Nathan Fielder is taking to the skies — and sticking the touchdown.

After 5 episodes interrogating airline security and pilot interpersonal dynamics, the Nathan for You mastermind revealed that he obtained his pilot's license in Sunday's season 2 finale of The Rehearsal.

The super-sized episode reveals Fielder studying to fly over the course of two years.

"After I first started this undertaking, I had determined there was no higher strategy to perceive pilots than to change into one myself," Fielder says through voiceover in the beginning of the ep. "But it surely grew to become clear in a short time that I used to be not a pure at this. Particularly when it got here to touchdown the aircraft."

The comic says that the majority aspiring pilots usually are authorised to fly solo after simply 10 to 30 hours of supervised flying, nevertheless it took him seven months and over 120 hours earlier than he started touchdown planes to his instructors' satisfaction.

"I used to be apparently such an irregular case that they began passing me round to totally different instructors in an effort to diagnose what was happening with me," he explains.

Finally, Fielder efficiently obtained his pilot's license, which allowed him to arrange the finale's central stunt: flying a commercial-size plane filled with passengers to be able to simulate the cockpit dynamics of a typical industrial flight.

"Nobody sees all of the nuances of communication in there, how refined it’s, the disconnects," Fielder tells John Goglia, the previous Nationwide Transportation Security Board member with whom he consulted on earlier episodes. "Nobody is aware of what's taking place. What I'm pondering is: an actual flight in a 737 with actual passengers at 25,000 ft, and for the primary time, cameras within the cockpit for your complete time — and I do know I can get them in there as a result of I would be the pilot."

Fielder explains that regardless of not having the standard 1,500 hours of flight time usually required to change into a industrial pilot, he's concocted a plan to fly a aircraft full of passengers.

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With simply round 280 hours of flight time earlier than he makes an attempt the stunt, Fielder particulars the loophole that permits him to present it a whirl.

"You possibly can go personal pilot, instrument, industrial — you possibly can go proper to a 737 kind score, and for those who're not technically working for an airline — so there's a loophole, proper?" he asks Goglia.

"That's appropriate," Goglia responds. "However you're not gonna fly passengers with that."

Fielder anticipates that response and has already circumvented that challenge by recruiting his personal set of passengers. "Effectively, you possibly can't fly paying passengers, but when the aircraft is full of actors, you are able to do it," he says.

Goglia confirms that his technique ought to work. "Yep. That's proper," he says. "There’s a loophole for that."

The comic undergoes Boeing 737 coaching in Henderson, Nev., and secures a used 737 for the massive act. A couple of days earlier than the flight, Fielder fills out a medical assessment kind as a part of the pre-flight protocol.

"If you happen to lie on this type, it's a felony offense, with a most sentence of 5 years in jail," he says as he lingers on a yes-or-no query that asks if he has "psychological problems of any kind: despair, nervousness, and so on."

Fielder says, "I've by no means been formally recognized with nervousness, however I've positively felt the emotion. Loads truly. And I've been feeling it for months about this upcoming flight. Additionally, this phrase et cetera on the finish of the sentence confused me. What else did they imply by et cetera?"

The comic then goes to a health care provider "to make sure I used to be representing my present state of well being precisely," and receives an fMRI scan that he's instructed can detect quite a lot of psychological and neurological situations, together with nervousness, schizophrenia, and autism. Fielder asks the physician particularly about autism, because the earlier episode, "Washington," reveals him struggling to appropriately reply questions as a part of an autism prognosis take a look at and has a powerful subtextual undercurrent suggesting that he might need undiagnosed autism.

Fielder is then dissatisfied when the fMRI technician tells him that he gained't be capable of obtain the outcomes of his scan for at the very least two weeks, which implies they gained't be prepared in time for the flight.

"I discovered a thread the place somebody posted that their pal was a regional first officer who was simply recognized with autism," he explains as he seems over a Reddit put up. "Within the responses, all of the pilots had been perplexed as to why he would get examined within the first place. They mentioned you possibly can lose your license by disclosing one thing like this. I imply, with the data I had, I'm match to fly. So I suppose I'm match to fly."

Fielder immediately addresses the digicam to clarify why he needs to make the flight. "I'm making an attempt to display how laborious it may be for any pilot to say what they're pondering in a cockpit surroundings, and this harmful phenomenon that results in planes crashing, I actually imagine occurs in some kind on each single airline flight," he says.

He explains, "The second I see my copilot pondering one thing he's not saying, you're gonna get to see that, after which I'm gonna rapidly leap in and ask him about how he's feeling so he can share that with me and be comfy sharing that, and nothing might be left unstated."

After filling the aircraft with actors, a lot of whom are recognizable from earlier episodes, the comic efficiently handles the takeoff, and explains that the flight will final round two hours and 10 minutes, and can merely take the passengers from San Bernardino Worldwide Airport to the airspace across the Nevada border, then flip round and land in San Bernardino once more.

The flight continues with no hitch, and Fielder makes an attempt to open the strains of communication together with his copilot, Aaron, by repeatedly asking him if every part is okay. It additionally seems that the comic has deliberately engineered circumstances that made Aaron uncomfortable by commissioning a separate aircraft with a digicam crew to fly in shut proximity to the 737 to movie the cockpit from the surface.

Fielder later asks Aaron to take part in an performing train he's developed that he hopes will encourage honesty amongst copilots, suggesting they play characters named "First Officer Blunt" and "Captain Allears," who’re wonderful at giving and receiving trustworthy suggestions.

After introducing the concept, Aaron discloses that Fielder forgot to retract the aircraft's flaps throughout takeoff. "You possibly can inform me within the second if I overlook something," Fielder responds. "I really like understanding what I do mistaken."

Fielder efficiently lands the aircraft, and his passengers applaud his piloting expertise after departing the plane.

Within the finale's penultimate scene, the winner of Fielder's pretend singing competitors present, Wings of Voice, sings Evanescene's "Convey Me to Life" because the comic watches from a distance. As she performs, Fielder checks his telephone and discovers a voicemail from the physician's workplace. The transcription of the message reads, "Hello good morning it's Dr. Jordan's workplace calling we have now the outcomes of your FM RI scans please give us a name arrange a time to debate your take a look at outcomes thanks…"

Then, in maybe the present's most surprising second, Fielder deletes the voicemail, suggesting that he intends to disregard the outcomes of the scan in the event that they reveal any situations which may intrude together with his piloting. He's absolutely transformed to the willful ignorance that he discovered some pilots keep to be able to maintain their licenses and jobs — thus personally demonstrating how pilots are implicitly discouraged from being utterly trustworthy about their psychological and emotional states.

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Within the season's remaining scene, Fielder reveals that he's continued piloting empty 737s as a aspect gig, explaining that the job typically takes him to rural Ecuador to fly the decommissioned planes over the Amazon rainforest.

"For some cause, they trusted me," he says. "I used to be one in every of two pilots within the cockpit, and typically, once they'd be on a rest room break, it was simply me in there, flying over the Atlantic Ocean for hours till the welcoming sands of Namibia come into sight."

Fielder continues: "They solely let the neatest and finest folks fly a aircraft of this dimension. And it feels good to know that. Nobody is allowed in a cockpit if there's one thing mistaken with them. So for those who're right here, you have to be nice."

All six episodes of The Rehearsal season 2 are streaming on Max.

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