9 thoughts on “How to start up a Boeing 737”

1. And yet, the majority of the flight plan programming part seems to have been edited out. Great video anyway !

2. scary amount of complexity to the untrained eye.

3. And thats what she said during one night

4. Sort of reminds me of one of those ‘howtobasic’ videos.

5. For comparison sake pull up a video of tu 154 start up procedure

6. Seems like a terrorists how to steal a flying bomb.

7. That’s a lot of detail for a job that pays so little.

8. there’s a lot in there that’s flight related. For ground runs, it’s a bit more simple, but not by much. ’37’s older hardware.

   Depending on the hardware, you can get to APU start really fast. In the case of a B-1B, it’s a single big button, aka the “Alert Start” switch. http://www.airvectors.net/avb1.html

   has a nice pic of it about a quarter of the way down the page.

   We never did get to see that one in action. always had to do it the hard way. Sigh.

9. The title should be, “How to prepare for flight, in a 737”. Most of the switches and knobs they are messing with are radios, testing alarms, lights, etc. To start a jet…its like 2 buttons and a switch.