You're not only giving some advices for pilot job but also you're teaching true personality. I hope you always have a great life and always let people's life change in a very good way. I look forward to apply for pilot training when my university finishes. I wish will meet you one day. Thank you for everything that you've added to my life. You deserve best.
I am a motorcoach operator (essentially the ground-version of airline pilot), and your videos are so inspirational as well very helpful in helping me to apply new skills to improve profinciency in my current field of work. Thank you for your channel!
Thank you Mentour for another awesome video. I am merely an aviation enthusiast. I started watching documentaries on air accident investigations (most of them). I stumbled up on one of your vlog on the crash of an Air France flight during an airshow and have been following you ever since. Your ever positive life lessons and outlook on work is one of the things that draw me to watch your videos. Now I am going through your videos from inception of your channel to present. Keep up the good work you are doing. Will certainly try and share on SM as much as possible 👍👊
Wow, you are the sweetest pilot :') I recently became a flight attendant, my number one dream since i was 8 yrs old. Im 23 now, and i love my job sooo so much, but hearing senior pilots and flight attendants complain makes me so scared. I dropped everything to make my dream come true. I was working at a hospital as a student nurse and like you said, i was not happy so i changed my whole life to do what i really wanted.. i can't thank you enough for this video. Hope to fly with you someday!
This is brilliant advice for anyone in any job, not just the airline industry. It's all about mindset, how you decide to view your workplace. At the same time, you don't have to buy into someone else's negativity - and you have a chance of trying to change their mind, too. Remind them why they came into the industry in the first place. You have the opportunity to prolong their career longevity, or simply to improve their quality of life by focussing on the positives. If we zoom in on negatives, they will very quickly overwhelm any positives. This is an excellent podcast, and thanks for creating it!
Here is a good example why I like these type of videos, the things that you are saying can be applied to basicly any part of life, any kind of job, and not just for the aviation industry. This is gold.
Hello Captain i love the maturity and the highest professionality level you've portrayed in your topic I'm very thankful I found your channel.You've really inspired me in a great way being a young pilot needs someone like you to be my Mentor and a Role Model in this loving and passionate Career that I'm. I Hope and believe that soon a day will come that i will be your Co-Pilot and be the Great Captain more like you ever thankyou and God Bless
Always a pleasure to have a Pilot in this Captain that is still positive and enthusiastic about this job. Can't see how people that have a passion for avaiation can get bored you just cant get enough of it. Thank you for these Videos Captain!
Its awesome listening to a pilot who is so enthusiastic about his job. It reminds me of the odd pilot you see that goes out of his way to farewell his passengers as they disembark the aircraft. I often ask the crew after a short flight if i could snap a quick picture inside the cockpit, some go out of their way to show you bits and pieces even tho you were happy with a photo while others are a little less interested. I guess it depends on their workload tho, which is understandable. Ill never forget the first officer that actually asked me if i would like to sit in his seat. Its great to have people like you guys which inspire young people like myself to press forward to a job in aviation. thanks for all the work your doing :-)
thank you so much.. just a kid from the Philippines .. and even though my father beats me down and poisons my mind when he is drunk (he is an alcoholic).. ur vlogs keep me going .. thank you so much again captain
Great advice that applies to pretty much any job. Sometimes things are so obvious that they often get overlooked and is good to remain ourselves what really matters. Thanks!
Jobs are what you make them. No need to be miserable. I changed jobs a few times. Finally settled in for 26 years after 9 years somewhere else. Finally retired.
Thank You so much for the content, sir. I really admire Your profesionalism and way of thinking. Your explenatinons of avition issues are really great!
Thanks for this positive video that you posted. I'm about to go on my first flight in line-indoc as an FO for my first Airline job in a couple of days, really nervous as to how things will pan out but what you said has somehow helped calm my nerves a little. Appreciate it!
Nothing more discouraging than nursing sick people but can be rewarding with the right approach & attitude. I worked in it for 12 years then changed to mechanical hvac & electrical. Not bad working alone. Driving trucks the last 21 years of it all.
Piloting is like being an actor. You get small pay until you perform best and come up the ladder. You must have that passion to trudge on through school and compete for flight time. You have to love it to sacrifice the time money & devoted study.
Great video. Happy I discovered your channel. As an A380 SE/TRI, hats off . I've been exactly in the same situation as you mentioned over 10 years ago. Keep up the good work and enjoy the sunsets/sunrises!
Off topic, what sunglasses brand/type? i really like 'em. Hey great video for me i looked around and found out that everyone complains about his job! so i just ended up doing what i wanna do. one of the main reason i like you is you're positive and always give EPIC answers:) thank you.
I would love to see a podcast for VFR and IFR pilots about how to assess meteorological conditions in the preflight. Any tips? Thanks!!! Useful channel!
As a fellow pilot at a flag carrier, I wanted to come on here and have a bit dig because I thought you were going to oversell the industry. Having watched a few of your videos, you're actually very much on the money. The message is not that the job doesn't have flaws (it absolutely freaking does ha ha) But that if you don't like something about your work, get a new licence (if needs be) and move on. Support your unions, don't sell your own or yourself out, think very carefully about signing up for productivity gains etc, but when all is said and done, either get yourself ready to leave, or stay and get on with it. I'm not an aviation enthusiast personally. I do enjoy it, and I was lucky to go through the military first, but it's a job to me now. If you really want to "fly", don't join an airline, get a heli licence. There's a lot of general things to like about the job (working closely with others) - as long as you go in with your eyes wide open, and you've done a few sums first. Oh yeah, and never ever pay to fly.
"If you don't have any expectation, you won't be disappointed". Many believe that after being hired, they will be able to do what they want (in case of the airline industry, fly a nice plane to some exotic beaches, as you said more than once, maybe have some fun with the flight attendants), then at the end of the week/month a heavy paycheck comes, and all is milk and honey. I'm not in the airline industry (but i work on an airport) and i know the weird working hours and working through holidays all too well, and i see colleagues who when they got hired they couldn't find their own asses with both their hands, but they were dreaming of getting in decision making positions, then after a year or so they started complaining that they had the same salary they started with, and the same shitty position, but they miss the fact that they still can't find their own asses with both their hands.
Well there are many things! However, it's hard to come up with something right here and now. :P Of course, CRM stuff is nice, but then again WHAT within CRM? hehe
Seriously WOW, I love Mentour Pilot, only discovered the channel 4 weeks ago. Just found out what airline you work for....if it was me I would allow my company to be flashed all over this channel. Until I've seen you,I thought everyone working for this airline was overworked, unhappy & sad....if everyone's like you then I have made a terrible misjudgement...
When I was a baggage handler I had pushed back a lot of aircraft while hearing most of the pilots through my headset complaining about every aspect of their job from scheduling to union bargaining even bitching about the flight attendants. I often felt like telling them; "Hey buddy, I spend all day on all kinds of weather loading and unloading heavy bags and cargo in a noisy, dirty and dangerous environment for a fraction of your pay and benefits! You care to trade jobs?!"
A fan of your videos and channel.. really inspiring to see how u made ur way up the ladder.. and inspite of that humble and down to earth.. KP up the good work going. could u please emphasize on what are the different trainings an airline pilot under takes before flying those airplanes eg CRM, Security etc
I'm a B737 captain in the US. The industry here sucks because we're always tolerating the horrible work conditions and pay (pay being stolen sometimes), the broken promises from management. Not being able to get hired by a better airline, unless you want to go back to the regionals for 7 years to have a job at the legacy airlines, family problems because you haven't been home in three weeks; it's not worth it. With your job in Spain, you don't know how good you have it and should be a bit more understanding of the guys who have sacrificed everything and not seeing any return other than being spit in their faces. Not to mention the dick measuring contest that other pilots want to have.
Most jobs have that problem. Blue collar tends to pan out better often. After professional jobs I went maint. Engineer & electrician. Still crPpy hours but steady pay & pension.choose carefully.
Hi Sir, Yet another reality based video. so informative! This has popped one question in my mind about decision making, In airline industry and as a pilot, it is critical to make decisions (in fact for all of us in our lives, no one is exceptional!). I want to ask you, what factors should you consider before taking any important decision that would impact later on your life as well as others life. Also, how to deal with it when you realize later that, if i would have chosen the other option , it could have better results than the one which i have taken. Have a superb day!!
I was on a practical occupational experience once in a finish store named tokmanni, but the workers there seemed to be depressed, so I almost thought I would find a dead body somewhere. I had been on a trip to Spain the day before the POE, so I had to do a physics test during the POE. Usually I get an A but I got C+
Hej and greetings from a Swedish flight enthusiast! :) How do you proceed if you want to sit in the cockpit with the pilots during the flight? Do you ask the stewardess before take off? Is that even allowed anymore after 9/11? Do pilots find it annoying to have a passenger in the cockpit? Thank you for all your videos. It's really interesting and I'm checking your channel everyday. Keep up the good work!
Thx 4 ur help. I 💙 ur idea. Going 2 do it 2night. I'm have problems right now. I really like my job; it's getting hard 2 go cuz of the atmosphere. I overheard my supervisor tell my boss 2 fire cuz I'm making them look bad (I pride myself on my work ethics to the point when I c something needs doing I do it without being asked) 《don't mean 2 brag》 I refuse 2 let them win.
I want to be a pilot I'm only 12 years old and my brother always said that sounds so boring but I don't think I could ever be dissapointed if I was a pilot
Mentour Pilot. How much confident are you when you encounter turbulence, e.g I actually see wings bending however the flight attendant don't seems to be scared. Is there a save working loads or breaking stress on the wings or plane equipments to allow such heavy turbulence?
Well i really loved this video couse it make me see some positve things, but i still have a question. I use to see these forums and the thing that scares me is that people complain about pay2fly or complain about the poor job offers, i mean. The thing that scares me is paying more than 100000 € and still don't get a job. What do You think about it as a pilot?
I've not yet chosen this. but I'm the sour person. lol. I mean I don't know if it's all jobs or just because of certain factors. before i had a mean boss and low pay, now i have a nice boss and low pay. I work so hard it seems a shame to be paid so much lower than my coworkers. I don't know where a spark is. It is so hard to choose something to do, when you haven't a clue what it is you want.
And oldie but goodie. You should do a video with Dutch Pilot Girl: it'd be ratings gold! Besides, her accent sounds very close to a Swedish one (to a non-Swedish ear)
Sir, would u please like to share any experience in which you had to do an emergency landing, and how u dealt with the situation, or how difficult is it to land in harsh weather conditions...?
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so what are your views on things like P2F, zero-hour-contracts, forced self employment, crash pads and paying for your own TR's? I mean, I agree flying is awesome and I have looked into becoming a professional pilot myself (currently only have a PPL) but you have to wonder if it's worth it. There are a lot of mixed stories out there. On the one hand you have guys like you, all cheery and happy and everything is great. Great pay, great life, flying all over. Generally loving being a pilot, living the "pilot dream" basically. And then there's the other side. Pilots with massive debts, not even getting paid to fly (on the contrary even, paying the airline 60+k for "training" and "building hours"). Young guys who see your videos and love flying as much as you do but end up wishing they'd never fucking started it because they can't get a fucking job and won't ever be able to pay off the debt which, by that point, has gone up to 200k if not more. They're the guys who get in line with a couple thousand other pilots in the hope of having a shot at sitting in that right seat while being paid for it. I no longer know what to believe. Either you are very lucky or all those other guys (and there's a lot of them) really suck at being a pilot.
How would an airline pilot find his way after finding himself way off course and completely lost? I'm wondering because of the incident recently where airline pilots accidentally flew hundreds of miles past the airport the
Hey Mentour. i am 18 years old and in live in South Africa. i have recently been bitten by the aviation bug. i have tried to watch all of your videos but i am still not quite sure on what to do to become a pilot. I would really appreciate your help?
Hey Jaco, I know I'm not Mentour, but I'm happy to offer my help. Look on the Internet for flight schools near you. Find one that you like and contact them. The flight school will guide you through the process of becoming a pilot! Hope I could help!
well, that all maigth be true if you are a lucky guy that got an job in a cockpit. But what if not? It is absolutely frustrating. Sending applications of thousands and you just don´t get an answer. Sorry but it rally beats me.
I know I'm replying 8 months later, but I just want to ask you what your educational background is. Maybe you've been finding it impossible to get an interview or job opportunity because of a lack of post-secondary education? I know it isn't a requirement but airlines tend to consider applicants who have a degree in order to narrow them down. Maybe you do have a degree and I just wasted a long time writing this :s
ReHi Mentour: Recently i have been hearing a lot about problems with comments on You Tube. This issues are many and diverse, which is tiring. Nonetheless I felt I needed to give the matter some thought, especially as to me the comments are a BIG part of it all. I also had some problems with comments not showing and being unable to post comments, and that on a diversity of You Tube videos' subjects. At least two of the videos on the subject complained about the unfortunate increase in toxic comments. This raised a real long-term worry. These vary anywhere from simply inane to the racial, abusive and downright vitriolic. Generally, though they all seem to be seeking inappropriate attention, and so are psychologically co-dependent and self exacerbative. Having come from a socially bad upbringing, but also determined to contend with the problem bar none, once I was aware of it, I've also made my mistakes. But also having the "Elephant memory" back to the age of 3, and now at age 72, albeit with enough visuality "mind's eye" that one could make a super movie out of it, I can say a LOT, and also add explicitly why I do it - for posterity. So back to "little Brice as a boy of about 7 or 8, when I, like most children will do, did something that was seeking improper attention - historically mea culpa. When my mother retorted that "I was just doing that to get attention", it was obvious that she was not happy with that... So, my next reply was "But kids are supposed to get attention, so if that was the wrong way what is the right way?" Rhetorically, What, really, was wrong? (Now we let the audience have a poignant pause...) It took most of a lifetime to truly resolve the answers, because too many were more wont (desirous) to opportunise on all to many places. The rest is an extremely long and complex multi-generation story, and I am starting to make the structure to put this in an autobiography, the very abstract complexity of which will require the graphic rendering of the complexes of these abstract interrelations and their interreactions. The applicaiton for this is a post-development of flow charts, which I call "organnigrammes", using the French word in english to make note if the distinction between traditional flow charts and this application, which can be applied to any abstract deliberation of the human mind that a person might seek to present, whether applied to technology or equally to inter personal issues, such as psychology and CRM. But when we think of this,and, so many centuries back,m William Shakespeare and his allusion to "the mind's eye", we see, yet again, another bit of his historic vision! Now having written, on the fly, another bit that could make a speech (of course, I LOVE my public speaking!) =========================================================================== So back to the complainers and the _complainership_. Buy germane the complainership savvy, you can't have complainership unless there exists a target complaint -common sense. Yet when a person seeks to putline the contents of a complaint or dispute as the contextual basis for the following discussion or brainstorm on the best complainership to so remedy, suddenly there is weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth! Again Rhetorically, are we not (abstractly), right here, saddled with a dose of complainership in the hopes of making some "horse sense" out of the complaints you mentioned? ¡ circulo vicioso ! finally for all la pena and the ardour, ¡ Haber compasión es la hija de han sida sofrie ! Bruce M.
As you mention the heat in Girona,and the joy of seeing the Mediterranean and its natural beauty, I have another though about nature. I have a photo of myself as a 3 month old baby, taklen clse to the end of WWII. I am in my mother's arms. She is standing on the walk in front of the house in Wakefiled, Quebec, north of Hull, which ois north of Ottawa... "WITH 4 FEET OF SNOW ON EITHER SIDE!" Having been once to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in the month of October, iI realize that the troopics are not for me (and also for many others who have grown up in cold climates.) When I got off the plane, as usual in the tropics, the heat hit me like a brick wall! and the humidity was no fun either, Punta Cana is right on the Atlantic coast. But Canada has very wide temperature ranges, both night to day and seasonal as well as geographic. (sometimes that is eother too hot or too cold, also, but... >. "the sun will shine tomorrow". This old song, as rendered by the original author, I found rather dreary, but that was well after a teacher in the French section of then Montreal Institute of Technology, back in 1963, on the talent night did an absolutely fabulous job of rendering it. At the time my French was far from what iti is today but even so, as you see, I never forgot it, nor what it taught me about French, as a romance language, at a time when there was much sordid animosity between French and English in Quebec. ====================================================== Back to flying beauty... There is a video on you tube of an excursion flight done by Lufthansa over the arctic. Lufthansa knows the beauty but more than that, as their stellar reputation would show. I have here three arctic photos I downloaded from Nunanet, in Canada's Nunavut that show arctic beauty from the ground. While was say "All that glitters is not gold", much being not gold can still be " dorado "!
Really ? FO or Capt in the Flight Deck living the dream of thousands of people and COMPLAINING ? wow BTW Capt I would highly suggest if it is okay with you to start covering some technical topics with other words Tutorials about what students pilot go through in their training (It would be great if u cover this aspect especially that you are a captain nd whatever you will be instructing it would a real life experience video ) thank you in advance
Meteorology would be cool as I am struggling a bit with it (Fronts and what kind of weather is associated with each front, High/Low pressure systems, Decoding Area Forcast, Winds aloft charts....) I believe it is a huge topic to cover therefore I suggest to start from the first chart you guys look at it in the briefing room all the way to the end. Thank you and keep up the good work Happy landings
Once you join an airline as an FO for example Ryanair, can you apply for another airline as a Captain, example Thomas Cook or are you stuck with the first airline you are put with for your entire career? Thanks
A small comment on comments... After posting a comment, I may reload the same page, and then resort the comments in order of recency. I am looking to see if there has been any reply commentary, and if so, the general nature of the other comments, While I cannot attach a voice file to a comment, sometimes I do find a convenient way to get my voice "in the act". In one case, a You Tuber whose channel is based on a truck towing ocmpany, shows his business number on the side of his tow truck. I like his stuff also, so one morning, I had the chance to ring him up and say "howdy!". that was simple and went well, but also it was very minimal as I suspected he was half asleep, possibly from having beeb working hard with an emergency call. Much as I would like to to more of that (and the cost of long distance to me for some 30 countries is a paltry 3 cents CDN a minute to a land line, no problem there!) I woudld not want either myself, nor for any other You tube to feel obliged to publish their phone number on You Tube. Nonetheless, from time to time, at random, I mat find a way to open another channel of communication....
