What happens if you OPEN the cockpit window?!

I made this video to further explain why the cockpit window can be opened, if it can be opened in flight and what would happen if you do.
Enjoy my friends and continue to ask me questions!

[@2006mct42]

In 1990 a British Airways Flight 5390 Captain, named Tim Lancaster was sucked out of the window at 23000 feet when the window glass broke midair causing explosive depressurization. The Captain's shoes got stuck in the yoke which prevented him from being lost. The crew members also held his legs. The copilot immediately lowered the plane and did an emergency landing at the nearest airport, while the crew kept holding the captain's legs. Although they believed him to be dead, they didn't let him go to prevent the risk of him being sucked into an engine or do other damage to plane. But actually he was found alive, got treated, recovered and returned to business few months later. The cause of the accident was a faulty replacement of the glass window ordered by that very captain before that very flight.

[@amahlaka]

i dont know why, but the sound of opening the window was so satisfying

[@mrtffatr]

I appreciate your videos so much! I don't want to become a pilot, I want to be an engineer. But your videos still give me so much important insight in how things work in and around the plane. Thank you very, very much for it!

[@aadrit5]

You know it right that you are the most good KZbinr who explains about planes and pilots in detail.Thanks for that!

[@tim3609]

I really like this kind of video. Besides, showing the escape rope would be difficult in a simulator. Please continue filming in the cockpit as it brings your videos to a new level of realism making them easier to understand.

[@aaronwilliamson1720]

Thanks for the video Mentour! Very much appreciated as always

[@TypowyFelope]

Fantastic video as always! Damn I'm still waiting for my PPL exams session at ULC! These guys are more busy then NASA :D

[@faithcecelia4369]

Don't lean too far out of the window, don't want another Tim Lancaster experience! Thanks for your videos, I am nowhere near your target audience but I still enjoy watching them.

[@davisstalazs]

Very interesting video. That bubble is suprise for me, I would like to try that!!!

[@MrPll577]

You are amazing! I love your videos!!!

[@Gabriel-ki3ht]

you are simply the very best pilot on youtube how is describing every single detail .. thats something i really love! i will surely buy your mentor 360 app! i wish you a very good evening and wish you all the best! :)

[@jakestravellife7743]

I like the videos inside the real cockpit! Can you do more please!

[@chrisshawpilot]

LOVE THE SHORT VIDEOS!

[@archieslann9465]

I love your videos I want to be a pilot so there is so much info in ur vids

[@pietstrauss8031]

Always interesting and informative. Thank you. Question: Where does the air inside an aircraft at high altitude come from?

[@phillysub5115]

learning a lot of cool things about flying and planes

[@mariushelland342]

Interesting video! Have a great day :)

[@bobbietim1693]

Thanks for videos, have a question, what is inside the nose cone of aeroplane?

[@ziggy8911]

perfect answer

[@asiskamboj7879]

heY MENTOUR ur videos r just amazing and these r really helpful thanks buddy for that...... just wana ask u that how long does the job of a pilot stays ??? means how many yeaes we can work as a pilot?

[@MrTrainFrog]

Which airlines do you fly for, love your videos!

[@williamherrera1496]

good to know this things

[@Tranefine]

I remember an accident of a British Airways flight back in the early 90s. The cockpit window of a BAC1-11 broke because of a too thinly bolt. The captain was pulled out while cabine crew members hold his feet. The F/O landed the aeroplane safely.

[@pirexengaer]

Great videos!! Is this a 737??

[@Warriorking.1963]

LOL... for some reason, I now have this image of Petter whizzing along at 35000 feet, window open, one hand on the wheel - or yoke in this case - with his elbow out the window! 😂

[@kevinconneely3183]

do you get traning on how to safely get down the rope or do you just have to hope for the best.

[@rsobbbubbs]

I used to work for a certain (now defunct) African cargo airline - one story that sticks in my mind is of a time when, mid takeoff roll, the FO realised he'd left his cockpit window open 😳. Cue frantic scenes partway down 08R at LGW... 😶

[@Hows_Ur_Oulwan]

Hi mentour! I was just wondering what your thoughts are on the possibility of brexit affecting flights to and from Britain as I seen this in the news yesterday. Kind regards, Jake

[@johnamor5086]

Can you please make a video on how you increased your flight hours to be a pilot. This would really help new pilots find ways to increase their flying hours too! Thank you😄

[@americanwaffle]

Answer before watching: you get cold. Answer after watching: sigh

[@girf4233]

American Waffle i answer while watching what do i get now? xD

[@americanwaffle]

a hello and a reply

[@girf4233]

American Waffle yay

[@av8rmell446]

Thanks

[@iangill8984]

As someone not in the industry and beyond the age suitable but interested in anything mechanical I find the videos of great interest. I wonder if some of the comments from within the industry is a wish to keep the art of flying as some mystery. I do however have a request, for example you mention N1, N2 when talking about engines. As my Zimmer is not type rated any chance of explaining these in non jargon terms.Keep up the good work

[@iangill8984]

Mentour, thanks for your reply, as a member of the great unwashed in the back of the plane I didn't really expect a reply. In my industry we are encouraged not to use TLA's, oops, three letter abbreviations. Very difficult when it is day to day language, I suppose it is like Alpha etc.

[@shreepradachadaga5106]

Best videos.....about....... aviation........thanks a.....lot......for......this channel.....and keep....... uploading......such kind of videos......

[@NICH12]

Hey Capt! how to prevent motion sickness for people who just started flying?

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

I would guess that you could fly IMC to the destination with windows covered, yes?

[@d2027132911]

Mentour, who helps you film these videos? Just the random draw of the lottery FO gets to film prior to performing the usual tasks of checklists and preparations? =)

[@zeppelinshy]

"What happens if you OPEN the cockpit window?!" Well the window opens?

[@jasb78]

Isn't the emergency exit accessible from the cockpit, near the nosewheel or directly behind the nosewheel?

[@hattrickster33]

Co-pilot: What are you doing !??? Pilot: Getting some fresh air. You better strap in. *opens window*

[@marcel911]

At how many hours flight do you class it as a long haul?

[@U20101954]

well the airbus does have a procedure that if you have smoke in the cockpit in flight then you can open the window for smoke evac, but you have to slow down to a specific speed, something like 230 kts and ensure the cockpit door is open, and some other procedures, cant remember all.

[@denisew.123]

Another two reasons why opening the window: To wave or to stick out and clean the cockpit's windscreen! :D

[@teun947]

Mentour!! I am 13 and I live in the Netherlands. I have been interested in flight since I was 6. This year I flew a boeing 737-800 on a flight simulator and I loved it!! Now I want to be a pilot but everything and everyone says that the chance is 95% that you'll waste your money on the pilot education because you won't get a job. Is it really that bad!!!?? Im only thirteen so I have lots of years to decide but I want something to work towards. Is there a chance that in 4 to 6 years the ods of becoming a pilot increased? I want to become a pilot so bad!! If I can't be a pilot on an airline what are other jobs that are ascociated with flight? Thanks in advance!

[@rall8727]

Hi me tour what if the aircraft is in flight and pressurized and u encounter volcanic ash you temporarily due pressurize. What about the passengers air supply

[@Keythers]

Is there a window on the other side as well

[@sirlomeyr1688]

name of the song used in the intro?

[@cma7427]

mentour pilot can you please do some more real cockpits vids like this . it doesn't matter if they are short

[@lordmark9546]

in an emergency and the front door did not open, would you let passengers through the cockpit to go down the rope?

[@kiwali]

how does the seat belt airbag work??

[@usamailyas7768]

My question is Who keeps an official record of your flying hours etc. Is there some special database stored by the company or on your license or what

[@KarthikNakul]

Usama Ilyas logbook is maintained by the pilots

[@usamailyas7768]

Karthik Nakul so that means someone can put in fake hrs. Or something too

[@KarthikNakul]

Usama Ilyas nope , the logbook is signed and endorsed by your airline or flight school

[@tommyg2543]

every uneducated idiot here... you log it yourself.

[@happydogmachine]

Tehzerr wow, not everyone is a trained pilot ya know, it's a good question and I was wondering myself

[@bxcardix]

What will happen if something got caught in the door and the plane took off.*Like if a person had a bad with a string and the string got stuck in it or a object got caught in the door and you took off?*

[@veeranmatmari1340]

How do you manage your active pilot 👩‍✈️ life , and this KZbin channel simultaneously ??? 🤔🤔😎

[@MrAlaricsol]

how did you do the intro ?

[@CaptainSiCo]

What would happen if a cockpit window was accidentally left unsecured/slightly open? Is there a warning alarm or similar? And if the plane did take off with the window like this (and for some reason the pilots didn’t notice or address it) what would happen once the aircraft started to pressurise?

[@jimmydaamen]

you must have had a really cool F/O that day...

[@BOHICA_]

You should show how the left seat pilot steers the plane while on the ground.

[@silverfoxidm]

Have u ever practiced going out the window via rope (repelling)❓

[@gieaalin4721]

Who's the best low-cost company? I use wizzair and ryanair... This have the best prices for romania-italy route.

[@garyvale8347]

I am a commercial pilot and when flying in nice weather, I always open this window and rest my elbow on the ledge.....

[@prathikshshetty9458]

what happens if open the landing gear while flying ?why do pilots close the landing gear after take off?

[@xfx990]

please make video about 737 vs a320 from pilot perspective ??

[@xfx990]

i will wait :D thank you

[@dc1104]

How do you imagine the future of the profession in regards to "robots" and tech advances?

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

OK, I'm confused. So during flight you can depressurize the cockpit without the rest of the cabin in order to open that window if you get ashed. But then the cockpit's oxygen masks drop and you handle the visibility problem while wearing your masks, then repressurize the cockpit and restow the masks?

[@sikhpilotboy]

hi mentour i have one importent question thet if i do my ppl and then with ppl can i do atpl to another flight school

[@cohen200]

Munda Patiala Da yes

[@tommyg2543]

you open the window.... you don't open it in the air or on takeoff roll. That fuckin simple kids... still love your channel

[@U20101954]

airbus does have a smoke evac procedure that include open the cockpit window in flight, so...

[@vixzen8892]

What if you just want some fresh air

[@benjamincrawford3348]

Can you close the gear on the tarmac?

[@SpaceboyA55]

Triggered

[@abbysnowmist]

Crawford 2048 Most Planes have sensors that prevent that, but actually a captain named Hans Ulrich Lutz did that on a Saab 340 which totaled the plane. He was fired as an instructor but kept his job due to a pilot shortage. He would be killed in Crossair 3597 several years later for going below Minimum Descent Altitude on an approach to Zürich.

[@737Garrus]

Make a detailed video on the Boeing 777 door, like Airbus, the doors move upward a centimeter or 2, and then outwards. The 737 door makes an air-tight seal against the door frame. the 777 and Airbus seemingly doesn't make such a seal. What is going on with those doors? * confused *

[@armandsainty8059]

Are you allowed to take selfies out of that window?

[@BrucexfromxCanada]

ReHi Mentour Pilot: Many of your videos which I have seen are more broadly based than this one, and in those there has always been much good advice for younger generations. (I wish I had had that when I was young, but unfortunately what I had was anything but!) Hence I am happy for the younger generations that they have learning opportunities my generatipon never had, and were much abused both physically in some cases, sexually in others and intelectually in still others (the latter was more what happened to me.) While I am not yet in a position to upload videos to You tube, closer to that goal is the idea of uploading sound tracks to Google Drive and providing soft shareable links in You Tube comments. Note re "Google Drive": Most Windows users simply think of Google Drive as the windows app the Google provides. However the app itself does not exist in Linux. Nonetheless, underlying that app is the Google Drive API (or application interface), and Linux can use that to interact very well. the GUI part shows up in Nautilus, the Gnome Desktop file manager that comes with many Linux distributions. (I use Fedors Workstation, currently at version 25, with 26 expected around July 2017.) hence no compatibility issues between Windows and Linux users, and likely littyle with MacOSX (Tiger and up). That said, and being one who loves public speaking be it in Englsih., French or Spanish, especially on complex and sociologically contgroversial topics, I can use my voice to enhance the emotional depiction of my content, even though with advancing age it has become rather gravelly. Note I am not looking to get involved with adsense unless I have to, nor open my efforts to any sort of monetisation. This avoides any co-dependent interest on direct benefits, maintaining my stolid principole of independence. North a,merica: I noticed Damien, your first American cadet, and am hoping that maybe tyou will end up[ acquiring a Canadian cadet. This might also prove to be a special oipportunity to some young person of Inuit heritage, as the north need aviators and aviation sup[port staff. Once In the Greater Montreal area, I encountered such a young man who had come here from the Kujjuaq area to study and become an aircraft mechanic. For that sort, I say "Go for it!". It was also a chance for me to learn a tiny bit about life up there. Piloitds who want to fly that sort of stuff may be flying airbusses of perhaps 135 passengers from Montreal up north,. where the passengers then transfer to smaller planes serivng the many settlements along the Povungnituk river., running Wast from Ungava Bay to Hudson''s bay.. Naviagetion and radio usage are alse a special situation in the CVanadian Arctic, partly due to the wide and dynamic deviances between magnetic and true north, as well as other considerations in regardfs to radio wave propagation, which, I think may be due to the proximity to Magnetic North. Arctic scenery can also be very striking at times. I have several photos downloaded from Nunanet taken in the tundra. these photographers have a sense of natural beauty of their own. CRM: This subject also, I noted soe time back, and it seems to me that before a cadet even starts to do a type approval, or hopes to do so, he should be screened for potential propblems in the interpersonal area, so money is not spent if the candidat is profoundly not apt. Unruly passenger problems: This scourge has been monitored by IATA for some years now, and much of it seems alcohol related. Given the psyychopathologies that undely alcohol and substance abuse, and the experience we have with drinking and driving, it would seem appropriate for all IATA signatory countries to legislate obligatory breathalyser tests immediately before boarding and searches to see that no hiddel alcohol or intoxicants are being carried onboard. These questions ar enot going to go away in any hurry,. so you might feel it appropos to adress them for all??

[@MIXTAB1]

Ace Ventura flying a plane catching a large shard of volcano glass in his teeth

[@witamtuwojtlo]

what if you take off with open window ?

[@dremwolf5419]

Do not be one of the crews that have forgotten to close the windows prior to passing a water cannon salute!

[@lappomac]

Why not put fins on the wheels so the passing air would would have the wheels turning to decrease the relative speed difference of the tyre hitting the runway

[@lappomac]

Every time a plane lands a load of rubber is left on the runway.Why not spool up the landing wheels to match the ground speed.This would increase the number of allowable landings per tyre and reduce the cost of removing rubber from the runway.

[@luddekudde5501]

Can a pilot eat gum inflight? Or is that not acceptable because of bad consentration?

[@avamendez1272]

LuddeKudde chewing gum is perfectly acceptable, I would not recommend eating it

[@johnamor5086]

I want to be a Pilot someday, but how do I earn flight hours with my private pilot license? I'm having a hard time to increase my flying hours. Please help :(

[@meenasakhi9071]

Question: Can anyone tell me what airliner Mentour pilot works for just from his uniform?

[@meenasakhi9071]

Nahh I don't this so because he lives in spain and Ryanair is in the UK. I do see why you said they because of the Ryanair aircraft next to him but still I don't thinks so.

[@ronigorani6847]

can you depressurize the cockpit without having to depressurize the whole aircraft?

[@tommyg2543]

is everyone mental who is watching this video?

[@schetsfiguur]

No therefore you should fly at a low enough altitude to do this.

[@majortom4543]

Not true, dont hear the other guys, they most probably are microsoft 98 flight simulator amateurs. You can depressurize the cockpit alone because if there is an electrical fire behind the panels where a fire extinguisher cant reach, you open the window and since there is very few oxygen at very high altitudes, the fire will cease to exist. But the pilots obviously have to put their masks on to keep breathing. Then continue to a safe flight emergency landing on the nearest airport.

[@mopa8433]

Well youbdie

[@DoselH]

The fact that there is no wind when you open it really intrested me

[@ph11p3540]

Aerodynamics is sometimes a really strange phenomenon. It gets stranger when supersonic flight is involved or there are shock waves that form on key parts of the aircraft.

[@alistarcardozo3775]

my question is can we join any aviation college after 10th standard

[@Quasihamster]

Just like, if you drive a convertible with the roof down in rain, as long as you're going fast enough you won't get wet.

[@kicikici5]

During the flight, it's better not to open the window because we do not want to lose the pilot :D :D

[@erik4177]

why not climbing out of the window with the emergency rope while a flight and say hi to the passengers through the their windows?

[@MentourPilot]

+Ente That would be a scary thing to do.

[@RUDYLOVE72]

One question, How do the airplane air pressurize the cabin ?

[@RUDYLOVE72]

thanks I always wanted to become a pilot and now Im trying to learn everything from airports to airplanes and airlines and how Pilots operate and their language and communications with the tower

[@EinkOLED]

Depends on the aircraft. But for normal jet engined aircraft the pressurised/pnuematic air is bled from the engine rooted towards the packs where it is cooled, filtered and introduced into the cabin via the mix manifold. The cabin altitude pressure is maintained via the outflow valve which controls how much air exits the plane (like a tap), therefore regulating the cabin pressure/altitude which is controlled by a computer.

[@finnpanhuijsen8338]

if you open it you can get in when in a flight you will get out

[@NicolasCereghino30]

Can you make the airplane talk? Can the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner prevent global warming and reduce carbon footprint?

[@oscarmarreroengstrom6115]

What happens if you pull the gear up leaver while the a/c is on the ground?

[@pirexengaer]

Emanuel Engström the lever is locked while on the ground

[@joefilletti3426]

You are right, the weight of the aircraft will prevent the main wheels from retracting and the nose wheel will defiantly retract. I've seen it happen, another thing I saw was a pilot garbing the end of the escape rope and jumping out of the window, that was out of a 707.

[@tommyg2543]

you get fired and have to live with being an absolute idiot for the rest of your sad life.

[@Pavlee021]

Do you watch air crash investigations?

[@docdat3468]

Proof it that you are not strong enough inflight

[@traqnsavov822]

in an emergency landing situation, and crash landing if the pilot breaks a hand or a leg this rescue rope, will not help at all :(

[@MentourPilot]

No, but it is impossible to create solutions for all possible scenarios..

[@traqnsavov822]

it's true..

[@chris_topher1984]

you sure that rope isn't a shoelace?

[@xovux]

Im a little overweight. Crap, i hope i never have an emergency that needs the rope!

[@yassm]

xovux do not worry. It's very very rare.

[@KarthikNakul]

Boeing did a test flight , windows open for take off and after take off , nothing much happened

[@CraZy291]

that clip is on youtube... seemed like no big deal indeed!

[@samryan7447]

do all airlines have a rat ram air turbine

[@U20101954]

not for a 747-400 and earlier versions. 747-8 do have a rat located under the right wing

[@master19103]

So your saying pilots can smoke a quick cigarette while flying?

[@aquacelot]

So what actually happens when you open it during flight? You just explain why you would open the cockpit window

[@jag0937eb]

The main reason is to show your arse to the people outside when you depart

[@Zaid-faisal]

Why do pilots raise the flag after landing

[@MentourPilot]

That is only done on special occasions, like state flights etc.