Ah Air France pilots. Capable of crashing planes that basically fly themselves

@@MrJimheeren French planes and French pilots don’t combine well. Sad reality.

Boeing: "Ha, we have yoke that connected physically" AirFrance (AF11): "Challenge accepté!"

​@@umi3017 Also "Boing": "We have secret autopilot feature that will actively try to kill you."

@@FallenPhoenix86 Well..to be fair..Boeing is US american..the US americans do not have any natural enemies...so they have to build them themselves

4 hairdryers for engines :)

Well the A340 is basically outfitted with 4 engines that the A320 uses. But once it’s up in the air it’s very comfortable. I flew from Frankfurt to Costa Rica a couple of months ago with a 342 and it was a very pleasant flight. Especially because of the 2-4-2 configuration

6yjjk I've read many reports stating that ATC (American ones anyway) absolutely hated them. They couldn't climb, accelerate or maneuver. They performed like beached walruses. They had the reputation of clogging up airspace and slowing everything down. Their favorite aircraft was the Boeing 757. It could climb like a homesick angel, accelerate like a race car and turn on a dime. Anything requested it could do.

@@terryboyer1342 the A340 is literally one of the safest aircraft ever build. Why would any pilot hate flying an aircraft that climbs a little slower then usual. Plus the 757 is a very different kind of plane and on top of that most pilots that fly for airlines fly only one type (sometimes 2) type of aircraft mostly from the same manufacturer. So I don’t think there are a lot of pilots around that flew both the 340 and the 757

@@MrJimheeren I didn't say pilots hate flying the A-340. I said ATC controllers hated having them in their airspace because of their poor performance. Yes, the A-340 and 757 are different aircraft that fill different missions. I never said that there were a lot of pilots who flew both. I just thought the controllers favorite and least favorite aircraft to deal with and why was interesting.

Lufthansa and swiss still have it on their fleet. Though i'm sure it's not for long

i used to fly the same route. Very smooth and well appointed aircraft for the time.

I did as well same service as you too in 2007. Going was supposed to be B747-400 but changed to A340-600 but planned return on A340-600

Killed by B777...A340 was a loss business..

@@barracuda7018 exactly with its advantages of slightly more seats and fuel savings. A330 also has same advantages of A340

I flew on the 600 on the Jo'burg to London route.

Yup 100%. These videos are my sit down with a coffee on a saturday morning. Shoo away anyone making noise and enjoy learning every detail of a machine or entity that I thought I knew a lot about but turned out I hardly knew a thing or learning about something I've never heard of

For me too! ❤

Which aircraft your favorite?

Oh really, how so ?

Did you know the MD11 had an early version of MCAS? They called it LSAS. Longitudinal stability augmentation system. Worked well.

@@jamesharris9816 they probably did tell the pilots about it, too. And didn’t hide it under the rug in the lame attempt to save some dollars on training and certification.

With Lufthansa, by any chance?

Or swiss? Or edelweiss?

@@heidirabenau511 Yes

Deli Mike or Deli Mayk (English: Crazy Mike) is a nickname given to an Airbus A340-300 operated by Turkish Airlines with civil registration TC-JDM. The aircraft joined the Turkish Airlines fleet in 1996 to replace the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s of the airline and was used to operate long-haul flights out of Turkey. During its operation, Deli Mike had a record of having minor and strange technical failures. This unreliability gave the aircraft its nickname, which is a wordplay on the ICAO spelling alphabet. In its late use, the aircraft operated both long-haul and short-haul flights. It was re-configured in 2016 to only have economy class seats and was solely used to carry pilgrims to Hajj. Deli Mike was removed from the Turkish Airlines fleet in early 2019 and was flown to O. R. Tambo International Airport later that year and re-registered as 2-AVRA. The aircraft was stored at Johannesburg for almost 4 years. In December 2022, it was flown to Mehrabad International Airport. In the late 1980s, Turkish Airlines wanted to expand to North America and East Asia. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10s operated by the airline during that time were in the process of being phased out,[1] leaving the Airbus A310 as the only option for these routes. However, the Airbus A310 did not have the range to fly to these destinations and would have had to make a stopover to refuel.[2] In January 1990, after examining two possible aircraft types-the Airbus A340 and McDonnell Douglas MD-11-an internal commission unanimously voted to opt for the Airbus A340 due to its technical advantages and cost benefits.[3] On 27 March 1990, Turkish Airlines ordered five Airbus A340-300 aircraft, which included an option for a further five. TC-JDM joined the fleet of Turkish Airlines in April 1996 and became the fourth A340 to do so. The aircraft was given the name "İzmir".Shortly after delivery, the aircraft started to have "random" technical issues and failures. Sometimes, the aircraft would turn its external lights on by itself and then back off when someone tried to intervene.[4] Occasionally, the lights of the emergency exits would turn on one by one from front to back "like a Mexican wave", not all at the same time, which according to the cabin crew meant that Deli Mike "was in a good mood". The aircraft also made "small jokes" to passengers and crew. On one occasion, the aircraft started sounding the master caution alarm in the cockpit, causing one of the inexperienced cabin crew members to panic. Frequent problems with the aircraft included the reading light of a completely different passenger turning on when the button is pressed, and the same issue also exists with the button used to call a crew member. One popular story among technical staff states that an employee fixed the faulty flight instruments of the aircraft simply by talking to it.[5] In the ICAO spelling alphabet used in aviation, the spelling of D and M, the final two letters of the civil registration of the aircraft, is "Delta Mike". Following the technical problems surrounding the aircraft, technicians of Turkish Airlines have swapped "Delta" to "Deli"-meaning "crazy" in Turkish-to reflect the characteristics of the aircraft, which resulted in the nickname "Deli Mike".[4] Despite their age, Airbus A340's were used as "jokers" in the 2010s, flying both short domestic and long-haul flights.[6] In September 2011, Deli Mike had a runway excursion while landing at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. None of the occupants were injured in the incident.[7] Turkish Airlines pulled its Airbus A340 aircraft from scheduled flights in May 2016.[8] From July 2016 onwards, TC-JDM and other A340 aircraft in the Turkish Airlines fleet were used on charter flights to carry passengers to Hajj.[4] The aircraft was reconfigured to have an all-economy class layout, without any business class seats.[8] During the winter period of 2016, a heavy downfall in traffic caused the airline to temporarily ground dozens of aircraft, including Deli Mike.[9] In August 2017, Hürriyet reported that Turkish Airlines expected to maintain its Airbus A340 aircraft and use them for the Hajj flights until 2021 "thanks to good maintenance".[4] Deli Mike was the oldest aircraft of the Turkish Airlines fleet as of September 2017.[10] On 22 October 2018, Turkish Airlines grounded TC-JDM alongside her sister aircraft TC-JDN at Istanbul Atatürk Airport.[11] The aircraft was retired from the fleet in early January 2019;[5] the livery of the airline was removed from the aircraft later that month.[12] There was initial speculation about the plane being turned into a restaurant, as had previously happened to three sister aircraft.[5] In March 2019, the aircraft was ferried to O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa. Subsequently, the aircraft was transferred to Avro Global, re-registered as 2-AVRA, and stored in Johannesburg.[7] In December 2022, Deli Mike and three other former Turkish Airlines Airbus A340's flew again for the first time in years.[13] The planes departed Johannesburg back to back on 24 December towards Uzbekistan, but made an emergency landing at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, reportedly to evade sanctions placed on Iran.[14] According to technicians of Turkish Technic, the aircraft maintenance subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, "Deli Mike can fly to the other side of the world without any problems if she wants to. If she doesn't feel like it, she won't move even one metre on the ground." The technicians also removed and reinstalled all systems on-board and reset the software of the aircraft in an attempt to solve the issues, without any success.[15] While criticizing Turkish Airlines in February 2018 for ordering new aircraft while many others were grounded in the meantime, Bora Erdin of pro-opposition newspaper Sözcü also added that the airline made "no clarification as to why the problematic plane [Deli Mike] was used persistently while unproblematic ones were on the ground" and highlighted the frequent issue of the landing gear not retracting after takeoff, causing the aircraft to return to the origin airport.[16]

Fun fact the A300 was designed using imperial units to better capture the American market

@@burntnougat5341 Fun fact: your fact is not actually a 'fact' . . .

@@heotak3408 Nobody needs to convert ASU or Imperial units anymore as they are obsolete in most part of the world. If you didn't realise that Newtons are used for thrust everywhere else outside of the USA , you need to get a passport and travel a bit more, there is a whole big wide world outside . . .

@@TRPGpilot you are wrong. Look up the development history of the A300. The technical director opted to use imperial units and English for its development to better appeal to the American market as American Airlines showed great interest in the jet.

To be fair, it somehow outsold the MD-11.