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what is the background music😢

All that beach…. And you pick a bridge….

2,200 hours. Owns a twin. NOT Instrument rated? how?

Who are the greedbags that allowed potato plant with gigantic stacks to be built so close to the airport on the approach path? Some people need to be put in prison for allowing it.

She did what she could... I put this one on the Controllers. I'm sitting at my desk and am confused.

I've got a GFC500 autopilot, and EVERY flight, good visibility or not, I'll cock my head for a second then hit the LVL button to try to establish rote memory. "If off-kilter, HIT THE BLUE BUTTON!"

This airport Should be only VFR procedure to avoid another accident like this one.

So sad, and on their way to visit a cancer patient, may they be at peace now..

Another reason not to crash. The humiliation of the conversation over the radio being displayed for everyone to hear in the event something happens.

i just think of napalm bc they american

i dont thinks its called fireboss bc of water :o

sounds ez af

What bozos. Even when I had very few hours of flying I would have known to go around in that situation and not force it. What idiots.

How the hell are they supposed to understand any of this? They talk so fast. I would be in the plane like... 😳... whaaat was that?

masts have guy wires; towers do not.

Most people here were short winded.. I could be to and just call the CFI a co-conspiritor to manslaughter.. I could cite all sorts of holes in flight training programs.. Ala.. The new dawg "CFI's" teaching puppies.. (repeat) The one person who is almost as guilty as the pic, is the soul survivor.. THIS is a flaw in the training system., IMO. They've tried to clean it up with ATP flight deck attitudes / power struggles.. Back on point: The one person other than the passengers who should have at the very least, NOT flown and argued for the passengers not to do as well....... DID NOT.. I could fly and land both rotary and fixed before I ever got licensed thanks to having friends who owned both.. Never solo.. Just the experience.. I thought I'd go ahead and get licensed.. I fired TWO different flight schools for putting me with two different "CFIs" who were essentially learning at my own expense.. This is NOT a ego thing.. Oh, NO.. This is a business model where they are pushing new pilots through the process to commercial, and CFI, so THEY can teach new pilots to build hours.. Old news to older salts, I am sure.. However, already being successful, and not having starry eyes just to get in the air on the way to ATP? (etc).. I was not that person.. And, when I addressed it with the owner of Austin Academy of Aeronautics, and a number of other things.. I was refused a different "instructor".. I could write an in depth article on this.. I am a man with resources, and I was then as well, and most importantly, experiences.. A "CFI" (I say that in quotes because it is just a rating people skid their way into - doesn't make anyone a good instructor).. IF this guy is still in the aviation business, I hope you never forget what you could have stopped.. Passengers get away with "trust me flights" all the time, because they have no idea about even the fundamentals.. Even if this CFI somehow missed ALL of the warnings from the locals, who KNEW/KNOW far more about the conditions, taking off with the wind? What possibly could go wrong? A new young r/c airplane pilot even knows this..

And suddenly, you’re aware why single engine IFR is a little nuts.

Such a cool, skilled job and with all the potential pitfalls taken into account (I imagine) highly rewarding to operate as a pilot.

1:27 looks like inside a star wars snow speeder 😂 or x-wing squadron leader

Rather have a type 2 or a type 3 helicopter dipping close by that be waiting on a water scooping plane going back in forth from the lake. The helicopter puts water right where you need it. Plane off as often as its on the fireline. The Fire Boss and CL 215 seldom outdo helicopters on initial attack.

Depressing video. Very well edited.

I have had opportunity to declare an emergency twice. ATC was extremely helpful on both occasions and I only received a call from the FAA on one of them. It was not bc of anything I did wrong, but for them to gather information in case there was a more general issue in aviation that other pilots or mechanics needed to be aware of.

Dan - you just gave me a better format for an ILS/LPV approach lesson plan. Your content is the best sir. This CFII thanks you! You make my job easier!

Exciting machines! Powerful and utilitarian. Talk about a dream job!!!

6 ton increase in weight in 15 seconds...... wow !!

Excellent, but I miss the old narrator!

I assume every pilot has a plan for this on takeoff, with a general plan in several circumstances when experiencing an engine failure? why the insistence on making the runway? any open field of grass in a mostly wide open grassy area that is many airports is certainly better than a stall into the ground....

Awsome video. I like how you see through the eyes of all the people involved.

A minor yet significant tidbit: The controller should have corrected the Cirrus when he said "cleared for the intercept". In reality, he'd been cleared for the ILS approach to 21. That might have reinforced his situational awareness and kept him from blowing through the localizer. Who knows.

I wonder how much fatigue played a role in this. They had done over five hours of flying, spent 4 hours on the ground, and had potentially several hours to get to Des Moines. I don't make the best decisions after five hours in a car followed by needing to get back in the car a few hours later. With such unfavorable density altitude in the mountains, it would have been wiser to spend the night in Aspen and leave early morning with a clear head and cooler temperatures.

Honestly, she should have landed at the Sugar Land, TX air field. There is far less traffic and definitely no SWA 737 planes! She was in wayyy over her head at Hobby, and at that time of day!

ITS INCORRECT TO SAY RIPE FOR MISTAKES CORRECT USAGE IS RIFE FOR MISTAKES

Looks like the amphibian, fire-fighting brother to the Air Warden.

This is multiple controller F ups, she stayed calm the whole time, the tower controllers needed to talk to the approach controller to make space to fit her in, or hand her off to approach . Eventually she probably became frustrated and overwhelmed which lead to a critical mistake.

All aircraft are like a loaf of bread, they have an expiration date 😂

It’s asinine to tow banners to begin with 😂

≈ 13:00 If it starts 'porpoise'ng', what would happen, if you just held the stick still (no fwd or aft input at all)?

Incredible. i wish i had applied to join guys like this, when i was in my 20's, instead of just staying in australia, thinking, 'there's no jobs' back when Ansett collapsed...

What a lovely group of people. Just the kind that you want around when things are tough. ❤

I would imagine maintenance on the airframe and floats is quite important. They take a lot of stress on those scoops and drops.

I am not sure that I would trust that plane again with an undiagnosed electrical fault. Something was pulling fault current. Wiring short somewhere?😮

Is it just me? At 4:25 I expected him to say "Red Leader, this is Gold Leader, we're starting our attack run".

Love this guy.

Man this is intense and such an amazing machine and mission. 1600 hp and that kind of weight change... RIP Richard - a massive loss to aviation.

I thought they would do some basic emergency training for these controllers. They’re talking about vacuum tube failure. They have no idea what they’re talking about.

I always thought that the screaming sound was a feature of the supercritical aerofoil wing. Interesting.

So pleased that he didn’t target fixate on the runway because the M11 motorway in his path is in a considerable cutting on the approach line to Duxford that would have given a very different outcome. Excellent dynamic risk assessments and the best possible outcome. Any landing that you walk away from is a good’n!

Engaging personality that the Lord was selfless enough to leave amongst us a while longer. I am liking the sound of Alaska life❤

High density altitude is a very strange name for what is a low density atmospheric condition. Terminology is important. I suppose that the wind sock was a missed clue to the danger ahead. Real observation trumping historic reports and the vagaries of forecast. There but for the grace of God…

Pull the chute !