Curious Pilot YouTube Stats

@curiouspilot90 · Cars & Vehicles · Updated Nov 10, 2026

Curious Pilot channel overview

Curious Pilot (@curiouspilot90) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2022. It has 82K subscribers and 17M total views across 87 videos, an average of 194K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 99K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 98K views. Over the last 12 months, Curious Pilot published 4 videos, and 1 of them (25%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Curious Pilot make?

Returbe estimates Curious Pilot 's YouTube ad revenue at $783 – $2.7K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.96 to $13.87, typically $6.94, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $6.9K.

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Upload schedule

Curious Pilot publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (47% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 1, 2026.

Curious Pilot 's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Curious Pilot 's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Russian Controller Has No Choice But To Break The RULES to Prevent Disaster575K views · Jan 31, 20265.9× typical views
• Passenger at the Controls… Then Disaster178K views · Mar 14, 20261.8× typical views
• This Mistake Nearly Brought this Aircraft Down! #aviation #airdisasters #airplane9.5K views · Apr 11, 20251× typical views
• The Gap That Nearly Killed 87 People | AirTran Flight 42661K views · May 25, 20251× typical views
• These Pilots took a Shortcut Through a Storm! it did not end well. #aviation #airdisasters4.2K views · Apr 23, 20251× typical views
• A Crew's Fight for Survival | Heroes of Aviation6.5K views · Nov 8, 20251× typical views
• Experienced Pilots, Fatal Mistake: UK Dash-7 Crash53K views · Oct 25, 20251× typical views
• American Airlines MD11 PLUMMETS from 33,000ft! How Did This Happen?32K views · Sep 28, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Curious Pilot 's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why Didn't The Pilots Know? Delta 209 Engine Failure Analyzed18K views · Nov 1, 20260.2× typical views
• Inside the Crash That Changed Aviation Forever | PSA 177113K views · Apr 4, 20260.1× typical views
• Passenger at the Controls… Then Disaster178K views · Mar 14, 20261.8× typical views
• Russian Controller Has No Choice But To Break The RULES to Prevent Disaster575K views · Jan 31, 20265.9× typical views
• A Crew's Fight for Survival | Heroes of Aviation6.5K views · Nov 8, 20251× typical views
• Experienced Pilots, Fatal Mistake: UK Dash-7 Crash53K views · Oct 25, 20251× typical views
• American Airlines MD11 PLUMMETS from 33,000ft! How Did This Happen?32K views · Sep 28, 20251× typical views
• Both Engines Shut Down at 24,000 Feet | The Desperate Restart Attempt18K views · Sep 7, 20251× typical views
• Widerøe Flight 710 – Why the Crew Never Saw It Coming139K views · Aug 17, 20251× typical views
• Rod Lovell Faced Engine Failure and Did Something Incredible181K views · Jul 13, 20251× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.5K videos from 919 channels in this niche. 17% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 19K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $14.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Tyler John Wesley (32K subs, best video 910.6×), Drivewhisperer (124K subs, best video 146.5×), Petroleum (37K subs, best video 808.1×), The Daily Downshift (294K subs, best video 43×), GHOSTFACE WORKSHOP (26K subs, best video 194.1×), That Car Guy (89K subs, best video 363.3×).

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Frequently asked questions

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