I've Always Said I Could Fly an Airplane With NO HELP... Finally, Someone Let Me Try!!!
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dude you totally killed it on that landing. but i cant believe you let that teenage kid from back in the day he did it by himself but he also stole them lol but with that being said id like to see anyone try this there first time out you did great chief
The real question is wth can RG not do at this point 😂
2:19 *Thats what she said-_*
As a student pilot this was actually humorous to watch, it's awesome seeing car guys taking a step into Aviation!
Cleet! Keep flying!
Cleetus, let me tell you, you’re going so far in the right direction. I myself, am a professional diesel mechanic. BUT, i also claim to be a amateur av geek. I’m telling you, keep up with Sam Chui, Dj Avaition, Simple Flying, Aviation international news. You’ll love “Ice Pilots” on Amazon prime.
The most counter-intuitive part of landing is controlling your airspeed using pitch not power.
Good job... now try that with a tail dragger... how about a Cessna 170 or 180? The Cessna 170 is what I learned to fly in.
I like your pilots attitude, seems like a real down to earth kinda guy. The right amount of seriousness, with seriousness and professionalism.
You mean crashed in the grass😂
2:22 roflmao you touched his stick for 10 seconds right
Stupid clickbait.
I definitely would Not classify it as his first flying lesson, more so it was his first Demo-flight/ introduction to flying. The young man seems to be an ambitious and decent guy no doubt, however, the skill set he may have from using flight simulators / gaming certainly does not translate to actual flying abilities & knowledge etc.
Your buddy was watching your hands the whole time. I bet he wanted to slap them every time you kept steering like you were in a car. Good shit though man. Hope you stick with flying. It is addictive and TRULY liberating. I thought a motorcycle was freedom, until I flew my first dual prop solo.
Time for a reality check! Maybe you should start out on a flight simulator.
Congrats you had a flying lesson. Usually they last about 1.5 hours and you learn alot more and it costs 150 bucks
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Definitely look like a Cleatus lol
You should run the audio through RTC voice
I don't think "Cleetus" will have a very long life.
Yes flying is easy if you can drive a car you can fly a plane
RG is one cool dude...
2:23 CLEETUS YOU WHAT BROTHER?
Awesome fun to watch. Your honesty is what I respect most about The. Cleetus.
Eagles screaming in the mighty chicken hawk!
He's definitely a braver man than me😂
I've had a similar experience. I'm about to start training for my PPL but about 2 years ago, my bud invited me to go flying with him. When we arrived at rhe plane, he jumped into the copilot seat and told me to hop in, I was "driving" I was a bit nervous but he was confident that I could handle it. He did give me some direction though and everything went pretty well.
Not proud to admit?? Bro you did so much better than I thought you would. It's definitely more challenging than one would think, exactly because what you mentioned... many controls to manage and it happens quite fast. Well done man! You gonna make more flying videos?
Arrogance and ignorance a perfect combination. What could go wrong? Duh.
I use to be a road instructor at a truck driving school and even guys learning to drive big trucks oversteer. It take a firm but light touch. I have over 20k hours in flight simulators and was able to takeoff and land without input from the instructor on a discovery flight. It was actually easier in real life than on the Simulator. I could feel the plane. Reminded me of car simulators and how it is harder to drive on a sim than real life.
Fair play 😎
Every time he says RG I think of a Cessna RG 😂
No one named Cleetus should be flying airplanes period LMAO... just kidding... your a brave man!
I found out if you spell CleetUSMCFarland like that is has USMC in it and that stands for United States Marine Corps. He's American Acts American Has American Cars and a American Name.
Honestly I feel like I could do a little better than him. I have so many hours in to flight sim. But he's right it's so much different than the real think
Scary letting you fly a plane when something is bound to break
Cletus is out looking for a used G6
This video is bs
Anybody can fly, hell they have autopilots that can fly. It is starting the thing or walking away from landing that is the trick.
“Do I take off with full flaps?” had me dead I was like oh boy here we go
Flying is easier than driving a car.
Thumbs up if you think he's ready for a solo ;)
why no flaps for take off? you don't need or you can't ?
Him: I'm flying with no help Instructor: What am I? Cream cheese?
Hardest part: landing 2nd hardest: taking off (but much easier than landing) Easiest part: flying
Hey Cleetus, what kind of watch is your buddy wearing?
Flying isn't the hard part, landing is.
lmao gta experience, if gta is anything to go by, just jump on your bike and fly it inverted ahaha
Years ago I took an intro flight lesson and it was a lot like this. The instructor did not put his hands on the controls and he talked me through the take off, flight, and landing. He told me as long as I was doing it right he would let me do the whole thing! It was pretty cool!
Me: "Mom, i want a car can you help me get this?" Mom: "Yeah, sure, when Giraffes Fly" Me: "It's my lucky day!"
Holy fuck, there are a lot of tight-asses with some private licenses in the comments. From one pilot to one guy flying for the first time, congrats! Enjoy it. Take it up, it's a freeing experience to master.
True, takeoff isn’t really hard, and keeping it in the sky was pretty easy for me, landing I’m still having a little trouble with but I’m keeping the plane in the sky
Good job for the first time...
I think cleetus is agressieve with the wheel because of his drag racing and having to make quick adjustments. He was also jerky on that speed boat😂
Next video title: RG's flight license got revoked!
I am extremely confident many flight simmers could get a 172 into the air with little to no help. I have zero confidence anyone could land one first try with no help.
The hardest thing about landing is the ground.
That was exactly how my first flying lesson went. This was definitely not "with NO HELP".
Any other fellow pilots see this dude and immediately think of their ground lessons on hazardous attitudes? Cause I did and was nervous for him, the pilot, and the people in their flight path.
Nahiyan Haq absolutely. I also think there was a bit of impulsivity demonstrated as well. He seemed to be more concerned with “just doing it” rather than listening to his CFI and doing it safely.
David Remedios hahaha this was my exact though as I watched the video. In CFI ground school, this is known as macho. You need to teach a student like this by intensity and effect, and have a heart to hear conversation about his behaviour. I guess I remember something from that CFI rating 🤣✈️👨🏽✈️
Flying is all about landing
Taking off is easy. Landing. Not so much.
Description is is such a lie.let me be honest with you if you had done it with no help you would have taken off stalled and spiral dived to the ground!
Flying is really easy, but you don't realize how sensitive it actually is. And little change to the stick, can be a massive amount of movement
yo ..your name is really cleetus
The loook on his face when they landed😂😂😂. Man was relived big Time 😂😂😂
I think he goes for his license now. What a great friend and mentor.
"a few more laps" me: CIRCUITS
Anyone can do anything while constantly being instructed...
Sorry... no way! I’ve been flying my whole life (ATP, fly professionally). In the hands of a competent pilot it appears as if the airplane lands itself! Nothing could be farther from the truth! A successful landing is difficult enough that it must be taught and practiced many times with the help of a CFI fixing things enough to keep you from killing yourself while you learn what not to do. If completely left to yourself- as in, no one else in the airplane- there’s a 90% chance the best case scenario is a badly damaged airplane and the worst case scenario is you are going to learn what a stall/spin accident is, which would be the last act completed in your lifetime.
All those expensive headsets and no way for you to record any of the real GA audio. Tsk tsk lol. Glad i don't have a name brand, and i have pass though.
Much much harder than it looks.
Video says no help. Immediately requires help. Albeit he did quite well and it looked like a great time.
I like how everyone in the comments is a pilot
Lol that first landing was a little scary. When you hear the horn STOP PULLING BACK
His issue is...he was over thinking the aircraft too much. In turn being way too agressive with controls. I was taught for both landing and take-off to use no more then 15 degree's of flaps though. Maybe the newer models don't need that much any more. All he had to do was guide the plane where he wanted it to go. Small movements. No jerking the yoke around.
3-point landing on your second landing. Good job bro!
Instructor..."O so you say you can fly with no help huh...let's see how you handle an engine failure". I'm no pilot, but most people can barley handle a car when it stalls...panic sets in....let alone trying to figure things out while your at the controls of an aircraft and the ground is rapidly approaching...lol
So you are an idiot. He told you everything
RG looks bored.
Good to hear your humility to admit that RG needed to help you. I could research all the applicable info like max rate of accent/decent etc and still crash. When doing RC Airplanes, the hardest thing was learning to use the rudder rather than the ailerons when landing especially. You cannot do it without a teacher unless your life depended on it of course.
Amazon plugs? Yikes. There is nothing less American. You selling Chinese flags in your Merch store?
Thats amazing. What a thrill that must be the first time.
Im on pilot training flying a Cessna like that isn't hard with little training
Dude you getting Ahead of yourself. You were hopeless. Maintain center line with mild cross wind maintaining approach speed. . You would have crashed proper.
He was hard on the rudder during the takeoff. The answer is no, you would have crashed on takeoff.
A 172 "is kinda a big unit". No... It's the Ford Escort of aircraft. Solid, reliable, easy to handle. Big, though? No. He thinks he can fly with no help, but before he's even off the ground, he has to ask where the flaps are. That's called help. "Do you have those on full when you takeoff and land?" More help. "RG was walking me through landing process, which was much more helpful than vids I have seen lol." Sorry? RG was full of what, again? Help, did you say? But let's be real. The entire purpose of the video can be summed up in two words. Click. Bait. It looked like a good first lesson. What's wrong with calling it that? Dude: I still think I could have landed it myself first try. RG: No. I'll give him props for the honest assessment in the voice-over of how much he overestimated the ease of flying. Good on him for that. But if he decides to take up flying, he'll need to learn some realistic self assessment or he'll get killed. "Hey, can spinning a Cessna really be any different than spinning an RC Extra 300?"
I bet you're fun at parties.
Take offs are optional, landing is mandatory. Flying is easy, it's the beginning & the ending that take all the skill.
so you flew with an experienced pilot at your side how is it you think every pilot since the wright guys have flown? golly gee holy smokes
“no help”
Bro take the L and admit you need help flying
Damn he touched your stick.....wtf. aviation is no longer what it used to be 😂🤣😂😆
"fly with no help". meanwhile the pilot starts, taxi's and has to in put....... but you still did good. was this KCLW?
Grabbing the yoke like the steering wheel of a car.... lol... without him, you would have crashed
with no help?? there’s literally a guy there helping you. no help would be you stealing an airplane and crashing it and we would be watching it on the news with the title florida man thinks he can fly an airplane and crashes.
Look at the wrinkly ass leather on those old seats plus dull paint job plane looks ready for the junkyard
2:23 UMM WHAT NOW?
Now if he had jumped into the aircraft without anyone else and took off flew a circuit, then landed, that would be ‘with no help, or maybe steeling a plane.
haven't watched yet, but I'm laughing already. Goo for itttt
You should try and start writing a description in the description box.
As a pilot, I need to see a 500 shot of NOS in a 172.