I never though myself to be much interested in planes and flying, but I keep coming back to this channel again and again

@tonyjlorns1727

4 жыл бұрын

Me to but it’s fascinating I had no real interest in aviation but I am now !!

I don't worry about bird strikes when flying my ultralight. It flies so slowly that birds actually collide with it from behind.

@yosefmacgruber1920

5 жыл бұрын

So I take it that your ultralight would take a week to make a cross-ocean flight? I don't imagine that it has any toilet facilities?

@DavidTrejo

5 жыл бұрын

Yosef MacGruber probably faster if migrating birds give you frequent boosts 🦅

@yosefmacgruber1920

5 жыл бұрын

@@DavidTrejo That sounds like a PS1 Bugs Bunny video game that I once played. You say some certain magic words, and a bird comes and picks you up and lifts you up to a higher level.

@aadler8986

5 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@Lennythewinner

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me. When I was a schoolboy, I once threw a paper airplane across the classroom, only for it to be downed by a housefly

Good explanation. I was in maintenance for many years, and I have personally changed at least two turbine engines that were damaged enough to automatically shut down after ingesting a single bird (separate incidents). These were turboprop engines that had inlets and compressors much smaller than today's high bypass engines. I also remember one case where a single bird penetrated a radome and punctured the pressure bulkhead behind, causing a minor pressurization leak. Worst incident was a Convair 580 that took a large goose through the windshield and struck the captain, slightly injuring him. The air temperature was around minus 20 C, as I remember, and the first officer, in shirtsleeves, flew the airplane to a safe landing. The torrent of freezing air from the shattered windshield must have been almost unendurable. I am sure other veterans remember the names of the crew. Unsung heroes in my book.

@Roadglide911

6 жыл бұрын

Hopelessand Forlorn and I’ve changed many aircraft windows and radomes because of bird strikes. People don’t understand just how much force it would take to penetrate an aircraft windshield. A bird won’t do it at least not in a heavy aircraft

when you said "We also use PiReps (pilot reports )" i understood "We also use pirates" and my mind just went wild from that point

I was on a plane that had a birdstrike on takeoff. Very shortly after rotation there was a fairly loud rumbling sound only lasting a second followed by a strong smell of something burnt. I did hear afterwards by other passengers that smoke and actual feathers had entered the cabin in the back through the ventilation system but i did not see this in person. The engine that was hit was turned off during climb and the plane leveled off a bit and continued the climb on one engine circling the airport a few times before making a safe landing about 30-40 minutes later. The flight was with SAS going from Bodö in northern Norway down to Oslo. This was in the mid-late 90's. Very disturbing experience for me. It was a bit more dramatic than you get the feeling of from my description. Plane type was a MD-80 i believe. There was a debreifing for the passengers with the crew and then the airline had to fly another airplane up from Oslo with a new crew to complete the flight. We had to wait for about 10 hours for that..

@Stephanie-vt8xi

4 жыл бұрын

the new trend in cooking chicken? ...oh my gosh this is terrible *tries to hold back laughter* poor bird :'(

@technophant

3 жыл бұрын

Feathers in the cabin? I’m not sure how large the passages are but must’ve been the down feathers.

Here in the US, at some of the regional airports, especially in the Midwest, they will use herding dogs to deal with the bird problem. It's an excellent use of the dog's inborn capabilities, the dog gets a good workout, the birds stay away, and he hops onboard his owner's little cart when he's done to be carried safely out of the way of departing and arriving planes. Makes the runway safer, and the pilots really enjoy seeing the dog as part of ground crew!

@kam0406

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! I love dogs! They are such intelligent and lovable animals!

@ecclestonsangel

Жыл бұрын

@@kam0406 aren't they great? It's such a shame it's not practical for the big airports, but for the regionals I think it's great! And they're well taken care of by their handlers. My dogs know when I'm sick, even before I do!(and I figure it out pretty fast) For some reason, since I started rescuing terriers, they've been able to predict asthma attacks before I know anything wrong. I often think dogs are smarter than we are!

@kam0406

Жыл бұрын

@@ecclestonsangel wow! I definitely beleive dogs are smarter than humans in many, many ways. Profound ways.

I flew out of Gnoss Field (DVO), Navato, CA, general aviation. Departure was almost always on runway 31, aimed directly at a city dump about 2 miles distant, attracting gulls and pigeons. All the instructors advised to let the bird try to miss you; none of the planes there were capable of maneuvers to miss the birds. Gull strikes were not all that uncommon, and they demolished the windscreen on a Cessna or a Piper, not to mention making the prop pretty much unusable. The dump was finally moved several years back.

All of this pilot’s videos are an absolute delight to watch: he explains all of his various topics in an interesting and very informative fashion, which makes learning easy and pleasurable for novices and educated persons alike. Excellent channel, I have no idea how I only discovered it today, but, aside from immediately subbing to this channel, I have now also followed him on Twitter and might check in with Instagram (although I always seem to forget to look there). My dad would have loved this channel, as he was a great fan of Mayday (as I am). This channel is really well-worth following and I highly recommend it. To everyone, regardless of their degree of interest in aviation. I will need to download his app onto my iPhone & iPadPro (if available there, too). Keep up the great work!!!

One real interesting measure that I've witnessed is having vehicles equipped with speakers. The vehicles drive around the apron and outer taxiways playing the sounds of predator birds (to the local bird population) to keep them away. Works a charm.

My grandfather was a cabinet maker during WW2 and he ended up working on the aircraft repair because quite a few of them were wooden frames covered with treated canvas. They would get bird strikes and the bird would go through the canvas and hit one of the wooden spars within the wing and then explode. The workers then had to clean up the mess before they could get to doing the repairs.

You have a real talent for being precise and thorough. That is a great personality aspect to have as a pilot!

@bettyjane6684

3 жыл бұрын

He is also extremely likable which - it appears to me -to be as important if not more important as the content and presentation. He has all qualities to the nines. ❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you for all the info Mentor !✈ Great video!✈✈✈

Pilot - "Tower we had a bird strike!" ATC- "Yea we know it was our falcon you fuck!"

@siyacer

7 жыл бұрын

ccrpalex Plot twist:It was a Falcon 9

Water ingestion is a another reason, although rare. For example TACA flight 110 lost power in both engines as a result of rain ingestion in a severe thunderstorm.

Currently at Hyatt at Orlando Airport going on a cruise tomorrow. Out on our balcony watching your videos as the plane at the airport fly all around. Pretty cool. Just found your channel. Very informative and fascinating

as, Always great video my knowledge about aviation is increasing Thank You Mentour.

I was Tower Air Traffic Controller for many years in Portugal, and one day we received an instruction from the Civil Aviation Authority in which we were instructed to retrieve the stricken bird whenever possible and keep it in the refrigerator, so that it could be collected and evaluated statistically later. In no time we had our refrigerator full of smashed seagulls, sparrows, pigeons, blackbirds and starlings. No one ever showed, and we had to mix our edibles with that ever growing morgue! Finally, someone told us to throw away all that mess. It sure was about time! Birdstrikes in light aircraft are always fearsome. In one instance I remember, one seagull hit the windshield of a PA-23 smashing it into pieces, the second hit one propeller forcing the pilot to feather it, and the third went right through the leading edge and was stopped by the main spar, deep inside the wing. The plane make a difficult landing in one engine. In another instance a C-152 was hit by a pigeon on its take off run; it went through the windshield and the pilot was wounded in the head by the magnetic compass and windshield fragments. Lucky not to have been blinded in the incident. I witnessed many more...

Great video! I always look forward to your videos☺

Thanks Mentour! I will add this video in my gallery of English ICAO studying....Outstanding! Take care!

Captain Mentour, can you comment on the walk around inspection of an airline flight? Who does it? As a low time small aircraft pilot, I know how to check those, but how and what do you do with such a large machine? Does the captain do that? Do you use ladders? How does darkness affect a good walk around? How do you professionals do this when quick turnarounds are involved? Keep teaching !!!

Thank you, very informative

12:20 I can imagine the pilot doing the inspection afterwards and yelling at the bird "ARE YOU HAPPY NOW!!!" 🤣

wow so much new information, amazing!

I just happen to come across your channel and have watched quite a few videos. I love the story of flight US Airways flight 1549. But I have always been interested to hear what others pilots thought of what was accomplished that day.

Enjoyed very much on when you do walk arounds and then report

love you mentour good vidéo like Always thanks

The pilot landing in the Hudson sure kept his cool :)

Thank you for another great video! I've seen these techniques for keeping birds away from the airport on a TV show that I like. Modern Marvels did an episode about airports and the history of commercial Aviation. If you haven't already, could you do a video about debris and trash on runways and how dangerous it can be.

My father worked as a flight operations sergent at a german airforce base. He told me about a one f4 phantom on final approach that struck an ultralight-aircraft that violated the restricted area of the approach zone. As he told me the pilot experienced noise and rattling but thought that it was birdstrike. He landed, taxied to the hangar were one of the ground staff people looking at the plane and guiding it immidiatly passed out. The other one ordered to stop the engines immidiatly via radio and hand signals. Must have been pretty nasty... Later investigations showed that the guy flying the ultralight was sucidal and this was accualy his way to kill himself. Luckily it didn't cause one of the phantoms to crash... but that propably left that ground staff and pilots with some havy images to deal with if not some sort of ptsd

Thank you for the amazing Video! 😀 love the video very big fan of sully and the new app is amazing !✈️✈️

Once again, thank you for you video, RB, Nova Scotia.

With every video i learn something new, thanks!

Did anyone see a video with such a disproportionate like to dislike ratio? Absolutely fantastic!

Some of the odder and uncommon instances of total loss of power are Eastern Air Lines Flight 855, and British Airways Flight 38. Freak accidents, but hey they're out there. Volcanic ash is the one that would concern me the most. Looks like a cloud that doesn't show up on radar, nasty stuff that is.

Miracle on the hudson

So interesting video captain. Looking more and more videos like this 👍

Great video, thanks. Also I love 'Sully' :)

Very Cool Nice Video Learned more✈✈✈✈

A very interesting and informative video explanation. Thanks 👏....you are educating me 😀

Few years back, was on an early morning AA flight out of SFO that hit an owl right on takeoff. Had to circle for a while before we were light enough to land again. The nose/windshield were pretty messed up.

Excellent,thk you.

Thank you for all your great videos! This one brough up a question that is only losely related to the topic of the current video. You mentioned that during the approach the engines are still producing thrust. Why don't jets land like gliders - only with the engines on stand by power?

Thank you very much for another very interesting video

Hahahahah, "KFC Indicator"!

@bluejacketwarrior2457

6 жыл бұрын

Thats how my Dad could tell if a jet ingested a bird. he would walk around to the exhaust nozzle and have a sniff,

@paveldobrovodsky260

6 жыл бұрын

even birds are commiting suicide lol

@aerocap

5 жыл бұрын

Haha lol, KFC Alert :-))

@garydunken7934

5 жыл бұрын

Roast chicken smell there.

Thank you Capt Pilot for your interesting videos i been enjoying all your videos and are very Educational and learn Lot about safe travels Thank you sir for your Dedication to all pilots

Hi Mentor! Can you make a video on converting your licence, from FAA to EASA (for example), the main differences and what you should focus on etc? And how do airlines in Europe look in people with experience from the US, in my case 1000hr as an instructor. I don't know your case, if you did your initial training in the us and coverted or did everything in europe. I know alot of people that would be interested in a video on this topic.

From the ground side, There are also some static noise cannons at some airports (I know JFK has them) and also the vegetation used at the terminals and airport rounds has allot of impact too.

Love that intro format with the music

Bird strikes are dangerous when they're unionized ;-)

How do you inspect the vertical portion of the tail, binoculars or is there a lift?

Sir Peter You are best

Thank you for this video and what's now about drone?

There are also a few incidents in which alot of hail/rain (ice) let to dual Engine failure.

great teacher

thank you ....

I hope most pilots are like this man. Then we will have the utmost in safety...

Bird strikes don't occur in "right to work" states, but you have to deal with the scabs.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

At YYZ Pearson INT they have falcons in the warmer seasons and a snowy owl in the winter that i see all the time. It's very neat actually watching the owl chase away birds.

You should do a vid on the effect of volcanic ash.

You talked about dual engine failure. There is one incident, with a very fortunate outcome, that you didn't mention. It is the case with clear ice coming off the wings during take off from Arlanda, Stockholm 1991. It resulted in the loss of both engines on that MD-81 that was involved. This has of course nothing to do with birdstrikes, but ice can or could at least, be one reason for dual engine failure.

@1mol831

2 жыл бұрын

Its unfortunate that the bird dies in the process regardless.

wow this is so strange, I was now watching the movie Sully😲

The other (rare but significant) cause of dual engine failure is extreme weather, including famous cases such as Southern Airways Flight 242.

We were on a takeoff roll (accelerating down the runway) out of San Jose Calif about 3 years ago and heard a bang, a shudder, and (clearly we had not achieved v1 yet), the pilots immediately powered down and applied brakes and we taxied back to the jetway. Announcement that we’d hit some (geese, I think it was) birds and needed maintenance to take a look. Waited for 1-1.5 hrs, then finally decided to cancel my flight that day since it was just a day trip from SJC to SEA and back. I’ve been on hundreds of flights, but that was my first bird strike (that I knew about)!

Birdstrikes are always bad if you’re a bird

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s true

@FEMADEATHCAMPCONTROL

5 жыл бұрын

Your English is great, but you dont "feel" smells in English. The word feel is only used for one bodily sense,, touch. Sorry to nitpick, particularly because you are clesrly way smarter than me anyway.

@yosefmacgruber1920

5 жыл бұрын

If I was a bird, then I wouldn't be flying around airplanes.

@Milamberinx

5 жыл бұрын

@@FEMADEATHCAMPCONTROL "touch" is a little vague. We feel pressure, relative temperature, vibration, etc with our skin. We do also feel other bodily senses though: we feel hunger, sickness, tiredness, pain, our body temperature. I feel that "feel" is a pretty good word.

@FEMADEATHCAMPCONTROL

5 жыл бұрын

@@Milamberinx Yeah ok, but feel is never used in relation to smell in Englsh as far as i know.

In the 90's I worked at a company where the owner had a private Cessna 414. One day, the boss took a flight with a couple of other people, including a bodyguard. During take off a big vulture crashed with the front window, breaking it, and injured the pilot, leaving him unconscious. With only one pilot, unconscious, the bodyguard who was riding in the front with the pilot, but had never piloted a plane before, took the controls, while the other passenger started beating the pilot until he recovered consciousness. Barely conscious, the pilot was able to land the plane. After this, the boss sold the Cessna and now flies in commercial planes.

Great Videos! I have a question from a passenger perspective... Watching some other videos, there are obviously people on the ground with scanners listening to ATC or the pilots... Is it illegal to listing to the pilots/ATC whilst being a passenger and if so why?? Thanks again and thanks for the fascinating insight to the stuff we don't see or hear when flying! Cheers. Jase.

@lezzman

6 жыл бұрын

It's not illegal to listen to ATC so long as you are not interfering with it. The restriction on a commercial aircraft would be the same as any electronic device inasmuch as you are not supposed to have any electronics operating during take-offs and landings.

haha, “How many birds?” “WE HIT A FULL KFC MEGA BUCKET!”

@johanneshaidl1621

5 жыл бұрын

TheYodaman22 😂😂

@Stephanie-vt8xi

4 жыл бұрын

I'm terrible, I just had to laugh XD

Do you now train for events like the one that happened with US Airways Flight 1549 (Capt. Sully landing on the Hudson River after loss of both engines)?

I have a question. Why the Airbus A380 only seems to have reverse thrusters on the inner engines (the ones closer to the cabin)? I've noticed this while watching a wet runway landing video, and other 4-engine planes like the B747 have reverse thrusters in all four.

Very interesting .. as always! But I have to ask - what is that black panel in the background?

"did you order the roasted chicken for lunch?" "no?" "Well we hit a bird"

@bettyjane6684

3 жыл бұрын

Lolol

@Mentour Pilot I'm an aircraft mechanic from Hong Kong handling A320/321 most of the time, I rarely see flight crews record birdstrikes in the maintenance logbook. But I can always find blood stains at the nose of the aircraft.

@esphilee

Жыл бұрын

Those were mosquitos.

I fly on 737-400, 800s at least twice a month. I've gotten use to the sounds and thumps they make during normal operations. Last flight out of Vegas, I felt in the bottom of the plane what typically feels like the landing gear retracting, but it happened twice. Was one of those thuds a bird strike?

Thank you Petter for all your awesome and interesting videos. I enjoy it tremendously. Just a question about birdstrikes?. Ii know they are uunavoidable, but it breaks my heart when animals get hurt. Is it not possible to put a cover over the engine that will still allow airflow into the engine, but will prevent the bird from being sucked in and cause an engine failure?

The plane that landed in the Hudson can be viewed at the Aviation Museum in Charlotte NC

One more reason for dual engine loss (at least based on what I've been told). The wiring for the Engine Fire Controlled were crossed, due to not having their connectors keyed, and having the connectors next to each other. Needless to say an AD was written and the problem was fixed...but only after losing a plane.

Can you do a cometary,and explain what would be goin on in cockpit etc for "KZread video Thompson 757 bird strike at Manchester airport". It's a fairly famous video here in uk to show what happens if a bird strike happens during takeoff

747 crashes into sofa

@larikipe940

6 жыл бұрын

LMFAO!

@boston234789

6 жыл бұрын

🤔

@FX-fk8yt

6 жыл бұрын

and lost all 4 engines!

@nylpacman5832

6 жыл бұрын

9/11 sofa edition (BAd joke

Cute aircraft on the couch 😉

4:07 "Albatrosses for example are known to be extremely high." Yeah, me too.

Quick question. What is that big black box with two tubes coming out the top right of it?

Hahahaha I lost it when he said " you will basically smell roasted chicken" and the KFC bucket came up. I had to pause the video.

Hello mentor. I was simulating a 737 dual failure engine on fsx and slam the plane on touch down. How can I slow the plane without falling from the sky before the runway? Thank you

And here i am think a bird strike is when birds protest and quit their jobs

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@amanbokolia8002

5 жыл бұрын

and what's their job? sitting around?

@lzh4950

4 жыл бұрын

@@amanbokolia8002 Balancing the food webs/ecosystem?

at my job at a small airport with mostly prop planes it is mostly just trace red streaks along the planes and maintenance has to check the engines.

Hi Mentour, thanks for your great vlogs. Question: what causes the ‘clinking’ noise in the engines when the plane is parked at the gate?

@marksmallman4572

2 жыл бұрын

After a flight, possible hot metal cooling down?

Nice

Please discuss take off velocity, "V1", "Rotate", and "V2", in your next video. Please include an example, with a film clip.✈ Thanks. Tony 59-year-old Air Force VET 🇺🇸

This explains the lack of food trucks outside of airports! I thought it would be a great idea as there a so many hungry people leaving the airport! Now I totally understand why this would not be a good idea as it would just attract hungry birds where planes are taking off and landing!

I was interested in knowing the impact of a small bird hitting a plane. I understand it is enormous, you could have touched that point.

If you haven't done so yet, diversions: what about fire (or other) emergency diversions over water and mountain terrain areas where it is obvious not possible to land. Then what? Thanks.

Birdstrikes are always a potential problem on our airport runway. . The seagulls and the occasional eagle love to walk on the warm concrete in the sun. Sitka, Alaska.

That poor 747 on your sofa isn’t having the best time, mentour haha

I'm wondering whether it was mere coincidence that this excellent video was rudely interrupted by a KZread advert for Turkey, even if for the country's airline and not the Christmas variety, only to be followed by an advert promoting a company called "Dent". Yes, this really did happen just now.

im your biggest fan

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Great to have you here!

Are there any bird strike countermeasures being developed for installation on the aircraft itself? For example, a laser device might be an effective and relatively inexpensive on board solution.

There was also an aircraft that got too much water in the engines from a hailstorm then got too much fuel in the engines. It had to land on a New Orleans levy.

Toronto Pearson has snowy owls. But owls don’t flock - ever! Burrowing owls like airports as well but they live in the ground but hunt in the air but eat bugs too which are closer to the ground.

It seems with the way things are going it's only a matter of time before we have drone-strikes.

@kand198

6 жыл бұрын

Yep but luckily short of hitting an engine they seem to be fairly safe as the drones basically disintegrate on impact and do not weight very much. If you'd like to watch some videos on the topic, the channel "xjet" may be interesting to you.

@dinoschachten

6 жыл бұрын

...you'll know it when there's a smell of roasted drone in the cabin...

Hi Mentour! Is it true that turbo prop fan planes are less susceptible to bird strikes? and even if a bird comes into contact with engine, its less of a danger for a plane? thanx