@@clarvebiker3175 no worries! This week has been pretty rough in the aviation world, on December 25 an Embraer airliner crashed in Kazakhstan, and just yesterday a Jeju airlines 737 crashed into a wall at the end of the runway in South Korea after having to land with no landing gear 😬 also, a bunch of smaller incidents have happened as well, this week has been a bad one to fly 😭
Totally. But it's crazy that the plane driver had to use his horn - the ATC should have checked the runway was clear beforehand. Mind you, the plane driver might have just been showing off to one of his mates.
@@felixx321 as already said any aircraft can stall however pitching up at the wrong angle of attack even really powerful engines won't help. They can introduce a pitch up notion and so the nose has to be pushed down to get airflow back over the wings.
Well actually, in aviation, the word "retard" means to pull the throttle back to idle so the plane can land but it is a little funny how it sounds like the plane is insulting the pilot. 😂
They're cool to watch if you're actually on one of the planes...right up to the moment someone in the cabin shouts "there's only one runway at this airport"!
747 was not doing a "wheelie". The indicator in the cockpit did not confirm that the nose gear had locked into position. The pilot was trying to put the nose down as gently as possible.
I'm glad to know that and don't doubt for a moment you are correct. Meanwhile the guy who curates this channel is probably muttering, "but it was still a wheelie". In the same way that if this channel got hold of crisp footage of Flight 447 blazing nose-first into the Atlantic Ocean, he'd post it under the title "A330 does spectacular dive-bomb into world's second biggest swimming pool to impress some teenage girls nearby".
@@fluchterschoen For the sake of not getting into a never-ending argument over semantics. I will concede with the poster that the 747 was doing a "wheelie" to set the nose of the plane down as gently as possible in the event of a nose gear failure. However, I am adamant that the emergency procedures for such an event DO NOT state that the pilot do a wheelie. 🤣🤣
With everything I’ve operated during my life, essentially it all just becomes an extension of yourself. Never been a pilot, but I hold the greatest respect for these men and women who perform such tasks in all conditions. My heart goes out to all who have lost their lives (passengers and crew) when things don’t go as planned. ❤️
I know exactly what you mean. A friend of mine was a tree-surgeon/arborist, so he was using a chainsaw every day of his working life to the point where it became a mere extension of himself. When his wife left him however, he took it to an extreme new level. He duct-taped a chainsaw to each of his arms - police never figured out how he managed to tape on the second one, or start either of them with one/two chainsaws already taped to his wrists - and he went on a sociopathic, noisy and very bloody rampage through his ex-wife's office. The real tragedy was that she'd left work early to go away for a weekend-city-break with her new boyfriend, an irony that wasn't lost on the families of his 18 victims. Nowadays he teaches woodcarving to his fellow inmates in Broadmoor and has occasional gallery-exhibitions of his work.
Its the trim wheel that controls how much pitch is imputed even if the pilots arent touching the side stick it will keep the plane stable without it nosediving or something
It was the first video, yes, but it's clickbait all the same (as with MOST of this channel creator's captions/explanations). That's a Triple 7 on approach to San Francisco Airport, performing during an airshow and banking in toward the runway's heading, and then pulling off (a.k.a., performing a "go around") and powering up again to climb away-and being blown off heading by the winds at the time.
The old joke, but funny again and again! - What I thought, why is it calling three times while only two pilots are in the cockpit ;-) - And HOW is it possible for Boeing crew to land safely without it .. ;-))
@@CaptainSkydancer had to go watch that one - the capture on this one had some stuttering which gave the illusion of a simulator that couldn't keep up. Smooth flying!
@TacticalMania-xe1xh aerodynamic braking is taught to every pilot, civilian and military. Airforce pilots use it because their airplanes air built as light as possible and their brakes actually are pretty weak. Navy pilots have a beefier landing gear and brakes and you won’t see them do aerodynamic braking.
Seeing the Queen Of The Skies alight, precisely as she did, amazes me. Run it through a few times and notice the spoilers activate when the main gear touches down. Watch the wings immediately flatten out as they lose lift to transfer weight onto the gear. Reversers pop and start bleeding speed. Her nose floats and flies while the airplane continues to slow down, the pilot maintains directional control with an enormous rudder that twitches left and right, making subtle corrections while the nosegear is still airborne. Watch the plane continue to slow down as it balances only on the main gear and the big elevator forces the tail down. For as long as the airspeed allows it to have an effect on the airplane's pitch, that big, beautiful airplane gets lowered and slowered by the orchestration of decreased lift and increased drag. While the nose -- and the cockpit stay three stories above the tarmac. The airplane slows further, the elevator begins to lose its bite on the air at the rear of the aircraft and nose (and pilots) finally descend. As the airplane rotates back down, the elevator loses authority at a faster and faster rate as its own angle of attack is decreased by the airplane's downward rotation. The nosegear gently touches the pavement. But the nosegear does not fully compress after the little kiss of white smoke. The airplane has stopped rotating but the tailplane still maintains its grasp on the airstream at the rear. The movement of rotation has ended and the nosegear is extended while the big tail completes its work. At last, airspeed can no longer keep the tail down and the nosegear finally compresses. I am amazed that an airplane designed with drafting tables, slide rules, transistors, and NACA tables, continues to fascinate and inspire so many of us to this day -- 55 years since its first flight. And to this day, as the Queen's dance with the sky ends, she does so with the grace and beauty of a butterfly.
First time I’ve ever been annoyed at your channels. What a clickbait-y Title. This was a plane in an air show in San Fran. Thank you to all the viewers who quickly called this out. He put it as his thumbnail to get peoples views through panic. Very very scummy your usually better then this! 🤙
A “wheelie” generally starts off with the front wheel on the ground and then pulling (or accelerating) it into the air. This was more similar to a “soft field landing” to keep weight off the front wheel as long as possible, which every student pilot learns and practices. However to hold the front wheel off that long and then set it down that gently on a 747 is a superior demonstration of elevator control by the pilot!
I’ve been on a few of those freaky landings over the years and a few I wasn’t sure we was going to make lol we have some amazing pilots in our airways.
Actually not more difficult than switching seats in a Boeing with a yoke. In flightschool you start in de leftseat and have to fly left-handed because the other hand is for the throttle. When becoming a first officer you switch seat and have to fly now with your right hand. After becoming a captain you will be in the left seat again. I can fly Boeing and Airbus with both hands although I have never been a first officer on the Airbus.
1:17 i saw this once, but it was at Phoenix. I pointed it out to the person next to me just because it was cool, However, the young lady, roughly my age, thought I was starting to panic or that I was getting worried it was so close to us. I tried to tell her i wasn't worried, only that you don't get to see that all the time, but she cut me off and told me there was nothing to be afraid of and it was normal. I gave up explaining myself and nodded in agreement.
Ok. Let me clear this, because the comment is making me look like a basement idiot. I typed the original comment as a joke since in a lot of Asian countries cars and motorcycles basically use the horn 24/7. The guy that commented first, told me that aircrafts actually have horns. I googled it, and it is true. They use it to “communicate” with the ground crew during pushback.
A question for one of you experts: the glass cockpit in the A321 made me think of this. So I know that all modern jetliners have electronic displays for the flight information, and I know there is always in-built redundancy and various levels of backup power supply. Although it's doubtless very improbable, there are events that could wipe out things like displays and avionics (like EMPs from solar flares or nuclear blasts). Now, I realise that both those scenarios have much wider implications than one plane perhaps having its avionics wiped out - but nevertheless I was curious to know if jetliners have backup analogue versions of things like altimeters, compass, horizon indicators, attitude indicators?? (I also appreciate that if a modern jetliner's avionics got severely zonked, the plane would probably be unflyable given there are no physical connections between the cockpit and the control surfaces to fall back on). But anyway, however meaningless the question is IRL - do modern jetliners have any backup instruments that rely on the laws of physics only, and not on any electrical power or electronics?
Actually we don’t have any mechanical backup for the avionics on the Airbus A321NEO. We do have a standby horizon but it’s still digital. We do have a mechanical linkage to the rudder on the airbus, so in the event of a total failure we will be able to maintain some airplane control with rudder and engine power. This will give time to do a computer reset and start up back-up systems if available. Only analog backup is the compass on the flightdeck.
@@CaptainSkydancer Thank you for your answer. I suppose the fact that this is accepted by regulators, airlines and most importantly pilots like yourself; confirms that the a full array of backup analogue systems is regarded as acceptably-unnecessary. A real-world scenario where complete reliance on electronics puts lives in danger would be hikers/climbers going out with just a GPS, and leaving their compass and maps at home. I imagine that experienced pilots could work through an emergency loss of instruments using the terrain and stars (in particular the Sun) to judge altitude, attitude, bearing and ground speed - and like you say maintaining basic control with only thrust and rudder. Thanks again and please keep flying safe :) Oh, is it true to say that as well as having a mechanical rudder linkage, you also have basic mechanical control of the horizontal axis through the jackscrew system? The jackscrew/trim was involved in the losses of the two 737 8 max aircraft and maybe also flight 447?
About the first video… I’ve lived in the SFBayArea since 1988 and there’s NO reason for that United 777 to be doing that kind of flying where and how it was??!! SFO is nowhere near where it was??!! Bizarre video?!! Anybody have an answer?
Three minutes of aviation.
One minute of silence.
Its the quietest part of the airshow
It's been a rough week...
Fr 😭
4 accidents in 4 days, including 3 within 24 hours. unheard of!
Azerbaijan airlines crash south Korea Airport crash
@@clarvebiker3175 no worries!
This week has been pretty rough in the aviation world, on December 25 an Embraer airliner crashed in Kazakhstan, and just yesterday a Jeju airlines 737 crashed into a wall at the end of the runway in South Korea after having to land with no landing gear 😬 also, a bunch of smaller incidents have happened as well, this week has been a bad one to fly 😭
@@yunuscurrie3410what, i thought that was 2 accidents in 4 gays
*Days
That 747 has a good horn on it.
Beat me to it!
Yeah, you need one to get anywhere in India. (edit) And probably also in Bangladesh, which is where this plane is landing.
Totally. But it's crazy that the plane driver had to use his horn - the ATC should have checked the runway was clear beforehand. Mind you, the plane driver might have just been showing off to one of his mates.
😂
The engines were chirping a bit, though.
the san francisco video is from fleet week air show...
Figured it must be a display flight.
@@MeppyManno the pilot is just a regular San Franciscan being flamboyant.
Thank you for clarifying
Ok that makes a lot more sense, I was wondering what could possibly justify these maneuvers on a commercial flight.
This is why I’m going to block this channel. Thanks
We need a campaign to ban vertical videos
I need to start reading more slowly and thoroughly. I read "Champagne".
It's been tried before. Someone even made an amusing video explaining why they don't work, but kids these days or something...
The verticals are better suited for Insta
I just turn them sideways and zoom in.
It's 2024. People use phones more than computers far more often.
The 777 appears to be doing the usual fleet week demonstration.
Yeah he's just having a good time, hardly anything wrong with that. It's hard to stall when you have the power of those engines
@@felixx321any aircraft can stall at the wrong AoA
@@felixx321 as already said any aircraft can stall however pitching up at the wrong angle of attack even really powerful engines won't help. They can introduce a pitch up notion and so the nose has to be pushed down to get airflow back over the wings.
Over the bay, not sea. Fleet Week on SF Bay
@@felixx321 Lucky guys!
The Transavia pilot was indeed skillful, nevertheless his plane insulted him three times in a row. 🤣
😂😂😂
Well actually, in aviation, the word "retard" means to pull the throttle back to idle so the plane can land but it is a little funny how it sounds like the plane is insulting the pilot. 😂
I don’t know why the computer was calling the pilot a “Retard”???
lmao, good one
Her?
It looks like after landing at Denver International Airport, you have to take another plane to actually get to Denver.
Ah. I was wondering. I've heard the jokes before but now I've seen it. Definitely room for growth.
Denver resident here. Can confirm. The airport is basically west Kansas. 😂
It used to be a very long car or bus ride into the city, now they have a light rail system which works well.
I love those parallel take off/landing videos!
They're cool to watch if you're actually on one of the planes...right up to the moment someone in the cabin shouts "there's only one runway at this airport"!
@@fluchterschoen That would be awkward to say the least!😮😆
@@fluchterschoen I like saying that whenever I fly into SFO, just to see the reactions of other passengers.
I also have no friends.
747 was not doing a "wheelie". The indicator in the cockpit did not confirm that the nose gear had locked into position. The pilot was trying to put the nose down as gently as possible.
I'm glad to know that and don't doubt for a moment you are correct. Meanwhile the guy who curates this channel is probably muttering, "but it was still a wheelie". In the same way that if this channel got hold of crisp footage of Flight 447 blazing nose-first into the Atlantic Ocean, he'd post it under the title "A330 does spectacular dive-bomb into world's second biggest swimming pool to impress some teenage girls nearby".
@@fluchterschoen For the sake of not getting into a never-ending argument over semantics. I will concede with the poster that the 747 was doing a "wheelie" to set the nose of the plane down as gently as possible in the event of a nose gear failure. However, I am adamant that the emergency procedures for such an event DO NOT state that the pilot do a wheelie. 🤣🤣
Regardless... that was a LOT of rudder input. Well done like buttah
That was one smoooooth landing.
Thanks. I was wondering how a "wheelie" would act more efficiently to bleed off speed - this makes more sense.
With everything I’ve operated during my life, essentially it all just becomes an extension of yourself. Never been a pilot, but I hold the greatest respect for these men and women who perform such tasks in all conditions. My heart goes out to all who have lost their lives (passengers and crew) when things don’t go as planned. ❤️
I know exactly what you mean. A friend of mine was a tree-surgeon/arborist, so he was using a chainsaw every day of his working life to the point where it became a mere extension of himself. When his wife left him however, he took it to an extreme new level. He duct-taped a chainsaw to each of his arms - police never figured out how he managed to tape on the second one, or start either of them with one/two chainsaws already taped to his wrists - and he went on a sociopathic, noisy and very bloody rampage through his ex-wife's office. The real tragedy was that she'd left work early to go away for a weekend-city-break with her new boyfriend, an irony that wasn't lost on the families of his 18 victims. Nowadays he teaches woodcarving to his fellow inmates in Broadmoor and has occasional gallery-exhibitions of his work.
In a week like this titles and Thumbnails like this are unnecessary
Indeed, could just be "demo flight for ... event". I'm putting this channel on "do not recommend"
I like the 747 's claxon...."we're coming baby!!!"
The united plane over SF bay is from the annual Fleet Week airshow
Yes I was at it
Yeah, and whoever thinks that is a "nose dive" has never seen films of dive bombers!!!
@@holywellsit is passenger jet. The will never even see 10 degrees nose down unless something is going wrong.
747: Honks, laughs at all A330 landings combined and keeps the wheelie up forever AND still puts the nose down smoothly 🗿
We owe you two seconds of aviation
Put in your piggy bank for the next one.
@@DeweyCheatumNHoweLLC I will
erm actually, this is 3:02 of aviation, what a fraud 😔
😊
WOW,
THAT is original.
why did that first plane do that?
Airshow
Airshow
Airshow.
Airshow
Sightseeing. Just to add variety to the answers.
Team Daedalus be flying the 747..."Drop the nose Frank..."
Hey i know that reference 😂
@@unsatisfiedfans7422 :)
Please tell me you guys know about the 777 demo at fleet week
I recall back in the day during San Francisco Fleet Week the 747 doing the same type of maneuvers. Spectacular.
2:50 What are those two discs by the pilot's left hand that start rotating forward?
Auto-trim.
Its the trim wheel that controls how much pitch is imputed even if the pilots arent touching the side stick it will keep the plane stable without it nosediving or something
2:40 of course the plane has to insult their pilots xD
Пилот Боинга 747 в душе мотогонщик 😅
И сигнал хороший поставил )
1:00 that’s a normal easyjet landing
Lmao
Flown with them loads of times never had a bad landing ..
😅😅
The pilots got inspiration from Ryanair
It's awesome that the video he shows you in the thumbnail is the first video he shows you no clickbait no bullshit thank you sir
That’s true!!! Well said
It was the first video, yes, but it's clickbait all the same (as with MOST of this channel creator's captions/explanations). That's a Triple 7 on approach to San Francisco Airport, performing during an airshow and banking in toward the runway's heading, and then pulling off (a.k.a., performing a "go around") and powering up again to climb away-and being blown off heading by the winds at the time.
"Nose dives"
2:41 How rude of that Airbus aircraft to call him that.
The old joke, but funny again and again! - What I thought, why is it calling three times while only two pilots are in the cockpit ;-) - And HOW is it possible for Boeing crew to land safely without it .. ;-))
777 is so cool
Shame, they spent so much on that 747 they couldn't afford anything but the default skin.
Does the wind ever stop blowing in Manchester
I’m pretty sure that 777-ER that nosedived at the beginning of the video was part of Fleet Week 2024 - San Francisco, I was there.
The Southwest clip....umm how exactly was that taken?
I love these video's because they always remind me to stay on the ground.
what if you be on a plane and suddenly a lightning strike to your plane what you do
1:11 D.I.A. is one of the few airports in the world that can support a dual approach.
Few in the state of Colorado, maybe. There are plenty of airports that can do this.
What one earth was the pilot of that 777 doing over the SF bay?
That last one looked like a simulator?
It’s actually real, full version can be found on my channel.
@@CaptainSkydancer had to go watch that one - the capture on this one had some stuttering which gave the illusion of a simulator that couldn't keep up. Smooth flying!
@@RickJohnsonkuddos to the first officer!
1:50 this is how you know there is a retired fighter pilot up there
Has nothing to do with being a fighter pilot or not. 🙄
@@rtbrtb_dutchy4183 aerodynamic braking is usually fighter pilot thing
@TacticalMania-xe1xh aerodynamic braking is taught to every pilot, civilian and military.
Airforce pilots use it because their airplanes air built as light as possible and their brakes actually are pretty weak. Navy pilots have a beefier landing gear and brakes and you won’t see them do aerodynamic braking.
The true masters of the air
@@kushbra hell yeah
Dude, crosswinds are crazy!!!
That Fly Pro Boeing 747-200 doesn't have it's wing slats extended yet the flaps are....??
The slats are deployed.
@@vaulthecreatorthose are leading edge flaps, not slats.
What was the plane in San Fran doing?…
Great video, this week has been one of the worst we’ve had in a very very long time.
Life is what YOU make it.
Would be nice if you put the date of event on here
Ok where was the nose dive exactly???
Seeing fleet week from the bay is something else
“Skilled Transavia pilot…” Most of these pilots are pretty skilled, I imagine.
That seems to me too..
Seeing the Queen Of The Skies alight, precisely as she did, amazes me. Run it through a few times and notice the spoilers activate when the main gear touches down. Watch the wings immediately flatten out as they lose lift to transfer weight onto the gear. Reversers pop and start bleeding speed.
Her nose floats and flies while the airplane continues to slow down, the pilot maintains directional control with an enormous rudder that twitches left and right, making subtle corrections while the nosegear is still airborne.
Watch the plane continue to slow down as it balances only on the main gear and the big elevator forces the tail down. For as long as the airspeed allows it to have an effect on the airplane's pitch, that big, beautiful airplane gets lowered and slowered by the orchestration of decreased lift and increased drag. While the nose -- and the cockpit stay three stories above the tarmac.
The airplane slows further, the elevator begins to lose its bite on the air at the rear of the aircraft and nose (and pilots) finally descend. As the airplane rotates back down, the elevator loses authority at a faster and faster rate as its own angle of attack is decreased by the airplane's downward rotation. The nosegear gently touches the pavement.
But the nosegear does not fully compress after the little kiss of white smoke. The airplane has stopped rotating but the tailplane still maintains its grasp on the airstream at the rear. The movement of rotation has ended and the nosegear is extended while the big tail completes its work. At last, airspeed can no longer keep the tail down and the nosegear finally compresses.
I am amazed that an airplane designed with drafting tables, slide rules, transistors, and NACA tables, continues to fascinate and inspire so many of us to this day -- 55 years since its first flight.
And to this day, as the Queen's dance with the sky ends, she does so with the grace and beauty of a butterfly.
Happy new year guys 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Why fly during extreme weather conditions?
Wow the pilots are amazing .just how big these planes are ..😊
That wheelie was well executed
Love the first plane. Ladies and Gentlemen, on your right you can see Alcatraz.
"..and on a clear day you can see Alcatraaaaaz! Yes you can learn a lot from Lydia!"
You should review the meaning of the word Steep.
Nice wheelie!
What a week for aviation..
What was the 777 doing? Was it trying to land and then went around?
That’s what I was wondering. 🤔
@@ElysiumPondueairshow.
where's the bellyflop one?
First time I’ve ever been annoyed at your channels. What a clickbait-y Title. This was a plane in an air show in San Fran. Thank you to all the viewers who quickly called this out. He put it as his thumbnail to get peoples views through panic. Very very scummy your usually better then this! 🤙
New here? Every video is like that.
The nose diving plane in SF was an exhibition for Fleet Week.
That “Wheelie” was impressive, pilot must’ve rode a BMX as a kid. 😊
A “wheelie” generally starts off with the front wheel on the ground and then pulling (or accelerating) it into the air. This was more similar to a “soft field landing” to keep weight off the front wheel as long as possible, which every student pilot learns and practices.
However to hold the front wheel off that long and then set it down that gently on a 747 is a superior demonstration of elevator control by the pilot!
Boeing 747 - king of the sky!!
Wonderful pilot.
0:14 POV: Captain Will flying a real plane
lol
Love this channel 👍🏻🙋🏻♂️
737?
What city is that?
Thanks
This is from an Air show. United does a flyby every year or during an event. RELAX
2:42 I wish the aircraft wouldn't talk to the pilots like that, they're probably quite intelligent, reasonable people !!! 😆😆😆
Jesus that first clip gave me a heart attack! we almost had another crash! :sob
I’ve been on a few of those freaky landings over the years and a few I wasn’t sure we was going to make lol we have some amazing pilots in our airways.
I have always wondered how hard it is to fly an Airbus when you get promoted to the left seat and have to use the other hand to control the aircraft.
Actually not more difficult than switching seats in a Boeing with a yoke. In flightschool you start in de leftseat and have to fly left-handed because the other hand is for the throttle. When becoming a first officer you switch seat and have to fly now with your right hand. After becoming a captain you will be in the left seat again. I can fly Boeing and Airbus with both hands although I have never been a first officer on the Airbus.
Bet the 777 pilot is a retired "Fighter Jockey".
1:17 i saw this once, but it was at Phoenix. I pointed it out to the person next to me just because it was cool, However, the young lady, roughly my age, thought I was starting to panic or that I was getting worried it was so close to us. I tried to tell her i wasn't worried, only that you don't get to see that all the time, but she cut me off and told me there was nothing to be afraid of and it was normal. I gave up explaining myself and nodded in agreement.
You should include the date in the video
0:40 is trying to stall the plane or summat? Bros crazy
United always flies a demonstration during the Fleet Week air show here in San Francisco - this footage is from that air show.
@ ohhhhhh. Thanks for letting me know!
Her Royal Majesty the 747!!
How does people know when to film the incident it’s crazy !
Gosh! Never knew a 747 horn sounded like that! 😂
That 747-200 wheelie moves are secretly descended from the F-16 and other U.S fighters.
The United flight was part of the Fleet Week exhibition
Love you keep up the good work
UA-777 was practicing for the Fleet Week airshow
Steep nose dive?
Hopefully next year will be better year 4 aviation
That 777 was just doing the “crowbar” approach 😁
Got to love Bangladesh ... There even the jets honk their horns for no reason 😀
SAN FRANCISCO has a step approach and its nicknamed ‘slam dunk”
Weird, been flying in and out of SFO for 20 plus years, never heard anyone use that nickname.
Dude is always hyperbolising.
0:09
🚨🚓Grammar police🚨, pull over!! A steep descent or a nose dive
Coming from a channel who has no idea what grammar means!
@ 🚨🚔🚨you’re being detained for a grammar infraction 😁
Camera with a horn or traffic (auto) in the area.
Why does the computer insult the pilots when they are landing...
When my bro says EasyJet I know it’s going to be wild.
Next video: "Plane Crashes Into Ground" and it's just a plane landing normally.
2:00 first 747 with an air horn 😅
Did you not know commercial aircraft have horns? Not being a dick, genuine question.
@ didn’t know that 😬I learnt something new today. Thank you!
@@senorbautista6143they don’t have horns. 😂
@@vaulthecreatorstop it. 😂
Ok. Let me clear this, because the comment is making me look like a basement idiot. I typed the original comment as a joke since in a lot of Asian countries cars and motorcycles basically use the horn 24/7. The guy that commented first, told me that aircrafts actually have horns. I googled it, and it is true. They use it to “communicate” with the ground crew during pushback.
A question for one of you experts: the glass cockpit in the A321 made me think of this. So I know that all modern jetliners have electronic displays for the flight information, and I know there is always in-built redundancy and various levels of backup power supply. Although it's doubtless very improbable, there are events that could wipe out things like displays and avionics (like EMPs from solar flares or nuclear blasts). Now, I realise that both those scenarios have much wider implications than one plane perhaps having its avionics wiped out - but nevertheless I was curious to know if jetliners have backup analogue versions of things like altimeters, compass, horizon indicators, attitude indicators?? (I also appreciate that if a modern jetliner's avionics got severely zonked, the plane would probably be unflyable given there are no physical connections between the cockpit and the control surfaces to fall back on). But anyway, however meaningless the question is IRL - do modern jetliners have any backup instruments that rely on the laws of physics only, and not on any electrical power or electronics?
They have a analog backup
Old airplanes do, newer ones don’t.
It's not a direct answer to your question, but an interesting topic: Qantas flight 72
Actually we don’t have any mechanical backup for the avionics on the Airbus A321NEO. We do have a standby horizon but it’s still digital. We do have a mechanical linkage to the rudder on the airbus, so in the event of a total failure we will be able to maintain some airplane control with rudder and engine power. This will give time to do a computer reset and start up back-up systems if available. Only analog backup is the compass on the flightdeck.
@@CaptainSkydancer Thank you for your answer. I suppose the fact that this is accepted by regulators, airlines and most importantly pilots like yourself; confirms that the a full array of backup analogue systems is regarded as acceptably-unnecessary. A real-world scenario where complete reliance on electronics puts lives in danger would be hikers/climbers going out with just a GPS, and leaving their compass and maps at home. I imagine that experienced pilots could work through an emergency loss of instruments using the terrain and stars (in particular the Sun) to judge altitude, attitude, bearing and ground speed - and like you say maintaining basic control with only thrust and rudder. Thanks again and please keep flying safe :)
Oh, is it true to say that as well as having a mechanical rudder linkage, you also have basic mechanical control of the horizontal axis through the jackscrew system? The jackscrew/trim was involved in the losses of the two 737 8 max aircraft and maybe also flight 447?
1:07 Denver International Airport
About the first video…
I’ve lived in the SFBayArea since 1988 and there’s NO reason for that United 777 to be doing that kind of flying where and how it was??!! SFO is nowhere near where it was??!! Bizarre video?!! Anybody have an answer?
That 777 did it for a airshow I have footage of it too
That 777 looked like a child had grabbed the controls. RIP to all who have lost their lives this past week. Just unreal.
United 777 does a strange pattern, sudden rise of the nose, following a roll to the right, as it seems.
747 awsome piloting