A Day in the Life Flying a 747 Freighter
A candid view of some of the practicalities and less glamourous side of life flying a 747F freighter around Asia. The pilot highlights the early starts, and how the idea of the 747F’s cockpit printer would have seemed so cool as a student pilot, but he cannot recall why?! Other aspects of the video illustrate some of the standard operating procedures (SOP) as a freighter crew member, plus the quality of the food! To take...
Spectacular glider touchdown in the rain
https://youtu.be/0tIGLZUFHIQ?si=XJGtKfZHhsyW-PX6 This landing was filmed on the final day of the first EGlide competition and is a nice chance to get a brief sightseeing tour of the historic Italian city of Pavullo nel Frignano, in the province of Modena. The EGlide formula is reserved for electric aux-powered sailplanes. Each sailplane has an allowance for a defined energy quota to be used during the mission. Ultimately pilots can...
USAF Texan II pre flight inspection and training mission video
Follow Maj Johnathan Leech, call sign: Linc, for an in-depth walk around of the T-6 Texan II and for a training mission. The T-6 Texan II is the primary training aircraft for the United States Air Force (USAF), and is used to introduce students to military flying. Some students will have zero flight hours (FH) while others will already have gained a private pilot pilots licence (PPL) beforehand. After an initial pilot briefing Maj...
DA42 engine failure during take-off demo
Diamond Aircraft demonstrate a engine failure after take-off (EFATO) in its multi engine DA42NG aircraft. The single engine flight characteristics were conducted with cutting the engine at various heights, starting from 50ft down to rotation. A successful land-back was demonstrated in all instances, with a subsequent demonstration of a safe continued flight after an engine failure at 50ft. All engine failures had docile handling...
Bought ‘sight unseen’: cheap KitFox gets inspected!
At FTN Towers we are quickly falling for the ‘will it start’ and ‘I bought the cheapest…’ craze of YouTube videos. What is more exciting is that a number of popular influencers are now moving away from aging ‘barn find supercars’ and ‘rusty old Cadillac’s’, and into light planes. In this video Rebuild Rescues inspects a early 1980’s KitFox series one, that it purchased...
How glider pilots use thermal lift
This short video illustrates the principles of thermal lift and talks about how glider pilots can stay airborne for hours by convection and harvesting natural resources to sustain flight. Thermals are columns of rising air that are formed on the ground through the warming of the surface by sunlight. If the air contains enough moisture, the water will condense from the rising air and form cumulus...
