I thought I’d take some time to share my favourite aviation related videos from YouTube. Since early 2000s, I’ve watched many, many flying videos on YouTube and over the next few weeks, I’ll cover some of these with the reasons why I find the videos credible and worthy of me recommending to you. The content has been inspiring when sitting examinations, motivational during training and incredibly enjoyable when watching as a current airline pilot. Their creators are talented film makers as well as respectable aviators. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I do.
This first group are all airline pilots. I’ll start with the earliest video.
Kent Wien
Kent is an American Airlines pilot, and his video was one of the first I watched on YouTube. The footage chronicles two long haul flights from Boston to Paris and back and also shows the layover time in between flights. It deserves a little leeway as video creation has improved dramatically since this was created in 2004, but the music is good and content is quite amusing and incredibly accurate compared with my experiences as a long haul pilot. I can relate to the feeling at time 3:25 very well – long haul flying is extremely tiring and the change in time zones never stops being a challenge!
