A young and foolish pilot wanted to sound cool on the aviation frequencies. This was his first time approaching a field during the night time. Instead of making any official requests to the tower he said, "Guess who?" The controller switched the field lights off and replied, "Guess where?"
I heard of another 'comedian' similarly chastised by ATC: ATC: "[callsign] ,say altitude and airspeed" Pilot: "Altitude and airspeed" ATC "[callsign], say cancel IFR" Pilot "6,000ft at 140kts, [callsign]"
Then there's that one that backfired, this happened during WW2, think it was in the RAF: A flight instructor used to detach his yoke when he took his students on their check ride, tap the student on the shoulder, and throw the yoke out of the plane: your controls! (this was a training plane with open cockpit, and the instructor behind the student) Then one day there was this student who had been warned about this, and he took with him an extra yoke, without the instructor knowing it. Then when the instructor threw out the yoke during the check ride, the student took his extra yoke, and threw it also overboard. The instructor panicked and bailed out, then watched as his student landed the plane with ease :)
I find it hard to believe someone in the military is just throwing parts out of the plane that need to be replaced and not getting in trouble for it. Trust me when someone goes to replace that someone in supply is going to ask where the old one is, and what was wrong with it. Then they are going to start asking some serious questions. You might get away with it once, but not multiple times. Not to mention the safety concerns involved. I think someone was pulling your leg with that tale. I was in the military, my dad was in the military and my grandpa was in during WW2. They were just as anal retentive back then as now. Heck probably more with aircraft parts.
As a lesson in: "You tend to drift where you're looking." My instructor had me on the controls for a while. He was looking at his window and said "Oh wow. Check that out." And pointed. I sat up and craned my neck, trying to see out his window. I didn't see anything of note. "Where?" "Right there. You can't see that?" And a few moments later, he said: "Are you still flying the plane?" I was 30 degrees off heading, 500 below my altitide, 20 kias over my desired airspeed and in about a 20 degree bank. It was a good lesson in how quickly things can deteriorate with distractions.
fivestringslinger that would actually be a very good scenario to practice unusual attitudes with. Having a student get distracted from flying the airplane
@@davidhood2200 He had a really cool method for unusual attitude recovery. Rather than just having me under the foggles and him flying, he would have me put the foggles on and return the controls to me, then close my eyes and tip my head down. Then he would ask me to give him a turn, climb or descent. Usually 90 to 180 degrees. Then when things were sufficiently screwy, he would tell me to recover. It's way more disorienting as a student to put yourself in the unusual attitude. And it strongly demonstrates how you can't trust your senses.
fivestringslinger my DPE had my do that for my instrument checkride and yeah it’s a whole different ball park than an instructor putting you in an unusual attitude
When I did my first check ride, we landed and during the taxi to FBO I asked how did I do. He said we would talk when we get parked at the FBO. That was the worst 2 mins of my life waiting to hear what I did wrong.... After we shutdown, first thing out of his mouth was I passed... I asked why couldn't he tell me that during taxi. He said he told a guy he passed once during taxi. Then he proceeded to clip a fuel truck with the wing on the way to tieup... So now he waits for him to be out of the aircraft before he says a word so its not his problem.
When I took my check ride I made a stupid mistake that wasn't related to a required maneuver, but I thought I was done. When we were downwind back at the home airport we were cleared to land and he cut the power and said engine failure and your flaps don't work either. I said the flaps are mechanical that would never happen, he gave me a stern look and said no flaps. The airport was surrounded by houses and I didn't want to come up short so I stayed tight and ended up doing s turns and a very aggressove slip to get down. We made it, I said boy that was ugly, he said yeah but you made it and if you had passengers they live another day because you made it happen. He said I'm not going to keep you in suspense, you passed. I said what about my mistake earlier, he said I think you learned from that.
After a landing in my PPL checkride, the examiner said, "If you can taxi back to the terminal from here without hitting anything, you'll pass." I got off the runway and stopped after the hold short line to call ground, like I'm supposed to. Examiner, a retired airline pilot, said, "Keep going, call 'em on the roll." Yes, I'm PIC but I thought he knew what he was doing so when I rolled and called, ground said, "Why are you moving on my taxiway without permission?!?" Examiner said to me, "Tell 'em you'll never do it again."
I've never had flight school, but I am an avid SCUBA diver. When I started out, I was terrified of the ocean and decided to take SCUBA lessons as a challenge to myself that my fear was misplaced and I could overcome it. My first SCUBA instructor was a bit of a prankster and after a few pranks that I understand now to be harmless and safe, I nearly had a legit nervous breakdown due to the terror I felt every time I got in the water. He was a nice guy and all, but I eventually got a different instructor, finished my training and now I've overcome my fears. My story is to just point out that pranks should only be pulled on people you know can take it.
Prank is ALWAYS a bad idea. Very low IQ people do pranks. Pranks kill and maim people. I have herd about dude who petended to commit suicide and killed his mom with heart attack. Idiocy
Im a flight Instructor, but i dont do many "pranks"... but there is one i like to do that helps their pre-flight. While they are doing their interior inspection i put postit notes on the airframe where i know students miss looking over. Their face is priceless when they find one and i just say somthing like: "dang how did that get there".
A couple of my favorite moments with my flight instructor: (1) when I was clearly too low on final and we flew over the golf course next to the approach end of the runway, he opened his window, leaned his head out and yelled, "Playing through!" (2) when I landed and ground control said they believed my ELT was activated (it was due to a malfunctions), I looked at my instructor and said, "I didn't think my landing was THAT hard!" (3) immediately prior to my first solo (which I had no idea was about to happen), he told me to stop in the run up area because he seemed to be having a problem with his seat not locking in it's tracks, and needed to look at it. He then proceeded to open the door, step out, and fiddle around with the seat for a few seconds before telling me, "I know what's wrong with it... You don't need me sitting in it anymore." Good times. Thanks Marc!
Most every newly soloed pilot I ever spoke with said that the plane flew so much better without that instructor in it too! And it wasn't the extra weight they were speaking of either.
This isn't aviation related, but when I'm at a new job or position, I'll tell my trainer when they're teaching me... "No... Not like that!" , and I'll watch them stop, and ask me why not. Then i'll say, "I don't know. You're the teacher."
Try putting a bag of Doritos in the back seat of a C-172, and make your student pilot climb to 10,000 feet. BANG!!! Engine failure??? Nope. Check your six. Doritos everywhere.
I'm sure they are...we are witnessing the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the World. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate people who move cargo, as I most certainly do!
First I would like to say I really enjoy your videos. I'm a 20+ year retired US Air Force aircraft maintenance Crew Chief who has worked on F-15, C-130s, B-1 bombers, E-3 AWAC and KC-135R Stratotankers. My favorite by far was my time on the KC-135 since Tankers normally take their Crew Chiefs everywhere they went. The banter between Tanker Crew Chiefs and the Flight Crew was normally a thing of beauty a perfect balance of working hard and playing hard. Way to many pranks to go over but the Pilots often used their Crew Chief to assist them with pranks pulled on new young flight crew members and the favors would be returned when we would have new young maintainers. With KC-135s being so old and having so many upgrades one of the most ongoing pranks use on both new flight crew members as well as maintainers was the installation of dummy switches where just cover plates should be installed due to systems being removed. These dummy switches would be labeled with all sorts of silly functions like stealth activation, cloaking controls and all sorts of different weapon systems. My favorite that I had on my aircraft for a good long while was the switch for the deployment of chemtrails. You might be surprised at how many people would fall for it. The best is when the Tanker would be sitting static display at an air show and some civilian would just happen to notice the switch that was clearly labeled and their head would explode. Good times! 😀✈ Silly tricks we played on the civilian public when our Tanker was on display at air shows could make a pretty funny book or video.
In my charity (organizing huge concerts, actually) we used to draw dicks on paper during our boring meetings. One day, the guy among us in charge of security wanted to fax the whole security planning to the city’s firemen office. So he printed it on used paper, because after a fax scan you can throw away the paper... Aaaaaand that’s how we sent 43 dick drawings to the firemen office, with our fax number in the metadata of our phone number at the top. The guy was new with this fax machine and didn’t know you had to put the paper upside down. Fortunately the firemen office had had hiccups with every previous generation of students in our charity so they just phoned to teach us how to use our fax machine, half-laughing half-bored.
When I was a student pilot in a 150, my instructor taught me about proper trim by continuing to roll in trim while I held altitude with increasing yoke pressure. All of a sudden we were looking straight down at the ground through the windscreen. The horizontal stabilizer had stalled! Scared him more than it did me, because I assumed he knew what was going to happen, which he didn’t.
I'm calling BS on this. I don't see how this is possible. If you're holding proper pitch attitude with the yoke (which controls the quite large left and right elevator surfaces) then the position of the relatively tiny trim tab mounted at the trailing edge of the right elevator should not be enough of an aerodynamic factor to stall the horizontal stabilizer unless you're already within a couple knots of the aircraft's stall speed and prior to moving it to an extreme angle. Perhaps this could happen in certain planes where the entire stabilizer rotates with trim changes, but not in a Cessna 150 (or other single-engine Cessna aircraft) where it's only the tiny little trim tab that would be moving in a direction contrary to the airflow over the elevator. There are plenty of instances where the trim control cable has broken in-flight at undesirable settings (or just come completely loose), and while very annoying to fly like that, it does not jeopardize the safety of the flight. It would only cause a very slightly increased stall speed due to the minimal drag that would be produced by the trim tab being now pointed an odd angle as compared to the elevator's angle. Anyone with access to a plane equipped with an elevator trim tab can see this by running the trim wheel all the way to the nose up and nose down stops while the plane is parked on the ground, and getting out and looking at it. It's really not that acute an angle even at those extremes, and certainly won't cause enough drag to stall the horizontal stabilizer at normal airspeeds, to include approach and landing speeds. The only real issues would be a quick change in configuration, like a go-around, which would cause a lot of brute force to have to be applied on the yoke to keep the plane from getting into an attitude that would put it into an aerodynamic stall. So if this experience actually happened, I'd have say that you guys were already at an extremely low airspeed and at or near an incipient stall before the trim wheel was rolled to whatever position it was. It would have virtually nothing to do with the trim position, and essentially everything to do with the plane's speed and angle of attack prior to rolling in the trim.
One student I know got dicked around by the maintenance guys for an hour and a half, at which point he asked to speak to the manager, who (after listening very politely) chewed the guys out, getting them to hand the student a bucket of water with some used engine oil in it, which the student then hauled nearly a mile across the ramp in the tropical heat. Yeah, they got me good. :P
My favorite was doors off in an OH-58C, you could cover the static port with your foot. Periodically cover, and uncover it. Always fun to watch the other guy!
My favorite I’ve ever seen pulled off (with fuel trucks) was the “integrity test”. Basically convince a pipeliner to scream different notes in to the manhole and listen for resonance during the monthly checks. If there’s any “cracks”, they’ll continue to hum like a tuning fork. But cracks of different sizes only resonate at specific frequencies, so you have to do a full “Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Da”
I frac in the oilfield and we have new guys swing a bag in the air to get A.I.R. samples, run a sensor and cable out on the ground and tell them they have to beat the ground around it with a sledgehammer doing a seismic test. I really like taking a thick grease and using it as a glue and putting coffee cups on new guys hard hats.
I absolutely love your ability to make your channel so interesting (for the most clueless aviation enthusiast, like myself, all the way to helping actual airline pilots learn). Please never ever stop your channel. I am amazed not only by your experience and all you know about Aviation is just fascinating in itself. You are so genuine and honesty, and you don’t Bragg, nor insult anyone. You are obviously very intelligent in your field, it boggles my mind why you don’t have your 4 stripes (you know everything there is and how to explain it to all from the inexperienced enthusiasts all the way up to educating real life pilots). I just love the vibe of your personality that ultimately makes your channel so awesome!! Thank you for all your hard work and time you put into 74 gear. Please never stop creating new videos. Your obviously so good at knowing everything a pilot should know, and very entertaining!!
Watching your videos and Insta uploads makes coron:tine much more bearable. Please keep'em coming! And pranks with Kelsey is yet another great category! :)
A lot of great ways to make your students never want to learn how to fly ever again. I personally stand on the side of creating the best possible flight learning experiences.
Yup, also a great way to lose students who decide to find a more professional instructor. If it had been me with the trim prank I’d have been so tempted to smuggle an unloaded pistol aboard for the next lesson and point it to his head and order him to land on a flat plain miles from civilisation. See how much he enjoys being tricked into fearing for his life just for the amusement of another person.
If a prank stopped you from flying then it is probably a good thing. A prank is in good fun. If you can’t handle unexpected good fun, how the heck can you handle the bad? So imo best your not in control of a plane or other serious machines.
@@SirCanuckelhead After having picked up body parts so that there was something to put in the casket after a prank that has gotten out of control, you tell me where was the good fun. There is a definite difference between jokes and pranks, and when in good taste, a place for each.
@@valerieurquhart3133 there is also a huge difference between harmless pranks and ones that go too far. Someone hiding behind a door or in a bag is a prank. They can be harmless and fun. Like everything people can take it too far and ruin it.
Watching this again, reminded me of an event when I was flight training in the late 1970's I was already doing circuits, but one Aero Club instructors, was a service mechanic for one of the airport's airlines and the trainer was known for pranks. One new student was very nervous (his dream to be a commercial airline pilot), but had done his "basic ground lessons" and about to go up for his first flight. They bypassed all the training aircraft and approached the DC9 , parked just outside the service hangar... next to the the Aero Club . Well, you guess the rest, the trainer basically said, "I think we'll take this baby up", and proceeded to walk up the air stairs.. the student backing away... the trainer reiterating, "Well you want to be an airline pilot dont you? Come on...". Later that day, after the student calmed down a bit and had a laugh with all of us, they took up a C 152 instead..lol
Hi, I am 73 now and my dad wanted me to become a pilot as he was in the Luftwaffe in the war. We lived in Belgium when I was 14. One had to be 16 to ride a moped but at 14 one could learn how to fly. So, after a relatively short while, about a year later, near Gent, I had my first solo flight in an SV-4 (Stampe-Vertonghe) 4 biplane that had an inverted, 90 Hp, air cooled Renault engine. Just imagine how proud I felt, then, and how much fun it was. I was 20 in 1967 and flew a matte black painted, unarmed, Pilatus Porter in Laos, I did nothing wrong but some people shot at me. I broke my back in 1979.
The video's thumbnail is showing the pilot who emergency landed his plane this year on the highway 40 near Quebec City. Is about to take the exit. All the communication tower and him is available. Tipical calm pilot.
I prefer the jokes we made on students in electro-mechanics or automation. "Go check the tires pressure on the forklift !" (handing them a bicycle pump)
Same on my school practice. But better - we have solid rubber tires on forklifts... half hour of searching air pipe around rim... and loud laugh from oldies. It was funny times.
Lol, i did aircraft maintenance and we had a section with all the tools, and there was always one student assigned to it and he needed to keep track of who got what tool and give it to them. And if it was a first year we asked if they could look for a copper magnet and let them search XD
flying cars have been built. but i dont think anyone of they made to productuon because they cant get FAA certfacaton. apprently, the FAA s more strct whth landng gear on a flyng car then on al plane bvecause the landng never touches potholes n less n crashees n a dflld. they are afrad of the t httng smethng when t s a car then makng t not arworthy. so they buld t to plane specs and then get dened.
Taxing toward the runway when learning to fly, there came a distinct knocking from outside the aircraft, it took me some time to realise that it was the instructor, door slightly open and leaning out, knocking out his pipe on the undercarriage leg !
If my flight instructor did any of those, I'd get another instructor. Learning to fly is NOT an opportunity to mess with someone. It's stressful for the student. Every pilot during training has doubts and exploiting them is cruel and unprofessional. Except the parachute; that's just funny.
When my father was learning his CFI turned the fuel off in a 150 and then asked what are you gonna do and my dad said find a place to land then the cfi was like but your fuel is off so, my father said I didn’t turn it off so I’m not turning it back on. He got the CFI back
That's a good response anyway. If it spontaneously happened, there might be a worse problem, and it's better to figure it out on the ground, than to risk another engine failure.
I dont question that your instructors were very professional, but no need to be boring to be professional. A right amount of jokes at the right time is a good thing to relax and make life memorable
There was a few jokes and one good natured "prank" that I fondly remember. One was when I was low on final approach and over a golf course at the approach end of the runway. My instructor opened his window, leaned his head out, and yelled, "Playing through!!!" I thought it was funny and me made me more conscious of my pitch and power settings on final. The other was immediately prior to my first solo (which I wasn't at all expecting that day). My instructor kept looking down and adjusting his seat as we were taxiing back to the runway for another circuit. As we neared the runway, he told me, "Stop over in the runup area, there's something wrong with my seat and I need to take a look at it." He had me, hook, line and sinker. So I stopped and he took his seatbelt off, opened the door, got out, and began fiddling around with the seat track. Then he looked at me and said, "I know what wrong with it. You don't need me sitting here anymore." I'll never forget that moment and the humorous way he sent me off on my first solo.
As the old joke goes: "Glider-student is overdue.. and down in a field. Car and trailer are currently inop and so Instructor comes to pick him up in the towing-Cub and sees the glider in a tiny tiny field and thinks, well, if he can do it, I have to do it, too to maintain my instructor glory.. he barely manages to stop into a hedgerow and asks the student: "dam, how did you get in here?", but the student goes: "what do you mean, I landed over there in that big field and pulled the plane over here so you have more space to come pick me up"
A classic one is to distract the student right when they're about to untie the tail tie-down so they accidentally omit that part of their checklist, or possibly even re-tie it when they're not looking. Same could possibly apply to chocks on the wheels if they are being used. Student attempts to taxi away, use full throttle, plane doesn't move no matter what they do. I think my mom's instructor pulled that one on her. It's a good lesson to teach though, as the student will be diligent about that the rest of their career and that could save them humiliation later on when they have an audience. Another she told me about, later on in the Air Force, she was doing simulator training, I think for a C-130. Old beat up simulator, felt sketchy to begin with. Simulating emergencies, they did a cockpit fire simulation. Smoke began pouring out of the instrument panel. Thinking the sim was actually on fire, she was ready to shut it down and evacuate. Instructor laughed about it and urged her to deal with it like it was a real airplane. Turns out the sim had a smoke generator of some sort, the same used in those old Lionel toy trains, and she'd not known that - something I'm sure the instructors always enjoy not telling students about ahead of time. I don't remember any good pranks from when I was learning to fly (power-planes), probably because my mom was my instructor - I knew her too well for her to be able to pull anything on me. Can't think of anything from my glider rating either except all the times the instructor pulled the tow-release at 200 feet AGL, just barely high enough to make it back to the runway, that instructor was infamous for that.
My dad was a flight instructor in charge of other flight instructors in the RCAF. He would have ripped you apart if you pulled any of these pranks on his flight cadets. It was complete professionalism from flight briefing, to walk around, in the cockpit, and on debrief after the flight. That said however pranks in the barracks, mess, other airbases (stealing mascots for example) was unofficially encouraged to blow off stress from learning to fly in the military. One story was during a graduation ceremony where the flight cadets were getting their wings. Two foreign exchange cadets, one from the UK the other from Australia had a real rivalry going and one of the popular drinking games was to yell Dead Ants and the last guy down on his back with hands and feet in the air had to buy a round for everyone. You guessed it the Limey thought he would get one up in the Aussie by yelling Dead Ants just as he was handed his wings from the base commander. The Aussie went down on his back and hands and feet in the air. The base commander had a sense of humor and told him, looks like you are not buying the first round are you, No Sir, Thank you Sir. And yes the poor English fellow was made to pay for not just the first round but many! 😂😂😂
I am training to fly gliders. We have a winch to pull the gliders up and therefore we need to pull out the ropes the entire lenght of the runway (1000m, ~3300ft). Usually, this is done with a car. My FI pranked me and made me pull them out by hand (super exhausting) because I didn't know we have a car for that. Yikes.
My favorite trick is to put a highly abbreviated label (like PES) over the "passenger ejection seat" button (in an airplane your CFI has never flown in). Then up at altitude you ask the CFI "what is that button?". He shrugs, and you suggest, "push it and find out". Hopefully you remember to attach the parachute to the passenger seat before you take off. :-) Just kidding (for the non-pilot viewers out there). PS: If any of my flight instructors ever did the kind of nonsense described in this video, they never would have earned another penny from me! There are a lot of more tasteful and actually funny jokes and pranks out there.
i've never been prenked in a plane. And I think that is great! I think pranking has no place in the plane. Trusting the instructor is important. And feeling safe and calm during training. It has no place in flight training. Even a harsh way of talking to the pilot is not a good thing. And not a "cowboy" attitude either, skipping checklist steps, og doing them for you. We have all the time for all the checks.
I had a CFI that SO overused the 'surprise' throttle pull i'd be ready to slap his hand if i seen him so much as move out of the corner of my eye. Having an engine failure every 2-3 minutes was annoying and it was a constant low level distraction and impediment to training. CFI: Look down at the point you're turning around! Me: No way! CFI: Why not? Me: Cause you're gonna chop the throttle... again. Can i try to complete ONE maneuver today without an 'engine failure'?
I actually pulled that prank on my girlfriend and I filmed it, but the funniest part was when we went to her parents for dinner and they asked how was our flight and she told her parents how I tricked her. She actually said to her parents "Mark tricked me today and made me blow on Peters tube" instead of saying "pitot tube". Let's just say I had a lot of explaining to do to her parents. LOL
Back in 1980, I taught part time in Colorado and our flight school had a prankster instructor. He lasted about six months, pranked the wrong person, lost his ticket and spent some time in the grey bar hotel.
Thanks Cris, a story with no details. It's so typical on this BS site full of phonies. Did you run out of story? What prank was also a crime? The world wonders.
@@stevek8829, If you have to know, the offending prank was to “pants” an individual just outside of the hangar in full view of everyone which exposed the lower half of his victim. In Colorado exposing yourself or causing someone to be exposed is a crime. The nail in in the instructor’s coffin was that his student/victim worked for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and was a female.
@@Sekhet8 yea im not buying it. I doubt someone is senseless enough to pants a chick as a male. I understand the 80s was a different time than now but im pretty sure even then it was criminal offense to do that to a chick. tho don't quote me on that. either way provide some names as this should show on some databanks with the correct search
@@thegulagcuck4066 Well, it happened and I don’t care if you buy it or not. Even though I knew the instructor and still know his victim, I won’t give out their names on public media for you to further rehash a poor choice made by the instructor and further humiliate his victim. Take the lesson learned and move on.
Was it only me expecting the backpack talk was gonna be a sponsorship (which would be fine, Kelsey deserves some good sponsors) and then had the same "WHAT?!" reaction as that student pilot would have had at the mention of parachutes et all. Good one!
My trainer when we were learning how to drive trucks: Trainer: let's see if you're skilled enough to shift gears on a railroad crossing. Student: I did it, I-- Trainer: What the hell are you doing? Shifting on railroad crossings is _illegal_ !
@@annahenrietta9517 I've never seen a truck stall I think, and it shouldn't take more than a few seconds to restart the engine, probably restarted before it even comes to a stop.
I understand the whole prank thing all too well. I've never been a prank person nor do I like people pulling pranks on me. Personally, I just feel there's just not some times and places for pranks. Flight training is not a place for pranks. Makes for a lack of trust 'cause you won't know when they're pranking or serious.
Agreed - the ones on the ground are absolutely fine and I would absolutely love it if someone put one over on me like that. Its a thing of beauty when someone gets you good, no matter how embarrassing. The ones in the air, I would refuse to fly with them again and probably lay a complaint. I'm there to learn and paying a shit ton for it, and if I don't get it right I could get myself or someone else killed -especially seeing how easily a small error can snowball. Easy to find another instructor these days.
I just disagree with pranks altogether. I don’t understand how frightening or stressing someone out just for your own selfish amusement is considered acceptable.
@@paulvonblerk9365 After having picked up body parts so that there was something to put in the casket after a prank that has gotten out of control, you tell me where the shame lies. There is a definite difference between jokes and pranks, and when in good taste, a place for each.
@@bryanaveri6816 Actually you suck through this slot in the wing to test the stall horn, sometimes you do get bug guts all on your lips, in your mouth and what not.
@@kg4boj What? Even in my ancient manual you were supposed to use clean handkerchief before sucking on the stall horn, so any dirt or bug guts would not enter your mouth.
Maybe from sucking, but I seriously doubt it for blowing. You can draw a ton of vacuum, but you won’t generate any real pressure. Our anatomy does not allow it to happen.
So glad you explained about sensory overload & not thinking straight!!! Def had that situation in simulation in nursing school. Now I don't feel so bad. Kelsey, If I ever find you in an airport you'd better be nice because I'll be in full fan boy mode. Love your channel
I'm a glider pilot and I had an old Luftwaffe pilot as CFI. When we did spin training he put his feet on the petal so I couldn't get out of the spin before we did a few rotations. Scared the heck out of most students he thought it was funny.
The prank I would love to do if I was a flight instructor would be to have the student climb into the plane while I'm sitting there as the instructor reading my piloting for dummies book.
@@traingaming3240 If they've already done a bit of flying, you could wait until after takeoff and suddenly start acting like you're the student and you think they're the instructor.
My dad was an instructor and he used to flick the landing gear up while the students weren’t looking. At 2-3 miles out on approach, he would ask them if it was down. Instant terror every time. 😂
aye. There’s a huge, massive difference between a joke on the ground “hey go ask the mx guys for a bottle of prop wash” or letting the student try to taxi with the tie downs still attached - vs pulling dumb crap in the air. If your CFI approach is to act like an idiot and play stupid games in the air, your student is going to be the one to earn a stupid prize. The student isn’t going to trust you or they’re going to think screwing around is acceptable. If the student is lucky, they’ll wash out of flight school - maybe on the check ride. If they’re not so lucky, they’ll mouth off to ATC thinking it’s funny, and get a number to call. Or worse they’ll imitate, have a bad habit, or have missed a critical lesson point from the instructor - do something dumb on a solo xc, not know how to recover, and kill themselves. At that point, is the CFI’s joke still funny?
Random Acts of Video I completely agree. I still hold a current CFI and have instructed in the military and civilian world in everything from a Beech Skipper to a B-747-4. These are unprofessional at best and I would have exactly zero tolerance for them. If you find yourself with a CFI doing anything remotely like this, find yourself another instructor.
Student flying... Having a bad navigation, VOR not working, the next airport was reached. Tower offered to land on the taxiway, 90 degrees to the runway, due to quite some sidewind. Being trained on a windy airport "at home", the offer was not taken and the landing was done without complains. Now, more than 40 years later, it could have been a souvenir in the memory.
Really loved this one! I have a question though regarding the tiller, how do big planes manage to taxi on the yellow lines? Like is there a camera ? And how did they do it before there was a camera ?
Well, I’m late to answer and I’m not a pilot but commercial jets can’t. They have to be guided into the stand to park by a member of the ground crew. You’ve probably seen it somewhere. It the person in a high vis vest waving brightly coloured red batons or even lit ones powered by batteries. It’s our responsibility to ensure that the aircraft stays on the yellow lines and stops in just the right spot.
Every video, you should leave a slightly longer pause before you say "coming up" than the previous video, until in a few months we're sitting here for 5 minutes for the intro music!
When I was a ramp agent, we would convince the new guy that there were a lot of bags on this flight, and we needed a cargo bin stretcher. We would send them to another airline who was in on the joke. They would give them a telescoping tail stand for a 737. Thought it was beautiful.
I am glad my instructors were all about safety. We did nothing without know why we were doing it first. We never goofed around, it was all serious business. If any instructor did any of this to me, they would no longer be my instructor. I guess I don't react well to pranks....
My CFI tried to trick me into turning onto the runway with the yoke, he didn't count on me already having hundreds of hours in flight simulator X before signing up But he did get me with the trim trick though, but instead of just releasing all the backpressure after me pressing a button, he instead had me scan for traffic, and when I was busy looking for traffic and facing away from the instrument panel, he trimmed the plane to bank hard to the right, then when I said theres no traffic, he released the controls, hit the door of the plane with a bottle and screamed "we hit something!!!!" Needless to say, that scared the shit out of me, I leveled the plane after about 2-3 sec and looked over at him laughing his ass off, then I saw the trim controls, i retrimmed the plane and learned not to be a smartass
Damn, probably a good thing I never learned or wanted to learn to fly because doing something like that to me would see him both lose a student and get reported to the authorities. Making someone fear for their life is not cool. Would you have been so forgiving if he’d held a gun to your head even if it had no ammo but you didn’t know that? Same thing.
@@mikoto7693 unlike you, I can take a joke Flight training doesn't have to be boring and by the books 24/7, it just has to be safe There was nothing on TCAS, the weather was good, and we had plenty of altitude, instructors play jokes on students all the time, I even got him a couple of times during my training When it was a slow day of flying and there were only a couple of flights in the air, me and the other students (the instructors and tower knew what was going on as its prettycommon at my school) would have mock dogfights with each other with the instructors calling out on the radio "got you" or "got us" when one of us lined up a "shot" on the other Say what you will about boomers, but they make great flight instructors
When I get back to finally flying again, I won't care about any pranks -- I will just be so happy to be back!!! (Okay, honestly, I'll care a little....)
Chances of us getting pranked are pretty slim... ok I’ve had an airline pilot tease me about my radio faux pas once but in a nice, fun way (so embarrassing tho). Best of luck with your training!!! 😊
Funny story. I grew up flying c152 with my dad, he was my first “CFI” , so years later I decided to go for it and get my private license, first flight with my now, current CFI, we’re in a c172. We’re doing preflight check, I look at him and ask ,” where is the carb heat?” He just stared at me and said… bro, it’s fuel injected…. I felt like running back to my car I was so embarrassed!! Now we have 12 hours, and hoping to solo very soon! Great channel!!
Hey kelsey, I hope all is well and you're keeping safe. My first flight, my instructor showed me an emergency descend. Me being new, it looked to me like we were falling back to earth, and neither one of us is an astronaut.
This is like when we had someone who never worked on a car before wanting to try his hands at it, so when we got tired of him, we told him to look for the "mid-throttle distributor" somewhere in the workshop! After searching the random section of shelves for 10 minutes looking for the non-existent part we described for him, he came back to say that he couldn't find it... Then we would add another 2 or 3 pieces of information on what it looked like, and back over to the shelves he went... When we finally felt sorry for him, we suddenly panicked and yelled "STOP, STOP! You're stepping on it now!" And when he almost fell over from us yelling, we told him that we couldn't understand why it took him so long to find his own feet, since they were literally attached to his legs...
I’m a line service technician at a private jet FBO in Los Angeles California. That first prank is also something our ground guys do to new line techs and trainees. Sometimes we’ll team up with the pilots to prank the new guys. Telling them to mop the ramp to keep the FOD down is also a fun one.
Can confirm the sensory overload thing, I bought an hour of flight time on a 737 NG sim at my local mall (yes it's as cool as it sounds, but pricey) and somehow I totally forgot how an ILS system works and made a very stupid comment asking the instructor how the computer calculates the glideslope (he seemed rather flustered by that question given I understood all the other systems). Afterward, I realized what I said and facepalmed, even today occasionally as I drift to sleep that moment comes back to haunt me and keep me awake replaying it in my head trying to understand how I managed such stupidity. I did manage to land at Reagan my first try, albeit hard, and managed to land the approach reserved for small regional jets, only crashing once (crashing the sim in the process which was a trippy experience).
I love you man. I am pilot too. Once i flew paraglider without pilots license. Pilot was supervising on the ground and operating line... Climbed 300ft. Landed perfect ;)
I’m a comic, but i have been made an ass out off too many times. If my CFI did this too me I would immediately say “you’re fired,” and go to the next street corner and hire the next CFI.
I'm gonna have to remember this. Probably watch this the day before I go to flight training. Im starting out with a flight simulator and getting to know different aircraft. For some reason I love taildraggers which I guess not many do because of the sight picture is at a 45° angle. I am familiar with the Cessna 172 (mostly... I'm still getting used to looking at my instruments every so often but with ADHD it's hard to focus on instruments and what's around you. But I am sorta used to flying the DC3 in xplane11 it's very easy to fly and I know where all my instruments are. It's also fun starting it up, but kinda easy once you've done it once or twice. (In case you were wondering I have about 70 hours in game of just flying.))
Another funny story.... I was flying somewhere w/ dad and had gone to the back seat to lie down. At some point my dad thought it’d be great to practice stall recovery. I woke up as he was putting the plane into a stall and happened to look out the window. Let me tell you that when you’re looking down and seeing the ground and the tail of the plane at the same time, and don’t know what’s going on, it can be a bit nerve wracking. There’s also the time I threatened to land the p,and when my dad kept wanting to practice his touch and goes (or go around). Love your channel Kelsey... Brings back quite a few memories.
A young and foolish pilot wanted to sound cool on the aviation frequencies. This was his first time approaching a field during the night time.
Instead of making any official requests to the tower he said, "Guess who?"
The controller switched the field lights off and replied, "Guess where?"
I heard of another 'comedian' similarly chastised by ATC:
ATC: "[callsign] ,say altitude and airspeed"
Pilot: "Altitude and airspeed"
ATC "[callsign], say cancel IFR"
Pilot "6,000ft at 140kts, [callsign]"
You owe me a keyboard! I spat out my tea!😉 Very funny -or scary as heck.
@@theresechristiansen9769 me too
Oh that's baaaaad 🤣
OOOF. That’s good one!
My instructor after a rough landing, “did we land or did we get shot down “?
🤣🤣🤣
You still landed. A+
As long as you get on the ground safely its a good landing
😂if yall got shot down he wouldn't be talkin
LOL
Then there's that one that backfired, this happened during WW2, think it was in the RAF: A flight instructor used to detach his yoke when he took his students on their check ride, tap the student on the shoulder, and throw the yoke out of the plane: your controls! (this was a training plane with open cockpit, and the instructor behind the student)
Then one day there was this student who had been warned about this, and he took with him an extra yoke, without the instructor knowing it. Then when the instructor threw out the yoke during the check ride, the student took his extra yoke, and threw it also overboard.
The instructor panicked and bailed out, then watched as his student landed the plane with ease :)
I find it hard to believe someone in the military is just throwing parts out of the plane that need to be replaced and not getting in trouble for it. Trust me when someone goes to replace that someone in supply is going to ask where the old one is, and what was wrong with it. Then they are going to start asking some serious questions. You might get away with it once, but not multiple times. Not to mention the safety concerns involved. I think someone was pulling your leg with that tale. I was in the military, my dad was in the military and my grandpa was in during WW2. They were just as anal retentive back then as now. Heck probably more with aircraft parts.
@@biteme263 - could have been a trashed yoke that he salvaged. throw it out over the same field each time so he can recover it.
@@biteme263 Agreed. Sounds like a tall tale to me.
MrYfrank14
Gimme a break lol
@@AttilaTheHun333333 - some people go to great lengths for a joke.
As a lesson in: "You tend to drift where you're looking." My instructor had me on the controls for a while. He was looking at his window and said "Oh wow. Check that out." And pointed. I sat up and craned my neck, trying to see out his window. I didn't see anything of note. "Where?" "Right there. You can't see that?" And a few moments later, he said: "Are you still flying the plane?" I was 30 degrees off heading, 500 below my altitide, 20 kias over my desired airspeed and in about a 20 degree bank. It was a good lesson in how quickly things can deteriorate with distractions.
fivestringslinger that would actually be a very good scenario to practice unusual attitudes with. Having a student get distracted from flying the airplane
@@davidhood2200 He had a really cool method for unusual attitude recovery. Rather than just having me under the foggles and him flying, he would have me put the foggles on and return the controls to me, then close my eyes and tip my head down. Then he would ask me to give him a turn, climb or descent. Usually 90 to 180 degrees. Then when things were sufficiently screwy, he would tell me to recover. It's way more disorienting as a student to put yourself in the unusual attitude. And it strongly demonstrates how you can't trust your senses.
fivestringslinger my DPE had my do that for my instrument checkride and yeah it’s a whole different ball park than an instructor putting you in an unusual attitude
@@davidhood2200 Looking forward to starting my instrument this summer.
fivestringslinger you’re gonna love it! I found instrument training to be quite easy and loved the IFR Cross Countries.
I remember a sign above the urinal in a small airport's men's room: "Pilots with short pitot tubes please stand close to the tower when defueling."
AZMike short pitot tubes and low manifold pressure 🤣
should those pilots with a short prop or a low manifold pressure please taxi further forward
Similar signs are in bathrooms the world over. It isn't related to the topic but thanks for sharing.
We had sign "taxi closer" above urinals
Fuel dump nozzles
When I did my first check ride, we landed and during the taxi to FBO I asked how did I do. He said we would talk when we get parked at the FBO. That was the worst 2 mins of my life waiting to hear what I did wrong.... After we shutdown, first thing out of his mouth was I passed... I asked why couldn't he tell me that during taxi. He said he told a guy he passed once during taxi. Then he proceeded to clip a fuel truck with the wing on the way to tieup... So now he waits for him to be out of the aircraft before he says a word so its not his problem.
Y'know what man, instructor's got a good reason
When I took my check ride I made a stupid mistake that wasn't related to a required maneuver, but I thought I was done.
When we were downwind back at the home airport we were cleared to land and he cut the power and said engine failure and your flaps don't work either.
I said the flaps are mechanical that would never happen, he gave me a stern look and said no flaps.
The airport was surrounded by houses and I didn't want to come up short so I stayed tight and ended up doing s turns and a very aggressove slip to get down.
We made it, I said boy that was ugly, he said yeah but you made it and if you had passengers they live another day because you made it happen.
He said I'm not going to keep you in suspense, you passed.
I said what about my mistake earlier, he said I think you learned from that.
It ain't over till it's over
After a landing in my PPL checkride, the examiner said, "If you can taxi back to the terminal from here without hitting anything, you'll pass." I got off the runway and stopped after the hold short line to call ground, like I'm supposed to. Examiner, a retired airline pilot, said, "Keep going, call 'em on the roll." Yes, I'm PIC but I thought he knew what he was doing so when I rolled and called, ground said, "Why are you moving on my taxiway without permission?!?" Examiner said to me, "Tell 'em you'll never do it again."
Good thinking.
Don't let them off the hook untill they're off the plane.
I've never had flight school, but I am an avid SCUBA diver. When I started out, I was terrified of the ocean and decided to take SCUBA lessons as a challenge to myself that my fear was misplaced and I could overcome it. My first SCUBA instructor was a bit of a prankster and after a few pranks that I understand now to be harmless and safe, I nearly had a legit nervous breakdown due to the terror I felt every time I got in the water. He was a nice guy and all, but I eventually got a different instructor, finished my training and now I've overcome my fears.
My story is to just point out that pranks should only be pulled on people you know can take it.
Well one could argue in order to get over a fear you gotta take some shit
Prank is ALWAYS a bad idea. Very low IQ people do pranks. Pranks kill and maim people. I have herd about dude who petended to commit suicide and killed his mom with heart attack. Idiocy
Agreed, OP.
Im a flight Instructor, but i dont do many "pranks"... but there is one i like to do that helps their pre-flight. While they are doing their interior inspection i put postit notes on the airframe where i know students miss looking over. Their face is priceless when they find one and i just say somthing like: "dang how did that get there".
This is actually a good prank,because it reinforces a positive behavior.
A couple of my favorite moments with my flight instructor:
(1) when I was clearly too low on final and we flew over the golf course next to the approach end of the runway, he opened his window, leaned his head out and yelled, "Playing through!"
(2) when I landed and ground control said they believed my ELT was activated (it was due to a malfunctions), I looked at my instructor and said, "I didn't think my landing was THAT hard!"
(3) immediately prior to my first solo (which I had no idea was about to happen), he told me to stop in the run up area because he seemed to be having a problem with his seat not locking in it's tracks, and needed to look at it. He then proceeded to open the door, step out, and fiddle around with the seat for a few seconds before telling me, "I know what's wrong with it... You don't need me sitting in it anymore."
Good times. Thanks Marc!
Most every newly soloed pilot I ever spoke with said that the plane flew so much better without that instructor in it too! And it wasn't the extra weight they were speaking of either.
No.3 sounds like a wonderfully touching moment from a cheesy 90's movie and I love it!
@@davelee9087 Could be because without instructor the student puts 100% of the effort.
"Playing through" I almost spilled my coffee reading this.😂
The third gag is a very simple but effective way to build your student’s confidence.
My instructors never pranked me and I'm happy about that. I was serious about getting it right and wouldn't have appreciated most of these pranks.
This isn't aviation related, but when I'm at a new job or position, I'll tell my trainer when they're teaching me... "No... Not like that!" , and I'll watch them stop, and ask me why not. Then i'll say, "I don't know. You're the teacher."
🤣😂🤣
seems like something the Janitor from Scrubs would say
@@EwigesEis ahhh Rotinaj, loved that guy
I'm gonna start doing this, thanks
Lmao! Smart ass!
Try putting a bag of Doritos in the back seat of a C-172, and make your student pilot climb to 10,000 feet. BANG!!! Engine failure??? Nope. Check your six. Doritos everywhere.
Ever try cleaning the back of a 150 when cheetos blow up IT SUCKS
That's just evil
That's hilarious.
Interesting. 10,000 feet is all it takes to pop a bag of chips?
get some fulminated mercury and just throw it on a hard surface at FL100 and see what happens
Thank you for continuing to make content during this crazy time! I know cargo pilots are crazy busy right now.
ya its definitely getting tougher than usual right now but happy to do it
@@74gear Many thanks to cargo pilots who keep goods moving around the world. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
@@74gear
Have you made a video on the logistics of having a family while being a pilot
@@74gear thank you for your service!
I'm sure they are...we are witnessing the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the World.
That doesn't mean I don't appreciate people who move cargo, as I most certainly do!
First I would like to say I really enjoy your videos. I'm a 20+ year retired US Air Force aircraft maintenance Crew Chief who has worked on F-15, C-130s, B-1 bombers, E-3 AWAC and KC-135R Stratotankers. My favorite by far was my time on the KC-135 since Tankers normally take their Crew Chiefs everywhere they went. The banter between Tanker Crew Chiefs and the Flight Crew was normally a thing of beauty a perfect balance of working hard and playing hard. Way to many pranks to go over but the Pilots often used their Crew Chief to assist them with pranks pulled on new young flight crew members and the favors would be returned when we would have new young maintainers. With KC-135s being so old and having so many upgrades one of the most ongoing pranks use on both new flight crew members as well as maintainers was the installation of dummy switches where just cover plates should be installed due to systems being removed. These dummy switches would be labeled with all sorts of silly functions like stealth activation, cloaking controls and all sorts of different weapon systems. My favorite that I had on my aircraft for a good long while was the switch for the deployment of chemtrails. You might be surprised at how many people would fall for it. The best is when the Tanker would be sitting static display at an air show and some civilian would just happen to notice the switch that was clearly labeled and their head would explode. Good times! 😀✈ Silly tricks we played on the civilian public when our Tanker was on display at air shows could make a pretty funny book or video.
When you almost send "Suck on it" via ACARS to your company, man that guy's got balls.
ya, that would've been very awkward if I accidentally hit send.
😅 Absolutely!
@@74gear It would have been an excellent Captain's prank, though. 😅
In my charity (organizing huge concerts, actually) we used to draw dicks on paper during our boring meetings. One day, the guy among us in charge of security wanted to fax the whole security planning to the city’s firemen office. So he printed it on used paper, because after a fax scan you can throw away the paper...
Aaaaaand that’s how we sent 43 dick drawings to the firemen office, with our fax number in the metadata of our phone number at the top. The guy was new with this fax machine and didn’t know you had to put the paper upside down. Fortunately the firemen office had had hiccups with every previous generation of students in our charity so they just phoned to teach us how to use our fax machine, half-laughing half-bored.
@@antoy384 You Sir just made my day, thank you!
When I was a student pilot in a 150, my instructor taught me about proper trim by continuing to roll in trim while I held altitude with increasing yoke pressure. All of a sudden we were looking straight down at the ground through the windscreen. The horizontal stabilizer had stalled! Scared him more than it did me, because I assumed he knew what was going to happen, which he didn’t.
Hahaha I bet he didn't do that again lol
I'm calling BS on this. I don't see how this is possible.
If you're holding proper pitch attitude with the yoke (which controls the quite large left and right elevator surfaces) then the position of the relatively tiny trim tab mounted at the trailing edge of the right elevator should not be enough of an aerodynamic factor to stall the horizontal stabilizer unless you're already within a couple knots of the aircraft's stall speed and prior to moving it to an extreme angle. Perhaps this could happen in certain planes where the entire stabilizer rotates with trim changes, but not in a Cessna 150 (or other single-engine Cessna aircraft) where it's only the tiny little trim tab that would be moving in a direction contrary to the airflow over the elevator.
There are plenty of instances where the trim control cable has broken in-flight at undesirable settings (or just come completely loose), and while very annoying to fly like that, it does not jeopardize the safety of the flight. It would only cause a very slightly increased stall speed due to the minimal drag that would be produced by the trim tab being now pointed an odd angle as compared to the elevator's angle. Anyone with access to a plane equipped with an elevator trim tab can see this by running the trim wheel all the way to the nose up and nose down stops while the plane is parked on the ground, and getting out and looking at it. It's really not that acute an angle even at those extremes, and certainly won't cause enough drag to stall the horizontal stabilizer at normal airspeeds, to include approach and landing speeds. The only real issues would be a quick change in configuration, like a go-around, which would cause a lot of brute force to have to be applied on the yoke to keep the plane from getting into an attitude that would put it into an aerodynamic stall.
So if this experience actually happened, I'd have say that you guys were already at an extremely low airspeed and at or near an incipient stall before the trim wheel was rolled to whatever position it was. It would have virtually nothing to do with the trim position, and essentially everything to do with the plane's speed and angle of attack prior to rolling in the trim.
He needs a new job
im just imagining the company getting an ACARS message that says "what does this button do?"
"Sending a message via ACARS. This response cost you fifty dollars."
@@roichir7699 Its more like 75 cents. If they send a very long essay of a message and have to use satcom instead of vhf
Company:
747 DreamLifter: Try Sucking on it
Company: right I am done, enjoy not having meds
@@Moshimulations You mean the popular specific anti anxiety med most companies ban?
@@kg4boj no I mean Ventilators for the pilot
See what happens when you send a student to maintenance to ask for a bucket of prop wash.
Reminds me of the time in BT a recruit was sent to fetch a bucket of E. A. R. wax to buff the floors with LOL.
Nice. He should’ve fetched some elbow grease while he was at it!
One student I know got dicked around by the maintenance guys for an hour and a half, at which point he asked to speak to the manager, who (after listening very politely) chewed the guys out, getting them to hand the student a bucket of water with some used engine oil in it, which the student then hauled nearly a mile across the ramp in the tropical heat.
Yeah, they got me good. :P
... or a roll of flight line.
Or when i was in basic training, and my Sergeant told me “if any of you wanna go to sick call, you will have to fill out an ID 10 T form...
My favorite was doors off in an OH-58C, you could cover the static port with your foot. Periodically cover, and uncover it.
Always fun to watch the other guy!
Douche!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favorite I’ve ever seen pulled off (with fuel trucks) was the “integrity test”.
Basically convince a pipeliner to scream different notes in to the manhole and listen for resonance during the monthly checks. If there’s any “cracks”, they’ll continue to hum like a tuning fork. But cracks of different sizes only resonate at specific frequencies, so you have to do a full “Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Da”
I frac in the oilfield and we have new guys swing a bag in the air to get A.I.R. samples, run a sensor and cable out on the ground and tell them they have to beat the ground around it with a sledgehammer doing a seismic test. I really like taking a thick grease and using it as a glue and putting coffee cups on new guys hard hats.
Student pilot : Where should we land?
Kelsy as a flight instructor : Coming up...
I laughed way too hard at that.
@@falxonPSN me too lol
As George Carlin would say, "Preferably, at an airport."
I absolutely love your ability to make your channel so interesting (for the most clueless aviation enthusiast, like myself, all the way to helping actual airline pilots learn). Please never ever stop your channel. I am amazed not only by your experience and all you know about Aviation is just fascinating in itself. You are so genuine and honesty, and you don’t Bragg, nor insult anyone. You are obviously very intelligent in your field, it boggles my mind why you don’t have your 4 stripes (you know everything there is and how to explain it to all from the inexperienced enthusiasts all the way up to educating real life pilots). I just love the vibe of your personality that ultimately makes your channel so awesome!! Thank you for all your hard work and time you put into 74 gear. Please never stop creating new videos. Your obviously so good at knowing everything a pilot should know, and very entertaining!!
"Comin' Up!"
I'm a simple person. I see a new video by you - I click the thumbs up. It can't be anything else but awesome!
thanks for watching Noneofya
:)
Watching your videos and Insta uploads makes coron:tine much more bearable. Please keep'em coming!
And pranks with Kelsey is yet another great category! :)
It's an automatic reaction!
A lot of great ways to make your students never want to learn how to fly ever again. I personally stand on the side of creating the best possible flight learning experiences.
Yup, also a great way to lose students who decide to find a more professional instructor. If it had been me with the trim prank I’d have been so tempted to smuggle an unloaded pistol aboard for the next lesson and point it to his head and order him to land on a flat plain miles from civilisation. See how much he enjoys being tricked into fearing for his life just for the amusement of another person.
If a prank stopped you from flying then it is probably a good thing. A prank is in good fun. If you can’t handle unexpected good fun, how the heck can you handle the bad? So imo best your not in control of a plane or other serious machines.
@@SirCanuckelhead After having picked up body parts so that there was something to put in the casket after a prank that has gotten out of control, you tell me where was the good fun. There is a definite difference between jokes and pranks, and when in good taste, a place for each.
@@valerieurquhart3133 there is also a huge difference between harmless pranks and ones that go too far. Someone hiding behind a door or in a bag is a prank. They can be harmless and fun. Like everything people can take it too far and ruin it.
@@SirCanuckelhead I agree.
Watching this again, reminded me of an event when I was flight training in the late 1970's I was already doing circuits, but one Aero Club instructors, was a service mechanic for one of the airport's airlines and the trainer was known for pranks. One new student was very nervous (his dream to be a commercial airline pilot), but had done his "basic ground lessons" and about to go up for his first flight. They bypassed all the training aircraft and approached the DC9 , parked just outside the service hangar... next to the the Aero Club . Well, you guess the rest, the trainer basically said, "I think we'll take this baby up", and proceeded to walk up the air stairs.. the student backing away... the trainer reiterating, "Well you want to be an airline pilot dont you? Come on...". Later that day, after the student calmed down a bit and had a laugh with all of us, they took up a C 152 instead..lol
Hi, I am 73 now and my dad wanted me to become a pilot as he was in the Luftwaffe in the war. We lived in Belgium when I was 14. One had to be 16 to ride a moped but at 14 one could learn how to fly. So, after a relatively short while, about a year later, near Gent, I had my first solo flight in an SV-4 (Stampe-Vertonghe) 4 biplane that had an inverted, 90 Hp, air cooled Renault engine. Just imagine how proud I felt, then, and how much fun it was.
I was 20 in 1967 and flew a matte black painted, unarmed, Pilatus Porter in Laos, I did nothing wrong but some people shot at me. I broke my back in 1979.
I am sorry to read this!
Hope you are well today?
The video's thumbnail is showing the pilot who emergency landed his plane this year on the highway 40 near Quebec City. Is about to take the exit. All the communication tower and him is available. Tipical calm pilot.
I prefer the jokes we made on students in electro-mechanics or automation.
"Go check the tires pressure on the forklift !" (handing them a bicycle pump)
Same on my school practice. But better - we have solid rubber tires on forklifts... half hour of searching air pipe around rim... and loud laugh from oldies. It was funny times.
@@adamw.8579 We too have solid tires ! 😁
@@Dr.K.Wette_BE I see same jokes going around the world. (Poland here)
@@adamw.8579 Belgium
Lol, i did aircraft maintenance and we had a section with all the tools, and there was always one student assigned to it and he needed to keep track of who got what tool and give it to them. And if it was a first year we asked if they could look for a copper magnet and let them search XD
Random Guy: We will have flying cars in 2020.
2020: The planes themselves are not flying 😂😆😆
I am sure many people thought it would happen by now
@@restandrelaxation4039 Just don't drive using the center line on the road as a guide LOL
There. Will. Never. Be. Flying. Cars.
flying cars have been built. but i dont think anyone of they made to productuon because they cant get FAA certfacaton.
apprently, the FAA s more strct whth landng gear on a flyng car then on al plane bvecause the landng never touches potholes n less n crashees n a dflld. they are afrad of the t httng smethng when t s a car then makng t not arworthy.
so they buld t to plane specs and then get dened.
@@NoName-zn1sb Pal-v is a flying car, and is certified by easa if im not mistaken, so propably will also be certified by the faa or already is idk
That last one is a gem! "You're gonna do what!?"
😂🤣😂
Taxing toward the runway when learning to fly, there came a distinct knocking from outside the aircraft, it took me some time to realise that it was the instructor, door slightly open and leaning out, knocking out his pipe on the undercarriage leg !
That's an old school instructor.
@@skyhawk_4526 Unless it was a weed pipe. Lmao.
I'm preparing for flight school soon so I'm glad I watched this ahead of time
If my flight instructor did any of those, I'd get another instructor. Learning to fly is NOT an opportunity to mess with someone. It's stressful for the student. Every pilot during training has doubts and exploiting them is cruel and unprofessional.
Except the parachute; that's just funny.
Agreed!
as an aircraft engine mechanic.... im like... none of this would work on me... cuz i pull half the same shit on new troops
blog it
Lol
I've heard some of the best pranks from my buddies who were crew chiefs in the Air Force. Has anyone ever had you inspect a crack in the window? xD
I'm a victim of the 'manual transmission' prank...payback was pure sweet justice...
ohhh please tell me what that was on an Instagram DM I wonder if I can make a student pilot revenge video 😂
@@74gear Okay, I will...look for sib6sis3..that's me.
Oh this i gotta hear.
@@davecrupel2817 I can neither confirm nor deny I may have wired the brakes to blow the car horn...
@@hsbvt the brakes*?
I've seen a few occurances of that. And it is always, ALWAYS hilarious. 🤣
"I need you to do better next time." Kelsey's flight instructors, girlfriends.
When my father was learning his CFI turned the fuel off in a 150 and then asked what are you gonna do and my dad said find a place to land then the cfi was like but your fuel is off so, my father said I didn’t turn it off so I’m not turning it back on. He got the CFI back
Epic 😂
Dominance established.
Excellent response.
That's a good response anyway. If it spontaneously happened, there might be a worse problem, and it's better to figure it out on the ground, than to risk another engine failure.
@@AlexandarHullRichter exactly.
I never had any pranks played on me. All my instructors were very professional.
I dont question that your instructors were very professional, but no need to be boring to be professional.
A right amount of jokes at the right time is a good thing to relax and make life memorable
There was a few jokes and one good natured "prank" that I fondly remember. One was when I was low on final approach and over a golf course at the approach end of the runway. My instructor opened his window, leaned his head out, and yelled, "Playing through!!!" I thought it was funny and me made me more conscious of my pitch and power settings on final. The other was immediately prior to my first solo (which I wasn't at all expecting that day). My instructor kept looking down and adjusting his seat as we were taxiing back to the runway for another circuit. As we neared the runway, he told me, "Stop over in the runup area, there's something wrong with my seat and I need to take a look at it." He had me, hook, line and sinker. So I stopped and he took his seatbelt off, opened the door, got out, and began fiddling around with the seat track. Then he looked at me and said, "I know what wrong with it. You don't need me sitting here anymore." I'll never forget that moment and the humorous way he sent me off on my first solo.
I personally don't like pranks
@@jgfakjshfdgkajshd Pranks are a form of bullying, so I respect instructors who don't feel the need to be bullies.
@@jeffw1267 I understand why you say that but I don't agree 100%. It depends by quantity and context
As the old joke goes: "Glider-student is overdue.. and down in a field. Car and trailer are currently inop and so Instructor comes to pick him up in the towing-Cub and sees the glider in a tiny tiny field and thinks, well, if he can do it, I have to do it, too to maintain my instructor glory.. he barely manages to stop into a hedgerow and asks the student: "dam, how did you get in here?", but the student goes: "what do you mean, I landed over there in that big field and pulled the plane over here so you have more space to come pick me up"
🤣 Good one !
xD
That's so unfunny it can't possibly be an old joke. Thanks for the BS.
... I've seen funnier jokes from Germans!
A classic one is to distract the student right when they're about to untie the tail tie-down so they accidentally omit that part of their checklist, or possibly even re-tie it when they're not looking. Same could possibly apply to chocks on the wheels if they are being used. Student attempts to taxi away, use full throttle, plane doesn't move no matter what they do. I think my mom's instructor pulled that one on her. It's a good lesson to teach though, as the student will be diligent about that the rest of their career and that could save them humiliation later on when they have an audience.
Another she told me about, later on in the Air Force, she was doing simulator training, I think for a C-130. Old beat up simulator, felt sketchy to begin with. Simulating emergencies, they did a cockpit fire simulation. Smoke began pouring out of the instrument panel. Thinking the sim was actually on fire, she was ready to shut it down and evacuate. Instructor laughed about it and urged her to deal with it like it was a real airplane. Turns out the sim had a smoke generator of some sort, the same used in those old Lionel toy trains, and she'd not known that - something I'm sure the instructors always enjoy not telling students about ahead of time.
I don't remember any good pranks from when I was learning to fly (power-planes), probably because my mom was my instructor - I knew her too well for her to be able to pull anything on me. Can't think of anything from my glider rating either except all the times the instructor pulled the tow-release at 200 feet AGL, just barely high enough to make it back to the runway, that instructor was infamous for that.
My dad was a flight instructor in charge of other flight instructors in the RCAF. He would have ripped you apart if you pulled any of these pranks on his flight cadets. It was complete professionalism from flight briefing, to walk around, in the cockpit, and on debrief after the flight. That said however pranks in the barracks, mess, other airbases (stealing mascots for example) was unofficially encouraged to blow off stress from learning to fly in the military. One story was during a graduation ceremony where the flight cadets were getting their wings. Two foreign exchange cadets, one from the UK the other from Australia had a real rivalry going and one of the popular drinking games was to yell Dead Ants and the last guy down on his back with hands and feet in the air had to buy a round for everyone. You guessed it the Limey thought he would get one up in the Aussie by yelling Dead Ants just as he was handed his wings from the base commander. The Aussie went down on his back and hands and feet in the air. The base commander had a sense of humor and told him, looks like you are not buying the first round are you, No Sir, Thank you Sir. And yes the poor English fellow was made to pay for not just the first round but many! 😂😂😂
I am training to fly gliders. We have a winch to pull the gliders up and therefore we need to pull out the ropes the entire lenght of the runway (1000m, ~3300ft).
Usually, this is done with a car.
My FI pranked me and made me pull them out by hand (super exhausting) because I didn't know we have a car for that.
Yikes.
My favorite trick is to put a highly abbreviated label (like PES) over the "passenger ejection seat" button (in an airplane your CFI has never flown in). Then up at altitude you ask the CFI "what is that button?". He shrugs, and you suggest, "push it and find out". Hopefully you remember to attach the parachute to the passenger seat before you take off. :-)
Just kidding (for the non-pilot viewers out there).
PS: If any of my flight instructors ever did the kind of nonsense described in this video, they never would have earned another penny from me! There are a lot of more tasteful and actually funny jokes and pranks out there.
Exactly. Any of those pranks would have had me finding a replacement instructor and reporting the former ones to the authorities.
i've never been prenked in a plane. And I think that is great! I think pranking has no place in the plane.
Trusting the instructor is important. And feeling safe and calm during training.
It has no place in flight training.
Even a harsh way of talking to the pilot is not a good thing.
And not a "cowboy" attitude either, skipping checklist steps, og doing them for you. We have all the time for all the checks.
I know this was for students but as a soon to be flight instructor, I find this information very useful!
wow, I was rewatching your old videos and got a notification about a new one.. I’m happy ;-;💖💖
awesome, hope you enjoy it!
74 Gear I enjoy every single of your videos! Thanks for the amazing content and inspiring me!
Best prank ever... the instructor tucks and rolls on rotation during a discovery flight
One time my CFI pulled my throttle out when I touched the air vent. Yeah that messed with my head for a hot sec😂
I had a CFI that SO overused the 'surprise' throttle pull i'd be ready to slap his hand if i seen him so much as move out of the corner of my eye. Having an engine failure every 2-3 minutes was annoying and it was a constant low level distraction and impediment to training.
CFI: Look down at the point you're turning around!
Me: No way!
CFI: Why not?
Me: Cause you're gonna chop the throttle... again. Can i try to complete ONE maneuver today without an 'engine failure'?
2:00 I thought you were going to say, "...and turn on pitot heat."
This was before cell phone cameras though.
😂 I hope no one is that cruel
@@phxcppdvlazi I was gonna say, "Now that's really cruel." (not to mention a way to sued or even arrested for assault. lol)
That first one was hilarious 😂😂😂😂. I'm liking this mini series
thanks Genevieve... I appreciate it!
We need all the humor we can get nowadays. Thanks so much!
@@74gear first one made me laugh a lot
I actually pulled that prank on my girlfriend and I filmed it, but the funniest part was when we went to her parents for dinner and they asked how was our flight and she told her parents how I tricked her. She actually said to her parents "Mark tricked me today and made me blow on Peters tube" instead of saying "pitot tube". Let's just say I had a lot of explaining to do to her parents. LOL
It may damage the instrument though... Some POH prohibits blowing into pitot tube.
"Just the tip"
- Archer
Ha, can't do that with the mast.
I see you're a man of culture
Back in 1980, I taught part time in Colorado and our flight school had a prankster instructor. He lasted about six months, pranked the wrong person, lost his ticket and spent some time in the grey bar hotel.
Thanks Cris, a story with no details. It's so typical on this BS site full of phonies. Did you run out of story? What prank was also a crime? The world wonders.
@@stevek8829, If you have to know, the offending prank was to “pants” an individual just outside of the hangar in full view of everyone which exposed the lower half of his victim. In Colorado exposing yourself or causing someone to be exposed is a crime. The nail in in the instructor’s coffin was that his student/victim worked for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and was a female.
@@Sekhet8 yea im not buying it. I doubt someone is senseless enough to pants a chick as a male. I understand the 80s was a different time than now but im pretty sure even then it was criminal offense to do that to a chick. tho don't quote me on that. either way provide some names as this should show on some databanks with the correct search
@@thegulagcuck4066 Well, it happened and I don’t care if you buy it or not. Even though I knew the instructor and still know his victim, I won’t give out their names on public media for you to further rehash a poor choice made by the instructor and further humiliate his victim. Take the lesson learned and move on.
@@thegulagcuck4066 cocaines a hell of a drug
Blowie 😆 and that HOT - lanta montage. Kelsey is a legend.
Was it only me expecting the backpack talk was gonna be a sponsorship (which would be fine, Kelsey deserves some good sponsors) and then had the same "WHAT?!" reaction as that student pilot would have had at the mention of parachutes et all. Good one!
any of those would be the instructors last day with me
Honestly you sound like you smell like flower, horse girl.
My trainer when we were learning how to drive trucks:
Trainer: let's see if you're skilled enough to shift gears on a railroad crossing.
Student: I did it, I--
Trainer: What the hell are you doing? Shifting on railroad crossings is _illegal_ !
Yeah, it's also really dangerous. Sometimes a truck will stall on a crossing, and stupid truckers won't call the railroad lol
Where is it illegal? I don't think it is here.
I think it's more of an accentuated recommendation than law. Especially now that there are automatic trucks.
@@annahenrietta9517 I've never seen a truck stall I think, and it shouldn't take more than a few seconds to restart the engine, probably restarted before it even comes to a stop.
@@jort93z It's illegal in the US. Also illegal to shift gears in a truck (or even declutch, not to mention shift into neutral) on a down grade.
I understand the whole prank thing all too well. I've never been a prank person nor do I like people pulling pranks on me. Personally, I just feel there's just not some times and places for pranks. Flight training is not a place for pranks. Makes for a lack of trust 'cause you won't know when they're pranking or serious.
Thomas Whitten I completely agree with you. I’ve got closing on 20,000 hours and have zero tolerance for this in any aircraft.
Agreed - the ones on the ground are absolutely fine and I would absolutely love it if someone put one over on me like that. Its a thing of beauty when someone gets you good, no matter how embarrassing.
The ones in the air, I would refuse to fly with them again and probably lay a complaint. I'm there to learn and paying a shit ton for it, and if I don't get it right I could get myself or someone else killed -especially seeing how easily a small error can snowball. Easy to find another instructor these days.
I just disagree with pranks altogether. I don’t understand how frightening or stressing someone out just for your own selfish amusement is considered acceptable.
@@HEDGE1011 imagine 20 000 lonely grumpy hours, do you allow anyone to smile during the flight. Eish!! shame.
@@paulvonblerk9365 After having picked up body parts so that there was something to put in the casket after a prank that has gotten out of control, you tell me where the shame lies. There is a definite difference between jokes and pranks, and when in good taste, a place for each.
Hey !!!!!! Never blow into the Pitot tube of a small plane, it will screw up you airspeed indicator.
You blow into the stall sensor instead and get bug guts all over your lips
@@kg4boj HAhahahha
@@bryanaveri6816 Actually you suck through this slot in the wing to test the stall horn, sometimes you do get bug guts all on your lips, in your mouth and what not.
Yeah, I like planes, but I'm not about to make out with one.
@@kg4boj What? Even in my ancient manual you were supposed to use clean handkerchief before sucking on the stall horn, so any dirt or bug guts would not enter your mouth.
Shouldn't be blowing in the pitot tube, i've seen one airspeed indicator get destroyed by it...
Had a to replace my airspeed indicator because some one did that!
Must have been one heck of a blow.
Maybe from sucking, but I seriously doubt it for blowing. You can draw a ton of vacuum, but you won’t generate any real pressure. Our anatomy does not allow it to happen.
talk about iron lungs...
Really?.. Youre telling me a pitot tube can handle weather at altitude at hundreds of knots but not 3 liters of moist air?
My first 10 or so flights I kept wanting to check the elevator controls by using the mirrors. 🤦♂️
Alex S Haha that’s a good one. On the plus side, you’ll know before the CFI if you’re about to get rear-ended.
Alex S niiiiiice. When i taxi sometimes i look for a rear view mirror 😂
Aron Air haha it’s hard to break the habit!
So glad you explained about sensory overload & not thinking straight!!! Def had that situation in simulation in nursing school. Now I don't feel so bad. Kelsey, If I ever find you in an airport you'd better be nice because I'll be in full fan boy mode. Love your channel
How to get fired in 3 easy steps lmao
These were absolutely hilarious!
I'm a glider pilot and I had an old Luftwaffe pilot as CFI. When we did spin training he put his feet on the petal so I couldn't get out of the spin before we did a few rotations. Scared the heck out of most students he thought it was funny.
The prank I would love to do if I was a flight instructor would be to have the student climb into the plane while I'm sitting there as the instructor reading my piloting for dummies book.
If I was an instructor I would say as a prank right before takeoff "this is my first day in a plane so hope this goes well"
@@traingaming3240 If they've already done a bit of flying, you could wait until after takeoff and suddenly start acting like you're the student and you think they're the instructor.
My dad was an instructor and he used to flick the landing gear up while the students weren’t looking. At 2-3 miles out on approach, he would ask them if it was down. Instant terror every time. 😂
Ok, Kelsey. Thanks for the info on those pranks. Oh, and I hope that we could survive from this pandemic mess.
thanks for watching glad you liked it Pan American
He is so enjoyable to watch. For some reason I feel like I know him personally
Same here.
If a flight instructor pranked me as a student pilot it would be the last time I was with that instructor.
Yea, same. There's also the issue that after stunts like that, you don't know if the instructor is serious or not when he asks you to do something.
@@aivansama6265 If they did it too often they might end up talking to the FAA.
aye. There’s a huge, massive difference between a joke on the ground “hey go ask the mx guys for a bottle of prop wash” or letting the student try to taxi with the tie downs still attached - vs pulling dumb crap in the air.
If your CFI approach is to act like an idiot and play stupid games in the air, your student is going to be the one to earn a stupid prize. The student isn’t going to trust you or they’re going to think screwing around is acceptable. If the student is lucky, they’ll wash out of flight school - maybe on the check ride. If they’re not so lucky, they’ll mouth off to ATC thinking it’s funny, and get a number to call. Or worse they’ll imitate, have a bad habit, or have missed a critical lesson point from the instructor - do something dumb on a solo xc, not know how to recover, and kill themselves.
At that point, is the CFI’s joke still funny?
@@rjhornsby CFI's joke might get them a permanent grounding.
Random Acts of Video I completely agree. I still hold a current CFI and have instructed in the military and civilian world in everything from a Beech Skipper to a B-747-4. These are unprofessional at best and I would have exactly zero tolerance for them. If you find yourself with a CFI doing anything remotely like this, find yourself another instructor.
Student flying...
Having a bad navigation, VOR not working, the next airport was reached. Tower offered to land on the taxiway, 90 degrees to the runway, due to quite some sidewind. Being trained on a windy airport "at home", the offer was not taken and the landing was done without complains.
Now, more than 40 years later, it could have been a souvenir in the memory.
Really loved this one! I have a question though regarding the tiller, how do big planes manage to taxi on the yellow lines? Like is there a camera ? And how did they do it before there was a camera ?
Well, I’m late to answer and I’m not a pilot but commercial jets can’t. They have to be guided into the stand to park by a member of the ground crew. You’ve probably seen it somewhere. It the person in a high vis vest waving brightly coloured red batons or even lit ones powered by batteries. It’s our responsibility to ensure that the aircraft stays on the yellow lines and stops in just the right spot.
Every video, you should leave a slightly longer pause before you say "coming up" than the previous video, until in a few months we're sitting here for 5 minutes for the intro music!
When I was a ramp agent, we would convince the new guy that there were a lot of bags on this flight, and we needed a cargo bin stretcher. We would send them to another airline who was in on the joke. They would give them a telescoping tail stand for a 737. Thought it was beautiful.
and I thought my pranks were mean 😂
@@74gear do a ramp pranks video! Lol sending people for 100 yards of flight line, aircraft needs a prop wash, and the like
Thanks for posting still, we enjoy the videos, shouting you out during these crazy times from Brooklyn NY
*I: stalling on VNLK approach
*Coffin dancers: Y
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Lol 😂
No go around there, ey?
Ghana pallbearers. Lol.
@@aviationchannel6204 Yes!
I am glad my instructors were all about safety. We did nothing without know why we were doing it first. We never goofed around, it was all serious business. If any instructor did any of this to me, they would no longer be my instructor. I guess I don't react well to pranks....
My CFI tried to trick me into turning onto the runway with the yoke, he didn't count on me already having hundreds of hours in flight simulator X before signing up
But he did get me with the trim trick though, but instead of just releasing all the backpressure after me pressing a button, he instead had me scan for traffic, and when I was busy looking for traffic and facing away from the instrument panel, he trimmed the plane to bank hard to the right, then when I said theres no traffic, he released the controls, hit the door of the plane with a bottle and screamed "we hit something!!!!"
Needless to say, that scared the shit out of me, I leveled the plane after about 2-3 sec and looked over at him laughing his ass off, then I saw the trim controls, i retrimmed the plane and learned not to be a smartass
Damn, probably a good thing I never learned or wanted to learn to fly because doing something like that to me would see him both lose a student and get reported to the authorities. Making someone fear for their life is not cool. Would you have been so forgiving if he’d held a gun to your head even if it had no ammo but you didn’t know that? Same thing.
@@mikoto7693 unlike you, I can take a joke
Flight training doesn't have to be boring and by the books 24/7, it just has to be safe
There was nothing on TCAS, the weather was good, and we had plenty of altitude, instructors play jokes on students all the time, I even got him a couple of times during my training
When it was a slow day of flying and there were only a couple of flights in the air, me and the other students (the instructors and tower knew what was going on as its prettycommon at my school) would have mock dogfights with each other with the instructors calling out on the radio "got you" or "got us" when one of us lined up a "shot" on the other
Say what you will about boomers, but they make great flight instructors
First one is a bit humiliating but the rest of them are fantastic. Great video
Me:I think he's in California.
Kelsey: Hotlanta in the dirty dirty South.
I swear if I ever see you in public, I'll announce that you're a celeb and make everyone applaud.
When I get back to finally flying again, I won't care about any pranks -- I will just be so happy to be back!!! (Okay, honestly, I'll care a little....)
😂 ya thats fair I know a lot of people miss flying for sure
Chances of us getting pranked are pretty slim... ok I’ve had an airline pilot tease me about my radio faux pas once but in a nice, fun way (so embarrassing tho). Best of luck with your training!!! 😊
@@mshighaltitude Thank you!!!! I can't wait to get back!!!
Funny story. I grew up flying c152 with my dad, he was my first “CFI” , so years later I decided to go for it and get my private license, first flight with my now, current CFI, we’re in a c172. We’re doing preflight check, I look at him and ask ,” where is the carb heat?” He just stared at me and said… bro, it’s fuel injected…. I felt like running back to my car I was so embarrassed!! Now we have 12 hours, and hoping to solo very soon! Great channel!!
Hey kelsey, I hope all is well and you're keeping safe. My first flight, my instructor showed me an emergency descend. Me being new, it looked to me like we were falling back to earth, and neither one of us is an astronaut.
Just love your way of saying, "coming up".
This is like when we had someone who never worked on a car before wanting to try his hands at it, so when we got tired of him, we told him to look for the "mid-throttle distributor" somewhere in the workshop!
After searching the random section of shelves for 10 minutes looking for the non-existent part we described for him, he came back to say that he couldn't find it... Then we would add another 2 or 3 pieces of information on what it looked like, and back over to the shelves he went... When we finally felt sorry for him, we suddenly panicked and yelled "STOP, STOP! You're stepping on it now!"
And when he almost fell over from us yelling, we told him that we couldn't understand why it took him so long to find his own feet, since they were literally attached to his legs...
I’m a line service technician at a private jet FBO in Los Angeles California. That first prank is also something our ground guys do to new line techs and trainees. Sometimes we’ll team up with the pilots to prank the new guys. Telling them to mop the ramp to keep the FOD down is also a fun one.
Can confirm the sensory overload thing, I bought an hour of flight time on a 737 NG sim at my local mall (yes it's as cool as it sounds, but pricey) and somehow I totally forgot how an ILS system works and made a very stupid comment asking the instructor how the computer calculates the glideslope (he seemed rather flustered by that question given I understood all the other systems). Afterward, I realized what I said and facepalmed, even today occasionally as I drift to sleep that moment comes back to haunt me and keep me awake replaying it in my head trying to understand how I managed such stupidity.
I did manage to land at Reagan my first try, albeit hard, and managed to land the approach reserved for small regional jets, only crashing once (crashing the sim in the process which was a trippy experience).
Pranks are IMMATURE... period!
"What does this button do?"
Oh no. That way lies madness
I love you man. I am pilot too. Once i flew paraglider without pilots license. Pilot was supervising on the ground and operating line... Climbed 300ft. Landed perfect ;)
“Giving the plane a blowy...” 😂
Stuff like this is what makes you love a career. Its like a right of passage.
"rite" of passage.
@@jsat5609 ah thanks, you are correct
I’m a comic, but i have been made an ass out off too many times. If my CFI did this too me I would immediately say “you’re fired,” and go to the next street corner and hire the next CFI.
I'm gonna have to remember this. Probably watch this the day before I go to flight training. Im starting out with a flight simulator and getting to know different aircraft. For some reason I love taildraggers which I guess not many do because of the sight picture is at a 45° angle. I am familiar with the Cessna 172 (mostly... I'm still getting used to looking at my instruments every so often but with ADHD it's hard to focus on instruments and what's around you. But I am sorta used to flying the DC3 in xplane11 it's very easy to fly and I know where all my instruments are. It's also fun starting it up, but kinda easy once you've done it once or twice. (In case you were wondering I have about 70 hours in game of just flying.))
Dull moments' gone when you're with people with great sense of humor...esp...Kelsey😆🤣🤣🤣
I am so glad I had an adult for a trainer, Eastern pilot.
Thx for the vids. Stay safe and don’t forget to wash your hands
I like your honest take. Not a pilot ...only have jump from a cesena 182. Always a great video
Don't forget to teach all students that an accelerometer (calibrated in g units) is called the "gunits meter" !!😎
Btw, how do they call anything-meters in USA with their imperial unit? The alti-imperial?
@@antoy384 exactly. Here in the US, we actively try to be as non-world-friendly with standards as possible.
Another funny story.... I was flying somewhere w/ dad and had gone to the back seat to lie down. At some point my dad thought it’d be great to practice stall recovery. I woke up as he was putting the plane into a stall and happened to look out the window. Let me tell you that when you’re looking down and seeing the ground and the tail of the plane at the same time, and don’t know what’s going on, it can be a bit nerve wracking. There’s also the time I threatened to land the p,and when my dad kept wanting to practice his touch and goes (or go around). Love your channel Kelsey... Brings back quite a few memories.
No matter what job you end up doing, when you're sent for "a long stand" don't do it 😋
ya thats some good advice James