737 Jumpseat Takeoff & St. Elmo's Fire !!!
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- What a rare sight of these static discharges.. simply stunning!
Taking off from Geneva, too early in the morning.
After many of you commented, the airspeed was not 142kts. It was somewhere far over 200. ATHR was only armed, so the 142 in the MCP is irrelevant. The pilots just did not set it higher until they activated autoflight.
"St. Elmo's fire (also St. Elmo's light) is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere (such as those generated by thunderstorms or created by a volcanic eruption)." - Wikipedia
The dark sky with all the little light gauges looks so peaceful
It is.
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@@Eccho3 yeah, it sounds like a symphony of fans
I'm amazed at how quiet it is, makes perfect sense. It's JUST enough ambient voltage to cause valence shell photon release, but not much more - so an ambient buzz at most.
Miniature lightning, far less intense.
I can also understand how they suspected St Elmo's fire caused the Hindenburg disaster.
aviation nerds are great. They give the rest of us an idea of the things we never see from the cabin.
You can see st.elmos Fire from all around the plane
You can see st.elmos Fire from all around the plane
You can see st.elmos Fire from all around the plane
Dave z no you can only see st elmo fire throgh the cockpit window
@@matimartinez9583 I appreciate that mate m and I don't doubt it. However if you reread the comments above, you may realise why I made that comment. Btw, you just ruined the joke.
Wow, I didn't think this effect had ever been photographed before!
2:22 you're welcome
Thanks
Yeah, thanks!
Thanks.
Thanks.
But the takeoff was the bespart
I flew KC-135's as a boom for 5 years. I have seen St Elmo's fire 3 times. It's gods way of telling you you are flying to close to a lightning strike. The best(or worst) I've seen was over Canada someplace near Goose Bay. The entire F-4 I was refueling was covered entirely with light blue electrical fingers. It even extended up to our tankers boom and even covered my pilots windscreens. It was very bright then but, as this was at night in a thunder storm, it probably would not have been be seen in daylight.
Jerry Williams wait, tankers can perform fueling ops in a storm? Seems like a bad idea (turbulence, ignition of vapors, so on)
@@supersonicfroot nah the plane is insulated from all that
Thanks for your service!
It just really isn’t god telling you anything mate it’s a natural science thing that can be explained plain and simple
@@jimvandeven9732Science is only a method to understand God's creation.
this looks to be technically a different phenomenon from St Elmo's fire, it appears to be static charge building on the windshield frame arcing to the rest of the plane. St elmo's fire to my knowledge is a more stable phenomenon where the vessel in contact with the ground is essentially a plasma build up at a point displaying the differential between atmospheric and ground charge.
You're absolutely right. St Elmo's fire is a persistent corona discharge (bluish-purple glow of ionized air around sharp metal points) and this here is lightning-like discharging by very fast build up of static electricity.
Exactly, we'll said
@@hyparh Well, if it has the same cause, then this is just the intensified, quick-discharge version of it.
It has happened to a plane before, I think in the 90s? It basically sandblasted the windshield and blinked the pilots
@@dandyd543 that was volcanic ash that did that. They encountered a lot of St. Elmos fire but it wasnt what damaged the aircraft
I was a young Boom Operator in a KC-135 when I observed a purple lighting bolt spread across the wind screens on both sides. It scared the crap out of me. It worked itself around and inside the aircraft fell to the deck in a large purple ball in the cockpit. Then it rolled down the cargo compartment and disappeared above the boom compartment in the tail of the aircraft. I asked the pilots what the hell was that?? They laughed at me and said St Almos fire. I seen it many times after that in over 3500 hours of flying time. Mostly in the clouds. Seen it run down the boom into the receiver aircraft and other places about the aircraft. Funny stuff now. But the first time is still in my brain😳😜🧐
AWESOME video!!!! Brought back memories for me. When I was in the Air Force on KC-10's, we were flying into Barksdale AFB, and had to "dive" in between two t'storms in order to land. As I was in the spare jumpseat, I was treated to a great light show up next to the airplane with St Elmo's Fire, and all the lightning flashing in the storms in the distance.
Taking off in the dark not being able to see a thing, only relying on your gauges to know if you’re going up for not. Scary
Well if your are taking off in the middle of a city and you're not seeing any lights than I think it's safe to assume you're going up
More scary when those gauges fail
@@slinger7529 That's why commercial airplanes have 2 or 3 independent sets of gauges, and several different ways to supply them with electricity.
Well that's what pilots are trained for. They can flying a plane relying solely on instruments.
That’s just how Buddy Holly died, very scary indeed
That's brilliant! I've only ever seen CGI recreations of St Elmo's fire & I've never been particularly convinced by it. Good to see it for real.
My heartbeat was getting faster and then i reduced the volume. But i really liked how the pilot take off like a truck and now i wanna be a pilot.
So are you a pilot now?
Rare piece of footage indeed. Always wondered the duration of the discharges - they're pretty much like normal lightning really, just on a smaller scale.
This isn't St Elmo, it's regular lightning simply filmed from an aeroplane flying thru an electrical storm, this isn't a rare occurrence, it's seen regularly
St Elmo's Fire doesn't flash, it remains lit for up to two hours according to some reports, and it is rare with most pilots spending their entire working live flying having never seen it at all
This video was fascinating. I really enjoyed it. I was surprised by how much the controls move during take off. Great departure!
thanks a lot man! :) This is real flying with real controls! Not some computer based sidestick-inputs :D
***** i.e. airbus?
The internet is fucking amazing. I thought I'd live my entire life before seeing this phenomenon..
Kristen Annieka I agree with you. The internet is truly the most amazing thing since the invention of the telephone. It’s a double-edged sword tho and as long as we know that we can always benefit positively from it!
ITS not elmos fire ITS just a static discharge
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you still havent seen it. this isnt it.
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I'm in awe .The pilots like yea ! ..whatever !
You have to keep in mind that the pilots have a job to do and that is to get to their destination safely and therefore need to keep their eyes on the instruments and do what they have to do. They cant be distracted by such a phenomena. I believe this was shortly after takeoff so they have stuff to do.
They probably see this every day cause in clouds there is a high static pressure.
We see this phenomenon a lot of the time..at first I was mesmerized but now it's like meh
Free energy
It is harmless so they don't pay attention even if they would not be busy. Seen this quite a few times on the ship.
That little Red guy from Sesame Street can do this?
Didnt you know he was a saint?
👍🏼👍🏼😎
Yeah, elmo kept this very quiet, didn't he?
I can see a new horizon underneath the blazin' sky
I'll be where the eagle's flying higher and higher
Gonna be your man in motion, all I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin', St. Elmo's Fire
Shawn Bateman Awesome song!
***** totally is ^_^
***** its hard to believe its harmless to the aircraft, and its all thanks to the lightning arresters on the nose
Hail the 80's
Before I watched the video I closed RUclips, opened Amazon Music and downloaded that song. After listening to it 15 times I remembered the video, so now I'm here.
Great video! I'm a FE on KC-10s in the USAF and I flew earlier tonight and witnessed St. Elmo's Fire. It is certainly a special treat to get to see it up close.
Retro3433 Where are you stationed at?I used to be a KC-10 Crew Chief.....based out of McGuire.
Travis AFB...Got a great relationship with the Chiefs out here at Travis. Those guys are great! Much respect brother.
Once more and last: St. Elmo's Fire and Ball lightening are separate manifestation of the identical electrical phenomenon - static electricity.
Here from Mentour Pilot's video !!
What an incredible sight.
I was in a qantas 737 jumpseat flying to Darwin Australia, the copilots window had for the approach a huge yellow pulsing thing, covering the whole window ( St Elmos fire) - that looked alive, pretty freaky ... he said sometimes it rippled up and down the wing and set up over the engine intake. This was during the wet, tropical storm time of the year around December.
Bro when the airplane went, *mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*
i felt that.
I think that all commercial flights should show a real-time forward view on a the TV display so the passengers can see. So many people fly commercial so frequently and never get to see how nice the forward view of the airplane actually is.
Saint Elmo‘s fire aside I thought this was a great vid.
In case you are the impatient type, St. Elmo's Fire doesn't start until around 2:24
1.04 co pilot starts to play the drums
st elmos fire looks like a blue ball of plasma. this isn't it.
Actually, I enjoyed the takeoff more than the St. Elmo's Fire.
Thanks
This is a cool video..I would've freaked out at first seeing all the "fire"
Man thats amazing!! ive always wanted to see some of this on a flight! It seems like it'd be in the range of 100+ KV considering the foot long arcs! As a man interested in electricity and storm chasing, this shit is so cool
Isnt St. Elmos fire void of any electricity?
@@MicroMidas The very nature of it is electrical discharge
When did Elmo become a Saint?
good question, actually.
Discern the answer - embrace the perspicacious potential within yourself.
When he was voiced by Kevin Clash.
When the Pope upgraded him for his "Tickle Me" line of products.
when liberal cucks took office. MAGA !
For some reason I keep thinking of Otto the bus driver when I see this.
"Wooooah...am I on drugs?"
Das wird ja immer besser hier! Top Video. Vielen Dank!
Haha danke dir!
Great video! Love the St. Elmo's fire!! Really nice!
thanks, yes they're awesome!
Video starts at 2:20
thank you kind soul!
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But i really enjoyed the before 2:20
Nathaniel Pajas probably nothing
Great video....liked St Elmo's Fire streaking across the sky..nice one.
thanks a lot man! :)
Great video! Love the pilots eye view, thanks for sharing 😀
I just hope that Dorothy and Mr. Noodle don't get scared or hurt.
This is exactly the kind of content I need. I love flying but I’m too poor to fly much (last time was around 2012 to NYC from Manchester). So I have to be content with videos and plane spotting apps and just dream.
So thanks to those who share these things with us. :)
Is that St Elmo’s fire though? I thought it was supposed to be different and not just lighting discharges. I’ve seen discharges go up in clouds in distance storms from the ground. It’s always so cool to see.
Spirit Airlines. You are no longer too poor to fly.
@@cptnbennett They're not in the UK/Europe unfortunately.
@@spacecat3198 Ryan Air, EasyJet, Wizz Air
@@cptnbennett Yeah still out of my price range. I'm that broke. You need trains to get to those anyway, and trains are insanely expensive here.
But i'm sure I'llchoose something when I have a job again. :)
@@spacecat3198 id love to know if you have had the opportunity to experience a flight by now :)
i'd LOVE seeing that lightning storm myself! 😍😍😍😎😎😍😍😍😍
i saw this on my flight yesterday.. and i googled ..found your video.. and this is amazing !
Beautiful ol 737 cockpit
I am not a big fan of flying, but I must say that was a nice relaxing video to watch. I was suprised that it didn't seem like you were going that fast and you just took right off. Then it was dark for a while. Looks like you were nicely rewarded with that windshield lightshow. VERY nice to watch, seeing those little flashes of lightning against the foreground of instrument panel lights.
thanks a lot for watching and your nice comment! :)
A scary lightshow that is. Doesn't it hurt the pilots' eyes though since the lightning is so close to them (well at least closer to us on the ground)?
***** these are no lightnings like in a thunderstorm. It's a way smaller amount of electrical lightning, all happening on the cockpit window itself.
It's basically static electricity built up that needs to discharge somehow. It's similar to when you rub your shoes or socks on the floor, then touch a metal doorknob.....just on a larger scale...lol.
If you look at the wing tips, on the back part of the wings, you may see some yellow protrusions. Those also dissipate static electricity.
Love the old instruments
PilotsTubeHD. Thank you for your observation. I believe that "St. Elmo's Fire" is traditionally defined as a ball - round, not linear.
that might aswell depend on the surface.. on cockpit windows it usually looks like this.
2:26 it looks like it just turns into some giant underground cave with lightning and tornados
I think in conditions like this, heavy snow causing static discharges, you'd see St. Elmo at the outside corners, edges of the windshields. They look like gas burner flames on a stove. At least, that's what I was always taught...
Awesome cockpit video, especially awesome with the St. Elmo's fire!! Liked a lot, and thanks for sharing:)
If I was a pilot I would purposely fly near thunderstorms just to see this :P
Awesome 737 Classic!
Thanks for sharing! What kind of departure were they flying? Were they just following VOR or vectors issued by the ATC? Seems like the A/T was the only thing engaged on the MCP - proficiency training.
I think is was a usual departure route, no vectoring. they just flew it manually up to 17.000ft or something. AT was only armed, not engaged. That means it would kick in you press TOGA for example. But the pilots still control the thrust manually, so AT is not engaged. Only if you press "speed" or whatever.
***** Thanks! Under the IFR or in night I would be just happy to follow the FDs or let the autopilot fly. Nice to see raw data and manual flying!
Martin R. Jjgh
Very, very nice video. However, one minor remark: the autothrottle is used, it's not only armed. You can clearly see the indications on the FMA: N1, THR HOLD, ARM and then N1 again in the climb.
Tim Berger yes, you are right it's in N1 mode. Just people wondered that 142kts would be quite slow in climb..
Nice! I haven't seen Lightning strike horizontally before or was that viewing angle? Is there much turbulence caused by this? I seem to remember my uncle who was Chief Bursar " Cabin Crew for British Airways telling me something about Aircraft being relatively immune from Lightning Strikes due to the Aluminium skin acting as a good conductor. He also told me that Aircraft flying through heavy storm atmosphere can in fact cause a static discharge?
Have I remembered correctly, if so where does that charge go? I mean a Lightning strike discharges at the highest point available at ground level doesn't it?
Apologies for this basic physics question but I'm genuinely interested
That wasn't lightning. It was static electricity discharging across the aluminum body of the airplane. It was the friction from the plane moving through highly charged air that actually created the static electricity.
That is amazing! Great cockpit video! Liked!!
thanks man!
This video goes pretty good with the song " Riders of the storm " by the doors real well.
I saw this one evening flying over upper NY state through some pretty rough weather. It seemed like they were miniature lightning bolts all around nose and the inside of the cabin was an erie light blue.
FYI this is not St. Elmo's Fire. This is static discharge. St. Elmo's Fire is a steady, hazy glow (undischarged) that accumulates on objects in an electric field.
Which type of 737 was this, the instruments in the cockpit are different than expected ? (Sorry for the delayed answer)
First I thought it has to be a 737-200 but because of the new layout of the MCP i supose it has to be a 300 + ?
wow, echt hammer videos.....gibt ein abo !
und auch wieder was gelernt. das mit dem elmsfeuer kannte ich bis dato noch gar nicht. :)
Flying a plane has got to be like giving anasthesia. Boring when everything is routine and absolutely terrifying when things go wrong
That runway looked straight out of the movie Airplane on takeoff.
i have seen a st. elmo's fire once, it was during a storm "rosing" in the philippines years back i think what i saw back was alot freaky than this. i wish we had a recording of it. isnt st. elmo's fire suppose to be a lightning ball with constant electrical discharge similar to a tesla coil albeit smaller?
the faster your charge buildup, the mosre consistant the discharges. balls mean you have one hell of a charge lol
Good graphics, what are your settings?
My favorite seat onboard!
thanks for sharing. I'm no pilot, just a fascinated passenger... Maybe it runs in the family because my brother is an aircraft mechanic :P
Amazing phenomenon, love these takeoff videos.
St. Elmo's fire is supposed to happen when an ash cloud from a volcano creates friction with the aircraft. In which makes the sparks
That's some cool stuff right there!! Reminded of a space shuttle on re-entry!!
Taking off from Geneva, Indiana, or somewhere esle? Sorry for thee question just curious (:
The lightening is incredibly
Wait so the pilots immediately release the control column upon rotation? Is it just instantly on autopilot after you leave the ground? Hmmmmm
Tolles Video, dankeschön.
haha danke bono ;)
God, 20 degree takeoff. Holy shit
I've seen it before in the shape of round circle of rainbow colored rings, it floated gently to the ground dropping a stream of gold sparks as it did. Back in 2000.
Ball fire?
This is amazing picture!!!
Klasse Video und toll gefilmte Entladungen. :-)
danke :)
Brilliant, keep up the good work.
That really helps me learning how a cockpit looks like
PS: I want to be a pilot soooo badly
Me too buddy
After taking 2 chemistry classes in college it's pretty cool to witness electrochemistry (ionization and sharing of electrons) in its prime. Was this footage of a constant climb, or did you level out and have to climb again to avoid this?
***** it was during climb and you dont need to avoid this :)
Good to know, I figured it might attract a lightening strike.
+PJΛZΞЯŁΛZΞЯ
It might!
This looks NOTHING like a classic 80's movie.
I wish my house was like this, immune to lightning.
Amazing cockpit view of the takeoff and lightnings!
Ha
Never knew St. Elmo’s Fire was a thing....
Sweet share.
Mission Impossible: Stop the video when there is that electric thing.
...I just realized I did the impossible.
That's the best thing I ever saw!
Jump to 2:22 to watch the Elmo's fire and skip all the boring shit.
+MrBenski81 Thank you sir for your kind assistance!
+MrBenski81 Yea thanks man my 6 year old wanted to see Elmo's fire and she actually found this clip but didnt read down so sat thru a long boring night takeoff !
+The Bambi if your 6y/o thinks a take-off is boring, something went horribly wrong with your parenting :)
To put it into Context she's never flown and to her its two windows out the front of a plane, nothing that interesting when she's been watching Santas reindeer doing acrobatics for the past few days.
The Bambi oh you gotta show her the magic of flying :)
🎵gonna be your man in motion, all I need is a pair of wheels 🎵
Very nice video. thx for upload.
That's not St. Elmo's fire, that's just static discharge.
St. Elmo's fire is a luminescent area observed on vertically pointed objects during thunderstorms. It's been seen on ships masts and horses' ears. It persists for many seconds. It is not just lightning.
Right! These are static discharges, the charges running in well defined ionization channels (like lightning). St. Elmo's fire on the other hand is a type of CORONA discharge.
Mike Walling that’s what they call St. Elmo’s fire
+Robert Brandywine HORSE'S EARS!? Wow!
Robert Brandywine Clipped from MY CPL Meteorology Book “ When flying in the vicinity of thunderstorms, especially at night, you may sometimes experience St.Elmo’s fire, a spectacular static electricity discharge across the windshield.”
Great video!
+sully dz Gorgeous face!
When Bonin saw this, he started to get scared
St elmo's fire or ball lightning as its also called is more of a blue ball shaped little ball of plasma that can form under a variety of different circumstances.
Ive seen it form above the ground during a thunderstorm where there were electric lines buried under the ground (got a pic of that one)..Ive also seen it form in my microwave oven when the house was struck by lightning..
Ive heard of people seeing in in the sky in airplanes..even one tale where it formed inside the plane near the front and traveled along the isle to the back of the plane (what fun) .. but I did not see it in this video.
+Tommy Damon I forgot, if anyone wants to see my pic I took of ball lightning, go to flickr.com and search "ball lightning"
+Tommy Damon Heres the link to it. www.flickr.com/photos/47378098@N07/5840840407/in/photolist-9U8QmX
this just looks like static discharges across the windshield, this is why ground crews ground the aircraft during refueling and servicing the aircraft. but pretty cool though :)
Very pretty!
uhhh where was the St. Elmo's Fire? I saw a few horizontal bolts but that's it.
Whoever says Elmo is a saint should see the video of him getting burned, whew that’s not something one easily forgets. 😅
Wow.
Wheel bearing on that nose gear sounded like it needs inspected.
Thanks a lot for sharing!
Aesop Rock brought me here!
Ein sehr gutes Video !
Bei welcher Fluglinie arbeiten Sie ?
Sieht mir nach Lufthansa aus ?
danke! Das darf ich leider nicht sagen.
WOW ... Klasse!!! Danke-danke!!! ;-)))*
haha bitte gerne :P
Nama wowo ini dengan siapa
Traumberuf *-* klasse video!:)
du sagst es. Danke :)