Pilot Selfies are The Fake Or Real? Explained by Captain Joe

Dear friends and followers, welcome back to my channel and to one of the more odd questions I recently got asked, "Joe are these Selfies taken by pilots for real or are they fake?", and what Tom Cruise's eyes Have to do with these selfies? So let's extend that selfie stick and let's get started! Intro I'm pretty sure you've seen these kinds of pictures before on various Instagram accounts Now there are fun to look at, but at the same time they seem highly dangerous Why would a pilot put himself in so much danger and lean outside of the window just for a selfie? yeah, but the question is not why, it's How can he do that now? Now let's go through it step-by-step So my colleagues flew up to cruising flight level and then decided to open the cockpit window, now let's look at it from a physics point of view if you pay attention in your physics class, you know that with Increasing altitude, the air pressure becomes lower and lower now to counteract the lower pressured oxygen, the plane's cabin is pressurized that you can breathe now the differential pressure between the outside and the cabin is Approximately 8 psi, now that means eight pounds per square Inch. Now if we look at the sliding window of an Airbus A320, to open it the window first moves inside and then slides aft. Now the surface of the window is roughly 990 square inches and on every inch lies eight pounds of pressure, that equals nearly 8,000 pounds of force you need to overcome by pulling the window inside I do not need to say more to that, do I? But still the pictures are out there, so Somehow they must have gotten out of the window. Well, let's look at the picture in more detail Hmm now how can it be that the pilot has time to take this picture in midair? But his right engine isn't turning, now depending on what plane you fly, That's an emergency Situation and you wouldn't have time to take a picture. Well, okay, Let's look at my colleagues Sunglasses now in the reflection of the shades, you can see parts of the airport apron, well a bit unusual, I was expecting to see some clouds So we kind of can say this is faked then, right? Now, further colleagues tried to prove It's still possible by putting on the oxygen mask as he would have trouble breathing at 36,000 feet Now even that tie seems to be flapping about in the Airstream now, is this for real? I'm sure many of you have seen the Mission Impossible movie with Tom Cruise Where he's hanging at the side of an Airbus a400m as his buddy Reggie was unable to open the door for him now, please Look at the hairstyle and the entire appearance of Tom Cruise during that take compared to my pilot colleague and I would say that the a400m is not flying any faster than a hundred miles per hour at that point So you see something is up with the picture of my colleague Also, Tom Cruise had to wear massive plastic contact lenses to prevent his eyes from drying out and protect them from minor debris, Blown up by the massive propellers. I Personally think that's one of the coolest plane stunts. He's done so far. So, how is it done? the picture is taken at the gate whilst the plane is being turned around and a picture is Photoshopped into the background to make it look as if the plane is in flight so, to prove it all, it is fake. Now to give you full proof that this is really impossible to do in the 1990s, British Airways flight 5390 lost the captain's windshield at 17,000 feet, sucking out the captain from his seat and making the plane Uncontrollable for a few minutes as his legs caught up in the flight controls. Now luckily a flight attendant was within the cockpit at the time it happened and Immediately grabbed onto his belt, preventing the captain to be sucked out entirely and possibly into the Engine. Now, after the emergency descent, the plane landed safely and it's a pure Miracle that the captain survived with only minor injuries and returned back into the cockpit only a few months later, also This funny video right here shows how powerful the Airstream is when opening the window and trying to take a picture This leader just cracked nervous hilarious. So there you have it. These pictures are entirely fake you cannot open the window, if still you would immediately be sucked out, freeze or suffocate to death and Most likely lose your selfie stick and destroy the engine. So that's it for today, Thank you very much for your time Hit the subscribe button and the notification bell so you won't miss out upcoming Videos and don't forget: a good pilot is always learning. See you next week. All the best. Your Captain Joe.