Best-Kept Secrets Airlines Don’t Want You To Know

When flying with airlines, in the air on an airplane, do you ever contemplate what are the best-kept secrets of airlines? Do you think the airlines that operate our flights are doing their best to look after us? Here are 10 of the best kept secrets that the airlines don’t want you to know.

[teddywoodburn]

is it a coincidence that the length of the video is 747?

[mathiashansen]

No airlines let you smoke. The fire alarm begins immediately.

[AbhiTeja]

Half of them are wrong I'm afraid.. Pets are taken care of by giving tranquilizers.
Airlines don't negotiate with pilots to embark with low fuel whatsoever. Safety is considered top priority in aviation.
15 mins duration on oxygen masks are a well known fact and having relief crew alongside normal crew is no stranger either
Emergency onboard not in means flight is unsafe to fly, that could be anything ranging from a passenger having panic attack to witnessing snakes on board.
Electronic devices, delay consequences and naughty smokers are the only ones fair enough to be on the list IMO.

AIRCRAFT ENGINEER here!

[eris]

The airplane mask could give you enough time to save 15% or more on car insurance..

[JamesConollyLives]

It's not autopilot, its instrument guided, so it just shows the pilot where they should be, also the red and white lights called PAPI help the pilot to maintain a correct angle of decent on landing.

[caralhoguy]

Is it a greater coincidence that the thumbnail has a boeing 747-400 and the video length is 747

[Dentheman]

Well I always compliment the crew and thank them for the flight. I like making people happy

[LampPst]

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[suola__]

11. In United airlines they sometimes pick "volunteers" that can be beaten

[gabrielcox]

"As an airline pilot, I often find myself answering questions about flying and many times dispelling misconceptions. One of the questions that I am frequently asked is: “How much do you actually fly the airplane?” Some people think the whole task of flying is automated while others believe we are hand flying the airplane the entire time. The reality is it is a mixture of both, with a heavy emphasis on automation.

In small airplanes, such as the kind most pilots do their initial training in, the flying is all done by hand. Very few small airplanes have an autopilot. If they do they are very simplistic in nature and are meant more as a workload reducer than a full-blown autopilot. Even if you fly an airplane with an autopilot during your training, it is likely that you will almost never use it as it is your instructor’s job to teach you how to fly, not how to use an autopilot.

As you progress to larger and larger airplanes the amount of hand flying tends to decrease while the abilities of the autopilots increase. I flew the Embraer 145 for a few years when I worked for ExpressJet. The autopilot on the 145 could handle lateral movements like tracking courses or maintaining a heading, but it did not provide very good pitch (angle) information and had no autothrottle system at all. This meant that as a pilot I was very involved in controlling the pitch of the airplane and manipulating the throttles by hand to achieve the desired speed or climb rate.

On the 737 that I currently fly we have a two autopilot system that can control almost all aspects of the airplane’s movement and an autothrottle system that is able to fully control the speed of the airplane. The autopilot can be turned on at 1, 000 feet above the ground on takeoff. On landing, if the second autopilot is engaged concurrently with the first one, the airplane can actually land itself and will remain in control of the airplane until all three sets of wheels are on the ground. The second autopilot is engaged with the first one to add a layer of redundancy to the autopilot. Yes, the airplane can land itself and apply its own brakes, but it cannot track the runway centerline while it completes the landing roll. This means that the pilot must take over as soon as all three wheels are on the ground and guide the airplane down the runway as the speed decreases.

The 757 and 767 that I previously flew have autopilot systems that are similar to the 737 except they actually have three autopilots. Typically, only one autopilot is engaged at a time, but for low visibility approaches all three are engaged concurrently. When in the three autopilot mode the 757/767 can land by itself and come to a full stop on the runway centerline. This is especially useful in very low visibility situations like fog or snow where the pilots will have some difficulties seeing the runway markings or lights.

So yes, more advanced airplanes can practically fly themselves, but this does not mean the pilots are simply sitting up front staring out the window. The autopilots have to be actively managed and monitored. At the end of the day, they are only as good as the information the pilots put into them. During cruise flight, the pilots are busy monitoring the en route and destination weather, keeping track of the fuel burn, coordinating any changes with their dispatcher, talking with air traffic control, and when over the ocean and not in radar contact making position reports. It would be very difficult to manage all of the above while actively hand flying the airplane. The autopilot frees us up to enable us to manage other aspects of the flight.

You may be asking yourself: “when do pilots actually hand fly the airplane?” We all take off by hand and most of us fly for a couple of minutes before turning on the autopilot. If there is a pressing reason to turn it on soon, such as needing to activate the radar to help avoid thunderstorms or in an emergency situation we will do it right away. If it is a nice, clear day I typically fly to about 5, 000 feet before I turn on the automation. Some pilots will wait much longer. On approach to land most pilots will turn off the autopilot a few minutes before landing if the weather is good.

In the general course of a flight pilots do not spend much time hand flying the airplane, but we fly it when it matters and for the parts that are more challenging, such as takeoff and landing. For those who love to hand fly, the opportunities are there. Recently, the FAA and the airlines have been encouraging more hand flying as a way to keep pilot’s skills sharp. No matter how complex airplanes become there will likely always be pilots at the controls."

My source is the link here...

[spookynonce]

We watched one of your videos in Geography.

[Shadow-hupg]

did you know there are more planes in the sea than submarines in the air :D btw True fact I'm not lying

[JavierCaballo]

"Don't call me surely"😂😂

[ms.mittenz]

one known secret... airplanes are still the safest means of transportation in the world...

[royalpunjabis]

Hey, be amazed you scared the shit out of me about the autopilot landing at Heathrow. I am soon flying to the Heathrow airport.I dunno wat to do now. With my kind of luck even autopilot would be confused with the fog. Sorry my bad fellow passengers. * jedi jumps away.

[thesauciestboss]

Huh, I guess you could say these are just *plane* wrong!

[popindosin]

Thanks, Be Amazed, now I'm afraid of flights

[edgovan]

You pronounced Edinburgh completely wrong. It's Ed-in-bur-ah.

[memeslayer]

I’m a plane enthusiast, and I’m going to start training as soon as covid 19 stops, and this is very accurate

[tomjh]

The last part of No. 9 is rubbish. Pilots put plenty of fuel on, an additional 45 mins, taxi, and fuel if there were any delays on the ground with the engines on. Please get your facts straight. PS my dads a pilot for British Airways so I know what I’m talking about.