As a lesson in: "You tend to drift where you're looking." My instructor had me on the controls for a while. He was looking at his window and said "Oh wow. Check that out." And pointed. I sat up and craned my neck, trying to see out his window. I didn't see anything of note. "Where?" "Right there. You can't see that?" And a few moments later, he said: "Are you still flying the plane?" I was 30 degrees off heading, 500 below my altitide, 20 kias over my desired airspeed and in about a 20 degree bank. It was a good lesson in how quickly things can deteriorate with distractions.
fivestringslinger that would actually be a very good scenario to practice unusual attitudes with. Having a student get distracted from flying the airplane
@@davidhood2200 He had a really cool method for unusual attitude recovery. Rather than just having me under the foggles and him flying, he would have me put the foggles on and return the controls to me, then close my eyes and tip my head down. Then he would ask me to give him a turn, climb or descent. Usually 90 to 180 degrees. Then when things were sufficiently screwy, he would tell me to recover. It's way more disorienting as a student to put yourself in the unusual attitude. And it strongly demonstrates how you can't trust your senses.
fivestringslinger my DPE had my do that for my instrument checkride and yeah it’s a whole different ball park than an instructor putting you in an unusual attitude
A young and foolish pilot wanted to sound cool on the aviation frequencies. This was his first time approaching a field during the night time. Instead of making any official requests to the tower he said, "Guess who?" The controller switched the field lights off and replied, "Guess where?"
I heard of another 'comedian' similarly chastised by ATC: ATC: "[callsign] ,say altitude and airspeed" Pilot: "Altitude and airspeed" ATC "[callsign], say cancel IFR" Pilot "6,000ft at 140kts, [callsign]"
Then there's that one that backfired, this happened during WW2, think it was in the RAF: A flight instructor used to detach his yoke when he took his students on their check ride, tap the student on the shoulder, and throw the yoke out of the plane: your controls! (this was a training plane with open cockpit, and the instructor behind the student) Then one day there was this student who had been warned about this, and he took with him an extra yoke, without the instructor knowing it. Then when the instructor threw out the yoke during the check ride, the student took his extra yoke, and threw it also overboard. The instructor panicked and bailed out, then watched as his student landed the plane with ease :)
I find it hard to believe someone in the military is just throwing parts out of the plane that need to be replaced and not getting in trouble for it. Trust me when someone goes to replace that someone in supply is going to ask where the old one is, and what was wrong with it. Then they are going to start asking some serious questions. You might get away with it once, but not multiple times. Not to mention the safety concerns involved. I think someone was pulling your leg with that tale. I was in the military, my dad was in the military and my grandpa was in during WW2. They were just as anal retentive back then as now. Heck probably more with aircraft parts.
When I did my first check ride, we landed and during the taxi to FBO I asked how did I do. He said we would talk when we get parked at the FBO. That was the worst 2 mins of my life waiting to hear what I did wrong.... After we shutdown, first thing out of his mouth was I passed... I asked why couldn't he tell me that during taxi. He said he told a guy he passed once during taxi. Then he proceeded to clip a fuel truck with the wing on the way to tieup... So now he waits for him to be out of the aircraft before he says a word so its not his problem.
When I took my check ride I made a stupid mistake that wasn't related to a required maneuver, but I thought I was done. When we were downwind back at the home airport we were cleared to land and he cut the power and said engine failure and your flaps don't work either. I said the flaps are mechanical that would never happen, he gave me a stern look and said no flaps. The airport was surrounded by houses and I didn't want to come up short so I stayed tight and ended up doing s turns and a very aggressove slip to get down. We made it, I said boy that was ugly, he said yeah but you made it and if you had passengers they live another day because you made it happen. He said I'm not going to keep you in suspense, you passed. I said what about my mistake earlier, he said I think you learned from that.
After a landing in my PPL checkride, the examiner said, "If you can taxi back to the terminal from here without hitting anything, you'll pass." I got off the runway and stopped after the hold short line to call ground, like I'm supposed to. Examiner, a retired airline pilot, said, "Keep going, call 'em on the roll." Yes, I'm PIC but I thought he knew what he was doing so when I rolled and called, ground said, "Why are you moving on my taxiway without permission?!?" Examiner said to me, "Tell 'em you'll never do it again."
I've never had flight school, but I am an avid SCUBA diver. When I started out, I was terrified of the ocean and decided to take SCUBA lessons as a challenge to myself that my fear was misplaced and I could overcome it. My first SCUBA instructor was a bit of a prankster and after a few pranks that I understand now to be harmless and safe, I nearly had a legit nervous breakdown due to the terror I felt every time I got in the water. He was a nice guy and all, but I eventually got a different instructor, finished my training and now I've overcome my fears. My story is to just point out that pranks should only be pulled on people you know can take it.
Prank is ALWAYS a bad idea. Very low IQ people do pranks. Pranks kill and maim people. I have herd about dude who petended to commit suicide and killed his mom with heart attack. Idiocy
A couple of my favorite moments with my flight instructor: (1) when I was clearly too low on final and we flew over the golf course next to the approach end of the runway, he opened his window, leaned his head out and yelled, "Playing through!" (2) when I landed and ground control said they believed my ELT was activated (it was due to a malfunctions), I looked at my instructor and said, "I didn't think my landing was THAT hard!" (3) immediately prior to my first solo (which I had no idea was about to happen), he told me to stop in the run up area because he seemed to be having a problem with his seat not locking in it's tracks, and needed to look at it. He then proceeded to open the door, step out, and fiddle around with the seat for a few seconds before telling me, "I know what's wrong with it... You don't need me sitting in it anymore." Good times. Thanks Marc!
Most every newly soloed pilot I ever spoke with said that the plane flew so much better without that instructor in it too! And it wasn't the extra weight they were speaking of either.
I'm sure they are...we are witnessing the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the World. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate people who move cargo, as I most certainly do!
First I would like to say I really enjoy your videos. I'm a 20+ year retired US Air Force aircraft maintenance Crew Chief who has worked on F-15, C-130s, B-1 bombers, E-3 AWAC and KC-135R Stratotankers. My favorite by far was my time on the KC-135 since Tankers normally take their Crew Chiefs everywhere they went. The banter between Tanker Crew Chiefs and the Flight Crew was normally a thing of beauty a perfect balance of working hard and playing hard. Way to many pranks to go over but the Pilots often used their Crew Chief to assist them with pranks pulled on new young flight crew members and the favors would be returned when we would have new young maintainers. With KC-135s being so old and having so many upgrades one of the most ongoing pranks use on both new flight crew members as well as maintainers was the installation of dummy switches where just cover plates should be installed due to systems being removed. These dummy switches would be labeled with all sorts of silly functions like stealth activation, cloaking controls and all sorts of different weapon systems. My favorite that I had on my aircraft for a good long while was the switch for the deployment of chemtrails. You might be surprised at how many people would fall for it. The best is when the Tanker would be sitting static display at an air show and some civilian would just happen to notice the switch that was clearly labeled and their head would explode. Good times! 😀✈ Silly tricks we played on the civilian public when our Tanker was on display at air shows could make a pretty funny book or video.
@@ozpilotgirl I'm sure with things like Tik Tok they have likely banned all unauthorized switches. I retired from the USAF in 2005. I'm sure it has changed a lot. We used to have a lot of fun to make up for all the hard work and long hours.
Im a flight Instructor, but i dont do many "pranks"... but there is one i like to do that helps their pre-flight. While they are doing their interior inspection i put postit notes on the airframe where i know students miss looking over. Their face is priceless when they find one and i just say somthing like: "dang how did that get there".
When I was a student pilot in a 150, my instructor taught me about proper trim by continuing to roll in trim while I held altitude with increasing yoke pressure. All of a sudden we were looking straight down at the ground through the windscreen. The horizontal stabilizer had stalled! Scared him more than it did me, because I assumed he knew what was going to happen, which he didn’t.
I'm calling BS on this. I don't see how this is possible. If you're holding proper pitch attitude with the yoke (which controls the quite large left and right elevator surfaces) then the position of the relatively tiny trim tab mounted at the trailing edge of the right elevator should not be enough of an aerodynamic factor to stall the horizontal stabilizer unless you're already within a couple knots of the aircraft's stall speed and prior to moving it to an extreme angle. Perhaps this could happen in certain planes where the entire stabilizer rotates with trim changes, but not in a Cessna 150 (or other single-engine Cessna aircraft) where it's only the tiny little trim tab that would be moving in a direction contrary to the airflow over the elevator. There are plenty of instances where the trim control cable has broken in-flight at undesirable settings (or just come completely loose), and while very annoying to fly like that, it does not jeopardize the safety of the flight. It would only cause a very slightly increased stall speed due to the minimal drag that would be produced by the trim tab being now pointed an odd angle as compared to the elevator's angle. Anyone with access to a plane equipped with an elevator trim tab can see this by running the trim wheel all the way to the nose up and nose down stops while the plane is parked on the ground, and getting out and looking at it. It's really not that acute an angle even at those extremes, and certainly won't cause enough drag to stall the horizontal stabilizer at normal airspeeds, to include approach and landing speeds. The only real issues would be a quick change in configuration, like a go-around, which would cause a lot of brute force to have to be applied on the yoke to keep the plane from getting into an attitude that would put it into an aerodynamic stall. So if this experience actually happened, I'd have say that you guys were already at an extremely low airspeed and at or near an incipient stall before the trim wheel was rolled to whatever position it was. It would have virtually nothing to do with the trim position, and essentially everything to do with the plane's speed and angle of attack prior to rolling in the trim.
Watching your videos and Insta uploads makes coron:tine much more bearable. Please keep'em coming! And pranks with Kelsey is yet another great category! :)
This isn't aviation related, but when I'm at a new job or position, I'll tell my trainer when they're teaching me... "No... Not like that!" , and I'll watch them stop, and ask me why not. Then i'll say, "I don't know. You're the teacher."
My favorite I’ve ever seen pulled off (with fuel trucks) was the “integrity test”. Basically convince a pipeliner to scream different notes in to the manhole and listen for resonance during the monthly checks. If there’s any “cracks”, they’ll continue to hum like a tuning fork. But cracks of different sizes only resonate at specific frequencies, so you have to do a full “Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Da”
I frac in the oilfield and we have new guys swing a bag in the air to get A.I.R. samples, run a sensor and cable out on the ground and tell them they have to beat the ground around it with a sledgehammer doing a seismic test. I really like taking a thick grease and using it as a glue and putting coffee cups on new guys hard hats.
Try putting a bag of Doritos in the back seat of a C-172, and make your student pilot climb to 10,000 feet. BANG!!! Engine failure??? Nope. Check your six. Doritos everywhere.
In my charity (organizing huge concerts, actually) we used to draw dicks on paper during our boring meetings. One day, the guy among us in charge of security wanted to fax the whole security planning to the city’s firemen office. So he printed it on used paper, because after a fax scan you can throw away the paper... Aaaaaand that’s how we sent 43 dick drawings to the firemen office, with our fax number in the metadata of our phone number at the top. The guy was new with this fax machine and didn’t know you had to put the paper upside down. Fortunately the firemen office had had hiccups with every previous generation of students in our charity so they just phoned to teach us how to use our fax machine, half-laughing half-bored.
One student I know got dicked around by the maintenance guys for an hour and a half, at which point he asked to speak to the manager, who (after listening very politely) chewed the guys out, getting them to hand the student a bucket of water with some used engine oil in it, which the student then hauled nearly a mile across the ramp in the tropical heat. Yeah, they got me good. :P
My favorite was doors off in an OH-58C, you could cover the static port with your foot. Periodically cover, and uncover it. Always fun to watch the other guy!
I absolutely love your ability to make your channel so interesting (for the most clueless aviation enthusiast, like myself, all the way to helping actual airline pilots learn). Please never ever stop your channel. I am amazed not only by your experience and all you know about Aviation is just fascinating in itself. You are so genuine and honesty, and you don’t Bragg, nor insult anyone. You are obviously very intelligent in your field, it boggles my mind why you don’t have your 4 stripes (you know everything there is and how to explain it to all from the inexperienced enthusiasts all the way up to educating real life pilots). I just love the vibe of your personality that ultimately makes your channel so awesome!! Thank you for all your hard work and time you put into 74 gear. Please never stop creating new videos. Your obviously so good at knowing everything a pilot should know, and very entertaining!!
Hi, I am 73 now and my dad wanted me to become a pilot as he was in the Luftwaffe in the war. We lived in Belgium when I was 14. One had to be 16 to ride a moped but at 14 one could learn how to fly. So, after a relatively short while, about a year later, near Gent, I had my first solo flight in an SV-4 (Stampe-Vertonghe) 4 biplane that had an inverted, 90 Hp, air cooled Renault engine. Just imagine how proud I felt, then, and how much fun it was. I was 20 in 1967 and flew a matte black painted, unarmed, Pilatus Porter in Laos, I did nothing wrong but some people shot at me. I broke my back in 1979.
Watching this again, reminded me of an event when I was flight training in the late 1970's I was already doing circuits, but one Aero Club instructors, was a service mechanic for one of the airport's airlines and the trainer was known for pranks. One new student was very nervous (his dream to be a commercial airline pilot), but had done his "basic ground lessons" and about to go up for his first flight. They bypassed all the training aircraft and approached the DC9 , parked just outside the service hangar... next to the the Aero Club . Well, you guess the rest, the trainer basically said, "I think we'll take this baby up", and proceeded to walk up the air stairs.. the student backing away... the trainer reiterating, "Well you want to be an airline pilot dont you? Come on...". Later that day, after the student calmed down a bit and had a laugh with all of us, they took up a C 152 instead..lol
When my father was learning his CFI turned the fuel off in a 150 and then asked what are you gonna do and my dad said find a place to land then the cfi was like but your fuel is off so, my father said I didn’t turn it off so I’m not turning it back on. He got the CFI back
That's a good response anyway. If it spontaneously happened, there might be a worse problem, and it's better to figure it out on the ground, than to risk another engine failure.
A lot of great ways to make your students never want to learn how to fly ever again. I personally stand on the side of creating the best possible flight learning experiences.
Yup, also a great way to lose students who decide to find a more professional instructor. If it had been me with the trim prank I’d have been so tempted to smuggle an unloaded pistol aboard for the next lesson and point it to his head and order him to land on a flat plain miles from civilisation. See how much he enjoys being tricked into fearing for his life just for the amusement of another person.
If a prank stopped you from flying then it is probably a good thing. A prank is in good fun. If you can’t handle unexpected good fun, how the heck can you handle the bad? So imo best your not in control of a plane or other serious machines.
@@SirCanuckelhead After having picked up body parts so that there was something to put in the casket after a prank that has gotten out of control, you tell me where was the good fun. There is a definite difference between jokes and pranks, and when in good taste, a place for each.
@@valerieurquhart3133 there is also a huge difference between harmless pranks and ones that go too far. Someone hiding behind a door or in a bag is a prank. They can be harmless and fun. Like everything people can take it too far and ruin it.
I prefer the jokes we made on students in electro-mechanics or automation. "Go check the tires pressure on the forklift !" (handing them a bicycle pump)
Same on my school practice. But better - we have solid rubber tires on forklifts... half hour of searching air pipe around rim... and loud laugh from oldies. It was funny times.
Lol, i did aircraft maintenance and we had a section with all the tools, and there was always one student assigned to it and he needed to keep track of who got what tool and give it to them. And if it was a first year we asked if they could look for a copper magnet and let them search XD
I actually pulled that prank on my girlfriend and I filmed it, but the funniest part was when we went to her parents for dinner and they asked how was our flight and she told her parents how I tricked her. She actually said to her parents "Mark tricked me today and made me blow on Peters tube" instead of saying "pitot tube". Let's just say I had a lot of explaining to do to her parents. LOL
If my flight instructor did any of those, I'd get another instructor. Learning to fly is NOT an opportunity to mess with someone. It's stressful for the student. Every pilot during training has doubts and exploiting them is cruel and unprofessional. Except the parachute; that's just funny.
i've never been prenked in a plane. And I think that is great! I think pranking has no place in the plane. Trusting the instructor is important. And feeling safe and calm during training. It has no place in flight training. Even a harsh way of talking to the pilot is not a good thing. And not a "cowboy" attitude either, skipping checklist steps, og doing them for you. We have all the time for all the checks.
flying cars have been built. but i dont think anyone of they made to productuon because they cant get FAA certfacaton. apprently, the FAA s more strct whth landng gear on a flyng car then on al plane bvecause the landng never touches potholes n less n crashees n a dflld. they are afrad of the t httng smethng when t s a car then makng t not arworthy. so they buld t to plane specs and then get dened.
The video's thumbnail is showing the pilot who emergency landed his plane this year on the highway 40 near Quebec City. Is about to take the exit. All the communication tower and him is available. Tipical calm pilot.
I dont question that your instructors were very professional, but no need to be boring to be professional. A right amount of jokes at the right time is a good thing to relax and make life memorable
There was a few jokes and one good natured "prank" that I fondly remember. One was when I was low on final approach and over a golf course at the approach end of the runway. My instructor opened his window, leaned his head out, and yelled, "Playing through!!!" I thought it was funny and me made me more conscious of my pitch and power settings on final. The other was immediately prior to my first solo (which I wasn't at all expecting that day). My instructor kept looking down and adjusting his seat as we were taxiing back to the runway for another circuit. As we neared the runway, he told me, "Stop over in the runup area, there's something wrong with my seat and I need to take a look at it." He had me, hook, line and sinker. So I stopped and he took his seatbelt off, opened the door, got out, and began fiddling around with the seat track. Then he looked at me and said, "I know what wrong with it. You don't need me sitting here anymore." I'll never forget that moment and the humorous way he sent me off on my first solo.
I understand the whole prank thing all too well. I've never been a prank person nor do I like people pulling pranks on me. Personally, I just feel there's just not some times and places for pranks. Flight training is not a place for pranks. Makes for a lack of trust 'cause you won't know when they're pranking or serious.
Agreed - the ones on the ground are absolutely fine and I would absolutely love it if someone put one over on me like that. Its a thing of beauty when someone gets you good, no matter how embarrassing. The ones in the air, I would refuse to fly with them again and probably lay a complaint. I'm there to learn and paying a shit ton for it, and if I don't get it right I could get myself or someone else killed -especially seeing how easily a small error can snowball. Easy to find another instructor these days.
I just disagree with pranks altogether. I don’t understand how frightening or stressing someone out just for your own selfish amusement is considered acceptable.
@@paulvonblerk9365 After having picked up body parts so that there was something to put in the casket after a prank that has gotten out of control, you tell me where the shame lies. There is a definite difference between jokes and pranks, and when in good taste, a place for each.
I am training to fly gliders. We have a winch to pull the gliders up and therefore we need to pull out the ropes the entire lenght of the runway (1000m, ~3300ft). Usually, this is done with a car. My FI pranked me and made me pull them out by hand (super exhausting) because I didn't know we have a car for that. Yikes.
Taxing toward the runway when learning to fly, there came a distinct knocking from outside the aircraft, it took me some time to realise that it was the instructor, door slightly open and leaning out, knocking out his pipe on the undercarriage leg !
My favorite trick is to put a highly abbreviated label (like PES) over the "passenger ejection seat" button (in an airplane your CFI has never flown in). Then up at altitude you ask the CFI "what is that button?". He shrugs, and you suggest, "push it and find out". Hopefully you remember to attach the parachute to the passenger seat before you take off. :-) Just kidding (for the non-pilot viewers out there). PS: If any of my flight instructors ever did the kind of nonsense described in this video, they never would have earned another penny from me! There are a lot of more tasteful and actually funny jokes and pranks out there.
My dad was a flight instructor in charge of other flight instructors in the RCAF. He would have ripped you apart if you pulled any of these pranks on his flight cadets. It was complete professionalism from flight briefing, to walk around, in the cockpit, and on debrief after the flight. That said however pranks in the barracks, mess, other airbases (stealing mascots for example) was unofficially encouraged to blow off stress from learning to fly in the military. One story was during a graduation ceremony where the flight cadets were getting their wings. Two foreign exchange cadets, one from the UK the other from Australia had a real rivalry going and one of the popular drinking games was to yell Dead Ants and the last guy down on his back with hands and feet in the air had to buy a round for everyone. You guessed it the Limey thought he would get one up in the Aussie by yelling Dead Ants just as he was handed his wings from the base commander. The Aussie went down on his back and hands and feet in the air. The base commander had a sense of humor and told him, looks like you are not buying the first round are you, No Sir, Thank you Sir. And yes the poor English fellow was made to pay for not just the first round but many! 😂😂😂
A classic one is to distract the student right when they're about to untie the tail tie-down so they accidentally omit that part of their checklist, or possibly even re-tie it when they're not looking. Same could possibly apply to chocks on the wheels if they are being used. Student attempts to taxi away, use full throttle, plane doesn't move no matter what they do. I think my mom's instructor pulled that one on her. It's a good lesson to teach though, as the student will be diligent about that the rest of their career and that could save them humiliation later on when they have an audience. Another she told me about, later on in the Air Force, she was doing simulator training, I think for a C-130. Old beat up simulator, felt sketchy to begin with. Simulating emergencies, they did a cockpit fire simulation. Smoke began pouring out of the instrument panel. Thinking the sim was actually on fire, she was ready to shut it down and evacuate. Instructor laughed about it and urged her to deal with it like it was a real airplane. Turns out the sim had a smoke generator of some sort, the same used in those old Lionel toy trains, and she'd not known that - something I'm sure the instructors always enjoy not telling students about ahead of time. I don't remember any good pranks from when I was learning to fly (power-planes), probably because my mom was my instructor - I knew her too well for her to be able to pull anything on me. Can't think of anything from my glider rating either except all the times the instructor pulled the tow-release at 200 feet AGL, just barely high enough to make it back to the runway, that instructor was infamous for that.
As the old joke goes: "Glider-student is overdue.. and down in a field. Car and trailer are currently inop and so Instructor comes to pick him up in the towing-Cub and sees the glider in a tiny tiny field and thinks, well, if he can do it, I have to do it, too to maintain my instructor glory.. he barely manages to stop into a hedgerow and asks the student: "dam, how did you get in here?", but the student goes: "what do you mean, I landed over there in that big field and pulled the plane over here so you have more space to come pick me up"
I had a CFI that SO overused the 'surprise' throttle pull i'd be ready to slap his hand if i seen him so much as move out of the corner of my eye. Having an engine failure every 2-3 minutes was annoying and it was a constant low level distraction and impediment to training. CFI: Look down at the point you're turning around! Me: No way! CFI: Why not? Me: Cause you're gonna chop the throttle... again. Can i try to complete ONE maneuver today without an 'engine failure'?
Maybe from sucking, but I seriously doubt it for blowing. You can draw a ton of vacuum, but you won’t generate any real pressure. Our anatomy does not allow it to happen.
Back in 1980, I taught part time in Colorado and our flight school had a prankster instructor. He lasted about six months, pranked the wrong person, lost his ticket and spent some time in the grey bar hotel.
Thanks Cris, a story with no details. It's so typical on this BS site full of phonies. Did you run out of story? What prank was also a crime? The world wonders.
@@stevek8829, If you have to know, the offending prank was to “pants” an individual just outside of the hangar in full view of everyone which exposed the lower half of his victim. In Colorado exposing yourself or causing someone to be exposed is a crime. The nail in in the instructor’s coffin was that his student/victim worked for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and was a female.
@@Sekhet8 yea im not buying it. I doubt someone is senseless enough to pants a chick as a male. I understand the 80s was a different time than now but im pretty sure even then it was criminal offense to do that to a chick. tho don't quote me on that. either way provide some names as this should show on some databanks with the correct search
@@thegulagcuck4066 Well, it happened and I don’t care if you buy it or not. Even though I knew the instructor and still know his victim, I won’t give out their names on public media for you to further rehash a poor choice made by the instructor and further humiliate his victim. Take the lesson learned and move on.
My CFI tried to trick me into turning onto the runway with the yoke, he didn't count on me already having hundreds of hours in flight simulator X before signing up But he did get me with the trim trick though, but instead of just releasing all the backpressure after me pressing a button, he instead had me scan for traffic, and when I was busy looking for traffic and facing away from the instrument panel, he trimmed the plane to bank hard to the right, then when I said theres no traffic, he released the controls, hit the door of the plane with a bottle and screamed "we hit something!!!!" Needless to say, that scared the shit out of me, I leveled the plane after about 2-3 sec and looked over at him laughing his ass off, then I saw the trim controls, i retrimmed the plane and learned not to be a smartass
Damn, probably a good thing I never learned or wanted to learn to fly because doing something like that to me would see him both lose a student and get reported to the authorities. Making someone fear for their life is not cool. Would you have been so forgiving if he’d held a gun to your head even if it had no ammo but you didn’t know that? Same thing.
@@mikoto7693 unlike you, I can take a joke Flight training doesn't have to be boring and by the books 24/7, it just has to be safe There was nothing on TCAS, the weather was good, and we had plenty of altitude, instructors play jokes on students all the time, I even got him a couple of times during my training When it was a slow day of flying and there were only a couple of flights in the air, me and the other students (the instructors and tower knew what was going on as its prettycommon at my school) would have mock dogfights with each other with the instructors calling out on the radio "got you" or "got us" when one of us lined up a "shot" on the other Say what you will about boomers, but they make great flight instructors
My dad was an instructor and he used to flick the landing gear up while the students weren’t looking. At 2-3 miles out on approach, he would ask them if it was down. Instant terror every time. 😂
My trainer when we were learning how to drive trucks: Trainer: let's see if you're skilled enough to shift gears on a railroad crossing. Student: I did it, I-- Trainer: What the hell are you doing? Shifting on railroad crossings is _illegal_ !
@@annahenrietta9517 I've never seen a truck stall I think, and it shouldn't take more than a few seconds to restart the engine, probably restarted before it even comes to a stop.
Really loved this one! I have a question though regarding the tiller, how do big planes manage to taxi on the yellow lines? Like is there a camera ? And how did they do it before there was a camera ?
Well, I’m late to answer and I’m not a pilot but commercial jets can’t. They have to be guided into the stand to park by a member of the ground crew. You’ve probably seen it somewhere. It the person in a high vis vest waving brightly coloured red batons or even lit ones powered by batteries. It’s our responsibility to ensure that the aircraft stays on the yellow lines and stops in just the right spot.
I never had an instructor prank me, but my very first flight instructor (Colt's Neck Airport, NJ 1963) was a screamer. Every time I did something wrong he'd scream at me. After one landing, he got out and screamed at me, "I'm getting the hell out of here before you kill us both. Take off!" That was his charming way of telling me I was ready to solo. He got out and I did a touch and go, then a landing to a full stop. He congratulated me, but never stopped screaming at me for the remainder of our time together.
Was it only me expecting the backpack talk was gonna be a sponsorship (which would be fine, Kelsey deserves some good sponsors) and then had the same "WHAT?!" reaction as that student pilot would have had at the mention of parachutes et all. Good one!
The prank I would love to do if I was a flight instructor would be to have the student climb into the plane while I'm sitting there as the instructor reading my piloting for dummies book.
@@traingaming3240 If they've already done a bit of flying, you could wait until after takeoff and suddenly start acting like you're the student and you think they're the instructor.
I am glad my instructors were all about safety. We did nothing without know why we were doing it first. We never goofed around, it was all serious business. If any instructor did any of this to me, they would no longer be my instructor. I guess I don't react well to pranks....
Funny story. I grew up flying c152 with my dad, he was my first “CFI” , so years later I decided to go for it and get my private license, first flight with my now, current CFI, we’re in a c172. We’re doing preflight check, I look at him and ask ,” where is the carb heat?” He just stared at me and said… bro, it’s fuel injected…. I felt like running back to my car I was so embarrassed!! Now we have 12 hours, and hoping to solo very soon! Great channel!!
This is like when we had someone who never worked on a car before wanting to try his hands at it, so when we got tired of him, we told him to look for the "mid-throttle distributor" somewhere in the workshop! After searching the random section of shelves for 10 minutes looking for the non-existent part we described for him, he came back to say that he couldn't find it... Then we would add another 2 or 3 pieces of information on what it looked like, and back over to the shelves he went... When we finally felt sorry for him, we suddenly panicked and yelled "STOP, STOP! You're stepping on it now!" And when he almost fell over from us yelling, we told him that we couldn't understand why it took him so long to find his own feet, since they were literally attached to his legs...
When I get back to finally flying again, I won't care about any pranks -- I will just be so happy to be back!!! (Okay, honestly, I'll care a little....)
Chances of us getting pranked are pretty slim... ok I’ve had an airline pilot tease me about my radio faux pas once but in a nice, fun way (so embarrassing tho). Best of luck with your training!!! 😊
I love you man. I am pilot too. Once i flew paraglider without pilots license. Pilot was supervising on the ground and operating line... Climbed 300ft. Landed perfect ;)
I love hearing (coming up). Brings a smile to my face. Love the vids and always excited for the next. Also those are some mean pranks hahah. If I even get into this line of work I’ll keep these in mind
I'm a glider pilot and I had an old Luftwaffe pilot as CFI. When we did spin training he put his feet on the petal so I couldn't get out of the spin before we did a few rotations. Scared the heck out of most students he thought it was funny.
Can confirm the sensory overload thing, I bought an hour of flight time on a 737 NG sim at my local mall (yes it's as cool as it sounds, but pricey) and somehow I totally forgot how an ILS system works and made a very stupid comment asking the instructor how the computer calculates the glideslope (he seemed rather flustered by that question given I understood all the other systems). Afterward, I realized what I said and facepalmed, even today occasionally as I drift to sleep that moment comes back to haunt me and keep me awake replaying it in my head trying to understand how I managed such stupidity. I did manage to land at Reagan my first try, albeit hard, and managed to land the approach reserved for small regional jets, only crashing once (crashing the sim in the process which was a trippy experience).
Hey kelsey, I hope all is well and you're keeping safe. My first flight, my instructor showed me an emergency descend. Me being new, it looked to me like we were falling back to earth, and neither one of us is an astronaut.
aye. There’s a huge, massive difference between a joke on the ground “hey go ask the mx guys for a bottle of prop wash” or letting the student try to taxi with the tie downs still attached - vs pulling dumb crap in the air. If your CFI approach is to act like an idiot and play stupid games in the air, your student is going to be the one to earn a stupid prize. The student isn’t going to trust you or they’re going to think screwing around is acceptable. If the student is lucky, they’ll wash out of flight school - maybe on the check ride. If they’re not so lucky, they’ll mouth off to ATC thinking it’s funny, and get a number to call. Or worse they’ll imitate, have a bad habit, or have missed a critical lesson point from the instructor - do something dumb on a solo xc, not know how to recover, and kill themselves. At that point, is the CFI’s joke still funny?
Random Acts of Video I completely agree. I still hold a current CFI and have instructed in the military and civilian world in everything from a Beech Skipper to a B-747-4. These are unprofessional at best and I would have exactly zero tolerance for them. If you find yourself with a CFI doing anything remotely like this, find yourself another instructor.
When I was a ramp agent, we would convince the new guy that there were a lot of bags on this flight, and we needed a cargo bin stretcher. We would send them to another airline who was in on the joke. They would give them a telescoping tail stand for a 737. Thought it was beautiful.
Kelsy...dont get me wrong here. I love the channel. I follow you, Mentour, P1D, Corporate Pilot Life and a couple others. I will continue to. You all present great content and some real valuable information. I just happen to believe this video was inappropriate from a professional pilot. But you know what they say about opinions right? :)
tim crawley Tim: you aren’t the only one. I generally like Kelsey’s content as well and have been flying airliners since 1988, but I found this in bad taste and unprofessional. I would never to pay to fly with a CFI that tried anything remotely like any of these pranks. There is no room for this in any airplane.
