Boeing lights explained
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- In this video I will give you a brief description of the function and use of the different lights we have on the Boeing 737-800.
When do we use them? why are they there and how do the controls look?
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Very illuminating video, thank you
+ForestCat_Peter 😂😂
ForestCat_Peter ahahahaa!
mcdonaldc1989 yes. Pun intended
Your punny
The LED lights on the newer 737s are so much brighter than the incandescent ones. I live around 50 miles from the coast of England and you can see the lights come on as they pass 10,000ft on their way into Stansted.
I am not a pilot, nor do I fly often ,but this is the most interesting channel on utube. I really learn a lot about planes and aviation.
Peter, I can’t be thankful enough what you doing for us. Your videos are very informative and professional. You one of the people who pushed me to believe that I can achieve my goal. Can’t wait for new mentour videos coming.
Leonard Tan no he just called him peter cause he likes the name
Thank you for making my "home sim" experience so much richer. Flying with a deeper understanding about how and why makes games like x-plane 11 (that I am using) so much more interesting and fun. Thank you very much captain!
Finally! At the young age of 63 I now understand the purpose of all those photon emmiters!
Thanks Mentour! :)
all I need to survive - Mentour Pilot and Captain Joe 😀😀😀
I agree 😊
I love watching your videos! I recently made a bunch of 737 models for a guy who works with them and I find not only this, but every other video very educational and entertaining. Thank you Mentour, keep up the great work, from New Zealand! :D
Thank you! I’m glad you like them!
It is nice hear this kind of information from a real establish captain, thank you
thank you Mentour for a great explanation about the lights.
You're awesome, Mentour Pilot!
Well, thank you!
This Video is a Highlight. Thank you Mentour.
Enlightening I must say
+vladnovsky Hahahs
I always wait for friday morning to see Mentour and Captian Joe´s videos but today I couldn´t resist. Sigue así Capitán.
+Iker muñoz Thank you! I will certainly try!
I´m glad to hear the you have been doing absolutely fantastic!!
I cannot express how helpful this video was and how good you explained this, huge help!
Wow just came home from school and I thought my learning for the day was done
Nahhhh Mentour Pilot will teach me more
Your intro thing is awesome! Especially with (I'm guessing) the engines starting up and then the 777! Way to go * double thumbs up* :D
Thank you! Great to have you here!
I have always wondered what the wing lights are good for. Thanks for the video, now I can use the lights correctly in FSX!!!
Thank you for enlightening my knowledge in this area, thanks.
Hahaha You are welcome!
These video's enlighten my day
Very interesting your explanation about the lights on the aircraft Captain
Well done, mate! Thanks a million! Setting up my flight sim panel switches and looking forward to flying this plane!
Your videos are so informative. Thank you.
Great video Mentour
Thank you!
This video was the light of my day
I'm learning the basics using X-Plane and IXEG amazing 737-200 model and this video was very useful. Thanks!
It really threw some light on this informative video captain
Very good video Peter! I really enjoyed this one 👍🏽
Great Video Capt. Thank you so much Cheers!!!
Thank YOU fro supporting!
Thank you Captain .. As usual I enjoyed the explanations in the video .. was just unexplained about the lighting of the panels and above the pilots .. I would be happy if you add to that also ..
Great video yet again Mentour!
+daniel buczynski Thank you!
Thank you for sharing you make it so simple and so easy to understand-
Please keep the good work -
mentor and captain joe uploading 🤔at the same time
TY illuminati 😄😄
Thanks for the awesome video...very detailed and helpful
Thank you capt.
Waow this was really informative...awesome video
Very nice informative video on illumination. Noticed or not but by the end of the video the sun too is drifting by the cockpit window as if asking the mentour to mention his name too. :D
Red and Green lights can also be referred to Port and Starboard side
awesome keep sharing this kind of informative content.. thanks..
Glad you liked it!
Great vlog my my friend.
You carry the light!
Captain joe giving information on Airbur
U on Boeing
Fabulous combination
Airbur! lol
Captain joe now flys 747s
Ahh you guys are using the LED landing lights! Those are the best :)
Couple of things--the anti-collision lights are meant to increase visibility of the airplane in flight. Using them to alert ground crews to engine runs and so forth is secondary. The wheel well lights have a switch in the cockpit, as well as in or adjacent to the wheel wells, because the "classic" 737 aircraft have viewer devices in the floor of the airplane that allow a crew member to look at a part of the landing gear downlock mechanism in flight and verify a down-and-locked condition for landing if the normal indication system did not function. Because of this, the aircraft could not be dispatched if a light in the wheel well was burned out. On the 737NG and later, the viewers are not installed because two landing gear position sensors and indicators are installed for each gear. The wheel well lights remain to assist in inspecting equipment in the wheel wells on the ground, which tend to be dark even in daylight.
For those questioning which lights are installed on each airplane, or which lights may be inoperative, download the PDF from FAA of Boeing 737 Master MEL and look at Chapter 33--LIGHTS. You will see what a difficult task flight crew, maintenance, and dispatchers have in answering those questions. Luckily each operator (airline) has a MEL document customized for the particular aircraft model and equipment options, which simplifies the task somewhat.
One more month watching ur videos and I'm ready to fly a 737.
People might appreciate you discussing the retractable landing lights on the old NGs
Great video as always! May be it had been said in the comments: You missed out the cockpit lights...
Appreciate it Mr.
Thank you , I liked this video a lot !!!
This was really interesting. Thank you.
wooohoooo!!! Greetings from Florida!!!
Amazing video Petter, well explained ;)
+RS Aviation Thank you! My mic broke and it was a bit to dark but that’s all I had time to do.
Mentour Pilot Yep I noticed, also I watched your vlog and you came to BHX! How was your day at my local?
Thank you sir for your efforts.
...thanks, complete explanation...
Great captain
Great video. Love your channel. Wished you didn't use a potato as a microphone on this one though
I have been enlightened
Great video thank you very much captain!!
+Captain Styles Thank you!!
Great video!
Thanks Captain, very nice video as always!! You could have talked about how to illuminate inside of the cockpit as well, when I did my first fsx flight at night, I read only about external lights and started fsx. I had to google the whole thing after getting into a dark aircraft...also theres not much information about that online.
Could you make a video on the light bulbs? Where do they get replacements (manufactures)? How much they cost?
Yeah captain joe explained the airbus lights but I m into the boeing. Because airbus looks like plastic toys. Thank you so much for explaining the 737 sir
Amazing video @mentour. Keep up the great work. Can you also make a video on holding patterns and related briefings and stuff? Thanks
+G V ADharanan Thank you! I will do my best.
Mentor pilot . . . Lights are meant to light up darkness . . . Thank you . . . Von Kleiga
Favourite thing that I only found out recently. Easiest way to distinguish between Airbus and Boeing is that Boeing have a single flash strobe while Airbus planes have a double flash strobe.
(that is if you can't tell them apart anyway.........)
Cool! Never noticed that 😉
Airbus has mini winglets whereas Boeing planes do not
*Pending on the airline
Boeing commercial jets have pointed noses while the airbus have the rounded somewhat Douglas like noses
You can still see the double flash on older model Boeings.
James Funnell 747 has a double flash
At 5:58, what is all that stuff inside the wheel well? Do you actually know how to recognize if something doesn't look right in that tangle of wires and cables? Maybe you could do a video on the walk-around that you mentioned. That would be a view of the 737 that most people never get to see. Cheers. Great channel.
Hsfh Fejtpo + I agree! Good grief what an extensive maze of lines & hydraulics! Yikes!!! Newbie question too: Do you have to hit the brakes to stop the wheels from rotating before Gear Up?
ann nonymous No.
Hsfh Fejtpo It has been a while since I had my head up in the wheel wells, but some of the lines are for hydraulics. There is a fire detection loop around the top.
excellent video.
Excellent!
Peter. Please can you do a video about the airport markings. There are some videos on this subject, but harder to follow. Can you do one about the markings on the airport. Please
Sir informative video likes, explanation over cockpit interior lighting systems will be appreciated....
I will se what I can do.
I read about a "rule" on navigation and lights, the RRR: Red Right Returns 😉
That's marine navigation.
5:58 yeah, I can tell at first glance everything looks the way it should
Excellent information MP! ... including the youtube 'subscribe Bell' ... silly me didn't know that lol.
He's a pilot; he knows all about the chime bell button!
737 best aircraft ever :)
It’s a good little machine.
Mentour Pilot i love it small, efficent and reliable.
Boeing 777
Paul Baltazar also great aircraft
Little tiny plane like me!
Initially you gave us very brief views of the actual switches and the labeling of the switches while giving an explanation. That was helpful. But once you got past the strobe lights you gave us no more views of those additional switches at all. Most people looking at this type of video want to see the actual controls themselves.
Yes, what would you like further explained?
Are you allowed to walk around the plane and personally show us close ups for the lights? It would be great to see their form and structure up close. Also, I think the old 737400s had some lights on their wingtips which illuminated the tail. What is their solution for the new wingtipped 737s?
Not too sure because that would also reveal which airline he works for, and most airlines don’t want that
Hi, I am almost done with building my 737ng sim and was hoping you would talk about the internal lighting. Exactly what lights are control via the light panels below the MIB and on each side? Where are All the lights projected from? How do you change colors from red to white? From what power systems do they get their power. What about the IBL, how is it tested? Where is the split between the capt and fo MIB lighting controls?
Bob Furtaw ATP CE500
Is there any other flying you would like to try? For example: Aerobatics, gliding, microlight, paramotor, wingsuit and so on... I remember you saying a cessna trial flight sparked your love for aviation, do you ever go back to your early days take family up in a light aircraft to share the experience?
+Craig O'Brien Hi! No, at the moment I’m
Quite happy with the amount of flying I’m doing.
I’ve been a bit interested in taking up paragliding actually. I might be going back into SE flying when my boys gets a bit older.
Do you think GA flight wont be as appealing when you fly airlines for a job? I love GA flying right now but it would make sense that it wouldnt be as appealing.
Great as always. I would love to see a video about Pilot Monitoring duties - tuning the radios and whole ATC communication from ATIS to shutdown. Also I'm curious how does it work with calculated ToC with automatic descend and ATC giving altitude restrictions. Do you ask for permision to descend before reaching ToC?
The 737NG must also have a white aft navigation light in addition to those green and red? Mr. Pilot didn't mention that.
Ah, that shed some light on a few of my questions! Puns aside, I notice a lot of people on flight simulators using the strobe lights while taxiing or even while at the gate! By the way, would you use the strobes whiles crossing a runway? Thanks!
hi mentour i love this channel i would recommend to buy a better mic to greatly improve the quality of your content and attract new viewers. keep it up !
+aimacho Hi! Yeah, I usually use a mic but it broke when I was filming this episode. If you Che j the others you will see that they are better.
Thank you!
+aimacho Hi! I usually use a mic but it broke in the middle of filming this episode. :)
If you check my previous videos you will see what I mean.
Thank you!
Anti collision beacons are NOT always on the bottom. Dash 8s, some Q300s have on the tail and under the belly but some just have it on the tail. Q400s only have it on top, just forward of the wings. I'm sure there's others but the Dash 8s vary on placement
Well..to his defence this video is called "Boeing lights explained", and the Dash 8 and Qs are not Boeing airplanes😉
Nice video! Am I right if I say that the steady are also called "nav" lights, and the anti-collision "beacon"? If so, why don't they appear as such inside the cockpit? Thanks for the great job.
ive noticed on some of the newer Boeing's they have super bright engine lights that shine directly into the engine. as well. I cant remember what type it was, but it was its maiden flight, was on a taxiway watching it takeoff. hadnt noticed them before?
fhhsvnggbh It’s the wing lights. It is for wing inspections. It just happens to illuminate the engine intakes.
Explain about the interior lighting system, sir😊
Can you please tell us how to plan navigation route?
Very interesting video and explanation. I do, however, have a question. Where on the plane are the Runway Lights situated? That is the one light that you didn't show a schematic diagram of! I hope that you can help.
I know different aircraft manufactures have different strobe patterns but I can't remember where in the FAR-AIM I saw it. My copy of the FAR-AIM book is in storage and I need an updated copy anyway but if you can tell me (AND OTHERS) where to locate the information it would be a great help. THANK YOU AND BLESS.
The sky in my dark brain ... is being illuminated =)
Great to hear!
lift is caused by circulation, controlled by the trailing edge flow, called the Kutta condition
The winglets increase the effective wing span and therefore reduce the induced drag, which is proportional to the square of the spanloading.
The winlets increase like the biplane the apparent mass of the air deflected downwards. That is it.
You might read up the publications of prof. Dr Barnes McCormick, who describes the exact theory of wings. Pennsylvania state University.
Thank you for the awesome video! I have a question about the lights inside of the cockpit. Is there a light to light up the overhead panel on a 737? I know the displays can be lit up, but is there a possibility of lighting the panel in general?
What about the fasten seat belt lights and the no smoking lights?
They're not lights, they're signs :) But i can explain it to you. In the 737, there is no "No Smoking" sign. It is always illuminated in the cabin, but in the cockpit, it is replaced with a "Chime". This is so pilots can communicate with cabin attendants. And so, you can't actually turn off the "No Smoking". Reason for that is, it is illegal to smoke in planes. The fasten seatbelt sign is used differently, depending on airlines. Some turn it off at 10,000 feet, some until cruising altitude. Some leave it off when going through turbulence, some turn it on. It's really the pilots responsibility.
From where you are seated it seems that you would have a hard time seeing the runway during take-off and landing. Do you adjust the chair higher or is that always your view?
Can you please explain the engine vibration indicator and would that cause the fan blades to rub against the abraded shroud of the inside of the engine. Thank you, I appreciate it.
Hi mentour,this is something is really like to know. The new 73's wingtip strobe is beacon like and the older 73's is strobe like. I could take a good guess to why Boeing changed this but was hoping you would know. Many thanks in advance Petter.
The 737 flaps will be used to evacuate the plane over the wings? It makes sense, given how close to the ground a 737 is, but I never really thought of actually sliding down the flaps themselves.
Joseph Charles Still kind of high tho🤭But, if you have to you have to🤷🏻♂️
Nice video also you forgot to show how to turn on cabin lights to
Alfredo Villanueva Those switches are in the cabin😉
Do you turn anti-collision off when you have pushed back, or when do you turn off the anti-collision lights?
Very nice vid btw!
They're turned on and left on until the engines are shut down and the aircraft is no longer moving. In the air and on the ground, they're used to indicate your presence to other aircraft, like police car lights.
+Zach21GF The anticollisuon light stays on until we have parked, after flight when the N2 drops below 20%
Hi captain
Why this 737 didn't have extendable landing lights switch?
Its a new 737 with the LED array. It doesn't have any retractable lights.
When are the extendable lights used?