It was a really cool push to watch!

I know! It was crazy!

Sky Harbor is a pit.

Tug pushing against a lot of weight

And pretty fast too.

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No the music is a nice touch with this video and our widebody pushback tractor. The whole time you turn the steering wheel it makes a screeching sound...so annoying for a video

Thank you!! 😁

Welcome aboard!

Hello to my Canadian fellow ramper! Thanks for subscribing! I love the Dreamliner! Thank you for subscribing!

@@ladyandtheramp you're very welcome! 🙏🏿

Thank you very much!

Glad you enjoyed it 😁

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Thanks so much! 👋😁

Many thanks!!😁

Thanks for the subscription! 😁

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Wasn’t that a crazy cool push? I have heard lots of other ways to do it. But it was sure fun to ride with him 😁

I am surprised at how much I enjoy it!! I hope you are enjoying whatever you are doing now! Thank you for the encouragement! 😁

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I will be more aware the next time I record!

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No idea 🤷‍♀️! I do love my job…maybe others do too! I have fallen in love with all these big aircraft. 😁

@ladyandtheramp if I were younger (65 now) and had it all to do over again, I would have gotten my pilots license with my dad paying for my training. I chose not to go to college, and took a carpentry job out of high school. Oh well.

Those engines are humongous! 😁

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How exciting! The ingestion zone is 15 feet in front of the engine. And usually they start the number 1 engine which is on opposite side of the wing Walker that disconnects the tue bar and communication line. Just keep your head in a swivel and follow protocol. Get in good habits :) . It is a great job!

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There are restrictions on where the wing walkers can go. They are not allowed to go beyond the zippered line into the active taxiway. So they are following along at the zipper line.

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It is a great plane! I hope you get to fly on it someday! 😁

Comms with the flight deck.

It was lined up directly on the taxiway that leads to the runway :)

Yes! You are correct they needed him tail north (so nose pointed south) on Sierra to go over the bridge. I think they didn’t want the plane to go over the Charlie taxiway to the north too much. So they had to pull it out a ways from the gates to the East and give them enough room to put the tail north on Sierra.

Don’t second guess her. You don’t know all of what she did. Good grief!

@@RioJudy She doesn't get to decide where to put the plane. ATC, ground control, or ramp control, will give the pilot clearance to push and in what direction depending on which runway they want the plane to use. Her job is to put the plane where they want it. I am very familiar with the PHX airport (I also livestream planespotting here on my channel) so my point was simply that it seemed to me that they could push tail east from the end of that pier, but maybe they didn't want to block other traffic from moving. This appears to be gate A26 - I've never seen a 787 at that gate before!

​@@RioJudyShe didn't do anything actually besides put this on her channel

My company does not do cargo planes. Although we carry cargo and freight…all of our fleet are commercial passenger aircraft 😁

Pushed from gate A30 making a near 180 to the south and then making a full 180 degree turn back towards the north onto taxiway Sierra from a marker called India 2 and stopping there just short of the movement area line or holding point at the intersection of Sierra and Charie.

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👋😁 that is awesome!

I don’t recall on this exact flight ✈️

That is the bypass pin. It bypass the hydraulic system. It is inserted prior to pushing the aircraft, giving the control of the plane to the ground crew. When the push is completed and the brakes are set…the pin is pulled returning control to the flight deck. 😁

Thanks for the reply!

Only American. 😁

Most pushback drivers have them start #1 closer to the end of the push due to not wanting that force to go against the push tug as they are still moving.

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That was stock audio within the editing software 😁

Oh I actually do not know! It is super low geared..made for power. There is a 3rd gear… I will have to double check to see about the speedometer! I have never noticed them 😁 I typically push by feel.

@@ladyandtheramp tx again Jessica! :) i really enjoy your video, and enjoy when u reply to peolple!! tx again for ur kindness!! much appreciate to see someone who loves her job that much too!!!! will have a special tough if i ever go back to any airport :)

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@@ladyandtheramp udo U pushback others international airline aircraft's from appron? I mean lot Polish airlines?🤔🍻👊

Only American Airlines aircraft

@@ladyandtheramp u have video from inside aircraft 🤔

Thanks for the suggestion! On the other videos we omitted the music 😁

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In this case, there is an active taxiway to the north and to the west. So the tower cleared the taxiway to the west for then to set the plane on. Typically we never disconnect on the taxiway…but this being a wide body, they had to. He had to pull it away from the gates so as to not hit the other aircraft and then not go any farther north because of that taxiway. It was actuality a really cool push to ride along on 😁

The tower tells where they want the plane to be dropped or released at. It is up to the pushback driver to get the plane to that point. At PHX we have several different lines designating different parts of the gate, alleyway and taxiway. So usually the pushback driver uses those as their markers or guide lines.

Coming out of this end gate…there are several challenges. There is an active taxiway just to the north and and active taxiway to the west. Then the gates with planes on them to the east. So the tower cleared traffic on both taxiways. So pushed the tail south to clear the north taxiway and the gates. Then pushed tail north and set him up right on the taxiway to the runway. It was like a giant S curve.

@@ladyandtheramp thanks ! It's all very complicated but I would have liked to do pushback instead of refueling 🙃😏

Great video! I would love to see a diagram of it.

This end gate is bound be 2 active taxiways. One on the north side and west side. Then since the wingspan is so wide on the 787, the other challenge is the concourse with planes in the gates on the east side. So almost all traffic on 2 taxiways has to stop and in the alleyway by the concourse. We had to push tail north at the beginning to get the aircraft out and away from the concourse. Then tail south to get out of the north taxiway. And give enough room as to not hit the planes at the gates. And then back tail north again to get on the north/south taxiway to set him up to go to the correct runway.

@@ladyandtheramp A magnificent job backing!

There are several reasons. - typically they don’t put wide bodies at that gate. So it has to go a lot farther out to start as to not hit the other aircraft in the gates. - the tower also directed the push driver to put the aircraft onto the actual taxiway. Which is also not standard. - and to put it tail north (typically we do tail south) so that when the aircraft is released it is positioned correctly on the taxiway to allow them to go forward in the proper direction - during this push, all other traffic was paused. Which is kind of a big deal. They created a lot of space for the large aircraft so as to not even come close to having other traffic interfere and possibly causing any type of collision.

@@ladyandtherampthanks for the explanation on this one. Very interesting.

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Our biggest plane in our fleet is the triple 7. The Boeing 777

@@ladyandtheramp really I made the assumption that 787 was newer/bigger lol

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I know :( Our mechanics take great care of our fleet. I see first hand how if anything is wrong, it is always checked. Even if it is a clip on a net that doesn’t work. I appreciate being able to see “behind the scenes” a bit and see the constant vigilance on safety :)

Really distracting.

Mhm, that means no edit

The person that created this wanted music. This person needed music. you don’t need music. Mute it. Why ask other people to conform to what you want? Let everyone make their own decisions for themselves……. I might not have added the music personally, but I’m not the one creating this. I’m not the one taking the tie to do this to share with other people. Other people who should be grateful and appreciative, in my humble opinion. If you don’t believe in music, don’t add music. You don’t believe in anything, don’t force other people to have to think like you do.

I liked the music, it added to the video

Good atmospheric music..

Yeah that is what we use 👍

that's why they have training. After a while you get used to the different positions and how to maneuver the aircraft to them

I agree!! 😁

It is called the Dreamliner. The 787-900 came into service in 2014. We have seen more of them at our station, typically on long, cross country flights of international flights to London Heathrow :)

Ha ha :) I have learned my lesson on that one!