I'm a private pilot (flying a Vans RV-7A) so I'll never be flying a 737, but every time I watch Mentour I learn something, or am reminded of something, that I can apply to my own flying as well. Thanks for these excellent videos.
I can confirm what Mentour is saying about honest mistakes - where I work (not aviation related), it turns out I've been following an improper procedure for setting up certain equipment (due to a genuine lack of understanding thereof), which recently caused a significant system failure. At the end of the day, my boss and I talked about what happened (which is when we learned that I had misunderstood a procedure and the theory behind it). I was expecting my boss to chew me out because the failure was rather serious, but all my boss did was re-explain the proper protocol and the reasoning of it to make sure I understood - and then immediately offered me an extra shift the following week!
I worked for nearly 42 years in the nuclear power industry, 33 of those as an authorized operator...I was the guy signed onto the log for my shift and the guy who operated the controls. Mine was also a very heavily regulated industry (like aviation). It's good to hear so many of the principles we applied to our day to day activities echoed here in another line of work. I always tried to impress on those it was my privilege to mentor, that we were the protectors of the people working in the plant, and indeed, the surrounding community. I always used to tell them that it was not enough merely to survive the event...we also have to survive the investigation (conspicuous and genuine due diligence)...but we all need occasional reminders. A colleague of mine who had arrived to assist once said to me, "How about you fly the plane, and I'll fiddle around with the little light?" (a lesson from your industry applied to mine)
@Irish sixty six Fan There is absolutely no issue with Ryanair. Aer Lingus have a sub par product, base fares at least 200% of Ryanair and are about 75% more likely to have a delay. The 320's they use are ancient. Nothing compared to the new Ryanair Boeing interiors
Thanks for your efforts and education ...It's good that the general public gets a chance to see this not only for pilots check and balance but also for the public knowledge that lets them know that there are efforts by the aviation industry to minimize and follow up with making things better all the time. Have a Great Summer!
I like this new approach to safety they're doing. Instead of waiting until something serious happens to change anything they're actively looking for even small problems, small small problems that could turn into big problems if left unchecked.
@Mentour Pilot You ask what we want to see in the videos? I'd like to know, how the pre-flight procedure exactly runs, before you go to the plane, I think you call it briefing. What exactly do you do there, to who you talk, from who you get what informations. How is this running between the Captain and the first officer and the rest of the crew... or / and...main rules at radio talk or better said: interesting stuff concerning radio talk to ATC
I had no idea a system like this was in place. But sounds like a great idea IMO. Helps to weed out any bad habits pilots might develop without realizing it and can deal with the very small group of pilots who knowingly cut corners or so unsafe stuff.
Love it as always Peter, would love to see a vid of the radio stack, delving into vhf radios but more importantly the nav radios going into things like vors ndbs, the xpdr that sort of thing
Just when I think there is nothing undiscovered regarding commercial jets, you present something very few know! It's getting difficult to suggest a topic because I don't know what it is that I don't know! You know everything about the jets, thus you have a much better idea of what most people don't know. It's great learning all the systems behind the scenes! Great job as always Captain!!
Another great job 737 Captain You will be one of the best flight instructor in the future . do more some informational talks about aviation. LOVE from INDIA🇮🇳
As a safety manager in the roadway traffic control industry, we use a similar system to the OFDM in our trucks to do basically the same thing. I've heard many similar arguments that it's a spy tool, etc...but in reality having cameras monitoring greatly helps in making safer drivers, and I believe safer pilots too!
Just when i thought i knew all systems on a plane i learn something new! Another thing to put my mind at rest, i used to have a fear of flying but through educational videos like this i've put my mind at rest and now love aviation.
I absolutely agree with you Captain entirely on the FDM and safety management systems but at crucial moments some tasks are not taken into consideration during the flight landing procedures and I agree that only the pilot in command has that review to report back but very rarely
Thanks for getting this system out of the closet and spinning the safety side of it. Not all pilots as happy as you when it rolled out. I like your two good examples, busting 250 under FL 100 and the good old hand flying fighter approach. I have been away from Part 121 for seven years, but still, stay in touch with guys I liked. It was designed to make flying safer by identifying pilots developing bad habits or possibly just bad apples. Good Video!
You know you have been listening to too much Mentour Pilot when you find yourself reaching for the checklist when you’re backing out of a mall parking lot into a busy stream of traffic
They tried to put rearward facing cameras in our ELDs (Electronic Log Device) in our trucks. But we all said we would quit if they forced us to use them. They are in the truck (video only) but we are currently allowed to block the camera without getting in trouble. So as of right now being watched while driving a truck is optional... as far as forward facing cameras go, absolutely! I want one of those in my personal vehicles as well!
There are many underlying things we just learned. Most passengers just hop on the plane and go to sleep not knowing why they spent 300.00. To fly. Fuel food baggage handlers pay weight & balance loadmasters fuel calculations to correspond with trip distance. Bird strikes engine surges.They dont understand what goes into the prep of flight. Or care?you have made it obvious. Thanks for clarifying many issues and doubts pax had. Nobody tells us common knowledge like news..Ĺet us know more .
I am not even a pilot. I just fly from here to there sometimes. I love these videos it is fascinating to hear about the procedures and it make it a much better flight for me when something happens a go around or anything that has been covered by the videos. knowing about the spy it nice. I worked as a transit bus driver. our company put in cameras and started monitoring the drivers and want to write them up and us it to punish not train or educate. that did not work until the rule was finally changed no punishment can come from a video. the so called spy can be a good tool or a horrible Hamer. thanks for your video
Other industries could learn so much from aviation, imagine a version for cars, AI-powered and camera equipped, analyzing driver behavior including things like distance to cyclists while overtaking them ....
Thank you for these quality contents. Really enjoying to watch it. What I would like to see from you is a video about the pressurisation system. I watched a lot of videos about aviation but I haven't find a good video about this topic. Keep up the great work! Enjoy your well deserved rest! :)
This is very interesting, and reassuring. There must be an incredible amount of data generated. I wonder if it notices safety trends between different types of aircraft..
Another fascinating video, thank you. I hadn't heard of OFDM before but now I know it exists, I'm even more confident that I'm In very safe hands each time I get on a commercial airlines flight. One thought that occurred to me as I watched : As a retiree from the technical education sector, and knowing how my union would have reacted if there had been a move to install a 'Classroom Spy' in our colleges, was there any opposition from the pilots union(s) when OFDM was proposed? Enjoy your summer with your family and already I'm looking forward to September and seeing your gorgeous co-star again. Cheers from DownUnder. PS - I love how your scatter cushion and your dustpan and broom are colour coordinated {:-)
I don’t think it was. Since the data is handled by an external company who only highlights safety issues, there was not much to complain about. It would be like taxi-drivers complaining about police on the roads.
Amazing video. With this system Korean Air essentially stopped having accidents. Before this the captain was god and criticizing the captain was career suicide.
I remember back in the 90s Korean Air was scary. One of the only airlines I would have avoided at that time. Haven't heard of anything for a long time now though.
your videos are terrific. thanks so much for the time and effort you take to make them. i do not like flying, but your channel has certainly made me far more relaxed about it. i hope your airline and even airlines in general appreciate your efforts and help you out along the way. if not, they should. cheers
Hi Peter, I live in the Bay Area and close to SJC (San Jose, Int’t) Airport. My question is this: Using Flightradar24, I notice that on takeoff a lot of planes do enormous circles before the eventually steer to their intended destinations. For example, I notice (at night) that a flight bound for ATLanta will take off to the North, bend right until it is flying south again, then bend west, then north, and then finally eastward. Is all of this due to crowded air spaces? Is the extra fuel used to go so far out of the way negligible? Is this solely to gain altitude in a safe way? Thanks Peter. Enjoy ALL of your great videos. Dan
Related to the topic of this video I would like to understand how do airlines proceed in case a pilot is consistently under performing (not necessarily linked to OFDM events), i.e., lateness, reporting fake illness to skip work, etc. Is it simply a case of firing the individual? I understand this will be a life changing event for the pilot who, I believe - please confirm - will not be hired by any other airline, knowing that he/she has been dismissed from another one. Can a captain be demoted to first-officer? Would he be offered another job in the company?
I was wondering how safety could be garanteed when Pilots are able, at some points, to manipulate recording systems, turning them on or off, not or wrongly reporting events. It's not a matter of security of passengers, they don't fly everday. I have not taken an airplane since 2014, because of a RyanAir flight that made me fear for the security of my kids. It's about a word I was missing in your excellent video : Confidence ! I was also shocked by the low wing wave of Cargoplane, that was pretty close to a stall. As it happened, I read ftom official source, that a pilot trainer was part of the crew, and he had lost his job. So this was a recorded event that did not amuse the auhorities... When confidence is lost all over, passenger won't buy tickets, companies won't get funding, invest, grow, maintain, repair, respect rules. They will be able to recruit less rational pilots with no fighting spirit, and much more retired hotheads from the the army. And I know some of them, and would not follow them in any moving situation. The whole aviation sector would follow the evolution of the Concorde.
I honestly wish every industry had this kind of technology. It is often extremely difficult to communicate to experienced "old hands" in any particular discipline, who've developed bad and risky habits over their decades of service simply because of the principle that familiarity breeds contempt. With the retirement age being nudged ever higher and higher, we find that the most senior positions of just about every organization are occupied by someone over the age of 60, an age at which the body begins to show signs of wear and tear which manifest in poor judgement, inflexible thinking, slowed reaction times and acute medical emergencies such as heart attacks and strokes. They really do need to be transitioned out of the workforce, and systems like this provide the necessary evidence and tools to do so.
i like the phycological effect of this minor warning system, improved awareness and safety... i was driving for uber in the past and with the uber driver app it records events to do with the phones sensors like harsh braking and accelerating and cornering as well as if it thinks the phone wasnt in a phone holder... almost every warning was in error i believe and those that werent were caused by obeying the law or avoiding collisions with other motorists.. your never the only road user out there and it just assumes every harsh braking event would be drivers fault and i think that leads to false warnings.... sometimes traffic lights change and you must brake hard to avoid braking the law also... i wonder how many false warnings this system gives to pilots? when you have fly with another person in the cockpit that was taking risks knowingly youd be ok to ask to not fly with them again right? or does continueing to hold the lisence and be employed considered enough that you should be forced to fly with them again... as a uber driver if you get multipul warnings of the same nature from different passengers you will end up being refered for additional training or be deactivated depenidng on how serious it is... youd atleast make note of it in a diary incase others complained about the person and you get asked if you had any problems with them?
To be fair using the phone sensors for this purpose is a bad idea the correct way to do this for a car at least any car made in the current century pretty much is connecting the telemetrics unit to the diagnostic port of the car as the computer in the car already has sensors that monitor such data though actually calibrated correctly taking into account their mounting position relative to the centre of mass of the vehicle etc this is what lower cost car insurance that is based on actual driving data is based on for example. Personally have thought for a while that cars should at least include some memory similar to the flight data recorder say recording around 5 minutes worth to an overwritable buffer that will be retained if the car ever experiences a sudden acceleration far in excess of what the vehicle controls could do (ie collision detected) would be useful when it comes to understanding more about the causes of accidents as there would be data available on the movements of involved vehicles in the minutes and in particular the fateful seconds before the event. It's not like the hardware isn't already there the only thing missing is a flash memory chip to store the data on all the sensors are there for other purposes anyway. I don't even understand why some people are so opposed to this sort of idea, it's actually a good thing for you if you are actually doing your best to drive safely since it's likely to vindicate you in the event of an accident. It's not even like this data needs to be sent anywhere to be useful for this purpose just have it be stored internally so that it is only available in the event of an accident where investigators have a legitimate to seek permission to physically download the data from the onboard computer.
@@seraphina985 I agree it would be pretty helpful if it recorded even the very basic control inputs and what about speed sensor that are on each wheel for abs to prove if the car was skiddinf... For my tax purposes I wanted to download a log if the kilometres driven to claim off my tax but it doesn't even store that...
@@rroge5 Indeed I would also add to this data the input from the accelerometers that control the airbags etc, in a modern car there will already be at least two of these (longitudinal and lateral thus how the car knows whether to deploy the front or side airbags or both). This would also be handy to confirm something like an all wheel skid affecting both axles since you would still get a divergence between the angular acceleration of the wheels and the linear acceleration of the vehicle.
@@seraphina985 yes... It would have been helpful in my situation ages ago when police deemed a collision to be my fault after they couldn't find skid marks on the road and I believe the road was more slippery than it should have been....
@@rroge5 You know talking about how slippy it was makes me think of another good piece of data to record if the ABS system has a brake pressure sensor could record that. After all if you know the brake pressure and of course have access to the tyre etc should be possible to mathematically calculate the static friction between the tyre and the road at the moment it began to slide. Just subtract the braking force (derived from brake pressure) course would need to account for the rolling resistance of the tyre but you can get that by testing them assuming that at least one tyre survives without being punctured etc.
Thank you!!! It's always been my dream to become a pilot, not necessarily a commercial pilot but I know for sure I want the PPL. Could you perhaps make a video going through what the process would look like and a rough estimation of costs? Ha en trevlig semester och njut med familjen!
Hi Mentour very interesting video as usual! I was wondering if you could plan for one of your next simulator videos doing a circle to land procedure. How to used an ILS or RNAV approach initially and then how to circle, maintain lateral separation with the runway, the go around procedure in case of unstable approach, etc. There are many techniques out there but i really look forward on how you do it ;)
The system is like having an FAA flight examiner sitting behind you on every flight. You will be on your best behavior. Sure, you, as PIC can't do the fun stuff captains did 30 years ago, but it's a plus for the safety of the flight in general. Boring? Yes. Safer? Definitely.
I would love a series with step by step instructions for a flight that I can follow and do in a flight simulator at home. Maybe with several legs with different kinds of approach or other differences.
Nice to know that sistem exists. Question, can small aircrafts have it too? When they land on tough strips like St. Marteen, Lukla, will they have a lot of yellow and red alerts? Thanks.
I'm conflicted. On the one hand I hate big brother type systems, but I don't want to end up in a smoking hole in the ground either. On balance I guess OFDS is a good thing.
As a Union steward myself, National Postal Mail Handlers Union, I can say that too many people think it's impossible for management to fire employees. The truth is, of course, we always must fight disciplinary actions against member employees for legal and ethical reasons, but all we can do is enforce the contract and labor laws. If management follows the rules and does their job properly then they can make disciplinary actions stick. And, while I fully support protecting workers from abuses by management I also want to be as safe as possible as a person riding on an airplane.
Hi Mentour ... what do you do in situations where the landing glideslope is more than 3.3 Degrees ... London City, when it first opened, was a stomach dropping 7.5 degrees which I see has been reduced to a 5.5 degree approach ... ?
Hi mentour. I've never heard about the OFDB system. It's amazing!! I have some questions: is it mandatory to the airlanes ? OFDM works in cruising altitudes?? This is a very helpful tool for incidents/accidents analisys. Are the OFDM used for used for incidents/accidents???
Mandatory for all aircraft above 27000kg MTOW, at least in Europe. It works from the moment the batteries are switched on, throughout the whole flight, until shutdown. It's used mainly as a preventative tool, and sometimes for investigation of minor incidents. Accident investigations are carried out by the authorities, and they read out the flight data recorders themselves.
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One of the primary functions of OFDM, as I see it, is to avoid normalizing deviance from proper procedure.
I'm a private pilot (flying a Vans RV-7A) so I'll never be flying a 737, but every time I watch Mentour I learn something, or am reminded of something, that I can apply to my own flying as well. Thanks for these excellent videos.
I can confirm what Mentour is saying about honest mistakes - where I work (not aviation related), it turns out I've been following an improper procedure for setting up certain equipment (due to a genuine lack of understanding thereof), which recently caused a significant system failure.
At the end of the day, my boss and I talked about what happened (which is when we learned that I had misunderstood a procedure and the theory behind it).
I was expecting my boss to chew me out because the failure was rather serious, but all my boss did was re-explain the proper protocol and the reasoning of it to make sure I understood - and then immediately offered me an extra shift the following week!
I think that a system similar to OFDM is probably needed for road transportation as well, for both public and personal transport.
Wow, I just noticed that the pillows on your couch match wing tip lights. Cool.
Yeah. IIRC he just had the red one and the community "harassed" him to get the green one (or was it the other way around?).
Well spotted, Dan {:-)
Yeah this guy is pretty damn cool
Hope the dog wont swap the pillows because that might cause collisions with other sofas in IMC !
I thought the same lol
I worked for nearly 42 years in the nuclear power industry, 33 of those as an authorized operator...I was the guy signed onto the log for my shift and the guy who operated the controls. Mine was also a very heavily regulated industry (like aviation). It's good to hear so many of the principles we applied to our day to day activities echoed here in another line of work. I always tried to impress on those it was my privilege to mentor, that we were the protectors of the people working in the plant, and indeed, the surrounding community. I always used to tell them that it was not enough merely to survive the event...we also have to survive the investigation (conspicuous and genuine due diligence)...but we all need occasional reminders. A colleague of mine who had arrived to assist once said to me, "How about you fly the plane, and I'll fiddle around with the little light?" (a lesson from your industry applied to mine)
Ryanair Pilot: Does a smooth landing.
OFDM: Level 3 Event detected.
Squawk 7500
Squawk 7700
@Irish sixty Six Fan He actually does work for Ryanair, lol.
@Irish sixty Six Fan Hahaha yes lol :D
@Irish sixty six Fan There is absolutely no issue with Ryanair. Aer Lingus have a sub par product, base fares at least 200% of Ryanair and are about 75% more likely to have a delay. The 320's they use are ancient. Nothing compared to the new Ryanair Boeing interiors
Thanks for your efforts and education ...It's good that the general public gets a chance to see this not only for pilots check and balance but also for the public knowledge that lets them know that there are efforts by the aviation industry to minimize and follow up with making things better all the time. Have a Great Summer!
I like this new approach to safety they're doing. Instead of waiting until something serious happens to change anything they're actively looking for even small problems, small small problems that could turn into big problems if left unchecked.
@Mentour Pilot You ask what we want to see in the videos? I'd like to know, how the pre-flight procedure exactly runs, before you go to the plane, I think you call it briefing. What exactly do you do there, to who you talk, from who you get what informations. How is this running between the Captain and the first officer and the rest of the crew... or / and...main rules at radio talk or better said: interesting stuff concerning radio talk to ATC
I had no idea a system like this was in place. But sounds like a great idea IMO. Helps to weed out any bad habits pilots might develop without realizing it and can deal with the very small group of pilots who knowingly cut corners or so unsafe stuff.
love the Sauron eye.
Enjoy your downtime and have a great summer. Thanks for the great videos.
Love it as always Peter, would love to see a vid of the radio stack, delving into vhf radios but more importantly the nav radios going into things like vors ndbs, the xpdr that sort of thing
Good to see more things about aircraft safety when it comes to monitoring what happens inside the cockpit.
I’ve learned so many things about planes and the aviation industry from you that make it easier to get on a plane. Thanks! Enjoy your summer!
Who would like a video in the sim about a rapid depressurization and emergency descent?
Coming up!
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@@MentourPilot I'm looking forward to that one, Mentour!
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I would totally love to see a rapid depressurization, it would be so cool and informative!
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Great information about something that few passengers know about.
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it!
Just when I think there is nothing undiscovered regarding commercial jets, you present something very few know! It's getting difficult to suggest a topic because I don't know what it is that I don't know! You know everything about the jets, thus you have a much better idea of what most people don't know. It's great learning all the systems behind the scenes! Great job as always Captain!!
Very informative!
Tolerance to extreme obedience is another element of the commercial pilot personality.
Takes the "I am God" away from an arrogant captain. Hoorah!
Indeed. It’s a truly great system. One of my favorites in fact.
Maybe the OFDM should be connected to a PIC shock collar. ;-)
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I didn’t know about this. So thank you. It was interesting and nice to know as a passenger. Good the mistakes doesn’t go straight to the top.
I love your channel, I love how it turned from the vlog type of channel into more like an informative one.
I’m Happy you like it my friend! See you in the all!
Brilliant video and content! As a humble enthusiast I have never heard about OFDM. Congrats!
As a safety manager in the roadway traffic control industry, we use a similar system to the OFDM in our trucks to do basically the same thing. I've heard many similar arguments that it's a spy tool, etc...but in reality having cameras monitoring greatly helps in making safer drivers, and I believe safer pilots too!
Just learnt something new @1AM. Never knew about the system. Thank you for the knowledge. Keep them coming
Similar technologies are being introduced in the trucking industry. A lot of drivers were unhappy, but... Safety has greatly improved.
Just when i thought i knew all systems on a plane i learn something new! Another thing to put my mind at rest, i used to have a fear of flying but through educational videos like this i've put my mind at rest and now love aviation.
I absolutely agree with you Captain entirely on the FDM and safety management systems but at crucial moments some tasks are not taken into consideration during the flight landing procedures and I agree that only the pilot in command has that review to report back but very rarely
Happy holidays Mentour!!! Have an absolutely fantastic time!!!
Amazing content as always Mentour, keep up the good work!
What a great example that Petter is always thinking about his supporters/fans providing whatever he can to help his viewers.😊
Great thing! Thanks! This one should be introduced in the cars. Cars are just 10 years behind the planes..
I believe it already exists for cars. In the UK, you can install
Something like this and reduce your insurance fees if you drive well,
@@MentourPilot Got you. Thanks!
"Cowboys". A thin line between get 'er done and recklessness.
Can become "get 'er there-itis" for sure!
Down here looking for all the radio/networking nerds who heard “OFDM” and thought, “Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing”, lol
Thanks for getting this system out of the closet and spinning the safety side of it. Not all pilots as happy as you when it rolled out. I like your two good examples, busting 250 under FL 100 and the good old hand flying fighter approach. I have been away from Part 121 for seven years, but still, stay in touch with guys I liked. It was designed to make flying safer by identifying pilots developing bad habits or possibly just bad apples. Good Video!
Thank you! I’m glad someone with your experience liked it. I hope to see you in the app, helping others, soon.
You know you have been listening to too much Mentour Pilot when you find yourself reaching for the checklist when you’re backing out of a mall parking lot into a busy stream of traffic
They tried to put rearward facing cameras in our ELDs (Electronic Log Device) in our trucks. But we all said we would quit if they forced us to use them. They are in the truck (video only) but we are currently allowed to block the camera without getting in trouble. So as of right now being watched while driving a truck is optional... as far as forward facing cameras go, absolutely! I want one of those in my personal vehicles as well!
As it turns out, yes, today I am doing absolutely fantastic. Thank you!
Excellent! That’s what I’m always hoping for! See you in the app!
Great explanation of OFDM, a system I wasn't aware of.
There are many underlying things we just learned. Most passengers just hop on the plane and go to sleep not knowing why they spent 300.00. To fly. Fuel food baggage handlers pay weight & balance loadmasters fuel calculations to correspond with trip distance. Bird strikes engine surges.They dont understand what goes into the prep of flight. Or care?you have made it obvious. Thanks for clarifying many issues and doubts pax had. Nobody tells us common knowledge like news..Ĺet us know more .
Good to hear. If you need to fly like a cowboy, get a single seater and do it by yourself and don't put others at risk from your mistakes
Do a ditching procedure video! (When the pilot needs to land on water)
I tough you mean "Ditching the pilot" video !
*plane
Thanks for the information, the way that first officer dog is resting on top of the wing
Had never heard about this system, thank you.
You are such a dedicated person. Respect to you and enjoy your holiday.
I find the Operational Flight Data Monitoring system very comforting. Thank you.
Great video as always Peter! It would be lovely to hear your story of how you became an airline pilot.
I will re-tell that story soon. I did it in the beginning of the channel life but I would do it better now
Had no idea this system existed. Very cool.
I am not even a pilot. I just fly from here to there sometimes. I love these videos it is fascinating to hear about the procedures and it make it a much better flight for me when something happens a go around or anything that has been covered by the videos. knowing about the spy it nice. I worked as a transit bus driver. our company put in cameras and started monitoring the drivers and want to write them up and us it to punish not train or educate. that did not work until the rule was finally changed no punishment can come from a video. the so called spy can be a good tool or a horrible Hamer. thanks for your video
Always so informative. Awesome material as usual.
Other industries could learn so much from aviation, imagine a version for cars, AI-powered and camera equipped, analyzing driver behavior including things like distance to cyclists while overtaking them ....
Good video, again! The only question I have about OFDM is why isn't it made mandatory already?
Thank you for these quality contents. Really enjoying to watch it. What I would like to see from you is a video about the pressurisation system. I watched a lot of videos about aviation but I haven't find a good video about this topic. Keep up the great work! Enjoy your well deserved rest! :)
This is very interesting, and reassuring. There must be an incredible amount of data generated. I wonder if it notices safety trends between different types of aircraft..
This is science and clear thinking put into practise. Very satisfying and reassuring.
Every time I watch a new video of yours I feel a bit safer 😁
Another informative video. Always amazed how much technology is used to ensure safety. Enjoy your vacation
Excelent. I never heard before about this. I love the format and content. Safe fligths to you
Another fascinating video, thank you. I hadn't heard of OFDM before but now I know it exists, I'm even more confident that I'm In very safe hands each time I get on a commercial airlines flight.
One thought that occurred to me as I watched : As a retiree from the technical education sector, and knowing how my union would have reacted if there had been a move to install a 'Classroom Spy' in our colleges, was there any opposition from the pilots union(s) when OFDM was proposed?
Enjoy your summer with your family and already I'm looking forward to September and seeing your gorgeous co-star again. Cheers from DownUnder.
PS - I love how your scatter cushion and your dustpan and broom are colour coordinated {:-)
I don’t think it was. Since the data is handled by an external company who only highlights safety issues, there was not much to complain about. It would be like taxi-drivers complaining about police on the roads.
Amazing video.
With this system Korean Air essentially stopped having accidents.
Before this the captain was god and criticizing the captain was career suicide.
was this system catching any of the mcas errors when a crash did not occur?
I remember back in the 90s Korean Air was scary. One of the only airlines I would have avoided at that time. Haven't heard of anything for a long time now though.
@@ewmegoolies By the sounds of it, yes. Or at least it has an idea of what's going on.
To quote first officer Spock: Fascinating, captain!
Really informative video - an added level of making me feel better as a passenger.
your videos are terrific. thanks so much for the time and effort you take to make them. i do not like flying, but your channel has certainly made me far more relaxed about it. i hope your airline and even airlines in general appreciate your efforts and help you out along the way. if not, they should. cheers
Thank you! Knowing that I’m helping people like you is reward enough to keep going!
Your ability to explain is quite excellent.
I was wondering if you could do a video/ simulator video on how to handle a compressor stall maybe during takeoff or cruise
Hi Peter,
I live in the Bay Area and close to SJC (San Jose, Int’t) Airport.
My question is this: Using Flightradar24, I notice that on takeoff a lot of planes do enormous circles before the eventually steer to their intended destinations.
For example, I notice (at night) that a flight bound for ATLanta will take off to the North, bend right until it is flying south again, then bend west, then north, and then finally eastward.
Is all of this due to crowded air spaces? Is the extra fuel used to go so far out of the way negligible? Is this solely to gain altitude in a safe way?
Thanks Peter. Enjoy ALL of your great videos.
Dan
Great video! I never knew there was such a system! Enjoy your vacation Time this summer! I’ll be doing the same as well as many more I’m sure!
As always, a very informative and honest presentation. Many thanks.
Thank you Andrew, for watching!
See you in the app!
Related to the topic of this video I would like to understand how do airlines proceed in case a pilot is consistently under performing (not necessarily linked to OFDM events), i.e., lateness, reporting fake illness to skip work, etc. Is it simply a case of firing the individual? I understand this will be a life changing event for the pilot who, I believe - please confirm - will not be hired by any other airline, knowing that he/she has been dismissed from another one. Can a captain be demoted to first-officer? Would he be offered another job in the company?
Have a great summer, Captain! And please, give your dog a snuggle or two for me.
I was wondering how safety could be garanteed when Pilots are able, at some points, to manipulate recording systems, turning them on or off, not or wrongly reporting events.
It's not a matter of security of passengers, they don't fly everday.
I have not taken an airplane since 2014, because of a RyanAir flight that made me fear for the security of my kids.
It's about a word I was missing in your excellent video : Confidence !
I was also shocked by the low wing wave of Cargoplane, that was pretty close to a stall.
As it happened, I read ftom official source, that a pilot trainer was part of the crew, and he had lost his job.
So this was a recorded event that did not amuse the auhorities...
When confidence is lost all over, passenger won't buy tickets, companies won't get funding, invest, grow, maintain, repair, respect rules.
They will be able to recruit less rational pilots with no fighting spirit, and much more retired hotheads from the the army.
And I know some of them, and would not follow them in any moving situation.
The whole aviation sector would follow the evolution of the Concorde.
I honestly wish every industry had this kind of technology. It is often extremely difficult to communicate to experienced "old hands" in any particular discipline, who've developed bad and risky habits over their decades of service simply because of the principle that familiarity breeds contempt. With the retirement age being nudged ever higher and higher, we find that the most senior positions of just about every organization are occupied by someone over the age of 60, an age at which the body begins to show signs of wear and tear which manifest in poor judgement, inflexible thinking, slowed reaction times and acute medical emergencies such as heart attacks and strokes. They really do need to be transitioned out of the workforce, and systems like this provide the necessary evidence and tools to do so.
Glad that your furry copilot is back. I hope Paxti is pilot monitoring not pilot flying!
He is ALWAYS monitoring... and snuggling
It's kind of like a "how's my driving" sticker on commercial trucks.
i like the phycological effect of this minor warning system, improved awareness and safety... i was driving for uber in the past and with the uber driver app it records events to do with the phones sensors like harsh braking and accelerating and cornering as well as if it thinks the phone wasnt in a phone holder... almost every warning was in error i believe and those that werent were caused by obeying the law or avoiding collisions with other motorists.. your never the only road user out there and it just assumes every harsh braking event would be drivers fault and i think that leads to false warnings.... sometimes traffic lights change and you must brake hard to avoid braking the law also... i wonder how many false warnings this system gives to pilots?
when you have fly with another person in the cockpit that was taking risks knowingly youd be ok to ask to not fly with them again right? or does continueing to hold the lisence and be employed considered enough that you should be forced to fly with them again... as a uber driver if you get multipul warnings of the same nature from different passengers you will end up being refered for additional training or be deactivated depenidng on how serious it is... youd atleast make note of it in a diary incase others complained about the person and you get asked if you had any problems with them?
To be fair using the phone sensors for this purpose is a bad idea the correct way to do this for a car at least any car made in the current century pretty much is connecting the telemetrics unit to the diagnostic port of the car as the computer in the car already has sensors that monitor such data though actually calibrated correctly taking into account their mounting position relative to the centre of mass of the vehicle etc this is what lower cost car insurance that is based on actual driving data is based on for example. Personally have thought for a while that cars should at least include some memory similar to the flight data recorder say recording around 5 minutes worth to an overwritable buffer that will be retained if the car ever experiences a sudden acceleration far in excess of what the vehicle controls could do (ie collision detected) would be useful when it comes to understanding more about the causes of accidents as there would be data available on the movements of involved vehicles in the minutes and in particular the fateful seconds before the event. It's not like the hardware isn't already there the only thing missing is a flash memory chip to store the data on all the sensors are there for other purposes anyway. I don't even understand why some people are so opposed to this sort of idea, it's actually a good thing for you if you are actually doing your best to drive safely since it's likely to vindicate you in the event of an accident.
It's not even like this data needs to be sent anywhere to be useful for this purpose just have it be stored internally so that it is only available in the event of an accident where investigators have a legitimate to seek permission to physically download the data from the onboard computer.
@@seraphina985 I agree it would be pretty helpful if it recorded even the very basic control inputs and what about speed sensor that are on each wheel for abs to prove if the car was skiddinf... For my tax purposes I wanted to download a log if the kilometres driven to claim off my tax but it doesn't even store that...
@@rroge5 Indeed I would also add to this data the input from the accelerometers that control the airbags etc, in a modern car there will already be at least two of these (longitudinal and lateral thus how the car knows whether to deploy the front or side airbags or both). This would also be handy to confirm something like an all wheel skid affecting both axles since you would still get a divergence between the angular acceleration of the wheels and the linear acceleration of the vehicle.
@@seraphina985 yes... It would have been helpful in my situation ages ago when police deemed a collision to be my fault after they couldn't find skid marks on the road and I believe the road was more slippery than it should have been....
@@rroge5 You know talking about how slippy it was makes me think of another good piece of data to record if the ABS system has a brake pressure sensor could record that. After all if you know the brake pressure and of course have access to the tyre etc should be possible to mathematically calculate the static friction between the tyre and the road at the moment it began to slide. Just subtract the braking force (derived from brake pressure) course would need to account for the rolling resistance of the tyre but you can get that by testing them assuming that at least one tyre survives without being punctured etc.
Sounds like the next step to putting robots on the flight deck
Ikr
Enjoy the time with your family.
My company has a similar system. It's all about safety
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.
Have a great summer 👍
This is one reason I did not learn to fly...I recognize I have "bold pilot syndrome" 🤔
Thank you!!! It's always been my dream to become a pilot, not necessarily a commercial pilot but I know for sure I want the PPL. Could you perhaps make a video going through what the process would look like and a rough estimation of costs?
Ha en trevlig semester och njut med familjen!
sam al - Do your research, there’s plenty of information and many different options out there to suit all budgets
Have a fantastic summer, Petter!
Hi Mentour very interesting video as usual! I was wondering if you could plan for one of your next simulator videos doing a circle to land procedure. How to used an ILS or RNAV approach initially and then how to circle, maintain lateral separation with the runway, the go around procedure in case of unstable approach, etc. There are many techniques out there but i really look forward on how you do it ;)
That’s when the fun carrier type landings went away
Mentour, can you do a video about Saint Martin and Skiathos plane spotting? Have you been there?
That would be a neat video, MENTOUR probably already did that video. If not, please share the low landings and short takeoffs.
You are like a super hero pilot protector of passagers
The system is like having an FAA flight examiner sitting behind you on every flight. You will be on your best behavior. Sure, you, as PIC can't do the fun stuff captains did 30 years ago, but it's a plus for the safety of the flight in general. Boring? Yes. Safer? Definitely.
Exactly and that’s what our customers are paying for!
I would love a series with step by step instructions for a flight that I can follow and do in a flight simulator at home. Maybe with several legs with different kinds of approach or other differences.
Nice to know that sistem exists. Question, can small aircrafts have it too? When they land on tough strips like St. Marteen, Lukla, will they have a lot of yellow and red alerts? Thanks.
Oh! Thanks for the mention. I do have an all seeing eye, but not the one you think!!
U evil.
I think this is my new favorite channel ✈️
DaveDott Me too
I'm conflicted. On the one hand I hate big brother type systems, but I don't want to end up in a smoking hole in the ground either. On balance I guess OFDS is a good thing.
Soon the pilots will by replaced by robots
Identifying problem policies AND problem people independent of internal corporate politics. Good idea.
Enjoy your well earned vacation with your family, look forward to all the new information coming my way here. Take care.
As a Union steward myself, National Postal Mail Handlers Union, I can say that too many people think it's impossible for management to fire employees. The truth is, of course, we always must fight disciplinary actions against member employees for legal and ethical reasons, but all we can do is enforce the contract and labor laws. If management follows the rules and does their job properly then they can make disciplinary actions stick. And, while I fully support protecting workers from abuses by management I also want to be as safe as possible as a person riding on an airplane.
Hi Mentour ...
what do you do in situations where the landing glideslope is more than 3.3 Degrees ... London City, when it first opened, was a stomach dropping 7.5 degrees which I see has been reduced to a 5.5 degree approach ... ?
Very nice video! Didn't know this system existed!
Hi mentour. I've never heard about the OFDB system. It's amazing!! I have some questions: is it mandatory to the airlanes ? OFDM works in cruising altitudes?? This is a very helpful tool for incidents/accidents analisys. Are the OFDM used for used for incidents/accidents???
Mandatory for all aircraft above 27000kg MTOW, at least in Europe. It works from the moment the batteries are switched on, throughout the whole flight, until shutdown. It's used mainly as a preventative tool, and sometimes for investigation of minor incidents. Accident investigations are carried out by the authorities, and they read out the flight data recorders themselves.