Full Flight - American Airlines - Boeing 787-9 - LAX-DFW - N841AN - IFS Ep. 277 

Over the years, a lot of people have posted similar things on my videos. Honestly, it’s not something I ever considered people using my videos for. But, if they can help people overcome their fear of flying, that I am thrilled. I really hope they do help!

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woah bro even I have this fear

Your chances of dying are 1000's times greater driving a car every day. I mean, when you think of how many planes take off and land every day, when was the last airliner crash in the US? I can't even remember one. Lol

It should. The only real way is to fly. My parents in law never flew.died at 86 and their remains were flown by air to be buried in south Carolina where they were born . They migrated to New York at 25. Rode bus to South Carolina often where old family were still planted. Try short ight first then graduate to longer ones. California Canada then Dubai Philippines Japan. Good luck. Pray too.

Glad you like it!

Same haha

A lot of people say they use them for that. That's pretty cool my friend. That's not something I ever would've thought about them being used for. Thanks for watching my friend!

Skylite Productions 😊👍

Exactly what I do. Shut in my shed listening to meetings and watching the view.

Nice! And you actually got a decent meal on a short domestic flight, too! :)

I did. Any first class domestic flight that is over 2 hours gets full meal service.

Yes, there is a reason you were able to get first class on this flight. Your luck stems from the fact that you were the only person on the flight. In addition....., you were the only booking// someone had to pay for the fuel for this scheduled flight. You won the lottery!! Congrats. The left engine is amazing however. Makes me want pancakes, lol!!!!

Very consistent winds help with that. Thanks for watching my friend!

Well the sofa is cheaper but the real experience is exciting.and exhilarating. Looking is not feeling. I have flown since 20 and still get a rush before & in the air. I learned how to fly at 27 and am 69 going on a trip to VA next week before my Birthday in October 2023. Try it. It's fun more than skiing.

I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend. Plenty of videos on my channel to give you great views of places from all over the world. Thanks for watching!

Glad you like them, and I'm glad you're able to use them that way. Thanks for watching my friend!

@@sla31 take care bro!

Haha. That was my fault. I have a template I use to copy and paste information for video titles, descriptions and tags. It makes things a lot easier for me. I copy and pasted info from my last 787-9 flight and then forgot to change the airpot info. My bad. It's now fixed. Thanks for watching man!

And thank you for watching. Much appreciated!

The wind is very fun to watch on the 787. Thanks for watching my friend!

Thanks my friend. the approach into DFW would've been even better had my window not iced up. That's why you can see a drastic change in quality form takeoff to landing. Small ice crystals formed in between the two layers. Thanks for watching!

Sometimes it's nice to just have some background noise isn't it? I do that while I'm working on the videos for the channel here. Something you don't really have to pay attention to, but helps you accomplish what you're working on. Glad to hear you've found another use for my videos that I hadn't really thought of. Thanks for watching, or listening!

Thanks for watching my friend!

The newest engines have reduction gearing for the front turbofan and allows the fan blades to operate below the speed of sound, which improves fuel efficiency and perhaps reduces noise as well.

Black magic. Trust me, I know some people.

Thanks for watching my friend!

It’s popular because aviation has a huge following of people who absolutely love flying. And, although the view out the window is what I show most, there are other things in this video. I show the seat, the service, the food that you receive on the flight, everything to do with the flight. So, people can use this video to determine whether or not they want to give American their business. I appreciate you watching, but maybe my channel isn’t the channel for you. Given that my channel is mostly this haha.

Thanks my friend!

Thanks for watching my friend. I appreciate it!

Skylite Productions Absolutely. BTW - it may be a little late, but congratulations on your marriage.

They're a great plane. Very nice to fly on. Especially when you get first! Thanks for watching my friend!

That’s awesome my friend. It’s too bad my window decided to freeze up on the descent. Otherwise the picture would’ve been even crisper when we landed. Thanks for watching!

Haha. That was my fault listing it as ORD-LAX in the title. I have a template I use to copy and paste information for video titles, descriptions and tags. It makes things a lot easier for me. I copy and pasted info from my last 787-9 flight and then forgot to change the airpot info. My bad. It's now fixed. Thanks for watching man!

Thanks for watching my friend!

She is a pretty aircraft. Thanks for watching my friend!

I don't know for sure, but it's very possible. Even fully loaded, a 787 would be pretty light on fuel for such a short flight. That coupled with the good weather and long runway means they very lightly could've performed a derated takeoff.

They're pretty nice. I hope you get too sooner than later!

Thanks my friend. I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel.

No stupid questions here my friend. I hold the camera by hand. There are mounts you can buy, like suction cup mounts, but the problem with those is that, engine vibrations can transfer through the plastic window into the mount and then into the lens of the camera. This makes footage look distorted. Holding the camera by hand allows me to hold the camera exactly where I want it, without actually touching the window in any way.

Margaret Roselle I watched this a lot

@@robloxgamer2251 me too. LA didn't look so huge when flying eastward back over it, but I gotta remember that they were already probably about 25,000 ft off the ground by then

Me too. I remember going through LAX back in the 90s, I flew on Northwest airlines from Kansas city to LA, switched from Northwest terminal to International terminal and then flew Thai airlines to Bangkok (very long flight)

PhoenixAG what ?

Lol oh yeah

even at 15:20

@@walterg9901 he’s referring to the optical illusion where the engine turbines appear as if they are spinning much slower than they really are or look as if they aren’t spinning at all

I really like the 787. It's a nice aircraft, and is generally comfortable. I hope you have a great trip this summer. Barcelona is an awesome city. Thanks for watching man!

Check IRL stats before you spend your money on a left engine video, lol

Agreed! Thanks for watching my friend!

Agreed.

I'd take an L1011 over a 787-9. I never had the pleasure of flying on one. Thanks for watching my friend!

And thank you for watching my friend!

Thanks my friend. To answer your questions. One of the reasons why they go so far out over the ocean before they make their turn back east is for noise abatement. In fact, I think it is illegal for them to start turns before they pass the shoreline. The second part of that equation is ATC. There’s a lot of traffic moving around Southern California. So, the length of time before they turn back to the east may just be for sequencing. As for adding ATC to the video. I would love to do that. And I have actually looked into doing that. But, unless I can find a better way to gather all of the communications for my flights, it is a huge time investment. The problem is, as far as I’m aware, there is no way to easily find the communications for only your flight. You can easily go online, and listen to air traffic control recordings for any city, approach, departure, center, on any day, etc. But, on a flight like this you would have to find your flight talking to at least seven different controllers in all kinds of places. Los Angeles ground, Los Angeles tower, Los Angeles departure, three or four different ATC centers as it was traveling across the country, DFW approach, DFW tower DFW ground, etc. trying to find all of the ATC communications with this one flight, to then have to splice in to the video at the correct times, would be so time-consuming. And the basic, bottom line, is that I don’t have time to do that for all of the episodes. As much as I would love to, I tried to do it on a couple of flights and it just took way too much time.

@Steven Strain On this route the VOR at Seal Beach, Ca is the nav point to turn landward. Used to live at Seal Beach, you can see the pier, and the planes would do this all day.

Thanks for watching my friend!

I'm glad this could bring some of those memories back my friend. Thanks for watching!

Trump will bring them back, watch! MAGA.

@@Repented008 Yeah maybe when he gets out of jail

@@tradewins Oh please. All of you have the wool pulled over your eyes by the MSM. America had a chance to be great again.

@@Repented008 wake up brainiac. Your boy is responsible for 6 people's deaths because of his fomenting insurrection

Yes it was. American Delta and United all frequently use the international terminal for domestic flights. Usually the ones on large wide body planes.

Probably wanting to carry more people

Thanks for watching my friend!

Plenty more on the way. New videos are posted everyday at 4:00pm central.

Yes. American, Delta, and United all use the international terminal when extra gates are available.

Domestic it's considered first class. International it's considered business class. Do not ask me how I got first class on this flight. I got really lucky. That's the only thing I can figure. I have no idea why, but every other flight combination from LAX-MCI through DFW on this particular day was the typical $900-$1,200 one-way for first class. For whatever reason, this particular flight, paired with my next flight was only $221. Economy was $197. So, Obviously I booked first. Trust me, I do not make enough money here on RU-vid, or at my regular job for that matter, to have this type of luxury on a regular basis haha. So, what was a treat for me can now be a treat for you!

@@sla31 Your videos are the best. You should get a zoomable pocket camera for ground shots.

Everything on my channel is filmed handheld. I don't use any type of mount when filming. I don't trust mounts for several reasons. First, if there are a lot of vibrations running through the plane, which can happen often when you're dealing with jet engines haha, those vibrations can be transferred directly into the mount. That, in turn, transfers them directly into the camera. It can then make the footage look warped. Imagine the picture looking like the surface of a pond that a rock had just been thrown at. That's what the footage can come out looking like. That to me is unwatchable. By hold the camera by hand I can isolate the camera from the aircraft, which helps create an ultra smooth picture. Plus, my arm is made of fat and muscle, which coincidentally, is a great material to absorb all of those vibrations. The second reasons why I don't use a mount is because you lose a lot of flexibility when filming. For example. Say you're on a morning flight right in the middle of spring. There is condensation and dew all over the aircraft. You set your mount up, get it all locked into the perfect position, you rocket down the runway for takeoff, and suddenly there is a massive stream of water running right across the window in front of where you set your mount up. Too bad at this point, it will take you too long to re-adjust it. By holding the camera you can instantly adjust how your holding it to avoid things like this. Hope that helps!

Yeah, that was my fault. I didn’t quite have the camera set up the way I wanted. So I was re-adjusting it after the safety video played and I didn’t get it started again until halfway through the engine start. Sorry about that. Thanks for watching my friend. I’m glad you liked the video!

Thanks my friend!

It's quite common for US airlines to operate short flights with large aircraft. There are several reasons for this. First, is simple supply and demand. Between Los Angeles and Dallas/Fort Worth, there are roughly 21 million people. Only 57 counties in the world have more population than those two metro areas. So, there's a lot of people in those two markets. That alone means you could easily fill a 787. But you also have to consider that LAX and DFW are both huge American Airlines hubs. So they have a lot of connecting traffic between the airports, which helps them fill these large planes even more. And last, sometimes the airlines need the planes to move between hubs for longer flights. For example, American my have the plane operate SYD-LAX and then want the plane in DFW to operate DFW-FRA. So they might as well sell tickets on the flight between LAX and DFW. In the end, it's very common for US airlines to operate wide bodies on short domestic routes. Some other examples. American often runs 787's, 777's, and A330's (when they still had them) between the following cities. JFK and ORD, DFW, MIA. MIA and DFW, LAX, ORD, BOS, PHX. DFW and LAX, ORD, MIA, MCO, BOS LAS and others. And this doesn't even include flights to Hawaii, which are domestic but longer. Hope that helps my friend!

@@sla31 Thanks and love your vids!

Well, with as much as I fly, you may be surprised to hear that I have never flown the A350. So, I'll have to let others comment on that.

American doesn’t operate the A350.

Yeah. LAX has a lot of gates like this that require a long push back because the building, that connects the terminals across the alley, is too close to push you back and point you in the right direction from the start.

Ah yes! I don’t fly first class very often, but boy it’s nice when I do. This was actually a mistake fare I was able to find. The full trip, which consisted of LAX-DFW-MCI was mistakenly listed for like $228. It was only this flight combo, as every other flight combo was the regular $800, $900, or even $1,000 for the same routing. Sometimes airlines make mistakes on their pricing models, and this was one of them. So, I was only able to take this trip because it was a mistake that AA honored 😬. I actually have another trip like this coming up soon. My trip on Dec 7-8 is all first class, including two 777-200’s. It was another mistake fare. Four flights from TUL-MIA and back for only $320. That’s amazing considering coach was $290 for the same flights and all other flights were $900+. Of course, you can reference the last channel update on Patreon to see the exact flights, but I am very much looking forward to that trip 😁.

Everything on my channel is filmed handheld. I don't use any type of mount when filming. I don't trust mounts for several reasons. First, if there are a lot of vibrations running through the plane, which can happen often when you're dealing with jet engines haha, those vibrations can be transferred directly into the mount. That, in turn, transfers them directly into the camera. It can then make the footage look warped. Imagine the picture looking like the surface of a pond that a rock had just been thrown at. That's what the footage can come out looking like. That to me is unwatchable. By hold the camera by hand I can isolate the camera from the aircraft, which helps create an ultra smooth picture. Plus, my arm is made of fat and muscle, which coincidentally, is a great material to absorb all of those vibrations. The second reasons why I don't use a mount is because you lose a lot of flexibility when filming. For example. Say you're on a morning flight right in the middle of spring. There is condensation and dew all over the aircraft. You set your mount up, get it all locked into the perfect position, you rocket down the runway for takeoff, and suddenly there is a massive stream of water running right across the window in front of where you set your mount up. Too bad at this point, it will take you too long to re-adjust it. By holding the camera you can instantly adjust how your holding it to avoid things like this. Hope that helps!

Well, it's pretty nice. Especially when you can get first.

@@sla31 that’s awesome!

I do not use any aftermarket stabilizers. What you see here is the default, built in, iPhone stabilization.

Skylite Productions you must have a steady hand combined with iPhone 11 pro stabilization the result is fabulous

yep. it's DFW's skylink train

Yes, as plane_spotter_cvg said, it is the SkyLink. It is what you use to connect between terminals at DFW.

Hahaha. I’m a new father to a little girl right now. She’s just now three weeks old. I imagine someday she may have the same reaction. People watch my videos for a lot of different reasons. They love flying, they love travel, they love the views, they find it relaxing, etc. Everyone has the vices! I’m glad you enjoyed it my friend!

British engine "rolls-royce ".

@@sla31 congrats!

Haha. That was my fault listing it as ORD-LAX in the title. I have a template I use to copy and paste information for video titles, descriptions and tags. It makes things a lot easier for me. I copy and pasted info from my last 787-9 flight and then forgot to change the airpot info. My bad. It's now fixed. Thanks for watching guys!

@@sla31 yes I did that when I used to upload on my channel. No problem though, it was still an excellent video

@nightstalker haha my bad, I meant DFW area

Thanks for watching my friend!

I'm glad you enjoy them my friend! Plenty more coming!

Well, I do consider it fun. But it isn’t for no purpose. The purpose is to continue this channel. I fly a lot because I have this channel. If I didn’t, I would not be able to upload 7-10 videos per week. And, believe it or not, nothing that you see on this channel has anything to do with my job. I don’t work for any of the airlines, so I don’t fly for free. And my regular full time job doesn't involve travel. Everything you see posted here is done on my own time, on my own dime. This channel started as a hobby that I would upload my aviation travels to for fun. Now, I upload 7-10 videos per week, and it's really turned into a second job that I lose money on. I don't keep track of my time working on the channel, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's more per week then my regular job. Most of the traveling I do now is solely for this channel. I have 20 flights booked between now and the end of March, and all 20 of them are to make sure I continue to have enough footage to meet my upload schedule. So, I really appreciate everyone taking the time to watch, comment, like, subscribe, etc. A ton of work goes into keeping this channel alive. Hope that helps answer your question my friend.

@@sla31 incredible. Thank you for what you do.

Thanks for watching my friend!

Thanks man!

Just imagine. You could probably fit four of those trucks into that engine.

I know It’s so big

jajajaja

Haha. Nope, a breakfast enchilada. Thanks for watching my friend!

Thanks for watching my friend!

Thanks for watching man!

I'm glad my friend! Thanks for watching!