It's such a beautiful thing that it was the 747 that set the record. She's a glorious bird and still making sure everyone knows that she's still the queen of the skies. 2020 and she's still setting records.
Back in the late 60s, I was the programmer/analyst/systems engineer responsible for the maintenance/repair provisioning of DC8s & 9s (including the "Big Bunny" Stretch-9). I worked on Century Blvd, overlooking the LAX North Runway, which was the only runway reinforced and long enough for the new 747s to land. I spent many hours on our rooftop vantage point observing them "float" in - - compared to other jets, they appeared to be traveling in slow motion. The 747 remains my favorite plane (although I did enjoy the tailcone airstair available on the DC9).
That's because _LAX_ is right at sea level. You can also watch on _RUclips_ a 747 *fall out of the sky* on approach to a high-altitude airport in Afghanistan on a hot and humid day. It's all about air-density.
I was a f/f, paramedic at MIA in the early 80’s. We would get to the airport early and wait to be escorted in. I would love to watch a 747 “float” in that landed around the same time in the morning. I would always just say it looked so “graceful “.
My dad used to say: _A flight from the US to Europe goes faster since you go through the night. In the night everything is cooler. Thus the oceans shrink and the continents move closer to each other._ Of course my dad knew how it all really worked. But I always thought it was funny...
Another analogy would be like walking on the moving walkway at the airport. We walk the same speed as we usually do but go faster because the walkway is carrying us along as well.
Great point about either pilot being able to call a go-around. Came about from the Alitalia 404 crash after the FO initiated a go-around and the captain vetoed it.
Last week, I was a passenger on a plane on final approach to STL and we did a go around just before we reached the runway. It was an odd feeling initially as we were about to touch and suddenly the engines spun up and we started climbing like a takeoff. Once we were back up and re-entered the approach pattern, the captain got on and said there was an obstruction on the runway. And that was my first go around experience.
The difference between air speed and ground speed is similar to the difference between ground speed and galactic speed. If you stand still, your ground speed is 0, but your galactic speed is 67,000 mph (the speed the earth orbits the sun). (I just made up the term "galactic speed")
Excellent episode, as always, Sir. I don't fly much, but I did experience one "touch and go". We were landing at Harrisburg, PA. The plane (MD-80) barely touched the runway, then the pilots goosed it and we went for a go-around. Why? Deer on the runway. I loved it, but the look on my wife's face was priceless. ;-)
Mentour Pilot you are my favourite english aviation pilot. Period. In Portuguese its "Avioes e Musicas" p.s I'm not sponsored by that channell, just recommend it to anyone who speaks portuguese.
A few months ago I flew with Thai Airways from Bangkok to Sydney which I do fairly regularly. I noticed we tracked south rather more west than usual in fact passing just east of Jakarta. However when crossing into South Australia quite far west of Sydney we turned almost due east and the ground speed picked up to just over 1,200 km/h - of course we had been picked up by the jet stream - and we arrived in Sydney a little before schedule. Well done Thai Airways! Saved fuel by flying a longer over the ground distance but a shorter time in the air, burning less fuel. Nice piece of navigation.
As we recently learned from PIA, there's another situation when goaround isn't a particularly good idea: when you land and you notice that you actually landed gear-up.
I don't understand what the people that have disliked this video have to reproach to it. And I have the same question about all the videos of Mentour Pilot. This channel is so perfectly made.
A trip three years ago from New York to Stockholm in a Norwegian Dreamliner 787, the ground speed was around 1050 km/h for most of the trip. Yes we landed early. :)
Big Jet TV here in the UK was streaming live from LHR on Sunday, he got some fantastic shots of lots of go arounds. He even got a BA 777 doing a touch and go.
In december 1997 I flew in a DC-10 from Miami to Stockholm. During that flight the captain announced that we had strong tailwind. He told that it was the fastest he ever flown and the speed was 1235km/h. Not so much slower than this new record. I also recall that we arrived to Stockholm sooner than "normal" time.
I love the fact that it's a no blame scenario for a go around :) it takes the stress (of that aspect) out of the equation which brings a huge safety margin into play :):):)
Only been in a go around situation once. It was landing in a BA A321 at Heathrow in November 2016. We were about 30 foot from the floor when it was decided to abort the landing due to a TAP airlines aircraft not expediting their exit from the runway. It is on film somewhere with big jet TV!
With my car I usually drive around 100 km/h which uses around 1 liter per 17.5 kilometers. Driving 130 this swiftly goes to 1:10. This Monday the wind was still strong in Western Europe and I drove with tailwinds, normal gas pedal stance, around 120 km/h (20km above normal) and a consumption of 1:22. That was sooo cool, it felt like being pushed forward!
Although the airline will have this policy as it saves broken airplanes and dead PAX, some pilots consider themselves above such pesky things such as safety-first. I suggest it's a common trait that is seen more often in former military pilots who have converted to civilian jobs.
Agree. And often a timid first officer or the pilot observing cannot overrule the pilot. This is what happened to the Air India Express crash at IXE about 10 years ago. Sad.
@@kpn574 That's also what's theorized to have happened with the Korean Air 801 flight. Crew Resource Management is a thing now, especially in more "developed countries". Pilots have equal say at all times inflight. If that is broken then there's serious fines/consequences ready to be handed out.
@@krugerfuchsThey beat the sub-sonic transatlantic record with Storm Ciara and the Boeing 747. Of course, nothing can beat the almighty Concorde, however that belongs in the category of 'supersonic' records across the atlantic ocean.
A few years back, I was a fueler at the airport in my town. We only got 1 British Airways (BA) 747 flight in a day, so only had 3 of us trained on fueling them. We also used FlightAware24 to keep track of when they were going to land so one of us could be there to greet it. One day, on my day to fuel BA, I was heading out to another flight when I say BA's 747 land...3 hours early. Our poor dispatcher had to rush to find somebody to fuel the flight I was heading for, and to find me a truck to go fuel BA. On an unrelated note, I once watched a Condor/Thomas Cook 767 touch down 2/3rds of the way down the runway, and take right back off before the nose wheel even touched.
One thing that amazes me is when I'm watching a restoration of a world war 1 or 2 aircraft, the amount of detail and parts that went into them...they were built extremely well
Not sure if you read comments but I saw a video of a plane taking off of a dirt road. Thought I’d like to see a video on field, highway, or dirt landings.
I clicked like even before he said he hopes I am doing ABSOLUTELY fantastic. I experienced speed ups coming home from the US, always a fun thing to ride the stream and get home earlier.
@@米空軍パイロット yep. Air speed was the same but groundspeed was a lot more higher. Tailwinds make the aircraft aerodynamically slower but can push the groundspeed higher in an aircraft. I'm assuming that you might not have fully known this but at the same time, you may have already known this fact :)
@@TheAviationChannel Nah. I'm an aeronautical engineer and an Air Force pilot, so I got the concept. It's the comparison to a Scifi warp bubble that was new to me. Good explanation, though. You're spot on.
This happened to me once. We flew from Brno (BRQ) to Palma de Mallorca (PMI) via Prague (PRG). We arrived at Prague about half an hour late, but then we've managed to catch up so much, we've arrived hour early. There was no ground crew to greet us (because both airline and travel agency folded), I was too young to speak any English at the time, the only person, who spoke any foreign language refused to speak at all. Fortunately, we've managed to get in to a taxi with some Germans, who went to the same town we were supposed to go to and, luck would have it, our hotel wasn't far from theirs. Only the next day, our guide, who was supposed to meet us upon landing, showed up, saying, it never ever happened in twenty years of his experience, for a plane to arrive an hour early. It was adventureous night...
It was broken again by an aer lingus A321 that crossed the Atlantic from Boston to Dublin in 4 hours 48 minutes. Chicago to Dublin also saw its fastest subsonic flight over the Atlantic in 6 hours 22 minutes by another Aer Lingus aircraft
Yes. After Awhile, you could tell how good a Pilot was. Plane coming in really sideways. Big Jet saying uh oh, & the Pilot drops it in nice & easy. Those British Airways Pilots seemed to really have a handle on how to get it in there. AMAZING!!!! Nerves of Steel!!!! One of the best videos ever!!!! I like the last second Go Around the Best!!!! I’m Not going to make it . Go Round!!!! Thnx, Commander! Patxi! CJ
I remember taking a flight that was non-stop going from New York to Italy, with a quick stop at Shannon during the return flight. There’s always Gander in a pinch.
Nice touch putting your info videos over your monitor - might be worth tilting it towards the camera so it matches the video's shape better, but it's fine the way it is too. As always, thank you for thesis fantastic videos. Of all the aviation videos I watch, yours are my favorite. You have a great teaching and explaining style. Not everyone does!
Hello Commander! Yes. Maybe you were listening. “Big Jet Tv”!!!! 6 hrs of planes coming in Sideways, Big Storm Ciara. Lots of Go Rounds!!!! My New Favorite Channel broadcasting from Heathrow!!! Big Thnx To Blancolirio for his Great Show Sunday Morning. So Cool to Listen to a Great Pilot get so excited about watching Pilots overcome difficult conditions to get the plane down. Awesome!!!! Patxi! CJ
I have flown two superquick flights West to East - one from Montreal to Heathrow and another time Boston to Heathrow. No time to eat breakfast!! Both were extremely smooth flights.
A couple of times we landed at SFO 40mins early but both times were late at the gate. One time as late as 30 mins because the flight at the designated gate had a delay. So in spite of being 40 mins early, we were 70min late and several people missed their flights. The mess in commercial aviation is almost always on the ground and only very seldom in the air.
Back in the 90s at the time of the first gulf war I was flying from London Heathrow to Sydney Australia we were held up for 5 hours in Heathrow then redirected further east to avoid the Gulf due to tail winds over Europe we arrived in Sydney on time we were flying in a Qantas 747
@@poruatokin unfortunately English is not the first language in my country so they said I should speak in that language. Later we talked about an approaching the ground so I mentioned "vertical speed" but again they made fun:( thank you anyway:)
The twitter posts from pilots thanked their planning departments for the optimum routes in the record. An Airbus A330 I believe also nearly set the record. Missed it by 1 minute.
I was on a cathay pacific flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong in a 747-400 and we had such a bad headwind we had to stop in Taiwan to refuel. There were several other planes with passengers refuling with us out on the tarmac away from the gates, so this jet stream must have been covering a large area. Note that the pilot did advise we had enough fuel to make it to Hong Kong but not enough to hold in a pattern if there was traffic, so he played it safe and took on more fuel before proceeding to HK as it seems many others did as well.
When I was based in Dubai doing a flight to Casablanca, we flew up over Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Italy and southern Spain and it took almost 11 hours (as opposed to 8h30m) due to the jetstream. The return leg the day after only took under 6 hours.
One day, flying SFO-LHR, the bean counters in planning ops decided our optimal route would be super way south; we flew over St. Louis before heading to the northeast. Which is fine, except it was ridiculously turbulent for hours on end. It was very uncomfortable for all on board. But the planners were safe back at home feeling no pain
In 1974 a 747 started from Paris to Boston. At the same time a Concorde started from Boston to Paris. The Concorde landed in Paris, waited for more than a hour (took fuel etc.) and took off again to Boston. The Concorde landed in Boston before the 747 landed in Paris :D Absolutely ridiculous. The Concorde doesnt give a shit about jet streams
Concorde doesn’t do any of the above. Air France pilot hit Delta FOD and Air France mechanic missed a spacer so the aircraft was off the centreline. Besides, BA hold all the speedbird records!
I've been flighting between NYC and Portugal since I was 6 months old and I'm 41 now, and we had to stop on 2 different occasions to refuel due to headwinds going back to the NYC, once in Gander Canada, and the second time in Bangor Maine. So running out of fuel certainly does happen but it's not dangerous. Side note when refueling they would take the passengers out of the plane and lock them in a room until the plane was ready.
I like your boat & current analogy. I was already thinking along the lines of those moving walkways at airports. In reality I'm a walking. But its like 10mph.
It was cool seeing you in the plane savers chat, you deffinitly should get over there! I'm sure Joe would be happy to have you in the FO's seat of a DC3.
It's been awhile. Back in the 70's I worked the radar sites in southern Greenland. But I remember we would see the flights from Europe passing right over us on their way to North American, usually NY. But I don't remember any flights going east. So I would assume that the fights going west would be too far north for the jet stream, that is if the easterly flights are in the jet stream.
I flew Austrian Airlines flight 66 to VIE this past Saturday/Sunday on a 767-300 and arrived at Schwechat airport an hour ahead of schedule... smooth landing on VIE runway 16.
Hey Mentour. I am 99.9% sure that I recognized your captian voice this morning when I took a flight from the costa brava to the Netherlands (13-2-2020). Can you maybe confirm that it was you flying me over the pyrenees? After listening to a lot of your video's I thought that was pretty funny and also not a very likely thing to happen. Keep up the good work. :-)
Proper question: I am a very infrequent flyer, how can I stop getting terrible sinus & ear ache pains on going up & especially (100 times worse) on landing. Thanks Mentour.
It's such a beautiful thing that it was the 747 that set the record. She's a glorious bird and still making sure everyone knows that she's still the queen of the skies. 2020 and she's still setting records.
Corey Neal best comment so far...
Amazing machine
I agree 100 percent @ the 747 is truly a grand aircraft I just hope I get to fly in one before they go extinct for those stupid Airbus things
Has nothing to do with the aircraft,
An A350 already broke the record yesterday.
Back in the late 60s, I was the programmer/analyst/systems engineer responsible for the maintenance/repair provisioning of DC8s & 9s (including the "Big Bunny" Stretch-9). I worked on Century Blvd, overlooking the LAX North Runway, which was the only runway reinforced and long enough for the new 747s to land. I spent many hours on our rooftop vantage point observing them "float" in - - compared to other jets, they appeared to be traveling in slow motion. The 747 remains my favorite plane (although I did enjoy the tailcone airstair available on the DC9).
Yeah, it's amazing how with just the right conditions they can seem to be just hanging up there in the air.
That’s so cool @Carol, have you ever written about your experiences?
That's because _LAX_ is right at sea level. You can also watch on _RUclips_ a 747 *fall out of the sky* on approach to a high-altitude airport in Afghanistan on a hot and humid day. It's all about air-density.
@Carol Williams That was an amazing time to be working around LAX before much of the aerospace manufacturing (and Nash) went away.
I was a f/f, paramedic at MIA in the early 80’s. We would get to the airport early and wait to be escorted in. I would love to watch a 747 “float” in that landed around the same time in the morning. I would always just say it looked so “graceful “.
My dad used to say:
_A flight from the US to Europe goes faster since you go through the night. In the night everything is cooler. Thus the oceans shrink and the continents move closer to each other._
Of course my dad knew how it all really worked. But I always thought it was funny...
Lol I had a dad that told spoof stories like that, just for fun.
Well Hawaii is moving closer to Japan...
@@jaybee2344 Yup! Someday, if I wait long enough, I can just hop across in a Cessna in 15 minutes!
How is Hobbes doing?
Jason Buis I had no idea that was happening! Pretty stealthy way to start a secessionist movement I’d say.
Another analogy would be like walking on the moving walkway at the airport. We walk the same speed as we usually do but go faster because the walkway is carrying us along as well.
Yes. Very similar!
Great point about either pilot being able to call a go-around. Came about from the Alitalia 404 crash after the FO initiated a go-around and the captain vetoed it.
Last week, I was a passenger on a plane on final approach to STL and we did a go around just before we reached the runway. It was an odd feeling initially as we were about to touch and suddenly the engines spun up and we started climbing like a takeoff. Once we were back up and re-entered the approach pattern, the captain got on and said there was an obstruction on the runway. And that was my first go around experience.
The difference between air speed and ground speed is similar to the difference between ground speed and galactic speed. If you stand still, your ground speed is 0, but your galactic speed is 67,000 mph (the speed the earth orbits the sun).
(I just made up the term "galactic speed")
Brings new meaning to their callsign - "speedbird"...
So basically flying in a jet stream is like jogging on the moving walkway (woot I’m a speed runner as long as I don’t trip getting off.)
Yes, as a lifelong mountain trail runner, I laugh when people tell me about their thread mill running.
As long as the moving walkway is moving in the same direction as what you're jogging!
@@01thomasss Genius!
Excellent analogy Wendy...:)
Exactly . . That's the anology i've giving friends when arriving early, or nearly 3hrs longer going the other way . . . Nooooooooo.
Captain: I feel the need...
Capt and FO: THE NEED FOR SPEED!
And their callsign is "Speedbird" after all.
That opening chair spin to face the camera was pretty epic 😍
Concorde's fastest Transatlantic Crossing was on 7 February 1996 when it completed the New York to London flight in 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds!
So why is 4 hrs a record?
@@alanv7464 because the concorde was designed to be supersonic while the 747 is not. it's like formula 1 vs formula 3 speed records.
It sounded like they were saying overall...not "for airliners that cruise at Mach 0.8 something." But I like F3 too...lol
Excellent episode, as always, Sir. I don't fly much, but I did experience one "touch and go". We were landing at Harrisburg, PA. The plane (MD-80) barely touched the runway, then the pilots goosed it and we went for a go-around. Why? Deer on the runway. I loved it, but the look on my wife's face was priceless. ;-)
Mentour Pilot you are my favourite english aviation pilot. Period. In Portuguese its "Avioes e Musicas" p.s I'm not sponsored by that channell, just recommend it to anyone who speaks portuguese.
A few months ago I flew with Thai Airways from Bangkok to Sydney which I do fairly regularly. I noticed we tracked south rather more west than usual in fact passing just east of Jakarta. However when crossing into South Australia quite far west of Sydney we turned almost due east and the ground speed picked up to just over 1,200 km/h - of course we had been picked up by the jet stream - and we arrived in Sydney a little before schedule. Well done Thai Airways! Saved fuel by flying a longer over the ground distance but a shorter time in the air, burning less fuel. Nice piece of navigation.
Flying once from LAX to NRT on NWA. Had to stop in Sapporo to refuel. Winter time.
As we recently learned from PIA, there's another situation when goaround isn't a particularly good idea: when you land and you notice that you actually landed gear-up.
I don't understand what the people that have disliked this video have to reproach to it. And I have the same question about all the videos of Mentour Pilot. This channel is so perfectly made.
A trip three years ago from New York to Stockholm in a Norwegian Dreamliner 787, the ground speed was around 1050 km/h for most of the trip. Yes we landed early. :)
I can hear it already. "I did the Kessel run in 4 hours 56 minutes. She's plenty fast for you, kid"
Big Jet TV here in the UK was streaming live from LHR on Sunday, he got some fantastic shots of lots of go arounds. He even got a BA 777 doing a touch and go.
When life gives you storms,ride the tailwind....
Great advice!!!
You rock Petter! Watching you is fun and makes you learn. Plus it's helping me with my fear of flying! Thank you !!
In december 1997 I flew in a DC-10 from Miami to Stockholm. During that flight the captain announced that we had strong tailwind. He told that it was the fastest he ever flown and the speed was 1235km/h. Not so much slower than this new record. I also recall that we arrived to Stockholm sooner than "normal" time.
Wow that cargo door is tough
@@shapman280 Yes. It was upgraded.
Georgejr Pangan it might be a DC10-30 or DC10-40 but *OK*
I love the fact that it's a no blame scenario for a go around :) it takes the stress (of that aspect) out of the equation which brings a huge safety margin into play :):):)
Only been in a go around situation once. It was landing in a BA A321 at Heathrow in November 2016. We were about 30 foot from the floor when it was decided to abort the landing due to a TAP airlines aircraft not expediting their exit from the runway. It is on film somewhere with big jet TV!
Imagine the fuel savings
"IF" they recuded the power output to match the "normal air" speed...
The boat explanation actually helped me a lot.
@@snypa-ck7hn true but they safe fuel due to time saving
@@Marco-wz3ff exactly. Four thirsty engines for two hours. Wow.
With my car I usually drive around 100 km/h which uses around 1 liter per 17.5 kilometers. Driving 130 this swiftly goes to 1:10.
This Monday the wind was still strong in Western Europe and I drove with tailwinds, normal gas pedal stance, around 120 km/h (20km above normal) and a consumption of 1:22. That was sooo cool, it felt like being pushed forward!
What you gain the swings you loose on the roundabouts: there is always the return flight to consider.
I once flew from LA to Newark NJ in 4 hours and 35 minutes with a jet stream behind pushing us!!
No blame policy for go around: It seems that Pegasus Airways in Turkey might have a different policy.
Although the airline will have this policy as it saves broken airplanes and dead PAX, some pilots consider themselves above such pesky things such as safety-first. I suggest it's a common trait that is seen more often in former military pilots who have converted to civilian jobs.
Agree. And often a timid first officer or the pilot observing cannot overrule the pilot. This is what happened to the Air India Express crash at IXE about 10 years ago. Sad.
@@kpn574 That's why CRM is a thing.
@@kpn574 That's also what's theorized to have happened with the Korean Air 801 flight. Crew Resource Management is a thing now, especially in more "developed countries". Pilots have equal say at all times inflight. If that is broken then there's serious fines/consequences ready to be handed out.
Lmao
Another superbly informative video. Many thanks .
*Although the British Airways Concorde has been retired since 2003, they're still breaking speed records in 2020*
How
@@krugerfuchs they're as in I guess anyone is still breaking records. Not the Concord. Its phrased oddly.
@@krugerfuchsThey beat the sub-sonic transatlantic record with Storm Ciara and the Boeing 747. Of course, nothing can beat the almighty Concorde, however that belongs in the category of 'supersonic' records across the atlantic ocean.
Their callsign is Speedbird after all.
@@woolooloo that is very true
A few years back, I was a fueler at the airport in my town. We only got 1 British Airways (BA) 747 flight in a day, so only had 3 of us trained on fueling them. We also used FlightAware24 to keep track of when they were going to land so one of us could be there to greet it. One day, on my day to fuel BA, I was heading out to another flight when I say BA's 747 land...3 hours early. Our poor dispatcher had to rush to find somebody to fuel the flight I was heading for, and to find me a truck to go fuel BA. On an unrelated note, I once watched a Condor/Thomas Cook 767 touch down 2/3rds of the way down the runway, and take right back off before the nose wheel even touched.
In 1995 I was flying from PHL to LHR on a BA 767-300ER, we left 1:45 late and up at LHR 15 early, truly amazing.
One thing that amazes me is when I'm watching a restoration of a world war 1 or 2 aircraft, the amount of detail and parts that went into them...they were built extremely well
Not sure if you read comments but I saw a video of a plane taking off of a dirt road. Thought I’d like to see a video on field, highway, or dirt landings.
The jet stream West To East can get above 120+mph / 200km/h - we did Toronto to Glasgow 5.30h. This speed record does not surprise me.
so this is why it takes 6.5 hours to go from Boston to LA but only 4.5 hours to come back
Thanks for that. Always very informative 🇬🇧
I love these videos! They actually inspired me to make my own channel :D Thanks a lot!
Glad to hear that!! Best of luck!
I watch u all the time ur the best
This is a good way to promote your new channel. I subbed you and will join the ride! Cheers and all the best.
Subscribed!
Love the new "call signal" subscribe graphic.
I clicked like even before he said he hopes I am doing ABSOLUTELY fantastic.
I experienced speed ups coming home from the US, always a fun thing to ride the stream and get home earlier.
Lol I love that into how you turned around like, Oh hey 👋
Wonderful video as always! Thanks Petter.
Glad you liked it my friend!
"The airplan isn´t moving faster than normal... but the air arround the airplane is moving!" ... so technicaly they are at Warp? ^^
Lol. Never thought of it like that
@@米空軍パイロット yep. Air speed was the same but groundspeed was a lot more higher. Tailwinds make the aircraft aerodynamically slower but can push the groundspeed higher in an aircraft. I'm assuming that you might not have fully known this but at the same time, you may have already known this fact :)
@@TheAviationChannel Nah. I'm an aeronautical engineer and an Air Force pilot, so I got the concept. It's the comparison to a Scifi warp bubble that was new to me. Good explanation, though. You're spot on.
great analogy
if only space had the equivilant of jet strems.The nearest thing i can think of are solar winds.
This happened to me once. We flew from Brno (BRQ) to Palma de Mallorca (PMI) via Prague (PRG). We arrived at Prague about half an hour late, but then we've managed to catch up so much, we've arrived hour early. There was no ground crew to greet us (because both airline and travel agency folded), I was too young to speak any English at the time, the only person, who spoke any foreign language refused to speak at all. Fortunately, we've managed to get in to a taxi with some Germans, who went to the same town we were supposed to go to and, luck would have it, our hotel wasn't far from theirs. Only the next day, our guide, who was supposed to meet us upon landing, showed up, saying, it never ever happened in twenty years of his experience, for a plane to arrive an hour early. It was adventureous night...
It was broken again by an aer lingus A321 that crossed the Atlantic from Boston to Dublin in 4 hours 48 minutes. Chicago to Dublin also saw its fastest subsonic flight over the Atlantic in 6 hours 22 minutes by another Aer Lingus aircraft
Yes. After Awhile, you could tell how good a Pilot was. Plane coming in really sideways. Big Jet saying uh oh, & the Pilot drops it in nice & easy. Those British Airways Pilots seemed to really have a handle on how to get it in there. AMAZING!!!! Nerves of Steel!!!! One of the best videos ever!!!! I like the last second Go Around the Best!!!! I’m Not going to make it . Go Round!!!! Thnx, Commander! Patxi! CJ
Hi mentor, great videos. Always looking forward to seeing new videos. I Hope I can become a successful pilot like you soon. Keep Up The Good Work!
Great Video
I remember taking a flight that was non-stop going from New York to Italy, with a quick stop at Shannon during the return flight. There’s always Gander in a pinch.
You know I'm a lawyer and not even dreaming of anything relating to aviation but i enjoy this channel and watches every single video
Ronny Mashaba Aviation Law is a specialism 😀
Always informative and entertaining. Thank you!
Nice touch putting your info videos over your monitor - might be worth tilting it towards the camera so it matches the video's shape better, but it's fine the way it is too. As always, thank you for thesis fantastic videos. Of all the aviation videos I watch, yours are my favorite. You have a great teaching and explaining style. Not everyone does!
I always wondered why it took 14 hours to get to Sydney from L.A. and then only 12.5 hours on the way back.
Fascinating stuff.
It was cariolis effect
I fly from Vancouver to Chiang Mai via Taipei every year. It's 12.45 westbound, 10.30 eastbound.
Awesome topic. I was waiting for you to explain it to us here! Thank you!
Mentour: Everything in aviation is about safety.
*Boeing left the chat*
Christian Kansichi LMAOOOOOO
Christian Kansichi It's one thing breaking a flight record and quite another making sure your company doesn't produce shoddy work, like the 737 MAX!
Hello Commander! Yes. Maybe you were listening. “Big Jet Tv”!!!! 6 hrs of planes coming in Sideways, Big Storm Ciara. Lots of Go Rounds!!!! My New Favorite Channel broadcasting from Heathrow!!! Big Thnx To Blancolirio for his Great Show Sunday Morning. So Cool to Listen to a Great Pilot get so excited about watching Pilots overcome difficult conditions to get the plane down. Awesome!!!! Patxi! CJ
Nice monitor trick
thanks for making this video ;D
I have flown two superquick flights West to East - one from Montreal to Heathrow and another time Boston to Heathrow. No time to eat breakfast!! Both were extremely smooth flights.
Marvelous video captain, thank you for answering my question on your previous video, keep up the good work Sir :)
4 hrs across the atlantic followed by the mandatorious 3 - 5 holding patterns over BIG in London airpace I reckon...
Some planes, did one landing attempt then diverted to Munich, Frankfurt or even Barcelona which is about 2 hours away
Thank you for another fantastic video. I’ve missed the dogs though.
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Thank you Peter!! Your videos are absolutely fantastic!
A couple of times we landed at SFO 40mins early but both times were late at the gate. One time as late as 30 mins because the flight at the designated gate had a delay. So in spite of being 40 mins early, we were 70min late and several people missed their flights. The mess in commercial aviation is almost always on the ground and only very seldom in the air.
Back in the 90s at the time of the first gulf war I was flying from London Heathrow to Sydney Australia we were held up for 5 hours in Heathrow then redirected further east to avoid the Gulf due to tail winds over Europe we arrived in Sydney on time we were flying in a Qantas 747
we talked about that in physics today but they made fun of me saing "groundspeed" and "airspeed"
So you can go back to them and call them idiots.
Haha! Like it☺️
I suppose they would laugh their asses of at heading and direction.
@@poruatokin unfortunately English is not the first language in my country so they said I should speak in that language.
Later we talked about an approaching the ground so I mentioned "vertical speed" but again they made fun:(
thank you anyway:)
@@u2mister17 yes they do
The twitter posts from pilots thanked their planning departments for the optimum routes in the record. An Airbus A330 I believe also nearly set the record. Missed it by 1 minute.
I was on a cathay pacific flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong in a 747-400 and we had such a bad headwind we had to stop in Taiwan to refuel. There were several other planes with passengers refuling with us out on the tarmac away from the gates, so this jet stream must have been covering a large area. Note that the pilot did advise we had enough fuel to make it to Hong Kong but not enough to hold in a pattern if there was traffic, so he played it safe and took on more fuel before proceeding to HK as it seems many others did as well.
Thank you very much for your content. Awesome 👍👍👍
Many thanks for all these fantastic videos. You are doing a fab job. Best wishes.
An excellent explanation , and very clear. Thank you for posting !
OH HEY, I JUST REALISED MY TWEET IS THERE ON YOUR VIDEO!!! :D thanks!
When I was based in Dubai doing a flight to Casablanca, we flew up over Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Italy and southern Spain and it took almost 11 hours (as opposed to 8h30m) due to the jetstream. The return leg the day after only took under 6 hours.
Imagine the pride of the captain when they said: "Speedbird XXXX requesting ILS approach into Heathrow"...really earning the callsign!
One day, flying SFO-LHR, the bean counters in planning ops decided our optimal route would be super way south; we flew over St. Louis before heading to the northeast. Which is fine, except it was ridiculously turbulent for hours on end. It was very uncomfortable for all on board. But the planners were safe back at home feeling no pain
In 1974 a 747 started from Paris to Boston. At the same time a Concorde started from Boston to Paris.
The Concorde landed in Paris, waited for more than a hour (took fuel etc.) and took off again to Boston.
The Concorde landed in Boston before the 747 landed in Paris :D
Absolutely ridiculous.
The Concorde doesnt give a shit about jet streams
Concorde doesn’t do any of the above. Air France pilot hit Delta FOD and Air France mechanic missed a spacer so the aircraft was off the centreline. Besides, BA hold all the speedbird records!
I've been flighting between NYC and Portugal since I was 6 months old and I'm 41 now, and we had to stop on 2 different occasions to refuel due to headwinds going back to the NYC, once in Gander Canada, and the second time in Bangor Maine. So running out of fuel certainly does happen but it's not dangerous. Side note when refueling they would take the passengers out of the plane and lock them in a room until the plane was ready.
5:18 slight correction. A B747 usually cruises at 0.84M to 0.86M. My dad RIP was a Captain on the B747-200 in the 70s.
I remember practicing MCA's in a 152 into a 35 kt headwind and having virtually zero GS. You are basically hovering in an airplane. Lot's of fun!
Very informative material. Thank you
As always brilliant mentor pilot.
Great video, and the Victoria's Secret wallpaper in your office is a really nice touch.
Fascinating video as always mate .
Great explanation (as always).
Love your new "subscribe" animation. Very creative 👍
I like your boat & current analogy. I was already thinking along the lines of those moving walkways at airports. In reality I'm a walking. But its like 10mph.
It was cool seeing you in the plane savers chat, you deffinitly should get over there!
I'm sure Joe would be happy to have you in the FO's seat of a DC3.
feel safer flying after watching your vids
wait, what? a 747 crossed the atlantic in less than 5 hours? how is that possible? they must have had ONE HELL of a tailwind.
😢 Mentor Pilot you are so nice, so sensitive. Salute to you 🙏
It's been awhile. Back in the 70's I worked the radar sites in southern Greenland. But I remember we would see the flights from Europe passing right over us on their way to North American, usually NY. But I don't remember any flights going east. So I would assume that the fights going west would be too far north for the jet stream, that is if the easterly flights are in the jet stream.
Thanks for very interesting video! 🤩
I flew Austrian Airlines flight 66 to VIE this past Saturday/Sunday on a 767-300 and arrived at Schwechat airport an hour ahead of schedule... smooth landing on VIE runway 16.
This is an incredible video, great insights, thanks Captain 👌🙂👍
Good video!
Hey Mentour. I am 99.9% sure that I recognized your captian voice this morning when I took a flight from the costa brava to the Netherlands (13-2-2020). Can you maybe confirm that it was you flying me over the pyrenees? After listening to a lot of your video's I thought that was pretty funny and also not a very likely thing to happen. Keep up the good work. :-)
Proper question: I am a very infrequent flyer, how can I stop getting terrible sinus & ear ache pains on going up & especially (100 times worse) on landing. Thanks Mentour.
When you feel the build up, put your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Hold your nose and and gently try and blow through it until you feel a pop. .
Fascinating and appropriate that 'The Queen' gets this record.