Exploring the Abandoned British Airways Flight Training Centre (Part 1) 

Wow cool history! Did you fly the 707 commercially? I've never heard of navigating with stars!

@@bbhybris "I've never heard of navigating with stars" just in relation to planes or in general? It was the primary way to navigate on ships etc hundreds of years ago. Even now large ships carry Sextants as modern instruments can fail.

noticed that too lol

I started laughing my ass off 🤦🏽‍♂️

Bruh🤦‍♂️

*Confused Pikachu face* insert Spiderman meme

Exactly, what I was about to comment. 🤣

Actually in Europe there are not as many small commercial operators like in the states so we don't have the 1500 hours rule, there simply would not be any pilots that qualify. British Airways, Lufthansa, Ryanair and many others have cadet programs that train pilots from scratch.

Yeah coz most people wake up and decide to launch a surface to air missile from a roof 😂

@@rundattmedia2106 he has a point though given it’s proximity to Heathrow and the number of planes above it

@@scottirvine121 and people trespassing on such a site, might give those people ideas.

News flash: there are plenty of public-accessible areas right by airports, "some mad guy" wouldn't need to go to the bother of breaking in to a facility like this. Stop being sensationalist.

@@scottirvine121 more chance of getting hit by a flying plane than it happening though. Lived in London for 36 years, no one's launched a SAM as of yet.

Yep

@@oldmanc2. I attended a symposium on air accident investigations and CRM there. When CRM was the new big thing in the 1990's. The BA crews giving the lectures and demonstration addressed each other throughout by their first names. No Captains, or First Officers, or Wing Commanders. The sudden departure from formality seemed very odd, at the time.

Lol same I’m the king of england

You guys old like boomers 😂

@@user-mn1rj9ve6y Idiot? You realise thousands of people were trained here every year.

What did it look like when it was open? What year did the facility close?

@@user-mn1rj9ve6y I mean thats invalid cause we dont have a king for 1, also, prince philip is dead so I think you lost that one

I was thinking the same thing. Surely some savy simmer would go in there to yoink some of the parts

@@CLHall or someone steal and sell them

I would take the jokes, have to try to find out how 😁

Hopefully they still work. Maybe they can be rewired. Honestly I would just snag a yoke or thrust levers and put them on my wall.

Ha yes I commented the same lol

yeah haha like 747's are the only jets that were really called 'Jumbo' so I can assume now that they only had 747's and nothing else lol

I was coming to comment this 747 to jumbo jets 🤣

Yes I was confused

To be fair, you can call any large aircraft a jumbo jet. For instance, the A380 is referred to as the Super Jumbo.

Yeah but it would’ve cost more to get rid of all the asbestos apparently

You can book simulator flights, although they can be very expensive

@@mstrmren how?

@@cheboyard In Germany there is one company that I know, it's called Aerotask, and at Frankfurt Airport you can book a Simulator Flight aswell I think. I don't know if there is something like that in the US or UK

@@mstrmren I know there is at least one in the UK and there is one in the Netherlands but I havent checked much about the US, i think i remember seeing one in Florida?

@@Fynnley525 there's two in SoCal

We agree, the destruction taking place badly affects the structure in order to get the wires. It matters more when it is a dated building, but I guess you could say every building is special to someone. Thanks for the response :)

There was on old pub down the road from my old primary school and it was closed and apparently had been stripped of copper all the plaster decorations and Interior were stripped I think or were stripped before it was demolished 5 years after I finished Primary School nearly at the end of Secondary which was a few years ago. It had Sky judging by the Satilette dishes I saw looked fairly big had a big garden from What I could see was overgrown was right by the Canal so possibly had potential to be a decent pub. The Interior might have been ok but the Cellar Ruined or the Cellar was fine but the Boiler and or Water Tank, Toilets, Pipes, Wires, Fixtures and Fittings Ruined it. It had several Danager keep out signs and in it's last year or two was set on fire reveling the Interior as the front bay window was destroyed I expected to see stuff like maybe what it used to look like looked Bare Brick inside so was very much Ruined. I had a weird dream that was reopen and that I had been to the Hospital down the road from it and me and my dad went in it was fairly busy and was being refurbished/Rebuilt as we were in the bar and the room opposite was having stuff done. Strange Dream/Maybe Immgination running wild

I can understand why the thieves target these abandoned buildings, it usually be a gang of guys carrying sharp tools so a lone security guard won't tackle them and don't think police are going to prioritise an abandoned buildings it's easy takings. Having worked as an electrical engineer when the buildings are closed it would probably be better to go in and strip all the services out and cap the incoming pipes and cables. It deters metal thieves and prevents damage from flooding. Also chances are if property developer takes over the building there would be a good chance of them needing to strip out or redo the services anyway.

I'd be more concerned with the sheer amount of asbestos debris left behind by thieves ripping the wiring out (you can see the smashed up firebreaks, usually AIB). God knows how much exposure they've had ripping it out let alone walking around/disturbing it.

Yeah but like they said it was shut because of asbestos found everywhere in it

But would it be recycled by the demolition company? If not then recycling it is good for the environment.

At £5,000 a ton it has alot of value

Yeah.. I really hope that was their drone problem...

Well it does present a problem upgrading buildings like this. Particularly now that everything is networked. Running additional cables for WiFi etc can become enormously expensive.

I think the copper thieves did disturb the asbestos. So it’s pretty hazardous to explore without masks.