A experienced pilot has revealed why one particular part of flying makes those in the cockpit most nervous.
Answering questions on his YouTube channel, commercial pilot Steve Schreiber – a former US Navy officer and regular plane crash analyst – was questioned about whether he was ever on edge when flying.
@coleuploads asked: ‘Are you more nervous taking off or landing typically?’
In his typically jokey fashion that has helped him garner more than 640,000 subscribers to his @CaptainSteeeve channel, Schreiber said: ‘Cole, it’s Captain Steve, I’m not nervous.’
However, he went on to say that if he had to pick one of the two situations that are more nerve-racking, it would be taking off.
At that stage, the aircraft ‘is as heavy as it’s going to be’, he explained.
‘Your power is all the way up and you’re as slow as you’re going to be.
‘Once you lift off the ground, you’re going to accelerate. You’re going to begin to burn fuel. You’re going to get lighter. You can pull your power back.
Veteran pilot Steve Schreiber believes pilots are more nervous for take off than landing – though maintains he’s never nervous
The pilot also advised passengers to always put their phones into airplane mode while flying
Schreiber added that although he has known a nervous pilot, it’s ‘certainly not good old Captain Steve’.
‘You’re not going to catch me on that one.’
The pilot was also questioned on whether passengers really need to use Airplane mode while flying.
Airplane mode is setting on electronic devices that disables the sending and receiving of wireless signals.
His advice is simple: ‘You ought to put your device into airplane mode.’
He referred to tests that were done by the Federal Aviation Administration when mobile phones usage began to rise, which he said found ‘in some situations, that the devices in the back of the airplane that are transmitting the little micro transmissions could cause some interruptions to navigation equipment’.
‘Put them in airplane mode, you can live without your device for the 10 or 15 minutes it’s going to take me to get back on the ground.’
