COCKPIT - Boeing 737 Pilot Throttle Inputs during Landing

[@Hopeless_and_Forlorn]

Over forty + years in airline maintenance, I lost track of the number of trips I spent on the cockpit jump seat watching the crew do their things. Most interesting was the infinite care the pilot flying uses to handle a heavily-loaded aircraft, both on the ground and in flight. It was common to see a pilot use left-right, tiny, millimeter movements to adjust the throttles to maintain an exact airspeed or change in altitude. On approach and landing, movements of all controls become larger and faster, sometimes to extremes. Unless the passengers can see some of the flight controls from their seat, they are never aware of it. It is a good thing that video cameras are now sharing the views.

[@pnaylor666]

Nice! It would have been cool to see air speed in a small window too.

[@davidplatt4737]

Agreed, I only watched the video to see at what altitude he brought the throttles back to idle at, so seeing the airspeed would have been helpful too.

[@JupiterMan12.000]

Nice View of the Throttles

[@pilotpawanc]

A very rare but nice view of the cockpit.

[@DatamasterCorporation]

Wow that was a very smooth landing

[@aboed1974]

Very interesting

[@BipulKumar-lp1zs]

Happy landing

[@markcardwell]

Nice manual landing

[@j.jayaprakash-l5u]

confident hands

[@brianmckillop5017]

We just love anything to do with aviation

[@Waylander131]

Excellent video! Can you tell if the pilot pull reversers all the way up, or they use some middle position? I heard Boeing does not recommend max reverese thrust, but I've never seen how far up the levers go.

[@beastboss90]

Stefan D we have (on the 737) 3 detents for reversers. Idle, second (about 74 to 76 % N1) and max reverse. In my airline we often use the second one to help brake cooling during turnarounds (on dry runways) or if we need more stopping power. Also little "fun fact" , if left in idle detent, after approx 2 to 3 second the ground idle will activate and you'll notice (also in this video) that reverse n1 will go down from "flight idle" to "ground idle" which is a lot lower

[@steffenleo5997]

more nice if we can see clearly N1 thrust setting in % on EICAS Display when these video were taken...but anyway thank you so much for such short but very helpful video......👍👍

[@sailaab]

The left hand alone flared the big jumbo. Wish there was another video or a synchronised split view of .. when and how much flare was added at what speed and what throttle settings.

[@lszhspotter]

Stunning video mate!

[@michaelciccone2194]

It would nice to see pedels bring used

[@thejoyofflying182]

Awesome Angel :) Thank you :)

[@sharonhopton5685]

Angle!

[@thejoyofflying182]

@@sharonhopton5685 correct!

[@SkyWayMan90]

Do it for Airbus next 😉

[@nickhedges5152]

Amazing!

[@pedrofernando8336]

Can someone tell me please what's that whinnie noise when the spoilers deploy???? I have this question for a long time ...

[@blake9908]

the noise is from a motor moving the handle.

[@Boeingspotter1]

Very nice video with good quality! How does one get the opportunity to fly in the front seats? I've always been curious.

[@solomonpilot2510]

AFTER 911 IT IS HARD UNLESS U JUMP SEAT,WHICH U HAVE 2 BE A PILOT. TYPE ETHIOPIAN COCKPIT VIEW AND ENJOY MY CLIP THE CAPTAIN WAS ONE OF FAMILY MEMBER SO I WAS IN THE JUMP SEAT RECORDING THE EVENT !

[@chickentakeover2076]

Solomon Pilot No need to be aggressive

[@manuelaverhagen2865]

Awesome :) But did they make an go-around prior to this landing? Only 2.6 tons of fuel on board :P

[@yolsclassics6347]

Manuela Verhagen could be a short hop

[@PlanesWeekly]

Nope, we did not go around. Just a short 1 hour flight. Well spotted though!

[@yolsclassics6347]

PlanesWeekly just as i thought (:

[@manuelaverhagen2865]

Ahhh thanks for the answer :)

[@Nicholas-ob5eh]

Ryan Air?

[@AileronVideos]

Interesting video, thanks for sharing :) Like!

[@TheDragonFlyerAviation]

amazing video :)

[@pradeepvenkat7619]

Why are the flaps at 0

[@alienchaser1495]

Hard job to control it

[@แคทรียาหมวกศรี]

How does the speed break get pull back automaticly

[@ПавелАнтонович-б1ь]

the speedbrake lever is positioned to ARM during the approach, so that it will move to UP automatically upon touchdown

[@michaelk8711]

Why only 15 degrees of flaps on landing?

[@Larry_Harvilla]

I checked all of the major controls on the panel, and they were using flaps 30 and autobrakes 3 the whole time.

[@emmcee476]

I had the same question as I was watching this for the first time. Then I noticed the detent is in fact set at 30

[@gabriel737800]

What is that sound at 0:49 before the nose touchdown? All 737s make that noise at landing.

[@gordo1163]

I believe it's the sound of the thrust reverse being pulled back. You can see "rev" in yellow pop up above the engine guages.

[@gabriel737800]

@@gordo1163 the sound of the reverse levers happens a bit before that sound, it seems another thing, maybe the thrust interlock being deployed?

[@sergeytsygankov]

Thank you so much for the video! Very interesting! Ok, this is the idle reverse thrust if I understand correctly. So to engage the idle reverse you move reverse thrust levers to the interlock spot position, but I wonder - is it physically the same position as so called Detent No.1? And Detend 2 would be full reverse thrust which I love as a passenger but currently it is not used every time on landings.

[@EliseuZueiroBR]

50 40 30 20 10 Spoilers armed Reverses normal

[@EmilSvitek]

Speedbrakes Up*

[@djbxrry8416]

was he on his phone during the landing😂😂

[@rrttyy11229]

15 flaps landing?

[@ciri151]

30. You can see the pin that sits in the groove next to 30

[@emmcee476]

​@@ciri151yes. I had to watch this more than once to notice that 😊

[@kepitingsalto_]

Low of fuel yeah

[@kepitingsalto_]

@Hawker75 looks like just 1.tons each gas tank

[@emmcee476]

Where is the fuel gauge?

[@danniepushkin5849]

MOST BEAUTIFUL throttle quadrant of any modern airliner! But then again, every detail of 737s cockpit is more beautiful than any modern airliner. It's a Bentley of the air!.... And the Airbus is well... the bus, with cockpit covered in plastic panels hastily put together by, what seems like, underpaid Chinese children.

[@visionist7]

Yeah that's why the Airbus is most at home in... the air whilst the Boeing Max 8 flies for a maximum of 8 minutes