Cockpit coming from old ship names makes the most sense, as there are many things that have crossed over from ships (rudder, port, starboard, aft, and so on)

I have heard that if there are two or more females in the cockpit then it becomes the box office.

@ralphcraig5816

6 жыл бұрын

The first notice I know of on that thought came circa 2003 on a C-5 flight out of Travis to Afghanistan with a battalion of Marines aboard. The Marine SMG commented that he hadn't flown with a female loadmaster before. The loadmaster told him it was an all female crew. Amazed, he said "There's nothing but females in the cockpit", she smiled back and said "We call it the box office"...

@leendersc

6 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahaha now that is funny

@supersonique001

6 жыл бұрын

Nope, it becomes a hen house! Nag,nag nag.....I have control, no I have control...!

@misterkaos.357

6 жыл бұрын

No, actually it becomes a scissors pit

@shannondove96

4 жыл бұрын

Ralph Craig you should have give her a dirty look and said women aint supposed to be in the militery

Q: Why's it called a SHIPment when sent by TRUCK, but called CARgo when sent by BOAT?

@servico100

6 жыл бұрын

Why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

@valoriepoindexter8173

5 жыл бұрын

@@servico100 That's a good one🚙

@jayhansen4918

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

My guess was that “cock” in English is “valve” and in old cockpits there were a lot of valves. I used to fly the BAE Jetstream 32 and the fuel valves we called cocks and that gave me the idea that cockpit might mean valvepit. :-)

Great podcast as usual. I can't wait until your video on the flaps! Your videos & demos are BOSS! Thanks again.

Beautiful expose, and you sir have a most fantastic day as well...looking forward to more fascinating information!

The second theory makes more sense than first... Thank you captain !

One by one enlightening every doubt. Amazing trial of flaps,slats,slots... I was asking for.Big thanks

*Thank you* so much for this video sir! I appreciate you're doing a video regarding my question. I'm waiting for this.

Really interesting! I used to live near a place that was a cockpit in Tudor times hence I knew the cock-fighting definition, but I'd never figured out the aeronautical reason. Your explanation makes sense! :-) Cockswain is an unusual word and most English speakers outside of rowing, river and maritime circles don't ever feel the need to say it but the pronunciation is "cox-un", which is why in the rowing world it is shortened to "cox". Related is the "Boatswain", pronounced "Bosun". English is a strange language, even native speakers struggle with it :-)

Hey MP. This was the first of your videos I caught. I enjoyed it. I'm retired now after a fun and long career: lessons in high school, flight instructing through college (university), 7 years in the USAF and finally a career with Delta. If they hadn't invented airplanes, I would have spent my adult life operating trains. The aviation/nautical connection is considerable, perhaps you can consider the influence of the rail industry on aviation. When the airlines set up shop they did mirror the rail industry (station managers, crew tracking, duty days etc.). In fact, even today the airline industry in the US falls under the auspices of the NRLA (US for National Railway Labor Act). Keep up the videos and give the rail connection a thought.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Gerard Moran thank you! That's a great point.

@randallhunt9170

6 жыл бұрын

I would have thought they would be more like Greyhound, given that they're basically airborn busses.

@gerardmoran9560

6 жыл бұрын

Not even close.

@fermiticus4034

6 жыл бұрын

I've always "felt" there was a connection between air and rail...could never say why or how though! The connection to maritime is obvious. Whenever I'm asked about dealing winds and whatnot, I always compare flying to being like a boat on the water (minus the vertical component). If it's windy/gusty...it's gonna be rough. If the wind is steady, it's like a river...you have to angle into the current, if you want to go straight across the river. A little Cessna is like a row boat, while a 747 is like a battleship. You're going to feel a LOT more in a rowboat than a battle ship! Most people can wrap their head around that much easier!

@gerardmoran9560

6 жыл бұрын

Fermis- that's a great illustration of the nautical/aviation connection. As far as the pilot/train engineer connection: both operate powerful equipment, they manage mass in motion (kinetic energy on a large scale), they need to plan ahead, especially in high speed aircraft and heavy trains, they need to understand and comply with clearance limits and so on. Perhaps most important of all, they're both on the move and don't earn a living sitting in an office or cubicle. In the US, heavy goods such as coal rely on barge or train for economical transport. 40% of goods (measured by ton mile) in the US are moved by train. Some trains are over a mile in length and a long coal train can need 2 miles to stop. Long distance freight trains often run at 70 mph (terrain permitting) and the kinetic energy is staggering. The area of contact between the wheel and the rail is the size of a US dime. That makes for low rolling resistance but poor stopping performance.

Very informative as always. I can't stop watching your videos. Keep up the good work mate ;)

Thank you for all details about cockpit 🤗

I recently subscribed n enjoy every PodCast. I am now beginning to be at ease with every flight I take. Fatma in Kenya.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+Ms Poneja Great to hear! That's why I am doing this!

As always a great video :-)

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+AviationGuy787 Thank you!

Did anyone get that reference in Captain Marvel?

@rakshitasharma5783

4 жыл бұрын

Yes i am!

@Jonathan-gz1cp

3 жыл бұрын

2 years ago? It feels like this movie came out yesterday

Great... got many information from your experience... thanks really appreciated..

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+Imran ul haq You are more than welcome!

That explains a lot! Thanks for sharing this information.

Love your videos! Keep them coming!

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+Bruno Teixeira I will!! Stay tuned!

Another great explanation Mentour :)

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+RS Avia Thank you!

In my youth and early days as a pilot, the term cockpit was only ever used to describe that part of smaller aircraft like fighters or fast bombers. The pilots’ sitting room was always known as a flight deck.

@jacques8971

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I meant in large, multi-engined aircraft.

Very interesting mentour! :D keep it up!

The turbulence issue was worth it. Keep it up n safe journeys.

Great question! Love these videos.

In early WW1 the small airplanes were first used as observation planes, later as fighters, and two aces flying small planes shooting at each other were the equivalent of two fighting cocks in the air. It was the fighting that gave it the name.

Thank you. Since an airplane came after air ships, the explination is sound. One joke. "I trust ships more than planes because there are more planes in the ocean than ships in the air" Hope that sounded funny.

@saraswathijanakiraman4740

5 жыл бұрын

No, sorry

Thanks for the explanation.

Another good video, thank you ❤

Loving this series.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+Born to fly Great to hear! Feel free to share it.

“Cockpit, what is it?” “It’s a small room in front of the plane where the pilots sit.”

Outstanding explanation!

Thank you for information

Very nice. Thanks.

Awesome information.

Very good and educative video

@Mentour. Love the Videos and the Mentour aviation app. Can you perhaps some day do a video on how to adjust the pilot seat to the correctly to give the pilot optimal . Thanks a million.

I ALWAYS like your videos :D Never thought of the word cockpit and where it comes from :D

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+Hans Schmidt Good, then you have learnt something today. A good day!

Why is it called a cockpit. Weill, I have been doing a bit of digging ... Uhm ok...

thanks for the video i always wondered why is called like that

The word "cockswain" is pronounced more as KOK-SUN or KOK-SIN. However, the cockswain explanation is probably the correct one for the origin of cockpit.

@lawxxxx9853

6 жыл бұрын

The word you mention is spelled 'Coxswain' and, yes, phonetically is pronounced COX-SUN

That's amazing information sir .

@MentourPilot

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it my friend.

Interesting! Thanks!

It's crazy to think that a term that is so young in human history has already lost its origins to theory! Cool video though, thanks for your continued efforts, always a pleasure!

Why is it called Mayday? why not Juneday or Decemberday?

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+7Cz4&eWEuaWd`c}/ Great question! Video?

@Nortonmascota

6 жыл бұрын

Mentour Pilot Yeah, make a video about MAYDAY and Pan words.

@Mystery-rc6nv

6 жыл бұрын

Mentour Pilot yes that sounds like a great idea for a video!

@a.wolfgang6423

6 жыл бұрын

7Cz4&eWEuaWd`c}/ captain joe did a video on that. It comes from the French language or something and means help if I remember correctly

@runarandersen878

6 жыл бұрын

I think "To day I Found Out" (KZread channel) made a great video about it.

In Boeing’s world it’s called a “Control Cabin” David

Very informative video you make Captain!! I would love to get your opinion on my 747 full size simulator. Thank you. Marco

Nice info

Would love to see a video explaining why a vertical stabilizer is necessary. Love the vids and what is your nationality? I initially thought you are German but now thinking you are Swedish?

@skipperskipper2936

6 жыл бұрын

NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE

I’ve been hearing SWA use the term flight deck more often lately.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, thats the correct term Cockpit is more old school.

I love the cawkpit

Boeing, and Lockheed are my favorite aircraft companies. My favorite Boeing Aircraft: All. My favorite Lockheed Aircraft: Lockheed L1011 My favorite airlines: Delta, Swiss International Airlines

What is the panel behind the captain and second officer seat. X love you videos thanks for making videos out your spare time. X

@oscarbjorkman7052

6 жыл бұрын

Frasier Jackson it's a circuit breaker

@UltimateMTB

6 жыл бұрын

Frasier Jackson it's the circuit breaker panel

Thanks, this takes care of one unknown for this airplane nut. Please shed similar light on "joystick". I have my own theories but I'm sure they are wrong.

@omarishot5445

3 жыл бұрын

if you're theories are the same as mine then cockpit and joystick are both sarcastic masculine terms since pilots were almost always dudes and the cockpit is basically a pit where dudes sat and im guessing some pilots jokingly called the flight stick a "joystick" and the name stuck

@MentorPilot I have seen one or two video interviews with retiring US navy pilots and US navy aircraft carrier captains who are about to retire and in jest they say they are off to “fly a desk” for a few years, I presume they become desk bound consultants. Have you heard that term before?

Hi mentor,Love the videos .That explains the cockpit , but what about the joystick ?

Great! Give us more technical videos 😉

Superb series. Many thanks for all the tremendously interesting info. Small correction to this video: coxswain is pronounced coxon and not how it is spelt.

It seems to me a more direct connection could be made between ships and airships instead of planes. Air travel actually began with airships and they needed a numerous crew to operate, so everything was organized like in the navy.

everytime i see a mentour video i wish more i was a pilot flying the a320

@MD88Pilot

6 жыл бұрын

No my child. The a320 flies you. If you want to be a real pilot look towards boeing A/C

good video!!!!!!!!!!

Call it the wheel house to confuse everybody

Both could be right. The maritime cockwell/cockpit could have its name from the cockfights as well.

I have a female friend who flew for the US Navy and Delta Airlines. When in the Navy, she had an all female crew...they referred to the flight deck as the "box-office".

Mate the guy holding the camera is a legend because after ten seconds I’d be talkin

My dirty mind went in a whole different direction ngl :p It was much easier when I could still assume someone just spelled tip the wrong way around. On a serious note, maritime influence does make a lot of sense though since you guys also work with maritime rankings and count in nautical miles and such. Really a lot more maritime influence than meets the eye goes into aviation it seems. Actually, that might be a nice video topic of its own really, a rundown of all the different habits and terminology you guys adopted from the seas.

Is your FO your cameraman too? Cool video thanks

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+Jack Jones Yep, he did a fine job!

Because it's a pit full of-- pilots.

Air ship, Land Yacht...yes I can see boat connection...

"cockpit" is only for aircrafts or for vehicles also?

Hey Mentour, I would like to ask something that has nothing to do with the video. Is there in the real life any reason to turn on Engine #2 before engine #1? I am curious because in FSX, if you fly with some virtual airlines (like VRYR in my case), you get a better score if you do that.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

+c0ldw1nd I have tried to find a good answer to this but haven't found much. We always start 2 before one unless we are doing an external air start.

@c0ldw1nd27

6 жыл бұрын

Ok, thanks, I will do some research then

@patriciagonzalez7883

4 жыл бұрын

@@MentourPilot as far as I know, in the airbus A320, the engine number 2 supplies the yellow hidraulic which is necesary for braking. After pushbacking you want to be able to brake the aircraft as soon as possible and without the need to use the accumulator pressure (which also can by used for braking but it has some limitations and its not as aeffective as the yellow hidraulic system). In this case starting number 2 first you can brake the aircraft after pushbacking in the taxiway. In the other hand if you start engine 1 first, you have to relay your braking action on the accumulator, cause this engine supplies the green hidraulic no the yellow one. PS: the yellow and the green hidraulic system are connect through the PTU (power transfer unit), but this one starts operating after both engines are running. **i know it's from 2 years ago, but i didn't checked if you already loaded the video :)

Hm intresting! But at least the influence of the maritimes to the aviation is gigantic. I recognized that myself as a layman :). But the question about the word Cockpit isn't that easy to answer at it might seem hehe

Then why is the control stick for pitch and roll called a "joystick"? Can't wait to hear that explanation.

2 points if I may. Coxswain was the original spelling and not cockswain as some think. Also I use to belong to a tank model forum, and for some strange reason, the autocorrect would always change cockpit to coconutpit, as the autocorrect for the forum considered cockpit too rude a word.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Good inputs.

Cpt. Petter, do you know the history of Santos Dumont ?

"Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France?" Henry V, William Shakespeare, c. 1599. In this context it refers to a part of a theater's stage where combat was acted out.

@soaringvulture

6 жыл бұрын

Damn erudite of you, sir.

Mentor can you make a video on the 737 emergency procedure stuff and why in an emergency when they say the number of people onboard they say souls thanks.

@sierraromeomike

6 жыл бұрын

Reese McClain while I don't know the answer... I think 'soul' evokes more emotion. The fact that human lives are in danger tends to be conveyed more effectively with use of 'souls' rather than people.

@skipperskipper2936

6 жыл бұрын

because they are about to be dead

Hey Mentour, can you explain all the various sounds in the cabin or why it does it get louder the higher and higher you go.

@MD88Pilot

6 жыл бұрын

NH/98 well it's because of the engines and wind being pushed by the plane. Once you get up to your crushing altitude, you accelerate to your crusing speed, which is normally 305 to 330 knots and accompany in wind pushing the plane making it faster.

@Turbo_S_Em_funf

6 жыл бұрын

MD88Pilot Thank you.

@MD88Pilot

6 жыл бұрын

NH/98 no problem.

Hello ......why a captain is seated in left side in airplane but he is seated in right side seat Ih helicopter ? Thanks for answering my question .....

@skipperskipper2936

6 жыл бұрын

because the hellocopter belongs to the CREWCHIEF who sits on the left behind the co pilot

@stevenbennett3805

6 жыл бұрын

Its because early helicopters had the control panel mounted in the center of the cockpit and as most people are right handed it was easier for the pilot to operate the control panel switches with his left hand while keeping his right hand on the cyclic. Otherwise the pilot would have to switch hands on the cyclic so he could reach the center condole control.

I think it was also referred to as 'flight deck' before, but 'cockpit' has taken over.

I just had another thought regarding the first theory: fighting birds, and that's exactly what fighting aircraft are thought of.

Very interesting. I would have thought a more apt name for the seatin early planes would be a bath as it more closely resembles the cockpit than a cockpit does. The word coxswain is pronounced 'coxsun'. We Brits love to pronounce words in a way to confuse foreigners. As in foreigner. Pronounced forina :)

How about the plumbers the flushing system why they call it the ballcock that is a good question, if someone knows please answer thanks

*Would you put an airplane seat inside your car for comfort, or the other way around?*

@skipperskipper2936

6 жыл бұрын

other way around except the back must be vertical for comfortable long periods

@GamingAmbienceLive

6 жыл бұрын

you can adjust that in a car seat;)

From where did the boat got the term cockpit ?

Also the "cox" is the helmsman of a ship's boat (one which belongs to a larger ship - not the dingy dragged behind a yacht, but like that on a much larger scale. Neither is it only a lifeboat, but mostly a rowing boat used for ferrying crew & supplies to and from land if the ship has to anchor far out in the harbour), and of a racing boat. If you've ever seen the University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge, or the "coxed 8s" or any number of other combinations in the Olympics, for example, he's the little guy (or gal - the smaller the better!) shouting instructions. It's often pronounced "kok-sun", hence the "cock's pit" not the "cox's pit", and so on until "cockpit". You're lucky, Petter, it honestly could have been coxpit, and that would have left you open to so much abuse!

Mentour, can you possibly go over the FA panel in an aircraft? No one ever gets to see that.

How about the fire on the plane ? What do you think about it and so?

Probably through a long time of speech changes, the pronunciation of British Royal Navy coxwain sounds like "cocksan". From the internet: In World War II pilots of landing craft were referred to as coxswains. In the Royal Canadian Navy, the appointment of coxswain (or capitaine d'armes in French) is given to the senior non-commissioned officer aboard a ship, the equivalent to a command master chief petty officer in the US Navy. The U.S. Navy coxswain today is an enlisted service member with the responsibility to ensure the safety of the passengers and supplies in his boat. That means that he not only drives the boat to its destination, but also supervises launch, the recovery and the basic maintenance of the boat in his charge. He is also responsible for the safe and secure stowage of any cargo aboard his boat, and he supervises loading and unloading of cargo and passengers. Am looking forward to flying MENTOUR AIR.

Re Hi Mentour: 1) "Cockpit" It seems to my surmise that all your references are/were interrelated. All refer to confined spaces, struggle and control issues. At the time of the original cockswain, the British would well have understood the concept of the cockfights. so it would have been rather Intuitive for them to adopt the term for the ships. Hence the entire lot really fits like a glove. 2) Re live: 2a) It appears you are 6 hours lartewr than Easatern time (Montreal is the same as NYC, and the dates for DST also are the same, albeit there are two North American anomalies Saskatchewan in Canada and New Mexicdo in the U.S., neither of which use DST, due to their respective longitudes and the sun.) So I think you start these at 22:00 your time and they seem to turn up here about 15:00 or 16;00 edt. 2b) Aside from the App: Your app is ported to run on either Android or iPhone. At age 72, While I do own an Android, I find it ergonomically inconvenient, hence I use it to the minimum, preferring to sit down and use at least my Lenovo modirife business Laptop in Linux or one of my full size machines when they are not otherwise busy offline with a LOT of file management. 2c) Additionally, it may be possible to tun the live through Firefox for Linux, given the right add-on packages, as I was ablke to do recently when U.S. PresidentTrump was on live. In that situation, the normal video content was on the left of the screen and the chat scrolling window was on the right. It amy also be possible, usingFedora with the Gnome desktop to have the Video in one workspace and the chat window in another (Gnome offers the usde of multiple workspaces simultaneously which toi my knowlewdgwe does notexist in Windows. When this is then combined with a multiple screen setup, any window that is in one workspace can be dragged to the second screen, where it can remain while the user may switch around on the fiorst screen between multiple workspaces, and also move active windows on the fly between multiple workspaces without disruption of the background activity tied to those GUI windows. If I catch you online sometime when I have the chance, I may run some tests/experiman\en\ts to check this out. What comes to me I will soon see what works and what doesn't, but whatr I type to go up, will need an acknowledgement/response to show that it was seen and understood to know just what works and what doesn't. Since Fedora (Linux) users get an entire new operating system about eve3ry 6 months, and updates about daily, anything that doesn't work on day 1 might suddenly start to work on day 2, etc. Current version of Fedora is 26, and within that there are many variations for different interests - all open source and free for the download. Usually one gets the Torrent filefrom the Fedora torrentservfer and then uses that to get the .ISO from which they can burn the needed bootable DVD. when I\a New version is "hot" I have seen ther flags of some 235 countries in the participating torrent swarm, making it all fast and very efficient, aswell as resumable in case of interruption.

Do you have a podcast describing what is inside the nose of a commercial airliner?

HELLO. I DO HAVE A QUESTION. I'M A STUDENT PILOT. WE (WITH MY CLASSMATE) HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CHECKLIST AND I'D LIKE TO HAVE A MUCH MATURE IDEA ABOUT IT. -WHERE EXACTLY DO WE HAVE TO READ THE "APPROACH CHECKLIST? We are in portugal, in Cascais (LPCS) sometimes we have some flight to Montijo (LPMT) for an ILS. Things come fast within that very short route. Some people brief the Let down plate and the approach checklist in cruise... And the others, the let down plate review in cruise and the approach checklist in the ILS outbound. Are both cases right? Thanks for your help

@maaitah1991

6 жыл бұрын

Nesly Jordan Mballa you mean approach checklist or approach brief??

@MD88Pilot

6 жыл бұрын

Well I would do it 10nm out.

@skipperskipper2936

6 жыл бұрын

ITS IN THE bar code on each end of the runway....lol.

It is the naval reference that it comes from. The coxswain was in the coxpit, which became spelled *cock* in later years. Also, the first planes were amphibious. So it was a boat with wings. All those other possibilities are nonsense.

wow

Mentour, as far as i know the he111 had a round windowed cabin and german used to call it cockpit so i'm not sure it's an english word

@danbame

6 жыл бұрын

I'll be digging because i've red something on this long time ago

@skipperskipper2936

6 жыл бұрын

ITS NOT ENGLISH, ITS GREMAMIC, AS ARE MOST ENGLISH WORDS.

Still prefair flightdeck. And on ships its called a bridge on small boats its called a wheelhouse

Sir price???? And where to buy ur home sim

What are the differences between the cockpit and the bridge?

Who holds the camera for you ?

@randallhunt9170

6 жыл бұрын

I believe he's using a gopro, and probably is just clipping it to the headrest of the FO's chair.

@NicholasLittlejohn

6 жыл бұрын

Souza Patrick Jesus

@JohnDoe-ee6qs

6 жыл бұрын

Souza Patrick the Auto pilot 😊

@dziltener

6 жыл бұрын

"Aliens!"

@StellaGzzzz

5 жыл бұрын

@Stephan Paris hahahahaha lmao

I think, just because I'm crazy, I'll call it "Pilotworld" from now on. :P

At first I was like I disagree with you but I then you saved it by connecting it to maritime lingo in which most all air lingo is referenced too.