Taking your wife to work....777-300 Pilot VLOG DFW to LHR

[@ronclevenger]

I started a drinking game - a shot every time you say “ it is what it is”. I enter rehab tomorrow.😮

[@geekontheflightdeck]

I noticed that when I was editing. Hey it is what it is.

[@2ndAmendment-Jeffrey]

My favorite is "life is good" 😂

[@ubuntu6929]

I notice "Huh..." lol

[@devyn3621]

Keep the long videos coming Darren!

[@dgutte]

Love the longer videos! Another great one Darren, thanks for putting it together. Also, in terms of the McRib...... here in the UK it almost caused a national crisis about how bad they are. So many people looked forward to its return too.

[@jeremyowens121]

As always enjoyed the content!

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Thanks for watching!

[@jonbradshaw3385]

😂😂 keep the Yankees as far north as possible! I agree, and I live in Maine! However, my saving grace is that I did grow up in Texas, and love my visits back.

[@matthewneiman]

As someone who flies somewhere new and back every week for work, I love seeing what the flying life is like from the perspective of a pilot! Thanks for making these videos, and I for one appreciate the transparency of including the pay. I love the life of getting flown around to new places, and who knows, maybe I'll pick up the life of flying others around some day :)

[@josbren8943]

Thanks Darren. A little long but I still enjoyed it. Your the only one who makes videos like this. Keep it up!!

[@Adam_Gray]

Darren, it's pretty cool seeing and hearing the details from the front office flightdeck as a passenger, now knowing what those crazy holds inbound to LHR are all about. Thanks for adding the plates & charts too! C-yaaa!

[@francorocca528]

Hey Darren your videos are the best don't worry about length cuz I could be watching for a full hour and not even noticed, you always keep them interesting and please to watch. As I'm working towards the majors you always shows what I'm looking for between pilot lifestyle and family time.

[@carlosmontero782]

I enjoy the videos you produce, long or short.

[@Will-qo3xt]

It’s not too long ! I love the thoughtfulness ! Have a great day Darren ! Ty for the inspiration 🥹

[@markhellings1288]

Great work Darren, keep it up. The recreation of flights using the sim and talking through the approach and landing works really well.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tonespeaks]

@Darren Byrd -Geek On The Flight Deck Long Form videos are the best!!! For short form Tick Tok and shorts are the way to go. This view is unique and I have dual screens so I can watch while working. Love your show... keep them coming. You really gave an excellent view of the LHR approach, that was really nice. I haven't flown there myself, it is interesting to see what I will be up against.

[@theruralpastorsermons2504]

Darren, what a great video and length. Very informative and enjoyable for us aviation geeks.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for the kind words.

[@theruralpastorsermons2504]

@ I watch the 365 Live at LHR almost everyday before work. I’ve probably seen your plane land 😂

[@jayanthsr5843]

I’d watch your videos even if it was 3 hours long, keep it coming Darren!!

[@TheGeorgiaCop]

Great long form video. I’ve been watching your videos since the channel started but only just realized I wasn’t subscribed. Needless to say, liked, commented, and subscribed :)

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Appreciate the support!

[@chrisbungostudios]

The video length was appropriate to the amount of info you presented. Some videos will be long, some short and some in between. They're always enjoyable and informative, thanks for making these!

[@redskins5926]

Great video! Just found your channel, not sure how I missed it before but I'm subscribed now! I was a summer intern at AA a few years ago (at the old HQ building) and also non-rev'd on the same DFW-LHR round-trip, but unlike your buddy's wife I got middle economy seats both ways. Definitely fascinating to see the behind the scenes (and sim views) from the crew perspective, looking forward to more.

[@kylefriend6382]

I get excited when I see the video is 40+ minutes!

[@natemiller4186]

Love these videos! The detail in every aspect is amazing and motivates me along my aviation career journey!

[@2ndAmendment-Jeffrey]

You have a beautiful family! So happy for you! Great videos.

[@jasonluanacrawford9662]

Great video. I don’t mind the length you keep it interesting

[@DitsMerzthalBravo]

Amazing vid as always Darren!!!

[@66Bravoproductions]

Excellent videos Darren. Keep it up my brother. -Fellow AA'er

[@techandco.]

Great video ! Thanks ! Greetings from France !

[@CASBR1994]

Love the video! thank you for the time you put into this!

[@ubuntu6929]

long one, but I love the extra details! I feel like it gives me insight on my future! lol

[@prallen]

Thank you for another great video!

[@TazziedoesWT]

Dad and I tend to watch these together, he’s a check in trainer for G550’s and tends to do long routes like yourself but even with that, the same job per-say its still amazing how extremely different corporate aviation is from commercial.

[@CaptainBuzzBee]

Great video. It's fun to listen to LiveATC and watch FlightRadar 24 on the ground at DFW.

[@omally]

Not long at all, was on the edge of my seat Before you mentioned, I was thinking you were looking fit! Sorry your clothes are getting a little big... it is what it is!

[@abbasrizvi9389]

You have a great job and a lovely family!

[@charleswade4622]

Always enjoy your videos you could have gone an hour and a half i love every minute of it

[@BChandl13]

Long form content Darren wasn't on my 2024 bingo card but Im not mad

[@Simple_man_65]

Thanks Darren, another fine video! Appreciate it! 🛬 landed like butter!

[@Rmi_brandito]

Love the meta glasses! Hope to see some cockpit vid?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

I have to turn them off before departure. Not an option to have video while moving.

[@tompurvis1261]

Enjoyed the video just the way it is. Nice to have a conversation with you. You are so correct to complain about LHR. I avoid that at all costs. Last Europe trip was to Switzerland and we did FRA and drove to avoid LHR.

[@empxv]

I would have wanted to see the Amazon store. You took the perfect amount of time. Keep the blue side up.

[@nicktufano4605]

Great video! Length was no issue for me at all. Just a quick two cents on the face tracking: I thought it was great when you were seated and stationary. In the car it was a little quirky, maybe even slightly distracting as the camera tracks weirdly as the car turns and it tends to ride low, cutting off the top of your head. I know you said you were experimenting with it so I thought you might like some viewer insight. Thanks again for another good one!

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Appreciate the feedback on the face tracking. Will definitely keep that in mind for future videos. I need to play with the settings.

[@dong3544]

This was a great video. Now I have incentive to download PMDG's 777. Thanks!

[@spencerwalker8314]

I love the long videos. The explanation and demonstration of the approach into London was very good. I really found the HOLD quite fascinating. Can you show how to program the HOLD into the FMC with references to the Jeppesen chart? Also how to exit the hold would be very interesting! Thx for the vids.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

I will try and incorporate that soon . Thanks for the kind words

[@jimmclendon5404]

On Netflix , two of the best movies/series , since you seem to be a person with a sense of humor , are Unfrosted and Resident Alien. For those of us who have never been to England your video provides insight. I see new things that maybe you are accustomed to ,yet in each video I learn something.

[@leephelaan]

This is a great way to show your trip, seeing you operate flight simulator.

[@joshuasmith1813]

love the longer vids keep it up

[@captaingeeb3592]

shout out to the band parents! you guys are the realest.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Being a band parent is a second job.

[@deniswxyz]

Looks like they always send you to London…. Hehe

[@tortozza]

You should go to LCY next time you're in London

[@adrianromero1607]

Love the blue glasses. They go very well with your face. What is a landing credit? Curious. Google has too many different answers.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Thanks. They are one of my top 6

[@AntoinneBarnes]

hey Darren, thank you for your Vlogs I find them very interesting and you're engaging without being annoying! quick question for you.... I've heard many longhaul pilots mention "getting the landing". why is this important? thanks!

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Thank you. We have to have 3 landings every 90 days to stay current/legal. If we fail to do so (I had this happen recently) we can't fly again until we get current via the simulator.

[@XX-166]

Great work.. how about showing the walk arounds outside the aircraft while pointing out some of the working mechanisms and also the moving map while you’re taxiing from the stand to the point of takeoff. 😎

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Thank you. Can’t show actual plane on walk around or the moving map edge but maybe a sim version.

[@debbyconnor9498]

Similar call signs happen occasionally. That is why the President's plane is called Air Force One when it is an US Air Force plane. There was some confusion with the similar call sign with another plane. Interesting fact that prior to the streets being blocked off for the presidential motorcade, president Ford's limo was hit by a driver on October 15, 1975.

[@lesterleonard8750]

Darren, I love your videos, great to be able to travel with you from our home. You are great with details about your content in and out of the plane so keep doing what you are doing, take care from the US Veteran

[@Zaylaci-x3k]

fun fact: Its not ai at those amazon stores. Its bunch of people watching camera feeds and charging you accordingly lol

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Yeah they are making the final decision.

[@MrSuperjam10]

Nope videos not too long keep them coming please sir

[@seagullsbtn]

I'm spoilt by my short flights to London from Boston.

[@j700jam4]

Although you can fly the 777-200 and 300 with the same type rating there seems to be quite a lot of differences between the flying of them both.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

There’s small differences in the flight deck with the 300 having better weather radar, integrated clock, higher flap speeds and, for my airline, a newer CPDLC software. As far as flying they are a little different landing.

[@stephenroze6258]

Hey Darren, just did my first intro flight over the weekend. Absolutely loved it, buttttt I ended up getting nausea and threw up.. Do you eventually get over being motion sickness during training??? it was only when we did the 45 degree bank turns and kill the engine and nose decent is what got me

[@geekontheflightdeck]

It should go away. Check your diet, stay hydrated. Should get better

[@masonjones3780]

Hey Darren. Why are there restrictions on takeoffs and landings? Examples of why speed or altitudes?

[@ritchieb1612]

Hey Darren, How is it someone jr. out of base get in before you? I'm really confused 😕 anyways brother always good too see you and your family keeping well!! Really cool this format showing the in's and out's of your pilot life😉 I believe your a great pilot.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

There were Miami based. Miami is much much more junior than DFW. I can easily be a line holder in Miami. The order of assignments has any line holder preference/bid before any reserve.

[@ritchieb1612]

I remember you talking somewhat about those willing to fly to another base. I get why your not for any of this. too much time wasted and energy when you could be doing with your kinfolk

[@000siggy]

Can you set up a vnav profile that will couple with the auto throttles?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

In a video? I can try and show that. Works fairly well most of the time.

[@000siggy]

@@geekontheflightdeck oh I was just curious to see in the real world scenario if the 777 will do that. In my Challenger 605 that is how we set it up mostly.

[@000siggy]

@@geekontheflightdeck Cool videos! Thanks for taking the time to make them.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Ah yeah it’s all tied together. Set crossing restrictions and planned descent speed.

[@colinpotter7764]

Once you are past 030W it becomes autumn, not fall.

[@abingdonboy]

Yeah never heard any European ATC make us aware of a similar sounding callsign even though that happens a LOT, worse still they confuse us all the time with our sister airline and often confuse themselves (and us) if we are operating in the same airspace

[@TheGeorgiaCop]

What is a line holder?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

A crew member with a set schedule. They know exactly what flights they are flying and on what days for the entire month.

[@TheGeorgiaCop]

@@geekontheflightdeck Cool, thanks Darren!

[@kristoftakacs8056]

Hey Darren if you wanted to fix the funny textures on the runway you have to delete the 3D photogrammetry for the US. I hope this helps :D

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Thanks. I’ll try that. I had the “pink building” issue which I fixed then this happened. I love Xplane. Ha

[@jaboozie9685]

Is it common at major airports to get those abbreviated taxi instructions. Let’s say you were based out of JFK and did a dfw turn how would you learn of the specific abbreviated taxi instructions?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

We’re expected to be familiar. Many airports have abbreviated taxi instructions. They are in the airport diagram charts. I will say it’s rare to get them at a non hub. For example they won’t likely tell Delta 17R Bridge because it’s not their home/hub

[@jaboozie9685]

@ Thanks for the reply Darren

[@noahbrown8697]

Tell your wife Go Green! I am a sophomore at MSU in Biomed Engineering!

[@geekontheflightdeck]

She taught me early on the “good” Michigan and the “bad” Michigan and to respond “Go white!”

[@ArnoldAaron]

By the way Darren, in the London TMA, transition altitude is 6,000ft, so you wudda been cleared down to FL140, (and not 14,000) as shown on the chart SIRIC @ FL140. I know it's easy to forget here in Europe that it's not 18,000. By the way...absolutely LOVE the fact you're reconstructing your flights in Microsoft flight simulator - that PMDG 777 is spot on! Keep these amazing vids coming!

[@geekontheflightdeck]

I go back and forth between 14000 and Flight Level. I know they are different. It’s my ignorance I struggle with

[@HalvorJ]

Hey Darren, thanks for the great video! What is the reason you usually use flaps 30 on the -300, but use flaps 25 on the -200?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Flaps 30 in the 300 for better speed control and tail strike protection (lower deck angle)? Flaps 25 in the 200 for less fuel use/lower noise and easier to make a smooth landing. Also the 200 has lower flap speeds so it’s easier to do 160 to a 4 mile final flaps 25.

[@HalvorJ]

@ thank you very much!

[@AnApacheMedjai]

Do y’all burn more or less fuel on the continuous decent approach into LHR, vs a normal approach into any other airport?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

It would be less from the hold to the runway but almost always having to hold eats up the fuel savings

[@AnApacheMedjai]

@@geekontheflightdeckwould it be possible to do continuous descent approaches at other airports that do normal approaches or would that frustrate ATC in America?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Possible. There are some RNP approaches that involve continuous descents.

[@zk9058]

Wait…..u start engine 1 first? I always thought in the 777 you start engine 2 first followed by engine 1.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

I heard the 737 does that. The Airbus and 777 at the airline I work for do 1 then 2. It doesn’t really matter on the 777 as we taxi with both.

[@Shamagantu]

Dress in layers. Sweater, jacket...

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Sweaters are bulky. Limited luggage space.

[@ibraheemnabeel]

Lots of ignorant folks out there calls these well simulated airplanes "video games" yet they wouldn't have no idea on how to configure, program the FMC or even remotely do anything with any of these airlines. Hats off PMDG and all other devs for putting 1000s of hours into developing and mimicking those aircrafts.

[@user-wf9sx8oi1r]

why no have cockpit video

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Forbidden at the airline I work for

[@ellisf.1172]

Staying ready vs getting ready. Great advice on how not to be nervous for a check ride. 🫡

[@neshanthkuppuswamy2096]

How was oceanic able to see the flight deck instruments in the Virgin 50 fiasco?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

ADS function. They can see what we have selected on our Mode Control Panel.

[@neshanthkuppuswamy2096]

@@geekontheflightdeck Awesome! So thats ADS - C then I assume instead of B?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

@@neshanthkuppuswamy2096 That is outside of my technical knowledge sorry

[@leonsnow1457]

All white, fly all night. 2 red, 2 white….just right.

[@robertthomas2032]

Is there any particular team that you like to use on Madden?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

I was Cowboys for years because they are the “home team”. I currently play as Charlotte because I’m odd.

[@TM-nu5vd]

Something sounds odd with your system -- how can someone junior to you get the FRA trip ahead of you - especially out of base? Is it because he/she is a line-holder and that is a higher preference?

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Correct. Line holder goes before reserve preference.

[@sirjasonakana]

So are pilots issued company cell phones, or did the captain just know your number

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Good question. We can opt in to share our phone number with other pilots, but Check Pilots can always see our phone number.

[@sirjasonakana]

@@geekontheflightdeckI was in law enforcement, some agencies issue every sworn officer/deputy a work cell so that victims/witnesses/suspects can call you, every coworker is aware of that issued number…. Most often we all knew each others personal numbers as well….so if communication was work related we’d use the work number, if it was personal we’d use the personal number….thanks for replying so fast….. also i used to play castle wolfenstein as a kid

[@life.with.sabine]

One of the flights should have been alphanumeric to avoid the confusion.

[@geekontheflightdeck]

Different airlines. How do you pick? The airline I work for only has alphanumeric when it’s the same flight number operating a day later

[@j700jam4]

You'll be buying real estate in London soon

[@kennyfleas]

As you lose weight, you will get colder.