Is it possible to make this a series? It would be really cool to see the training progression or even just updates to how she’s doing in the future. I wish her the best with her career!
I agree with other commenters, this is real life (in a sim of course), interesting interaction between captain and a student. Also, kudos to Beatrice for being willing to be filmed coming in cold to this new situation. Excellent video.
I think the best parts for me is when he’s silently repeating the checklists to himself. It shows that this is what he normally does and that it’s super real.
Yeah i was kinda amazed and shocked at the first time i saw it, i was like, is he talking to the first officer so silently, or he is just repeating a checklist? But then he did it again and listened more carefully to realise he is just such a 'double checker' and so used to it that this is an honest automatic reaction from him like flying a real machine . Its brilliant =D
I earned my PPL many years ago (it's sadly now expired) but I still often relive my first solo. I was on the edge of my seat all through this video as I enjoyed it so much. I wish Beatrice every success in her career.
@@djinn666 Thank you. I had to divert my money to my twin sons' education and I'm a bit too old now. I'm still crazy about aeroplanes and spend a lot of time looking skywards.
In the same position, had my ppl at 19, money and life got in the way and now at 44 I’m too old to start again. Biggest regret in life. Still a huge aviation nut. I wish her every success in her career.
This is amazing! Very much respect to Beatrice and you Mentour for doing this. You seem to be an amazing instructor! Have a great year mentouring these future pilots.
She did a great job -- and it shows why Petter does so much pilot training -- he's a great teacher. He doesn't get flustered or irritated easily, which helps keep the student calm. Awesome effort for both of you!
The personality of the trainer makes a world of difference when learning something so technical. You are fantastic and patient. I remember training on a new CT scanner with a stressed out coach and it was a nightmare.
Great video. The second approach gave me a bit of a chuckle but I flight sim at home in this aircraft all the time and its obvious to me I would have done 1000x worse. Thanks to Beatrice for participating!
Good job Beatrice! Congrats on putting yourself out there, not everyone is willing to show themselves learning and thus making small mistakes, being vulnerable basically. You will be a great pilot!
Back in the late 90s I got to fly the KC135 simulator at March ARB. Took off and landed with great success, I was amazed on how real it felt. Up to that point I had only flown home simulators of fighter jets. My two biggest surprises was the feel and slow response of the big bird, also on my first landing I had forgotten how much higher the cockpit was off the ground. Needless to say my first landing caught me by surprise. I was use to seeing a much lower profile at home.
I remember her when she was a flight attendant at Ryanair still, saw her in the flight school too, Ireland is a small country haha, living near Cork helps
I know this is an old video, but watching in 2023 and this is so inspiring. I'm 43 but want to start a new career as a pilot because of stuff like this!
Thank you , one of your best videos. I am a senior citizen just getting back into flying; , got my Commercial, CFI, instrument etc more than 30 years ago , using my Veterans benefits, but could not afford to continue flying after that. Having fun now with an instructor learning GPS approaches etc. That did not exist in the late 1970s. Your skills and abilities to teach are awesome, I am sure many first officers are benefiting from flying with you.
This made my day! I'm not sure I can explain why watching her fly and seeing excellent guidance from Peter here make me so happy, but I'm glad I tuned in.
I love this channel. Ive had a horrible fear of flying since I took a delayed flight back from Turkey around 15 years ago. I remember a feeling of the plane tilting to one side and a loud noise coming from one side of the plane. It frightened me to death and my blood ran cold. Ever since ive been petrified to fly to the point that I took a 1 hour flight to germany a few year after and burst into tears. Ive watched many of your videos and youve helped me feel so at ease now I understand what is happening and I was able to fly a short flight to northern Ireland last month without having a meltdown! Thankyou so much for these, they help so much
Great video. The student is great, and the teaching is great. What got my attention was how pro Peter is in the cockpit. At 13:59, he (instinctually) does this automatic check, verbally clicking the items off to himself, waving his hand over the panel. Its amazing to watch. At another point he does something similar I think to the autopilot.
@@ryan_n05 I know that! But anybody can watch a machine doing anything. Doing it yourself is what counts. Having to rely on a machine is not knowing how to do it in full. I am old school, but this is the best way to know something.
This was amazing. It was interesting to see your hand move to do something then stop and tell her what she needs to do. Very intuitive. Thanks. Best wishes Beatrice.
For anyone wondering, I found the AFTA blog where she has some entries, it seems like she completed her line training and is a second officer! Seems like her training is going very well, and she's on her way to F/O status.
Superb content. I have experienced a (static) 738 sim on a few occasions and I can empathise with the same mistakes that she made, not having the 'feel' of the plane and chasing the FD and so watching her conquer the beast on video would be a fantastic programme. Best of luck to her. I can stop sweating now!
This is awesome. Like others have said, I hope she agrees to do a series and we can see her progress. Great video Mentour and let Beatrice know she will be an amazing pilot.
This is one of the best videos I have seen on this channel. It will be great to follow student Beatrice's progress, as many have suggested, if possible. She has clearly got what it takes to succeed.
Met Beatrice last month up at AFTA as I was waiting to be called into my Ryanair Mentored Programme Interview. So friendly and made me feel very comfortable. Aced the interview and sim test and have been accepted onto the programme, due to begin in November after I finish school!
I'm a hobby SIM-Pilot and got a "real" 777 simulator flight for my birthday. I remember how thrilling and overwhelming that was for me although I was completely familiar with the 777 avionics and cockpit (at least to the extent of my simulation software). But it was still such a huge difference between having a real cockpit with buttons instead of short keys on a computer keyboard. So when I consider that she's not that familiar with the 737 I'm impressed how she handled it. I found it incredible complicated to keep overall awareness for speed, altitude, pitch, bank and position itself in manual flight. It was exhausting! On my 2nd attempt on the simulator I wanted to try having the autopilot fly the plane (except for the final approach and touchdown) and I programmed the short route and approach into the autopilot and controlled it without the help of the instructor. This worked really well. Since it was a realistic simulator I'd have mastered that in a real plane I guess. But flying manually completely would have been a disaster and I'd use up all my fuel without being able to align properly to the runway where everything comes together.
Yes Commander, We Really Liked That! Nice interview. Professor Petr! Beautiful how calm you are to help her be calm. She must have been really nervous. I think she’s gonna make it. Thnx, CJ
That looks like fun. I have been a passenger multiple times in an aircraft but I know nothing about flying one except for what I have learned from recently finding and watching Mentour's Channel. It sure is interesting and I appreciate all the video's and information you post for everyone. Thank you.
Wow what an experience I'd reckon for a ppl student! She looks to progress really well. Makes me remember last year tagging along with a friend for his and co colleague annual check rides. The briefing and their sim tests were tremendously interesting to have witnessed. Afterword he put me in the right seat of the E190 sim. Had not flown in a long time (not continue after high school...), so that was quite an experience, a fond memory and the 1st t/go captured on film :)
Well I’m taking my CPL now, actually it similar to landing Cessna but here more complicated. I have felt nervous just like I’m on this simulator doing the landing. Great job for the instructor for easy way teaching and good landing for the student on 1st time on simulator.
What a beautiful way of teaching - positive, assuring, supportive. That's how it should be, making us reaching the best of our potential. Thank you very much for sharing!
Got a Thumbs Up at 6 minutes in! Loved the teaching format for this one. I agree with some of the other comments; nice change up with the simulator instruction. I am an old Navy veteran who really enjoys this channel. Great job guys!!!!
Great Video. She did a marvelous job!!! There is nothing easy about wrestling an aircraft to the centerline with minimal exposure to its characteristics. Job well done!!!
Thanks for this video. A long time ago I was in a six axis simulator for the KC-10(DC-10 AF tanker) courtesy of my Air Force pilot nephew. My prior experience was not an actual Cessna, but the Flight Simulator version of the 172. I had also taken lessons in an ultralight, but not actually soloed with it, just a short hop and drop in line with the runway. In the simulator, which I assume had no crosswinds or other complications to deal with, I was able to surprise my nephew by actually flying a pattern successfully like your student did. It was made possible, mostly by the instructor doing for me what you did for her. In my case, not having the rudder and brake experience she had in an actual Cessna, I did not manage to keep the plane on the runway after hitting the centerline accurately, but the many many pattern take-offs and landings I had practiced in the fake Cessna gave me the ability, greatly enhanced by the real seat of the pants feel of flight dynamics that motion simulator gave to my body, to bring that plane more or less safely onto that simulated runway at March AFB including clearance of the nearby mountains needed to do the pattern there. Now I know how much more help I really had in that one time, unforgettable exercise.
WOW! I’ve watched a ton of Mentour videos, and this one is one of the best. Very informative. Kudos to the videographer behind the pilots. Fantastic job capturing the action!
Mentour a friend and myself who are both SIM enthusiasts and not even GA pilots had an opportunity to fly in a 738NG simulator. WE flew circuits at FAOR, from a stand which started with a push back engine start and taxi to active runway. We followed a checklist we had, during the circuits we encountered an engine failure, we also had smoke in the cockpit at some time. We were able to do all the correct procedures as per the QRH and landed the aircraft safely and correctly. Also flew from FHSH and landed there, but it was more difficult due to the wind factor and shorter runway, but all was achieved. So hence I'm sure that people with enough hours on the 738 in the SIM world, should be able to fly if needed.
@Mentour Pilot This is huge! Beatrice did a marvelous job! I echo many of the other viewers comments that you should try and make this a series. I myself am just a week or 2 away from my solo flight in pursuit of my PPL. and I love to see how I am doing compared to my peers. As usual Peter, I loved this video and sit in anticipation of your next episode! Happy New Year! Blue Skies!
Great video, i really liked noticing the differences between this and the other sim trainings you have uploaded over here. You brought up some things you explained that are very interesting to people like me that dont know how to fly. That you dont explain in other videos with more experienced students because they are already more advanced.
Your such a good teacher! I did a simulation experience and I have flew study level aircraft In P3D but getting into an actual cockpit is so overwhelming. Your students are luck to have you!
To be in the simulator with Petter like this would be an absolute dream come true. All I have are TH-cam videos like yours and computer games. If something were to happen where there was a dual pilot incapacitation and they needed a passenger I'd be the first volunteer. With 121.500 I feel confident, especially with all the automation which I have a basic understanding from you. Medically, I can't be a pilot or else that would 100% be my career by any means whatsoever. All I can do is live through these means.
I have been lucky enough to be able to rent 2 737- 800 sims. One in Budapest and one in Toronto. It was an amazing experience and a lot harder than it looks! But at least no crashes! Thank you for the great video!
I think that's a video what is highly recommended for flight instructors as well. That is the way how real progress could be made: let the student make mistakes, and help her (or him) to know it and correct it, but still do it in a supportive and positive manner. Teaching is not about showing off the piloting skills of the instructor but a confidence and knowledge builder for the student. Luckily most of my FIs during my GA career were something like this, but there were a few who were the types who begin shouting for a little slideslip or 10km/h of speed deviation and continuously doing their own inputs on the controls instead of the student. I was really determined to learn to fly so I'd fly together with the devil itself, however I felt improvement (and had fun) with instructors who were maybe cocky or even harsh on the ground but they become ice cool in the air and up there the only objective was to prepare me for the safe and precise execution of the given task. I liked how MentourPilot kept his hands really close to the yoke, as it'd have been the real "iron" and entering into dangerous regime wouldn't be an option :)
Lol, it is really funny to hear that, as my first time in a 737 sim, the Training Captain said, forget the complexity of how it looks, don't be scared of it, it's just like a really big Cessna. That comment during the vid, took me back a lot of years...
There's a saying that pilots make - the view out the front is the same. I don't have jet time but have flown 152;'s, 172''s, 182's, Cherokees, Saratogas, Vikings, SR-22, and a few others. I can tell you the faster the aircraft, the more you have to keep in front of it. I remember struggling with same issues of keeping an eye on speed, rate of climb/descent, rate of turn and keeping the plane coordinated. The speeds on approach are almost triple in a commercial airliner compared to a Cessna so good for her to be able to fly a relatively stable approach and landing.
Great to see the progress and what can be achieved with the right training. Nothing beats flying hours, skill and training for all conditions, whatever the job.
I have done a 737-800 flight sim before, I landed it, however I noticed how fatigue effects your performance, because I was flying without auto pilot, and had to follow the line, and it honestly tired me out. However it was a great experience, and it allows me to say how she has done a really good job
Also, really appreciate Beatrice's comments on training, and yours. Some people have a knack for picking up what you put down, others are what I call "ouija board" operators. They observe what you do, then try to remember the moves, without understanding the purpose. They can go back to slinging hash.
From an engineering perspective, I marvel at the integration of avionics and mechanical inputs available on the 737. Great piece of machinery(737). But, IMO and only my IMO, it seems like we've been jamming two different worlds together: Cables, wheels and electronics. I like the former, BTW. I know these comments aren't answered on here but it is much easier for me to post here than the app. Just is(deficient-sighted(eye) engineer).
Sure, I went to ATOPPilots and flew the 737-800 at American Airlines and then two times to Jet Blue University and flew the A-320 sim on Yena 4 (name of that particular sim). I got the ‘Good Stick’ on my A-320 print from Wayne Phillips, the mentor and organizer of the full motion sims at these airline’s training facilities. It was one of the most fantastic experiences since becoming a pilot. It helps to have a little instrument experience (not entirely necessary), but it sure helps. You are hand flying the whole time, and the only thing automatic is using the auto throttles. Starting the engines, taxi onto the runway, line up and wait, take off, fly the pattern, an ILS final approach, and landing/touch n go, then an ILS in IMC to a visual minimums (your choice altitude), and then touchdown, reverse thrust and brake to a stop. You do a full day of training in the classroom and mock-up sims on systems and flight processes, them the next day the sim sessions and you have a session as pilot and as a co-pilot; as a pilot using the dialog from the controller and directions from the co-pilot. 🛫😎🛬
Through various contacts over the years, I have flown a 747-200, 727-200 and SAAB 340 full motion simulators and managed to land them badly. I am only a PPL and I can tell you that it was about as much fun as a person can possibly have. First time on the 747 I literally couldn't sleep that night I was on such a high. Would love to have another go sometime. Maybe that Caravelle in Germany.
I'm an Aerospace engineering undergraduate. After just returning from my first simulator landing in a A320 (and first real sim session as well) I can relate soo much to Beatrice in this situation :) I had just the same problems, not being used to the control inputs and their effect, I had a hard time stabilizing the runway heading on the final and constantly oversteered. On the other side I kinda managed to stay on the glide slope pretty well but I guess I must have touched down fairly hard. I put it down though, which felt tremendously satisfying 😄
Wow, lucky girl! What I wouldn't do for an opportunity like this. Starting my PPL journey this spring provided my broken foot heals and I can get the bank to lend me some money. Nervous and excited, my end goal is a commercial ticket so I can get paid to do something I love. Happy New Year everyone!
This was a fantastic video!!! I've been talking about flight sims for a long time but you have shown how important this training tool can be used in the real world!!! Thank you Sir!!! This would be a great training series if you want to show how a student can progress their learning curve!!! the technology is out there to make pilots safer and more confident!! Even on a small flight simulator like I have ( a laptop...Joysticks..yokes.. and rudder.. and a good flight sim package like..Xplane 9 thru 11...Xfs.and.MFS 2020 coming soon and a whole lot more!!!).. "It's just like a big CESSNA"... ....
She is studying to become a pilot, and already knows how to fly a plane. Different gear, different reactions, but still a plane with wings and engines. It is not like a truck driver trying to play cello...
Fantastic video. Hopefully Beatrice has completed her frozen atpl. Many years ago I started a ppl with a plan to cpl. unfortunately the flight training company went bust and 10nyears later I started again, but I had been working in a nightclub for 5 years and when I did my class 1 medical I failed the hearing test. Turns out my work killed my ears and my plans again. Obviously I’ll now never fly for a career but the availability of sims at reasonable £ means I can still get hands on. I will complete my ppl, the advances in hearing aid technology and Noise cancelling head sets means I Han hear as well as I used to, but not enough for commercial. Enough of my woes, that all happened 25 years ago or more. Love seeing young people flying, I always love the look on passengers faces when they see their captain and FO on an easyJet flight and they look like they are barely out of university or even high school lol. Flew an easyJet edi to Stn a few years ago and the FO was 19.
Is it possible to make this a series? It would be really cool to see the training progression or even just updates to how she’s doing in the future. I wish her the best with her career!
I can certainly ask her!
@@MentourPilot yes, please. If Beatrice allows it, we could follow her progress from flight attendant to 737 pilot.
Fantastic idea!
@@MentourPilot It's would be great for a series.
That would be very nice to follow!
I agree with other commenters, this is real life (in a sim of course), interesting interaction between captain and a student. Also, kudos to Beatrice for being willing to be filmed coming in cold to this new situation. Excellent video.
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Agree 100% The only bad thing is how jealous I am. ;^)
I’m jealous too! I will never fly a plane, but when Beatrice finishes her training she can be my pilot anytime.
Well done. Great attitude, early as it is is better than many jet pilots in the industry.
@@MentourPilot
what you do is so informative about flying, very good
I am waiting for "Can my dog land a Boeing 737?" video 🤣. Keep it up! You are the best so far...
a350 yes
737 nope
@@Will_Vincent :D
Easily the most fun thing to watch in almost any area: Someone who is interested in something learning it under expert instructions.
Mentour: "Don't be afraid... It's jussst like a big Cessna" .... The positive feeling is why I love watching Mentour Pilot Videos!
I am impressed at the speed you make corrections to controls and switches - lightning speed no faffing about- Seconds matter
I mean any cadet would have love to have an instructor so calm and collected like you. She would definitely cherish this moment.
I think the best parts for me is when he’s silently repeating the checklists to himself. It shows that this is what he normally does and that it’s super real.
Yeah i was kinda amazed and shocked at the first time i saw it, i was like, is he talking to the first officer so silently, or he is just repeating a checklist? But then he did it again and listened more carefully to realise he is just such a 'double checker' and so used to it that this is an honest automatic reaction from him like flying a real machine . Its brilliant =D
I earned my PPL many years ago (it's sadly now expired) but I still often relive my first solo. I was on the edge of my seat all through this video as I enjoyed it so much. I wish Beatrice every success in her career.
Excellent! Glad you liked it!
Don't you just need a flight review & medical to start flying again?
@@djinn666 Thank you. I had to divert my money to my twin sons' education and I'm a bit too old now. I'm still crazy about aeroplanes and spend a lot of time looking skywards.
I often relive my PPL flight test too, as well as my first solo.
In the same position, had my ppl at 19, money and life got in the way and now at 44 I’m too old to start again. Biggest regret in life. Still a huge aviation nut. I wish her every success in her career.
This is amazing! Very much respect to Beatrice and you Mentour for doing this. You seem to be an amazing instructor! Have a great year mentouring these future pilots.
Thank you! Glad you liked it and YES, she did a great job!
She did a great job -- and it shows why Petter does so much pilot training -- he's a great teacher. He doesn't get flustered or irritated easily, which helps keep the student calm. Awesome effort for both of you!
The personality of the trainer makes a world of difference when learning something so technical. You are fantastic and patient. I remember training on a new CT scanner with a stressed out coach and it was a nightmare.
You always made it look so easy Mentour. Now i actually saw how hard it is to safely fly a plane like this. Wow.
Yep, it’s not easy but training helps!. Glad you liked it!
@@MentourPilot I really liked it.
That was so neat. Brought back memories from the 80’s learning in a Cherokee. Please bring back Beatrice as she progresses, with crosswinds😀
You are an amazing teacher Petter, and very nice to see the improvement in the second try. Great video and great job Beatrice.
Great video. The second approach gave me a bit of a chuckle but I flight sim at home in this aircraft all the time and its obvious to me I would have done 1000x worse. Thanks to Beatrice for participating!
Good job Beatrice! Congrats on putting yourself out there, not everyone is willing to show themselves learning and thus making small mistakes, being vulnerable basically. You will be a great pilot!
Back in the late 90s I got to fly the KC135 simulator at March ARB. Took off and landed with great success, I was amazed on how real it felt. Up to that point I had only flown home simulators of fighter jets. My two biggest surprises was the feel and slow response of the big bird, also on my first landing I had forgotten how much higher the cockpit was off the ground. Needless to say my first landing caught me by surprise. I was use to seeing a much lower profile at home.
I remember her when she was a flight attendant at Ryanair still, saw her in the flight school too, Ireland is a small country haha, living near Cork helps
There are sometimes nasty fogs near Cork airport.
@@sakadabara facts
I am still in love with aviation
You are a really nice and cool and calm instructor dear mentor
You are awesome
I know this is an old video, but watching in 2023 and this is so inspiring. I'm 43 but want to start a new career as a pilot because of stuff like this!
Good luck! Trust me the only limit IS the one you put yourself. Let's get It my friend!!!!!
Thank you , one of your best videos. I am a senior citizen just getting back into flying; , got my Commercial, CFI, instrument etc more than 30 years ago , using my Veterans benefits, but could not afford to continue flying after that. Having fun now with an instructor learning GPS approaches etc. That did not exist in the late 1970s. Your skills and abilities to teach are awesome, I am
sure many first officers are benefiting from flying with you.
This made my day! I'm not sure I can explain why watching her fly and seeing excellent guidance from Peter here make me so happy, but I'm glad I tuned in.
I love this channel. Ive had a horrible fear of flying since I took a delayed flight back from Turkey around 15 years ago. I remember a feeling of the plane tilting to one side and a loud noise coming from one side of the plane. It frightened me to death and my blood ran cold. Ever since ive been petrified to fly to the point that I took a 1 hour flight to germany a few year after and burst into tears. Ive watched many of your videos and youve helped me feel so at ease now I understand what is happening and I was able to fly a short flight to northern Ireland last month without having a meltdown! Thankyou so much for these, they help so much
Great video. The student is great, and the teaching is great. What got my attention was how pro Peter is in the cockpit. At 13:59, he (instinctually) does this automatic check, verbally clicking the items off to himself, waving his hand over the panel. Its amazing to watch. At another point he does something similar I think to the autopilot.
I was expecting using autopilot and ILS and here we have very nice student doing HAND-FLY a B737NG! very nice! thank you for another great video
Thank YOU for watching. Of course she would hand fly! 😉
Hand flying IS flying. Autopilot is cheating: it's a computer doing it.
@@raymondgoubet Well, autopilot is still flying, it's just that you are monitoring, not actively touching the controls.
@@ryan_n05 I know that! But anybody can watch a machine doing anything. Doing it yourself is what counts. Having to rely on a machine is not knowing how to do it in full. I am old school, but this is the best way to know something.
@@raymondgoubet ok boomer
This was amazing. It was interesting to see your hand move to do something then stop and tell her what she needs to do. Very intuitive. Thanks. Best wishes Beatrice.
I really LOVED this video! So real! So much respect for student Beatrice and for Petter teacher 🤩
First landing: okay with help. Second landing: okay without (much) help. I bet if there were a third she would have nailed it!
Yep! That’s what we are liking for when we assess; the ability to learn!
@@MentourPilot ... and she did very well.
moi01887 is ryan air what do u expect
@@Rich-sm3ho she landed way too smooth for Ryanair standards.
Michael 2k3d yeah I agree
For anyone wondering, I found the AFTA blog where she has some entries, it seems like she completed her line training and is a second officer! Seems like her training is going very well, and she's on her way to F/O status.
Superb content. I have experienced a (static) 738 sim on a few occasions and I can empathise with the same mistakes that she made, not having the 'feel' of the plane and chasing the FD and so watching her conquer the beast on video would be a fantastic programme. Best of luck to her. I can stop sweating now!
This is awesome. Like others have said, I hope she agrees to do a series and we can see her progress. Great video Mentour and let Beatrice know she will be an amazing pilot.
That was a fun video Peter! Very cool seeing you teach.
Great that you liked it!! I’ll try and do more of them
This is one of the best videos I have seen on this channel. It will be great to follow student Beatrice's progress, as many have suggested, if possible. She has clearly got what it takes to succeed.
Met Beatrice last month up at AFTA as I was waiting to be called into my Ryanair Mentored Programme Interview. So friendly and made me feel very comfortable. Aced the interview and sim test and have been accepted onto the programme, due to begin in November after I finish school!
This was a terrific video! Beatrice did very well for her first time in a 737.
For all of this amazing content I really think that he needs way more subscribers.
Aww, thank you! That’s so nice to hear.
I'm a hobby SIM-Pilot and got a "real" 777 simulator flight for my birthday. I remember how thrilling and overwhelming that was for me although I was completely familiar with the 777 avionics and cockpit (at least to the extent of my simulation software). But it was still such a huge difference between having a real cockpit with buttons instead of short keys on a computer keyboard.
So when I consider that she's not that familiar with the 737 I'm impressed how she handled it. I found it incredible complicated to keep overall awareness for speed, altitude, pitch, bank and position itself in manual flight. It was exhausting!
On my 2nd attempt on the simulator I wanted to try having the autopilot fly the plane (except for the final approach and touchdown) and I programmed the short route and approach into the autopilot and controlled it without the help of the instructor. This worked really well. Since it was a realistic simulator I'd have mastered that in a real plane I guess. But flying manually completely would have been a disaster and I'd use up all my fuel without being able to align properly to the runway where everything comes together.
This 1 is amazing Captain. Hope you make next chapter with this young pilot again
Yes Commander, We Really Liked That! Nice interview. Professor Petr! Beautiful how calm you are to help her be calm. She must have been really nervous. I think she’s gonna make it. Thnx, CJ
That looks like fun. I have been a passenger multiple times in an aircraft but I know nothing about flying one except for what I have learned from recently finding and watching Mentour's Channel. It sure is interesting and I appreciate all the video's and information you post for everyone. Thank you.
Wow what an experience I'd reckon for a ppl student! She looks to progress really well.
Makes me remember last year tagging along with a friend for his and co colleague annual check rides. The briefing and their sim tests were tremendously interesting to have witnessed.
Afterword he put me in the right seat of the E190 sim. Had not flown in a long time (not continue after high school...), so that was quite an experience, a fond memory and the 1st t/go captured on film :)
I'm 5 hours into my PPL Training, but this video made me smile the whole time!! Love your content!
Well I’m taking my CPL now, actually it similar to landing Cessna but here more complicated.
I have felt nervous just like I’m on this simulator doing the landing.
Great job for the instructor for easy way teaching and good landing for the student on 1st time on simulator.
Mentour u have that calming effect with people. Great instructors u are.
What a beautiful way of teaching - positive, assuring, supportive. That's how it should be, making us reaching the best of our potential. Thank you very much for sharing!
Mentour, FANTASTIC! I've watched this 3X and will likely another 5! Bob
As a PPL student soon to have my skill test, this experience of landing B737 in a sim would be absolutely fantastic! Great video, thanks!
Best video to date! Good luck on your flight training, Beatrice!
Very very inspiring! After watching this video my confidence has gone up so much more.
Great work, Captain Petter. Thank you so much!
Amazing, very good... It's very interesting in notice that the plane really wants to flight and not go down when you came close to the runway!
Got a Thumbs Up at 6 minutes in! Loved the teaching format for this one. I agree with some of the other comments; nice change up with the simulator instruction. I am an old Navy veteran who really enjoys this channel. Great job guys!!!!
Teachable, thank you Beatrice, an invaluable skill in aviation.
Great Video. She did a marvelous job!!! There is nothing easy about wrestling an aircraft to the centerline with minimal exposure to its characteristics. Job well done!!!
Thanks for this video. A long time ago I was in a six axis simulator for the KC-10(DC-10 AF tanker) courtesy of my Air Force pilot nephew. My prior experience was not an actual Cessna, but the Flight Simulator version of the 172. I had also taken lessons in an ultralight, but not actually soloed with it, just a short hop and drop in line with the runway. In the simulator, which I assume had no crosswinds or other complications to deal with, I was able to surprise my nephew by actually flying a pattern successfully like your student did.
It was made possible, mostly by the instructor doing for me what you did for her. In my case, not having the rudder and brake experience she had in an actual Cessna, I did not manage to keep the plane on the runway after hitting the centerline accurately, but the many many pattern take-offs and landings I had practiced in the fake Cessna gave me the ability, greatly enhanced by the real seat of the pants feel of flight dynamics that motion simulator gave to my body, to bring that plane more or less safely onto that simulated runway at March AFB including clearance of the nearby mountains needed to do the pattern there. Now I know how much more help I really had in that one time, unforgettable exercise.
WOW! I’ve watched a ton of Mentour videos, and this one is one of the best. Very informative. Kudos to the videographer behind the pilots. Fantastic job capturing the action!
Mentour a friend and myself who are both SIM enthusiasts and not even GA pilots had an opportunity to fly in a 738NG simulator. WE flew circuits at FAOR, from a stand which started with a push back engine start and taxi to active runway. We followed a checklist we had, during the circuits we encountered an engine failure, we also had smoke in the cockpit at some time. We were able to do all the correct procedures as per the QRH and landed the aircraft safely and correctly. Also flew from FHSH and landed there, but it was more difficult due to the wind factor and shorter runway, but all was achieved. So hence I'm sure that people with enough hours on the 738 in the SIM world, should be able to fly if needed.
Would love to see Beatrice's progress through training if she's willing. Well done, Beatrice, and wishing you well in your journey.
@Mentour Pilot This is huge! Beatrice did a marvelous job! I echo many of the other viewers comments that you should try and make this a series. I myself am just a week or 2 away from my solo flight in pursuit of my PPL. and I love to see how I am doing compared to my peers. As usual Peter, I loved this video and sit in anticipation of your next episode! Happy New Year! Blue Skies!
Great video Mentour i love these simulator videos, have a fantastic weekend my friend.
I’ll try and do more of them!
Great video, i really liked noticing the differences between this and the other sim trainings you have uploaded over here. You brought up some things you explained that are very interesting to people like me that dont know how to fly. That you dont explain in other videos with more experienced students because they are already more advanced.
Your such a good teacher! I did a simulation experience and I have flew study level aircraft In P3D but getting into an actual cockpit is so overwhelming. Your students are luck to have you!
Well done she will do great and she has a very good teacher. Makes a guy feel very good about the pilots we all fly with.
My heart would be jumping literally with the (excitement/fear), good Job Mentour and good luck Beatrice 👏🏻👏🏻
To be in the simulator with Petter like this would be an absolute dream come true. All I have are TH-cam videos like yours and computer games. If something were to happen where there was a dual pilot incapacitation and they needed a passenger I'd be the first volunteer. With 121.500 I feel confident, especially with all the automation which I have a basic understanding from you. Medically, I can't be a pilot or else that would 100% be my career by any means whatsoever. All I can do is live through these means.
Awesome to see this. Great improvements on her part.
I have been lucky enough to be able to rent 2 737- 800 sims. One in Budapest and one in Toronto. It was an amazing experience and a lot harder than it looks! But at least no crashes! Thank you for the great video!
I loved the video. I do a lot of sim flying in a 738. It's my dream to get time one that simulator. Keep the videos coming.
I think that's a video what is highly recommended for flight instructors as well. That is the way how real progress could be made: let the student make mistakes, and help her (or him) to know it and correct it, but still do it in a supportive and positive manner. Teaching is not about showing off the piloting skills of the instructor but a confidence and knowledge builder for the student. Luckily most of my FIs during my GA career were something like this, but there were a few who were the types who begin shouting for a little slideslip or 10km/h of speed deviation and continuously doing their own inputs on the controls instead of the student. I was really determined to learn to fly so I'd fly together with the devil itself, however I felt improvement (and had fun) with instructors who were maybe cocky or even harsh on the ground but they become ice cool in the air and up there the only objective was to prepare me for the safe and precise execution of the given task.
I liked how MentourPilot kept his hands really close to the yoke, as it'd have been the real "iron" and entering into dangerous regime wouldn't be an option :)
That was great! You are an excellent instructor. More of those please.
Nice, great video and great experience for her. You are nice, calm, relaxed instructor, if that was your usual approach to a student pilot.
Now that was awesome! I felt right there with her!! Thanks Mentour!!
Wow, The girl is absolutely incredible, so calm and cool. Petter show more videos like this please...
Among your most interesting of cockpit videos, on par with Emergency descent and terrain. Fascinating!
"It's just like a big Cessna" LOL
It is, in some sense
@@MentourPilot I Absolutely believe you, since you said how easy it responds. Just it's funny that you say it
Lol, it is really funny to hear that, as my first time in a 737 sim, the Training Captain said, forget the complexity of how it looks, don't be scared of it, it's just like a really big Cessna. That comment during the vid, took me back a lot of years...
There's a saying that pilots make - the view out the front is the same. I don't have jet time but have flown 152;'s, 172''s, 182's, Cherokees, Saratogas, Vikings, SR-22, and a few others. I can tell you the faster the aircraft, the more you have to keep in front of it. I remember struggling with same issues of keeping an eye on speed, rate of climb/descent, rate of turn and keeping the plane coordinated. The speeds on approach are almost triple in a commercial airliner compared to a Cessna so good for her to be able to fly a relatively stable approach and landing.
That was fantastic! Beatrice is a very impressive student!
Great to see the progress and what can be achieved with the right training. Nothing beats flying hours, skill and training for all conditions, whatever the job.
I have done a 737-800 flight sim before, I landed it, however I noticed how fatigue effects your performance, because I was flying without auto pilot, and had to follow the line, and it honestly tired me out. However it was a great experience, and it allows me to say how she has done a really good job
Also, really appreciate Beatrice's comments on training, and yours. Some people have a knack for picking up what you put down, others are what I call "ouija board" operators. They observe what you do, then try to remember the moves, without understanding the purpose. They can go back to slinging hash.
This was fantastic! :)
Glad you liked it!
She will make a GREAT Pilot! Calm, cool and collected...
Agreed
From an engineering perspective, I marvel at the integration of avionics and mechanical inputs available on the 737. Great piece of machinery(737). But, IMO and only my IMO, it seems like we've been jamming two different worlds together: Cables, wheels and electronics. I like the former, BTW. I know these comments aren't answered on here but it is much easier for me to post here than the app. Just is(deficient-sighted(eye) engineer).
Bang on! LOL Just shows how good of an instructor you are! I also would like to see this as a series to watch how Beatrice progresses in her training.
Well 3 years on & I'd be amazed if she was anything other than a successful pilot by now. What a great video...
Was on the edge of my seat. Better than the movies. Glad for a happy ending!
Sure, I went to ATOPPilots and flew the 737-800 at American Airlines and then two times to Jet Blue University and flew the A-320 sim on Yena 4 (name of that particular sim). I got the ‘Good Stick’ on my A-320 print from Wayne Phillips, the mentor and organizer of the full motion sims at these airline’s training facilities. It was one of the most fantastic experiences since becoming a pilot. It helps to have a little instrument experience (not entirely necessary), but it sure helps. You are hand flying the whole time, and the only thing automatic is using the auto throttles. Starting the engines, taxi onto the runway, line up and wait, take off, fly the pattern, an ILS final approach, and landing/touch n go, then an ILS in IMC to a visual minimums (your choice altitude), and then touchdown, reverse thrust and brake to a stop. You do a full day of training in the classroom and mock-up sims on systems and flight processes, them the next day the sim sessions and you have a session as pilot and as a co-pilot; as a pilot using the dialog from the controller and directions from the co-pilot. 🛫😎🛬
This is amazing content, you put so much thought into this channel, you're just great
You are a good teacher, she is going to make an AWESOME Pilot for an airline. As a PPL I would fly with her any day!!!!
Great video. Wish her all the best.
This one is so good to listen!! Watching this feels good...
Thanks so much for this video, and congratulations to Beatrice! I love this video.✈️
Best of luck to her, she seems to be well on the path to success.
Through various contacts over the years, I have flown a 747-200, 727-200 and SAAB 340 full motion simulators and managed to land them badly. I am only a PPL and I can tell you that it was about as much fun as a person can possibly have. First time on the 747 I literally couldn't sleep that night I was on such a high. Would love to have another go sometime. Maybe that Caravelle in Germany.
I'm an Aerospace engineering undergraduate. After just returning from my first simulator landing in a A320 (and first real sim session as well) I can relate soo much to Beatrice in this situation :) I had just the same problems, not being used to the control inputs and their effect, I had a hard time stabilizing the runway heading on the final and constantly oversteered. On the other side I kinda managed to stay on the glide slope pretty well but I guess I must have touched down fairly hard. I put it down though, which felt tremendously satisfying 😄
Wow, lucky girl! What I wouldn't do for an opportunity like this. Starting my PPL journey this spring provided my broken foot heals and I can get the bank to lend me some money. Nervous and excited, my end goal is a commercial ticket so I can get paid to do something I love. Happy New Year everyone!
This was a fantastic video!!! I've been talking about flight sims for a long time but you have shown how important this training tool can be used in the real world!!! Thank you Sir!!! This would be a great training series if you want to show how a student can progress their learning curve!!! the technology is out there to make pilots safer and more confident!! Even on a small flight simulator like I have ( a laptop...Joysticks..yokes.. and rudder.. and a good flight sim package like..Xplane 9 thru 11...Xfs.and.MFS 2020 coming soon and a whole lot more!!!).. "It's just like a big CESSNA"... ....
Happy New Year Mantour, really enjoyed the video.
She did amazing! I don't think that anyone else would be able to fly a plane for the first time as calmly as she did!
She is studying to become a pilot, and already knows how to fly a plane. Different gear, different reactions, but still a plane with wings and engines. It is not like a truck driver trying to play cello...
This is one of the coolest videos you have done!
Fantastic video. Hopefully Beatrice has completed her frozen atpl. Many years ago I started a ppl with a plan to cpl. unfortunately the flight training company went bust and 10nyears later I started again, but I had been working in a nightclub for 5 years and when I did my class 1 medical I failed the hearing test. Turns out my work killed my ears and my plans again. Obviously I’ll now never fly for a career but the availability of sims at reasonable £ means I can still get hands on. I will complete my ppl, the advances in hearing aid technology and Noise cancelling head sets means I Han hear as well as I used to, but not enough for commercial. Enough of my woes, that all happened 25 years ago or more. Love seeing young people flying, I always love the look on passengers faces when they see their captain and FO on an easyJet flight and they look like they are barely out of university or even high school lol. Flew an easyJet edi to Stn a few years ago and the FO was 19.