How to Enter a Low Wing Plane without looking dumb
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Learn how to enter and exit a low wing plane and still look cool. For years, man has asked "How do you enter a low wing plane?" The FAA has given their guidance, and lots of plane owners have chimed in. Today, I am going to give you the definitive answer as to how one should enter and exit Piper, Mooney, and Bonanza aircraft while still looking cool calm and collected.
Die Hard absolutely is a Christmas movie.
RUSS!!!! What's up man?!?! Def. Christmas Movie!
@@JustPlaneSilly I get all warm and fuzzy and full of holiday cheer after watching it, so what more does anybody really need?
Agree
Over thirty three years ago I learned two valuable lessons about flying. In ground school we learned that the force that makes airplanes fly is money. This was obvious and easy to understand. The second was from my instructor, Harry Frankfort. Harry was in his early 70s and taught me that the hardest part of flying was getting in and out of the airplane. At nineteen, I didn't understand what he meant. Now I totally get it.
I don't have a low wing, but I practiced all these in my schools 172. My CFI was a bit confused about what I was doing, but after I explained, he said I probably only have a few thousand more hours until I can solo!
I'm always most concerned about getting out of confined spaces, so I watched this video in reverse. It wasn't easy and I wouldn't recommend watching RUclips videos in reverse and that's when it dawned on me, you already have a couple videos on the proper way to exit an airplane - "Pilot Sucked (out of his plane)" and "More Pilots Sucked out of airplanes. Red Bull Plane Swap"
I've long been practicing these maneuvers, along with the classic "Piper Crawl", in our Archer III. I should have my entry and exit certification sometime next year.
You forgot the one I called the “ hand job “
When someone gets in the plane and they go in head first, and they put their hands on everything on the dash. Knobs, switches, yolk and levers. And then, when I finally get in, they say I’ll never be able to get out 🤣
Cherokee 140, six foot four inches, at 52 years old - I never exit the same way twice. The linemen love to crowd the plane to watch. My hand cutter is located at the top of door jam. I always thought that was a(n) unique feature of my plane. I guess it was a Piper factory option.
There are one or two power-assisted methods to get out. The first is to look for a pull strap between your legs. Another option is to strap fire extinguishers to your calves, shut off the engine, and pop the door. I'm told that a pressure difference that built up over your flight helps with this exit maneuver.
I always go for the "Hail Mary" and just end up inside after a short black-out and then taking stock of damages to myself or the interior. This is not approved or recommended and it doesn't work very well, but habits are hard to break. For exit I recommend the bagage door to save what dignity there's left.
Enormously helpful advice! I will definitely practice my gymnastic kip-up maneuver before my next flight and extraction from a low wing plane. Except in the Grumman, where I use the long-legged-hop-down onto the floorboard pretzel-twist - oops, I'm stuck facing backwards entry.
Finally I feel ready to upgrade from one canopy (DA20) to one door type of aircraft! Thank you!
The head set chords emulate the umbilical chord, often wrapping around ankles during delivery....er exit.
Every. Single. Time.
Just to make us all feel even older, how about a follow up video showing how your kids pop in and out? I'm sure Eren has her own techniques too, but she probably has enough dignity to not get involved in this one.
I prefer the Carl Edwards…stand up on the wing and backflip onto the ground. Approved for all ages!
I tried that but the TSA arrested me and Im banned from Jet Blue now.
Now all I need is a how to enter my Lamborghini video and I'll be set!
This is why I fly a top winged aircraft. You need to get that door stop fixed!
Yeah. If a Cessna pilot made this video it would only be about 4 seconds long
That looks extra fun since your door is missing the part that holds it open and out of the way. Cabin Door Holder Assy, Piper PA24-250, P/N 27072-003. Maybe that will enable some new goofy entry and exit methods.
Hahaha I'll just go ahead and send this to new students and passengers.
I was taught "the piper roll". On the wing, face backwards, and lower your inside knee to the seat and roll to the left seat. Reverse to get out. There's a strap behind the right seat to help with leverage kneeling and standing.
As a cfi, I get in facing forward and lower myself, using my inside arm on the roof to bear weight. To get out, just awkwardly roll out to my knees on the wing.
Oh thank God, I'm flying two Piper's recently, so I need a how to video.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I only fly high wing aircrafts for that specific reason: entering and exiting low-wing planes is hard!!! You made me laugh!!
Thank you
@@JustPlaneSilly Hope your injury was not too serious that that you avoided amputation. Stay safe!
No joke, I've had passengers try to exit the vehicle in some of these ridiculous ways (including my elderly father). I have made it a policy to demonstrate (non-embarrassing) exit techniques and have my passengers practice at least once.
I thought that this was a comedy channel, not a dead serious tutorial channel.
Sorry man nobody's teaching this stuff. I may not be an instructor but it's about time this knowledge gets put out there
@@JustPlaneSilly Wait, didn't you mention during lasts video that you actually are a fully qualified instructor of rather plane based shenanigans?
Hi Jimmy (or whatever), you forgot to mention how when properly executed you can do the new fashion thing with holes in your jeans (hands, anything else) when you install new wing walks. Its very effective! I have a Cardinal RG so I don't get to do all the FAA approved maneuvers that you so aptly demonstrated, just the "minivan sit". BTW, I learned many of these learning in a Cherokee so I can say with great certainty that your demonstrations are right on the money!
Looks like some of the maneuvers I used to get in and out of a sea kayak...off to the Chiropractor again!
I use to fly night freight a long time ago, mostly in Barons. I’d finish around 4am and usually would be so tired I just rolled out of the cockpit and just lay between the fuselage and engine and have a quick snooze before driving home… great plane but a total PITA to get in and out of.
You forgot the method where your passenger uses the yoke as a pry bar while dragging their weight and pant legs across the lower door weatherstripping.
Very helpful advice. You always know the teachings we need out here in the world. BTW Add cessna 310 to the list of aircraft these maneuvers work on. Have a very merry Christmas..
Child's play compared to my low wing 1946 Ercoupe and my 60ish body!
😂 I have yet to fly or fly in a low wing other than a commercial airline. Lol. Man, one cross country and I’ll be crippled looking like I got robbed and beat up 🤣. Thank you for your amazing work and so sorry to see you get hurt. Hope your feeling better.
LOL Oh if you can see me clambering into my wee plane! Imagine two lawntractors together with a wing on top! Remos GX ! ;-)
I like the ways of getting in and out but you mist the easiest passenger exit method, just open the door while moving and they will get sucked out, you can then do the cool rolling around on the wing exit (even better when it is raining as you can slide off the wing).
You should get a door steward. Its great
I prefer the nose dive to get in. Stand on the wing, facing the entry. Hands together for the prayer. Knees bend, tip forward and as your head clears the top of the window frame just jump in. If you jump fast enough you clear the passenger seat right away and just have to pull your head out back through the left cabin wall that it's stuck in.
I think this is your best video yet!
I stopped getting in and out of the airplane months ago. Now I just live in it full time.
You missed one important detail… all of these maneuvers require an inadvertent mooning of the passenger as your pants ride down slightly while you bend.
HAHAHA!!! Funny you mention that. I made sure to wear 2 shirts and tuck the lower layer in to avoid this.
@@JustPlaneSilly Thats a shame the video could have been a lot funnier. Maybe start an only props.
Armed with this knowledge, Ted transitioned from Cessnas to Pipers. While the planes were a bit faster, he regretted making his A&P clean the accumulated flesh off the door jamb at every annual inspection…
*Laughs in vintage cessna*
*cries in seat rail A.D.*
Great explanations, Bryan - but good luck getting Erin to try any of those methods! 🤣🤣
I would love to pass along these tips but I need to know if any entry/exist maneuvers become any easier or more natural after heavy drinking. I just know someone’s gonna ask. And ya, it was a Christmas movie!
Definitely a Christmas movie
If you drink enough, you can teleport out of the plane. (Don’t do this.)
“If you’re a passenger you’re going to end up in the pilot’s lap briefly…” life is about opportunities and I feel you let this one slip through your lap.
I enter my Grumman Tiger like a rockstar fighter pilot...and yes, I wear the shades.
Grumman exit is called "C Section"
@@JustPlaneSilly Hah! ...I have been known to partake - glasses off.
Ohhhhhh heck.... You should try getting into the passenger seat of an MTO Sport gyrocopter in a flight-suit. So many of my passengers have found this difficult in the extreme. One or two have even had me go back to the hangar for a set of steps to make it a little easier.
I'm sharing this video in a FB group I set up for my passengers.
Hilarious! I saw you at camp bacon this year and my mind couldn't quite place you.
I ALWAYS use the KAMAZI when I exit a low wing aircraft. It's so EASY.
I see you got your CF Double E rating. Entry/ Exit instructor... congrats!
Yep Christmas Movie for sure!!! I was 280 getting in and out of a Mooney had to lose some baggage!😊
Die Hard was definitely a Christmas movie.
Yeah this is why they make HIGH WINGS ... My old ass isn't going to go through all of that, 182 for everybody!
I assume this will be on the check ride. Which is why I recommend taking your check ride in a Cessna.
The first method of leaning across your DPE’s lap might score some extra points
Ever since I busted my head open in a Archer trying those maneuvers , I will only fly Cirrus now.
You forgot the sonic the hedgehog. Roll into a ball and roll in until you hit the other side.
I failed my checkride because I didn't mention the 'spinal tap' method during my pre-flight briefing.
You need a blooper reel, of all the tried methods that were proven unsuccessful over the years
Personally, Cessna P337 with an airstair door. Sure, it has two engines, but TSIO-360s? Should be good on gas, and you don't ever need to worry about oxygen above 9,000'!
Seriously, this was great, thanks for the Sunday morning laugh.
I use the Ace Ventura Rhino exit myself.
How do you get into the back seats??????
Clearly we need a follow-up video.
Definitely need a follow up video.
Magic 😁😁
They are only for show.
I have invented four machines, pilot placement, pilot extraction, passenger placement, passenger extraction, giving a discount if you buy all four, and yes, they might be FAA approved
I was always told to do “the Hokey Pokey”. You know. Put your left leg in and shake it all about.. That’s what I’m taking about.
It's not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from Takatomi Plaza
Will there be an AQP discussion on the entry and exiting procedure?
Did you leave out one very important part?
Proper shoe selection?
The Lear Jet is another one on how to open the door from the inside! The problem is the way the door is made it is also the step when deployed.
To open the door you have to rotate a lever about 165 degrees this retracts the locking pins from the fuselage. Then the killer item is a small ratchet lock you release while holding on to a cable that is attached to the door. There are those that have and those that will fall out of the LR Jet. When releasing that ratchet latch! The unknowing crew member opening the hatch will have their body weight on the step. When they release that latch they are attracted to the ramp real quick. Do not ask me how I know this! I will say learned about this phenomenon in the early 80’s
The J-3 cub is always a fun one, unless you have been properly trained. 😁🛫😊
As is the Pacer. "What was that sound in my crotch, as my foot slipped off the grassy tire?"
I personally prefer the Trevor Jacob method! Don't even need to wait to land, just open the door grab your GoPro and send it 😆🤷🏻♂️
Can I share this video with my passengers as my entry and exit brief?
Getting out is easy, you pop the latch and BINGO, you’re sucked out.
Here's me guiding my passenger in and out of my Cherokee - "It's really very easy, don't listen to those Cessna pilots." "Hey, don't stand on the wing, you can only walk on the black wing-walk area!" "The only 2 things you can put your hands on are the outside handle and the roof." "No, don't brace yourself on the door!!" "For God's sake, quit pushing on the seat back!" "I mean it, get your f'ing hand off the goddamn seat back! You're breaking my seat, ya big moose!" "No! Not the glare shield!" "What? The glareshield is the dashboard, keep your paws off it!" "Stop wrenching on the yoke!!" "Geezus! What part about the only 2 things you can touch with your hands didn't you understand?"
Then we gotta put on our four point seat belts... Flying passengers is exhausting.
I tell everyone to first put both feet into the Mooney then slide down the door jam. My wife refuses to take any advice from me and after all these years somehow manages to get in with her feet still outside! And grunts as she awkwardly pulls them in… as if somehow it’s my fault.
to be fair, I don't need a low wing plane to look dumb
First time I took my wife up to St. Louis on one of her business trips she wore a dress. Using the breech method a warning had to be issued to the line guys that unless they were ready for the beaver shot they needed to turn around. Usually I have no issue with ole natural but....... She doesn't wear a dress when we fly anymore. On a more serious note it is imperative that the door is NEVER put under any pressure as the door hinges will not handle it. Ask me how I know. :(
I bet that was expensive
@@JustPlaneSilly It was
I'm 6'7", 375lbs. I think the easiest exit would be to have the pilot crank the plane over into a 60 deg. bank over the field, drop out of the plane and hit the silk!
So much fun to be had 😅
That's why I only fly high wing airplanes!!
LOL #!!! CFIAM/A&P JOE COVINO, Lake Havasu, Arizona.
How did you get a left side door?
The things you have to do to go a little faster than a Cessna.
Hahahaha!!!!!
The time it takes to get into a Piper makes up for the difference. Foreflight actually has a “boarding” time penalty in the flight plan section
My back hurt watching you perform these FAA mandated maneuvers.
I wish you at best, put some rubber on that edge: at least some tape over the edge.
I didn't know John Wayne made television commercials.....?
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How about teaching us how to enter and exit a luscomb when the first person is already in the plane!!!! That’s even funner when you might not be limber!!!!
Just watched 74gear vid about a passenger sending a text alert to other passengers and how it was all handled, and all I could think of was your doing the exact same vid with just yourself in the plane, 1 passenger received the bomb threat and then you report one soul on board, oh I need more sleep …
5:26 You recommend watching again with pen and paper so pilots can brief passengers. I disagree. Just send them a link to this video!
Very good point! Send them direct to the info.
How is your hand?
How come you didn't go over the entrance exit into a Grumman?
It has a canopy that opens so you just do a maneuver that I call the C-section
One has to accept that there is no dignified way to enter or exit a low wing Piper
For exit, there's also the 'reverse catholic' method where you kneel in the right seat then step up onto the wing. Great info for us low wing slums. 🤣
You suggested watching this video a second time. Shouldn't you have instructed the viewer to reset their computer's cach in order to bolster views?
😂😂😂
Does caps open the door for you on the way down?
No but the exit is easier because the rescue folks get you out.
The older you get you become a Cessna fan
I ALWAYS demo how to get in and out of my plane... and then I watch my passenger get in and wonder, were they even paying attention? Do they speak English? Did they meditate the day before on how to enter a plane in the worst possible way, and then execute that plan flawlessly? #lowWingProblems
Everyone who is anyone knows that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Die Hard IS a Christmas move. Fact!
Thank you,But these methods don't work well and can be illegal as i found out!
On my flight to Miami this am,and after watching you video,i tried entering the Pan Am flight to Miami with fetal method,,I was just realest on bail!
LOL Stay Well
Hahaha!!!!
I have seen some if these maneuvers when people are getting bags out of the overhead compartments.
It’s much faster and efficient getting in and out of a mooney.
Plus I hear you can get in and out of a Mooney on something like 8 gallons per hour
It's no coincidence that 420 is in his tail number.
Getting out is easy… thousands of passengers are sucked out of aircraft every day
You only got a 6.5 from the Russian judge.
You are going to kill someone!! Won’t somebody please think of the children?! 😭🙏
All I got out of this is the pilot gets a lap dance from incoming passengers
first you look at this video and then go buy a 182RG or a 210