This Is What It Takes to Get a 737 in the Air in Sub-Zero Temperatures

​For the past few months, the Northeast has been battered with a never ending stream of pounding snowstorms.

The blizzards are wreaking havoc on some of the country's biggest airports. Countless flights have been cancelled over the past few months, but there are the lucky few that have successfully beaten Mother Nature and have taken off.

This here is one of them. A pilot strapped a camera into his cockpit to give us a one-of-a-kind view of a Boeing 737 taking off from the perennially snow-battered Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.

The video was posted to the ​737Channel on YouTube as part of several episode series showing the plane landing and taking off in different airports. Like their others, this one offers amazing views and audio from the air traffic control that's piped in along with helpful graphics of what's happening.

For ten minutes, we see how this gigantic machine maneuvers subzero temperatures and drifting snow. It begins at the deicing bay, where a mixture of heated water and glycol is sprayed on the plane to remove any ice or snow build-up ensuring a safe take-off.

Not surprisingly, there are a lot of things on the pilot's mind so the flight doesn't become the focal point of the National Geographic show Why Planes Crash. Is the cabin crew prepared? Are there any takeoff alternatives? Is the runway clear enough that the plane doesn't slide off? All with the air traffic controller's voice pounding into their ear.

Finally, the plane glides to the runway for take-off. There, the engines are powered up and the pilot waits for the all-clear from air traffic control. That's when the the fun part of the video actually begins and the aluminum tube is shot thousands of feet into the air. Damn.

If anything, this video makes you appreciate what the pilot does during takeoff while we flip through SkyMall (just kidding, R.I.P.) and gaze at the ground as it fades away.