Flying IMUA ONE inter island!
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Flying Imua One out in the inter island was a blast. I had been wanting to fly this airplane for awhile. It has such a cool story. Come fly along with us on Imua One!
Hope you all enjoy it. Cheers!
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0:00 Introduction
0:35 Getting The Clearance
2:41 Lets get going
3:30 Flying Imua One
11:00 To the hotel
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I love how your airlines Hawaiian themed livery honors the Hawaiian heritage.
He flies Southwest! Imua one is a Southwest Airlines 737-8MAX LIVERY!
@dfwplanespotters_yt I know that I was being cautious about revealing the airline.
@@brianmcneil1194 oh ok lol spoiled it
You can always tell who the PHX boys are when they start to say V16 rather than V15 😊 The short flights remind me of doing PHX/TUS turns, which were also just over 20 minutes. Even more challenging with a new F/O 😅
I admittedly haven't been watching in a while, but good to see Ern in the left seat. Congrats!!
Imua One is such a beautiful plane…Hope to see it up close one day.
How awesome! Luv that SWA has some special aircraft in the fleet. And impressed how quickly Captain Ernie has been able to win some Hawaii routes on the schedule! 🎉
Love the Hawaiian Village, spent a TDY for RIMPAC there last year and had a blast getting to meet the SWA crews as they came through
That's so cool you got to Captain that aircraft. It was on international news when they dedicated the plane in Hawaii. I am in Canada 🇨🇦
This is flippin awesome!!!!!
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@FlyingwithBigErn question for you. My buddy at AA wants to know how you got covered parking? You do self or is it upgraded employee parking? He doesn't want to ruin his car paint.
I have a few friends who became SW FOs recently and my flight school owner is a captain. Just reached 800 hours and would love to fly 737s all day. Would be awesome to fly with you lol. Love the videos!
Yeah, WN seems to be basically on par with the legacies these days. It’s definitely a destination. I’d love to work there someday, although I’m a few hundred hours behind you.
Hahahaha!!! You made me laugh flying the "Imua One"! It looks very cute and doing island hopping is nice.🙂
You did those island-hopping turns, and you are right to get to the hotel crash! I hope you got a lot of rest on this trip there and I agree with you also about flying into Hawaii, that it is beautiful. And the walks over to Waikiki Beach continue to be gorgeous as well. For me, of the Hawaiian trips from my former airline, I have only done the one stop inland hopping on flights from Kona to Maui then home to Chicago with the 777s.
Content is superb! Mr. Ern, you are terrific ambassador for your carrier.. My family is flying SW several times in the month of Oct.
Nice to know they warm up the engines on the max. It’s always in the back of my mind when they taxi w one engine start the other and apply takeoff power shortly after.
I fly Southwest out of Phoenix all the time. Hope to have you captain one of my flights!!
Nice vid! If you ever get the chance to fly with Almost Captain Morgan, that would be awesome.
Theres a great video on the painting process of IMUA ONE and the meaning of the different symbols around the aircraft. Next is the heritage Gold HK Max that just entered service a few months ago.
He's already flown on N871HK which entered service of November last year.
Thank you for sharing Ern, really appreciate it and looking forward to other videos to come.
I think you should consider going back to the iPhone camera for the majority of the video. The new camera seems like an excellent choice as a flex when shooting plane exteriors or other cool subjects but IMO the iPhone's ability to wrangle nearly anything into something decent (and the audience's universal acceptance of that look, particularly in vlogs) was by and large giving you better results and you're now running into noticeable issues with focus and lighting that weren't issues with the iPhone.
Also regardless of camera 30+fps would probably yield benefits as well. You used to use 60 a lot and it looked great.
26 minutes of flight time! Those are some short legs! I’d love to see a minute by minute breakdown of how you and the FO manage your time to stay ahead of the airplane
I proposed to my wife on the balcony of the Kalia Tower at the HHV at sunset! 🌇🙏🇹🇭
As usual Big Ern always look forward to your flights. Some people are probably jealous of your flights even though exhausted just on short flights, before departure you turn around & landing on long flights there’s sometime to relax. I am sure your wife is jealous Hawaii & nice hotels.
That livery is a beautiful livery! Huge fan!
Fantastic as always.....love the MAX!
Big Ern!!! Always great to see you.
you know its a good day win bigern post.
I had no clue they would use a max for a 20 minute flight lol they must be filling the seats up like crazy
Hey Ern....love your videos, wish they let you video the in flight but I get it........Those quick turn arounds make for a long day, even worse than a long haul. Thank you for the videos. You are great guy....love that you are a fellow Arizonian ..... great job!
That's a lot of work packed into a short amount of time. I can imagine you slept very well that night! Really enjoy the Hawaii content.
He's back...and flying one fine bird the "Imu One."
I love your vids Ern, thank you for posting and making me excited to be an airline pilot one day. Btw Lihue is pronounced Lee-Who-Aye
Awesome video as always! livin the dream!
I like those special liveries!👍
It's great to see the cock pit view side of things from a pilots perspective
Literally the best job in the world, thanks for another top vlog Ern! 😊
So cool!!
Yep!!
Great flying with you, Ern!
When I saw photo's during the unveil, I thought it looked great then. The amount of flake in the paint is jaw dropping
Another Great upload Ernie, 5 legs in 1 day, you make it look easy, but you operate professionally. Have a great week.
BigErn... your good people sir!!!
Kauai is a quiet island with some great restaurants. I had a great massage at the Marriott.
Love the livery on the plane . I also love the shorts flights between the islands .
Sure wish we could see your actual flying time sir! Would love to see your takeoff and landings . Imua One! What a beauty! Let us know when you can fly Colorado One OR FREEDOM ONE! Cap'n Jack KE0VH
Happy 1st Anniversary since your Captains promotion Ern🎉
Just started my PPL training thanks in part to you and your videos :). Hope to be in the right seat with you one day!!
Great video Big Ern. A day in the life of a crew dog 🤩 Awesome crew rest hotel 🥰
Beautiful Livery. SWA has the best Liveries. Huge fan of all of them. Enjoy once again Captain.
Fly to Vancouver sometime !! Love the content Ernie
The seats on the max 8 are actually 17.8 inches wide so larger than then the 737 800 which are 17.
Reminds me of the PSA days with 20-30 minute turns and 3-5 leg days.
Thank for another awesome video captain Ern! Just watching after flying 4 hours of GA, working on my instrument rating. Very tired too just like you.
5 sectors! Nasty! You are doing parabolic curves everywhere! At least you are doing 5 sectors somewhere nice!
Awsome video once again!!
Fantastic video, from a long time subscriber
Kick those tires and light those fires brother🛫
Inter Island* love your stuff :)
what’s up bro! Thank you for the great work! Súper inspiring! Thank you for the awesome experience! Please keep the great work up man, we seriously appreciate you, thank GOD for man like you bro! For inspiring us and most importantly teaching us Brother! Great attitude!
Great video and the aircraft is also a tribute to the Hawaiian culture especially what the Maui Lahaina folks are going thru
Neat airline to fly for, good for you Ern !
Hey, Ern... I really like the fun look of the livery on this cool Max!
Another outstanding video production by the BigErn. WHOA !!! Who would believe that an ETOPS / MAX 8 would be low flying island hopping ???! 'Way to go "showing the colors" of the IMUA ONE ! CAVU always. 👍👍👍
Today, (9-4-'23) Imua One was flying between Indianapolis and Tampa. Pretty much any 737 that gets flown to Hawaii would be ETOPS certified. Southwest is flying that plane throughout it's routes to remind the rest of the country that they can get them to Hawaii.
Top Man, just wanted to be first, thanks for your content, hi from U.K.
Amazing video!!
Yoo I have the exact same Plane on my desktop background!! Keep up the good work i love your videos. Hopefully i'll be in D225 soon!
@FlyingwithBirgErn - given how short these flights are and the number of T/O and Landings, is this a routing that new FO's to the type might fly to build up their skills? Amazing video as always! Thanks!
I love travelling to Hawaii, but the closest I’ll get to flying a plane island to island is on my msfs lol. Awesome to see the PHNL TO PHOG flights you do share similar waypoints as my frequent PHNL TO PHKO sim flights. I’d love to actually do it in real life one day. Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏼
Great sushi 🍣 place we found near good dim sum place in Royal Hawaiian shopping center. Such amazing sushi and their bone fish melted in your mouth. Need to make reservations. Enjoy watching your videos!
Surprised there is enough demand and yield to be flying so many Maui-Honolulu flights. It reminds me of the LGA-DCA shuttle.
Love your channel! I actually provisioned this plane a few weeks ago.
Very cool!
Great video as always! i found it funny the "back in Maui" , "back in Honolulu".
I'm enjoying these virtual trips to the Islands on Southwest! Thanks, Capt Ern! Question: I saw the Hale Koa in the background of your video sweep from your room; have you ever stayed there? I love the Hale Koa - especially the PX!
Good video. Like your flight videos
Love the videos. Just started flight school at falcon field and I can't wait for the day I get to do trips like this. Are you allowed to setup a stationary gopro to record views from the cockpit? Would love to see your views of Hawaii when you're flying around.
This seems like fun.
You stay safe Capt. M.
Is there anything we can do to have SW allow you to show in flight video? Like inZair if you have ever seen that.
Missed you by 2 weeks!
Stilig. Flott musikk
Yay!!! I like Imua One. You coming to KCMH anytime soon or recently?
Hi Ernie, As always thanks for the content. You are a great ambassador for Southwest. Does SWA/WN pay only when the door is closed? 5 legs and a full day, but...
If you could fly one plane in SWA’s fleet that would be permanently assigned to you what plane would you like it to be?
cant wait for all the planes for swa to get usbs
Big ERN you are a good pitel
Beautiful livery. Do you still have to do a walk round between 23 minute flights ?
Hey big ern do the ng's require same warm up time as well
Awesome video as always. Question: When you've completed the last flight of the day and the plane is parked overnight, do they defuel it?
BTW, being able to fly Imua one is a stroke of luck lol. Go play the lottery with that kind of lucky streak.
Great Show and just became a subscriber. I was wondering what aviation software you use to plan your flights?
to be in command of imua 1 in hawaii..... wow capt! hawaii rep
I love SWA I hope to God I become an AMT mechanic I just got my A&P in June 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, Captain Ern! Great to see a man of my own culture doing awesome things. Are there more frequent cycles on the aircraft used for the Inter-Island flights or are they swapped regularly?
My uneducated guess is that only a small portion of the fleet is going to be equipped for ETOPS flights. There is no point in putting the extra life rafts and additional redundancies in every aircraft in the fleet.
All of the aircraft operating between the islands got there by flying from the mainland, so they are all ETOPS qualified. It would make sense to rotate aircraft between doing inter Island hops and doing the crossing to the mainland. They would also bring them in for maintenance and other needs.
Because of the cycle intensity of island hopping it would make sense to rotate aircraft out of the ETOPS fleet and put them in the mainland fleet and bring other aircraft to do some ETOPS flying. The point is to meet all of the needs of the airline for as long as possible with each aircraft.
For the foreseeable future Southwest is trying to build a loyal customer base for the Hawaii routes and establish themselves as better than Hawaiian Airlines. This means you can expect the newest aircraft to be on these routes for a while.
I live in Vegas, which is known as the 9th island. Tourists for years have been begging for any airline to compete with Hawaiian Airlines.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 Thanks for the viewpoint.
I cant believe Im # 1
Nice video! You stated the Leaps needed to warmup for three minutes, how long do the CFM56 need to warm up?
hello ... how are you. more informative your channel keep it up
Great video. What do you think is the island to go to if you were to travel to Hawaii for the first time?
Thanks Ern, Great video. I have one question I have had a hard time finding an awnser too. As an airline pilot, if you want to work less to have time for side projects, are you allowed to drop trips and just accept to make less money in order to consistently get lighter schedules (8-10 flying day a month) ? thank you in advance.
Capt Ern, just curious because I know very little about flying, but why the 3 minute warm up on the engines on such short turnarounds?
Requirement on the Max 8 the engines are different then on a typical 737
Different model engines have different warm up and cool down requirements. This is a concern on all combustion engines to keep the oil properly circulating. Technology advancements have brought the required times short enough to be a non issue in most circumstances. In this case with the runway so close the flight crew has to be aware of the run time.
It used to be normal to idle cars and large trucks before driving anywhere. Now driving slowly from your driveway to the highway is enough.
@@jameswinward4354 thank you for the info. Greatly appreciated.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 thank you for the info. I am a truck driver with 43 years driving and was just curious👍😉👍😆
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Are you cautious on the climb out to ensure the Max doesn't experience the issue the Max originally had that caused the crashes and getting the plane grounded?
This was solved via updates to the MCAS quite a while back...
Do the air traffic controllers know that you need to warm up the engines for 3 minutes and try to work with you to achieve that
Great Video, question? do all those short legs kill your flight hours?.. or is there a minimum that each leg represents... by my addition, you had less than 2 hours of flight time for 5 legs.. Is pilot salary based on hours flown, or legs, or some combination ??
Prayers for Maui
Captain Ern, did you fly to our happy island Aruba?