I made $300/wk selling my neighbor’s armpit hairs. PM me an I’ll tell you about these Wicca chicks who pay top Dollar for this stuff.

If they don't believe Kelsey, why would they believe you? Probably not worth going down that rabbit hole...

Polar Air Cargo I think!

i think this is more of a meme now, from his early youtube days, not based on real comments anymore. Of course this is the internet any you always find some idiots somewhere.

That's how I have pictured him at work. I'm pretty sure most sane viewers understand Kelsey is the real deal. That leaves a lot of people to indulge in silly "theories", of course.

Sounds very similar in context to a comment about a certain person someone else said a handful of years ago :) I’ve heard that saying to, in a multitude of wording variations

Your dad is a smart man. I also use a saying someone, at some point, pasted into my brother’s Ercoup many years ago…”DONT DO ANYTHING DUMB”.

prolific?

@@DrWhom Maybe not the right word? "He flew prolifically" is better? Idk. 8000 hours in the bush as chief pilot for a 24/7 air ambulance service to northern communities only accessible by air.

A bush pilot (from now-defunct TPA Airlines out of Prince Rupert) saved me and 4 other lives, virtually minutes as our sinking boat went down due to ice damage in the Observatory Inlet. Salute all of those intrepid heroes ... not yammering about 20 points why courage/character overcame weather and other issues that would have turned most back in the first place. Really impressed by another one hired to take me back for some modest recovery. Salute to all of that intrepid breed!

Yeah, seeing the video I thought damn, that probably took a while to fix. Not only is the area an active Investigation scene for a while, but then you'd have to replace a _lot_ of wire. I accidentally drove through a wire fence once and was shocked at just how far from the impact point was actually damaged even though I only went about 3 feet into the fence. If that's what half a car does to wire, I hate to think what an entire plane with spinning props does.

They’re pretty invisible when you’re perpendicular to them and have ground clutter. Guys low over a river likely to not see the poles on the banks among trees, but even out in the desert the wires can be invisible at 100 mph. 500 agl should be your definition of low unless you’re landing.

Things happen. Not every day, but when you really don't see something, for any reason, you can get a nasty surprise. Think about that disaster when the air pressure systems were turned off, after maintenance, and it is on a checklist, but it was not seen. Off. Everybody passed out, before anybody realized there was no cabin pressure. Such accidents are rare, not seeing the cause is a problem.

Thank you for your service! !!!!!!!

Even with the wire cutters on a helicopter, it is still best to avoid them.

I'm trying to think of a single time that'd be false. But, I can't come up with it. I mean, there's of course big ol farm fields that won't. But, at the same rate I don't think that's what you're talking about in the first place, lol

Unless you're in Florida, in which case the field will be filled with 10' high sprinkler heads that aren't visible above 300'.

@@electricheartponyPipeline ROWs

You can do the same with your eyes, you don't need landing lights for that

I mean, I assume you do still have to watch the instruments.

@@Random_user_8472 not at night you can’t.

Right - The heck with Ballistic Chute - I want Ballistic Rockets like Elon Musk's boosters landing. Cheers

🤣 Brilliant!!

The early astronauts, when coming back to Houston, used to fly low over there houses to notify their family... I doubt it was that low, but they also didn't fly Cessna. Edit i obviously mean their T-38 they travelled in, not the Space Shuttle....

There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots.

@@matthewhall5571 sure there are

@@MayhemRv Maverick?

@@matthewhall5571 He's old and bold - but slightly less bold!

Lol not a pilot on earth is holding that face for 5 hours stright 🤣

@@MrBizteck At least during the takeoff and landing--which is also when most of these clips take place.

But he alwwas says (mostly about movies) that making "flying faces" doesn't help you fly better.

I bet Kelsey does what all the other pilots do, set the autopilot and go to sleep..

But when his eyebrows go up, that's a sign someone is doing some shenanigans.

0.01% of 1 million is 100. So 100 haters for million views 😂 I know you didn't mean it literally, im just saying

Got that right !

Pretty sure, and I certainly hope that he was joking about maybe one stupid comment he saw?! I don’t think most of us doubt him at all!

Yes. My dad flew a big vertical fin taildragger, and.. .in strong winds taxiing, you can't turn against the wind... have to go 270o the other long way around. Weathervane effect from wind overrides rudder input. He also did 747s into Hong Kong etc and talked about the crazy approaches there, checkerboard hill and flying past tall apartments... and crosswinds normal..

I remember that on the first flights of the YF-23 the engineers were somewhat surprised to see that the plane's flight control computer (which of course they had designed themselves) was frantically making tiny adjustment to all these flight control surfaces as the plane was taxiing.

The slightly faster gag made me giggle, I'm definitely using that.

@@InservioLetum I’m eating catfish.

I always thought it was "fly it until it stops moving".

Yes, first comes "Aviate". Keep the aerodynamic surfaces engaged as much as possible.

When things go south, and you're wondering how much farther the plane will fly, rest assured. It will make it all the way to the site of the crash.

Or just take a teaspoon of CEMENT and HArdeN the PhUcK UPpPpp

You also can suffer internal injuries just as with a car. The father of my godmother died after a small plane crash. He survived the crash but did not get treatment on time. He had a ruptured spleen and bled out internally.

@@theexchipmunk I'm so very sorry that happened to your loved one.

Medical Ops Girl

@@TonyRule Roger that, sir. But I see that your sense of humor is still intact.

Just like if the pipes don't see exposed butt crack: they'll know it's not a real plumber and there will be west side story finger snapping man...

Always love the epaulettes on a newbie… Ida been lol except for the stupid of a near stall climbout. Somehow the sudden stop was anticlimactic. Didn’t anybody tell this kid horizontal component of lift is subtracted from vertical?

@@russbell6418 It's vectorial subtraction! Moment arms of force. Every bit like the angle of rigging on a lifting wire rope, strap or chain. The shallower the angle - logarithmically, the force exerted on the chain SKYROCKETS. Exact same with angle of bank. I was in an America West 737-200 with the cigar motors taking off out of Vegas headed to San Francisco. Just after takeoff: no speed, no altitude yet and a steep bank right away. We got microburst wind shear and suddenly I'm reading the brand of sunglasses a guy in his SUV at the intersection under us was wearing. The pilot pulled us out of it somehow. A older flying witress bitch was marching toward the COCKpit. someone nervously asked "did we just..." She yelled "YES! YES we DID just almost all die!" and she could be heard threatening the life of the pilot. She told him to have security ready at San Francisco because she was going to cut his throat if she ever got to him. Then she came out and smiled and said your drinks will be coming through soon. ALL complimentary! I'm sure some of us could use one! MAN, she was awesome. She should RUN an airline. She made it sound like this was not a first with him.

I noticed it as well. I wouldn't feel safe with a neglected pilot like that, lmao.

@@LauRoot892 he is a legendary pilot from Pakistan International Airlines. He is yet to tell a story about his flight as a captain where snakes entered the cabin from cargo area.

@@LauRoot892 born in London, Irish/English mother, Indian/ Pakistani doctor father, lived in Pakistan from 1957.

@@momactavish Ha ha, that story and many others were told in my two books ," Come Fly with Me---Propellers" and Come Fly with Me---Jets."

You give your heart for nothing. The pilot was an idiot. Was tryna be cool on his takeoff. What a loser

Thank goodness they are ok.

So glad everyone was okay! I don't blame them for driving now! Hope they continue to have many happy, and most importantly _safe_ travels!

Nice. I wish I could fly

So these people lived? Wow, a testament to the Cessna engineers.

@@raylopez99 That has nothing to do with it. Electricity kills either by shorting to ground through your body, or by having discharges so powerful they cause explosions. Electricity can be compared to water in that sense: If the water doesn't run onto you, you won't get wet. As long as that plane is off the ground and it doesn't hit anything other that's non-charged, the powerlines won't short to ground through the plane and the people inside it should be fine electrically speaking. Which is why if you work high-power circuits, you sit on a rubber mat. It insulates your body from the surrounding area and prevents you from being a conduit to short to ground. So even if you screw up and it's accidentally live or it's meant to be live but you make a wrong connection, the power won't actually course through your body and kill you.

@@nvelsen1975 It’s also why animals that climb on live powerlines, birds, monkeys etc, don’t get electrocuted. (Though monkeys do get electrocuted often because they have limbs, hang and swing from them, and will create that path to ground whilst being on the wire, but otherwise many will sit on them without any harm and have likely learnt to not touch certain things whilst they’re on it). Also why it’s cool seeing those working on powerlines hanging from a helicopter to do their work!

@@nvelsen1975 I took it to mean the fact that they collided with wires while flying, bringing the aircraft down hard. Not the electricity. The engineering of the 172 definitely was a factor. But luck was a bigger one.

@@OfficialSamuelC I watched two ravens get fried one time. They were either fighting or it was mating season and they simultaneously touched different wires and each other. Boom dead birds and power out on the corner.

You should’ve double down and purchased some crabs on the way home instead of the pilot delivered them or something LOL

So we're not hanging out for his debut on deadliest catch, I assume.

Plot twist: “No, Kelsey … ** I ** am your father.”

Ask your boy how to play moth ball lol

@@bsgtrekfan88 Is it doubling down? (Or hedging? 😉)

Genade .... lyk of Boetie vir mamma vir 'n flip geneem het 🤣

Weet julle dalk waar en wanneer dit gebeur het?

I looked for the original video, but couldn't find it on KZfaq. The people were speaking Afrikaans, so it was probably in South Africa, but it could have been Australia as or any country with South Africans living in it.

@@WayneKitching Wayne dit het 17 Julie gebeur in Stanford naby Hermanus

You gotta have skills to be selected to fly the Dreamliner!

@@JCrook1028 Dreamlifter...

@@TonyRule lol oops

@RJFisher Totally agree. I know I couldn't do it myself, but have so much respect for someone like Kelsey sharing his love of the craft with us.

Glad you made it!

My dad used to fly under on every pass in the field with his Pawnee, if there was a pole in the way he'd kick rudder into it so the wing would swing back and miss it. I grew up watching it, I spent my first year flying under them in a cat, then I caught a support wire for a damaged pole that I didn't see until it was too late to go over the wires. I haven't flown under wires since that season, these bigger air tractors fit but just barely, your safety margin isn't there like it is with a pawnee or cat or 188, so I just don't. I don't mind doing a few trim passes, or even a bunch of them with bigger cross country lines, and all the people driving by hoping to see me fly under them will just have to be disappointed 👎

@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper Sound judgement.

@@uptown3636 I guess it's more about how comfortable you are with it. In some cases, flying under is probably less risk than going over when you're talking about really tall wires, as you're not having to do the mental math on how soon you need to be pulling up out of the field in order to clear them, you just fly under and do your turn after...but even if it's technically a little safer to do it that way, it's probably a lot more dangerous in practice if you're averse to the idea of it. I still fly alongside wires to see if I can safely go under them, knowing that I won't, just so I'll have a backup to consider if things aren't looking good for whatever reason. It's not often we get to have options or a plan b, so it's nice when there's one available.

So did your razor wire cut the lines to save the plane, or? Always wondered if those razor cutters on AG planes ever got used? I hired a AG pilot to help me frame my house, he had some unbelievable stories flying under power lines.

Upvote for your name 😁

I'm also watching for blancolirio to cover that one. my question is, was it really as close as the breathless news reporting made it sound?

Almost perfectly set up for a snap roll. . . .

Yes. And that's the wrong input to fix a stalled wing. The guy would've crashed even if the power lines didn't get him.

The problem is the person filming took the camera off the front in the few seconds before you see that max input. I agree with you about the stall. However, the pilot might have started a left turn and quickly tried to stop the turn rate. I am wondering what the density altitude was at the time. I remember once taking off from a small airport in Colorado. I was in my Cessna 182 and my aircraft had a difficult time climbing. There were 2 adults and 3 suitcases onboard. That day was one of the days I was glad I bought the TRUE 4-seater. Had I been in a 172 I would most likely not be alive now.

Wrong. it's called over banking tendency, and requires opposite aileron input to maintain the bank angle. if he stalled the wing and used opposite aileron he would have spun, not maintained a constant bank.

Hard to tell from the video but it looks like he was drifting left even before he left the ground. He had at least 3 persons on board so he was probably heavy. He never had enough airspeed to rotate and was stalling as he left the ground. I guess he rotated early because he was running out of runway but had he pushed the nose down in ground effect I think he could have made it. Also it seems like he released the brakes too early for what was a short and soft field takeoff. Was the right seater his instructor? I hope not.

Wrong. it's called over banking tendency, and requires opposite aileron input to maintain the bank angle. if he stalled the wing and used opposite aileron he would have spun, not maintained a constant bank.

I thought the power lines may have actually been fortuitous as well. Also the fact that the trees/bushes weren’t big enough to cause a head on collision, but we’re still large & voluminous enough to provide a little cushion.

@@SoloRenegade ... Well, the pilot DID apply FULL OPPOSITE aileron. It didn't work. That plane was in the brink of the stall and the pilot didn't have enough aileron authority, evidently. Possibly because he was at full power and very slow speed without applying enough right-rudder correction.

I agree with every word you typed!

@@adb012 or he was countering some turbulence. Sometimes turbulence can cause a wing to drop aggressively and need lots of counter aileron. Yes, the wing was on the edge of stalling for sure. Hard to say about his rudder work given we can't see it.

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I didn't know that anyone questioned if you were a real pilot or not. After watching this video, I can say with absolute certainty that YOU ARE NOT A COMMERCIAL PILOT- you might have been a student working on your Private Pilot License, but YOU HAVE NEVER FLOWN A 747 as you state, and you are a LIAR. If you're not lying, you're too stupid to fly a plane commercially. I'm being rough on you because you could cost lives. I haven't been a fixed-wing pilot in 30 years. I've messed around with rotary wing stuff, but that's so that I understood it better. Your hand outside the window is a joke! That hand isn't self-powered like a light aircraft. YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG ON WHAT IT DOES, ALSO!!! You put your hand out of a moving vehicle, and it will rise much more as the angle of attack increases. Your hand doesn't stall because it isn't self-powered by a small engine like the Cessna in the video. I don't think I even want to tell you more since you are a fraud. I could explain the video frame by frame, but you, in your cheap Halloween outfit, have no idea. I'm going to get youtube to pull your account. I can easily show that you are promoting dangerous ideas. In your next video, take off the costume and admit that you are a fraud. Otherwise, I will make it my life's goal to get you shamed or arrested. My family owns a number of FBOs, and I will get to the bottom of you either way. HAD YOU RATHER COME CLEAN ON YOUR OWN, OR ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE ME DO IT? "When you used to fly 747..." You can't even explain a stall in a light aircraft!!! Apparently, people question whether this guy is a real pilot or not. I can say with absolute certainty that HE IS NOT A COMMERCIAL PILOT- he might have been a student working on his Private Pilot License, but he has NEVER FLOWN A 747, as stated, and he is a LIAR. By making these videos "for pilots and those interested in flying," he is making the skies more dangerous. KZfaq has an obligation to take down his content if he contends that he's a real pilot. People will get killed. Just look at the quality of his uniform if you doubt me. That's a Halloween costume. He wasn't issued that by any airline. Thanks- Nick

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Pequeño detalle Walter: Es un Learjet, no un Citation.

@@adb012 Ok, error mío. Gracias por la corrección. Me desorientó el tamaño de las bocas de las turbinas. Saludos desde la Patagonia.

@@walterweigert9840 ... Saludos desde Texas (pero argento!)

pilots were stick and rudder flyers then, not computer operators

Not sure if you've seen his latest videos, but he's a captain now! So yes, he is a really good pilot

@@electricheartpony I noticed. I'm happy for him.

Ek het gedink ek hoor Afrikaans aan die begin van die video!

It looked like the Lear took off with no flaps.

@@toddsmith8608: Yes, it seems like the flaps weren't set right; I was surprised it got off the ground quickly, and then dipped a little. I also thought it happened as the gears started to retract.

@@oahuhawaii2141 I think it dipped as it climbed out of ground effect.

@@toddsmith8608: Sounds plausible. That dip could've been avoided if he had his flaps down to overcome it.

Could this be an incorrect or unusual trim setting [combined with the pilot relaxing back pressure while retracting the landing gear, for instance]?

Yeah it's like driving. You learn more as you go. Usually long after you've taken the "test"

It may seem counterintuitive, but being very close to the ground [say, a few feet, with something like a small Cessna in the first clip] will make the wings produce _more_ lift than being higher above the ground with all other things equal. This is called "ground effect", if you'd like to learn more. The trouble with this is that, while a plane a bit beyond its performance capabilities may be able to lift itself a few feet off the runway without much trouble, it will have a harder time producing as much lift climbing to a few hundred feet above the runway without additional power or airspeed.

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The example in the video is very exaggerated because there were mistakes all over. But from my little experience doing engine-out simulation, you can very easily miss them. Thank god the instructor was there

Over weight. Out of balance. Too slow. Tailwind. Incorrect wind correction. Improper technique. As to why they let that happen. Look up continuation bias.

​@@kounelas3243 apparently we have an aviation engineer in the comments with a lot of experience on flights smh

yes, some pilots just let the winds buffet the plane on approach and then they finesse it once over the runway

POWER!!!!

I remember one time, seeing a Piper Cub landing in a particularly heavy wind and turning final at midfield, because he knew he'd actually be moving *backwards* at touchdown...

@@rdfox76 dang

The inexperienced pilot wearing epaulets he hadn't earned, as proof from this crash.

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@Michael Jackson The Guilty Child Molester Exactly! The pilot kept pulling back on the yoke thinking that would somehow pull the plane up. This pilot needs some serious additional training if he wanted to fly again.

Read AF447.

@@Mixer-he2wb Yes. This is one of the reasons I am asking. But this is not the only tragic accident where the side sticks have played a crucial role. An Airbus 320 from Yerevan to Sochi also crushed into the sea in a similar way. And I'm sure there's more incidents that have escaped publicity.