I think the main secret that Kelsey doesn't want us to know is how many of the 'good' snacks he sneaks without the rest of the crew knowing

I am an aircraft mechanic and I will say my favorite missing part we flew without was the blade from the can opener in the galley. Yes, a maintenance action was written. We were a cargo plane, no passengers, so we used the can opener attackment on someone’s leather man tool. I am happy to report that the coffee pot was fully operational.

I love how Kelsy said there is no problem with forgetting to turn your plane into airplane mode at 10:58 :) Really gave me a laugh!!

"You don't need a seatbelt on a plane." That guy obviously wasn't wearing his seatbelt one time, he hit his head hard, and got all the truth knocked out of it.

As a large piece of cargo myself, can confirm kelsey is a real pilot

It amazes me how many people who are NOT pilots, NOT aircrafts mechanics or have any practical experience at all, sound so confident in their ignorance.

A friend of mine was killed in a plane crash a little over 10 years ago and I haven’t flown since. This channel is both making me both more comfortable with flying again, and having some fears validated all at the same time.

That seat belt one really stuck in my craw, I've only been a passenger on a plane that hit really bad turbulence once, but that one time peoples drinks were splattered on the ceiling, it was really sudden. I would hate to have been walking down the aisle, or not buckled in at that moment.

Good info sir! I recall flying with the Army on chartered flight with major airline. Something you don't hear every day. Pilot: "Please secure your weapons for takeoff and no, you do NOT need to turn off your electronics". Yes, we flew with our rifles in hand.

On the landing part, my instructor actually had me land the plane on my discovery flight. It was wild, especially being a slight tailwind, but it was buttery smooth, probably because he had his hands on the controls the entire time just incase something happened. Part of that could be attributed to having logged a bunch of home sim time to understand the basics before doing the discovery. But mostly, i'm sure he was on the controls as a backup.

I worked for a regional airline as a crew scheduler. There was an subdepartment of about 5 personnel that were in charge of maintenance scheduling. They made sure that the planes that require maintenance are at the right location for that to be accomplished. Most maintenance was done overnight while the airplanes were not flying.

My mom was on a flight recently where it was slightly delayed by the cockpit door needing attention. Apparently it was announced as a, quote, "maintenance thingy" to the passengers in the terminal.

"There's nothing that's gonna happen by forgetting to put your plane into airplane mode." - Kelsey 2022 You could just drive it around like a car I guess. ;)

The look on your face when he said seat belts probably won't save your life...priceless! 🤣🤣🤣

Kelsey is a great guy...I love his input to Aviation knowledge and clearing up my anxieties and curiosity of flying and pilot professionalism...He has tons of knowledge, so cool, humble and very professional and frank....love his presentations....

I love watching your reaction-face to crazy information! 🤨 Keep ‘em coming Kelsey! Looking forward to part 2.

I love these. I wish more true experts in every field would take down these Tictok armchair experts. Thanks Kelsey.

10:55 I am pretty sure that forgetting to turn your "plane into airplane mode" is quite bad =D

0:05 XD that has to be one of your best intros yet!

Apropos of nothing, here's an idea: Fondly remembering the crossover episodes with Stella, wouldn't it be great and super fun if *Kelsey* were the one to get out of his comfort zone for a change and *worked as a flight attendant* for some time? And made videos about that.

I have never heard Aircraft Maintenance say "Do you think they'll miss this part?" Other Maintenance Crew "Naa, just put it in the bucket and we'll keep it for another time"... Another thing...you can never overstay your welcome in our homes! Looking forward to part 2 Kelsey! Have a great week everyone!

I once flew with an INOP anti-turbulence switch and the crosswind landing was much rougher than usual. I am glad that maintenance fixed it before the next flight. LOL

Your channel reinvoked my love of planes, and as a graduating senior going into aviation and making my childhood dream a reality (To fly large planes) I would like to say thank you. I would never have found the pilot program through a well known airline if I didn't get back into it.

As far a missing parts and safety redundancy, I took an evening United flight from Chicago to Los Angeles in 2018....the flight was delayed for just over three hours, after everyone was boarded, with no disembarkation allowed, because one part was broken. It was a transparent plastic light cover on one of the exit doors. A thin, clear plastic sheet that was maybe 3" by 12", with the word "EXIT" in red. It had come loose from the lighting fixture on the door. The lightbulb was fine, the door was fine, but the plastic light cover kept falling out. (From what I overheard from a maintenance worker, this was a known issue, and quite annoying to them). So everyone sat on the plane for three or so hours, while several attempts were made to fasten it in an acceptable manner. After the first hour, some of the passengers (possibly myself included) would yell "DUCT TAPE" at the maintenance workers, as they went back and forth at least three times. But, we passengers were in fact ignorant. They ended up fixing it not with duct tape, but with clear packing tape, so that it was still 100% transparent even around the edges,. The whole last hour was spent waiting for this information to be transmitted to the person who signed off on the flight being allowed, and that sign-off getting back to the Captain. My connecting flight home from LAX had left before we even got off the ground in Chicago, but United did the honorbale thing and offered a hotel voucher or car rental voucher to the 50 or so of us who were left stranded. I'm not even talking shit about it...I've worked in theaters and other large public buildings...and the fact is that thousands of people have died in fires and other emergencies over the years for lack of a clearly marked exit. There are reasons why these rules exist. But it was both extremely funny and extremely frustrating to see such a small thing ruin a flight, add a almost a whole day to my trip, and to also see the problem being temporarily "solved" in almost the exact same way any passenger would have done it in five minutes.

Random kid spouts crazy talk on Tik Tok. Listener: This makes perfect sense! Actual pilot brings the truth. Listener: Are you even a real pilot?!

Re: buses and seat belts, here in Europe, if the bus is equipped with a seat belt, you are required to use it. If you get injured in an accident, not using it can get your insurance claim denied.

Thank you for answering my dumb questions about flight. Pilots fascinate me, and I appreciate you taking us along with you and sharing your knowledge. Great clip, appreciate the effort!

I was once on a flight (think it was a 767, not that it matters) where in one seat of the entire plane the call button didn't work properly so it kept calling the flight attendant automatically and after a few times of that she asked the guy if he was okay because he kept pressing the button, but they quickly figured out the button was broken and she said they'd have to write it down. So the button stayed lit for the rest of the flight and the guy in that seat had to use the next seat's button to call when he needed something. It was by far a case of comically broken rather than anything to worry about, but there are millions of things that can break on an aircraft, relatively very few of them have anything to do with keeping the plane in the air

"You would not use a seatbelt on a bus"... I live in Norway. If you don't wear your seatbelt on the bus here, you will be fined $700 and risk losing your driver's license, even as a passenger. So yeah, I'd definitely wear a seatbelt on a bus.

You know it's bad when Kelsey has to make a pt2

I "hate" a good cliff hanger... lol Hope part two comes soon!!! Can't wait to hear that roast. Love your videos.

Was studying for PPL Checkride had this in the background and finally got what the hell the MEL and when you use it instead of 91.205 and your explanation helped a ton thanks. Was weird you talked about it when I was going over it. Your reaction to the seat belt at the end was great I can't wait for the rant in next episode!

I feel calmer already just listening to this, so relaxing. Wish it was an hour 😅

Coming from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport; where we seem to be getting a lot more business due to Russia being dumb; Your channel has piqued my interest in becoming a pilot. I know it's a lot of money and time. I have a Commercial driver license so I can't imagine it's totally different or less rewarding. Thank you for making these videos. I absolutely love them and share to my whole family!

Looking forward to Part 2, Kelsey! This was superb!! Thank you for your knowledge and humor!! Let's go find some PB&J's!! LOL!! Keepin' the blue side up!! 💕✈✈💕

I freaking love how big Kelsey's eyes got at 17:22 That should have bee put on the thumbnail! By the way great video as always

I once was taking a flight from Seattle Washington to Hawaii. Our plane got the pushback, engines stated and began to taxi to the runway. All of a sudden the plane came to a stop. I thought that to be a little odd, but the captain came over the PA and said he wanted to adjust the weight and balance of the aircraft again. Of all my years of flying I have never experienced that before. In about five minutes I heard the engines power back up and we proceeded to the active runway. I have always wondered what the captain saw to do the weight and balance calculations again. This is one of your best video's Kelsy. Please display chapter two when you can!

Did you hear about the ITA pilots that fell asleep recently? It was a JFK to Rome flight and ATC couldn't get them on the radio. It turned out that they were sleeping.

Man I love this channel, Kelsay I bet you're a great guy to hang out with none of my friends want to talk about aviation I'm the only one who works in Aerospace or has any interest in it.

I find your videos so comforting. Not about flying I love flying. I take your notes ad metaphor for dealing with stuff.

Regarding RyanAir doing away with seats to cram more people onto an aircraft: Michael Leary is a clever man. He's quoted as saying that if he could charge people £5 to use the loo he would - but as Mentour (a pilot with the airline) always emphasises in his films, their focus is on safe operations, so being "cheap" doesn't extend to maintenance. Anyway, Michael Leary. "Outrageous" statements like this are excellent for raising brand awareness. RyanAir has a well-established market in Europe and sounding like a cheapskate hasn't affected their passenger numbers.

Kelsey just found your channel I’m going to start and watch all the vids love this subject and I have to say you guys that fly big planes are unreal what a skill 👍👍👏👏

When I was a trainee computer programmer with a major international airline back in the 80s, as an exercise, we had to write a program that was like a toy version of a maintenance log. We had three fault levels depending on when it needed to be fixed: 1) fix during next routine maintenance. 2) OK to fly but fix when next back at base. 3) aircraft grounded until fixed. In the first category was Wobbly Wheels, in the second Very Wobbly Wheels and in the most serious third category were Boring In Flight Movie and Rude Cabin Crew.

In hindsight I'm very appreciative of you being so patient with some who don't think -before they post a video which has no research/forethought or common sense.

My instructor I had when I worked on my multi engine turbo fan type rating said even on autopilot I should be doing something in the cockpit IE monitoring weather, radio transmissions, checklists. That’s a single pilot Phenom so With more than 2 crew on board I’d guess it thins out procedures evenly. Love your channel. Keep up the great work.

“If you had to fly a plain for 16 hours you would want to pass out”- my buddy in Alaska working 16 hour days on a fishing boat 🗿

Kelsey! Love the videos. Love to have seen the channel grow so much so quickly. Keep it up!!

Well done. I think that what the guy who created the video was referring to, was the configuration list, and not so much the MEL itself. Usually, static wicks, small fairings can be missing, but usually anything missing outside will incurr in some fuel and speed penalty, and any big part like a flap canoe, will require a non-rev ferry flight to fix somewhere. This guy is just not playing with a full deck of cards. Happy flying.

Lol at "Imagine being at work that long. You'd probably pass out or go insane." 16 hours is literally a double shift, people do it all the time

I don't think I've ever laughed this hard at a 74 Gear video before. I've been watching this channel for almost a year now and why I find this video hilarious is Kelsey has said all of these things before in different videos. At this point, all the misinformed points that people are spreading are just funny to me.

Forgive my choice of words, but you manage to stay incredibly well grounded as you call people out for the ridiculous stuff they post to social media. Good stuff.

I find it interesting that it cuts off with a comparison to bus accidents and buses not having seatbelts when one common factor in fatal bus accidents is often there are people who died of injuries which can be prevented by wearing seatbelts.

On my discovery flight, the instructor did a touch and go and I flew the pattern and did the full stop. It was a bit on the firm side, but on centerline and not too much float. So yeah, the whole needing 20 hours before your first landing thing is bogus. 😜

I’ve been a passenger on flights where parts have gone in manual override, and I’ve been a passenger on flights where the pilot literally walked off telling the angry passengers “if you want to be on that thing, fine, but I’m not flying it until the part is fixed” there is definitely a line. Also, “seatbelts don’t work”?!?! Tell that to the passengers on the Gimli Glider 😂

Love your videos. I heard about the incident in my flightaware newsletter where an overseas pilot was fired for sleeping at the controls. THEN they said that airline policy allowed the non-flying pilot to nap while in cruise mode. The Captain was the pilot in command and ATC lost communication for over 10 minutes, so the pilot was ax'd. So I guess the bottom line was there still was one pilot awake -- the autopilot.

I love to watch your posts. I'm not working in your line of prefession. But I enjoy what you post

its ridiculous how the guy said that the seatbelt won't save your life in a crash

Learned something new again! Depending on the duration of the flight, a flightcrew will have one or more reliefpilots present. Longer than 8 hours, longer than 12 hours - now I know!

Hey Kelsey 👋. The last comment I made, I said that any time I needed cheering up, I would watch your introduction. Well let me say, thank you once again for you being a happy guy with a great profession. 👍 😁👋

About a decade ago a survey of British pilots found that half admitted to falling asleep while flying. Of those who admitted to falling asleep 1/3 said that they woke up to find the other pilot also asleep!

Blue balling us, the facial expressions on the seatbelt thing was hilarious. Can’t wait for the roasting

One of the best Aviation youtubers

Another great check with reality, well done. Shame that there are so many adds. But the quality of your videos make persevering the adds well worthwhile.

I just started binging this channel. I'm finding the room changes as interesting as the stories at times ...worldly man indeed. Even if it is limited

Regarding the humming, it's actually got to do with a phone that is emmiting a signal being close to the audio wire. The antenna is going to emmiting an em field, and that field is going to induce a tiny current in the headset wire. Same thing happens to stuff like computer speakers.

Every airlines MEL (minimum equipment list) is based on the MMEL (master MEL) which is published by the aircraft manufacturer. The individual airlines must include all of the applicable restrictions and may also include their own MEL restrictions provided that they are more restrictive.

Ah, Kelsey! Thank you so much for all of your media work. I grew up wanting to be a pilot, passed my PPL, but couldn’t go any further because of Russia’s old medical regulations(i have genetic -0.75 myopia), and russian air authority does its medical check without correction like glasses. Your videos were always extremely fun to watch to quench this aerial thirst. Also you are smart and witty, so i also always get a laugh out of your videos. Not even mentioning their educational value.

‘Being trapped in a tube with them…that would NOT be ideal’ That’s hilarious, and so true.. Your one of the few people that can make me laugh anymore Kelsey, thanks man!

just your reaction on the seatbelt bit was hilarious! I was making the same expressions as well

Looking forward to part II. The very first plane I flew was a Cessna 162 Sky Catcher and it was my discovery flight. It was a glass cockpit and the MFD had a huge 'X' taped across it. I asked the instructor what that meant he just said 'it's broken, but don't worry, we don't need it' :)

Staying to watch all the way to the end was worth it, just to see Kelsey's "surprised Pikachu face" at 17:20. LOL.

Looking forward for part two, thanks!

10:20 film sound engineer here, that is also the reason why it is commonplace to ask crew to turn off phones when shooting. For one you don’t want to have a perfect take ruined by someone’s phone going off, but I hear that buzzing as well which at best could cause me to miss-hear details or problems, and at worst could interfere with wireless mics or even make it on the recording.

You underestimate how welcome you are in our homes and on our screens. All the best to you and I'm looking forward to part 2 and addressing that absurdity about seat belts.

Even in the most difficult conditions I’ve flown in, I was only ever nervous before the flight. During the flight, I never have time to be nervous or afraid. I only have time to concentrate on flying the plane.

When I came home from the gulf in a 747-200 the flight crew was giving tours while we were over the Atlantic. The captain got up and let me sit in his seat. The FO was turned around and the FE was monitoring the flight. It was awesome

MELs are so misunderstood. It's just like Kelsey said, stuff that can be deferred and the plane is still airworthy. I had one yesterday for a round trip between Denver and Idaho Falls that had a deferred Auxiliary Power Unit. My fellow aviators in the comments (and likely Kelsey himself) all probably just groaned at that, because it's annoying as hell. It means we were down a generator that could be used on the ground, and it means we needed an external high pressure air cart (colloquially known as a huffer cart) to run air through the engine to start it. A little time consuming and annoying, but completely doable and safe. I even flew a plane recently that had its autopilot deferred. Three legs between Albuquerque, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, and we were fine the whole way. And there are some things that are never deferrable. Engines, control surfaces, landing gear, etc. The stuff that is absolutely necessary for airworthiness will just ground the plane, even if it's in the middle of nowhere. But if one of the coffee makers is busted, everyone will be fine.

Omg your facial expressions in the last part 😂 Can’t wait for part 2! Also, in Sweden we actually do use seatbelts on buses. Most buses that aren’t just for short distance inner city travel are equipped with seatbelts, and passengers can be fined for not using them.

The seatbelt statement chaps my hiney! You are safer with a seat belt. The only reason they don't have them on city buses is the low speed and frequent stops. My dad was a Navy pilot in WWII, our cars had seatbelts in the mid to late fifties, long before they were required to or even imagined equipment in cars. I remember my dad installing them. And my dad was the original seatbelt interlock. The car didn't move until you were buckled in. I was once in an accident, and when my dad met me at the hospital, the first question he asked was if I had my seatbelt on. I did, and he said "I know you did or you would be dead." Broke my nose on the steering wheel instead of going thru the windshield.

hey kelsey, i have no doubt that you are in deed a pilot, you have the aviator look, temperament is even and cool and your smile says it all, having a blast making bank and seeing the world thru the cockpit of a 47, what a life of riley, but i also recognize the fact that you have worked your arse of to get where you are!!!!

pilots: "flying is fun" also pilots: 💤✈️💤

A week ago, douring an ITA NY-Rome flight, both pilots fell asleep and they didn’t respond to tower for 1 hour 10 minutes, causing terrorism alarm

With the flying with parts missing, I kinda get the idea he is referring to the CDL, ie, you can fly without a flap track fairing, just with a fuel penalty, just from a maintenance side👍🏻 keep it up Kelsey, great work as always

You have got to be trolling us, Kelsey... The guy in the video is really Quagmire, isn't he?? 😂🤣

I have never been a pilot. I have, however, been a motor coach driver (sadly, no autopilot). At the end of the charter, we had to fill out a defect list. Some things on that list were critical (like a braking problem) which needed to be addressed immediately. Others were just noted (like a rock chip in the windshield) that would be fixed when the glass guy would come and pump some goo into the chip. The new driver would look at the defect list and go, "oh. Ok. We just have a glass chip." After our pre-check we would initial it (sign off) and hit the road. If it was bad enough to be red tagged, then a mechanic would fix it. It happened once for me. A rock chip had been noted, but when I got in, the windshield had a crack from top to bottom, so the mechanic on duty changed the entire windshield before I was satisfied.

One of the reasons for airplane mode is more about the effect on the ground - normally frequencies are assigned with the assumption that distant towers will be unreachable due to being blocked by the curvature of the earth. When you're in the air you have line of sight to multiple towers on the same uplink frequency - your phone may try to lock on to one of them, and then when it transmits it'll effectively be noise for the other tower. Not a huge problem with just one phone, but if every traveler's phone is doing this it can start impacting the cellular network.

I was in the Navy and they take anything missing on an aircraft, or as a result of maintenance (tools, parts, etc...) as a big deal. It's a major issue and the bird will be grounded. It's called FOD in the Navy (and probably other places). That's an acronym for Foreign Object Damage. It can be anything from junk on the flight line that gets sucked into the turbofans and ruins an engine, to a wrench left on an aircraft that then jams control surfaces. Both of those things happened in real life. I was tool Petty Officer, so my job was to inventory all the tools every day, and I had to make sure every tool had a designated and clearly marked place. That way if the tool was missing you could tell at a glance. I worked AIMD in the avionics shop.

Love your videos! Just wondering when you will receive your fourth stripe and also what's requirements to get it. Keep the aweaome content coming. I'm not even close to anything aviation related, but for some reason your way of explaining and talking about it all absorbs me and makes me interested. Keep beeing awesome and keep up posting amazing and interesting content

I remember when i was going thorough flight school in the 90's and my friend asked me if a plane could fly with one wing missing and as a joke i told him that yes it can fly but can only carry half the weight and the poor guy believed that for at least 10 years until he saw some wind tunnel aircraft testing documentary. He told me he had so many arguments with people about that, and he even argued with pilot's. LoL

Leaving Antigua our flight was delayed for a day because the pilot’s seat wouldn’t recline. Naturally we made fun of the princess pilot. It was only a couple of years ago that I saw a yt video (I think on 74) and realized it is a legit issue, & not just a picky pilot. Although at the time I was perfectly fine waiting, as I preferred to have a pilot who was comfortable while my life was in his hands

Oh my god, the face you made on that last one! Excited for part 2!

17:14 actually in Europe it is mandatory to wear a seatbelt while in the bus and the accidents proven that the ones who didn't do it got thrown out/ under the bus when the bus rolled up. Wear your seatbelt, it is just a minor inconvenience.

Yay! Sunday roasts are my favorite!

If every landing would be a nerve-racking experience for a pilot it would be safer for everyone to change a job I guess 🤷‍♀️ 9:28 😂 Definitely can't wait for part two! I wouldn't mind if Sunday was twice a week.

Kelsey i made the mistake of watching one of your student pilot solo emergency videos this morning and im supposed to go for my first solo in 2 hours. Still comfortable going in but just wasn't a good idea on my part. But hey, 11 hours in my log book so I'm excited.

One reason I heard many years ago when cellphone's started really coming out. The FAA had no idea how this would affect the aircraft electronics. They took the worst case scenario of a 747 with 350 to 400 passengers all using their cellphones at the same time. The FAA took the precaution to limit cellphone use on aircraft. Not sure where they are at now, but it really helped me understand why this started.

Great video! One tiny correction - you can (briefly) get a signal at 30,000+ feet. A few years ago I had forgotten to switch on airplane mode and got a 'Welcome to Spain' text message while in cruise! Look forward to part two :)

This is a true story, trust me I'm a nurse. I was on a flight once and before takeoff the flight attendant told the guy sitting next to me to turn off his phone, which he did, but immediately took another cell phone from his pocket and started using. Then the flight attendant came back and asked him once again to turn off his phone, which he did…. And immediately took another cellphone from his briefcase and started using it. So again the flight attendant told him (confused by the way) to turn off the phone. She looked at me with a deja vu face and I asked her (joking) “do you want me to throw him off the plane? We started laughing and the guy next to me started looking at us with this “wut?” face. That whole experience was kinda bizarre

@74 Gear a lot of really good information. The phone one is something I try to explain people. Especially the battery drain. I think it drains like 2-3 times faster if you don't turn Airplane mode on

I've flown and ridden in quite a few aircraft types. The only one that did not have seat belts was the GOODYEAR BLIMP. It suprised the hell out of me, but it was one of the most memorable flying experiences I've had.