How Do Pilots Pass The Time On Long Flights? 

Don’t forget discussing what they will do after the flight😹

Yes, it's a pity pilots however well paid they are, are not part of top management. The CEO who is not the pilot heads the management together with the Boards who made the management decisions on running the Airline. A real pity really. Edit : Top Management.

@@bahardin3992 They absolutely are part of management. Chief/Deputy Chief pilot, base captains and flight ops are all part of management. In terms of contracts, most civilised airlines in reasonable countries have unions to negotiate on behalf of the pilot body - usually to mixed results.

@@asarsealex Not TOP or Upper Tier Management - CEO, COO, MD , BoD or even Chairman/ President. They are still considered as employee - salaried worker, paid employee. If they ever make it to top mgm, they will not be flying full time anymore.

@@bahardin3992 hey bahar! Are you Persian?

You hit home with this one.

Matthew McClain? Wouldn’t happen to live in Peachtree City Ga would you?

@@madmikemackas no, Ohio. It's a fairly common name. I know a couple others

@@matthewmcclain1316 yeah but Matthew W Macclain?!? Weird

@@madmikemackas no, not W

Has that happened lol😂😂

@@benwsibley it does

Are you speaking from experience?🙃

@@benwsibley yes unfortunately. mentour pilot has done a video on it

Some crew in the US over their destination and for another hour before they realised and got in contact wuth ATC. The whole time ATC was trying to contact them and nearly scrambled jets to intercept 😂😂

What about the flight dispatchers?

@@MamacitaBonita anyone that can keep folks 5klm up in the air in a metal tube & return them saftey to the ground ' not only get my total respect but also my gratitude.

@@MamacitaBonitathey also deserve praise

Airline pilot here. Thank you very much! 😊

@@MamacitaBonitawhat about them

😂😂😂😂

Arguing whether putting the engines to idle will correct a wing stall condition as they did on flt 447 that dropped into the Atlantic.

Or they are planning for the next time to go on strike

They are French…at least one of them is running away

thats more like what brit pilots would do

Wait since when did they allow smartphone games?

@@bigmungus4864 more times than not, they are not. Any personal electronic device is not allowed to be used during flight, for most companies.

You seem to be no cockpit crew member.

@@johannesfabender9 what I am or am not is not important. This is how it works in most companies

They are definetely watching movies and/or sleeping.

yup, USA rules are much more stringent than European

Over 15 or 16 hours three relief pilots. Once at SFO several years ago I saw six of them (two capt, two FO, and two SO) on an Air China flight SFO-PEK which was operated by a 748. I think that rule applies even for international carriers flying to/from the USA.

That's because you are flying Boeings, you need more pilots and if possible also en engineer and awelder to make it safe.

I think it depends on the company, but 8h is hard enough, so going beyond that is very difficult. It's easy to just start glazing over and then quickly miss things.

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Are BA still sending a380s to DXB?

@@firewaffle1 Yup

Playing candy crush

Sleeping, or practising handstands

Eating and sleeping that’s all they do and cabin crew are the one working so hard always on their feet but still all the money is given to pilots for just sitting

Yes lol

Lol

yes.

Yep

Eyespy the Atlantic Ocean... 😂

The equal time point can easily be input into the Flight Management System. You go one way or another depending if you have passed the ETP or not and have hours to prepare your diversion. Monitoring fuel burn is not an intensive task either.

@@PogU Shut up

@@PogU If it's that simple you're not thinking about it enough. On a transoceanic flight the ETP may be between Gander, Newfoundland and Shannon Ireland, but there's more to it. ETP is mostly about shutting down an engine and deciding to turn around or press on. You should be aware of the time to other divert airports along the way. Greenland, Iceland, the Azores may be the best bet if a sudden life-threatening medical emergency happens, or the duration of flight is threatened by a mechanical failure. If all's good it passes by with little effort; if the divert fields have tough or rapidly changing weather you should keep up with it and know the approach minimums. Our airline also provided us with estimated travel time to the nearest hospital for emergency airfields. What's the point in landing at ABC when the weather is too bad for a helicopter med-evac and it's a 30 minute drive to the hospital when you could land at XYZ 10 minutes later but the hospital is 5 minutes away? You can fly an entire career and never need to do this but being ready is part of the drill.

Perfect, especially the last part.

@@gerardmoran9560it’s called ETOPS

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The bunk beds are not secret; they are just not accessible to passengers. Pretty much the same difference with long-haul trucking. I wonder if it is the case with long-haul trains. I mean trucks and trains can or must stop along the way to rest, relief and restore. Aircraft, not so much unless a stop is required or forced.

It is very hard to become a pilot. Pretty much everyone who becomes one does it out of passion, and is most likely happy with their job.

Bunks are almost always present on widebody aircraft. Be kind to the cabin crew, and they may let you see it after landing if you’re nice and visit with them during the flight.

Naps in the crew bunk are absolutely common on long haul flights over 8 hours. The airline will schedule 1 or 2 extra pilots on the flight just for that purpose. Being able to sleep when your nap time (typically 3 hours) comes is important to enjoying international flying. Getting good sleep at the layover hotel, even when jet-lagged, is also crucial. Pilots that struggle with sleeping, either on the plane or at the hotel, will often bid short haul flying just to avoid it.

@@roccogordon69they are happy with their pay checks

Or, popular with Aeroflot is doing the same with Ukrainians who downed a civilian Russian airliner over the Black Sea in early 2000s, denied it for a year backed by their good friends the US, finally, they admitted it, and their president said, “hey, mistakes happen, get over it”…or the US doing the same with the Iranian airliner…

Ouch.

@@stephenebert6820 What are you even on about? It was Russia that was insistent that flight 1812 was brought down by a terrorist attack while the U.S was one of the first parties to raise concerns that it was shot down by a Ukrainian S-200 during a joint Russian-Ukrainian missile exercise. There's mountains of quotes even from Putin himself disparaging the notion of a shoot down from the time period too.

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@@stephenebert6820 Aeroflot crashes anyway, they don't need outside help. Do the research.

Good luck my guy! Work hard for it and get going!!!

@@PedroThePortuguesePilot thank you!!!

The computers do all of that

Staying ahead of the aircraft is something usually said for when the plane is below 10,000 feet

Chances are the plane landed itself

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They are there for when the lights and bells go off. They hit the autopilot about 1 min after gear up.

ULH flights will have a rest area for the crew. Some areas are located above the passengers while some are located under. Look them up on youtube, I was very surprised seeing them.

You push a button and it tells you nearest airports. Not much planning.

@@budguy21 doesn’t mean that airport is the most suitable for an emergency landing. Does it have sufficient emergency equipment? Does it have a nearby hospital? Does it have long enough runways for an overweight aircraft? Is the weather good or bad? All these can factor in depending on how severe the emergency is.

@@tomstravels520 Nearest button gives you runway length. All the rest of that info takes a few second to evaluate.

@@budguy21 or you can think ahead and plan for which is the best suitable airport and create a secondary flight plan knowing the runway will be long enough. Then if an emergency does arise you already know where you’re going to go and can activate the back up flight plan

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If you sleep in first class seat instead of a proper bunk you are doing it wrong.

@@12345fowler True, but not all long haul aircraft have bunks. Trust me, From experience, a 1st Class seat in a 3 cabin aircraft, with a seat that can go fully flat, does the trick just fine :)

@@12345fowler are you a pilot?

I think about the Air France flight from South America to Paris that ran into issues with weather, instrumentation and pilot error that I always wondered if could have been handled with better alertness and awareness in the middle of the night.

You must be a peach to fly with lol

@@noobnoob6490Sounds more professional than you....

This person has no idea what they are talking about

@@noobnoob6490 I would hate to fly with you. I do exactly what Dcxplant is mentioning, and if you're just going to hit the Autopilot and forget about the plane than you probably shouldn't be flying.

They are called heat exchangers.

This is not just a myth.

@@tomsherwood4650 happened this year. Ethiopian Airlines. It's rare, but it can happen.

On way to anc at night. First officer went to bathroom, I went into fd, captain was snoring. I was crew. No biggie. First office wasent gone long. Plane was on autopilot

Fa goes into flight deck for a reason. The don't just walk in. That was bull

of course. They actually get to use the high speed hidden wifi network that are not avail to passengers

Most airlines won't allow the use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) but that does not stop them from using them anyways. Watching movies and tv series, listening to music, playing games on a phone /tablet and sleeping (one at the time) are very common practices (the last one is actually allowed by the airlines with limitations on time and phase of flight but these rules too are often breached in one fashion or the other)

🤣🤣 and I believe also arguing... it's a way of life for Italians

Yeah, sometimes on frequencies that aren't very active someone will randomly "meow" and pretty soon everyone on that frequency is meowing lol