WTF!! Boeing 757 using the REVERSE GEAR - Skiathos Airport 

Cargospotter Where's that....St. Marteen?

Cargospotter Ok. Never mind. Just checked and found out it is in Greece. Great vid!

tmat04 no it's Greece

bobby hug Yes. I sent you a 2nd reply after I found out it was Greece. But thanks for your reply, anyways. And Gr8 vid!

It isn't St Maarten, it's in Greece

You can alt f4.

737s have a habit of stealing limelight from 757s any opportunity they get... I did find it mildly amusing as it crept on screen

Kim Jonny ikr

Canadian Plane Spotter mom comes in at 1:15

@@shrinivasaprabhu8931 you killed me 😂 😂 😂 😂

Especially with the hot summer in Greece

College and University by Bermuda425 what is the average temperature at summers in greece? Just give me like an estimation

Depends on the place. Midland in the cities when we got heat wave it can reach 38-40 celcius, but at the islands the sea breeze drops it by 3-4 degrees. Normally it'll be around 32-35 degrees celcius for late june, july and august.

There you go ;)

Twenty Five Hundred 5..4..3..2..1..

Tail mounted engines react with the flight characteristics differently and that includes reverse thrust. In the DC-9 era pilots were much more active in flying the plane vs electronics. They had autopilot of course, but flying was much more haves on which led to different experiences flying with different captains. Cheers

what in the living hell is that lol

@@mattkroening7964 to scare away birds i guess

757s are allowed to use powerback at certain airports...it's the largest civil plane that is allowed to use powerbacks afaik

Gordon Cochrane NWA was the last US carrier to allow powerback ops discontinuing it in 2005. While possible to have never seen it done, if you have 2,800 hours in the 75 you have presumably been at a legacy or cargo operator for quite some time. But having never thought of using the reversers like that when it's generally a limitation regarding thrust reverser use that you must have memorized, your claims of being a pilot are in question.

Was 60kts to stow the reverse at the UK airline I operated B757's.

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haha wtf

Jaguar79gt hahahaha 😂

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@jojobens You don't say Sherlock

MD-80's did it all the time at RDU backing away from the jet bridge.

steven pappas the man is correct, in a way. I was flying 737-300 from ALB to PHX when the ALB airport was torn up and the gates were non existent. We pulled into a space on the tarmac and unloaded but it didn't seem as if there was enough room for a TUG pushback between the chainlink boarding "gate" and the aircraft. Boarding for the return we were all seated and waiting when the engines came to life and the cabin reeked of dust and stale air. A TWA pilot dashed to the cockpit, the door was open then until you were ready to take off. The pilot came over the intercom to say that nothing was smoking or burning, they were using stored air under pressure to start and reverse the engines. Properly reversed we went backwards until the pilot could swing the nose around and we could roll onto a taxiway. The TWA dude thought that the stink and dust meant smoke and possible fire. I have been on a flight when the #2 on a 777 was engulfed in flames when started which went away quickly. I've flown a million miles as a passenger and 3,000 hours in a 1 or 2 engine spinner but I have no clue as to how the self start/reverse ability comes into play nor how the air is stored and where.

Bobby Paluga I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that the APU (auxiliary power unit, the small engine in the tail) is used to provide power and compressed air to start the engine when ground power isn't available. As for moving under reverse thrust, I think it's avoided as much as possible because of fuel consumption and possible foreign object ingestion.

+jojobens You mean reverse "thrust". "Trust" means something completely different.

Yes sounds like a Go-Around would have been good....

Bogdan Misko Looks more like a selfie stick pole.

ever heard of a gopro?

Its not a drone, a drone would be blown away, looks more like a big selfie stick

Exactly. I used a selfie stick.

Fair enough, Drones can hold a GPS position so that's why I asked. Sort of looked like it. Great footage nevertheless!

mictho100 yeah maybe

Yeah I agree!

@@mrsmchistory Yes they were hard on the brakes there with the antiskid system working well...

@@captainjamesmcbride2344 thank you sir! Are you still working for EasyJet? My 11 year old daughter is aspiring to become a commercial airline pilot. Hope you're keeping well!

That's why it was in quotes. Watch the video and read the text before commenting. This is about a powerback manoeuvre using the technical facility of reverse thrust to push oneself back without a tug. It's quite adequate to term this highly unusual action "reverse gear" with tongue-in-cheek.

@Christopher Coke Robinson You don't say Sherlock

pinkdispatcher You should see a turboprop do this in heavy rain...I guarantee you'll never forget it!

That would be kind of cool to see.

As a rampserviceman I powerbacked 757s, DC-9s and 727s in the rain....It was EPIC!!!!

It's exceptionally rare and was indeed a great catch. It must be against the SOP's, surely

Spiker , But that’s been out of protocol since the 1980s

hakan737 Apply parking brake and then use reverse thrust, it will start to crawl back

Lmao 😂

d4v3y01 while doing a powerback, the engines can kick up debris ahead of the intake, which then gets sucked back into the engine and can damage it

Doesn't that apply to using reverse thrust on touchdown during a normal landing? Why should this be different? Perhaps the safety issue is the fact that the pilot and co-pilot alone can't really see what they're reversing into?

d4v3y01 during a landing though the plane is still moving forward into clean air while reversers are being used

d4v3y01 Low speed reverse can cause the engines to stall

cant kick debris fast enough to go in front of the engine and be injested because plane is still moving forward fast at and just after tocuhdown

Nissans for the win :)

Interesting siren on the Nissan. Scares the birds away? Looks like 2 birds fly directly in front of the jet taking off at 4:00 .

should have*

It's just that I've noticed in Ottawa, Canada that a person still drives around in a truck that says, "BIRDMAN" on the side and fires fireworks and stuff out the window at birds. Some of the things the birdman fires make a whistling sound and some go BOOM and birds will flock off immediately lol. And I've also noticed that the birdman in Ottawa is sometimes a birdwoman :)

You're right. I see the BIRDPERSON every time I plane spot in Ottawa. Yet we still get hundreds of bird strikes every year!

Silenthunter199 also picking up FOD....Did that 737 have to back taxi because of that? Why did he turn in the middle of the runway..did he miss his exit?

Take look at that (page 3 is aerodrome chart) www.google.pl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwis2rab0onVAhWqIJoKHcmFBiEQFggnMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyweb.tiscali.co.uk%2Ffssim%2Fcharts%2FLGSK.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFrPGQ7KJolA_9VtUcVSEA_JLWSsg As you can see there is no exit at both ends of runway. Planes have to turn back and make so-called backtrack on runway to vacate it.

Silenthunter199 thanks bro. I appreciate it. I fly private and didn't even think to find the chart. thanks.

Jet planes using reveses for breaking normaly.

Of course they are doing that. They don't do powerback. Mostly it's idle reverse thrust because of volume of reverses, but they can use that for safety purposes like Skiathos, where runway is short.

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Um, that's why he used quotation marks around it in the description, duh. Because "gear" is just used figuratively here. (I wish he had used it in the title too; maybe I can still get him to. Let's see....)

Foot on the clutch so the plane is in neutral. Take the gear knob and shift it straight into reverse.. now you’re in reverse gear so just fully smash the throttle 😉

X-Planer Take a look on plane when it's landing. The tyres generate smoke because pilot shifted R gear.

Trucker No-Lifer xD I’m done

Obviously you don't get around too much. Anyway I fly a potato, online you can be whatever you want.

leokimvideo listen to King Flappi you jerk..... Regards Gulfstream pilot of 25 years experience

that's not what reverse thrust is for moron

Its to slow down the plane at landing... NOT TO REVERSE!

reverse trust is used to slow the aircraft down on landing AND to allow the plane to go backwards i guess you are too young to know about the DC-9s and MD-80s doing power-backs from the terminals as standard procedure. look it up then tell me part of it is "NOT TO REVERSE!" also, same with military cargo aircraft...C-130, C-5Ms....allows them to operate with minimal ground support...otherwise you gotta ship over a tug to push them back....smh

first read the description and second delete your stupid comment

Matthew Jericho Sy I think it's the other way around. 7,000+ hrs.

Joe Biden Never heard that term on the flight deck of any of the aircraft I've piloted, DC-8, B-737, B-707's. But even turboprops like the Twin Otter or Dash 8 that have reversing props. If the syllabus has changed, please point me to a link that has a flight manual that states reverse gear...

Joe Biden You really do not understand what's you're talking about. You really don't. Not once in the Wikipedia article about reverse thrust, is it ever used to describe a "reverse gear" situation when backing up an airplane or using it to slow down. I've applied reverse thrust thousands of times. No pilot that I have flown with calls out, "reverse gear", when moving the thrust reversers into position. What we will do when are going to back up a turboprop using reverse check to make sure we are clear, make a radio call if necessary on Ground frequency, and whomever is the pilot in Command is, will call out, reverse prop. On float planes, we don't bother at the dock, the pilot, usually the Captain, because his side is usually tied to the dock, will check with his co-pilot, making sure portside is clear, then without any call-out, applying reverse prop on the starboard engine #2 and high idle power to the port #1 engine to rotate the aircraft in a tight docking space. On land, Twin Otters often will use reverse thrust to back the airplane up. We do not call it reverse gear. On B-737's and DC-8's, we always used ONE term, REVERSE THRUST and nothing else. So please, stop taking about something you CLEARLY do not know about how to describe or how or when it is used.

Joe Biden how is it a gear? There is no gear involved?

rwbishop and you would know exactly what the procedures are at every airline in the world..stop being a fucktard pretending to know about things you CLEARLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. Lots of airlines and air forces allow power backs...now go away and stop pretending to be a know it all. You are clearly not. Oh the 757 has a powerback aporoval so get your facts right before you post rubbish...

rwbishop PIC? you mean F/O? First Officer? or a Captain?

See Wikipedia's 'Pilot in Command' entry for a good rundown.

maybe that's what they're referred to where you may be from but from everything I've learned about which is a few courses, refer to the cockpit crew as Captain, Co-pilot, and First Officer

smol bean - Ever seen a cockpit video from Lufthansa when the Captain tells the F/O: "You have control". Now the F/O is the PIC. In this case the Captain would be the PIC after landing (if he didn't land) because he/she is responsible for taxiing from the runway.

I never did. Wouldn't have like the idea of doing it at all. Must be hard to keep your feet away from the brakes so you don't instinctively press them by mistake and stick the nose up in the air.

It’s called a thrust reverser