Commercial pilots upfront view

[Dunclane]

Just a montage of clips made by a couple of pilots, thought you may enjoy?

http://www.killsometime.com/videos/8268/Amazing-Co...

[Ali2202]

Great tune too!

[stevenr]

Never tire of seeing that one,i think it's the music,seems quite fitting in some way.

He has some more videos on youtube too

[jontysafe]

fantastic, always enjoy that.

[John_S4x4]

I always like watching that video and agree about the music. Great views out of the cockpit. The problem is, sometimes the pilot in charge faces these type of views http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKe3MqSG6JE&fea...

[croyde]

I'm no pilot so it's alarming to see how much waggling of that little joystick they have to do to control the aircraft in the first video.

John_S4x4 said:

I always like watching that video and agree about the music. Great views out of the cockpit. The problem is, sometimes the pilot in charge faces these type of views http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKe3MqSG6JE&fea...

That must take balls.

Edited by croyde on Wednesday 7th March 16:00

[Condi]

The more I sit in the back and see things through one small window the more I want to see out the front.

[kiteless]

croyde said:

I'm no pilot so it's alarming to see how much waggling of that little joystick they have to do to control the aircraft in the first video.

That was my first thought watching the clip; to me there is a disconnect between the amount of work going into the "joystick", and the reactions from the plane.

Witchcraft, it is.

[Webber3]

kiteless said:

That was my first thought watching the clip; to me there is a disconnect between the amount of work going into the "joystick", and the reactions from the plane.

Witchcraft, it is.

All those small movements are just keeping it level, so you shouldn't see much reaction from the aircraft, just level flight.

[croyde]

Thing is they don't look like small movements. If I did that in the arcade, I'll be in all sorts of trouble

Only time I flew a little aircraft it was all smooth gentle inputs, well until the instructor took over and started loop the loops, barrel rolls etc

[R1_NUR]

Nice vid.

Edited by R1_NUR on Thursday 8th March 10:02

[Chuck328]

Webber3 said:

kiteless said:

That was my first thought watching the clip; to me there is a disconnect between the amount of work going into the "joystick", and the reactions from the plane.

Witchcraft, it is.

All those small movements are just keeping it level, so you shouldn't see much reaction from the aircraft, just level flight.

Must have been a windy day then

[williamp]

Both thowe videos are great...

..do pilots never go "dagga dagga dagga dagga" anymore??

[ninja-lewis]

Saw a similar video to this a while back but can't find it now so this one will have to do.

Cloud Surfing with a 747-400.

[ccr32]

kiteless said:

croyde said:

I'm no pilot so it's alarming to see how much waggling of that little joystick they have to do to control the aircraft in the first video.

That was my first thought watching the clip; to me there is a disconnect between the amount of work going into the "joystick", and the reactions from the plane.

Witchcraft, it is.

Watched these the other night and I thought this too. Think he needs to flip his joystick over and adjust the sensitivity setting...

[mrloudly]

ccr32 said:

kiteless said:

croyde said:

I'm no pilot so it's alarming to see how much waggling of that little joystick they have to do to control the aircraft in the first video.

That was my first thought watching the clip; to me there is a disconnect between the amount of work going into the "joystick", and the reactions from the plane.

Witchcraft, it is.

Watched these the other night and I thought this too. Think he needs to flip his joystick over and adjust the sensitivity setting...

The clip aircraft are flying slowly, aircraft react less quickly whilst doing so, hence needing big control surface movements :-)

[mattdaniels]

williamp said:

..do pilots never go "dagga dagga dagga dagga" anymore??

Reminds me of the (probably fake but amusing nonetheless) story circulating the internet years ago of an american guy who took his kid flying in a light aircraft. Having some quality father and son time, dad showing the boy how the controls work, letting him have a quick go and so on. Eventually after a bit of nagging he lets the kid do a radio call on their return to the airfield. He primes the boy, gets him word perfect on the call to make, and when he's absolutely confident he's got it off pat, presses the radio button. At which point - and my memory is a little hazy here - the kid either goes "DAKKKA DAKKA DAKKA" or something like "Red leader one I'm going in" - from Star Wars where they are going to blow up the Death Star. Pilot dad is obviously mortified but the tower responds back to the boy, playing along with it.

[rem0]

Amazing

[scarebus]

kiteless said:

That was my first thought watching the clip; to me there is a disconnect between the amount of work going into the "joystick", and the reactions from the plane.

Witchcraft, it is.

The A320 like all airbuses are self trimming, pitch/roll stable aircraft, meaning all you need to do with the side stick is point the aircraft where you want to go and let go of the side-stick. Any disturbance of the flight path (turbulence) will be auto corrected back to the original desired pitch/roll attitude, so excessive sidestick movement is totally unnecessary, which I must admit I am guilty of too.

One such example of massive over controlling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRilx-a3Hro

[Extra 300 Driver]

I have been following this guy for a while, he actually works for a client of ours, Avianca in Colombia.

He uses a GoPro HD which has made me get one to film some of my cirrus flights, but I am not having the same results!

Regarding the control inputs, I flew the A380 and the A320 sims in TOulouse and I found I was putting in massing sidestick inputs to get any roll at all, on approach. During higher speed flight its fine. I remember that 727's have low speed ailrons which are only active after a flap setting has been selected.