How Planes Forecast Turbulence
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Sam's obsession with airline logistics deepens even further
Shouldn't he have put it on the wendover channel
I think he’s officially become a AV nerd.
As a pilot, this was very comprehensively and accurately covered.
“Pilot approved video”
@@jtgd 9 out of 10 pilots recommend this video!
What about as a non pilot?
As a pilot myself I’d say that. It was a great video and very well made well except for the horrible PIREP to be pronounced Pie-Rep pronunciation issue! 😂 😱
@@onlyaraku I am a pilot and yea I recommend it! 😊
Jet Lag: The Game's worst fear
I just lost the game....
@@kelleren4840 So did I
@@kelleren4840 L
Well not this season haha, we back to the TRAAAINNNNNNNNSSSSSSS
@@kelleren4840 Dude, uncool
I laughed WAY too hard at “lap-ple juice”
me too 😭😭😭😭
Same lmao
Same. And I felt the same way about "cat patch"! 😂
Also there's a borderline legend of a pilot taxiing during the LA earthquake and submitting a PIREP for mild turbulence on the taxiway.
Amy should be the next "guest" on Jet Lag.
No, they need to being in Grian from Seal Racketeering.
Brick salesman
She probably doesn't exist
@@wta1518 Grian from Hermitcraft
@@MagikarpMan Your life probably doesn't exist
KEEP YOUR SEATBELT ON AT ALL TIMES YOU'RE SEATED! Even at cruising phases of a flight where everything seems fine you never now if a CAT is gonna hit and you'll get a concussion from hitting the overhead bins
Yep, not sure why people hate wearing seatbelts so much
but I want to play with the cat.
Could you PLEASE do one on the logistics of airline food??
I've gotten solid meals with a lot of different components, and have no clue how they do that for 200 people at altitude.
Dennis Bunnik Travels made a great set of vids like that with Qatar airways recently! 😊
On all the flights I’ve taken recently, these meals are only provided for the dozen or fewer passengers in first class. Those in the main cabin may or may not get “snacks”.
Short answer is they're prepared on the ground in a nearby catering facility, then trucked to the airplane and (flamelessly) reheated in flight.
Great video! One minor thing, we (pilots) call PIREPS ("pie reps"). Other than that bang on! and great job with all of your videos!
i was looking for some one to say it, made me laugh.
idk I'm becoming a little partial to PIREPS ("purr reps") because of the insinuation that pilots are in fact cats
@@Nick-em3kq you're right its growin on me haha
@@Nick-em3kq Anyone who’s ever listened in on guard can confirm we are indeed cats.
Meow.
Pilot here: Quick note that wake turbulence is a big issue on take off also.
But you got the main point 100% right. Trust the professionals. Not only does no one want to see you get hurt, we don't like turbulence either!
I'm a low time private pilot, flying for almost 2 years. I have never fully understood what the lenticular cloud was, beyond what the description of the that I had to learn, which was that that are an "almond" shape cloud near mountains, that should be avoided because of turbulence. Your VERY EASY to understand graphic at 2:30 is great! I fly in Florida so I wasn't super concerned about mountain flying, but thanks for helping this turbulent concept click in my brain.
I see lenticular in Indiana every now and then. No mountains anywhere so I have no idea how they come about here.
I like how Sam is saying 'safest smoothest path' at 2:53 while showing a Jet Airways plane.
"...and if you try to water ski in it, you'll die" The delivery of this line is destroying me. XD
If you ever listen to ATC recordings (such as LiveATC) you'll hear controllers asking for PIREPs, but they'll usually use informal language like "Delta 1234, how's your ride?" or "American 5678, we've got some ride reports indicating turbulence at flight level 350"
That's unprofessional. You should always use standard ICAO phrases in ATC.
@@TheUglyGnome not that deep bro lol
@@TheUglyGnomelmao what
The 'sudden drop' turbulence is the best type. Everyone on the plane has a great time when it happens!
i enjoy it, watching everyone else tense up and panic
Can confirm, air pockets are FUN! Not so much for the pax, though..
weeeeeeeeee
@@TeklothAir pockets are not real.
Considering I just did my CBT on turbulence tools and how the different models work this is pretty spot on. the only catch is how you pronounced PIREP it should of been (PIE-REP) So you get an A-
The quality of your videos are soaring and your unique, unserious method of delivering information makes your content by far the best in class! Thank you for everything and keep up the good work, we love you!!
4:51 "Whatever you do, pop a lid on that apple juice"
Wise words from a wise man, true words to live by
It really is an engineering marvel that planes can withstand these wind turbulences, though it shows how it easy and quick it is from being in a stable condition to feeling that you're gonna crash and fall tens of thousands of feet.
Turbulence in big planes is nothin like in a cessna
Turbulence Forecast is awesome, call me weird but it is oddly theraputic looking at it before a flight, especially if it is expected that the flight path will take the flight I am on through moderate turbulence (since it allows me to mentally prepare myself).
I think about this every time I fly! Thank you for answering the questions of my soul!
I just spent all day studying advanced met theory specifically for aviation and then I hop on CZcams and HAI nails a video on the exact same concepts. Very well done.
I’m in the industry, we also collect thousands of data points from accelerometers on other aircraft cruising at similar altitudes to know how turbulent the air is. We go as far as to route aircraft around these areas to keep the ride as smooth as possible. The data is constantly updating and pushed to our company devices onboard.
Yes, another HAI plane video! I can't remember when the last HAI plane video was!
One time on a flight from NY to Iceland I woke up to the worst turbulence I’ve ever experienced. I checked the little screen on the back of the seat in front of me and turns out we were flying into a 168mph head wind. Wild times.
I would just like to say that as a glider pilot, we *LOVE* mountain wave. We are able to get to crazy altitudes without an engine! Like upwards of 15000ft! In the Andes there is a special pressurized glider that has gotten to around 90000ft or something ridiculous! We also love thermal currents, which are more common where we are. On a warm day you can fly under cumulus clouds and easily gain several thousand feet, as high as cloud base, basically.
I live in Santiago, Chile, nearby the glider's club and it's super fun to see them fly pretty high near the mountains. I once trekked to the top of the Manquehue hill (not technically part of the Andes, though) and a glider came pretty close to the top and did a cool stunt to all the people that were there.
@@franug Wow thats amazing!
I've once had a flight that when i went on vacation to Mexico, and somewhere mid flight we've dropped 100 meters in just a few seconds. Turbulance was expected, but not so severe.
It was a real free fall.
Top 4 things you can do as a passenger to help avoid turbulence if you care:
1) Pick your plane - some aircraft handle turbulence better than others ie. Boeing 787-9 or -10
2) Pick your airline - some airlines are more/less willing to fly through thicker turbulence and are willing to spend more to avoid it for passenger experience. Also som airlines just have a general more laxed approach to turbulence that makes passengers more comfortable ie. US carriers vs many international
3) Pick your flight day - take a look at apps like Turbulence forecast , Turbli, Flight Radar to check out what you might experience on your route
4) Pick your seat - try to sit near the front or over the wings as that is closer to the center of gravity and experiences less movement than the rear
"planes use data to predict the safest, smoothest flight plan possible"
unless you're flying ryanair 😘
I really hope you do an in depth on Dispatchers. We're so misunderstood!
I really like your plane fact videos they make me feel a little better about air travel
Really good video, the only note is “pireps” is pronounced pie reps as in the the pi in pilot.
I remember I was on a flight landing in Kozhikode India. It was during monsoon season so turbulence was not kind. I believe the pilots actually excecuted a missed approach and went around and the second time I didnt even know we'd landed till I saw a light on the apron. As soon as I reached the terminal I bolted straight to the restroom and met my lunch again.
I thought the planes had forsaken us.
It's great to see them back.
And always cool to hear about logistics and modelling!
Your best video yet!! Awesome!
I wonder if the CAT also makes that meowing sound I hear on guard all the time..
Wake turbulence might appear innocent but it's the most deadly. For example shortly after 9/11 a plane crashed in Queens because wake turbulence snapped its tail off.
American 587 is the the flight you’re talking about. The tail snapped off because the pilot was overreacting to the turbulence. “Unnecessary and excessive” as the NTSB put it. If the pilot hadn’t touched the controls everything would have been fine. Tragic. Poor training is probably more to blame.
@@KannabisMajoris Yeah, wake turbulence IS the most dangerous, but also the most easily avoided: you know where it's going to be. It's only dangerous because it occurs so close to the ground (it's also the most severe when planes are heavy, clean, and slow, which is exactly what they are when they takeoff), and if you're not expecting it can throw you off. So while the statement by Crazee Lazee is true, his reason is completely wrong haha. I would guess you already knew all this but was just commenting for others.
"... Eddies in the troposphere..."
Is he indeed.
I guess there’s a whole lotta turbulence
I forget if sam actually lives in Colorado or just randomly chose it to use as his main example place, but the mechanical turbulence in the state is pretty gnarly because of the rockies.
He lives in Aspen iirc
@@oliviapg Gotcha, lore updated. It would make sense.
Great writing Amy👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I never probably seen so funny made but also so accurate aviation video. This is great.
i gotta admit the animation and graphics of hai vids recently is so good, whatever change was made was a great decision
Great Video!!
I'm a 737 pilot for a major US airline and I didn't even know half this stuff. Awesome.
I love the new video quality
Ive been watching his channels for a while. I listen to them on my way to jobs. And on my way home. There hilarious.
Predicting icing is very important, likely causes more crashes.
I have survived both icing over Lake Ontario, and clear air daytime turbulence over Utah. 1,000 ft instant no warning drop.
Starting a four day trip tomorrow. I now have a dare with myself to at some point report a "light cat patch" on the radio.
I myself as a sailplane pilot love wave and thermal turbulence. It keeps me flying 😅
Nice to know this since I'm flying today!
Amy is my favorite part of these videos
If you don't want turbulence, don't fly over Brazil. I've never flown over Brazil without it. On the bright side, is the best wake up call.
I'm slightly disappointed that you didn't send Amy on a plane to see if she would encounter turbulence.
*„HA HUH LAPPLE JUICE“* 1:09
I must be getting old, I actually lol'd at "Lapple Juice"
As a pilot, this vid was very accurate and well done. Except at 4:17 we call them "pie-reps" not "puhreps" :)
4:18 the correct pronounciation of PIREP (shortening of "pilot report") is "PIE-repp".
Thanks again
Impressive animations!
One of my flights took this weird zig zag route to avoid turbulence from Atlanta to Chicago, and it made the flights from 2 to 3 hours
We also use an App that uses the accelerometers in our iPads to upload turbulence data. It gathers data from hundreds of different planes and depicts the rides on a chart.
Great video! Maybe a quick explanation of what each category of the turbelences mean would have been good? ^^
Like that moderate turbulence means that the pilot want to request to move out of it, but they maintain control of the plane ^^
Thanks!
0:41 that’s not the symbol for light turbulence, you repeated the moderate symbol twice
Solid info in this video, I know its a dumb gripe but PIREP's is supposed to be pronounced "pie-reps" not "per-reps" short for pilot-reports hence the "pie" sound.
It's usually pronounced pie-reps for pilot reports, but calling them purr-reps works in this case because it's discussing CAT
Yay we’re back to aviation videos!!!
Finally another plane video
For as many airplane/airline industry videos Sam''s done, I'm actually surprised this is the first time he's used a "pilot making an announcement" as an intro. 😂
A whole bunch of Turbulence! A whole bunch of Turbulence!
Everybody strap your seat belts, cause it's about to be some turbulence.
Actually it's forecasted by the frequency and level of panic of turbulence reports from Delta pilots heard on the radios
Hmmm not first, but was at 4 views when it loaded in my feed. Love the channel
I just flew from singapore to new york and the first thing i noticed after landing was the yellowish air
That is from forest fires to the north.
Had you been holding in a fart all that time?
Wake turbulence is much more of a factor when taking off, when landing it is much less important.
that pilot announcment was spot on
0:36 Pitch, roll, and yaw don’t include up-down, left-right, or forward-backwards movement
If someone wants to know something half as interesting, at 2:06, that's mount Cervino, in Italy
14 hours of simultaneous standing wave (mountain wave) and clear air turbulence is ... interesting.
One of your best videos yet! Quick fire jokes to the max
0:40 That plane waved bye-bye so hard it lost its arm SuperVinlin
ATC, “Fedex, how’s your ride.” FDX, “no complaints from the back”. CAT PIREPS rely upon who is reporting, when they are reporting, where they are reporting and their aircraft type. ie, somewhat in front of your aircraft, along the same route, at similar altitudes and similar wing loading. Wake turbulence can and does occur at altitude, especially with reduced vertical separations, heavy aircraft with clean wings who have been slowed for preceding traffic. As for WX radar, it only paints moisture in the air and it’s movement. Not perfect as there is shadowing and other effects that can minimize returns from stuff you truly don’t want to go in.
The flying kitten baskets when going through the 'CAT patch' >_< that shouldn't amuse me to the degree it does... *but it does*
a whole lot of TURBULENCE
I think this is the right blend between shitposting jokes and good information: well done!
when amy jetlag
Amazingly, not only is this a pretty comprehensive list of how turbulence works, it's also a pretty conprehensive list of the phenomena that allow gliders to stay airborne. (If we ignore wake turbulence)
The last time I flew, we went from Philadelphia to Austin on the first leg of the trip. Something like a 5 hour flight. We probably weren't even out of PA before the turbulence started, and it was constant all the way to Texas. Sometimes, it was just a little bumpy. Other times, it got very uncomfortable. All I knew was I was _sick_ of being on that plane.
Only critique is the wake turbulence section. I’ve definitely been sitting in someone’s wake that was 2000 feet above me. It’s more about the size of the aircraft and the winds aloft to gauge how bad the wake is going to be.
3:18 cumulonimbus cloud*
Can’t wait to see this in the end of the year error video
As a glider pilot, we don't think of mountain waves and thermals as turbulence, but as sources of free lift that can allow us to climb to tens of thousands of feet and travel hundreds of miles without an engine
A bag of eggs would have been funnier than the knife, but I appreciate the joke.
For clear air turbulence they have laser detectors being tested right now ❤
2:01 The HAI guy sits in Sam’s closet yelling at him like the Green Goblin
This is hyper simplified, but this is the basics. However, it should be noted that some aircraft experience more turbulence than others like high wing planes are more susceptible from thermal lifting even without sorts, than low wing planes. Heavier planes can also ride it out better than lighter ones. And sometimes CAT can be seen, or it's effects as sometimes certain forms of clouds will form in it. Sometimes.
Y’know what’s fun? Playing the windsheer alert sound when the pilots get up to go to the washroom.
I flew Jump one time and both pilots were away from the controls at the same time because I was blocking the door so it made sense for them to go at the same time. Imagine if I had played the windsheer alert sound at that moment, those guys would have shit themselves
just a random observation - the airplane illustration in the thumbnail is missing its entire left horizontal stabiliser. It needs that in order to have a flight, before it can start to worry about the smoothness of it! lol
I miss when HAI stood for Half Airplane Infovids, and half of all videos were about airplanes.
I love how he just called meteorologists "atmospheric nerds"
Am I the only one who finds turbulence on planes fun? One time I was on a flight through a massive storm and out of nowhere the plane suddenly dropped way down, it felt like a roller coaster!