HOW the AUTOPILOT Works - Boeing 737
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How does the autopilot work? Is the autopilot flying the plane? Do airline pilots still fly by hand and how many landings in the Boeing 737 are made with autoland (an automatic landing)? How we turn on/off the autopilot? How does the autopilot system work and what do all the buttons mean? Can a passenger land the plane automatically? Why are airline pilots getting paid so much, while the autopilot flies the plane? After watching this video, you’ll know all the answers to these questions. I’ll also cover the first autopilot on the Boeing 737, autothrottle, take-off, go around cruise and descend. I’ll cover VNAV, LNAV, HDG SEL, VOR/LOC, APP, N1, SPEED, LVL CHG, Flight mode annunciators, Mode control panel, Flight management system, Control display unit, flight control computers, hydraulic systems and much more. If you stick to the end, you might also be able to operate the autopilot yourself! A question for you guys: Is the autopilot on the Boeing 737-800 what you thought it was and do you know any differences between the autopilot on the Boeing vs autopilot on the Airbus?
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This is such a great and easy explanation of such a complex system. Thank you very much and for sure you are doing a great service to the passengers sitting behind. They now know whats going on in the cockpit and some will learn it how to do even. 👍
It's been a few hours since this video went live, but I absolutely LOVE seeing a new video from you, and the fact it's at almost 7600 views, but it has 0 dislikes is how every single video from you should always be! I just love to see it 🥰
maybe cos dislikes are not available anymore 😉
Really interesting video! always wondered what all the switches and knobs do and now i do... thanks for putting it up!
This is an excellent video! I appreciate all the work done to show each of the control modes and indications. I’m a private pilot and have some sim experience, but not in the B737. I really enjoy your videos.
Love this video!! Please do more of the technical / educational type videos on operations of the 737. Would love to see a tutorial on programming & using the FMC.
Outstanding in depth summary of the autopilot function. Very well done. Cheers 🥂
Most of your videos make it all look so incredibly easy. This video however makes it clear just how much training and experience that you’ve had to make all those other videos appear so easy. I am incredibly impressed and your videos make me feel much more confident when flying as a passenger
Love your explanations & your screen captions. Really makes the video easy to understand. Thx
This video is very informative. I enjoy how you go into detail explaining things in laymen's terms. I learned a lot about the autopilot and it's features. Thank you for all your videos. I've learned much about the aviation Industry.
Thanks for your kind words James!
Thanks for sharing and explaining so well about how the Autopilot works and why it is so useful especially at high altitude. Good job and I liked very much and just subscribed! Looking forward to see your new videos 👍👍
Thank you so much it was a very informative video, and thank you and your fellow intelligent pilots for allowing us to travel the world safely and confident knowing that you are totally capable of operating these sophisticated aircraft !!
Wow! DutchPilotGirl, excellent tutorial on the Auto Pilot for the Boeing 737 yes I learned a lot thank you! Amazing how many systems are actually tied into the Auto Pilot & if nothing is done by the Pilot nothing will happen as you mentioned... Godspeed...
Awesome video well put together you’re definitely knowledgeable about flying and the equipment you fly continue safe flying 🙂
Amazing explanation. Thanks for sharing this content
Hey Michelle🙋🏻♂️, great informative video as always💯👍🏼
Another great video! It's very helpful for MSFS 2020. Michelle, please post new videos more often.
Glad you liked it! I am trying haha!
your videos are a pure bliss I love every minute of them 💞
Thank you for your kind words Vanshika!
thank you Michelle I always learn so much. I will have to watch this many times to understand it all I am sure
It did take me a while to understand it completely so no pressure! ;)
Michelle, thank you for this easy to understand video! I am just an aviation enthusiast and don't have much knowledge of flight controls, but now I could explain to someone how the autopilot function works. I think you would be a great Flight Instructor if you ever decide to pursue that path!
Thanks John! Perhaps in the future!
@@DutchPilotGirl hello
Whew that’s complicated for a person that’s not a pilot. Love your videos, thanks for them
Well explained. Thank you!!
Because I watch Mentor Pilot I did know something about what the autopilot does and doesn't do. But you have increased my knowledge. Thank you for that.
Informative video. Thanks for sharing ma'am💞
Hi Michelle I liked your guided tour of the Auto Pilot system. This is first time I see your channel. I liked it ,so I 'm now subscribed. Good Job. Take Care Robert
Another amazing and informative video
Fabulous video showing the insight into the Auto Pilot 👍👍
Hi, thank you for this interesting class. I´ve learned too much about aircraft and how it works seeing your channel
your videos are the most. It is always a pleasure to learn from it. thanks a lot. kisses from cordoba argentina
Hi Michelle, i am a sim enthusiast for a long time. For me Boeing controls seem to be harder than Airbus especially the autopilot system but learning the complete system i will be practicing and flying with Boeing on simulator more often to get used to it :) please keep the videos coming. Its great to learn from one of the best..
As a Sperry Aerospace Avionics Technician I have worked on the older 737 Autopilot controllers in the late 1980s, which was beginning years of my career. Those units were more reliable in operation compared to today’s Flight Guidance Control Panels.
Please explain some reasons.
I love your videos. Just discovered you about two weeks ago. I am a member of Eastern Hops Flight Sim community and will post your video in our Discord. We have a few sim pilots with very sophisticated 737 sims. I’m sure they will enjoy your videos also.
ive been using the 737 a/p in sims PMDG then Zibo for a couple years and im still learning about it. very deep stuff in FMC setup its fun when a flight goes perfect from take off to landing
Preachin to the choir here partner. I love a nice, long uneventful, boring flight, real or sim, but especially real. An almost perfect Sunday afternoon is a perfect takeoff, listening for a few hours to the hone and whine of the engines, while ATC chatters away. Then a nice smooth ILS or visual landing. All while I catch up book work or putter around in my shop. If you haven't already, I must urge you to get a yoke, and dump the joystick. I just got my first yoke (the Honeycomb) and it is sweeeet. But it's a whole new ballgame because I have to relearn everything after years of flying sims with a joystick. Then I have the "new" FSX, another looloo, where they have stepped up the automation and realism of the aircraft I fly, (777), and gotta relearn that too. Now I am back at Meigs in Chicago, flying Cessna's till I get the hang of these things. Have fun and enjoy!
Great seeing another video from you! Please keep them coming as your work schedule permits!?!?!?
Excellent video! Very thorough and easy to understand.
Learned a lot today. As with the humans on the flight deck with CRM, there is a lot of integration and coordination between the various flight management systems. And with most things aviation, it is never as simple as we might think. Great video this month Michelle! 👍
She is not real pilot
@@willemlenteren1485 yeah, actually, she is.
No. I know it’s all fake sir haha
2 more times watching this video and I’ll be an expert autopilot operator 😂😂. Excellent video Michelle great job!!
Thanks Mitch! I am sure you will be!💪
Thank you Miss. I always learn something watching your videos.
Fantastic presentation on all your videos, really enjoy your channel.
thank you for sharing.
So interesting,Thankyou for a great video
Thank you for a great explanation of the autopilot. I'm not a pilot but i do use MSFS 2020 and this video has helped me to understand more about the autopilot. I hope you don't take offence, as in this day and age it seems offensive to pay a compliment but you have the most beautiful eyes also. Looking forward to your next video.
Thanks! Glad you like the video :)
Wonderful information! Thank you very much for sharing!
Nice video Michelle! It brings me back in years when Antonov was a widely used plane in East Europe... I actually never had a Boa type rating and jumped to Fly by Wire systems 😀😃 The principles are similar, but different and sometimes simpler 😪
Thanks Georgi!
I really love this video..... Thank you Michelle...
I enjoy your videos. That was amusingly incomprehensible. I’m glad you understand it!
Always good and educational. Thanks.
Gracias Sra. Piloto por sus explicaciones ,saludos desde Bogota.
Great explanation!
Okay - Very Good presentation and I will have to look at this a few times to catch on.
Nice video! I’ve always wondered are the FMC’s linked together, or do they work independently depending on what each pilot has put into their’s?
Hello, coming from the flight sim world, I went from a FS9 777 (older version) to a FSX 777 (newer version) and the autopilot is very different from one to the other. I am certain the FSX AP is much more in line with what is really going on, because after watching your video (Which I hope to watch many more times) you learn/understand the AP is a mixture/integration of several different systems, and this corresponds to what is going on with the new version vs the older one. On the previous FS9, the AP was very simple; basically you could set speed, altitude, course, flight plan, through a Garmin APP, or otherwise. That was pretty much it. On the new version, there seems to be much more to do - and that is done. I won't go into everything, because it will take me years to figure it out - if ever -, but for example; I am used to setting and adjusting my own speed when descending to land, like starting from 35,000. Then it was simple to just manually lock on to the ILS and localizer signals via an "APP" button when you got in "range" of the ILS feather. But on the new (FSX) version, the speed is adjusted for you, as you descend, and it seems to glide right down to the localizer, automatically, given the settings are right from the start. Still, as much fun as it is, the automation sometimes actually seems to get in the way, but I am sure it's more like I get in it's way even more. It's a lot of fun though, and very educational, and your video really help to tie it together - sort of. But I have to watch it many more times. Keep your videos coming they are a joy to watch. Cheers!
Also with A/P engaged, touching control column pitching the plane you discover CWS-P on the PFD and if you apply roll at the control column in this case CWS-R will pop up on the PFD.
Great video, terrific explanation about the autopilot and I like your 787 (PH-DPG), greetings from Chile. Gran vídeo, fantástica explicación sobre el piloto automático y me gusta tu 787 (PH-DPG), saludos desde Chile.
Thank you so much and an early Happy Christmas
Learned something new kind of ,glad No test at the end
Very interesting, but complicated. Thanks for creating the video.
Very well explained
The changes of colors in your hair (based on light reflection) are fascinating! as well as the content! merci Michelle! :)
Been watching pilot videos for years on KZhead and this the first the autopilot has been explained to in an excellent manner . You have not dumbed it down and in some areas i need to re visit to understand what going on a bit more. That’s how it should be. Keep making great videos.
Thank you so much for the video. It clarified some procedural questions I've had. Could you go through an actual descent to approach? Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and experience.
informative! 👍
Great video, thanks. Hope you have a great Christmas and New Year!
Me too! Hope you will as well!
Iamma save this vid as learning cuz I need it 🤧😤 Tyy berryyy much !!
As usually very clear and concise explanation, you should be pilot instructor 👏🏻👏🏻
WOW! I got lost in the cockpit with all those knobs and buttons. Very interesting! I have a general understanding of how the autopilot work.
My dad helped design the autoland system on the original Airbus A300, so this was interesting viewing! Thanks !
I like your vlogs alot. This one especially when you talk about when the captain is flying “ she” etc, and when the first officer is flying “he” etc. Thanks for doing these and inspiring perhaps a new generation of pilots!!
Thanks Robin!
Robin I didn't notice the wording while totally engrossed in learning something about autopilots, and not policing speech, however you pointing it out is rather sexist wouldn't you say.. feminist, sjw thinking. God I hate social politics. Now that you have brought it to my attention, how about using "They" instead When the Captain is flying, "they" do so and so. When the first officer is flying, "they do this and that? DPG is talking aviation, not social politics and this sort of stuff needs to be put away for another day. stop trying to push you sexist agenda Sheeesh
not the place and time Capt. Metoo
@@justunicorn001 well said!!!
@@nthoang1293 haha!
I have a VFR license... just a small plane idiot I spose... but I watch your videos and wonder what it would be like to fly such a big bird... thank you. I hope there is someone like you in the cockpit everytime I fly.
Leuk en informatief Michelle!! Thanks!
Bedankt Heico!
great video as always!
Thanks Johna!
The DPG livery is seriously so beautiful!!
Thanks haha!
Very interesting video. Thank you.
Hi Michelle. Enjoyed this briefing. As you talked about how the A/P relieved the pilots of workload, I reflected back on a book I recently completed about flying in the 30's and 40"s when pilots still had a lot of workload to contend with (and they did not have the technology pilots have today). Ernest K Gann's "Fate is the Hunter". Wondering if either you or Captain Joe have ever read it? Thanks so much for sharing your flying knowledge and experiences with us.
wow, I will have to watch this 50 more times to understand all of that lol. Great video.
Good grief!!! Now I understand fully why I’m not an airline pilot! 😀 Amazing! Thank you.
Hi Michelle. Wow how many years has it been? I remember when you came out here to Arizona to do your flight training, Embry Riddle was it. You definitely paid your dues and come a long way. Very proud of you. As you remember its been a couple of years since I retired. The last a/c was the 767 my experience is all Boeing, MD and Lockheed . Boeing Auto-Throttle vs Airb Auto-Thrust. ABus limit's pilot's in situations that require action to be taken the computer will limit the pilot from pushing the a/c past its safe regions. This latest action and updates were taken from Air France's crash Flt 447
Yeah, I am an avid flight simmer and aviation enthusiast, and I've heard that scuttlebutt from pilots for years. How ultimately the Boeing will cede command and control to the pilot, whilst the Airbus will not, even as it flies you and it into a mountain. Then, like a nagging fishwife, will beep "See, I told you I was right! That hill just shouldn't have been there!". But then, even with the plane being the boss, most pilots are very comfortable with it.
Awwww 🙌🏼
Thenka for the very useful video.
A really nice presentation of the three systems and how they work. I understand them but gained a lot more perspective about how pilots operate and interact with them. My impression has always been that Boeing puts more emphasis on Pilot's flight awareness and interaction with the plane than Airbus' incorporating more monitoring of the automated systems by the pilots.
True David-even the side-stick is remote flying at its finest !.
Thanks for the instructional video. There were a series of "Airport" movies in the 1970's, which left the impression that any passenger could come to the cockpit and not only fly the plane, but also land it-which is why the comedy Airplane had so much fun with this concept.
I wonder if that's where the general public got the idea that the autopilot fully automates flight and then started applying that flawed idea to automotive autopilots.
@@NiHaoMike64 Thanks. Just yesterday I saw a media report that driverless cars are the future. Okay then, but I grew up in New Mexico, which has a lot of dirt roads. How will a driverless car know how to drive on a twisting up and down grade dirt road?
Hand flying: Flying the plan through physical movement of flight controls (yoke, rudders, thrust levers). Autopilot: Flying the plane by inputting commands into a computer on how you want the aircraft to perform.
Can you also talk about CATI-II-III markings on the runway signs and auto landing capabilities in low visibility scenarios. Also, could you talk about the new Garmin advanced augmentation systems starting to show up on planes like the Cirrus SR22 light aircraft please? Thank you for the excellent presentation.
And I thought there was simply an ‘on’ or ‘off’ switch for flying these beasts 🤣 Great video, it confirms why you guys earn you money…..and that’s when it’s going well rather than gong wrong!
Good Monday evening to you all from Wellington Somerset in the UK
Good evening from Amsterdam!
The autopilot is more complicated than I thought. It's cruise control where you adjust more than speed. It controls so much more.
Airbus A/P uses autothrust instead of autothrottle. In an Airbus; the thrustlever hardly moves during the flight: the pilot uses the lever to select the desired thrust-mode (TO/GA, FLEX, CLB or A/THR) and the engines automatically provide the thrust needed. Also, in an Airbus green means active and blue means armed. Furthermore; Airbus does not have seperate switches voor LNAV and VNAV, it is basically NAV, HDG, LOC/GS-mode. Also, instead of pressing seperate buttons you use the switch knobs to activate or de-activate parts of the A/P. Pressing will engage A/P, pulling will give controll back to the pilot flying. Some differences with Airbus I know, correct me if I'm wrong :). Great video!
Thanks for your detailed explanations ! :)
You just listed every reason I hate Airbus.
Oh Michelle, I have missed ur videos so much Ur videos are a pack of information and peacefull voice Great videos ✌✌✌ keep going Love from india
Glad to hear you like my videos!
@@DutchPilotGirl my goodness Can't belive u replied I am so happy thanks Michelle 😊
Maybe you remember that I asked you about piloting and eye surgery, unfortunately, the surgery doesn't fit, I won't be able to pilot, but it still feels good to watch you🙂🙂
Sorry to hear that! Glad I can make up for it, even if it's just a bit
I'm lucky enough to visually see passenger planes arriving into KPHL and hear the ATC conversations with the pilots. They usually cross my at 8-9K at a vor called VCN which is juat to my east. I also see high high altitude planes from KLGA, KEWR, KBDL, Montreal, Dulles going to various destinations, and can go on a site Live ATC to hear them also. Everyone traveling-stay safe.
YOUR VOICE IS SO CALMING AND YOUR KILLER SMILE
Very interesting TY.
You are just amazing.x
missed you!!
Thank you for the Video, have a good day. 😁
You're welcome, you too!
@@DutchPilotGirl Bedankt
Special and awesome
Michelle - why on landing are you moving the controls so much yet looking beyond you in the background, the flight appears rock steady? As a passenger, I've often wondered that when later looking at videos. My flights are generally smooth yet pilots are working the controls in extreme movements.
Hi Mike, this was actually a gusty and turbulent approach while the camera stabilizes the background. The control inputs might look extreme but they aren't, not really ;)
You have to make more movements on the yoke, versus let’s say driving a car, because when you’re landing you’re not only moving the plane side to side, but also up and down. That means one has to make way more movements.
@@DutchPilotGirl I assume then that a calm weather landing might be boring. The TV series "Air Disasters" ("Mayday in some countries) shows pilots fighting the controls yet you seem cool, calm, and collected moving the control column with ease. I'm impressed.
@@mharrye Certainly! Normally a landing is made with just inputs from a single finger if trimmed correctly ;)
Lower airspeed also requires greater input.
LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEO'S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Incredible. Did you explain everything from memory or are you reading from a tele prompter/queue cards?
My father was a navigator in the US Air Force from 1951-1973. Back then apparently navigators were needed in KC97's KC135 tankers and C133 and C141 cargo plains. Since then I have heard navigators are no longer used although I don't know what year they were eliminated.
Your voice is so soft.. perfect for ASMR..
Interesting video. Also your special plane was nice to see😄The real auto pilot is so much more different than what we see in the movies. I actualy use the term "autopilot" when I do something without having any emotions involved😃...anyway, stay safe gorgeous😘, have an awesome day🥀
Thanks Oliver! Hope you will have an awesome day too!