The Simple Secret of Runway Digits
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How could you pass up an opportunity to preform mathematics they are so much fun.
There is one system that is better than the perfect - standardized!
You're a treasure. Thanks so much for you and the team's hard work!
Me: "Why does this runway have the number 8 on it?" CGP Grey: "Iron atoms are quantumly magnetic"
Correct!
exactly.
🤣🤣🤣
his answer is on point, as always
it's what adhd does to a person, don' worry about it
Grey has finally reached Phase 3 of his Cinematic Universe, where every video is constantly crossing over and cameoing with each other, and it is incredible.
i saw the hexagon one the airplane staff
I'm weirdly ecstatic to see the Captain and Quartermaster.
@@nif4345 And the A4 scaling down into the quantum realm one
The plane is operated by the same airline company (Bonnie Bee Airlines) as the one from The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use, and is probably even the exact same plane
1. Presumably the guy sitting next to Grey on the plane is the same sucker who got cornered in Someone Dead Ruined My Life Again. 2. 3:42 is also from Better Boarding Method. 3. 4:00 Captain and Quartermaster from their respective videos. 4. 6:48 "Leading Zero in our hearts" is from American Highway Numbering. 5. 6:55 From the Social Security Card is Insecure video. 6. 8:30 Two in one here. The room forms with Hexagons, which are the bestagons, and the screen is pulled down by an Algorithm Bot. 7. 10:03 The Technically Correct nerd has been around for forever. 8. And the A4 paper scaling down to see the Iron atoms.
"That we're NOT going to do" just gives the energy of Grey trying to understand this for 100 hours and throwing his hands up in a 'screw, it doesn't matter, I DON'T NEED TO KNOW' and I love it.
Or he's bluffing and didn't research.
He has a physics degree, he probably already did the math years ago and doesn’t want to relive the trauma
It's probably more because explaining quantum physics would quadruple the videos length.
Or because he tried to explain it for that many hours and gave up
Relatable
Every time Grey said "We're not going to talk about physics", I got more and more excited, knowing he was foreshadowing all the glorious physics to come.
by saying that it's completely normal for him not to upload for a hundred thousand years, grey's confirming he's STILL SET on becoming immortal
Can't argue with *that* logic!
Well this time it was mostly the fault of Coronavirus. Since he got it twice and it had hit him badly
With an escape option ofc
Yes, but I'm more worried about what kind of video would need that amount of time to produce...
i do hope to see him at Entropycon!
Me at the start: "How can it take 17 minutes to explain runway numbers?" Me after 17 minutes: "TELL ME MORE!!!"
I worked in airfield management in the air force and have a degree in geography. No way I could have turned explaining rwy numbering into a 17 min video though 😂
Did you get very far?
He did say this isn't a physics video.
@@raznaak Greased Lightning!
Same
I like how this video went from talking about runway digits to talking about quantum physics.
Lmaoo
As a private pilot it's a joy to see runways explained in such a fun, lighthearted way.
The coriolis effect sneaking back was a twist I was not prepared for
Hey Mark, love your videos :)
No one is
😮 It’s you
Mark and CGP, yes.🙃
Agreed
“There’s only math, that we’re not going to do” As a math major, what a relatable statement
I laughed so hard at that moment. :D
As a physics major having done the math, i'm very glad he didnt I have enough trauma :)
@@benschmitt7035 I am now more scared to pursue the job of an electrician
@@isky6541 IT's easy, just keep in mind that wires like to bite sometimes MUAHAHA!
Can you help me with some logic proofs?
I just love how the video implies that Grey just randomly starts making a runway video and the guy sat next to him just has to deal with it the whole time
Yes we all watched the same video
@@tryingmybest206yes and he’s saying he enjoys that detail of the whole video.
@@purgatory671 that's ridiculous, the comments section is for arguments and negativity only
Small correction: Canada uses the magnetic numbering system for the runways as well, except for runways north of a specific parallel, when the true north and magnetic north diverge too much. So for your travels where 99% of people live in Canada, it makes no difference for pilots !
This. Basically there's "Northern domestic airspace" and "Southern domestic airspace." Simply, and quite inaccurately (look up a diagram for proper boundaries), northern is NWT and Nunavut, which uses true north rather than magnetic.
That's why Grey said "When flying over her Territories" instead of "When flying over her Provinces."
@@ronnieweber9763still incorrect my friend. As a touch of Manitoba is included in the Northern domestic airspace, roughly halfish of NWT is included and nothing of the Yukon. But it's also a footnote of a fact in a random grey video, no one is interpreting it as malicious intent. Only clarifying the specifics of an interesting and confusing Canadian factoid.
I can just picture Grey typing up the script, mumbling to himself with increasing fervor that "this isn't a physics video. This isn't a physics video. This ISN'T--"
All the plot twists made it a physics video ;(
GODDAMNIT it's a physics video
Everything is a physics video if you keep asking “why” long enough
@@pilkycrc This is the best comment.
As he types the script, the universe is standing right over his shoulder to remind him to talk about physics.
"In the world of Quantum, words mean nothing." Is the most accurate colloquial take on quantum theory possible.
Yeah the sentence pretty much sums up my courses in quantum. Except we did the math :(
I took two years of quantum and you've gotta think of words as 'guidelines' not rules. Just realize everything is a poetic, metaphoric description.
On an electron’s spin: “Think of an electron as a sphere that’s spinning, but in reality it’s not really a sphere and it’s not really spinning”
Meanwhile I'm sitting here waiting for him to explain it like Palpatine quitely saying " *do it.* "
=All the references in the Grey Cinematic Universe (GCU)= 1. 0:13 - Small tumbleweeds ("The Trouble with Tumbles" video) 2. 0:17 - Bonnie Bee Airlines employee ("Boarding Groups Explained" video) 3. 0:23 - "-Oh, hello *again*." signifying that they met before ("The Tale of Tiffany" duology - "Someone dead ruined my life, again" video) 4. 1:18 - The Universe ("Hexagon is the Bestagon" video) 5. 3:40 - The Big Book of the Laws of the Universe ("Boarding Groups Explained" video) 6. 4:00 - The Captain and the Quartermaster ("How to be a Pirate" duology) 7. 6:01 - Glitchs (Tekoi Trilogy - "CGP Grey was wrong" video) 8. 6:42 - Leading "0" in our hearts ("American Highway System" video) 9. 6:54 - Social Security Card ("Social Security Cards are Insecure" video) 10. 8:30 - Room forming with Hexagons ("Hexagons are the Bestagons" video) 11. 8:31 - Algorithm Bot ("How Machines Learn" video) 12. 10:19 - "The Troubles" in a airballon ("No Flag Northern Ireland" + "Brexit, Briefly" duology) 13. 11:40 - Book marked with a stamp ("TOP SNEAKY STAMP" video) 14. 11:49 - Kurzgesagt posters ("You are two" Collab) 15. 12:07 - Zoom into the Quantum Realm ("Metric Paper" video) P.S.: If you say something about the Airport Codes video, don't. This was released before that video came out so unless it's foreshadowing, you're INVALID!
6:01 there’s a little glitch from the video about the Tekoi mistake.
That's actually really cool
Hello. I haven't seen much of his videos but love his content a lot. Can you please tell me how to get started to complete this GCU? Thanks
@@vaidik03 its basically just to watch all of his videos, it isn't exactly a cinematic universe as much as it is hiding little easter eggs and references in each video.
@@cameront011 Oh okay. Thanks.
I love when Grey has videos about him going off on tangents to random strangers, that person is looking for an escape. As if in reality, any one of us lucky enough to be in that situation would be hanging on his every word
"So there was this conspiracy guy next to me on the flight talking about how everything is connected, runway numbers, the flipping of the north pole and quantum physics. It was crazy, man!"
he tricked me into watching a physics video after assuring me that no physics here, also now i know how magents work from quantam level
maths
He went from an aviation video to geography to physics
"In quantum mechanics, words mean nothing. There is only math" That is the best explanation of QM I have ever heard.
A truly charming description.
I'm set to take Quantum next spring. Wish me luck.
That's true of several other areas of science too, there's points at which in order to get any more granular words can't really suffice, but math can.
QM is confusing and sometimes counterintuitive because many of its features don't have macro-scale parallels to provide intuition like we can gain from everyday-life physical systems. However, many of its features do have those parallels, and despite fundamental limits on the observability of entire pictures at once, the vast history of incredibly successful QM experiments makes it possible for one to form a working picture and sort things into "confidently physical" and "purely theoretical/mathematical" descriptions. It just takes... years, and of course never really ends. But you can do it if you so desire! Best of luck.
@@entropie138 pushing F to pay respects.
“There is only math, that we’re not gonna do” is genius.
Luckily there was no physics in this video
"There is only math. That we're not going to do" As a math major, what a harshly relatable statement.
From one math major to another…. “This proof is left as an exercise to the reader” 😅
seems to work approach
Yeah, but then it'd be a math video inside a physics video inside a geography video.
@@Arturius01 "It is all Math?" *cocks gun "Always has been.."
@@Arturius01 All science goes down to math. Though if you pester the math teacher enough, they'll throw a epistemology textbook at you, so I guess the humanities have the last laugh.
I feel like I just listened to a 17 minute long poem. The alliteration, cadence, and careful word choice was beautiful.
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@@khuedinhvan1986 k
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Agreed, but he still needs to learn how to pronounce Nevada
That's how a grey do
Now I just want an animated comedy of Grey explaining the world and universe to the same traveller who he keeps bumping into be coincidence and that traveller desperately trying to get of the situation as politely as possible.
The traveller in this video actually seems to warm up to Grey explaining it after a bit, which I find really wholesome.
I love everything about this: the way the script flows and alliterates and sort-of-rhymes; the way it ties into so many of Grey's other running gags; the way Grey's personality presents itself as the worst person ever to sit next to on an airplane; the ingenious move to place videos inside each other, Inception-style; and above all how well it demonstrates that no matter how hard you try to explain everything about a thing there are always more things to explain. This isn't Grey's most important video (that would probably have to be one of the more serious topics like Humans Need Not Apply, Rules for Rulers, or Spaceship You), but it might possibly be the best.
I love how fascinated Grey is with literally everything that has a purpose. Highways, strange borders, flags... I never thought I would have ever been invested in these things, and yet here we are. These videos really make me appreciate how wonderfully complex our society is. You tend to forget that everything you see in your city had to be carefully crafted to precisely serve its purpose. Humans are cool.
I love the way he’ll explain that a system is designed a certain way, or a border runs a certain way, and then sarcastically and exasperatedly explain that this, this, this, and that exception exists.
The podcast 99 Percent Invisible is also great for revealing the thought, complexity and history that goes into the stuff around you that you never think about
This comment very rudely ignores Grey's fascinating with everything that also does not have a purpose. I present exhibit A: Tiffany
"Humans are cool." And also awful. When will the poles flip on that one?
@@jamesdean5095 I see that as a sort of... unhealthy obsession. We all know what happens when Grey tries to carefully explain and examine things that do not have a precise story or purpose. I present Exhibit B: Staten Island.
Hahaha, as a pilot my initial thought before watching : “It doesn’t take 17 minutes to explain runway numbers” After watching: “So thorough, fantastic as always CGP Grey”
Same.
as a 15 yr old, I thought the same thing, also surprisingly, I knew about the difference between the magnetic and mathematical poles already, that math equations look terrifying though😅
As a student pilot i just learned about magnetism from this
i love how this video starts off with "why not give airport runways number 1 2 3 etc." and ends with information that the liquid metal in the earth is spinning and creates a magnetic field around earth which is called the magnetic north pole
Quick little tangent: The reason pilots like to land facing the wind is because the wind is pushing against the wings which generates lift, thus the plane’s wings and flaps gain a ton of efficiency, so they can travel at lower speeds, which makes the landing easier and smoother
You can really feel the mounting mania and panic that comes from being a "Yeah, but why?" person in a world where the answers do exist, they're just always made up of about a billion other answers to a billion other questions.
This is what I find so satisfying about his videos - he leans into that fact and persists till it completes the loop of the story he set out to tell, even if it takes him down many bizarre roads. It's like watching someone super intelligent navigate a detective Choose Your Own Adventure that has infinite possibilities.
@@Ahheck01 honestly it just feels like how my ADHD brain works: going down an unknown number of *connected enough* tangents/rabbit holes that all stemmed from one thought until I'm following the breadcrumbs back up the chain of loosely connected thoughts to return to my original topic. Which actually makes me think about how it's weirdly similar to traversing a binary tree data structure, and-- see? just like that
Also involves maths
As a real world pilot, I didn't think that what was a five minute discussion in flight school could be turned into nearly 20. Well done.
How much, if at all, does it bother you when the number is a little off?
With all the jokes and tangents and cool animations I feel that extra time is well spent!
Yes, this felt a little bloated but the animations are cool.
@@JimmyLundberg Not at all for me. In Aviation, the most important factor is safety and I'd rather have unambiguous, short runway numbers be the priority. If you're using a magnetic compass (mostly used in small aircraft) you're likely operating your aircraft mostly by sight, where a 10-degree visual difference can be easily corrected. If you're flying a larger aircraft, you'll probably be using true heading anyways, which means runway numbers already aren't accurate anyways.
Kind of crazy, I came into the video thinking I knew exactly what runway numbers meant and left having learned multiple new things.
As always, a pleasure watching you de-confusing confusion.
The crossover of multiple years of content that no one asked for but everyone needed.
Regarding the leading zero: It should definitely be there, for clarity. If you hear "ZERO SIX" you KNOW without a doubt that it's runway 6. If you only hear "SIX" you COULD have missed a leading "TWO", so there's a potential that you think it's runway 6, when it's actually runway 26. If you expect two digits at all times, it may avoid confusion. Under this system, receiving only one digit should cause you, as a pilot, to verify the missing leading digit. Omitting the leading zero causes you to happily accept a faulty one digit runway number.
what if you only hear "zero" and there are two runways starting with that leading number? things aren't so simple pal
@@windowsxseven I mean its not worse than the 6/26 problem Daniel suggested, if anything its neutral
@@neigeshusband5327 it is
@@windowsxseven if you ONLY hear zero, you must verify. "Things aren't so simple, pal"... Yes. Yes they are.
@@dr1303 then it's the same as only hearing six, you also have to verify. go back to reddit
"In the land of quantum, words mean nothing, there is only math." This is the best description of quantum mechanics I have ever heard and gels well with my motto of "The less you think about quantum, the more sense it makes"
Oh, so like time travel in most settings!
its the MST3K Mantra but in real life
This is my biggest roadblock when it comes to understanding quantum mechanics: you cant.
Must be why I can understand it easily. I already don't think about anything
My fav is “ Imagine a basketball spinning. Now imagine there is no ball, and no spinning, because that‘s not what spin means and scientists are bad at naming things.“
for anyone wondering; yes, there is actually an airport in Norwaywith the IATA code MEH
I'm a physics student and OMG the physcis bit was so amazingly done. The use of true terminology like "curl", explained in such an easy way was stunning. You perfectly described one of Maxwell's equations, the curl of a a magnetic field being proportional to the current passing through, which is in a mathematical notation 🔻xB= mu • J, with the triangle multiplied by B being said curl, J current density and mu the permeability of space. It's so well done and I didn't expect such an insight into such a complex yet beautiful physics topic in a video about airport runaways Keep it up friend!
This is the best written and most technically impressive video you have ever made. The culmination of all the work you've put in so far. I just hope you don't quit anytime soon. :)
Hope you're well Taran!
We hope to see the culmination of your work one day as well
when did his animation get so smooth?
@@throwawayemail8450 When he hired animators to do it for him (which is great, I'm not criticizing it, just stating facts).
Really feel like the Metric and hexagon videos were made for this video's benefit
This is the best written video you have ever made
disagree
Nice video
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Hi
@TIMEBUCKS™ Hi
15:30 was that a subtle hint at the immortality of Grey?
4:15 Ok I may be reading way to deep into this but I wouldn't put it past Grey to have slipped in a reference. Helm to 108 could be a reference to The Fifth Element. When they are on the space yacht. Especially with the Captain giving the order, the second in command repeating it to the one stearing and the one at the helm replying. I know it's also just how ship navigation works. Repeat the order to make sure it's understood but having the same number at the movie felt deliberate
Welcome to Fhloston Paradise!!
@@edinalewis4704 Yes!!!!! Someone gets it!
Phenomenal video. The fact that there are so many references to previous videos is more than just a gimmick, or a fun easter egg. It helps emphasize the overall theme of this video, which is that _everything is connected._
not that it helped *agents of SHIELD* ...
I liked the A4 paper grid as it zooms in on the iron atom.
I definitively have noticed quite a few references (from obvious ones such as the social security number to A4 paper to hexagons) but that it fits the underlying theme is something I didn't realise.
Even if we don't want it to be *Shakes fist at indifferent universe physics*
Have you watched Manifest? @unknownlight (ref airplanes and everything connected)
This is probably my favorite video of Grey's. The continued joke of physics turning into a special lesson, the topic changing from airplanes to geography to the many true norths to what magnets are, all beautiful. I especially love the obvious improvement over time, the little animations in this episode were fantastic, like when the classroom appeared, made of hexagonal tiles because hexagons are the bestagons. Lastly, the perfect choice to release this as a premiere, because it just keeps escalating and we have no idea how long until the video ends. 10/10, likely one of my favorite videos on this entire website.
Everything always comes back to physics. If you keep asking "but why?", you will always eventually end up with the fundamental laws of physics. This video demonstrates that perfectly, trying to keep physics out of it for as long as possible, but in the end it's always needed to answer the deeper question at play.
There was also an A4 paper callback when zooming down to the quantum level at 12:07
There was a team of people employed some number of years ago. An editor, someone to do the drawings, etc. I think Grey did it, in the beginning, there was Go- I mean, Grey
@@mikegoddijn but, why?
I love The Rules of rulers video
2:04 it bothered me to no end in high school chemistry that someone centuries ago decided electrons would be negative and protons would be positive. because now we have to deal with stuff like "reduction" actually meaning a _gain_ of electrons
easy way to memorize: electrons are negative, so when you gain negativity, your character 'reduces'.
@@srirampatnaik9164 no i understand that, but wouldn't it be so much easier if it was just: electrons are positive, so when you gain an electron, you gain an electron. instead we gotta memorize acronyms like OILRIG ("oxidization is loss, reduction is gain")
I don't want to be a pilot anymore.
As a life-long physics nerd who took a brief interest in geography and is now learning to fly, I 100% approve of every level of this video-ception.
Oh yeah, it's all comin' together
that's... oddly specific to this situation
Perhaps a natural progression, these days. Highly Educated -> Curious.
I thought the swirling core causing the earth’s magnetic field was high school physics… was that not common knowledge?
I recommend you start studying for your written exam as soon as possible. It can make all the difference when it comes time to take the written, and the oral with your check ride.
As a civil engineer who specifically works on airports, this video has made my day. 100% true. A lot of interesting science went on to figure out the font sizing for the runways XD
Now I want a video on runway font science. How did we get here?
As a pilot i concur
@@Bstingnl This, I want to know about aviation typography!
I want to know about the font sizing 👁️
As an electrical engineer, I too was pleasantly surprised, specifically with the explanations of the electricity and magnetics portion!
This has to be the only channel where I get excited about videos about RUNWAY NUMBERING 😅
Great video Grey! I’m a flight instructor, and you explained topic this very well. You got a bit more in-depth than I do with my students. I might send them to here for homework.
I remember Grey talking on Cortex about how many projects become a fractal where you get deeper and deeper the more you look into. This just feels like that - him starting an innocent video on runway numbers but then just falling deeper and deeper than he ever wanted.
That has to be exactly right
100% correct
Grey will get to the bottom of the rabbit hole to answer any question he finds interesting enough, lest we forget the Tiffany poem fiasco
Same
It reminds me of a Physics professor that would go into a dissertation and start with a simple scenario (like explain why the sky is blue), then their only question would be “Is that all?” and the candidate would just blindly drive themselves deeper and deeper into a physics rabbit hole exactly like this for the next couple hours trying to explain the universe in minute detail.
This feels like a magnus opus, with so many references to previous groundwork and information from previous CGP Grey videos. It feels like every 5 seconds you can point to SOMETHING that visually has been in another Grey video. I'm considering making BINGO cards for future Grey videos to see if he keeps doing it.
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@@tritamtran7264 thank you
I'll help you with the bingo. these should be one of those rhyming schemes alliterations the forest captain and quartermaster social security numbers
@@McJethroPovTee and the A4 effect at 12:07
@@McJethroPovTee Hexagon references too - the honeybee picture, the window when he went to geography time.
I love the attention to detail in 5:42 where the clouds that show up later begin creeping in from the sides
Fog of the future, really dense
I love the old tinkly piano music grey used to use coming in when he suddenly breaks into his old teacher style vids
You have ascended video creation and entered a realm of pure humour, education and entertainment all simultaneously. Bravo Grey, bravo.
WOAH ITS CLICKY CRISP
I love how everything seems like an incoherent tangent but its packed full of information which is explained at the right level with great enthusiasm and literary puns that make grey such an amazing KZheadr and everyones’ favorite party guest
And for every little tangent that makes it into the video, there are probably dozens more that had to get cut for time. Alas, such is the struggle of trying to follow a relatively direct line down a fractalizing rabbit hole of knowledge
8:30 I love the hexagon pallening
3:41 "Why are we made to suffer?" Oh poor Grey...
As a physicist, I appreciate you including so much physics in your "non-physics" video.
Yes.
As not a physicist, I appreciate CGP Grey including so much non- physics in your "physics" video.
The best way to teach ppl physics is to tell them that it isn't physics until after they've learned it.
As a cloud engineer, i find this video very interesting
I really like the return of the piano music and the Grey at his classroom desk when the magnetic north discussion comes in. Feels nostalgic. CGP Grey is an all time great of KZhead.
That transition to the science format was SMOOTH.
Also many modern ships use gyroscopes as compasses, where due to precession, when applied with a slight force (damping) a gyroscope's rotational axis will align with that of Earth as a stable equilibrium. This mechanical device, as long as kept spinning, tells you your compass bearing in relation to geographic (true) North, and also your latitude without any need for a sextant, and noting which direction it spins, it also tells you which hemisphere you're on (if the stars won't). It still won't tell your latitude, but John Harrison's H4 will.
Planes are similar, though the traditional magnetic compass remains for redundancy.
"The Simple Secret of Runway Digits" Expectation: Slightly interesting bureaucracy Reality: Learning about quantum magnetism two diversions deep
brain : *Pulp fiction travolta lost.gif
“Repeating the same patterns across scales and domains” is such a beautiful quote. Makes you wonder how much more similar the Earth is to a single atom of iron to the unknown that the Earth is shown as here
I think this is why quantum is such a tough pill to swallow, it blows this elegance away.
Wait till you learn about fractal geometry...
Unfortunately this only tends to apply to the macroscopic, although not too macroscopic
A fun supplement to this could be the other runway designations that aren't L, R, or C. Runway 4S/22S in Wasilla is a Ski/STOL strip, and 2W/20W here in Fairbanks is our water landing strip (our ski strip just gets called that on radio). I hear there are more for ultralights and all that jazz.
At 13:30 I had to pause the video for a wave of existential dead regarding our existence having evolved on the thin crust of a giant electromagnet, spinning around a ball of ignited gas, all hurtling through an empty void. And then when I paused the video i remembered this was a video about airport runway numbers
This was extremely well written and executed. CGP Grey is the epitome of “quality over quantity” 👏
Definitely! I have literally never seen a bad CGP Grey video. That usually happens even to the best sometimes ... but not to Grey, it seems. Maybe he is simply *the* best.
17 minutes of to say something that can be said in less then 2 and you argue its not quantity??? ffs.
Definitely worth the wait. (10,000 years may be excessive though.)
Yep, but no commitment to video series.
he and lemmino.
I'm a pilot from Canada, and Transport Canada absolutely LOVES throwing magnetic/true heading questions on their exams, usually not even related to the skill the question is testing. Ie: suppose you want to maintain track 170 in Northern Domestic Airspace with a TAS of 150 knots and the wind is at at 110 degrees and 40 knots, what heading should you fly to maintain track? If you do the calculation right but choose the answer given in degrees magnetic from the multiple choice you'll fail the question since all headings in Northern Domestic Airspace are given in degrees True. Pure, unfiltered Canadian-style pedantry. It's only applicable in Northern Domestic Airspace (anywhere north of Yellowknife and Iqaluit basically) which 99% of Canadians have never and will never go to, but damn it, they will make sure you learn it for the exam!
True, but there’s also places up there that are virtually only reachable by plain so I guess they would want you to take it seriously 😅?
You're more an expert than me, but... If pilots didn't have that drilled into their head, how would that affect the 1% of Canadian pilots that do need to fly to the Norther Domestic Airspace? (And is it truly 1%?)
Lmao. Here in the US the FAA just likes to screw people up with their true vs magnetic in wind reports.
UK Air law book 95% proper law about right of way rules of the air. Exam: 90% about the 1% of the book "you've got oil inside your aircraft and you landed in another EU country, what law.... blablabla"
@@MiMiLaXMiMi If they can reach it by plain, they don't need planes and they can stop forcing this system on all those poor pilots 😋
Who else noticed the kurzgesagt posters in the background at 11:49
Now that there is a new airport video, i’m going backwards, after just watching the video about the tags, i came here and can enjoy the things I learned, next i get to watch the boarding method ! Airplane knowledge is cool
Grey is that uncle that is always out of town and never reaches out to talk to anybody, but shows up once or twice a year to tell you stories about his travels before vanishing at 3 am while everybody is sleeping. I love it.
Me, too.
great description!
do you have an uncle who does that?
@@yourmum69_420 everyone has an uncle who does that edit- I think
@@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2 I strive to be the uncle who does that
These are the most concise, accurate descriptions i have ever seen, it’s worth the 10000 year wait for each one
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In the wormhole of KZhead this video is itself a wormhole and it’s so brilliantly executed. The genius put into this on so many levels is magnificent. Thank you for the carefully researched and curated content this one is a masterpiece.
*All hail the mighty KZhead algorithm* 🙌
I really like the bell feature. This way, I can only get notified of the utmost important uploads. Like CGPG
I'm personally really enjoying this running premise of Grey randomly accosting this one guy over and over with random bits of trivia you may have wondered about in passing but couldn't be arsed to google. Also greetings from Canada, where the runways never change.
The random guy is my favorite recurring character.
Actually they do change here in Canada, that entire section of the video is wrong. Only Northern Domestic Airspace has degT runways. (north of but not including Whitehorse,Yellowknife,Iqaluit)
Grey: makes a bunch of random videos that feel made as if on a whim. Also Grey: Connects everything in one video
This is the most complex way to explain runway numbers a man could ever imagine. This is what all educational videos should be like!
Incredible attention to detail here. As someone who has been to Nuuk airport, the red Air Greenland hangar in this video was a lovely touch ;)
As a flight instructor I really appreciate this video. I’ll be sending it to many early phase students. Thank you.
I’m a student pilot, I was already kind of past this point when I watched this video, but it absolutely reinforced my understanding of runway headings
Just want to note, as a Canadian pilot, the True North runways are only in the northern territories, where compasses are too unreliable to be used. The southern, bigger airports all still use Magnetic North for their numbers. You can tell if the runway uses True North since it will have a "T" after the number. I also haven't heard of trying to get more countries on board with true north? I'm not sure if that's a thing.
It's called the Aviation Heading Reference Transition Action Group (AHRTAG) as shown in the video. "A Canadian-led multinational team of navigation experts from Australia, France, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA, the AHRTAG is chaired by Anthony MacKay, Nav Canada’s director of operational safety."
The true north conversion thing sounds more like an politician's game than something from the aviation industry. Probably the brainchild of some bigshot somewhere who happens to also be an aviation enthusiast or something.
Rather than the exception it should be the norm. If the magnetic pole flips that would cause a ton of more harm. Even if it doesn't, its still moving, at this rate they are going to have to use a matrix of lights to change the numbers on the ground, its silly.
@@yrobtsvt Cool! I didn't know that!
@@freeculture "Flipping" or "moving" takes months, years, even decades. A single avoided crash by letting pilots use a normal compass to know where they are when visibility is horrible (and GPS doesn't show where you are facing) is going to save more money (not withstanding human lives) than the savings on paint and manpower for painting all the friggin numbers all over a country will.
I feel that at the 4:17 mark when the folks on the boat say "Helm to 108" is a reference to the movie The Fifth Element, though could just be my imagination. Still, thanks or being very informative, as ever, @CGP Grey!
I hope the whole team of people who work on these videos are really proud of this video. The quality of design and animation present here is seriously pushing the bar of quality for not only educational and informational videos on KZhead but in general. Seriously, this is something I wish I grew up with, it's insane how nice it can be to learn about these niche subjects, even if there's nuance left on the cutting room floor for the sake of time.
As a physics major, I fully understand and appreciate both the multiple attempts to run from it and the reluctant acceptance of their futility. I freaking love physics, but boy does it scramble the brain
It's actually quite endearing when you get used to it. My brain can't process information without involving physics and math in some sort of way now as it has become fun to play around with, even useless miscellaneous information like estimating the amount of kinetic energy of my car that is needed to pull up in my driveway 😂
There's a reason physics inspired Lovecraft's horror fiction.
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I start college in two weeks, and I can't wait to get into the thick of it. Too bad I don't get to delve into quantum mechanics until the end of undergraduate studies...
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Great stuff! I'm a pilot and flight instructor, so I knew a lot of this content. I even considered skipping this one because of that, but I looked at the length of the video and thought, "I have to find out where he takes this..." I am 100% glad to have watched this. I learned a lot. I had no idea Canada named runways after true north. I also knew that magnetic north moved, but I'd never bothered to learn the physics of why. I will absolutely recommend this video to my students. (Also... Winds are named backwards, but there's an advantage to it! The runway is named the direction it goes, and wind is named from the direction it came from. Because you always want to takeoff and land with a headwind, this opposing system means the runway numbers roughly match the wind numbers. If a pilot checks the weather and knows wind is 300 degrees, then they know to land on runway 30 (or whichever runway is the closest to the wind number.) It's great - no critical thinking required - which is exactly what you want in the busy airport environment.)
Wow .. thanks for that extra info!!
Cool essay you wrote
2:51 This channel is a better teacher of geography than school
This is probably one of my favorite videos youve ever done!!! I did not sign up for over half of what I got when clicking on the video, but got everything I signed up for! Brilliant and so much fun! Love learning from you!
Grey: Let's just agree to avoid physics for this video shall we? *Proceeds to explain the physics of basically everything*
He held back for as long as he could
You severely underestimate HOW MUCH physics tried to enter this video :P
Grey: We’re going to be avoiding physics for this video. Also Grey: So here’s the quantum mechanical explanation for electromagnetism
He spared us all from the fluid-dynamics... sooooo, we should thank him for that. Navier-Stokes is no joke :D
Physics: I am inevitable.
Hey! Just one small detail: Canada actually uses magnetic north to number most of the the country's runways. In an area called "southern domestic airspace". However, in the creatively named: "northern domestic airspace", true north is used for a number of reasons. Particularly navigational errors that happen at high latitudes, like magnetic dip and northerly turning error. Great video btw.
I had to check the comments to make sure someone else pointed this out before I added the same comment. Thanks!
I was just about to say the same.
He covered this at 16:30
@@krissp8712 No he didn't. What he says there implies that true north is used in all of Canada, which it is not.
@@lordvalen8133 "All her **northern** runways"
This is a great representation of how I have to explain ideas to people in general it’s so hard to lose people I’d love to be able to explain the things I’m interested in in a manner like Grey
This is the level of detail I need when I say "but WHY does it do that"
I love how he made the video recommendations at the end so that the characters at the bottom are still fully visible. It's this level of professionalism and attention to detail that I truly love about this channel.
I'm so glad he did that, too!! 😁 Happens on some channels often enough that they'll just slap 'em on randomly and it covers up the ending joke, or whatever 🙄
Yeah, that will work until KZhead changes the UI again. One thing you can bet on in web design or life in general is that things will change sooner or later. Anyone remember the time of annotations?
As a student pilot who just got back from my ground school regarding weather, thank you for simplifying what we learn so the everyday person can understand easily. Edit: Some extra info he missed, pilots tend to not care too much about the runway heading changing all that much as every 2-3 months we get a chart supplement which gives us the updated airport info including when runway numbers get changed to account to magnetic north’s drift
Same here! I literally also just got back from some weather ground traning. Hope your training goes well (:
The fact that Grey has created quality Ground School material without realizing he's made quality ground school material is sending me. Grey contribution to solving the pilot shortage. Hehe.
I wouldn't call this *simple*
Laughs as an Advanced Ground Instructor and cries as a Student Pilot
Mag north is the choice for pilots because a magnetic compass is one of the few instruments that is pretty immune to failure.
Other video cameos: 0:12 airport codes apparently, even if this video came out before. 0:17 airlane from better boarding methods 4:00 pirates video 6:46 i think interstate code video 6:53 social security number video 8:30 bestagons 8:32 algorythm bot 8:40 more bestagons
Grey, this video was so well put together, your humor, your animations, the story... Thank you!
The cute little references sprinkled throughout this video prove that Grey has fully established his own Cinematic Universe.
what references?
@@potataly1565 pirates,bee’s and hexagons they all link back to he’s other videos
@@noahmichel6237you can't miss the background music when the classroom showed up!
also the zooming into the electron level, it uses the A4 video
@@aadityamohta6966 yes, i'd really love if he'd turn that into a them, zooming into things. its very interesting.
I love aviation. And I love CGP Grey videos. AND I love tangents that come back together. And I LOVE physics! I giggled like a kid through this whole video!
Same (for all of that)
As an airline captain watching this is still entertaining because of how you explain it.
Thanks for illustrating so many aviation concepts in one video. Using this to teach my flight students
The conversion to the geography video has got to be one of the smoothest and most satisfying things I have ever seen. And also the room being assembled by hexagonal modules and the window being a hexagon makes a great callback to hexagons being the bestagons. Fantastic and educating video.
Even the zoom in to the molecular level was a reference to the A4 paper video. There's so much in here.
Did you see the flight attendants skirt?
As a young person who never thought about working in the airplane industry, never flew in a plane and is afraid of heights, this will be very useful video.
@MrВeast mrbeast profile pic statement invalidated
You learned something interesting about the world, which is always useful :3
Planes are pretty nice, I also have a fear of heights and went on a few
As a pilot, i do not have a fear of heights but i do have a fear of falling.
You'd be surprised where aviation knowledge is relevant. I learned some of this stuff in a drone class (along with reading weather conditions) because licensed drone flying is just pilot lite with all the same airspace restrictions. Too bad I couldn't afford a decent drone. Similarly, the weather service gives less technical wind speed reports that, when you look into them, are phrased in a way intended for boats and amateur planes. But they also let me know when crosswinds are going to make going 60mph on a motorbike terrifying.
This feels a lot better than the infuriating airport identification codes he explained in the other video.