When I had passed my Instrument Rating over 20 years ago I asked an Air Hostess upstairs 1st Class on a Virgin Atlantic 747 if I could visit the flight deck I took my Licence with me when The Captain agreed so I was thrilled however he allowed me to sit in the Captain's seat for about 3 hours with the co pilot so he could have a sleep ! I can't imagine that being allowed now ! I forgot to get my licence signed damn but I can boast I flew left hand seat with co pilot and flight engineer. This is completely true and I felt like a King !

On the maintenance side of things, we often drop the first 7 on the Boeings, the "57" or the "67" and the 777 we call a "trip 7". Were I am now we only have 2 flavors of Airbus, the 300 and 310 so we call those the "bus" and the "short bus". When ever someone, usually management, comes in for a base visit you hear the term "he/she is jumping in" or "they'll be jumping out" referring to using the jump seat. Of course on the maintenance side of things there is a whole other set of vocabulary words to learn. You could do an entire video series just on acronyms that anybody using or working on an airplane needs to know. Oh, and a lot of them change depending on the manufacturer! PD and ND or PFD and MFD, EICAS or ECAM, ACP or GCP or MCP, etc... and etc... Great video, I've been enjoying them.

For someone who has always had a fear of heights and repressed his anxiety when he flew, I want this guy the pilot my plane.

I was in a group for a seminar about Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (blueprint type), and the instructor flew all over the country, in his own plane. He said there are four general rules to flying: Blue side up, Pointy end forward, Keep the fans running, and When landing put the rollers down. I wonder if anyone else ever heard of these rules.

So when are you doing a colaboration with captain joe?😃

We truck drivers have dead head too.Its when we head to another location with an empty trailer to pick up a load.

The 777 is just called “the triple”. AKA the only Boeing that is dyslexic proof.

0:45 I was wondering. Your voice was deeper than usual.

Hi Kelsey, Charlie- pilot here (Canadian). First off, I really enjoy and appreciate your content. I fly 406s, but I worked with the guys in the 705s, and I learned my aviation lingo that way. Up here we say the last 2 numbers for the equipment. I.e 37, 67, 87, 19/20/21, 30... 777 is just 'triple'... RJ is for referring to the CRJ, and we say E90 or E75 for the Brazilian. Also, Jumpseat at one point turned into simply 'jump' - "I'm gonna ride in the jump". 'FA' does get used in conversation without too much fret... See what happens is, speech gets shortened down to as little words as possible so our frozen jaws don't fall off in this forsaken 6 month tundra.

At last I know what "Keep the blue side up" means!! Thank you, Kelsey.

I have one for you, Tarmac. I love how the media and pretty much everyone thinks there's an area of the airport called the tarmac. Every news outlet, whenever anything plane-related happens, that word will creep out. For some reason, they can't say runway, taxiway, ramp or apron.

The first was pretty interesting. Here in Germany we abbreviate the Boeing planes the other way around, we skip the first seven... and say "auf der drei sieben" oder die "acht sieben".

I think we will never defeat him during staring contest.. jk ;D

Great video! I find online written answers poor at explaining terms and It's nice to hear directly from a real pilot what certain things mean. I don't have any terms I have questions about, but I'm sure we all would love a part 2. Keep up the great work Kelsey!

I am starting my PPL training this weekend!

Wow, I only subscribed to you a few weeks ago when you were at 21,000 subscribers. Good to see your channel growing. Your content is great!

I work IT at one of the Canadian Airlines and it's just good to know some things as you may have to work with someone that is a crew member. So having these learning videos helps.

I'm not even a pilot, but I know those terms DeCaprio used were common in that time. Puddle jumpers were the little propjets used by the regionals.

One of the first things I learned is how easy it is to become disoriented in clouds. That you can think that the artificial horizon is incorrect and flip the aircraft. The instructor always said it is far easier to happen than you think and to drop your pen or clipboard if you are sure your indicator is not correct. BTW: the artificial horizon was a real ball in an oil filled glass back then and they did not always behave.

Every profession has their “inside language” and you did an excellent job explaining that of career aviation. Thanks, bob

So Sully talking about the Hudson was in the end relevant to the security of the flight :D

Im totally impressed by the quality your videos kelsey. Keep em coming!

Love this vid and all your other work Kelsey. Keep it up!

Love the new intro & editing you’re evolving into a fantastic aviation KZfaqr

These are really good videos and it is valuable to repeat them. So much good information from Kelsey.

Absolutely useful and I love this video, thank you Kelsey!!!

The book, Catch Me if You Can, ironically, is what inspired me to enter aviation.

As Usual Another great video Kelsey it's an honor watching !✈

You should collab with Captain Joe, you both have common topic

Thanx for keeping it real. 3 questions to use for a laugh or 2. "What are the 3 things a pilot can never use?" 1. The air above you. 2. The runway behind you. 3. The fuel in the truck.

Most important word in aviation is “coffee”.

Yes.... Got the video notification while I was hitting the head. Perfect time to relax and catch up on 74 gear, this made my day. Great video. Digging the intro also.

I really enjoy these videos and alot of these terms work just about the same in the ground logistics industry

I have ride in the jump seat on LIAT airlines-Caribbean; im building a "disc copter" - it works on a vortex air system, ur info keeps me updated , im not a pilot yet but study alot of helicopter system and small plane system

I worked with a teacher who was also a FA. She often did Chicago turns after school during the week. She’s retired from teaching now, but is still an FA (she was an FA first).

I’m glad you explained legs. When I saw it on the list I assumed you were talking about the actual aviation term “leg” referring to traffic pattern legs or flight plan legs.

I love finding old videos I haven't seen. Very well done. 👌

Neato! Thank you for this information! I've loaded and unloaded, and pushed out planes, and have been on a cleaning crew, and I've heard a lot of those phrases, but not knowing what they meant, and now I do! Yay!

Was a great video Kelsey 👍 same as always. Keep it up dude.

Another very informative video..love it!!

This was awesome, also can you do a video on traffic patterns and positions? ie final, base, left base, downwind etc. I’d appreciate that 👍🏼

great video as always👌🏾

Two important words....1. unable. 2. Go-around

Thank you Kelsey for explaining these terms. :)

Wow, you are fantastic, thanks for the education.

Every pilot’s favorite phrase: “Which way to the bar?”

Love the intro and ur new video style😍😍

Great stuff, thanks!

please do a part two of this!

Good stuff man, I can’t wait to get my flying dream job.

Me: *does a roll in my f22 raptor* Me: sees the ground in the sky and the sky in the ground

Great video!! I've been very curious about these terms 🙂 Also funny moment, 10:11 Darth Vader voice activated 😂

in that movie while Frank is in the plane with carl, he says he can see runway 44. which is not a possible number for a runway. 36 is as high as it can go because there is 360 degrees of a circle. not 440!!! just pointing that out...

I'm starting my training from January. Really excited about it.

my pops did a lot of jumpseating a decade ago, he was bumped from his station b/c seniority, so he would jumpseat from home to the hub and back every week. He'd fly in, do 3-13 hour shifts, then fly out for home, spend 3 days home, then back to the hub to fix more planes

Good job, glad you are better!

Superb video. Big thank you. Can you do a video translating the communications with ATC or in-flight between pilot and FO?

thanks for a great video!!!

Wow. That's great ! Tips and video. Big up ☝ 👍

@74gear.. you are a inspiration to me.. I always wanted and love to become a airline pilot. And these videos are helping me out like alot.. I just can't thank you enough ❤ much love from Maldives ❤. Keep up the good work!

I am starting on my ppl today at aviation adventures (South Africa) very exited;)

what an interesting video! thank you for that, i learned a lot from you.

Thank you for the love you put in this videos, Thank You, our great Pilot.

Good job captain

THANK YOU

Love your videos! Starting flight school this spring.

As a trucker we use deadhead. But for us it means running with an empty trailer. Also your saying "Keep the blue side up" is very similar to our saying "Keep the clean side up, dirty side down" Also we use "Turn-n-burn" the same way you use "Turn"

nice work

New subscriber, glad I came across your channel. Not a pilot, but have a keen interest in aircraft and the mechanics of flight. It would be interesting if you could talk about the 'coffin corner' at some point. Cheers!

Awesome, thanks.

OMG ! This man does not blink

As a new pilot, I used to be an airport police for many years. In F.A.R schooling, I asked "Does souls on board, Those NOT from Arkansas and Not wearing shoes?" Actually most common carriers, including Trains also transport Human remains to the destination for burial. If there was a deadly crash and aircraft was carrying dozens of dead bodies in the cargo area, they were too added to the deaths and would NOT be accurate. I very much enjoy your channel and videos. Keep up the great info, and ignore the jealous hatters.

This made my day!

Best channel for the layman on KZfaq. Thanks for the content Captain.

keep it coming my Captain, hetepu

When the video started, I was just thinking your voice was different which you also confirmed later on. Guess I've been binge-watching your videos since I noticed right away... :D

Love this video.

Thanks

can you do a similar video idea but instead, talk about different types of planes (ex:747, 767, a350, etc.)

You should go over the hand signals that pilots should know to communicate with the ground crew. Seems like the only one they can remember is ground power disconnect.

My flight experience is San Andreas to Las Venturas but this channel is underrated

I work on the ramp and we can use jump seat with flight attendants but not in the cockpit. On The Ramp, the term Turn mean we have 30-45min on the ground to offload and upload bags and get the plane back in the air.

Thank you for answering my question.

In Spain, crew who doesn’t live in their assigned base, can fly as an extra crew (not necessarily in a JS), and the act of flying from your home town to your base and viceversa is referred as to “balsear” which could be translated as “boating”

Great job! I am ramp crew and knew all of those! Lol

It would be great if you could do a video focusing on IFR radio communications. Thanks for another great video!!!!

Good video. Funny thing is that I always used the industry standard definition of turn as an out and back to the hub. But it’s different here. Leaving the hub and coming right back is an out and back. But a turn is starting at an out station, flying into the hub, and “turning” out to another out station. So we would call a SDF-MEM-MDT in the middle of the night an “AM Hub Turn”.

You are so nice in replying to most of the comments, I really feel you are doing this out of passion and I respect that. In the last few months I have been learning a lot from you and others about aviation, I watched the movies you commented on, and I enjoyed every bit of it. I wish I could meet you in person. I live in Japan, so if you ever come by, it will be my honor to take you out for say... sushi? anything you like! I have 3 pilot friends (all JAL , though one moved from JAL to JAS or something like that, he's on a health leave for diabetes, he's my neighbor and our dogs are really good friends, the other 2 are my horseback riding friends). If all works out and you can come, I might be able to arrange you meet one them, depending on their schedule; they are really wonderful people. Anyways, I hope you will get your single engine certification, Back to School! still way to go though, I will share your vids on FB. Wishing you all the best in your endeavors. A fan from Japan!

Little add on for "turns", in New Zealand at least, they're referred to almost exclusively on jets as "double bangers" or "bangers". Haven't heard it from turbo prop guys, but certainly from A320s to 777s a typical day of AKL-BNE-AKL would be a "Brisbane double banger".

Bloody Hell! I just listened to this video in the beginning and was certain there was a totally different person talking :D :D

Not words, but acronyms... My dad was a pilot, and he'd use an acronym, CIGAR TIPS pre-flight. Another one I'd hear when working at an FBO (there's another!) is a QT, a quick turn-around.

K, awesome video as usual., I listen to a lot of ATC on youtube, Maybe you could talk in more detail about ILS, Glide-slope, and Vectors. Thanks a bunch,

My husband is a truck driver and when he has to come into the truck yard and then immediately head back out he calls it a “turn & burn”. Lol.

Love your channel Kelsey. Other terms some people dont know are Flight Level. FL Not that they need to....

Hey Cap! Congratulations, your channel has improved a lot, not just the intro but also the way you speak, more enthusiastically, you catch the attention easily. I’m gonna subscribe and follow you from now on. Keep going with this great work

I always click Like button even before watching the video. That is what you earned, 747 man (I don't know how to write your name)

Hey in the future can you make a video specific on jump seating? Thanks. awesome video!

Hmmm. I was a truck driver for around 10 years and "Deadhead" means something kind of different. In trucking it means traveling without a load. I.E. if a driver were to drop off a load and then was going to be routed to his home terminal for time off they would attempt to find a load taking him in that direction. If unable to find a load for him they would "deadhead" him home meaning they'd just let him go without a load to get him home. When deadhead came up on the screen I was thinking it would mean a crew was going to take an empty plane from one airport to another.

KTBSU or Keep The Blue Side Up is also a pilot term that means stay positive, or you're on a 'good track' and keep doing what you're doing. Or at least in my experience it has been used that way, and I use it that way. Because even as you explained, if you don't have the blue side up, you're not doing too good!

It's like motorbikers when we say keep the rubber side down and the shiny side up which is basically just stay safe