Airline Pilot Life | Captain Chris (Full)

In this upbeat episode, current Virgin airline Captain, Chris Pohl aka Captain Chris, shares what it was like to fly the Fokker 27, Fokker 100, and A320 in his early airline career, and going on to fly the A340 and A350 with Virgin Atlantic.
Chris shares some great stories from flying the A340 into the famous Kai Tak airport, flying celebrities (such as the Friends cast, Princess Diana and more), the differences between the Airbus types, what meals he enjoys (yes we had to ask!) and much more.
Chris also gives some great advice for would-be airline/commercial pilots.
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[@wolfdiver7169]

Hello Mike, thanks a lot for this excellent Interview with Captain Chris. Such a nice guy and I want to listen him hours and hours. Greetings from Greece! 🇬🇷🛫

[@Aircrewinterview]

Great to hear you enjoyed it :)

[@stevem7868-y4l]

I have known Chris P, for many years, and hes always been a good laugh and ALLWAYS a pleasure to work with , Steve M, from Crewing/Rostering, i left VA in 2016, redundent !

[@arielalvarez5553]

Congratulations Mike, great interview!!!

[@the88tench3]

That was a really interesting video! Been trying to work out how I could get into doing aviation as a career, and this has been really useful to get an idea where to look next to see if it would be actually possible!

[@Aircrewinterview]

Glad you enjoyed it and it was helpful.

[@Medge2sc]

Good advice on the ATPL route, Iv got 250 hours as a PPL but Iv got a colour deficiency so can’t get my class one. Fingers crossed it changed one day

[@Tubeflux]

Thanks, wonderful info and stories in the video. :)

[@jimbrown5268]

Really enjoyed this. Thank you to both.

[@Aircrewinterview]

Cheers

[@neuropilot7310]

My Naval aviator friend drives a Porsche and has a Tesla Model X P100DL, which is not typical for a F/A-18 test pilot.

[@stiffmysteruk88]

What a fantastic interview with a great pilot

[@bebingtontrainspotter07]

27:03 ' doing training up in Glasgow' if I'm not mistaken that was 2019 august. i was in a 737-8 on the taxy way about to get on the runway and i looked out and saw a virgin Atlantic a350-1000 now I'm starting to think it was Chris. ( I'm not a pilot i was just a passenger )

[@gregalanharper]

Hey Chris, Wonderful interview. Great to hear a fellow Aussie voice out there on the podcast/KZbin. I’m interested to hear the back story about your RN Hawk flying. I don’t know why Mike didn’t dig a bit deeper on that story. For what it’s worth, I think the RAAF should have repeated their experience with their VIP configured B707s by buying used A340-5/600s. Cheap to buy, plenty of redundancy, CCQ their KC-30 pilots… and who cares about the fuel bill? It’s not as if the military pays taxes on their fuel. Anyway, that was my proposal. Cheers, Greg QF A330 Capt.

[@davidmeek8017]

Aloha Mike; BRILLIANT! Mahalo

[@jakehowie442]

Wow I’ve never heard a more helpful interview from an actual experienced pilot. UK pilot schools are very expensive, so the advice to learn in the United States is very useful, with the FAA license. Though, you still have to be rich to afford flying lessons. I guess the EU no longer allows CAA licensed pilots to fly with European airlines since Brexit? Or has that always been the case… Also his Instagram is popping off more than most influencers

[@TechGaming45]

How many crashes have you had? Including this one.... none..

[@tahirusman5929]

Commanded the A320 for six half years. Pretty good a/c except for its darn stupid Airbus books. Flew the A310 for four half years. Again damn stupid books.and procedures. AC was ok. Flown the F27 B737 as well as the B777. to boot. Now doing B777 command conversion. Gentleman is giving very valid advise above!

[@arturo468]

“Commanded the A320”. I bet that you were popular with the F/Os ….. Everyone loves a Sky God, unless they have to sit next to one for several, hours!

[@tahirusman5929]

@@arturo468 Not quite....

[@tahirusman5929]

Forgot the Atr42. Quite a pathetic airframe except for the engines and navigation

[@vaqarkhan8306]

@@tahirusman5929 Putting 2 and 2 together from the fleet you have flown, I assume it is/was PIA.

[@christosvoskresye]

This may not mean anything to you, and it means less today than it once did, but ROLL TIDE!!!

[@kevinhoughton9134]

Good interview but there's absolutely no way to become an Airline Pilot on the cheap. Go to America, OK, still costs to take lessons, need a visa or similar to live out there, need to pay for your living while you're out there, an expensive way to earn £30k a year as a newbie Pilot.