Nick was a great first officer.

Best channel on KZread. Very inspirational. I contemplated for a long time starting my training, but I now have over 40 hours working towards finishing my Private! Thank you for your content!

Welcome back Captain Ernie! Missed your videos! ✈️

Love your enthusiasm! After watching thousands of planes take off, you never tire of the excitement airports hold. Good episode!

Thanks, Ern! Glad to see you back. And thanks to Nick for being a good sport!

My son-in-law is an airline captain. That’s what got me interested in aviation-related videos. Enjoyed your recent podcast with Paul. 😊 I am amazed at the knowledge and skill you all have to master. I’m taking a trip soon from MSP to PHX.

Hey Captain Ernie, Welcome back to the sky.

Glad to see you back Captain!

Very nice airplane 737 8max

Welcome Back BigErn!!

I missed these videos Ern flying. Welcome Nick great flying with you on this video. I have watched many Ern’s videos, looks like great to be FO with him.

Welcome back Captain Ern! Love watching your videos✈️

Good seeing you again...can't wait for all the content! Safe travels!

Welcome back Captain, no worries when you have to take a break sometimes: life happens. But it’s always terrific to fly with you; love the PIREP info. Hope you get to fly into Denver with our always fun mountain wave conditions, which are a blast to listen to on LiveATC. Happy flying.

Glad you're back! Missed your videos

Always good to see you sir.

Hello, hope all is well. Good to see you back, just got back from love field and attended the touchpoint for Destination 225 at Southwest!

Missed these Hope you are doing well. Through the grapevine heard of your family thing. But didn’t know what had happened after that 💗😊😊😊✈️

Great video Sir. Congratulations Nick! Happy New Year 🎉🤩

Glad to see you back flying

You always have such great videos, I always look forward to watching them❤️❤️

Great video as always!

Great video, as always, Ern.

Hii Bid Ern! I am not a pilot but I watch all of your videos. No more breaks 😊

Welcome back to KZread!

Welcome back. Really missed flying with you. Looking forward to hearing more from you.

Welcome back Capt! good to have videos again!!!

Love the video big Ern. Love the podcast as well. As always, thank you for sharing. I love the fact you still love aviation after all these years. My Grandson and I love going to just watch planes. He’s hooked at 6 years old❤️

Another great video BigErn! Loved the new Hamilton. I have a Hamiltonian automatic from the late 1970s and they’re fabulous watches! Loving flying with BigErn and great to hear you’re working on producing more! Safe flying!

Glad you guys enjoyed the Saltlick BBQ. It’s not bad for airport food. Of course, thereare dozens of better places in the city including the real Saltlick, but it’s awful hard to have a real bbq pit at the airport, even in Austin. There are actually four or five decent restaurants in the Austin airport. Expensive but hey, everything in an airport is expensive.

..as an early Big Ern sub..it's always a really good day..when our newly- promoted Capt.Ern.. posts yet one more.. new ..and always ..really-great video..

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

You rock!

Love your channel! My family and I flew on SWA from MSP to MDW, MDW to MYR on 3/4/24, then MYR to BNA, BNA to MSP on 3/7/24. I was hoping to see you, but your esteemed colleagues were in the cockpit for the flights on which we flew. Maybe someday our paths will cross.

Great video! Do a golf vlog, Ern. Would love to see it! Thanks for everything you do. Great channel!

Welcome back Big Ern!!! Missed u much!!! It would be nice when u perform the "Walk Around" u could explain what ur looking for. Thanks so much for sharing! 💙❤💛✈

As a dispatcher, it is a lot of paperwork. But I get a real sense of satisfaction when I jumpseat and see crews pin the first page of that paperwork and especially the dispatch remarks somewhere important for reference.

Good to see you back on the tubes!

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

More to come!

Glad you're back! Nick seems like he's adjusted well to airline world being 6mo into it. Cool to show us the results of your big hiring push of 2023!

Welcome back Ern, great to see you back.

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

More to come!

Hey Capn Big Ern - Since You have spoken SO Much about Pilot career path & joining SWA, I was surprised we did not get a better Background thumbnail for F.O. Nick - other than flying a corporate jet. It would have been very interesting to know his full aviation path to becoming a pilot & progressing to becoming an airline F.O.. Nick seems to be a good guy & is a living example of landing an airline job that might provide a solid example for others considering the same thing, that You have spoken about often in the past.🤔 Also is he based in PHX or had to start commuting as a new SWA pilot. P.S. Good to see a new episode.😎

Welcome back ern

Great content from a ATP flight school student pilot! Also a fan of the new podcast!! Flying for southwest is a dream of mine, hope to fly with you one day.

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the love! Who would you like to see on the podcast next?

@Pilot_Ty

5 ай бұрын

@@FlyingwithBigErn of course! Also I would like to see Mike and Sean from @ProPilotPlaybook(smaller channel) or the great Juan from Blancolirio (larger channel). Might be hard to get either of those on though.

@darrenfike924

5 ай бұрын

@@FlyingwithBigErn how about flying out with new FO Sara Maika?

SAN landings are always fun (HUD or no-hud) due to the parking lot Nick, in my 40 yrs of airline flying it was one of the airports that I felt was an 'adventure' each time, even in the 757/767....Fireworks-fly into Chicago over Lake Michigan on the evening of the 4th of July.

Ern, I will hopefully start flight school late this year (if I get accepted). I just flew in and *actually* flew an aerobatic plane on Saturday through an event in my local EAA chapter. Told my pilot I had over 200hrs on flight sims, I have a flight sim setup at home, etc. and he just said "oh, well go ahead and fly VFR back to the airport". The thrill of actually flying a plane was unreal. It inspired me to ask pilots and students of the academy I'm looking at about their experience and they all loved it. One of the students said her friend is in Pensacola, FL, training for SWA. My question is: how do you like your job at SWA? I'm going to try to get into Destination 225° right out of high school. Just wondering which path to a pilot at SWA is the best. Thanks, SWA's biggest fan. P.S. my dad actually worked on a huge project at SEA, building that massive passenger bridge to the international terminal

Great video. Good to see the plane again.

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

GTSY again Ern! Happy flying! 👋 ❤️💛💙

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! You too!

WELCOME NICK

Welcome back, Big Ern!! ...although I will have to confess that you haven't been all that gone in my feed recently with your EXCELLENT first podcast with Capt. Paul of @mylayoverlife and HIS video of you two zooming around the Southwestern skies (no plug intended, but run with it if you choose😁) in the Green Hornet!! Still, I'm looking forward to all the cool new content...

You have the right to take a break from social medias, captain ! Thanks a lot for sharing your passion

Nick seems awesome. If the Flight Deck sets the tone for the flight--the passengers had to be pretty happy.

I wonder if a Navy pilot could keep that quarter from bouncing off, seems you can tell who was a Navy Pilot or an Air Force one 🤣 Great job. Welcome back was wondering what happen.

Love everything you do Big Ern, you’re an inspiration and an amazing ambassador for Southwest. Have you thought about your own line of Big Ern Merch as I can confidently say that a lot of us who watch you and get excited to see your videos, would buy some.

Kudos to Nick. But then again, he had a good Captain.

FYI seems your camera has some issues with auto focus. When you were doing the walk around in PHX, the landscape you were showing was way out of focus or could be my eye going but I think it was the video.

Been wanting to become a pilot and love watching your videos been doing the simulator but not the actual machine just the game itself.

Good Morning BigErn, Flying out of BNA to EWR this morning on a 737 Max 9. Unfortunately on United. SW only flies into LaGuardia for some issues. I always fly SW otherwise. Keep safe and love you and your content. Have a log book of 40 hours. Getting back into the left seat and working through the check rides. Love to make Professional. See you around!

I've got an interview at a regional airline in a couple of weeks. Excited (but a bit nervous admittedly!) for this next phase in my career. Maybe I will see you at Southwest in the next few years!

Fly and stay healthy. Have an amazing week. Cheers.

I fly SWA often and am always looking out for you. One day, I hope to meet my favorite pilot.

Great vid Ern, glad you’re well. Question, why doesn’t Boeing install HUDs on both seats? Seems like a FO who’s the pilot flying would benefit from a HUD as well.

Is there a briefing on the MCAS system? Seems that some pilots did not even know it existed.

Stay Awesome Captain ❤✈ Many greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱❤🇺🇸 Xx.........

Welcome back Big Ern. Missed you! Hope all is well.

Just got back from two SWA flights. I asked about you. They have heard about you but never flew with you.

What happened to your co-ownership of the Cirrus SR32t? Love your channel!

Did you fly the Hawker 800 or 1000? My friend is now a FO at SouthWest, I tried to get him to go to DaJet but he wanted to fly BBJ’s or as you call them 737’s. Good to see you back. How is the Green Hornet? As you know me Dana the Tall

The camera seems to be having trouble refocusing.

Welcome back 😅

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

Good to be back!!

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I was there to pick up a brand new airplane B737MAX back to China. And saw a new SW airplane ready to be delivered..

Love your videos. As a pilot, how often do you encounter severe turbulence?

Did you forget your vest for the walkaround?😉

Hi again to big Erin so how's is new guys nick working out seems like nice guy 😊

Coffee link is a bad gateway

Hey Captain Ern, do you ever do any flying outside of the West Coast?

Nice job, keeping the BBQ sauce off the uniforms.

Do you ever fly to florida

Welcome back! Glad to see a new video. Is it something new where there's music in the background the entire time you're talking during the intro part of the video? It takes away from what you're saying and really isn't necessary.

😊hi Erin how's are you doing do walkwalk-on ✈ be bless

nick seem😮niicck

Ern, Do you ever call out altitudes for your FO?

Looking for your link to buy amberjack shoes

what airlines ? i thot Ern was corp pilot .. is he on w SWA ? how? when ?

Big Ern… i have a good question for you, any chances of having you flying out with new FO Sara Maika ? if i hear that correct, she is also flying for southwest like you do and would be a blast if you both fly out first time … shes also does you tube videos too

You were joking about landings??? How do you rate Landings??? Navy or AF like some of us do???

Do you ever fly to rdu much

So wild seeing young kids like this making 5-600k. Good for them.

@jamescollier3

5 ай бұрын

? what more like 50k

@TB-um1xz

5 ай бұрын

​@@jamescollier3 nah more than that

@atcdude067

5 ай бұрын

@@jamescollier3 SWA pilots are grossing 500k easily.

@billrussell4832

5 ай бұрын

@@atcdude067 captains maybe , but not the FO . there are some that can make that but they mostly have been with the airline for over 10 years. FO’S make around 100k on the lower end to 300k+ higher end.

Captains use a quarter, 1st officers are not paid as good, they use a penny

Please post more content, miss the insights, Ta.

C5 landing v a B737 MAX landing ... I wish I was a passenger in a C5 to be honest ...

👋🏻KSRQ ☀️🌴🇺🇸✈️

nick looked embarrassed.

MY DAD WORKS FOR UAL

@FlyingwithBigErn

5 ай бұрын

That's awesome!

Why don’t you ever show your take offs & landings .

Yeah, back to regular flying again. Poor co-pilot Nick, already bald at his young age.

Hey BigErn Im a Software Engineer. I can do some custom software work. I want get my own business going. If you need any software custom work done let me know.

Hi again to big Erin so how's is new guys nick working out seems like nice guy 😊

nick seem😮niicck

nick seem😮niicck