Some say he used to be Britains most mysterious racing driver, others say he loves fixing jets, all we know is he’s called ‘The Stig.’

Ooh! Landscape format as promised; looks great. Thank you Stig for this epic length compilation of four busy days. Just love to see all these details!

CON would be for continuous ignition. Used on rainy conditions to force the ignition in case it's needed. (I hope I'm right...). Also, I really love your videos! It's clear that you love and take pride on your work. Please, keep them coming, as they give us a unique chance to look into this awesome world.

You know you're good when the office comes to you!

Thank you brother!!! I'm 61 retired and I still miss it. Now I watch your videos, keep up the good work man!!!

I’ve been stuck on this channel ever since discovering it 😂 plane love cannot be explained

Stih, I just found your channel today. Excellent job of explaining aviation content from the maintenance/technical side of things. I have great respect for you and your collogues as I am a recently retired pilot with AA after 36 years. I ended my career flying the 787 from the left seat. Best airplane I ever flew. It is truly a remarkable machine. Many, many thanks for keeping all these beautiful airplanes in tip-top shape. Knowing how good the maintenance was on the airplane I flew for AA game me a sense of confidence and trust knowing she was airworthy and SAFE. Thanks again, Stig

Con- constant ignition source…igniters poppin 🎉

Sir, your dedication and enthusiasm generates much goodwill for AA. Goodwill is a priceless commodity which attracts loyal customers and it takes time to generate by providing great service and commitment. The world owes a lot to aviation personnel. Thank you for your down-to-earth insights into your profession.

As an enthusiast for aviation I love this kind of content. Also your personality, enthusiasm and good vibes are amazing!

😂 I’m always watching the Ramp crew loading bags, the wing walkers and others. I am at the ready for them to look up at me staring through the window, and I’ll wave and always give a smile. When they do see me I almost always get a return wave and smile. Great video as always Stig!!

OMG, I love this channel. Can literally watch this for hours. Thank you Stig, you're awesome. So jealous of your job. Keep it up :) and keep the videos coming, can't get enough of them.

As a proper avgeek, and dreaming of beginning as a flightattendent and move on to becoming a pilot, it really makes my day when you post these long videos! Keep them coming!! Greeting from the other side of the world in the mountain and fjord filled Norway!🇳🇴 😊

I love airports at night. Theres just something about it.

Stig you need a gopro dude! That would be awesome, if your boss allows it. Believe it or not you’re probably shining a lot of light to your career, I’d consider you a recruiter if I was your boss.

Hey, my grandpa used to be a lead mechanic for Avianca. That sort of inspired me to love aviation. I love these videos, great footage quality, knowledge and narration. Please keep it up!

I have always loved aviation, but growing up life got in the way couldn’t follow my dreams. Your channel is amazing. Thank you for sharing and learning something new every day.

Stig thank you for all your hard to ensure our safety. I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for a busy 4 days and the epic compilation of this video . I love to see how these magnificent planes operate and what all goes into them . Thank you for showing us what you do at work . Always appreciate you .

Hi Stig, First time watching yours video, you got a Dream Job. Love it every minute of it, it's not boring at all. Tons of information, loved it, now i will watch all your video's from the beginning, THANKS FOR SHARING..

Makes sense that it uses Win XP. The 300ER was launched in 2003 during the XP era. Updating an OS always introduces risks to a design, so what ever OS they used during design of the plane is what would have gone through certification. So, it will have to stay XP. You are absolutely right that XP is stable in terms of bug fixes. I reckon the new 777-8 and 9 will be the best plane ever built taking existing 777 tech to the next level. Can't wait to see that in the skies in 2025. Oh how I love looking at those GE9x engines ❤

Great video Stig! My son and I both enjoyed it. Thank you for working those holidays so we can travel in safety and comfort!

Nothing beats B777 arriving and turns into the gate! Majestic !

Just fantastic. Thank you for your service.

Thanks!

Love the channels and the great content. Makes me appreciate and love aviation more!

as a pilot with 7 years of experience in commercial Aviation, not much happens that we learn about ramp missions by engineering dept. Since after every flight pilots need to leave aircraft pretty soon, for next crew or night stops. But today I just learned a lot from this great complete video of you 😊

Fascinating as always!

Con - Continuous Ignition. For flight into heavy precipitation, heavy dust or severe icing. Engine is then more resilient to flame-outs under extreme conditions.

Awesome channel brother, thanks for keeping them flying safe!

I just found your channel and love it. Brings me back to the day when I worked at the airport! Great videos!

Keep ''em coming!

Glad to see the effort you take to put out these videos with details. Excellent job mate

Ohhh finally, wide screen! Thank you 👍👌😁

That was awesome

Another incredible show thanks

Just found your channel and I really enjoy it. Very interesting stuff and details on aircraft maintenance, a whole new world to me ! Thank you for sharing your daily job with such passion and fun. Cheers from France !

These videos are absolutely amazing. Me being a aviation nerd, this is much appreciated. Thank you

Perfect! Your videos are so good! Greetings from Brazil

I'm a computer engineer, and I know something about the windows XP thing! People give XP a bad rap, especially surrounding crashing. What people don't realize is that windows XP is actually a very well tested system, the issue is that back in the XP times, many (if not all) drivers were Kernel-Mode, meaning that they ran at the lowest levels of the system. The kernel is responsible for system management and core operating system functions, things like memory management, process handling, and especially crash handling. The kernel as provided by Microsoft is very well tested, to very high standards. The drivers provided by companies on the other hand, especially fly-by-night operations that are gone the year after the device is released? Not so much. And when a program in the Kernel-Mode crashes or sucks up a whole bunch of memory due to a memory leak, it will take the entire system down with it, because the kernel is powerless to stop it as it normally would. So the system is more than stable enough to be able to handle the functions it has been given (it wouldn't be there if it wasn't), provided that the drivers are up to scratch.

Thank you for sharing such a detailed way off everything on airplane I enjoy it

This Chanel is awesome definitely looking into this career

Another fantastic video. I worked the ramp for Delta in San Antonio, TX for 6 years par time. I loved it! Keep the videos coming.

nice video keep it coming !

As a long time ramp guy, really loving your content.

Love the content!

Thank you stig for sharing as a apprentice at spirit and going to school to get my AMP, I really appreciate the videos

You did a fabulous job with this. Thank you for holding the camera, you're amazing and I love to meet you. I retired from American 11 years ago and you bring back so many

Some of the absolutely best content online. Thank you for taking us along! Speaking of parts for the aircraft, many years ago I used to do basically the same job you do now, only military. The thing I loved was strangely the look and feel of the parts. Especially the nuts and bolts. They just felt good in your hand and you knew they were the right stuff and would deliver. Miss that. Cheers

Great Great Great video Stig! I love them all!! Please keep doing them. Your videos are so amazing with the information you provide and getting insights on the operations and new information that you teach that we wouldn't learn otherwise if we didnt have you. Thank you for the great videos! Also you're daily/repetitive activities you say are great! Please keep showing them! I love to see it each and everytime.

Thank you so much for landscape! Amazing footage on my tv! Great content and commentary as always!

Dog Gammit!! i was looking for a channel with content like this and finally found it. Thanks Stig for putting cool content. I always wondered when travelling how some of this stuff work & nice to have someone explain this.

Just keep doing those videos!!❤

Thanks for sharing! keep doing the work letting the flying public know what we deal with daily. Big ups from your fellow flight technician.

Just stumbled on your channel, coming up on 6 months of being an A&P mechanic for a small regional airline starting out my career! Awesome videos!

The CFM Leap 1A is gorgeous!

This is awesome that you get to record this stuff

YES! I'm 10 minutes in and I'm hooked I love it! I'm such a dork for cool details like this !Thank you please keep 'em comin like this. I always wonder.. hmmm what's that?

Thanks for the videos! Brings back lots of great memories as a kid. My dad was a mechanic for Saudia Airlines and he brought me to work with him a few times back in the early 90s. One time my dad let me taxi a 747 that they were getting ready to push back and move to a hanger. He put me into the plane through the nose gear and I got to sit in the captain seat and taxi it with one of his co workers in the first officers seat. Was interesting to see the steering wheel on the left and not the yoke.

I guess such videos are more effective than Instagram stories. We can catch all week in single video without missing anything 👌👍

Just started as an apprentice mechanic at Heathrow, great to see what I’ve got to look forward to in the future. Keep up the good work Stig thank you for the videos!

I love your videos man! I wish I had your attitude at my job!🤣 keep it up

I remember working on the Maintenance Engineering reviews when the MD-90 was in early production, Working MD-11s primarily, I had asked a the (young) cognizant engineer about the cargo fire detection system and he laughed at me "there's no room for any of that!" I believe 6 months later, ValuJet 592 happened. That same engineer and I were discussing that accident and in a wide eyed manner, he asked me if I knew that they were on fire during taxi and takeoff - which I hadn't. No indication of high temp or smoke because there was no system at that time on the DC-9 - the light crew had no idea until it was too late. He said it changed his perspective on everything.

keep showing everything

That AA triple 7 at :43 just BEAUTIFUL WOWWW

My new CNC machines run on Windows XP proprietary to the brand. Windows does this with many companies. I really enjoy your videos, thank you for sharing.

Thank you stig im watching 😊

As a former Boeing engineer on the 777 floor structure. You have excellent and informative videos on commercial aviation maintenance

Love this stuff Stig. I’m in school to be a mechanic. I haven’t been able to find anyone doing videos like this at all in the industry except for you! You’re opening my eyes to what I’m in for haha!

I enjoy it

Awe man walking under that 777 wow! 😍

@40:51 Continuous ignition for bad weather. Keeps the stuff on to make sure the engine doesn't inadvertently shut down in certain weather conditions.

people like you are why im always happy to be flying out of LAX

I love the correct camera position! Thank you dude! It really does change the video for the better

I was run up/taxi qualified on the 727/767/&757 during my time at AA. I WAS ALSO IN ONE OF THE FIRST 777 GenFam classes at DFW. At that time AA only had 777-200s

nice video

U the best

Continuous ignition 👍

I remember I was a lowly janitor at a corporate jet hanger at our local airport and me and the A&P mechanic and the security guard were the only ones on duty one day and the mechanic let me help him how to do a run test on a jet engine. He instructed me on how to safely approach the engine while running and I stood under the engine while it was running then climbed into the co-pilot seat while the mechanic taxied us out for a couple of full throttle runups. That was just a small engine on a Cessna Citation so I can imagine what a big RR,PW or GE engine is like. Coolest thing I ever did.

CON = continuous ignition. Sets igniters to run constantly to help prevent flame out in situations such as heavy rain or for some takeoff. What can I say, I'm a flight sim guy.

Airplanes are so much more than flying metal tubes.

Oh I'm learning. I'm learning alot. I'm an active junior line technician. And am pausing trying to memorise things you are saying. (So i can impress my seniors that is😂)

The 777 is the best looking plane! Another great video brother thanks!

Man STIG I love your videos you’re such a positive person and I can tell a very impressive A&P mechanic who really loves what he does and that’s freaking awesome in itself.. I look forward to seeing your next video I love it I love I love it lol I’m such an aviation geek myself and kick myself in the ass I didn’t go the route you did which is what I wanted to do. I use to work on DC-8s for Emery Worldwide here in Sacramento until sadly an aircraft went down after losing their COG after takeoff killing all 3 pilots and Emery worldwide cargo going out of business shortly after. I also sold parts for textron aviation for a while but wasn’t happy there anyway it’s nice to see someone who’s loves aviation like a lot of us thanks Stig

man, i enjoy seeing this stuff even though i work there for inflight catering, we not allowed to see stuff like this beside inside the plane lol

She is a beautiful aircraft

Man you sound so happy to not have to deal with this cold weather... lol

Awesome as usual and horizontal is soooo much better! 😁

21:00 as someone more into I.T, we relate. People who run Networks indefinitely, people on the reliability engineering sides, monitoring, they too mostly work countless. The internet doesn't stop, we don't either :)

All hail T7! Such a perfect beauty.

Continuous!

I agree with that's con

It’s really interesting to see all the checks done between flights, I had no idea so many checks were done before ETOPs flights. It’s no wonder aviation is so safe these days, so many overlapping layers of safety! Makes me feel very safe :)

I can remember the first time I flew on one of Air New Zealand's 777-300 aircraft ZK-OKM and when the engines started up and made that mooing sound, I was grinning from ear to ear. I spotted one of my national airline's planes next to the Turkish Airlines(biofuel) jet. Yes I know what it is like as I work in hospitality and the things I have had to sacrifice like weekends, summer holidays etc. Nice sound of the IAEV2500. Air NZ has A320's with these and A320/A321NEOS and our NEOs are due to have their engines looked at because of an issue the P&W engine. What is continuous ignition on a jet engine? In a jet engine, the term "continuous ignition" refers to both automatic and pilot selectable activation of the ignition system in circumstances other than during the start cycle. Also I collect anything do to with airlines, aircraft too. I have recently bought a window that belonged to a ex Ryanair 73-8 reg(EI-DAG) which was converted to a freighter and now flies for ASL Airlines in Belgium. Look forward to more videos. See you.

more oil please love it

Stig great video again, The ITA is a stunning livery yeah, did you ever see the Condor green and white stripe livery? my fave is the Aer Lingus A330, I love the oil changes by the way 😉 👌

Please show us more videos of the Dreamliner's cockpit and its features. Thank you. Stig, I love you brother❤.

Hi Stig, I'm north of you in moses lake wa. And was able to watch the 777 doing flight maneuvers when in development. Was lucky enough to meet some of the engineers and was told that what I was seeing was the stress testing of the aircraft. The plane has no passenger seats and weights are used to get max weight and they have hundreds of meters to detect stress of the plane when they do maneuvers above what the plane would normally do it was amazing how the pilots would do everything just short of barrel rolls to test the airframe. Boeing uses moses lakes old Larson airforce B-1 bomber base to test aircraft. In fact all the grounded 737s were all flown here for retrofit. Nothing compared to the sight of a couple hundred planes parked in one area. Your video's sure show a side of aviation that most never see, what's interesting is you know more about the aircraft than the pilots. Enjoy your videos,very educational. Sorry about the novel length comment.😊

keep em coming. curious if Management has ever had thoughts on these videos.

loving the videos have an idea have you though about getting a go pro head cam that would be cool loving the work thoe never really seen stuff like this its pretty rare in the uk

Stig, I so appreciate you and the job you do. For me, who is a nervous flyer, you help me to fly. I have a question: Are all maintenance engineers as matriculation as you. Please continue to do your tutorials they so inform me. You and your team are unsung heroes. Cj from Barbados 🇧🇧