One Eye on the Instruments - FAA 16mm Training Flim (1962)
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- čas přidán 24. 01. 2013
- This film was designed to encourage genera1 aviation pilots to take advantage of the FAA's Blue Seal Certification Program. It depicts a small town airport and compares the
flying ability of two of the local pilots. One is an old pro who flies by the "seat of his pants". The other is a younger pilot who has taken advantage of instrument training possibilities. The hazards of flying in IFR weather without instrument flying knowledge are vividly illustrated. This film features actor Richard Simmons who portrayed Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (TV Series 1955--1958).
There's something cool about wearing a suit and keying a handheld mic whilst flying.
Density altitude video brought me here.
Me too
was hoping to see Harry Bliss in his Bonaza
Poor ol Harry and that Red Hat..
Hahaha oh wow. It's insane how I know that reference
@@TrollerzTV I know right? standard issue during that time..
He's busy fishing.
@@snojetsst9420 hahaha nice one
Good stuff! Love these old timey FAA series videos.
Inadvertent flight into IMC is still the leading cause of death in non-instrument rated private pilots. Be careful out there folks, stay out of the clouds if you don't have an instrument rating. Better yet, go and get your instrument rating! Never get complacent in avation
Just a point on his comment on age, I learned in the 80's to fly but stopped in '91 and just last year picked it up again and the teaching methods today and techniques have taught me more than I first was taught thus I feel safer as a pilot, I'm in my early 60's and frankly you are never too old to learn new things so one should never figure that they are set in their ways and too old/experienced to learn! That attitude will probably kill you (and others) .
About to go for my instrument checkride...and turn 69.
@@MargaretLeber Good luck friend! I hope you do well.
I started in 79 and it stopped in 88, did a lot of hood flying thank God. Flew from Florida to the Bahamas in the early morning when the ocean was glass calm. Saved my bacon 🥓 many times. We used hand microphones and ear plugs back then. Just started flying again at 76. I flew a j-3 float plane ✈️ once. I think I might do that again.
I learned to fly in the early 80s and never really stopped. I did take a hiatus for 13 years due to raising a family. I finally got back into it in 2013 for a couple of years. Got back into it 2021 and all the automation is really something. Now aged 62 with no hope of it as a career but exploring becoming a CFI to help others who are young and ambitious. After 40 plus years, barely at about 600 hours. I remember a C-152 with instructor costing $49 dual. Not today! Can’t even afford a 3 hour cross country on a whim like I used to. Could’ve use this new fangled stuff back in the 80s and 90s. Miss the old NDB and Loran C days. Flying is so much easier with most airplanes having some sort of auto pilot and automation. Sad to say some people are still killing themselves because of complacency or because they feel that as an aircraft owner, they are immune to adhering to the basics. Now, more than ever trying to maintain IFR currency is a challenge, but thank God for the RedBird TD-2 simulator. Where I live I only have two flavors. Icing or thunderstorms. Sometimes being able to chase IFR weather just to do some approaches can be far and few in between. I remember the days I always looked for good weather, now I’m always looking for somewhat bad weather, lol!
I must say this is a great video, and is just as relevant today as it was 52:years ago.
still relevant today. A great series.
enjoyable, the message as good today as then,thanks for the old video.
Things were just better back then. Oh and both those aircraft are still around... 2920Y is registered to a guy in Colorado and is still flying, and 9344X is registered in Nevada but it's reg is expired so I don't know if it's still airworthy.
Saw others saying 9344x crashed
@@ultrasuperkiller Sadly, N9344X was substantially damaged by hitting a road sign after a precautionary landing on a road in 2001. app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20010604X01076&AKey=1&RType=Summary&IType=LA
The same airplane N2920Y was damaged in a VFR into IMC accident in 1974.
N9344X also crashed
Nothing more foreboding than an FAA instrument-awareness video ending with the pilot making an aerobatic right bank without parachutes while flying utility category
thanks for the upload! fantastic!
I like watching these old films and running the N numbers. The 182, the first plane, is still on the registry and was brand new in 1962. It now lives in Colorado. The second plane is no longer in the registry with no history listed for N9344Y.
I used to run the N numbers too. It's interesting how many of the planes are still on the registry. That 182 is now 62 years old. My '68 150 is 56 years old and still going strong. It'll outlast me! (I'm a '46 model myself.)
Hey, 5:19, “Dave,” is Col Gray (Forrest Compton), from Gomer Pyle USMC.
when (if!) I get my ppl and IR, I wanna remake this. Same script, similar accents, similar aircraft, 4:3-adaptable cinematography, similar music, but fundamentally new film.
That bird barely has two oil changes on it
This looks a bit like the old UK IMC rating (instrument meteorlgical conditions). It's now called IRR (instrument rating restricted). It has definitely saved lives on those rare ocasions when the seat of the pants lie to you.
Really Great *
She is still flying with a couple in Salida, Colorado!
Great!
I love a good training “flim”. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
People were tough those days: no headsets, no shoulder harnesses and no seat belt. They probably lighted a cigarette in the airplane and shot a whiskey before taking off😂
Thx much for posting this video. As Co-Admin of the Facebook group SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON, I'm always exploring for Richard Dick Simmons videos that the group might enjoy. 🙂
He's also in this FAA video: Safety by the Numbers. czcams.com/video/TObNtjiHTek/video.html
@@2degreewca Kind thx for the link. 🙂
@@lisasimmons5362 I take you're related to Mr. Simmons?
@@2degreewca No relation that I know of. But the Sergeant Preston series is one of my all-time top fave programs.
I got to 7:49, and I was DONE! An instrument rating doesn't sound so extravagant, now.
Tranquilizers before flight.. sounds legit 🤣
Perfectly OK if you're not the pilot.
Wow, only 51 hours on the tach
They were wearing suits and looked like adults , boy have times changed.
LoL - "... They find that it makes A MAN a safer and more careful pilot!" (@10:53)
Poor Dave!
FAA training film? These are full blown scripted short films with story lines, sub plots, and the emotions associated with them.
Wild
I don't know about other flight schools, but my instructor was quite adamant about ignoring the instruments and looking only outside. I always thought this is not a very smart thing to teach. Instruments are vital because a time may come when you will end up in IMC. And when that happens, you cannot use anything that you've been taught. It's all useless. What's more, any skill taught to a student at an early time will have a tendency to stick. Teach them to ignore the instruments and it will be very hard for them to use them, even if their lives depend on it.
Cristi Neagu I'd be interested to know the context in which he was saying "look outside." I've found some students fixate inside, neglecting easily correctable attitude excursions.
You should try to get your IR.
Well, I had the same problem, and my instructor was perfectly right to get me looking outside. I was one of the first generation of pilots to have significant PC simulator time, and I was initially terribly fixated on the instruments. You can't do that in a VMC environment; you need to look for traffic. Once you can fly visually, you add the skill of getting on the gauges. After all, every flight begins and ends flying visually, even when the weather is at minimums.
@@chrisreeves4388 Never got a notification for this...
He was saying that in all conditions. When climbing he would have us set climb speed, and then look outside, with occasional glances at the altimeter. Once at altitude, he'd have us level of using the altimeter, then keep the pitch by looking outside at the horizon, with a glance at the altimeter every once in a while. For everything we were expected to look outside to establish pitch, and only use the instruments rarely, as a check now and again.
@@MargaretLeber That is true, but my experience was that the instructor would have us spend 95% of the time looking outside. There were not talks about instrument scan patterns, because there are instrument scan patterns even for VFR, which make sure you spend an adequate amount of time looking outside for traffic. So it's one thing to become fixated on the instruments, which I agree is a problem, and quite another to learn to use the instruments to aid you in flight.
For example, when doing a standard 360 degree training turn, we'd be expected to enter the turn, keep it going, and end it without looking at the instruments. And while that is what i would be doing for the most part, every 20 degrees or so I would glance at my altimeter and VSI.
is the blue seal still available?
I don't think so. All private pilots are now required to have some hood time during their primary training and also during the regular flight reviews.
You do still get a blue seal on the upper right corner of any certificate where you "demonstrated the ability to control an airplane by reference to instruments", which means you now get it by default for the private pilot certificate because it requires 3 hours of flight training solely by reference to instruments.
How do these guys talk to each other and the tower without headsets? Was that really how it was in '62? Were GA airplanes a lot quieter back then? lol ;)
Nobody used headsets back then. Headphone technology was in its infancy so none were available and there was no real market for them anyway. Just crank the volume up and speak very loud. The smarter pilots used foam earplugs but most pilots didn't. Now, old pilots are now a gold mine for the hearing aid industry.
I can only imagine! Even with headphones I sometimes have trouble hearing in a GA airplane.
What?
@@carpenjatp lol :)
@@2degreewca Hmm strange. I did see a Bell Airacobra training film from 1943 in which they wore headsets.
Bummer...nobody crashed 😖
Too busy on radio and lost control. A-N-C. Many pilots panic and over control the plane.
Que pena que no tenga subtitulos en español
Too bad Patsy Cline’s manager didn’t see this video.
And we're still flying the same old aircraft, it's 2021,ffs! 🤣
Missletronics has a problem with our order. And now you have 178 seconds to live!
I wonder what Missletronics made-probably baking or gardening products.
How about overconfidence, inadvertent IMC, and density altitude. I am sure he suffers from none of that and is completely qualified. The copilot should have picked up the radio and started monitoring. Cut the power, level the wings, stay off the rudder, stay straight, and try to get out of the weather, brah. Then talk on the radio. Did they cut to the shot of Blondie's eyes right before he cuts down Angel Eyes after he does that thirty-second post-flight inspection?
" you old fuc#$" lol.