10+ Turns Vector to Final in IMC! Napa to Orange County!
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Some single pilot IFR from Napa County Airport to John Wayne in LA. I make a ton of mistakes, get vectored a ton in actual IMC, and hopefully made myself a better pilot in the process! Thanks for watching! Please Subscribe if you like content like this!
Peter, great job managing a stressful environment. You kept your cool, and you didn’t allow your minor mistakes to snowball on you. Appreciate you sharing the video as I’m finishing up my IFR training. Your video is very helpful.
I really appreciate the kind words! Hurry up and finish up that IR ticket. You wont regret it!!
That sir is a very cool plane. Great video of the flight into SNA. Back in the 80's when I was doing my IFR training I flew out of SNA. We had a lot of days of that 3000 Ft marine layer in and out of the clouds.. Had to do all that the old fashion way by hand. Never had that many turns though. It sure is a different way to fly with your cockpit but watching you fly it I can see how much more situational awareness you have with all the charts and data in front of you. I hope I get to fly a glass panel some day. Very cool and thanks for sharing
I cant imagine doing it with paper charts and needles only! I have a significant amount of time in round gauge planes but would not take on single pilot IFR in them. Glad you liked the video and the plane! Thanks for the watch and the comment! It means a lot!!
Awesome videos, love how you fly your airplane!!
Thank you!! I really appreciate it!
Nice work - they threw you a ridiculous amount of vectoring (lets call it excessive). The traffic didn't seem that bad on the approach freq. Great panel set up to get you through the workload they sent you.
Thank you!!
I've only flown VFR under Light Sport fixed wing, but have practiced IFR using Microsoft's series of flight simulators for desktop computers, including their latest sim, MSFS 2020 which can reproduce my VFR flying experience really well. I have tried IFR flight and it is nerve wracking to fly and hope one is lined up with the runway and hope the traffic around is aware a slower aircraft is on approach.
With our modern GPS's, it's a bit easier to fly IFR but one must still use the localizer to stay on the runway heading and glide slope.
The most amazing IFR landing I experienced as a passenger was on a Mexicana flight into Denver from Zacatecas. The soup was so bad we had to divert to Pueblo and wait for the soup in Denver to lift, we were stuck in Pueblo two hours. When we landed in Denver, I did not see the runway until I was just over it, and from my point of view that was only about 75 feet of visibility so the pilots were flying and landing at minimums.
We missed our connection and had to wait seven hours for the next one to Phoenix, and my wife was so patient--I had a terrible migraine by that time from the stress and the flight attendants gave me Excedrin so I could drive us home from Sky Harbor.
I enjoy videos like yours because they show excellent pilotage. My CFI showed me how easy it was to learn how to fly, and how challenging it was to become a pilot, which is why I never went for an IFR ticket and remained with Light Sport.
But I practice IFR flight on my desktop simulator in case weather unexpectedly moves in--it may save my life some day.
It may very well! Thanks for the kind words and the stories! And thanks again for watching the channel. I really appreciate it!
New subscriber, enjoyed the ride along!
Thank you so much for checking it out!!
Great flight thanks for sharing Pete
Thanks Jason!! I hope and fam are well!!
Thanks for the ride along. Loved all of the panel shots, almost like being there myself. I'm about 9 hours away from my IFR flight test with my -9A, haven't done any training in the past 6 weeks and feeling the skills decay. This helps keep my head in it a bit.
Love it! I did all my training and my checkride in the RV. Good luck and stay sharp! Thanks for watching!
17:31 121.30 is listed as the final approach frequency, you should be expecting to be sent to that at some point (ie, it would be a indicator that once you're on that freq, that's who is going to issue the app clearance, therefore, it would be reasonable to get the tower freq into stdby once you're on that freq). Later, when the controller issues the freq, you didn't read it back. Reading back numbers is generally considered good practice. It prevents basic miscommunication, and selfishly, simply SAYING it helps cement it into short term memory. Case in point, you didn't read it back, then you needed the replay feature to recall it, and then you didn't enter it correctly.
Just like accidents are made of chains of events, so too are mistakes with small tasks like freq changes. THOSE errors can lead to stress and additional workload. Definitely consider small changes like this to improve your efficiency. I can all but promise that the flights will go smoother and your workload will drop. Final point, when you dial in a freq, say it out loud. LOOK at the numbers you're dialing, making sure that what you're saying matches what you're dialing. This is a technique that Rod Machado teaches, and he's spot on. It all but removes the possibility of this sort of thing happening. Great video, btw! Please don't take this comment to mean otherwise :)
I always love the feedback. I found a ton of mistakes in this trip this time around. Nothing that made me unsafe. Just some things like you pointed out that can make me even better. I appreciate it!!
@@svtpete83 Outstanding. The key to IFR is minimizing how much work needs to be done at any point in time. This can be achieved through spreading things out (ie, planning ahead) and minimizing mistakes (ie, reducing the total amount of work you do over the course of the flight). Keep at it and have fun!
Great video. You were busy. Is that a pulse oximeter on your panel?
looks like a CO detector.
Ya, its a CO detector. I do keep a pulse ox in the plane as well.
Thanks for the watch!
Peter
What kind of mount do you have on your left side for mini iPad? I have mine on a kneeboard wrapped around my right leg. Thanks
I used to have mine on the leg until I started flying real IMC. Looking down can be dangerous for me and I wanted something up at panel level. I just used a ram mount for an iPad mini and bolted it to one of my rails in the cockpit.
@@svtpete83 Thanks
You’re too low Cougar!
Always!