well said! I feel the same! Life is so much better in the air.
so true. Could fire up the sim right away
Aww. The ol' trijets. :)
I enjoyed it the md11a were powerful
11:38 that 737 almost had a tail strike
In real time not!!
I have never seen a runway so heavy with rubber like that...…...amazing!!!
I LOVE MD11 😔
Gotta love the MD-11 beautiful jet
I miss my PMDG MD11. Maybe I gonna install FSX side-to-side with X-Plane..
I always loved flying with the MD11. Very nice and advanced aircraft..
2Fast4Mellow The PMDG MD-11 is my favorite payware aircraft. It's a shame the PMDG didn't support it past FSX.
Would love to buy your pmdg md 11 if you want to sell
Rotate MD11F for XP 11/12 payware today
That was a GREAT landing! So soft. I'm glad they showed the outside of the plane afterwards too!
Flew on a virtually empty DC-10 from SJU to LGA a thousand years ago. Believe it was Eastern Airlines. Stretched out at the very back of the plane across all five center seats… slept the entire way… best flight I’ve ever had incl Falcon trijet private and old United business class across the Pacific.
Coolest cockpit ever!
WOW! At 0:36 the ATC voice! Like FS 2004... Lol
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Thimoteo Campos I thought the exact same thing!!
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Got some great radio chatter going on there
wonderful video!
I love this profession!
a hug from Brazil.
I really like what you do, I'm a young budding pilot, and I hope to become a captain like you sometime.
10:16 LOL THE WOMEN VOICE FOR THE GWPS CALLOUTS XDDD
that's McDonnell Douglas for you
Guys i think the MD-11 is a female plane lol
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The definition of being cool under pressure is a jet pilot.
Hypnotic part of the job is to make it look easy
I have only flown on a DC-10 -40 with Northwest Airlines and it was a right down comfortable flight. The Series 40 has up rated engines for high and hot altitudes and did not even come out until after the early air disasters took place with American & Turkish Airlines. Both of those disasters could have been avoided if the maintenance department at American followed the proper or approved procedure in removing engines. The Turkish accident was from a less than ideal designed cargo hatch door system in which it was far from anything which could be considered fail safe. After the New Zealand accident in Antarctica, which was also human error, the DC-10 model, in general, was doomed. The MD-11 could not escape its earlier cousin's reputation and did not sell well. The Swiss Air fire took care of any hope the airliner being a sales success. I believe the MD-11 was better designed than the DC-10 and had a lot to offer. People were afraid of it so it found its niche in cargo. Now with more economical engines and more power, newer models of freighters will send the MD-11 to the graveyard before its time. I guess it does make a good freighter and can carry some heavy loads.
Problem was because of the way the mount failed when the engine detached it went up and over the wing, ripping out the hydraulics in the leading edge causing the slats on that side to retract. That's what caused the roll. If it had just dropped away it could have been handled.
Armando Silvier You might be thinking of the United flight 191 I believe, at ORD.
Armando Silvier Yes, the maintenance crew lifted the engine with a forklift, against procedure, and stressed the bolts. Such a preventable tragedy..
Sure everybody puts the blame on bad maintenance but admit it - the DC-10 was badly designed and suffered from a lack of redundancy and susceptibility to a single point of failure that was nothing less than criminally negligent.
No check valves to prevent fluid loss when all three hydraulic systems were severed. No pressure relief vents to prevent floor collapse when the inherently unsafe cargo door blows off mid-flight
My favorite wide-body jet md-11
The md 11 even when it's old it looks just like the newer planes
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What a soft landing !
Unbelivable beautiful approach and landing... Great video! I like it a lot! Thanks for sharing :)
Wow I’m surprised the cockpit looks so modern considering this is such an old plane
I mean, it's not THAT old.
It's from the 90s.
Just like the A330/A340 and the 777
Yeah, it is just that Boeing killed off production because it was competing against the 777. Also, it was not popular because it did not reach fuel burn/performance targets, and ETOPS killed the tri/quadjet because the 777 and A330 could fly across the pacific with 2 engines, so why need 3 or 4?
and too be fair the screens have a pretty horrible refresh rate.
Folks this plane is inching closer to 40 every year hahaha. The 90's were a while ago. The plane design is closer to half a century old or more since an MD-11 is essentially a DC-10 stretched out and without the gauges in the cockpit
I wish I could've been a pilot, but I have a stutter and I wouldn't be able to communicate fast enough. Unless the other pilot would do the talking on every flight.
Oh man I wish I could have been a pilot too. I’m Dyslexic and have communication issues so I probably would not have made a good pilot but I seriously love anything aviation!!! I’m fricken amazed that we’ve come from the Wright brothers to today’s jumbo jets!! It’s amazing!!
@@michaelknapp8961*santos Dumont
I have one, I don’t let it stop me. Fun fact: you don’t really have to talk super fast, just not really slow. There are many ways to practice, and get it down, always believe man.
@@garageauto5275 I have a pause in my speech and sometimes I’m stuck no matter what I try to do
@@VWGTI2013 oh no. I am so sorry to hear that. Best of luck to you
HALF A MILION CONGRATS!
Wonderful and short landing!
The gurl announcing the heights when landing sounds like Lal from Star Trek: The Next Generation before she got humanized by her creator, Data. :)
Bye bye Martinair MD-11, you will be missed.
My father was the MD engineer in Frankfurt working with Martinair in the early 90's. I went to visit him and he took me for a tour of the shop and I watched the maintenance techs bleeding the brakes on one of the planes. Just like a car.
I mean, martinair is at the verge of dying sadly, only have 1 Boeing 747-400. That's it.
I wish boeing updated this aircrath and began with the production again. Trijet and back engines aircrath like md-80 are very elegant.
Nice.
Notice that Identifying runways is surprisingly difficult from the air.
My Private Pilot instructor and I once got lost about 2000 feet above and 2 miles east of our home field 6000 foot E-W runway.
Embarrassing? Yes. Typical? Yes!
7:21 9:39 9:48 10:11
Beautiful glass cockpit. The plane's computer voice reminds me a lot of the computer voice of the "USS ENTERPRISE" on "Star Trek" (TOS) .....
my favorite airplane ever....
Mine too!
Mine???
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Awesome video. Thanks for sharing
Excellent, Thank you ! 😀 I loveMD-11 ! ;-)
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Wonderful landing...😊😀
wow the warning voice alarm scared the shit out of me. they could not of got a more sinister voice than that robot 😂
idk, I personally prefer it so say, the voice on the Airbus. That one is a bit full on. The robot lady in the MD-11 is less.. human, which to me makes focusing on the operation of the aircraft a bit more easier. Each to their own I guess!
lol the water bottle in 13:35
🎵I'm freeee.... free fallin'🎵
And the cup of coffee!!
XD
Danger Distraction..
NICOCRAFT danger
I fly mostly DC-10 tankers or MD 11s on Infinite Flight simulator. Such a great plane to fly, responsive, massive amount of power, looks very cool with the 5 to 6 degree approach and 7-8 at flare. Fun to fly.
I like the moment where the coffee cup and water bottle fall off lol
Great cockpit view video. Thank you.
Nice landing!
now that is one very cool video!
Ai sim esses pilotos mereçem meus parabens e da galera aviaçao e coisa linda MD11 maquina
Just look at the view from the side window and compare the same view on the 747 video on this channel to get an impression of the difference in cockpit and window size.
One of the most beautiful cockpits! But damn, it's noisy!
I would say that's more to do with the Mike on the Camera more than anything. If a modern Cockpit werer really that noisy, those two would have had to shout at each other rather than talk normally as they are clearly doing.
It is that noisy. That's why they have headsets and are using the intercom. And that is also one reason, why the MD-11 has been demoted to freight flights. I personally think, that the MD-11 was a good aircraft, that lacked some refinement. But you could say that to quite a lot of US products back in the 80's, early 90s ;)
Dunno what the deal is here, but the DC10 and MD11 are literally among the quietest cockpits I've ever been in.
crab453 Exactly.
crab453 then it's prob the mic they use for the footage. Noisy or not it's a sexy aircraft!
Never thought the MD-11’s cockpit looked so modern.
An MD-11 is basically a stretched DC-10 with glass
Very nice! Thank you for sharing!
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I LIKE THIS
very cool!!!!
Boss Landing that 🎥
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the water bottle rolling down in 13:36
Need to lock the exposure on the camera so the view doesn't get blown out and turn white every time it pans down too far.
Hey, reduce your shutter speed to below the refresh rate of the cockpit displays, that will stop the flickering
Smooth landing
what's the refresh rate of the dials and screens on the cockpit? they seem to flicker like hell at 3:05
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Left on Sierra right into the western U. Used to Marshall and push this beauti out of MIA Cargo.
the best job you can have
Only thing imaginable that would satisfy me
DER DER DER STALL, DER DER DER STALL, DER DER DER STALL
Love it!
bravo martin air cargo.
Excelentes videos.
Amazing!!
wonderful machhins
Cool
Can't beat the autopilot disconnect warning
these pilots are high!
Muito bom !! ( do Brasil)
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me encanta .
FELICIDADES!!!
What a super bro
NICE !
in 1998 I learn flight this Airplane in Fligh Simulator 98....was a computer,but all the instrument s are real in the simulator...and helicopter too
This makes me think of Achievement Hunter lending Titans on a mountain side in GTA
Nice job. Great CRM, folks.
1:56 What a antique york isn't it..
At 5:51 why does it look as though he's flying with the engine thrust levers at idle?