IFR Night Flight into MDW, Thank You Southwest Airlines for Sharing!
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2018
- Join us on an IFR flight into Chicago's Midway Airport (MDW). We get into the mix with the Southwest 737's. You'll get to hear some friendly air traffic banter and I re-set my night currency.
This video is for entertainment purposes only and is not intended as instruction in any way. For instruction please contact your local flight school.
This video does not represent the views of the FAA.
I must thank you guys. Thank goodness for technology and GoPros and awesome folks like you to bring aviation to people like me that have disabilities that would not allow us to study aviation. My father was with United Airlines his entire career before he passed. As a child I had the opportunity to sit left seat from PITT to Beaver County. I have always had the heart of an aviator but not the visual abilities. Im blind in right eye and left eye is not the greatest and super night blind. I'd like to say its awesome to hear you guys as Controllers flying and the "art" of cockpit communications I can listen to you guys all day long. I used to feel so stuck wanting to fly so bad but knowing I cant but you guys bring it home for me. Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you for the kind words Thomas! All we were looking for was to have fun and share our love of aviation with others. Hearing a story like this makes the cameras and editing well worth it! I'm sorry you weren't able to enjoy flight first hand with your medical issues but am so happy to have you journey with us. Thank you for sharing your story with us! We will continue to share our flight experiences with you. Lot's of fun trips planned for the year!
Thomas Pittock Thomas great story, I was shocked to see that you are so close by. I also have visual problems so I am stuck to only being a drone pilot, anyway a shout out from Beaver County(Monaca)
Good job by all and thanks for taking us along ! Love the night lights and learning about the greater Chicago area and airspace environment. Looking forward to your next flight.
Glad you liked it Alan! All that's left for the Chicago area is landing O'Hare. I'll do that soon and we have several trips planned for the year that we will put up.
Very nice. I learned to fly at Midway in the early 80's before it turned into the madhouse that is now. The view of the skyline from 04 is awesome, I have a framed 8x10 we took out the front of a 172 that's been hanging on my wall for 30 years now. Thanx for taking us along. Keep up the good work.
Glad we could take you back! I heard from others MDW used to be a good GA airport. Not much going on there anymore than SWA and corporate jets. Thanks for coming along!
I’ve watched and enjoyed all of your videos, thanks for sharing them. I enjoy your cockpit chatter and listening to ATC. Our radios are never as busy. A night flight in the Chicago area is quite the contrast to flying the plains of central Kansas after dark. I liked your night flight and I’m looking forward to seeing your new travels.
Thanks David...glad you're enjoying the channel! I wish the cameras did a little better at night so we could film more of it.
Awesome video, Glad i can be apart of this channel. It's going places fast! I love these video's because when i was younger my step father was a charter pilot and he would use one of his friends 310's for our vacations. I miss the power of the 310 and the sound of those engines. I remember riding in the back to Chattanooga couldn't see over the dash but i'm forever hooked on 310s!
Thank you! Really glad you like the channel! Glad we could take you back to some good 310 memories. :)
What a difference the night time makes. love the light show below. Always look forward to seeing that hangar at the end. Thanks mate.
Thanks Spiro! Glad the video turned out okay and you liked it.
Something about ur vide had me.binge watching I randomaly stubbled and been watching for.hours now love it
Nothing like coming home from a day of work and checking out the latest video in the recliner
Thanks for sharing another great flight! I love the view of a night flight, especially approaching an airport and over the city.
You're welcome Ken! I agree about flying at night. It's usually nice smooth air and the view approaching an airport is awesome. :)
Love the night flight and seeing the city lights below and the airport lights too...🎥😃👍👌👊🛩
Thank you, very cool. You’re allowing me to relive my old flying days. Didn’t have a glass cockpit though!Appreciate it.😎🛩
Glad you are enjoying it Russell! I learned with no glass and no gps. We had to do NDB approaches and all. I must say, I'm glad to have all the new technology in the cockpit.
Loved this flight. It reminded me of flying a172 from Peoria into Midway 4L at night with a Citation on my right wing for 4R. I did a touch and go onto Rockford. Another night flight into Meigs and blew a tire on landing. Service from from Midway was about 1 1/2 hrs. Loved Meigs! Wish we still had it!
Great video. Kudos to your Lady for knowing when to turn the radio over to you. She does a great job.
Thanks Frank! I agree, she does an awesome job and knows when to hand it over. She's great. :)
Beautiful.. Just BEAUTIFUL..!! Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome Kimberly. Glad you liked it!
Outstanding radio communications!! You two are really sharp!!
Hello Kevin and Jaime, I want to thank you for all your videos, I feel as I am flying with you each time. I enjoy all your videos, and I cannot wait for your next one to come out. If your ever in the DFW area I would really enjoy aviating with you two. You two are so much fun to watch. I would like to meet you sometime....
Cheers for now...…...
Glad you're enjoying the channel Kevin!! We'll keep you in mind for the next time we make it to the area. :)
I got two hours in barely starting can't wait till i do my first night flight. I Enjoy watching your videos really inspired me to learn to fly
It looks so cool at night with all the lights, awesome video!
Really enjoy your videos... Thanks for taking us on your adventure
Glad you enjoyed it Brian! Thanks for watching. Lot's more planned.
Love the night flight. Very cool and different. Thanks for the ride along.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
That was amazing. Night shots look good on the big screen!
Awesome! Haven't watched it on the big screen yet. Glad you think it turned out well.
Great segment. Thanks.
Great job on this one Kevin. The contrast between flight and being on the water (my trade) is interesting. Your screens seem very bright. On the water, dimming everything , helps to maintain night vision.
Glad you enjoyed it Karl! I try to keep things fairly dim to help with my eyes night vision to be able to see well outside the cockpit. I'm still fine tuning my night flying as some things are easily controlled, some are auto-dim and some are just how they are. That being said, I think the cameras made the electronics look brighter than they really were.
Just saw this one and you can sure see how much brighter your new landing lights are. I remember well the same dark picture with the 310 I used to fly.
Great video! Loved the night flight.
Thanks Steve....glad you enjoyed it!
Great view out the windshield there - love that camera angle! Place looks absolutely amazing at night. 👍
I know she said that runway was "lit up like a Christmas tree" ... but I say it was lit up like the dash of my '07 Silverado. 😁
I was pleasantly surprised how well the gopro's did at night. I'm going to toy with an external one or two and see if they show things like the skyscrapers in the distance.
Very kool video flying at night, busy busy busy
Well done! Thanks for the ride along.
Thanks Stan! Glad you enjoyed it!
Omg!!! How awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Donald!!
Another winner! Great job guys!
Thanks Glen! Glad you liked it.
That was awesome! Quite intimidating to land, taxi back and depart MDW while picking up a clearance.
Thank you. Yeah, goofy me...you'd think for the first time in I would have picked daylight. :)
A great night flight guys, video quality was outstanding.
Thank you! I wasn't sure how the cameras would do at night but I'm happy with how it turned out.
Hi guys,
Just viewed your night flight into MDW, pretty awesome!
I really hope I get to meet you two your next trip to Key West. I have seen many of your videos now, most entertaining to me, my highlight of the day!
Tony from Key West
Glad you enjoyed it Tony! We are looking forward to the trip and figuring out the schedule. :)
@@310Pilot Way Cool!!!
Will be looking forward to meeting you both!
Thanks for letting me ride in the back seat again. Maybe I'll see you guys sometime when I'm flying over on your side of the lake again.
Thanks for watching again Mitch! If you hear or see us around say hi. I'm planning to hit Mackinac Island again at some point this year. I like your side of the lake.
I love flying over the city at night. Probably why I schedule my flights from my local airport, FWA to go into ORD earlier in the AM or later evening when I fly anywhere out west. Fly into FWA if you ever get a chance. The 122nd FW has their A-10's up quite a bit and they are fun to watch.
Solid night video and landings! Thanks
Thanks Don! I was happy with how the gopro's did in the dark.
Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome Bill!
New sub here, and not a pilot, but thank you for the fantastic content. You two are pretty great together.. sounds like you both have ATC experience. Real professionals.
Thanks for following along with us! Glad you like the content so far. We are both air traffic controllers in the Chicago area.
Thank you for the reply. I don't know how you keep all that info in your heads for read back.
I know the feeling about “sharing” with the big boys. MSP in a single engine 172 was one heck of a flight. Greetings from KDBQ!!!
Greetings Michael! My next "sharing" will be with United and American...going for an ORD one soon. :)
310 Pilot a decent amount of the guys here like to make ORD their bravo experience but a lot of the time it happens at 11pm or later. I would never be able to handle that.
Kevin, I know you try and nail a smooth landing everytime, but those are every now and then. It's like my FI told me once, Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. My FI was Retired Col. Arthur West. US Army Air Force, then later USAF. He was a flight instructor on a B-17G Mitchell. He gave me a B-17G flight manual before he passed away. Night flying is great. Done it many times. Enjoy it all while you guys are young. Talk about changes..Whew !!
Keith, wow...you had a very experienced flight instructor with an awesome resume. That is cool that you were able to fly with him. I agree, most of my landings are all perfectly fine. I always strive for the greasers on the center line and will over critique myself on them. :)
Sweet video. Night taxi around MDW looked like the hardest part of this flight.
Thank you Rory! Yes, being an approach controller here, shooting the RNAV 4R was no big deal. Having never been to MDW before and it being night/old iPad problems...was the hardest part.
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ahmad! Glad you liked it.
I love your videos, this night flight was beautiful but seemingly stressful.
I fly out of Skyhaven airport but in Rochester N.H. I started watching your videos when I saw the New england videos.
I'm currently rebuilding and flying a Phantom ultralight myself. Just need to heal and be cleared from a work injury. Your 310 is a beautiful aircraft; love the sound of the twin.
There is a lighthouse in York Maine, its the Nubble light you would enjoy. You probably flew over it going up the Maine coast to Bar Harbor. I believe the restricted area in Kennebunkport was were the former President Bush lived. I'm randomly going through your videos, you have posted quite a few.
Thank you,
Take care,
Be safe.
beautiful night flight has me well motivated
Glad you enjoyed it...I haven't been flying around at night much in a while...I miss it.
Love the Night Flights!
Holy Moly Batman... I thought you guys were taxing back to your home base airport... Well done... Big airports and taxing suck sometimes... King Air Pilot
Enjoyed the video. I like the idea of a copilot in a 310. Never had that....lol Ya'll make a good couple.
Thanks Bob! Flying with my copilot sure makes something that was already fun even better. :)
TYVM for the Great Videos and the Time you Take for Us all to Enjoy
You're welcome. Thanks for taking time to watch!
There was a time that I flew in there four nights a week. Came in from Detroit. I learned to count the streets to find MDW.
Night IFR is so much fun. I love tagging along!
Glad you enjoyed it Stan!
Great video. Love night flying.
Thanks George. Glad you liked it!
Awesome videos I watch them all
Glad you are enjoying them!!
So hard, in my view anyway, to judge you’re height above ground when they have those lights on full bright, In my case normally after passing the threshold my best judge of height is off my own landing light. New idea 💡, lightbulb icon no pun intended, is to install a remote dimmer switch into each cockpit 👍😎🇬🇧. It’s great for the big boys, but on GA a bit of a nightmare sometimes. Thanks again for another wonderful video. You’re good young lady did very well on comms, I’m assuming she doesn’t have a PPL so that’s even more impressive. Thanks again from England 🏴
Jaime is a Chicago Controller Mark, just like Kevin. (cheers mate, Jim from UK )
Thank you for the night flight
I live in Kirkland I probably seen u fly over. I've been to poplar grove. Taylor airport... I just love it.
As usual, Miss co-pilot is absolutely stunning! Those are definitely bedroom eyes.
She really enhances the already good videos.
Northwoods Patriot Eaaaaaaaasy there.
Thank you and I agree! Love those native eyes. :)
I wanted to share that I'm not into aviation at all. However, I find myself drawn to watching aviation videos. I'm personally terrified of flying, so you won't catch me on a plane any time soon! It's quite amusing, but I can't explain why I enjoy these videos. Keep up the great work in aviation, and always prioritize safety. Your videos are undeniably cool. Hook 'em Horns!"
Dig it buddy. Nice job. I enjoyed this one!
Thanks Mike!
Your digital dash rocks - like it!
Thanks Brant!
thanks for sharing nice video as always
Thank Ronald. Glad you liked it!
Your videos are awesome, keep them coming. I wish I could sound as good as her on the radio - "that was awesome by the way!"
Thank you! We will keep them coming. We have several fun flights planned for the year. She does sound great on the radio...hard to believe she's never had a flight lesson.
I always thought she had an awesome radio voice as well.
She's a controller at Chicago Approach (C90), no surprise she can talk on the radio, no flight lessons needed haha
Awesome Video! Keep em comin you guys are the next Steve O :) and Steve'Et
Thanks Ram!! We have a ways to go to catch up to Steveo but we appreciate the compliment. :)
Great to be back in the 310 again for another flight with you both again. It's great to know people who know your call sign
Thanks Bernard! It is nice to hear a familiar voice. :)
thanks for the ride...was just like being there..even the engine sound is like being w u.
Glad you liked it Wayne!
Nice flight have a good night
Rich
It was nice and smooth. :)
So beautiful at night!!
Another great video!
Thank you Jon!
Wow, the taxiing was about as long as the flight!! ;)
Night flying so cool.
Beautiful. Love night flights! When I did my night flights during PPL training, after 5 landings at high-intensity we switched them to medium and then low, and I did muuuuuch better with a dimmer light setting. High intensity lights are so distracting to me.
Thanks Clay! I agree about the light settings. When using pilot controlled, I always go for the lowest setting unless I'm trying to get a strange runway in sight but then step them down. No reason to go that bright unless it's day IMC and it will help get the runway environment in sight. I should have said something. They probably just forgot they were that bright.
@@310Pilot I landed at Little Rock on 04R late one night about a year and a half ago. I was on short final before I saw the runway lights. They blended in with the other lights in the area worse than I've ever experienced.
That’s such a nice set-up!
Thanks Aaron!!
Great videos. The only thing I saw wrong was taxing with your strobe lights on. I thought it was practice to turn them on for take off and turn them off when exiting the runway. Keep up the safe flying.
Glad you are enjoying the videos Steve! You are 100% correct and I had to go back to watch because I didn't believe that I forgot to turn them off. What a rookie mistake. Of course I grab them right away at ARR when there was no one around. I owe some southwest pilots a drink. :)
Cool, first time I’ve ever flown at night.
Hi Kevin & Jaime - my son Ryder got to see a few of your videos tonight with me and he says Hi! He’s 9, and a half ;). He wanted me to tell Jaime to tighten her sun visor - it’s been loose on a few landings. He loves the videos!
Howdy Brant...tell Ryder we said hi! Let him know Jaime likes the visor that way so she can judge me on how soft my landings are. :)
Love y'all's video's and flying with y'all...Would love to meet y'all sometime.Do y'all ever fly into Spinks in Ft.Worth,Texas?
Ok, that's it for tonight, I have GOT to go to bed .lol . Thanks again.
I landed there a few months ago at night. They were using the 31's so I requested a visual to 31L to stay out of the way. I was amazed at how hard that field is to find at night. It's just buried among all the city lights.
In comparison, DuPage looked like an airport in the country.
Usually we try to coordinate with the tower for GA's to land the parallels and you could hear the SWA behind us ask tower if we were. I'm guessing it was closed for some reason? Many times when running visual approaches at night to MDW you can tell who is familiar and who is a first timer. It's tough to see blended in to the rest of all the lights!
Great video enjoyed it
Thanks Dwane...glad you liked it!
Nice vid my friend. The Blue Moons are on me.
Thank you Cap'n! I can dig a little moon...not an orange fan in them but I know most are. :)
Surprised they didn’t just have you sidestep to 4L with a 737 1-2 miles behind you.
I listen to MDW ATC all the time and they do it to most props.
Cool video. I love Midway.
Glad you liked the video. We will usually coordinate with tower before ramming a 737 close to a GA plane to make sure they are going to side-step. I'm guessing the parallel was closed? When I got to work I watched the replay and the SWA was a little over 2 behind and matched our speed as I was keeping it up. Glad to get off and not cause a go-around as I was just playing around. :)
310 Pilot
Are both of you controllers??
Yes, we are both approach controllers (TRACON).
with so many muni airports in Chicago area, why possibly cause problems for fast flying arriving jets at Midway? Fun for you, but nothing but aggravation for SWA pilots.
Ehmm... that looked so romantic!
Two of you and in the dark sky!
It felt like a date in the expensive restaurant with an expensive vine.
That was cool midway airport wow
Nice Flight..nice at night!!
Thanks John! Glad you liked it.
Love her voice. If I was ATC, I'd want to meet the woman behind it. You're a lucky man.
Very lucky indeed. :)
you work well together!
Thank you Bob!!
You guys are hilarious :)
We will be flying there in July because our son is going in the Navy. Southwest offers direct flights from Jax to Midway. Thankful for that service as my wife does not like to fly...layovers and plane changes are not good for her. Lol
Love it...
Contacting tower 1Bravo Charlie Meow! Classic🤣😂🤣
Chicago Approach and MDW tower are some of the best controllers we work with!
Thanks Chris! Glad you enjoy how we operate. :)
Her comms are so smooth.
She's a controller at C90
I will never fly my own plane BUT if I did would want someone like Jamie helping me this 76-year-old. DV in bad health will never pilot a plane enjoy your videos
Night flying is great and that's what I need to do more often
I agree and I need to do it more often as well!
WOW!!! Really great nighttime flight, Guys. At least that Southwest flight didn’t have to go around on the first landing. So, if you had gone full flaps on that landing, would you have made that Charlie cutoff? Even though the first landing wasn’t absolutely perfect, all the landing were really good, given it was nighttime. Those landing lights on that last landing WERE really bright. I can only imagine how bright they looked in the cockpit. Thanks for sharing another great flight. Look forward to the next one.
Really glad you like it Richard! The problem with the first turnoff he gave was I was keeping the speed up so much on final I was a bit hot. The flaps would have helped for sure and I may have been slow enough. The other problem was that exit, not being a high speed, didn't have lead off lights so it was hard to see. The one I took was a high speed and had the green lead off lights which made it much easier. Lot's more coming.
Discovered your family during the rona, love your flights, and have a completely better feel about flying in smaller aircraft. The connection the two of you have is awesome.
Night flying for me will help me out a lot on my IFR rating but unfortunately weather conditions on cool nights with warmer air flows over water can become more difficult if the fog moves inland . You have a well lighted ForeFlight IPAD and other avionics on hand for backup if needed. That's why it's great that you both are safe flying a Muti engine aircraft at night is better than a single-Engine at night especially over mountains. One day I like to see some IMC practice approaches in and out of your home base Airport . God bless you both .
I agree, it is more comfortable at night, with wx and/or water involved to be in a twin. I also want to get out and shoot some more actual approaches in IMC. When the plane comes out of annual and the conditions are right (no ice/convection), I'll get that done and put it up.
great night views of Chicago ..... speaking of distracting - that right front gopro in the first half of the video is a mind bender ..... blinky blinky reflections ...... surprised Jamie didn't complain/or is it just our angle?
Glad you enjoyed it! I love night flying but haven't gotten out much at night lately. That was just the angle from the GoPro...in the plane it was hardly noticeable. :)
@@310Pilot good, I'd be hanging my hat on it if not ................... ;-p
What are you using for the camera for the cockpit facing view? The night / low light resolution is awesome!
Glad you think it turned out well! The camera facing forward is a GoPro Hero5 Black. The one facing us/out the front window is the Hero5 Session. Need to grab a couple more.
Hey Kev... Thanks again for that clearance into Bravo a few months back. What setting do you use for your cockpit forward facing cam? I have a Hero4 Silver but I think the settings would be the same.
Loved Jamie’s comment about controllers talking ‘super-fast’. So hard to understand sometimes. If you hear a foreign accent (including English or Australian) please slow down a little. It takes us a while to pick up the accent and we’re not used to our own controllers talking faster than normal, everyday conversation. I can’t pick up Midway tower’s instructions on this and English is my first language...!
When I hear a foreign accent not only do I slow it down, I also break things up into smaller chunks. The US airliners that come in and out all the time you can pick up the tempo quite a bit and they get it all. Sometimes you don't have much time and those seconds can matter.
@@310Pilot - Speed is probably not as important as enunciation.
Enunciation comes with practice, speed naturally as enunciation improves .
Keep priorities in order for best results.
@@310Pilot My VERY southern CFII who trained and drove P3 Orions for the Navy most of his life explained it well back when I was training. I asked what do I do if the tower is talking too fast to understand, particularly up north (or in the midwest) and he said "if your hear them blazing through instructions as you approach, make sure your first communication is in, as, slow, a, southern, drawl, as, possible. They don't penalize you for being from the south and will usually slow down the instructions to accommodate the backwater hick that somehow got his license." I've used that tactic only once. Worked like a charm.
Very nice.
Thank you!