MAX'd Out Weather in the 737 MAX

[@jjsifo1]

This is turning out to be one of the best aviation channels, I'm a retired maritime patrol Pilot and I can tell you are a great asset to your Airline.

[@clearlycaribbeanreb7176]

I fly southwest all the time and always stuck my head into the cockpit looking for Big Ern 👍

[@clearlycaribbeanreb7176]

Ern, Columbus Glenn CMH is my home airport and SW and a decent presence here. You ever make it this far East from Sky Harbor?

[@flaps4038]

Me too I do the same!

[@MHortonIII]

Thank you for these vlogs! Becoming an airline pilot has been a dream of mine since I was in middle school. I left the military, I’m 27 years old and just starting school and when school gets frustrating I come to your videos for inspiration….so THANK YOU 🙏🏾 these videos make a difference.

[@albertomoreno993]

Captain Mike seems cool and easy going guy, and interaction between you two. Happy flying!

[@willhyde3]

My favorite youtuber by a long shot! Thanks for all the great vids ern!

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Appreciate that👍🏽

[@kevincole2484]

I’m starting flight lessons for my PPL on January 31st at KSUS… you’ve been a huge inspiration to me!! Hopefully I’ll be your FO in a few years

[@brendand7948]

Wow small world! I’m doing my Solo portion of my PPL at KSUS. It’s amazing man you’ll have a great time. See ya in the skies soon

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

I’d be honored!👍🏽. Congrats!

[@RomansFiveDotEight]

Hey! Where did you do your training at Spirit? How did it go, by the way?

[@kevincole2484]

@@RomansFiveDotEight Howdy! I did my PPL Training at Elite Aviation. Can't recommend them enough, phenomenal flight school with well-maintained C172's. I passed my checkride in August and have 110 hours now! Currently working on my Instrument rating at KCPS at the moment

[@RomansFiveDotEight]

@@kevincole2484 Cool! Did you have any interactions with ATP while you were there? I see their airplanes out quite a bit.

[@alrcfn80]

Big Ern, I was a fueler and in inclimate weather I always gave an extra 1,500 lbs so you would have takeoff fuel when departing. In SNA, the first flight of the day always got extra fuel. Always got a thank you from the flight crew for looking out for them. 🙂

[@mateeenkhalatbari2664]

Ive watched alot of pilot perspective videos and this was one of the best POVs ever. the things you show are so sick but you do it so casually.

[@mateeenkhalatbari2664]

Its like im on FaceTime or somthing

[@julianserna393]

best videos on youtube man! I am always looking forward to your videos! Cheers from Lubbock (KLBB) and also comgrats on your new TESLA

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Thank you Julian! Another great SWA city!

[@hellfighter4135]

Great video as always! Just flew the MAX for the first time recently from HOU to MDW. Nice plane! Seemed much quieter than the 700 series.

[@johnfig505]

Great video as usual, really enjoy your dedication , Thank You

[@williamgriffis8733]

Another awesome video Big Ern! Fly safe and keep spreading that Southwest cheer!!

[@jamiecloud1897]

I don't know all that much about Teslas, but I will pass on the following: the HOA for my townhouse community does not allow Teslas to be charged inside the garage. Charging stations have to be mounted outside on the driveway because of the risk of fire while charging. Though the risk is small, fire has been known to occur, and there would be nothing worse than having your beautiful home go up in flames.

[@1derol]

Thank you for the "Jumpseat Pass" as always. Sounds like hiring is going well and air travel is revving up again.

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Thanks Tony! Yup hot and heavy on the hiring front. Let’s pray it continues🙏🏽

[@gordocooper5324]

Nice, love your iPad and all the info it gives, especially the live enroute wx

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@CanuckFlyer]

Excellent video. PHX is a nice airport. Sam's Diner on the south side is always great for quick-turn lunches.

[@rrrrrrtt1]

Cool video, Big Ern!!!

[@toro8star]

Thank you for your time and explaining the fly procedures!!! I'm glad you survived the cold Denver temperatures!!!😁😁 De-iceing a plane is interesting procedure. It never snows here in south Florida!!!

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

And that’s why I love Florida👍🏽

[@Cali_909]

I just love the cockpit perspective you give. No other channels do this. Thank you so much!!! 😊

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@eddiepaez605]

Exaclty! So cool to see what actually goes on in there other than naps, donuts and coffee!

[@justtheguy27]

This was such a nice video! Very informative and I learned so much. Always love Boeing planes!

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnjames8707]

Great video -15 degree temperature in Minnesota wind -25 cold

[@bradyeverett9225]

Huge Tesla fan, huge aviation fan, huge America fan. Ur one of my favourite channels at this point. Super cool dude. Thanks for sharing your life with us, it's an inspiration.

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Much appreciated!

[@TommyG11814]

Good stuff Ern.

[@Airplaneobseesed9937]

Woah that is a super cool max. Thx for posting awesome videos

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Thanks for watching!

[@MadeInNewYork73]

SO GLAD TO FIND U! Buffalo girl in Colorado...and a Tesla, too! Great find. New sub 😃 Yep..get MAX's out of both DEN & Colo Spgs 🙂🙂🙂😘

[@jones68442]

KDEN, my home airport! Always exciting.

[@blessedmom3599]

You are talking about NC RDU weather. Coat in the am not in the afternoon. We were at work taking selfies in the Sunrise and it’s snowing an hour later. Lol

[@aquipn]

You'd make an excellent captain..your demeanor and attitude is how I'd love to be..I wish you clear skies and many more happy landings.. FO 787

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Appreciate that👍🏽. Cheers!

[@viktorbarkovski2226]

Good to see you again Big Ern! Little update, I have 5.1 hours under the belt and I made my first landing! It was rough with a bounce but we made it! (Rip landing gear) definitely having fun and learning a lot!! Any study tips from the pro?

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Awesome!!! Congrats! Keep learning my friend. We all were in your shoes. Keep up the great work👍🏽

[@737MaxPilot]

That plane you were on, I flew it’s first flight out of storage…almost a year to the day prior to this video.

[@dinostudios6579]

Enjoy your Tesla! My family has a 2012 Tesla Model S which still runs great. Such a good car. Some advice I have is to set the battery not to charge fully if you don’t need it. We have ours set to charge to 50% because we don’t normally need more than that. It helps increase battery longevity. So if all you do most of the time is just take it to the airport or just around your local area you can set it to charge to a lower setting and charge it to full whenever you need to drive longer distances.

[@limoman23]

Another great video! Hope to cross paths with ya one day at terminal or onboard.

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Maybe one day!

[@PhilipAlonzo]

Big ern dawg whats up luv the videos

[@tomiokakanrafire]

betiful movie thank you

[@privelegec2012]

Awesome Sir

[@TB-um1xz]

I always wondered why the 73 has the Hud. On the 747, we don't have a hud, but we still do CAT III approaches.

[@MrGyngve]

Yeah, but you do CATIIIA, B or C? The HUD makes the difference between a 0-RVR 50ft DH minima and a 0-0 (if I am not mistaken) for a two AP aircraft (and you have three!). But of course if your SOP (OM) is to be more strict and considering the fact that you rarely need that low of a minima, I would bet that the HUD is money spent not for the sake of increased chances of landing, but for safety..? I know that a LCC like Ryanair has left them out as they dont see the cost/benefit of having them. EDIT: The 737 also has a fail operational vs fail passive autoland-system. I figured the 747 is much like the 767 in that if you lose one of the three, you revert to CATII, and divert if that happened prior to entering 1000ft AGL.

[@TB-um1xz]

@@MrGyngve we can do cat 3 degraded before going to cat 2.

[@scotty11782]

Thanks FlyingwithBigErn

[@avation7875]

Nice video

[@geno8154]

Hey Ernie! Stumbled across your channel and can't get enough. It's so entriguing to me(non pilot) to watch all the hard work that goes into commercial flying. You make it look easy. Do you fly into LAX?

[@samdogsam11]

the weather in denver seems like a summer day. where i live we had a month from the middle of december to basically the middle of Jan of -31 Fahrenheit. always enjoy watching your videos, keep up the great work.

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Wow! I wouldn’t survive there😁

[@AaronHarberg]

Actually flying on Alaska to Orlando MCO in July on a MAX 9! It’ll be the first time for me.

[@LCTeam2011]

N8802Q was my first MAX ride!

[@notboeingnotgoing5483]

Great to see all of the 73 Max' back at it, shocked that Allegiant is getting them. As you can tell from my handle I dont fly aircraft that "have tray tables"...always good to see more Boeing AC in use. From all of us on the 74-8's from Big Brown "safe flying"....nice car, that Tesla rental paid off

[@blessedmom3599]

Hey! I don’t understand everything you are saying but I’m enjoying listening and watching!! Godspeed!!

[@joevermeulen8324]

Great video. It was minus 40C here for a few weeks in December. Minus 6 is shorts weather ;). Greetings from Canada from a Canadian Dispatcher :)

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Oh wow! Yeah I’d freeze to death😁

[@sirjasonakana]

Thanks for another great video

[@texasfan3345]

Love the video. Great job

[@talklasvegas]

We fly south west from cmh to Las often. I always say "tell big Ern I said hello" lol.

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Ha! Appreciate that👍🏽

[@scottjacobs1072]

Ernie Congratulations on the Tesla Model 3. I see you still have your garage door opener. Just program Homelink on your car and you don’t need it anymore. You can also program garage door to open automatically when you arrive at driveway …. As well as close Which model 3 did you get? In any case the smooth fast acceleration never gets old. No more fuel stations. Enjoy!!!!!

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Thanks Scott! Yes I need to do that. Such a rookie but I’m learning👍🏽. I got the dual motor.

[@ItsCoreyLynxxYall]

The paint looks fresh. It hasn't been in service long.

[@tomjones3113]

Love watching your videos. Is southwest going to receive MAX 7s this year.?

[@buckbuchanan5849]

Enjoyed! May LUV will eventually let you video the “during flight” segments!

[@mattthompson8487]

"Anyways this is not a car 🚘channel this is a flying channel so hey lets get to work!" **cuts to airplane** that was funny. Nice video LOVVVVE the SWA MAX!

[@tyson2496]

From a little north of Denver, that freezing drizzle was no fun.

[@JG-bi3he]

You made flying with Southwest even more exciting now😊✈️

[@michaelfeather7343]

I was working that day in Den. I was de icing. Not for you, United with cabs instead of open buckets. A lot better and warmer.

[@DG38594]

Really like those Teslas!! Hope you enjoy it! And you are absolutely correct on Denver weather..it's ridiculously cold there in winter lol

[@Edizzle15]

Not really. Moved to monument in ‘91 and Denver is really pretty mild…although not compared to AZ.

[@Micslmn]

Best car you’ll ever own, I love it. Congrats again and welcome to the Tesla family!

[@habbsterr]

Great video as usual. Question, noticed that when you did the initial walk around in PHX, it looked like the landing lights and beacon were on? If so, why?

[@jamesgardner578]

Gotta have them on to check if they work I’d assume

[@thecomedypilot5894]

It's Southwest's procedure, you check to see if the lights are working.

[@Spartan5685]

Wait… so Max's are considered safe again? What did they do about only a single sensor feeding MCAS? Did they add multiple sensors?

[@trevorlittle7776]

Hey! Wondering what jacket you have on in this video!?

[@jamesgardner578]

Denver is forever bumpy going in even on a good day

[@reutzelfred]

Great channel

[@davidstafford4621]

Maybe I'm early but I saw where someone was congratulations on you upgrading from fo to capt. Hope you will still continue your videos.

[@d.jensen5153]

Three of my kids are doing PHX to HNL in a Max 8, soon. Hope you're their co-pilot!

[@NovejSpeed3]

Fantastic!!! Question is it me or is their more leg room on your Max's? I know I post it everytime but my goodness what a nice ride those Max's are!!! SN I love the boxy LED lights they use too. Those suckers are super bright!

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

I think they’re all the same. Just not 100% sure though. Good question👍🏽

[@NovejSpeed3]

@@FlyingwithBigErn so the Max 8 and 737-800 have 32 inches of pitch vs 31 inches used on your 737-700s according to your airline's website.

[@bilyonarelifestile2226]

they are similar. only that the max is inherently unstable and should have been scrapped. Death trap. One computer error away from the plane flying itself into the ground.

[@Matt028414]

Hey Big Ern I’m a ramp agent in Denver looking forward to seeing you

[@belugast]

I live in Oslo, Norway - every other car is a Telsa and many driven by grandma´s / grandpa´s, every day car here not a racer! ;o)

[@Ryanboy2020]

Ern, great jacket! Is there some place I can get one?

[@josesantizo4432]

I flew southwest 737-MAX8 HOU-LAX and we had to de ice 01-17-2022

[@mabefreeman9375]

HOLAAAAA!!! SALUDOS Y BENDICIONES DESDE MEXICO

[@joelt4416]

Great video as always. Someday I hope to cross paths w you and fly with you. MCO F/A here. :)

[@wnmech6495]

Nice that they put you in an almost new MAX it’s a shame they did an equipment swap in Denver. The MAX is a sweet plane.

[@jamesgardner578]

Hmm you can program the horn

[@jamesgardner578]

What is a cat 3

[@DrMason-es7bh]

A cat 3 or category 3 is a type of runway approach when landing. It’s an ILS approach that most pilots use when visibility is bad due to dense fog. You might have heard Ernie say they wanted to avoid a go around which can happen due to dense fog. So in a cat 3 the aircraft shoots the approach because of the low visibility and the decision heights are lower in a cat 3 than a cat 2 or other approach.

[@jamesgardner578]

@@DrMason-es7bh oh ok cool thank you

[@DrMason-es7bh]

Let me also add that I’m not a pilot. I’m just a avgeek.

[@jamesgardner578]

@@DrMason-es7bh same here

[@LeftyWriterTx]

I live SE of HOU so I get to watch lots of traffic when y'all fly the southern STAR approaches. I'm guessing a 31 arrival more than 04?

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

It seems I get a different runway each time😁. Keeps it interesting but if I had to guess I land on 4 mostly👍🏽

[@deadwood97]

Leaving your house at 8:00 for an 8:30 check in… lucky!

[@FlyingwithBigErn]

Ha! It was part of our decision to live there. Has to be close to the airport😁

[@census3370]

You can download a horn into your Tesla. Download the fasten seatbelt sign 😭

[@mckeeboys8929]

Is Southwest planning on painting a 737 Max in the Classic Retro Livery once the -700 is fully retired

[@shem4753]

You should have tried lucid air.it is a nice car:)

[@AaronHarberg]

Just read Southwest is bringing in more 737 MAX 7 and 8 aircraft from Boeing while preparing to retire some older NG airplanes. Enjoy the newer planes Ern! And keep doing these videos, love watching your channel!

[@ianallen1948]

Very long day! Can you guys do GLS in the max?

[@tallishyeti2756]

Sharp looking jacket. Does SWA issue those? If not, where can I get one?

[@tmck6490]

Hi! first let me say i do enjoy your vids, very informative. Thanks!! I'm here in the UK originally from Barbados. I've started my ATPL and hoping to some hour building in the US. Any suggestions or recommendations in flight school in Arizona?

[@bernardkennedyIV]

Ernie, are you still utilizing the StrongBags Helix Pro suitcase for your multiple day trips?

[@drew8979]

The skiing and the summers are worth living in Colorado that's how I do it lol

[@kushalraj]

Do aircraft on the ground use ground power or run the APU’s?

[@stackspilot]

Question, how do you combat war discomfort on the plane. Do pilots wear earplanes, or some type of ear plug?

[@TUKUMZ]

Good stuff. Thanks for taking us along. A few times I thought Obama was in the right seat. Tee it high and let it fly!

[@jakebradley7701]

That jacket looks sweet af

[@neshanthkuppuswamy2096]

Curious, your deicing at Denver and the reroute into KHOU obviosuly used more fuel than what was planned, does dispatch send you another release which increases the fuel quantity to account for the deicing? And obviously they didn't predict the reroute so I assume your contingency fuel held up for that right?

[@Omar-iy3il]

Hi there what is the youngest age to be a pilot after your graduate from flight training school and how long does a type rating last after flight school completion 😊

[@Mrmartinnico]

Hey! Just wondering, don't you guys use protective ear covers / reflective vests on the platform? We do have to use them every time we get off the aircraft to perform the Walkaround as per airline policy. Greetings from Chile 😁

[@JujuSPDC]

What’s the max thrust on the MAX 27K.?

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

i love the 73-800 its one of my favs, my goal is to get through training , earn my licenses including commercial so i can fly that bad boy, my ultimate goal is to fly the 73, and the triple 7, and or the 78, if for some reason i cant, id be just as happy flying regionals, or corporate / business jets

[@dangrass]

did you fly the Max before it was pulled? Any comments on the whole Max safety issue thing?

[@donjones4372]

Haven’t answered me yet on honor flight on 19th MAF

[@keithhughes9992]

What is sqwark?

[@porscheblake61]

Hello, love the channel and appreciate you sharing all the knowledge… curious, what makes a SWA Max ETOPS or not? I assumed that SW ordered all their maxes the same, so they would all be ETOPS but that is obviously not the case, thanks!

[@Stepclimb]

For all airlines, ETOPS aircraft require more frequent maintenance actions and are therefore more expensive to own/operate . Details can be found in 14 CFR 121.374 Because they have higher fixed costs to operate, airlines don’t usually operate any more ETOPS aircraft than they need to. ETOPS aircraft are equipped with HF radios, SATCOM data and voice links radios and have rafts in the cabin that are normally not required on non-ETOPS aircraft.

[@porscheblake61]

@@Stepclimb thank you!

[@Slyze33]

Hi, how is it that not all max aircrafts are ETOPS? Aren't they supposed to get the same engines ?