She's blind. I'm blindfolded. We're going to fly a plane.
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- čas přidán 4. 02. 2022
- @lucyedwards invited me to join her to try flying a plane, with the folks from Aerobility. She's blind. I was blindfolded. And it was... an experience. ■ LUCY: / lucyedwards ■ AEROBILITY: aerobility.com ■ Audio description available on supported devices
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Series Producer/Director: Kirsten Taylor
Assistant Producer: Han Evans
Editor: Olly Newport
Camera Operator: Jamie MacLeod
Sound Design: Dan Pugsley | www.cassinisound.com/
Executive Producers: Cambria Bailey-Jones, Guy Larsen
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Thank you to Chad, Harvey and the team at Aerobility www.aerobility.com/
Audio description and captioning provided by the Described and Captioned Media Program, dcmp.org/ which is funded by the US Department of Education - Zábava
The strangest part of all this for me was after we landed: I took the blindfold off, and the plane cockpit looked absolutely nothing like I'd assumed. It felt like I'd suddenly teleported!
wow
What an interesting concept for a video!
No algorithm could predict Tom Scotts next video topic
These videos where you challenge yourself to learn something new makes me smile so much. It's so refreshing to see some child-like amazement and optimism!
I watched this in audio descriptive mode just because I wanted to see what it was like and honestly thats very cool!
Don't try this at home:
- It is very dangerous
- Good luck fitting a plane inside of your house.
"Good luck fitting a plane inside of your house." That's the dangerous part
I could remove some walls ...
@@MrOserios its not getting the plane in the house thats the dangerous bit
its doing so while keeping your house intact!
I would think "borrowing" one would be the hardest bit.
*Laughs in El Al 1862*
"I decided over time that the interest outweighted the fear, so I came here to conquer that phobia."
I have to say that is one of the best lines I've heard in quite some time.
That guy looked so happy, and just like a great dude
Considering 90+% of pilots have a fear of heights, they’re not alone in that. Whether the job attracts the fear or it’s a conditioned response to the job is the question
@@connormclernon26 almost everyone has fear of heights, its just that it is to a varying degree.
@@connormclernon26 And then there's the people who became pilots to conquer their fear of dying alone.
@@lonesome3958 totally badass and braver than i ever will be. cool dude
Honestly Tom is the first CZcamsr I've seen where his "Second" channel isn't some low budget, low effort content, but some of the most interesting, entertaining and diverse videos on the platform
Internet Historian's second channel is also really good. Not many youtubers make content on the second channel on par with the main one but its always nice to see
Technology Connections 2 is a case study in a said low-cost, low-effort second channel. Anyone else have any other good case studies of similar second channels?
just realized this wasnt the main channel
WHAT? This is the second channel?
Just checked, I thought I was seeing the main channel content for a week now..
@@notyours5780 Exactly what i thought. Glad to see other people of true culture.
Thank you so much for coming down Tom and Lucy. Definitely one of my more interesting days at work!
Thanks for all the great work you do at Aerobility! We loved your energy in this video!! :D
@@Cerise4697 it’s a pleasure. We have a great team. Plus, I don’t often get described as energetic so cheers 😃
@@harveymatthewson2243 You're awesome!
@@savyasachirawat thank you dude! Your too kind.
You were brilliant in this video. Wasn't expecting this video to be this fun to watch.
Honestly this was such an amazing experience! Thank you Tom, your team and the lovely people at Aerobility for having me! It may have been slightly scary but it was so fun!
Very cool of you
Awesome work! You are a definitely a gifted presenter that's for sure! It's not often where someone is occasionally carrying Tom through the presentation, usually it's the other way round! 🤣👍
This is awesome. You're awesome. Great video
this was absolutely awesome! however when you thought you were turning left and were actually turning right, and making it "worse" you perfectly demonstrated the phenomenon a lot of pilots even with perfect vision experience at night or in clouds, called spatial disorientation, where they effectively fly themselves into the ground because their brains are telling them they are in a configuration that they are not
Thank you for moving disability inclusion so far forward. Accessibility is my life's work and passion so this moved me to tears. THANK YOU
It was great to work with you and your team on captions and audio description for this video! This one was a lot of fun!
Can I ask why the captions on this video are on the video itself instead of the regular CZcams caption feature? Just wondering what's the advantage of that :)
Great work of course
@@SimonS44 I'd guess because it will probably help all viewers with all the noise. Also this way the captions can be positioned anywhere, I don't know if that's supported with regular captions.
@@arifijan
Regular captions can be positioned (just like they can be colour-coded), though most CZcamsrs-even the ones who add proper captions to their videos-don’t typically use those features. However, Tom has often used burnt-in captions instead of closed captions when there’s a lot of noise and distortion in his videos, usually due to them being filmed on a plane.
@@ragnkja but not all of this video takes place in noisy environments. The subtitles here are burnt in through the whole video.
@@natts
Yes, just as they are in the few other videos with (non-translated) burnt-in subtitles.
It's so funny having the blind person tell the blindfolded person how good they were doing while the instructor is like, we just turned 120 degrees and you had no idea.
Well... It's the blind leading the blind :D
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What a cool thing this Aerobility is.
Also "he qualified about an hour ago" was jarringly funny.
Right? I had to rewind a bit because I was laughing and missed part of the video
Harvey's sense of comedy is fantastic.
What a character. Was in absolute pieces after that joke. Hilarious
I know right XDD
Imagine the terror I would have had if I heard that-
"jarringly funny"
Were you unaware of the fact that people with disabilities also have a sense of humour?
Ooh, I never knew CZcams supported alternate audio tracks until this! Of course it's Tom Scott who makes me aware of that.
Most CZcamsrs aren't as savvy as Tom
What does the alternate track do?
@@Dra3oon adds descriptions of the video
@@Dra3oon Audible descriptions of anything that's happening, so that blind people can also enjoy the video
I also don't think many youtubers in general know about this
"How many cars?"
"A lot"
That (unintentional?) dad joke is so right for the mood in the rest of the video up until the 7 minute mark (where I am right now).
Laughed so much, and I needed that badly. So thanks to everyone involved.
Genius.
random fact: Those are the blackbushe car auctions... back in 2015, an aircraft made a terrible attempt at a landing (no doubt under duress from the passenger) overshot the end of the runway and ended up in the auction site, killing 3 members of the Bin Laden family!!
@@njones420 what
@@dontspikemydrink9382 true story :)
It was a Phenom 300 Jet.
@@njones420 The Bin Laden twist was quite a shock!!
On the ground: Bird chirpping, gentle breeze.
In the air: Hysterical shrieking.
...sounds about right.
8:25
That bit had me laughing so hard. The editing on that was perfect.
That would be me accept more cursing envolved
Harvey's a riot! Usually when you have a "company representative" chatting with people in videos, it feels like they're reading off a script, but Harvey here... Had me giggling in a minute. He wasn't kidding about that whole being laid back part :)
Especially that “qualified an hour ago!”
@@thenegotiator9701 That made me lose my beans
agreed!!
Harvey!
(I just needed to say that...)
Harvey's a secret star of this video. Kudos to everyone involved in this video, such wonderful vibes.
Its cool that the guys from Aerobility let people with any disability experience this, regardless of whether youre blind, in a wheelchair or a youtuber.
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When learning to fly, you are taught to NOT trust your physical sense when you are unable to see and instead to just look at your instruments. "I thought we were going down, you thought we were going up!" is a perfect demonstration of that :).
Understood. But does that really mean you should disregard any and all "physical sense" that you have? NO.
This is irresponsible at best.
As a pilot, this really gives a good idea of what spatial disorientation looks like. Tom thinking he's turning left when he's in a right bank at 15:40. Great video, but it really shows the dangers of it!
I'm not a pilot by any means, but that was the impression I got, too. And it must be worse when you can't see the instruments either!
I believe this is where the term "flying by the seat of your pants" comes from - as in, the only feedback you have as to your position in space is from the feeling of your arse in the chair.
Yup. Having seen this video (but no pilot experience myself), I really hope pilot instructors ask their student to close their eyes try to keep it level, just to show them why you can't just fly through a cloud, for example. I feel like just telling them "you can't feel it" won't work, but seeing/experiencing this would certainly make it clear.
@@slothrr776 Trouble is, a banked turn feels exactly the same to your arse (or to any instrument you can devise that isn't gyroscopically stabilised) as straight and level does.
"He qualified about an hour ago" 😂 had to pause for a couple minutes to compose myself after that
top-notch comedic tone and timing 10/10
Man, Harvey is a hilarious and really interesting guy. The combo of wanting to become a pilot but at the same time being scared of flying is like something that could make for a pretty awesome feel-good kind of movie.
I think it was a plot point in Gene Brewer's "K-Pax", where the main characters son, an airplane pilot, admits to having a phobia of flight several years into his career
@@thrownswordpommel7393 Interesting. Never saw that.
I know multiple profession pilots who are terrified of flying unless they are at the controls. It’s hilarious.
@@tylerlerner4808 I mean I think that's reasonable haha. Same way joyriding in a car is way scarier when someone ELSE is slamming it at 90 down a hilly back road
it reminds me of being scared of heights but i want to be a climbing instructor XD
I love how Mike ended by saying "Lovely sky, by the way" to two people who can't see it
“As long as the aircraft comes back, I’m happy.” Now, that’s the spirit!
The nice thing about airplanes is that you never have to worry about them being stuck in the sky
It’s like the classic saying “Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing”
Tom is more savvy at this CZcams thing than 99.99% of CZcamsrs I wonder what other features are hidden In it that CZcams should really advertise more
Tom is more savvy at advertising CZcams features than CZcams
Only a few people currently have access to the multiple audio tracks feature. Tom happens to be one of them.
When you get big enough, you get a youtube liaison at Google who you can call and ask about these sorts of things. Tom is passionate about accessibility, so of course he'd ask about these kinds of things.
HDR video might be a bit obvious one, but there are not a lot of HDR videos out there, these videos changes screen brightness based on what is in the seen.
@@slook7094 Tom has to be the best CZcamsr I know for accessibility, even some of his older videos have captions, and for the past few years all of them have, even in multiple languages
I'm a tech savvy blind person and this is the first time I've ever heard of CZcams supporting alternate audio tracks.
They're definitely a rare feature, as far as I know only corporate channels like Netflix and creators with large audiences like MrBeast (and Tom) have access to them.
@@erufailon4723 Hopefully they will roll it out to everyone. Audio descriptive should not be a premium feature, it should be available to anyone who needs it (that's as a listener, not as a creator).
Fun fact, the bit where Lucy inadvertently starts the plane going down and to the right without realizing it (or thinking shes turning left) is a great example of the risks relying on proprioception while flying without visual
That's why you always use your instruments when in a cloud and don't get too confident in your own skills
Exactly. VFR in IMC can be deadly and this video proves it wonderfully. You NEED eyesight with the land and horizon.
It's the cause of a fair bit of heli and airplane crashes. Trust your instruments, because they will tell the truth while your body, designed to work only on the ground, lies to you.
Dont trust ya brain, trust ya instruments.
Wings level ball centre wings level ball centre, altitude stable wings level!!
It takes a lot of training - like, a LOT of training - for even experienced pilots to learn how to maintain control of the airplane when they are unable to see the horizon. Flying VFR into IMC, or flying under visual flight rules into instrument meteorological conditions, kills a lot of pilots every year. It can be extremely hard to trust the instruments when every sense in your body is telling you you're climbing, even as you spiral towards the ground.
I am visually impaired, I cannot drive due to it. I have always wanted to fly a plane since “flying” one on my ZX Spectrum back into the early 80’s. I thought it would never happen. For my 40th Birthday I asked for a flying lesson from my family. Aerobility took me up in a PA-28 for an hour and I flew from their base at Blackbushe Airport (EGLK) down to Portsmouth and back. It was the best day of my life so far, apart from my wedding day! I am still flying planes on the PC today. No matter what your disability, if you want to fly a plane yourself contact them and they will do their very best to make it happen. After all, if you are disabled and can fly a plane, UCAN do anything! G-UCAN is the tail number of one of their planes.
I love how Tom Scott puts that extra effort in to make his videos accessible.
I wonder how "good" of a narration that was though. Sometimes I felt it was less important to describe the framing of the video, rather what was happening in a more narrative way that you can imagine it (e.g. "tarmack flashes by as wheels touch the ground" instead of "the plane is landing" or something). I feel like it's an art that youtubers would really have to spent time on to get right, and it's unlikely we'll see that anytime soon sadly.
@@vocassen Generally for descriptive things like this, that's how its done although the more narrative style would be cool this does work better most of the time
@@vocassen Well, "tarmac flashes by" is only a meaningful description if you have previous experience of seeing what that's like.
@@Poldovico Hm good point. I have no idea if these words invoke the same kind of feelings in someone who has been blind since birth. Would be great to figure out, but despite that, it's probably still better than just "the plane lands" since it does more to people that became blind but should be the still understandable to people blind since birth
This seems like a FANTASTIC charity! Doing adventurous things like this are often off the table for those with disabilities. Letting them experience this level of fun and freedom is so uplifting! Your host at the beginning was so charismatic as well!
Now, the important question is..... did you make that "is so uplifting" pun intentionally or not? :D
It is one of the greatest charities, I'm one of the lucky couple of people to go to Aerobility and I have to say it is exactly as is looks from the outside! Its always fun being there and just the feeling of being in the plane no matter the disability is such an opportunity. The staff are very fun... Especially Harvey.
As a guy that earns his living keeping planes aloft, this is tremendously wholesome and great testament to how much joy flying brings. Well done Tom and the Aerobility team.
So pleased you enjoyed the video James! We loved having Tom and Lucy with us.
As a glider pilot, flying blind without an artificial horizon or at least a turn rate indicator is terrifying. The only thing you can go by is acceleration (G load), and it is impossible to distinguish between a turn and flying straight. If you're forced to enter a cloud, all you can do is hold the stick still and wait for the cloud to end, because you have no idea what the plane is doing, and even worse, every time you think you are correcting a movement you felt you are making it worse.
It would have been interesting to see an experienced pilot trying the same thing, although I suspect they wouldn't fare much better (other than maybe knowing that everything they think they feel is a lie and the best thing to do is let go of the stick and let the airplane fly itself).
Only takes the average non instrument rated pilot 15 seconds to enter into an irrecoverable attitude in IMC
I do wonder if it'd be possible to come up with unique tones that could audibly feed you both pitch and roll angles. Not perfectly precisely, but maybe shifting in frequency, pattern, and/or loudness the further you diverged from perfectly straight and level. (I think doing either would be trivial, but trying to combine them in an understandable way might be an interesting audio challenge).
If you could then the blind students could at least have some idea of what the artificial horizon is showing.
@@jonathansmith6050 It would probably be possible. In theory, a quick tts system that gave you your angle once every second would be enough to fly in a straight line. But at that point, the human is just a bad autopilot servo.
Unfortunately, apart from curing the blindness, I don't think it will ever really be feasible for blind people to manually fly an airplane.
I wonder if you could make some kind of tactile artificial horizon. People have given themselves artificial "extra" senses in all sorts of ways, so why not, I don't know, a patch with four small rumble motors in them to indicate being off centre or something with positional speakers.
You can apply full spoilers to get below the cloud.
as a disabled person myself, this video's making me so happy. this is officially my favourite video
I'm one of the lucky couple of people to go to Aerobility and I have to say it is exactly as is looks from the outside! Its always fun being there and just the feeling of being in the plane no matter the disability is such an opportunity. The staff are very fun... Especially Harvey.
@@Hazlr I hope I can do it someday in the future
The energy this video contains is some of the best I’ve ever seen. Good god, Tom. More collaborations with her, please.
She's blind. I'm blindfolded. We're going to the moon.
@@astroneural Or fencing. "She's blind, I'm blindfolded... En garde!"
@@kevreeduk222 blind curling!
@@Alexoperplexo blind driving?
Self driving cars……
I am not kidding the location of the subtitles shows how much care Tom puts in his videos. In a lot of videos with subtitles the subtitles dissapear when you put the video full screen on an ultra wide device. In this video, when you zoom in, the subtitles are exactly at the border. That's such a nice little thing you wouldn't think about that easily!
Surely if your device is ultra wide, there's extra width for subtitles, not reduced width for them?
Why are you zooming in on the video? Is your screen 4:3 or perhaps 5:4?
@@natts it's about the height of the video not the width
So you are cropping off the top and bottom of the original 16:9 video? You'll be missing out on the action like that...
@@natts Exactly, which is why the baked-in subtitles often get cropped off. I always use letterboxing on my 2:1 phone because of that.
He has an editor
The subtitles are spot on, I wish everyone did the same thing, they don't go away super fast when there are multiple people talking at the same time because everyone gets their own subtitles and the position of the subtitles makes it so you don't lose focus while reading them.
Yes, it is amazing!
Tom Scott is very passionate about proper subtitling
Whoever transcribed them made a few mistakes. Typed parlor instead of part of.
@@VisualApproach I wasn't reading at the point I think you're talking about, and I heard "the next parlour game", which is kind of correct. I think a parlour/parlor game is normally a speech game, but might be used to describe other small no wager games you might do. Could easily be wrong though.
This really nicely shows how difficult it is to fly from what your body tells you - and why IMC (instrument meteorological conditions - in very simple terms, you can’t see enough outside to fly level) is so deadly to pilots that aren’t qualified.
Exactly, always trust your instruments in IMC.
Yep
I agree- it's interesting to me how Tom almost immediately entered a spiral-dive and was pulling back, tightening the turn and increasing his descent. With the horizon easily visible like this, it's a very nice demonstration of the danger of blind flying with no instruments
@@qwerty21ification Yep. Also interesting how both of them, having started a bank to one side, thought they were turning the other way.
It's times like this you're really thankful that the instruments exist.
Not being able to trust your other senses is exactly why flying VFR (Visual Flight Rules) into IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions) is so dangerous. When you suddenly can't see the outside you feel turns or level changes that are not happening or you think you are flying straight and level when you aren't.
Well, this needs to be a regular feature. Tom and Lucy: Doing stuff.
"She's blind. I'm blindfolded. We're doing stuff."
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Is this a trick? Do you work for Channel 4?
The hard cuts between Tom calmly waiting on the ground, blindfolded, and Lucy screaming in the air, trying to figure out if she's flying straight, caught me so off guard with how funny they were.
I always knew having AD on a bigger CZcams channel’s video would mean a lot to me, but I didn’t know how much until I turned it on and - maybe it’s emotions that have been building up for years now - but that one little thing just brought me to tears. Thank you for doing this seemingly small thing for us!
I’ve only been in a light aircraft once, but what both Lucy and Tom said about not noticing the difference between the runway and being in the air perfectly matches my experience. I was expecting it to be similar to a large passenger aircraft with the huge speed and rumbling and then heavy feeling of slowly leaving the ground, but it was more like driving on the road in a car and then simply driving into the sky as though it was just another direction, like going left or right.
I get that in large passenger planes as well. Rolling on the runway is so smooth once the wings start supporting more and more of the weight, that you really don't feel when they are holding the full weight entirely.
I'm amazed at the size of mike's hearth (and balls) to give this experience to disabled people and be literally falling from the sky with a grin in his face and just having a great time in general. Incredible
The cuts back and forth with Tom listening to the birds chip is so funny. lmao
It's worth mentioning, due to the way humans feel forces and moments, alongside the natural dynamics of the plane, trying to fly a plane without instruments or eyesight will ALWAYS end in the plane stalling or going into a spiral. It's pretty standard to show novice pilots that this happens by asking them to close their eyes and try to maintain steady level flight. By the time they open their eyes they're either pitched way up and/or rolled surprisingly far. Zero net forces and moments doesn't mean steady level flight. You won't know you're plummeting to your death until you feel a sudden change of Gs, unsure of how far you've fallen.
Don't try this at home :P
It's a similar thing in a car, just with one less dimension. Driving straight on a freeway is easy, driving straight on a freeway with your eyes closed doesn't last long.
What's confusing to me is why can autopilots fly planes well using just an accelerometer & gyroscope but we can't fly a plane without sight even though we essentially feel the same thing that the sensors can?
@@Vousie Because a gyroscope is a lot more consistent than the sensors in our ears. They can only detect acceleration and they're not terribly good for very small deviations from the straight ahead - small deviations which (when continued) add up to a big deviation. Once in a spiral turn, it 'feels' exactly like straight and level, to us or a plumb bob. The gyro, on the other hand, keeps its initial orientation regardless of what the plane is doing.
The same thing happens to people lost in the bush - they end up walking in circles. I've done it (and I have a good 'sense of direction'. Not, evidently, good enough).
one thing that people can try is trying to walk in a straight line with their eyes closed, it kind of simulates keeping an airplane level with your eyes closed
@@Vousie human sensors are low resolution, have low frequency response, high phase lag between sensing and actuating, and a high noise floor
The joke at 3:05 is just legendary
Yea, I looked the guy up, his disability is strictly physical.
I love how both of them initiated a "death spiral" when told to keep the plane straight and level. It shows just how important being able to see really is. If you have no visual reference, you feel like you're going straight when you're actually turning ever faster and banking over further. Your instruments will tell you about this, but if you can't see them, then you're kind of screwed unless you have another person flying with you that can see the instruments and the horizon to get you out of the spiral and to safety.
There is no real reason for the instruments to be visual besides most people having eyesight
But it wouldn't be a stretch of engineering to design blind friendly planes
They are already designed to be flown relyabli with no visibility outside the plane
@@0Arcoverde The biggest problem would probably be to get them formally approved outside that experimental development stage. The various regulatory bodies EASA, FAA, etc tend to require a lot of proof, paperwork and time to have it available as more than just like it's here where a regular pilot does the takeoff and landing.
But even "just" having suitable instruments allowing a blind person to participate in some aspects of flying would be worthwhile in its own for recreational flights.
@@0Arcoverde that would be a fantastic opportunity to explore new ways to integrate the instruments of the plane directly into the pilot. Imagine being able to "feel" the plane and its orientation and motion in a way that's incredibly intuitive
Alternative instruments ideas:
Beeps for higher and lower, left and right. They could be different pitches or placed different places on the cockpit. Aim for a "level" tone.
Tactile displays - feel where the needle is, you'd need braille numbering though or a simplified scale.
Tactile feedback - the handle vibrates left or right or up or down to show what direction you're going in..if it's not shaking, you're straight and leve.
@@PrettyPinkPeacock I think tactile feedback would be a great idea. Yolks already use the concept with the stick shaker to alert a pilot to a stall!
The best way to learn is fail. I love how the instructor doesn't intervene but instead creates an environment to safely learn from failure. Good lord we need that in society.
This is such a brilliant way to give amazing opportunities to folks with disabilities who may otherwise not have the chance to experience this! Very cool indeed :)
Wish I could watch the video and know what people are talking about. But the subtitles are baked in and with my disability I can't focus on the actual video. Subtitles are great, but shouldn't be baked into the video and taking away the ability to turn them on or off is wrong, and leads to people like me not being able to enjoy the content.
@UCjIHclmD9fa9fUCu9p4-hWg I think it must've been a technical limitation related to having multiple audio tracks, because past videos on this channel have had toggleable subtitles that are visually identical to those in this video, just toggleable. (Or maybe the video's caption provider, which is different than usually, decided to provide a hardsub for some reason.)
I love that rock walk, putting on the blindfold instead of shades.
This channel is creating enough content for a full Tom Scott movie.
Mike is a very patient and understanding person, what an instructor!
Also, as the son of a blind mom, this was especially awesome to watch. Go Lucy! And good job, Tom, for having this happen! And way to go Harvey as well!
The part where it cuts to you just chilling blindfolded is perfect.. This channel keeps getting better and better (riding a bike is still my favorite) but aerobility seems like such an awesome experience. I love seeing people with disabilities doing stuff like this, super inspirational. Keep up the good work Tom.
I saw the thumbnail and I was like "this is going to be good" but I couldn't even fathom the wholesomeness of this video, thank you so much Lucy, Tom and the team at Aerobility!
We loved having Tom and Lucy with us. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Honestly I really respect Tom for going out of his confort zone in almost every video he makes on this channel. Must take a lot of guts.
The audio descriptions make the whole video sound like a documentary. Very accurate, detailedly described.
This charity is amazing. Besides basic necessities and social interactions, such experiences enrich the lives of all those involved.
Love all the things we are learning on this channel. Lots of fun, laughter and new perspectives about different topics. Thanks, Tom!
I don't know if it's been pointed out yet (probably has, but!) I'm so glad that you made the decision to hard-bake captions for everyone, from the very beginning, rather than just when a single person might've been harder for the average person to understand. One of my beloved cousins speaks a lot like Harvey and I love that you didn't other him by only captioning *him*, like he might be the only person who needed it. That's what I usually see done, so it was surprising and wonderful that it didn't happen here.
(Also, I've only got a family member with a speech disability/difference so I hopefully haven't mis-stepped in language, but my apologies if I have).
Whoever edited this deserves a raise.
😅 thanks Sean
Oh hey, I didn't expect Tom to collaborate with her! I always see her on my Shorts and her stuff is always fun to watch and very informative too!
I watched this with audio descriptive on, my first experience of it and its totally different to how I thought it would be. My assumption was that AD described absolutely everything (which having experienced it now doesn’t make sense at all as the AD voiceover would be talking over everything), but I was fascinated to find that it tells you just what you need to know, not everything, but somehow thats actually enough.
I've been to a similar organization for sailing, only they also put a lot of focus on integration so able and disabled people were taught together. nothing like a guy who lost an arm to teach you just how many things you can do with your teeth on a sailboat
As someone who wears the proverbial "coke bottle bottom" glasses I was thoroughly entertained, and I'm not sure which of you is crazier; Linda, You or the The Pilot.
Love the different camera angles.
With both Tom and Lucy describing what they feel in so much detail. Although it might not be the main point of the video, this is one of the best demonstration of spatial disorientation I have seen!
This is cool! As a sailor, I feel obligated to point out the sailing world has something similar. The ABLE sail program in Canada uses Martin 16 sailboats, which are wildly adaptable to all kinds of sailors. I helped out at a regatta a couple years ago where we had more than a couple blind sailors.
I'm a pilot with about 200hrs on light aircraft, and I've got absolutely no idea how you can do it blind, I'm absolutely in awe because I don't think I'd stand a chance! It's amazing to see how much Lucy can do with her other senses, just incredible!!
Imagine not knowing what was going on in the plane and saying "geez, is that pilot blind or something?" And then learning that yes, yes they were.
This is a pretty good way to show what spatial disorientation does to any pilot. When you have no visual reference, you may not notice the slight attitude or bank adjustments until the plane gets into a situation that may be impossible to recover from. Of course, in your case, you had Mike there ready in case anything got really hairy 😉
Tom Scott plus is one of the best things that has ever existed on CZcams.
A lot of pilot training to fly in the clouds (instrument rating) is learning to rely only on what you see on the instruments and disregard all your other senses because they decieve you. As a flight instructor I knew how this would go immediately.
This might be your most wholesome video yet!
Absolutely brilliant video. And big up to the lad (I didn't catch his name) who was explaining Aerobility to you at the beginning, takes proper balls to not let fear stop you like that. But the plaudits go to Mike the Pilot, nice work mate.
Harvey
This is such a wholesome foundation, not letting disabilities limit the experience people can experience, massive props to everyone
turned on the audio description, not because i need it, but it's data that tells youtube that people use this feature and they should expand on it
I turned it on and tried to close my eyes and just listen, but it turned out that I kind of need the captions (I can sort of get by without but it’s a lot more work for my brain to process uncaptioned speech) so I opened my eyes again.
Making videos is challenging in itself. For this one, there were a ton of added technical challenges, and you not only pulled it off, but made it look effortless. Great job to everyone involved: the on-screen talent and the people behind the scenes.
I love that you put embedded captions thruout in this vid instd of just at noisy points; as embedded captions just at noisy points can make it harder to read overlay captions bcuz of the letters interfering and overlapping a bit.
I also am glad the captions move to be around the current speaker as that makes it much easier to follow when just relying on captions alone.
Alternative title: Tom Scott goes flying with the funniest people alive
Lucy was absolutely lovely and the editing when she was screaming and tom waiting on the ground had me laughing out loud and that doesn't happen too often :D amazing as usual
I'm 2 min in and balling my eyes out. This is such a incredible program that I'd never heard of. Leave it to Tom, never ceases to amaze me.
The two aviation videos on this channel have shown that Tom is approximately 1/2 of a pilot.
Dammit. God damnit. For a second i thought CZcams CC got a lot better and better looking then I realized it's just baked into the video. Why can't they all be this good
to be fair you *can* make them like this, however with external software and a lot of tediousness hahah
From the aviation standpoint, this is a great demonstration on why pilot must trust their instruments and why flights through Instrument Meteorological Condition (IMC) unintentionally is a major killer in aviation.
Thanks for the audio descriptions, I really appreciate it.
Wow. I was happily impressed to see your color-coded closed captions in previous videos, because it's rare to find accessable content that is actually good on CZcams.
This is incredible; thank you for being amazing!
This is surprisingly similar to instrument flight training. Most new students get completely disoriented while in the clouds (or simulated clouds) to the point that without instruments they're literally just as blind as you were.
Harvey is fascinating - his disability does indeed seem like an unfortunate circumstance under which he operates fully functionally. He gesticulates and speaks in such a way that however odd he may sound, I can clearly hear and see every mannerism in his perfectly articulated speech - they make it through perfectly fine.
"Not too far. We didnt hit the ground. You did good"
Firstly, thats a very positive way of lookin at it. Secondly, more things need to be simple pass or fail like this. Anything that isnt hitting the ground is "youre doing good" in flying planes after all; why shudnt we treat more things like that? As long as you dont crash and burn; youre doing good.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing 🙂
I agree, in this world where we can see expert level performance of anything by tapping a screen a few times, it's nice to have very supportive beginner instruction.
because boomers think that positive reinforcement means "participation awards". they think no one is allowed to be complimented for their achievements unless they're the very best that ever was.
I mean, this was probably still well within the rules
while i agree with the sentiment, there is the problem of risks involved and room for failure. if your manouvering brings the plane down to about 300m compared to the ~600 they were flying at, any follow up mistake will be more likely to result in a crash.
thats not too dissimilar to overtaking a tractor in a blind bend. if you dont crash that is still a move you should not repeat.
meanwhile this mindset can be helpful with anything that does not involve risking lives.
i disagree. being nuanced on the evaluation shows a clear path for improvement, "you're doing good" does not, even though there might be room or even a need for improvement.
There are times (especially if you are a beginner at something), where this concept is really great (like in this in video), but generalizing that to all situations is not a good idea.
Turns would be incredible difficult to feel without visual reference.
In a coordinated turn, all the forces run directly down the aircraft's centerline, it feels exactly the same as pitching up.
There is no force pushing the body to the side like in a car or train.
But (in this kind of plane) the pilot isn't sitting on the centerline; wouldn't that make the distinction possible at least in principle?
@@jakistam1000 technically, yes. But if a blind person who is 10x more in tune to their sense of balance than the average person can't make the distinction, no one can. On average, pilots live only 170 seconds after losing their reference of the ground if they have no instruments. This is the number one cause of death for pilots.
@@NileMcMillion So, if the average survival time of pilots in that situation is 170 seconds. And we assume the average age of pilots to be 45 years and the life expectancy is 75 years. For every one who survives until their 75th birthday, 5.5 million pilots have to die within 1 second.
@@qtluna7917 I believe this is what's known as GIGO math.
@@qtluna7917 That is for a pilot with no instruments or for that matter a pilot not trained to use them. If you are used to flying visually and thus not trained that you absolutely must trust your instruments completely the vestibular/somatogravic illusions are killers. Your body absolutely will lie to you and try to convince you that it is your instruments that are wrong suffice to say this is almost guaranteed to not be correct especially when they all agree with each other.
I love when Lucy screams out of fear that she's caused the plane to plummet. It's things like that that make videos like this relatable.
Lucy's gargantuan laughter, Harvey's funny quips (😅he qualified an hour ago), Mike's calm and motivating demeanour and Tom being... well Tom.. and the positivity which everyone exudes (especially Harvey, Lucy)... is what makes this video so special!
Shame about the subtitles not being completely accurate in a couple of places, but on the whole I'm seriously impressed with the accessibility considerations made in this video! Honestly one of the most unique and entertaining videos I've seen in a while, to boot! :D
What an amazing charity. So nice to see things like this exist.
We are very proud of what we do for the disabled community and have lots of exciting things coming up! Did we mention acrobatics yet?! :)
I'm actually very impressed at how professional, smart and talented Harvey is. His sentence 'the interest outweighed the fear' was strikingly poetic; he reminds me of a guy in my prayer group who seems to have a similar condition, and whom I maybe tend to underestimate. I shouldn't, for he very well educated and smart.
yooooo. I'd never seen a CZcams video with audio description before. This is awesome!
Also, a phobia of flying and an interest in becoming a pilot seems like a hell of a combination! Harvey seems like a lovely guy!
honestly that dude loos like a fun person he looks happy the whole time
As a private pilot who mostly enjoys sharing the experience with others and also taking along people who are scared of flying, thank you so much for the video! This is what the aviation community is all about: Sharing the passion!
This really shows how difficult it is to fly through clouds, and why instrument training is so important for pilots
How well the guy at the beginning talked for his “impediment” was spectacular I’ve never seen anything like it. Pats on the back all around!
This is a good example of spatial disorientation. It's quite a frequent cause of accidents, when people lose track of their attitude, e.g. in clouds.
next week: can Tom set a faster lap time than a blindfolded Max Verstapen around Monaco?
Blindfolded Tom in the W12 could probably beat a fully sighted 2021 Haas…
That would be two of my favorite things together... Feel like Tom would get along better with Alonso or maybe Checo
@@williamcoleman8731 Come on, Jenson Button for sure.
@@azuradawn5683 was thinking current drivers, but Jenson or Nico Rosberg might do well!
One of the best Tom Scott's videos. A really interesting topic, a huge challenge, and Harvey was hilarious, he seems like a brilliant guy. I really hope that he manages to become an instructor.
I am so glad that everyone got subtitles.
Thank you x
I just woke up and a Tom Scott video already has me tearing up some, it’s all just so wholesome
Harvey is ace! got some proper banter, and cheered me right up today :) thanks harv!
The drama walk across the tarmac was exceptional, especially with the blindfold and the hair swish
This is an interesting coincidence... I've just read an article about an organization in Germany, that gives an opportunity to blind people to drive a car in a secured area with an instructor. I really like the idea and thanks to all people who make such things happen!