How to STORE an Aircraft?!

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There are now thousands of Aircraft grounded all over the globe. For each day that goes by there are more and more of them piling up on Aircraft Boneyards and Airports.
What procedures are taken to Store these aircraft? What happens if these aircraft will be stuck on the ground for several months or even years?
In todays video I will talk about both short-term and long-term storage from a maintenance perspective.
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[@MentourPilot]

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[@jaybrooks1098]

Mentour Pilot thanks for posting this.. I was wondering if this was going to be a issue.. I sent you a message about re-certification because of parking for a long time. I know super cars have parts that time out even if you haven’t drove it. I would imagine a complex machine has the same issues. The bag of silicit is called desiccant . It’s a hydroscopic material that soaks up moisture.

[@nicaman96]

Jay Brooks p

[@wyrmhand]

Why not fly them monthly with different pilots to keep both the planes and pilots certified?

[@desiredditor]

you will never say bad things about car maintenance its not as simple as it seems folks got a big team to care for one aircraft but its just one or two guys who will take care of a car some cars are really difficult to maintain as the size of parts and accesiblity is even worse than planes also you didnt talk about small planes with propelors like a cesna

[@ice401557]

Yesterday I had to tow an aircraft on Budapest Airport from one stand to another for a few minutes engine testing, then had to tow it back to its original stand. It was great fun, looking into the miror and a plane is following me, it was my first time doing that. :-D

[@DanielBierman]

I work for a low cost carrier in South Africa and we started a 21day lockdown, which has caused our borders to close as well as our airspace. On Thursday I witnessed the entire fleet at our base being being put into storage, and we needed to close up our offices etc, was a fairly emotional day. But the position I hold (AMC Controller) it was quite interesting as I had to help arrange parking area as our base doesn't have a maintenance hanger, so we had to negotiate with the airports authorities to have our babies park on the Apron (we have 4 x 737-800 and 1 x 737-400). Not sure what state we stored them in, all I know is all engines intakes and exhausts closed up, rudders locked and tied down, all door seals taped closed, a visor over the cockpit windows. Couldn't go airside due to restrictions, but our engineers did mention every week they need to be checked, but with lock down we are not allowed to move from our homes. When our lock down ends we have a 3 day period before we start flying again on a reduced schedule (2 of the aircrafts will be used to at first)

[@joeldobler3696]

Fun fact: I work as a engine test cell operator.. To deep storage a CFM56-7B (b737 NG engine) for 365 days you need to: Run 1 Quart of brayco preservation oil through the oil system and the fuel system will be preserved during engine runtime. You will open a bypass vlv.and burn 180s preservation Jet-A1 After this you need to perform a borescope inspection together with a filter check After closing the engine with vapor barrier film and 15kg of desicant bags and humidity indicators you can leave the engine for 365 days before it has to be completly dissassemlbled if not runned during this period of time

[@accountdeactivated5546]

PENIS Tortilla

[@Add12this]

"runned"

[@msromike123]

@@Add12this Obviously ESL poster, what is your deal?

[@livewellwitheds6885]

great info ! thanks for the info, and what you do

[@aviationtechops]

on grounded airplanes there is a 30 day service 60 day service 90 service and greater as time passes after the plane is approved to get back to flying there is maintenance called RTS then after plane is ready to fly . cool to hear different roles in aviation 😁

[@katego370]

I'm not quite sure if the dog is in active storage or in deep storage.

[@pastblaster3285]

It's in Zen Storage .....

[@Biggles2498]

Kate go: the dog is in "suspended animation storage" ! My nickname for him is "Muttley"

[@PaulB-17]

Paxti is politely ignoring you.

[@mog882]

Isn’t the dogs name “Patrick?”

[@stevensides8394]

Ha ha

[@falconeaterf15]

The dog has learned more about flying than a lot of pilots have.

[@FlorenceSlugcat]

Dog is in deep storage in 90% video lmao

[@3John-Bishop]

Dog is bored cuz hes heard it all before.

[@ecraftgame]

His name is paxti

[@fujiwaraemiko7318]

​@@ecraftgame It's Pachi/Pachito

[@jillcrowe2626]

The dog is working on his type rating.

[@andyharpist2938]

I entered an old 707 years ago, it having run out of hours in Sharjah. It was sadness itself. A perfectly good aircraft to all intent and purposes sitting idle. I looked out of the astro-dome ..used before sat-navs (even then out of date)...and saw the Hostess-suits from the dry cleaners..ready to be used on the next leg...but almost certainly never ever to be moved again.

[@TraceUK]

Andy harpist Thats so sad :(

[@electric7487]

Imagine those folks tasked with scrapping A340's - some A345 and A346 were just over 10 years old when they got scrapped!

[@nandolopes9897]

Get over it, only angels live for ever.

[@sonyfighter]

Hi Mentour, Can you do a video about the ground handling crew and what they are doing during an standard aircraft turnaround? I am a Ramp Agent/Dispatcher/Turnaround Coordinator at a European Hub and a lot of people don't seem to know how much is done in those 25-40min during a turnaround. This could possibly be quite interesting with your take as a pilot on it. Cheers

[@BrianThorstad]

Habbel Babbel yes, great idea!

[@BrianThorstad]

Great idea, please do

[@jsunit5354]

Great idea!

[@mr.denversevyjr.843]

Yes I'd like to see this vid as well

[@gonedivin8651]

That would be awesome. The ground crew tends to get the least spot light regarding aviation.

[@mazdapremacy97]

There are procedures with a car too if you want it to work, but people don't give a toss

[@funnyfarm5555]

Doc you are right. I start my big pickup that we do not use as much anymore since horses are all gone, about every 3-4 weeks and make sure it comes to full temperature before turning off.

[@martyn101101]

It's a lot like wintering a boat engine.

[@mog882]

I do! I give a toss!

[@earthwormscrawl]

I live in the Northeast and I would put my 2005 Mustang GT convertible on a battery keeper in the garage for the winter. I'd take it out for a 5 minute drive every few weeks, weather permitting. Unfortunately by late spring I ended up with a dead battery and had to replace it every year. I never figured out what was causing that.

[@AlexandarHullRichter]

@@earthwormscrawl there are several electronic parts that always use the battery, even when the car is off. Over time it uses the battery up. I have two cars that have been sitting for a year and some, and I just disconnect the batteries when I'm not using them. When I want to drive one, I just reconnect the battery, and it starts right up. My biggest concern is actually fuel, because gasoline goes bad after a number of months. I try to keep about 1/2 to 1 gallon in each car, and then I try to use that up before it goes bad, replacing it with the same amount of fresh fuel.

[@Lampe2020]

6:18 The dog's comments are so funny that I have a permanent smile on my face ;) 9:13 "One of them" was like a key word for the dog...

[@MrKen59]

All this work is crazy to keep something grounded that was born to fly. As another person commented, it’s amazing how detailed aircraft maintenance is laid out, yet car owners take maintenance so lightly.

[@7Amps]

You can't park an airplane on a cloud when shit goes south.

[@Brian-cr6rb]

I'm sorry your industry is suffering in this pandemic. Your dog cracks me up every time! Poor thing looks so bored! Stay safe and clean! I hope our iconic airlines survive.

I dont, those iconic airlines you speak of are the same ones who wanna nickle & dime the passengers to death with their lame ass stupid fees, give it time and the legacy carriers will start charging just to walk onto the aircraft and charge $2.50 just to use the bathroom

[@kimballwhite787]

@ Most airlines do, in fact, charge you to walk onto the aircraft. It is called a ticket. I have never walked onto an aircraft for less than $50, for that matter.

[@merrychild]

Actually shared this with my dispatch team because we’ve been having to route things for storage and getting requests from our maintenance planners to fly grounded planes to prevent more extensive checks. Because I had watched the video, I knew why the planners were making the requests while I was routing last week but some of coworkers/supervisors didn’t understand. I got thanks and got told by someone who’d been in the industry for 20+ years say he learned a lot. :) Thanks for helping us understand what our maintenance planners and controllers, and what our airport operation personnel are dealing with in this time.

[@sharoncassell9358]

I used to install boilers and instruct customers how to drain and store themwhen not in use. Fill with water and they wont rust.

[@HugoRCCampus]

Hi there! First of all I will like to give you a huuuuge thank you for all the contents on this channel. I already forgot for how long I watch your videos but I really deeply enjoy this channel. Congratulations! I'm a regular flight passenger, I'm Portuguese working in Netherlands and I have had a tone of fun to increasingly better understand the aviation. On top of that I'm a mechanical engineer which make easy and enjoyable to watch those more technical videos. Once again... Congrats! I hope you can back as soon as possible to work in order to allow me to return to Netherlands to work too. 😂 Wish you and your team all the best.

[@MentourPilot]

Thank you for your kind words! It means a lot coming from a profesional like yourself.

[@adriankirk4644]

Thank you very much. As a non aviator, I find your videos educational and most interesting. I spent my working life as a radar engineer, so have always been close to aviation. Love it.

[@yoidoretennshi777]

It is much easier to do maintenance of aircrafts which are being operated continuously compared with those grounded for a long time of period because while being parked, many unpleasant phenomena can occur to both the internal parts and the external parts. Therefore maintenance staff must be much more careful to check them all. I always appreciate their hard work even though their existence & role is rarely highlighted in public. I add that the costs of maintenance including fuel price for engine test and the parking charges to be paid to each airport weigh quite a lot on all the airlines.

[@MentourPilot]

Indeed! Planes are made to be flown.

[@ForFunFlyer]

Interesting stuff! Never knew that there's so much involved in 'just' parking the planes for a longer period of time 👍🏻

[@dwighthawkins5955]

its far far far more involved and complex than he sez.

[@FilmMakerKlausKusserow]

Hi Mentour! Thanx für your inspiring Videos! My lifetime-question: How do you count flight hours? From take-off to touch-down? What about holdings? What about delays on ground, where you're still working, but not flying? Thank you again!

[@MentourPilot]

Flight hours are normally counted from off-block to On-block.

[@thrustasymcomp9145]

Mentour Pilot in my company, flight time is from start taxi to block on. Block time is blok off to block on. And airtime is airborne to touchdown.

[@annemargaret5562]

Wow that's so interesting, there's over fifty planes now being stored at my local airport, I was wondering how they were going to look after them while they're parked up here. I didn't realize there would be so much involved.

[@johnbailey5011]

Just spent the night helping prepping a 777 for short term storage. It's a lot of work.

[@username0lt]

I learned more from this video than from working as an aircraft mechanic in an aircraft maintenance company. Great video Mentour

[@roichir7699]

As I am working in a CAMO I do know about this. Have to deal with storage procedures right now quite often. Addtional to your info there needs to be sayed that all the calendar tasks you do during regular maintenance have to be observed too and life limited parts need to be taken care of. Well you obviously need no life vests, but once you get the plane ready to fly again you may have to replace them all. The list is quite long. Storage means just less tasks to do and some can be posponed to reentry to service.

[@MrPomelo555]

« Crème fraîche type of fluid ». First time I hear Mentour speaking french! Well done, Petter! 😇

[@target844]

That was a typical Swedish of the product. The French pronunciation, if I am not mistaken, is a bit different.

[@jeffdavis7376]

Love your vlog on this! Because it reminds me of when I worked for Mercury Air Center in Santa Barbara as a aircraft line tech and a couple of times, there was 3 707s owned by a Saudi prince that had them parked for over 2 years on the east side of the airport, we had to go and do what he was talking about in the video but the thing that stands out is when I opened the door to cabin the stench of B.O. hit me like a ton of bricks because the prince didn't take of his planes very well which is why we were constantly keeping up on these planes to keep them airworthy, oh they were finally seized by the U.S. government for the prince not keeping up on back taxes and those planes were flown out to Arizona to the boneyard

[@janhanchenmichelsen2627]

16:00 No machines enjoy long term storage without proper conservation precautions. As a boat owner, I know ... and even cars never should suffer more than a few weeks of no use. And an aircraft is a VERY complex machine. I Norway, there’s an expression, roughly translated to "Standing until death".

[@MurraydeLues]

Currently NZ in lockdown. I was talking to one of my neighbors about running her car at least once a week. She thought just letting idle for 5 mins was enough. I pointed out to her that she must run it long enough to fully heat the exhaust and the engine up to temp to get rid off moisture. Otherwise the exhaust will rot out real quick. We are expecting this lockdown to go from 4 weeks up to 6 or more. Be safe everyone.

[@janhanchenmichelsen2627]

@@MurraydeLues Five minutes of idling is worse than a few weeks of storage. Take a short drive, charge the battery, heat up oil and exercise the brakes before the calipers get stuck ... or is that illegal?

[@dennymambo]

@@MurraydeLues Yeah Idling for 5 mins is worse than nothing. It would be less harmful to just turn it over for 30 sec without starting it to move some oil through. Like you say it just sucks all the ambient moisture in and doesn't burn it off. I've torn down a bike engine where the piston rings had trapped moisture against the cylinder wall and pitted it. Still ran, just burnt a little oil & blew smoke.

[@jeffsaffron5647]

You know its serious when captain is in his sweatpants.

[@globalautobahn1132]

Jeff Saffron for real though...

[@6yjjk]

Let's hope his uniform isn't in deep storage!

[@chrisschack9716]

Not likely, I wouldn't expect piloted involved in the certification procedures to be allowed to become non-current. After all, they're the ones that will be needed to bring the REST back to currency!

[@jimmym3352]

This brings up another question I always wondered. How do you start up an aircraft that has been shut down for a long time? How long do the batteries hold charge? You need the batteries to get the auxiliary power unit going I take it? And you mentioned removing the batteries for long term storage. How do you start it then? I imagine you maybe put in charged batteries, or put in batteries and then charge them first. I just had a hilarious image of a really long pair of jumper cables going from one jet aircraft to another to jump start it. LOL.

[@williamgeorgefraser]

I've worked as a small-boat marine engineer for many years and bacteria in the fuel tank is a horrendous problem. It's actually a mixture of bacteria and fungus which can enter the tank through the vent pipe. It lives and grows at the barrier between the water and the fuel transforming the fuel into a gelatinous slime. This is serious enough as it blocks up fuel filters but there is worse to come. It everntually transforms into a stringy mass like a clump of hair and will block a fuel line wherever there is a connector. In severe cases it requires compressed air at around 8/10 bars to blow out the fuel pipes.

[@edwarddawes949]

williamgeorgefraser heard of bio bor?

[@jaydensmith2851]

Love your content!! Hope that you and your loved ones are safe during this time!! Cannot wait for the aviation industry to start up soon!!

[@StephenCole1916]

We've been cut to 32 hours at our job. We support IT for several companies including a few airlines. Interestingly, some other airlines have been calling asking if we can help out, so we may far ok, as long as they pay the bills.

[@Franktilson]

I think a “rent a pilot” is a great idea to try! Very inventive.

[@mrgusse]

I stumbled upon your channel the other day, and since then my work is being compromised, I can't stop watching the videos since it's so darn interesting. Just installed the app too to see what it brings. Absolutely Fantastic work

[@jimmiller7095]

You do a awesome job. Not a pilot but enjoy your channel. Retired US Air Force

[@TerryMundy]

I’m in aviation support and will soon feel the trickle down effect. The anticipation for what’s going to happen makes me anxious and anxiety ridden. But I will survive. But I have to stay sharp at what I do. I’m fortunate that can build a test lab, take online competency tests, and watch KZbin videos to maintain a level of knowledge of new ideas and products that are coming. Question: What will pilots do to stay sharp? Your profession doesn’t have the luxury of jumping in a multimillion dollar flight sim or less of a chance yet but to actually fly.

[@mr.denversevyjr.843]

Man it's refreshing to listen to you talk, u have a passion for your aircraft and an extensive knowledge of aviation you are my fav KZbin pilot I like all the others but it's your attention to detail that makes you my favorite to watch..... Have a fantastic day Petter... Much likes from Nitro WV USA

[@ManBearInfestation]

Hey Mentour, love your videos, this is another interesting topic to talk about! There is so much to learn from your channel. You’ve made me interested in aviation , awesome stuff l!

[@andrewmaina7750]

The dog is a distraction so cute

[@LudosHideout]

Amazing video. I always feel better after watching your videos keep it up!!!!

[@melissanoonan3301]

Thanks Mentour, great information. Very interesting. Appreciate you helping all of us pass the time. Best wishes as always.

[@_mr_z_]

I learn a lot from these vids. Thnx for the good work!

[@smoothflying]

Intressant video! Tråkigt att se alla dessa flygdugliga plan stå på marken. Hoppas du och alla andra får flyga snart! Ta hand om dig!

[@welcome33333]

I love your dog! Not the only reason I am watching, though.... Love your expert insights. Thanks

[@md28stads]

I love how the dogs are always passed out sleeping all around you. It's so cute!!!

[@marie-sophie4]

Suscribed ! I work at Quebec City airport in Canada YQB and love the content of your videos ! I am now forced to stay home because we are operating at about 10% right now so I love to learn more about aviation ! Thank you ! ✈️

[@gracelandone]

Thanks for the glimpse into the complexity of these processes. And thanks for thinking of your colleagues with Rent-a-Pilot. There is such a wealth of collective experience among all of you that it is a terrible waste to have this knowledge idle for even a day. I wish you and your fellow professionals health as well as continued mental health often challenged when our “purpose” in this world is momentarily idled.

[@ralfoide]

Really love the amount of technical details you put in there. Thanks for sharing all that knowledge that us non-pilots cannot get otherwise!

[@wendypierce5621]

Driving through the Mojave Desert in California years ago I thought I was going nuts because I was seeing airplanes, that’s how I discovered boneyards.

[@TerryMundy]

Wendy Pierce - And how badly you wished you could take one home instead of seeing it being wasted!!!

[@chnet968]

@@TerryMundy As earlier planes are mostly made with aluminum alloys that can have other uses, I always wonder why there is so many aircraft frames being left out on those plane graveyards.

[@irongoatrocky2343]

@@chnet968 tax purposes! some of those aircraft are still on some airline's fleet manifests! and or they are being kept as a source of usable spare parts as Boeing and Airbus are cracking down on their suppliers to not sell replacement parts for various reasons!

[@kwakka636]

I am Sorry to hear you are grounded but just watching your videos makes time very enjoyable stuck in during lockdown in the Uk 🇬🇧. I hope you will be taking to the skies very soon

[@pawel.keller]

Awesome video - now I understand what exactly determines those maintance cost during a gap in a normal flying pattern. Thank you!

[@CMDRSweeper]

Well you earned my subscription when you appeared on Mikey's stream of course! And had a geekout with Blancolirio :D

[@MentourPilot]

Thank you! 😂

[@davidbond9571]

Thanks for your info, although I do not fly myself but was a little worried about long term storage of thousands of aircraft around the world that may soon be up and running. Thanks for sharing and I really enjoy your channel.

[@collinbeveridge317]

Thank you for the detailed presentation - much appreciated.

[@ryanrussell7991]

Great video. I have always wondered ever since seeing the thomas cook aircrafts sitting at glasgow, now the british airways ones

[@delphinebr4915]

Great initiative Mentour ! It’s a great idea to create “rent a pilot” service! We all need to be there for each other in such a crisis!

[@GrrMeister]

10:30 *I use a Waterproof Breathable cover on my Caravan during Winter, and remain connected to the mains with a DeHumidifier inside running, and check this and empty every few weeks, result a immaculate clean habitable Van ready to use again. Appreciate Aircraft are very different, and thanks for your informative video. Good wishes to you from the UK, and let us all hope the News gets better very soon.*

[@AlexandarHullRichter]

How often do you cycle fuel? It usually goes bad in less than a year.

[@Marsi777]

One of the most interesting video you uploaded so far. Keep up your fantastic work ✈

[@nicholasgibbons]

Thank you for always putting out such informative content. I hope you're back flying soon

[@awalker1829]

Dozens of airliners are going into storage at Pinal Air Park in Marana, Arizona. Some are on stands and others are on bare desert as the ground is hard as concrete. Spray latex (spraylat) is used to cover windows and seal doors.

[@joshmoonman6224]

Love the green & red nav light cushions..

[@flybe146]

Absolutely fascinating, thank you so much for this video.

[@uzaiyaro]

Always keep those silica gel bags, never throw them out! They are so handy for keeping things (like sensitive camera lenses or expensive cables) dry, and for the most part, they can be reused once saturated! Just look up how to recharge silica gel and it should give you decent instructions on how to do this.

[@SwaFixer]

And good for afternoon snack.....

[@humnpwr]

I’m retired from the film industry and a 50 year private pilot and love watching your presentations

[@DiecastPowderCoating]

Another interesting video Petter, take care.

[@richardzelnicek1635]

Hi, Mentour pilot. Your last videos abou crisis in air industry helped me to understand what is happening. I work for passenger aircraft maintenance and repair company. We are asked from many airlines to provide them parking services. From Ready to Flight to long term parking. We are overhelmed by this. Now I know what to expect.

[@davegiannotti758]

Very informative thank you for the in depth explanations of how the industry works.

[@azmax623]

Marana Air Park in Arizona is a big aircraft parking facility. Used to drive by it all the time on the way to Tucson.

[@shailendraveerarajapura9483]

Thanks Captain for the wonderful video about storage of aircrafts. The COVID pandemic has sent shock waves into the airline industry all over the world. Storage of aircraft is something not known to common man. I like your videos and watch them often as you explain so well. Thanks Captain...God bless!!!!!!!!

[@sharoncassell9358]

What is anti corrosive consist of?

[@PilotBlogDenys]

Super! Thanks for that info...

[@EdMcF1]

The last flying Vulcan XH558 was almost destroyed as during its winter storage someone put a silica gel bag in the air intake and on its first flight after that, the bag got sucked into and destroyed an engine on take-off. Thankfully it landed safely. It turned out that the ex-RAF engineers on the Vulcan had followed RAF procedures which did not include putting silica gel bags in to desiccate the engine and whoever did hadn't told them, so they didn't think to check. I still think that after storage you should always check in case something, somehow has got it.

[@maxxiong]

I saw a few westjet 737s in storage (with the red covers) at CYWG a few days back when I flew in.

[@tommybooth9840]

Another great informational video. Great work as always sir. You make a curios aviation enthusiast want to learn more. Thanks again.

[@andrewmullen4003]

ah 13:38 cladosporium resinae, lovely stuff!!

[@matthiasbues6675]

Hi Mentour, great video again, learned a lot, thank you! One Q on of your recents: is ADS-B active on airplanes performing aerodrome circuits when grounded but not yet stored?

[@JayJayProductions11]

I love watching your videos. These procedures are fascinating. Thank you for sharing

[@Tomcroese]

Thank you. Thas nice to know. Now I understand more of who to put a plain out of serivce. Thats a big job.

[@AA-flyguy]

Work for Delta here in the US, Great idea about the new site and we will use it and I will get people to use it to help out everyone out there!!. 👍👍👍

[@mog882]

The cover for the APU exhaust is essentially a butt plug for a plane.

[@inactivefatimahgianna245]

GOLD 😂😂😂🥰

[@livewellwitheds6885]

underrated

[@livewellwitheds6885]

12:01 he does say you need loads of lubricant too!

[@fuad4159]

Finally i will learn how to properly start up my A320 on xplane. Thank you for creating this new service mentour👌

[@christopherjohnson3520]

Hello Commander & Captain Patxi! Amazing to see Hundreds of Jets parked out in the Desert. Old Domain of Chuck Yeager. Great Movie. “The Right Stuff”!!!! Thnx, CJ

[@44glove]

Hi Mentour, great video! It sparked a question: when it comes to end of service, how much of an aircraft can be recycled?

[@robertlombardi2228]

Excellent presentation very informative Appreciate the time and effort you put into your presentations.

[@georgecarney3083]

Thanks for the great story about the storage. I feel for the places like Mauritius which is a tropical island, they have a high moisture content. I wonder how they will overcome this problem?

[@demiangonzalezpetrich9166]

Hi Mentour!!! Amazing job as always. Could you explain VNAV and LNAV or other navigation systems in a video? if you haven't already (though i think a saw every single video in your channel).. Thanks a lot, and have an absolutely fantastic day!

[@Barabyk]

Alright, it took me whole two minutes to notice that Mentour’s sofa has NAV-cushion-lights.

[@BerndFelsche]

He's been approaching for quite a while now.

[@perjohnsen5048]

Even though i am a pilot myself i find your videos very interesting and educative. Keep up the good work!

[@jasamritpalsingh429]

Hello sir , i am avaiation lover. I watch ur every video, u r great sir. Nowdays m sad due to crisis .. alot of airplanes are grounded. Hopefully all be good in future . Ur all videos are very informative. A big thanks to u.

[@kapo2509]

I wonder what that puppy dog is thinking about lol

[@blackfriarsffc5232]

Well presented and very informative. Thanks for the video. Greetings from west coast of Canada.

[@anetaobtulovicova6800]

Your videos are amazing! Thanks so much for these insights :)

[@davidbailey4976]

A video containing a lot of interesting detail. Thank you. It almost sounds as though it would be cheaper simply to fly an aircraft for an hour each week, rather than disassemble parts of it for storage. Davis-Monthan USAF did a wonderful coach tour of their spares/boneyard air base, just along the road from Pima air museum in southern Az. Very interesting and very sad tour. Would you please consider videos on the APU and how it differs from the full sized engine plus how a turbo prop jet differs? Thanks again.

[@222akim]

Thank you man for what you do 💪🏽

[@binarybox.binarybox]

Always interesting videos...noticed your port & starboard cushions 8-)

[@PauldeSwardt]

This was very interesting - so it looks like with low fuel prices at the moment if I move planes around on short hops LGW-LUT for example - or even cheaper airports like London Southend I could keep my fleet airworthy and my pilots licensed just by running "ghost" flights?

[@thehowlingterror]

It was lovely and quiet.

[@Bill_Woo]

2:54 is one thing doesn't resonate, that there are not a parking space for each craft because there are always other aircraft flying that don't need a space. But not in the U.S.. The skies get pretty empty after 10 or 11 P.M., and many airports become ghost towns. And not very many are in another hemisphere where it's daytime. It seems that nearly the whole fleet is on the ground from around 11 P.M. to 4 A.M.

[@Bill_Woo]

Of course, I am referring to sane times. Things are currently insane, not just in aviation, March 2020.

[@slkgeothermal]

Great video- I never considered how the storage process worked. My thinking was more along the General Aviation way of storing your aircraft which is Park, Tie Down, Walk Away :-)

[@martinmukonje6739]

Great video, deep insights 👌👍

[@almafuertegmailcom]

I love to hear "stay tuned" on a KZbin video. It's one of those little words from the past whose original meaning is all but lost in modern technology. Like the floppy icon to save documents, or the phone icon in modern smartphones.

[@catscan64]

Great video as always.

[@a923ls]

Keep up the good work, gillar verkligen dina videos, lär mig något nytt varje gång :D

[@robertrpenny]

MP you forgot to mention the 400 or more Maxes that BA parked at Moses Lake WA. What is going on with those?