What those Big Jet TV landings looked like from INSIDE the cockpit as planespotter becomes a celebrity after 6.3million tuned in to his livestream of aircraft battling Storm Eunice
This is the incredible cockpit footage of a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 landing during yesterday's Storm Eunice at Heathrow Airport yesterday combined with Big Jet TV's animated commentary.
More than 200,000 people were watching the YouTube channel hosted by Jerry Dywer who was standing on his van at the end of Heathrow Airport's Runway 27 as aircraft battled the terrible conditions.
Qatar Airways captain Khalifa Al Thani had set up a camera in his cockpit ahead of his arrival in Heathrow which filmed him as he kept his aircraft lined up with the runway.
Ex Formula One World Champion Damon Hill saw footage of Captain Al Thani's aircraft handling and said: 'This commands respect.' Qatar Airways captain Khalifa Al Thani had set up a camera in his cockpit ahead of his arrival in Heathrow which filmed him as he kept his aircraft lined up with the runway.
Ex Formula One World Champion Damon Hill saw footage of Captain Al Thani's aircraft handling and said: 'This commands respect.' 
Ex Formula One World Champion Damon Hill saw Captain Al Thani's footage and said: 'This commands respect'
Captain Khalifa Al Thani, pictured, posted footage from inside the cockpit of his Boeing 777 as he battled with the controls to keep the jet lined up with Heathrow Airport's Runway 27L
Captain Al Thani combined his footage with Big Jet TV's dramatic excited commentary
Inside the cockpit, it was like an ordinary day in the office with no major drama, though on the ground Jerry Dyer of Big Jet TV said: 'Ooh easy... you've got to get it down soon, mate... ah ha ha, nicely done'
Dozens of aircraft had to abandon their approaches to Heathrow yesterday because the wind exceeded safe levels - making the Jet TV footage utterly compelling.
The eight-hour marathon broadcast showed one jet floating over the runway, prompting Mr Dyer: 'Ooh easy... you've got to get it down soon, mate... ah ha ha, nicely done.'
From inside the cockpit, the footage shows Captain Al Thani with one hand on the control yoke. His other hand was firmly on the massive jet's throttles.
Captain Al Thani was forced to make constant adjustments as he made his approach moving the yoke rapidly to counter the buffeting winds.
As the jet made its approach, Captain Al Thani's co-pilot monitored the instruments while he kept his eyes out of the cockpit and on the runway.
Captain Al Thani posted his in cockpit video on Instagram. He said: 'Huge thanks to “Big Jet Tv” for the awesome coverage today and the exterior footage.'
As Mr Dwyer calls on the pilot to 'jump on the reversers', you can see Captain Al Thani's hands move to operate the thrust reversers which force the engine power forward to assist braking.
In total, more than five million people tuned into Big Jet TV's footage yesterday.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Dyer said: 'Yesterday, when the whole Storm Eunice, and prior to that Storm Dudley... I said in the morning... I wonder if we can possibly reach 30,000 people watching live, as many as we did during Storm Ciara.
Despite being buffeted by strong winds, Captain Al Thani was able to touch down on the runway's centre line in what has been described as a 'text book cross wind landing'
People on social media were
More than five million people watched BigJetTV's footage from Heathrow Airport yesterday
Aviation fan Jerry Dyer, pictured, hoped some 30,000 people would log onto his live feed yesterday. At one stage more than 220,000 people were watching the footage 'Every now and then you'd glance at the number of people watching and you're like, 88,000 people... 105,000 people - it was just going mad.
'At the end of the day we ended up with... normally we'd have about 100,000-plus views, and we had, from when I went to sleep last night, it was 5.5 million views.'
Mr Dyer said at one point there were 238,000 viewers watching live during the channel's peak popularity on Friday.
Today presenter Nick Robinson said: 'They dream of that at GB News, I'll tell you that. It was an extraordinary number of people watching.'
Britain's obsession with Big Jet TV's coverage yesterday spawned hundreds of memes
For an hour, the nation was obsessed whether a Qatar Airways Airbus A380 was going to be able to land on Runway 27L or would have to divert
Who is Jerry Dyer, the inspiration behind new internet sensation Big Jet TV?
The maverick planespotter whose live feed and hilarious commentary as planes landed at Heathrow in the teeth of Storm Eunice yesterday is a former interior designer who jacked it in to set up a YouTube channel that has riled his rivals, MailOnline can reveal.
Jerry Dyer's Big Jet TV had more than 200,000 viewers spending more than seven hours watching stomach-churning footage of airliners touching down almost sideways at Britain's busiest airport in 120mph gusts.
Mr Dyer, the son of an airline captain from Sussex, has loved all things aviation since he was a child but became an interior designer before pursuing his passion in 2016.
Big Jet TV host Jerry Dyer (pictured) has become an internet sensation. He told viewers to 'Batten down the hatches, take the day off , grab the popcorn and tune-in for all the action'
Jerry Dyer has a specially modified van which allows him to stand on the roof to provide a superior view of the runway
Subscribers from all over the globe pay around £4-a-month for two live shows a week, commentaries from airports all over the UK and Europe, with access to exclusive footage and invites to fan-only events.
Jerry even has his own modified Big Jet TV van with a scaffold on top so he can film planes on approach from a high vantage point.
And it is this battle for a better view that led to him falling out with rivals after he was accused of trimming a bush outside the Heathrow Hyatt hotel to get a better spot than the rivals.
One critic has even set up a Twitter site called 'The Lies of Big Jet TV', where the unnamed troll insists his excitable commentary of landings in storms suggest he 'almost wants a crash to happen', adding: 'This is not an aviation streamer, he is an ambulance chaser'.
When asked about his critics , Jerry replied: 'There's a group of them who have been doing it for 4 years! I think they secretly love us'.
And yesterday's live broadcast has won him tens of thousands of new fans. Big Jet TV viewers were enthralled as Mr Dyer yelled over the wind 'that is insane', 'go on my son', 'you beauty', 'bosh, get it down mate' and 'wallop' as the jets touched down.
On one occasion he sparked a flurry of tweets as he screamed: 'Here come the Russians' as an Aeroflot plane approached, a phrase which then began trending on Twitter.
Later he screamed: 'The big daddy from Qatar is coming in', sang Patsy Kline's 'Crazy' when the winds peaked and promised viewers he would stay next to the runway filming until 'Eunice stops'.
He is supported by his friend and assistant Gilly, who is watching off site and tells Jerry which planes are coming in and deals with emails and tweets from fans.
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