19 Surprising Things Pilots Do Onboard

There you are, at the airport, sitting in the departure lounge waiting for your flight. Then, you see them walk by in their crisp uniforms. Pilots - they’re the epitome of “cool”! And when you see those pictures on social media showing pilots taking epic selfies tens of thousands of feet in the air, then you’re really convinced! It’s hard to imagine what their life is really like, but it might be way different from what you think!
Do you know, for example, what happens if one of the pilots does get sick or needs emergency medical assistance? Or if a pilot needs to leave the cockpit and get some rest? Or what are the health risks associated with the job? Or have you ever wonder why the plane takes so long to land? Like, why are we doing circles around the airport? Let's find out!
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TIMESTAMPS:
How long it takes for them to get back home 0:36
What do they eat? 1:24
What happens if one of the pilots does get sick? 1:53
Can they sleep onboard? 2:20
Why they prefer long-haul flights 3:03
What are the health risks? 3:28
What the stripes on their epaulets mean 4:23
Can they listen to music in the cockpit? 4:52
What do they do during the flight? 5:34
What “We’re flying through an air pocket” means 6:09
Why the plane takes so long to land? 6:32
So what about a selfie? 7:05
What pilots do when they land in another country? 8:10
Can they fly for free? 8:44
What a good pilot should be able to do 9:11
#planes #pilots #brightside
SUMMARY:
- Pilots don’t eat the same meals as their passengers do. It all comes down to the risk of food poisoning.
- Crewmembers are trained to do first aid, and all planes are required by law to have a fully stocked emergency medical kit onboard.
- For long-haul flights on huge jets, there’s a secret room for them to catch some Z’s.
- If a pilot does need to leave the cockpit and get some rest, another crewmember must enter.
- It might surprise you to know that a lot of pilots prefer long-haul flights (ones that are 6-12 hours). And that’s because they typically just have one of those.
- What are the health risks associated with the job? Well, this type of shiftwork has been linked to higher rates of heart disease.
- They have to do regular health checks once or twice a year.
- Pilots mostly fly the plane through the autopilot.
- They need to monitor all the systems in the aircraft, from oil pressure to fuel levels and even temperature.
- “We’re flying through an air pocket” actually means the plane is hitting some regular ol’ turbulence.
- If you see a selfie of a commercial pilot hanging out the window of a jumbo jet, your Photoshop radar should be going nuts! That absolutely wouldn’t be possible because of the air pressure.
- The airline pays for everything a pilot needs while they’re waiting for their next flight.
- Here’s another perk of the job: pilots get to fly for free!
- A good pilot makes a perfectly smooth landing. Landing is probably the hardest and most dangerous part of a pilot’s job.
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They do but not on the plane 😏

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And they definitely don’t take them like that

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They did..i have a lot of pilot friendlist and they often post their selfies..

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TIMESTAMPS: How long it takes for them to get back home 0:36 What do they eat? 1:24 What happens if one of the pilots does get sick? 1:53 Can they sleep onboard? 2:20 Why they prefer long-haul flights 3:03 What are the health risks? 3:28 What the stripes on their epaulets mean 4:23 Can they listen to music in the cockpit? 4:52 What do they do during the flight? 5:34 What “We’re flying through an air pocket” means 6:09 Why the plane takes so long to land? 6:32 So what about a selfie? 7:05 What pilots do when they land in another country? 8:10 Can they fly for free? 8:44 What a good pilot should be able to do 9:11

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Thanks

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Speaking of aviation, I just got my private pilot license!

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Nice, going for your commercial licence?

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Pilots: Oh no, we are going to fly the plane again! The Other Pilot: But First!, Let Me take a Selfie!

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And fly right out of the cockpit

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Ibis happened

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A pilot is never judged by his smooth landing. He is judged by the safe landing.

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Hey no photos in the cockpit on that photo of your KZbin channel

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Hahaha just kidding

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My father is a pilot and he takes selfies

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Smooth landing means like nice and safe ....... right?

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@@AM-mw5xd smooth landing menas plain land swaetly with out any problems like rough landing is when plain is one an emergency landing ok

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info Jungle i used to be one, A Commercial pilot My airline was Cebu pacific Here in the philippines It usually takes 3 to 4 days before i get home to my family.. Ive flown for 7 and a half years. Cant say how much i earned cause thats taking it away. I flown internationaly Usually you start with domestic flights.

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I dont

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Why

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18 is correct, any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

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And any landing you can walk away from and use the aeroplane again ia a GREAT landing.

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A hard landing is safer

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Like any job, you are not supposed to do some stuff, yet you can still sneak them in 😀

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Aviation is not like any job, some jobs you’ll just break the law, but here you may get 300 or so ppl killed

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We might die

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Pilots are not required to have 20/20 vision, or even very close. Yes there are vision requirements, but you can be a commercial pilot and still require corrective lens.

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Flying ARK that’s what I was thinking. For the most part, as long as you can be corrected to perfect vision they don’t care.

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They have to be correctable to 20/20 (glasses, etc).

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@@samslar Assuming you have the numbers backwards, the diffraction limit of the human eye is around 20/7 with a wide-open pupil (ophthalmologists usually test in the dark). 20/5 may be possible for abnormally large eye pupils.

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Flying ARK please tell me what is the limit, I have 20/20 in 1 eye and like 1/20 in the other

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One pilot had only one eye and was classed as one of the best pilots

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7:22 no you can’t, your phone is gonna be gone the moment you put it out of the window. Even a cessna is going fast enough so you cant put your hands out and take selfies

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They need 3 days to come home Truck drivers lives more than 7 days on the road away from family

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0:29 a guy on the right is smoking :(

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Who else was impressed about the HD in the first 10 seconds of the video?

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Maybe it’s just aussie captains, but we get told “please fasten your seatbelts as we are going through some rough turbulence”

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The thing about the circles around the airport is either what you said, traffic but it’s mainly because of organization... it’s know as a traffic pattern

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Try not using it into LAX

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I went to the cockpit and took a family photo with my father😃😃😃😃

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Yuki Au That would have been at a state where it is safe to do so, such as on the ground at the gate when the engines are shut off.

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My dad is a pilot, when he is home i sometimes play on his phone and i don’t see any selfies.

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xD , be happy that ur father is not a rule beaker (for me , rules are made to be broken)

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If you're an adult with a father as a pilot, you can bet that he's old enough to not care about selfies

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, and any landing that you use the plane again is a great landing

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I am training to be a pilot and I like how you used yoke instead of joystick, lots of people make that mistake. But it does depend on the manufacturers

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Pilots seem so lucky They get to travel the world and get paid to do so

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6:11 why is someone smoking on a plane :/

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I think that was a pen.

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🤣🤣😂I was wondering that too.

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Bro look closely it's a pen there is no smoke

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Can pilot take selfie? Yes but actualy no

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Wrong Take Off is when the most danger can present itself.

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Iv always wanted to be a Pilot video has motivated me even more

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I’m a pilot too lol 😂 I have to do stuff like this every day because I fly 747’s for British airways and sometimes even 737 for air Canada

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Me 2

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I mean I’m 7 I don’t have a dream about becoming a pilot

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It is not just pilots that can fly for free it is goes for everyone that works there not including stores

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The coolest selfie I've ever taken would be with my uncle he's a pilot on Alaska airlines.

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“Perfect eyesight” I have glasses and my eyesight is really bad D: being a pilot is one of my dream jobs though-

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Yeah

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My parents are airline crews and I 100% accept that pilots take a nap because one day I stayed there for a few hours then I went back to my seat

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These videos make me want to become a pilot

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About #16, they are allowed, at least under EASA in Europe to take video with a mounted camera, like say a GoPro

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I was able to go inside cockpit coz i was one of those kids who are interested in aviation and i was able to speak to captain if u ask u can go inside the cockpit but dont press any buttons

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You're allowed to distract the pilot and help jeopardise the flight?Awesome

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My friend is a pilot and takes cockpit selfies all the time

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0:29 that dude with the cigarette lol

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When I was little once we arrived to are destination the pilot showed me the cockpit

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There's actually a system on board the aircraft called ILS, or Instrument Landing System, which allows the pilot to make a perfect landing even if there's to much fog outside the window to see anything.

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7:09 Pilots cant survive such a high pressure

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I have a flight tomorrow so I’m watching this

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You can’t open a window or door during flight, it’s not physically possible

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In an A320 it would take up to 5000 pounds of force

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@@Fussedqdid you get that from captain joe?

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Amuzzin Drawings yes

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Some times after the flight they also allow little kids to see their control room

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NJM Sqad 123, that's absolutely true. I was 1 of the lucky ones that got to go into the cockpit aka the control room on my flight from Dublin to Paris!

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Is this generally what content has come to these days... what a world

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Not all the plane have sleeping deck

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I remember when I was on a plane and when I landed, it was so smooth that the plane barely even shaked