How an Airliner Cockpit Works 

VIDEO CORRECTIONS (compiled from viewer comments): From Juan Pablo: FCU (Autopilot) panel o. The glareshield. You have HDG 360 twice. The window on the right should read Altitude. From The Beast: the HDG display and IAS indicator on the right side of the flight control panel shown at 18:19 actually display desired altitude and VERTICAL speed respectively, not HDG and IAS and at 27:33, the A/T DISC switch only disconnects the autothrottle, to reengage autothrottle you have to do so on the flight control pane From Edward Long: 2: the flap handle is way too long, should be about 2 inched in length.

My jaw is on the floor, this is youtube and teaching at its best. If there is an award to be had, these videos should get the Oscar.

The amount of work/effort he puts in these videos are INSANE. like not even joking he puts more effort into these videos than any other channel I watch. Kudos to you man! Keep it up 💪

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the line "The EDM switch is not a special guarded switch to play electronic dance music for impromptu sky raves"? The inclusion of humour amid such a professionally crafted tutorial just made this 10/10 video even better. You've earned a lifetime of impromptu sky raves my man.

I literally feel like I’m robbing you watching this for free

I am a CPT on B737 and this video allowed me to admire the technological advancement of a very new airliner A220. The B737 uses switches rather than push buttons and there are as much as tripple the amount! This cockpit is very cozy and seems to be much easier to use for a new pilot. You just got me at heated floormats :D Great video! You should be paid for an instructing video by Airbus company.

This video is a treasure for me. I have been involved in civil aviation since fifty odd years , never got to learn cockpit instrumentation despite many flights as a guest in the cockpit . Thank you very much...

Its crazy to think that most of these controls had very specific reasons for coming into existence....and that often included loss of life.....humbling. This is a supremely beautiful art piece made about a supremely beautiful art piece....I genuflect.

I’m an engineering student and I really enjoy watching videos on how things work together. I really appreciate your incredible work you do on this channel. Keep up the awesome work! 😎

Hi, the pilots of these aircraft, deserve every penny of their pay check!!!! I am a private pilot, and some of these explanations lost me. Outstanding video!!!!

The level of detail is mind boggling. I never think when boarding a plane that there is so much detail, fine tuned, parts which take great care to engineer. Like the last video, this really makes me appreciate modern air travel and its unrivalled safety of transportation. Astonishing.

I'm a simple man. I see your videos, I click. Your videos are amazing. Keep up the out standing work.

Amazing videos this guy makes and you don’t even hear him say things like “like and subscribe “ like other youtubers. He lets the audience do it on their own based on his high quality videos. Great great work

I hope you can do a "how a commercial/container ship works" video and a separate video of its "how a commercial/container ship is controlled" specificaly focusing on the bridge and the engine control room

Can somebody deny the fact that there are superior brains on this world? Airplanes are the prove that miracles do exists !!! Thank you so much 🙏

I learned so much in this video. It’s incredible how many buttons, toggles, switches, and levers there are!

I was involved in the design of the 220 from the beginning when it was the C Series at Bombardier. You have done a great job at this drawing. A couple of things need fixing. 1: on the FCP the HDG is written twice. The windows from left to right should be speed, HDG, altitude. 2: the flap handle is way too long, should be about 2 inched in length.

Former Boeing.... your detailed 3D animations are always amazing. I have watched other of your videos on aircraft construction and operations. All very close to real life. Every aircraft is a little bit different, but the basics never change. Yaw, Pitch, Roll are the 3 most important concepts every pilot must master to safely fly any aircraft. One thing not mentioned is choice of colors for flight-deck. I still remember when Boeing Triple Seven (777) came out with an all glass cockpit and fly by wire. Adjustable display panels and muted interior colors helped pilots focus without eye fatigue. Since then, all modern aircraft have all glass cockpits and fly by wire. I am old school stick and rudder, or yoke. Side stick needs lots of practice in simulator to master. I just recalled problems in some military jets and side stick were too sensitive and high G load on pilot's arm could accidentally push stick in error. It's funny, 20 years ago at Boeing, engineers had very sophisticated CAD systems. Your 3D see through and fly through are 10 times better than what they had back then. One IBM CATIA workstation cost 50 grand plus annual license. Times have really changed in computing.

I Fly the A220 and it was a pleasure to see you make this video of my office. Well done

can we please take a moment and ALSO appreciate the work of tons of skilled software developers, who created blender and give it away for free? It's insane how good open source software has become.

Can you please make a detailed video on a cargo ship operations too? It would be great video for marine engineers. 👍

Boeing planes are different enough that they deserve one of your extremely excellent videos. I'm quite surprised how much ground you covered in a short time. Of course you were just skimming the surface of all the controls available, but you did a really good job of abridging the topic!

Thanks this is probably the best video that explain the controls in a cockpit.

I actually exploded at the special guarded EDM switch

Dude, how is this just free,I feel bad man.... great content

Before I commented, 380 comments meant A380? GREAT JOB and the sky is your limit. Thanks for everything you do.

Your animations are awesome. My friend , an airline pilot now retired, used to talk to me on the 60 meter amateur radio band from his aircraft on flights to Europe. HF (SSB mode)worked great and I could stay in comm with him out over the Atlantic ocean. (I live in NY) Also , my 11 year old Grandson, on a recent trip from NY to FL, had the distinct pleasure to sit in the pilot's seat of a Boeing 737. He is a big airplane enthusiast and I will be sure to show him your channel !!!! Thanks for super educational info !!

we are mid flight and the pilots fell uncouncious, this video was very helpful

Amazing and addictive are these videos . Love it !

Wow having this crazy amount of info available pretty mch for free is priceless, also the quality of the animations it's top-notch.

That eye-level red/white dot thing to optimize seating/viewing position is pretty clever!

Dude, this is becoming an addictive channel, I’m telling you!

I can’t believe I’m gonna be using these controls one day. I’m so excited to be a pilot

This is by far the best description video on the internet about airline cockpit. Huge respect for the efforts you put to make this video.

Appreciate the quality, honest work. Love these physics/engineering videos. Would be amazing if you can continue to cover things from rockets, to electric cars, to things like the ISS. Keep up the great work Jake

Look I know I'm supposed to be more focused on the content but honestly your animations make everything 100x more interesting.

Extremely well done. This "tour of the flightdeck" is just beautiful.

I was listening to the music as much as the VO. Seems like Jacob had to have a lot of varying ideas to keep everything from being over-repetitive. No small feat for a half-hour video. Incredible job all around!

Excellent as always!

17:38 Imagine if you were a passenger and you heard, "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain Marshmello speaking" 🤣

I am thinking myself as a pilot, provides almost every details to us who are not pilot is realllllyyyy Amazing!!!!

Much respect for how much time and effort went into making this video!

IRS actually stands for Inertial Reference System. Super interesting video!

Incredible work. You've earned yourself an impromptu sky rave.

Such a pleasing voice and speech delivery!

I’ve always wanted to be a pilot my whole life. How I wound up fixing cars is beyond me. I have degrees for aviation. I give you all my word. Once my debt is paid off. It’s time for pilot school.

Excellent work! Great graphics and clear explanations. I don’t fly the A220, but you may have a mistake on the FCU (Autopilot) panel o. The glareshield. You have HDG 360 twice. The window on the right should read Altitude. Again, I do not fly the A220, but you may want to check this since it is the vertical navigation section of the FCU and having heading there would make no sense.

Another BRILLIANT presentation! "Art meets Technology." I'm ready to strap on the A220/CS300 now and let's fly! Thanks again.

Awesome video! I’m a 737 driver and I am jealous of all the automatic functions on these newer jets. That said, the 737 is a beast!

Just when I thought the narrator didn't joke around at all until 17:35 talking about the EDM switch. That's Emergency Decent Mode and not a special guarded switch to play Electronic Dance Music 😅😂😂😅😅

Was about to go to sleep but this popped up on my feed, damn you

This isn't a RU-vid Channel, this is the Most INCREDIBLE yt Channel! Congrats

The maker of this video is indeed the master of the topic. Smooth unhurried narration coupled with superb visuals make it a treat to watch the video. Frankly I was expecting to see the black control column!

I see Animagraffs. I click. Then I tell my friends and family to click.

This is insane

This is some next level stuff. Immaculate animation and editing . Feels like sorcery 👌👌

Dude i don't even know how many hours of research it took you to compile all of this and assemble it. Bravo on all these videos. Also appreciated the EDM humor >D

This is the first I have heard printers being on the plane. Amazing work and great video

I was pondering the insane amount of detailed work you must put into your presentations...magnificent!😯😀

Excellent work bravo from indonesia🇮🇩

I love this video and thank you for teaching me about an aircraft! I hope you do a Helicopter next! Learning about the physics of flying is fun from your videos.

Damn we’re about to fly an airplane after this. Love the channel, it’s brilliant to learn for curious minds

Wow! This is an amazingly detailed video that will probably step up my flight simulating experience. I stopped just short of my private ticket due to life events, but I still like to flight sim occasionally, guessing my way through some of the more advanced aircraft features. This video is spectacularly detailed! I will check out your other videos, even the non-flight related ones.

Awesome video, always wanted to know what all those buttons do when peeking in the flight deck

I was kind of expecting a surface level video that doesn't even mention the tiller and glosses over 3/4 of the cockpit, but I was blown away. As someone who is used to Boeing aircraft (primarily the 737) in sims, this actually kind of helped me to get started with an A319 in XP11 and the MSFS A320neo. I think Boeing's airplanes are different enough from the Airbus style shown in this video that it might warrant its own video in the future, but that's wishful thinking on my part lol.

People who fly should watch this, just in case the time came where someone had to fly the plane. Pretty interesting

Bro you are talented

Fantastic breakdown of the car. Clear and precise. I am a car person but now have to watch all your other ones. I appreciate as do many others your hard work that goes into it.

Incredibly detailed and very well-made, thank you!

I greatly appreciate the dedication you put in.

I’ve been waiting for this video to come out since I watched the first part! Your work is unmatched when it comes to videos like these! I always know when I watch these it will be top notch quality. Keep up the great work Jake!

Many thanks for the very good video of the cockpit. My view of aircraft pilots has increased to over 100% Thanks

Wow ur really great.... This is the only cockpit video available in yt!

This video turned out amazing. Such great information on the A220 flight deck. Now I can share with people what I actually do. This would have been such a great resource to have when I was studying to become an airline pilot. I will definitely be sharing this. Also, I had to smile at the comment that said there should be a version 2. Clearly they have never been in this flight deck.

Amazing video & quicker than expected turn around from the "How An Airplane Works" complimentary video. Great work and thank you!!

Just when I thought I knew everything about the flight deck... amazing work!

I'm guessing the previous video and this one are about the A220

Please jake, make a one of a heli…your videos are amazing!

It's my pleasure watching your amazing video

Yesssss, half an hour of truly quality content, can’t wait to watch

Thank you, Sir. Appreciated Cockpit explanations

Loved the EDM comic relief portion :D

Dude these videos are just so great! Thank you.

ok now I know how to fly 😆 just think one man knows all these switches and knobs and lights . I don't even know what over half my buttons do on my remote . hats off to the underpaid pilots. and this was a very well made video . I subscribed when I watched a sailing ship 3d vid a couple weeks ago

Wow, what a nice flight deck on this A220. Pilots must love it.

This is a fascinating video. I'm going to send a link to it to my retired pilot friend. I did notice something strange going on with the knob shadows on the audio control panel, starting around 21:50.

You are a legend Jake, unbelievable videos, appreciate the work

Your videos are great and the level of detail is just staggering. The 3D models and animations are amazing! The explanations are easy to understand, but no details are missed. I wish I came across these ages ago! I wish the best for you and your channel and that your efforts don't go unnoticed!

Amazing videos man! So technically sound and informative and the absolute right amount of humour. The EDM switch explanation had me laughing for a good couple of minutes 😂💯

Please continue to make aviation related video!!! You do an absolute fantastic job in all your videos!!!! I can't get enough!!!!

Great use of Grease Pencil. Love IT!!!!

Outstanding production. Thank you!

awesome video........first time EVER to get a breakdown like this one........Thank you !!!!!!!

Thank you for creating this. I was always curious what all those panels and controls were for. Goes to show how much a pilot has to know to effectively and safely navigate an airliner. Really amazing how much is involved. Truly fascinating. Also, Great Job on creating this video. Graphic information was fabulous.

very informative video. i need to watch this multiple times to remember all details. thank you ❤

One video of animagraffs = 1 year of school

Never seen such a detailed and well explained video!! Thank u for making this video and thank u for making it so simple to understand!

Absolutely a fantastic work- thank you

Striker would be in awe! 😂

I can watch this all day, good job.