VIDEO: Breathtaking Boeing 747 Cockpit Scenes

Personally I would have called this video - Dangle the carrot :)

amazing that people can be so negative over something so nice. True aviation enthusiast? what? come on. Like you have to hear engines and radios for it to be a good video? sure, in some videos it's nice both ways. This guy used some creativity and made a video - if people don't like it, don't watch it. It is not required reading!

I thought the music was kinda nice. Personally. But I wouldn't ever tell someone they HAD to download it either.

And to be an enthusiast... lets look at the word itself - it means enthusiastic, happy, eager - Maybe the flying professional is no longer a enthusiast and more of a realist? No matter what you fly there are days it's just a job, and other days you feel like a million dollars. It's funny, I used to get excited when it was severe clear. Then I was excited when I could shoot an approach to minimums. Then I was eager to fly in the afternoons and not at 0 dark thirty in the AM. Can you be enthusiastic for aviation without having to be enthusiastic ALL the time?

If you are making love, do you enthusiastically jump out of bed when you hear a 747 engine? because if you do, you may not be an enthusiast but an idiot! LOL

Maybe to some people enthusiast means something different. I have run into very few pilots that didn't love aviation to their core - in fact you have to, with all the trials and tribulations a pilot goes though in their career - you have to have a love affair with aviation to stay in it... so to hear someone say "you aren't a true enthusiast if you don't X" - well, perhaps they think of the word enthusiast as someone who would give a kidney to fly for a living - and not someone who flies for a living and loves it.. because let me tell you, at the end of a 16 hour day on day 4, the last thing you want to hear is aviation chatter on the radio or jet engine noise - and yet you still love what you do for a living.

and now that I have been away from flying for three years due to my spine injury, let me tell you, I still enjoyed the video... even without the radio comm and engine noise, in fact, it was a better production value the way it was made - more cinematic... not a documentary

Josh, I learned long ago to give little ear to anyone who anoints themselves fit to define the attributes of a TRUE {insert chosen endeavour here}. When said dogmatist is of a particular vintage your best course of action is often to just agree with him and swiftly move on.

Maybe your phony outrage blinded you during that moment you thought I said it sucked. But, what DID suck was that the cockpit audio had been removed and replaced with SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAVORITE SONG. The person that did that was more interested in the song than what he was laying it on top of. To you, was that preferable to actually hearing what was going on in the cockpit? You may be an aviation enthusiast, but I stand by my comparison to a TRUE aviation enthusiast. You should learn the difference if you plan on arguing about it. Get enlightened - if you didn't sit there wishing the original audio wasn't missing, you're NOT a true enthusiast. Any suggestion otherwise is laughable.