DIVERTED Away From AirVenture - FAST Pilot Decision Making!
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- čas přidán 17. 09. 2023
- It started off fun... But got more difficult quickly.
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This episode covers the lead up to what was absolutely my most #Difficult #AirVenture arrival experience.
Every year there are #Storms and super high traffic volume…
I’ve flown the Fisk arrival many times over the years, and have always managed to skate through fairly smoothly.
But 2023 was the first time that basically everything happened:
We had to divert due to storms being parked over the entire arrival procedure, then got spun at Fisk multiple times, had to go around due to a wrong way landing aircraft, and then had to join the holds when the airport was closed - all in, we spent over 2 hours doing what should have taken 25 minutes.
I was so glad to have Katie as a crew member on this one!
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Astro Katie is awesome! I was looking at all of that orange thinking, 'Dude, divert!'
Yup. :)
Very interesting watching your OSH unfold. I think your risk management was excellent. Love the fact you wanted to beat everyone to the Dells...this is always a part of my shifting priorities in the airline world. Very interesting to see your focus on the ATIS and then ultimately your realization it was not a priority and focus on the divert and delegate tasks. Very professional! Can't wait to see the next vid. Remember never to be afraid to redefine success in flying. I think this flight was very successful!
Thanks for these insights - at the time I was frustrated and feeling defeated, but I agree that in retrospect this is a great flying experience!
Flew VFR this year, first time ever at Osh. Stopped at C65 to fuel and get a co-pilot. WOW the traffic was insane. That was quite the experience. Looking forward to going back. Dragged my RV in to hit the green dot as way too many people were watching on the sidelines for me to not land well. No pressure or anything :) The experience was unreal!
Great examples of decision making and working with traffic at pilot controlled fields. A tip on the 750, when looking for frequencies the up and down arrows at the bottom right are very helpful. I had a tendency to try to scroll with the touch screen and would select things I didn't want. I am usually looking for ground and atis frequencies to put into com2 before selecting the twr or unicom in com 1.
That was fantastic CRM. Thanks for sharing.
The guy I was flying with decided to stop at Dells Baraboo late Monday so we could come into Osh early Tuesday morning. It worked out great.
Glad to hear that.
Another cool vid! Thanks, Steve and Katie!👍
KDLL is a great stop! Been there a few times over the last several years. We flew in on Thursday after the event had been going on for several days and it was a crazy arrival even then. Several trips all the way back to the start and just missing the cut off for the afternoon airshow. Finally made it in Thursday evening but had to do a go around due to a departing aircraft that wasn’t taking to tower. Pretty crazy. Seems like it is getting a little wilder each year. I may consider joining the Cessna mass arrival next year!!
Great to see you and Katie flying together.
It was a good time.
Katie wasn't wrong about the helicopters in her question. The Bell 47 tours were relentless. Can't help but to think they're stalking you. Looking forward to seeing your next video, my (first time) arrival on Friday morning was pretty uneventful, yours clearly wasn't. I never could pick up the ATIS and had nothing at all on Fisk until Green Lake.
The Bell 47 tours sometimes give me flashbacks... not of Vietnam, but of the S.F. Bay Area Malathion Wars of the '80s.
Two years in a row, my Friday arrivals were very smooth. For me, OSH 23 will always be memorable for five thunderstorms over nine days, holding my tent up for dear life. I remember getting Thaddeus' text about his tent-up-storm-hit episode. It was pretty cool watching the Wisk perform from homebuilt camping. What a year it was, and what a year it continues to be. Can't wait to see your real arrival episode.
Glad you made it through camping in that weather!
Wow, nice one. We flew in to Oshkosh on the Wednesday this year and it was my first time. WX was terrible that day which made for 5 legs coming from southwestern Ontario like you. We ended up doing our approach between the afternoon and evening air shows which meant flying it with what seemed like hundreds of others trying to make that 1 hour arrival window. To make it even more challenging we were a three ship (3 SkyMasters). It was chaos but I will never forget it. Oshkosh was amazing!
Phew! Thanks for sharing this Steve - plenty to keep you occupied!
Whoa! Astro Katie!? Going for her commercial? This is too much. Her book "The of Everything" was excellent.
I assume this was the Saturday arrival. It was the worst arrival we ever had as well. Down to 70kts at times in the RV10 and we got put in the hold when the plane landed the wrong way.
Yes, it was brutal.
Hello, is always fun to hear someone on the radio calling you out! 😂 thanks for sharing this, it was great 😊
Glad you enjoyed it Clarence.
Nice example of CRM between the two of you, and nice coordination with the other pilots on the radio coming into DLL.
I'd thought this was going to be the arrival-from-heck. I guess that's the next one. It's getting exciting! :-)
I'm a bit surprised about your not being able to read the ATIS as well. I don't know if they increase the range for the long arrival trains going to the west. But surely it's not directional....is it? Weird.
Thanks! And yeah, “the arrival from hell” is the next one. I initially thought this would all be one episode, but then I found the diversion here to be worthy of its own.
One of these days a flight sim will have scenarios about getting into airventure via the Fisk VFR procedure. In the meantime, I continue to live vicariously through you
PilotEdge hosts SimVenture in FS2020 every year before Oshkosh to allow prospective fly-ins to familiarize the arrivals. They use actual OSH controllers too.
I'm in tech, but having two heads that understand the workload makes a lot of things workable
There were definitely some ATC problems this year. The ATIS didn't work well (transmitter issue?) and leaving Thursday was the worst.
Dang man, your co-pilot was on it! That was some impressive busy work. Looking forward to the next one.
Ok, I heard tale you were on approach 18R when that 36 series Bo decided he was landing 36L. I had a great view of that Ill advised Beech approach from vintage. Never did see who all scattered in the wave off.
Yuuuuuup… that story is coming next.
@@FlightChops Damn! It was a hell of a view from my camp site. Supposedly they had to hold placards up to get that guy on comms. Glad everyone made it out in one piece.
Katie and Steve in one video? Awesome!
*we're in two videos :)
The second part of this series was just published.
I would not expect to hear ATIS 50 miles out at 3500ft, but you are close to receiving it. I would have turned the squelch off to try to hear it. You can hear ATIS from 200-300 miles out if you’re high enough (i.e. 40,000ft), but conditions and altitude have to be right. 3500ft is low. If terrain is flat at 3500 (probably only 2500ft AGL in Wisconsin), I’d expect to pickup ATIS with no squelch at like 40-50 miles, assuming no hills or terrain in the way.
Every previous year I have gone, I’ve heard the ATIS by 60 miles 🤷
- This is from the AirVenture NOTAM:
“Tune to Arrival ATIS (125.9) no later than 60 miles from OSH Airport and note arrival runways in use. Have Notice arrival pages mentioned on ATIS available.”
Quiet Vtol was impressive.
Great video. As usual. Can I ask a mundane question: do you recall the name of the paint you used for the panel? I’m about to paint mine and am looking for a good grey like this.
That looks stressful. I may drive if I ever go.
heyy I am from Madison, not too far from Oshkosh and Milwaukee.
How do I find the next episode..?
What day were you flying in?
ipad said Saturday July 22
I watched you flying in circles for a while that day on ADSB. I thought your camera batteries might have been drained and the whole story was lost.
Yeah, what a mess. We cut cameras on the way outbound and then swapped batteries after it seemed we’d be able to make it an hour later / the batteries only juuuuust made it to capture the end - but the go around debacle happened with in the first hour and is well covered :)
So we can count on a good debrief about that mess in a video to come?@@FlightChops
Where’s the follow on video of the arrival?
Editing it now; Have had a busy few weeks. Watch for it later this week.
Get there itis. has killed many pilots. best to land and wait for clearer whether.
That’s why I shared this one.
Fisk after a thunderstorm or airport closure is always a shit show.
Yuuuup.
@@FlightChops got my 14 flying a couple months ago….they are amazing machines!
Wow!! That's about all I can think of for that. 8( --gary
Ok why the zipper hole in the floor of the tent?
Haha - I'll have to ask Thad :)
Ice fishing maybe?
@@matte1402 that’s gotta be it - good call.
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Thanks yeah, I often “write” these voice overs on the fly, and in some cases (like this one) the first take is the last take :)
first!!
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