Can a PA28 pilot land a 737? 

6:29 dude you say such thing about the thrust levers?

My wife always jumps in the left seat. So you have to get used to the available seat which has the controls. Right Hand ground vehicles. Natural except in Other Places?

On a 737 the barometer has two modes - manual and standard, although the QNH was 1013 which is standard, the baro was still in STD mode. So if the QNH had been something other 1013, your altimeter would have been set wrong. ;) Nice job though and great video.

Respect. Riding shotgun and still have the controlls is a double responsebillity

Goof job. This experiment would have been more interesting if the controller was not allowed to see anything you did in the cockpit or any of the instruments/switches.

"ok, let's pray" or "ok, you're dead" would have been more worrysome...

Motion 001: Autopilot disengaged Tower: ok shit happens. you are on your own. i'm out.

I thought that was an excellent response too. THe slight hesitation. "OK....good luck" absolutely priceless

Why didn't he do a "go around" when the autopilot disconnected ??? From what I've seen / read on commercial flying, you want TIME to make sure you're not doing the wrong thing.

I presume because it was a simulator. Also he's not a commercial pilot and may have thought whilst lines up and ready the risk was lower than doing several turns in an unfamiliar plane.

and he failed for not selecting auto break LOL

ok good luck

And his instructions caused a flap overspeed and told the pilot the qnh but didnt instruct him on how to set it. It seemed the private pilot would have been better off without the help of the controller

@@Muslim11234 "During the exercise, I asked for the QNH and was given 1013 (which is in the video) but the aeroplane's barometers were already set to 1013, so there was no need to change them."

@@Muslim11234 God there is an internet armchair warrior for literally everything isnt there?

@@clinteastwood8485 are you a pilot? This guy is so I suggest you don’t write insulting comments.

@@videogameplayer0552 He was making a joke.

@@leonardusl5141 you don’t know who I was referring to. The guy I was talking to wrote a really insulting comment about the pilot in this video, but it probably got deleted.

God knows why. I’m a Brit PPL too and for sure I’d be in that left seat, if this goes wrong and we all die at least I got to be captain for a few minutes before the end 😂

anyone whos british and inexperianced with flying would be best in the right seat americans would be better in the left seat why? because you want to make this as fammiliar and easy for yourself as possible and brits are used to steering with the right hand and operating levers with the left hand amd americans the oposite cause thats what there used to in cars also your spacial awareness would be tuned to sitting on those sides

Force of habit, maybe? 🤔Lol

Haha

I don't recall him telling the radio pilot he was in the right seat.

Gid Baddy that guy would be me.

To be honest if there’s no pilot on board that would make you the most qualified person to fly the plane.

I'd say you still cant handle the pressure that u are piloting hundreds of alive people

@@palasthazhorif8676 Sure, but who else should do it then? Everyone will feel that pressure and at least you are someone knowing a little bit more than others. So who else should do it? You need two people if not three in the cockpit. One who is controlling the plane by knowing at least the function of the most important systems and knobs, one who does the radio communication and one who keeps an eye on visual approach or visuals in general. There have been cases of crews being so focused on controlling for example a damaged plane that they didn't see where they were going on a clear and bright day.

Abahahaha

An Airbus 300 calls you a RETARD while you’re in the flare.

@-우유- it actually calls "RETARD RETARD" just meaning to check the throttle is at idle (or pull it back to idle if not)

Damnit! You beat me to my comment idea! 😂

@@peredavi r/woooooshh

@@sakamemes9876 r/whoooooshh yourself

😂

YOUR ON YOUR OWN NOW!

Gappie Al Kebabi reference to Airplane! The movie lol

Best comment here.

Nice

Panic entered the chat

And don't call me Shirley.

It's amazing how that weather can change in an instant!

Drink? No you just stained your trousers.. :)

Jake Heke no you cannot have the drink kimi

Well I was quite irritated to see him taking off another time "just for fun" while we were just about leaving the damn plane and celebrate our rescue.

it was a simulator so how could you on board

Mr.Techaky LOL

😂😂😂😂😂

Where!?

I dont see it!....

Best comment 😂

didn't expect you here

the "someone" is sat behind him

What do you mean he is not an official pilot? People who only have a private license are not considered an official pilot?

Yup, the R/T I/C switch.

There will be no disaster as the AP on button is pretty distinct.

Agree R/T I/T.....Espeecially if trim is pitched down

Yes don’t touch the yoke

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the AP button require two presses to disengage? The first press sounds an alarm to tell you that there is an attempt to disengage the AP, the second press actually disengages it. I'm not a pilot though... I just saw that happen in another youtube video similar to this one.

" It's next to the mixture control! "

"how do I check that the magnetos are on BOTH ????"

LOL!!!! I also hope it has the Hershey-bar wing from the 'D' series Cherokee...doesn't float so much on landing!

lmao

Right next to the prop de-ice, duh

Only death is real...

Don’t tell them how the crew were incapacitated

@Peter Evans I am quite certain you are wrong

@Peter Evans I’m an instrument rated private pilot with 189 flight hours. I still don’t think I would be capable of landing an airliner even with auto land. Although the sim is pretty realistic the simulator is not real life. I have done super well in the simulator and then mess up in real life during the flight lesson. I have two parents who are airline pilots and they also agree it’s not as simple as what’s shown in the sim. Throw in real life factors and you have a situation that is far far more complex.

@Peter Evans I will add that when I was in high school and had accumulated 200+ hours of flight simulator without a crash, I told my dad I could probably land a plane if the pilots were incapacitated. You know what he did? He laughed. Yeah laughed, why? Because as much as I had over 200 hours of flight time and roughly 10 hours in the Cessna 152 and approaching my solo i had 0 experience on any high performance or turbine aircraft had no idea how to use the systems, including the autopilot and was not used to how the airplane felt for manual flight. Learning aircraft systems is crucial to fly safely. When I went from a Piper Warrior with am Aspen system and Garmin 430 to a Piper Warrior with an Avidyne system, an autopilot (one that was easy to use) and 2 garmin 430s the biggest thing I had an issue with was using the systems on the airplane and the autopilot. When I started doing cross solo cross countries in my second flight course I never used the autopilot because I didn’t know how to. One of my instructors had to force me to use it because I had to know how to use it for the check ride and at first I messed up pretty bad using it. That’s for a simple autopilot in a simple airplane that I had already flown. Given that an airliner’s systems are far more complex, the plane is a lot faster, and that I have no experience flying a high performance aircraft I doubt I could bring one down safely. You need a type rating to fly these things, and they have 2 pilots due to the workload and to prevent a situation where a passenger would be involved in the daunting situation where they have to try to land a plane. Garmin just won awards for their emergency Autoland because it makes it undeniably possible for a plane to land without a pilot on board. It wouldn’t be a big if anyone could easily land a plane with some help from the ground. If they did manage to land it would be worth A LOT of help from the ground, probably with 2 people in the cockpit trying to figure out what to do and an instructor for that aircraft explaining what to do step by step.and that’s after ATC made the job easy by clearing out all traffic from the area.

...over

Which is unfortunately very difficult for ppl who never flew a plane.

No one can tell you what to do 😂

@@JoseGonzalez-es2rm Why wouldn't ATC be able to help you, or get another pilot on the radio talking you through everything? Most planes now a days can land themselves.

Trey Forsythe at least in a lot of airports you couldn’t get a pilot on the radio as easy

same for people who play racing simulators and then go on for real racing

@@jonathanparle8429 I've heard and experienced this myself. However it only took a few hours to correct this, it came to me when i finally got the feel for the speed and bank without having to reference myself.

Did you find it difficult to fly VFR at first? I came into PPL from full cockpit sim and spent a good few hours trying to stop staring at the instruments so much and actually fly visual

@@ChloeLouiseeB I can't say it was difficult, but I definitely wanted to tune VOR/NDB/GPS to be sure of where I was. I also spent a good few hours staring at instruments more than looking out the window. However I started to enjoy VFR far more after 4/5 lessons or so. It is a very good skill to be able to reference yourself to the map, without radio navigation. I also found it quite fun to do so. At first it was a challenge, but now it seems to be natural. For about a year after I got my PPL I had always tuned NDB/VOR just to be sure. I still do, but rely on it much less. Then that year I had an electrical failure, which basically made the aircraft cold and dark, only back up instrumentation working, and that is not a lot, just enough. That is when that VFR training got put to the test.

I had this same experience. My father is a pilot and got me FS2004 and the CH yoke and pedals. As I had flown with him I had some familiarity with cockpit management. Since I had planned on getting my license at some point, I took FS seriously. I only ever flew planes I would fly in real life and always planned that every time I sat down to play I would take off, fly and land in real time. When I finally took lessons for real my instructor commented on how quickly flying came to me and said FS really helped. He said the one downside to FS is that students tend to focus too much on the instruments as they can't see the world.

"uhh, autopilot disconnected" "Damn right it did" *Opens beer can*

It’s the little things!

@@TheFlyingReporter such a tiny thing, but so important

As he said above, he plays fsx with the PDMG 737. Having also played this particular sim and aircraft package, it very realistically models all the systems and fairly accurately aquatints you with the cockpit, controls and many of the procedures. So the cockpit and the procedural actions are something he already knows, but in the game you push a button on the keyboard to move your view forward and back, in a position you prefer. Therefore something seemingly trivial as adjusting the seat, talking to ATC, or going through the electronic flight bag would be challenging because those are things he would not have experience with.

Level d sims are real enough that your animal brain doesn't know the difference. You know you're safe but it is way more "real" feeling than any VR headset I've tried.

I wouldn't panic much either when I'm in a flight simulator, even a fancy one like this.

He’s not panicking because his job is not on the line.

@@s0ulfire that's a valid point

@@9HighFlyer9 depends on the person, i can't get immersed in something that doesn't use all my senses

BOINGGGGG

@@nathan87 You mean... "Boeinggg" 😉

@@dantheguitarist5823 Weird, I neither remember making this comment, nor do I really understand why I did. :/

@@nathan87 Guess it makes sense, as op was talking about being launched by a spring 😂

generic voice.mp4

you got that too! The British voice set

I see this is a man of culture

He sounds like Bane from Batman

Hand signal on the right...

Surely you must be joking.

@@jonkoenigs99 I'm not joking and don't call me Shirley. Love that movie. I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.

The myth buster guy saw someone do it first though lol

I think anyone who hasnt seen one of these cockpits before/flown before would struggle alot more.

@@Matt_10203 ill take that challenge

Anyone can do with ATC's help. The struggle is getting in contact with ATC. Well, actually no, the biggest struggle it to get in the flight deck, but after that, getting into contact with ATC.

I just want to let you know, we're all counting on you.

@@dr-mn7ld Any don't call me Shirley!

I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.

at least you did not try to blow up the autopilot

They're coming right at us!

Well you are supposed to do that in an emergency wether your radio works or not

"theres an order to things, after we go through this checklist ill find out how close to death you are"

An airliner wouldn’t bother changing the transponder unless it was out of radio contact

well, setting the squawk enables the controller to clearly identify the aircraft and it also shows the controller on a not so crucial system if the person is talking to knows the basics of the aircraft at leas somewhat (otherwhise he wouldn't be able to set the squawk and the controller knows how detailed he needs to talk the person through the stuff)

@B737FLY not on an airliner in controlled airspace

Thanks Lewis!

@@TheFlyingReporterAny reason you were not in the captain seatM

Graphics/visuals.

graphics/visuals over

go riddle!

Same here.

That's how good these sims are:-)

@@ianrkav full motion sims are next level. You can forget youre even in a sim.

Ye wtf xD

u mean fly?

how is that ‘wrong’😂 we could say the same things about you-

It’s because then he can reach the landing gear from his seat whereas he couldn’t in left seat

@@jessicaamay611 Wait til he learns that Aussie pilots fly upside down 😂

EG EG Wow that is unfortunate. I am surprised someone didn’t notice maybe feeling light headed. Sounds like an interesting investigation to watch though

@@mercedesbenzformula1 that's the tricky thing with hypoxia: you won't necessarily notice what's happening. You'll become increasingly confused, weak, and eventually pass out. Also, I agree: you should watch that episode.

10% Prodromou 90% flame out due to lack of fuel.

Yes. Without that , it wouldn't have a good outcome for most.

There’s a big difference between Microsoft flight simulator and that. Anyone could fly a plane on Microsoft flight simulator

@@buildtestflyrepeat9428 the point still stands

Hey James, how’s your flying training going? I’m a regular on plumberparts...many top tips

Hi. Last used PMDG about 7 years ago!

Or for that matter the excellent ZIBO on Xplane.

Savage Gamer shut up nerd

DATDUDE2024 come make me I’m waiting

Maybe the fish ate the flight crew.... :O

I know. I had the lasagna.

you didn’t do this