BFR to IFR - The Leading Cause of Pilot Inspiration (Full Flight Review)
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2017
- Season 3, Episode 11
I wasn't expecting to have this episode turn out quite this way, in several different dimensions, but I hope that you find it enjoyable nonetheless. It was a fantastic experience! That I can say for sure. I was great to push my comfort zone a little further than usual. I can't say as I've felt that way since my initial training.
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Your FI is very good, I can tell just by watching the first 5 minutes of the video. keep this one ;) sincerely a fellow pilot
I know. He's sooo good :)
Of the 5 instructors I had, if ANY one of them was even half as good as yours I for sure would have completed my commercial rating. I was so anxious all the time that I would be berated by my instructor that my mind wasn't on flying. I eventually quit with $140,000 in college debt to go with my useless Private w/IFR rating.
@@5995Oblivion There's nothing "useless" about an IFR rating. You have my respect and if you really want to fly commercial you'll find a way. Get more experience and confidence, then *interview* potential instructors to find one that you can work with. We all make mistakes, and I would value one that can instruct without trying to score personal points very highly. Instructors have to try to see things from the student's point of view rather than their own fear and uncertainty, and that's a rare breed: qualities that are not tested for in suitability for a CFI rating.
I concur
This is probably one of the best learning videos I've seen on youtube after watching thousands of them. What a great interaction between an honest pilot with his license to learn and an instructor who is both practical and proficient.
And this is one of the best comments on CZcams! :)
Love how a fight review turned into a training session. That's what I call efficiency. Hope I get such a good FI, once I start flying.
He is really fantastic :)
Please keep having videos like this! It's nice to see uncut real life flying experiences.
It makes my day when you guys think it's uncut ;)
They have so much good equipment and aids in planes today. When I started my flight instruction in Sept of 1974 in a 150, all we had for aids was a VOR and our two eyes
unless you were in a 172 that had a transponder. That was it. I sure wish we had the GPS back then. This is great video with very good instructor.
Not sure how old he is but wow, one hell of an instructor! Absolute quality all around.
Tyler's the best! :)
This was amazing to watch. I learned a ton honestly. Really great instructor. And you were great with the radios and even better with the flying. It was cool to see a bit of CRM at times, and I was also able to spot a few moments of task saturation...which were also well handled. Thank you for posting this video.
Glad you enjoyed! I learned so much too! Haha
I’m no pilot but in my humble opinion, the single, most impressive sentence in this entire video was, “Sorry, I was busy flying while you were talking.”
I’ve only ever watched videos of other people flying-for now. But three words that keep coming up in those videos, and have been repeatedly beaten into my skull are, “aviate, navigate, communicate-“ in that exact order.
I’ve also learned that ATC will often tell you what they “want” you to do. It is absolutely critical for every pilot to weigh what ATC “wants” against what you, the pilot, “need.” I’m sure we’ve all seen way too many tragic AOPA and NTSB videos about pilots who either didn’t assert themselves sufficiently, or when subjected to complex instructions or “task saturation,” were too embarrassed to ask ATC to simplify or clarify their instructions, and it cost them their aircraft, their life, or their passengers’ lives.
I’ll definitely watch this video several more times. Also, major kudos to any FI who recognizes that a pilot is ready for additional training and offers it up, free of charge, simply because it might make the air safer for everyone.
Outstanding video. Learned quite a lot. Keep these things coming. It's always great to have an instructor that knows his business well.
I think I've watched this video at least 5 times since it was first published, and I learn something new each time!
These are the types of videos that really make me want to become a pilot.
Glad you enjoyed! :D
@@FriendlySkiesFilm Do you know if you'll ever start posting regularly again? Your videos are one of the best ones I've ever seen.
Possibly the best plane video ive seen on CZcams. So much learning. More please!
Glad you enjoyed :)
Excellent job flying, I'm sure you learned more than you thought you could in such a short period of time in the air. Good Job.
Off the chain informative. I appreciate content like this so much. While you were learning we were learning by you taking us with you. Thanks a bunch for that! Keep up the good work!
Thanks, friend. Glad you appreciated it :)
Probably my favorite of all your videos
What an excellent instructor. I love how you constantly quiz your student. All the "what ifs".
Great video of a flight review! Really enjoyed the interaction between you and the instructor.It's also good to see the way a flight review can be customized to the pilot's experience level.
this is a great video. I would love to see more long and informative videos like this. thank you so much
You're in luck! Killian's training will be here soon!
very good training video, i really like this CFII
shoutout to him.
I'll pass it along :) He's one of the best.
Very good BFR. LIke the CFI said he knew you had passed the BFR in the first 30 minutes. But he continued to test and teach you new and very useful information. By being in a very stressful situation you became a sponge and suck in the information he was giving you. You might not remember everything but if ever you found yourself needing to do this again you would not be so stressed. Very good CFI and very good BFR.
So glad you enjoyed, and couldn't have said it better myself :)
Easily my favorite video. As you said, there is so much information here, there's no substitute for just seeing it all. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the feedback :)
My friend from start to finish, as always, I enjoyed every moment. Well done! Even when the mind is getting saturated you continued to fly, navigate and communicate. You have become my favorite aviation channel hands down! Thank you for taking us flying with you!
It makes it worth it when I hear things like this :)
Man I miss your vids. This is still one of my favorites.
There are BRFs and then there are BFRs! I recently had mine too, and I must admit, yours is one of the most thorough flight reviews I've seen. It's always nice to be pushed just outside your comfort zone to keep you sharp. Great job and very informative. As your CFI quizzed you, I found myself answering right alongside you. Thanks for posting and keep up the great work!
Great review, you kept everything moving along nicely.
Great video. I got really invested in this flight and loved how well you handled your introduction to IFR. The instructor was great which helped you stay focussed and learn - gentle but on point ("look at the bank angle you put in" while messing with the radio). Kudos to both of you from Australia.
Another great video- loved it - keep them coming !
Up next on FSF: Nick and Instructor roast a random CZcams comment.
Lol we could spend an entire season doing that! XD
Excellent video, thanks for sharing!
I don’t fly, but this is just the greatest. Watching these videos is totally entertaining. I am in all of your knowledge and of all pilots. Keep on doing what you’re doing because these are fun!
Thank you very much for this excellent video. I got more out of watching this than I did my own BFR. I like your instructor - and his constant quizzing of you while flying. Thanks for taking the time to produce and share - something we can all learn from......
I'm simply happy you enjoyed :)
Love this episode! Learned a lot. More like this please
Great video, learning so much. Love it. Thanks for sharing.
Dude, I love this video, I’ve watched it multiple times.
I have just found your channel and this is one of my favourite videos ever. (You can probably tell from my spelling that I'm from the UK ) keep up the good work. I find this type of video enjoyable and informative.
You are a very good pilot. Get that IFR.
Excellent video. Learned a lot. Thank you for the great reminders. Been stuck on the ground for 4 months and will fly with an instructor in a few days to practice before renting a plane again.
Favorite video of yours so far.
Everybody is saying that! Fascinating...
This was an awesome video. It was great to see and hear all of this, keep 'em coming!
Glad you enjoyed :)
Loved this style, please keep them coming!
Excellent. Thanks for letting me know :)
WOW!!!! That was sooooo full of great info!!!! Absolutely loved it!!! Good to see you comfortable enough to show the public that you don't know everything! I just keep getting more and more impressed with your character. Good on ya!!!! I'll probably watch this a couple more times to pick up what I didn't get the first time.
Lol I have no pride, don't worry about that ever being a problem ;P
Really enjoyed this video! I like this non-cut footage, its super educational and informative!!
Glad to hear it :)
Great vid!!!, especially for those who's as far along in his or her flight training as he is! enjoyed the flight along with you guys! Keep em coming, thanks!
This was an excellent check ride! In 9 days I get my ppl flight exam, and I really appreciate this video! Thanks!
GREAT!! Let us know how it goes!!
Gord Rose good luck :)
Love the discussion at 18-20min about VFR into IMC and being able to tune an approach; I'm working on my CFI and its a debate I've had with several instructors. I see significant value in doing an "Intro to emergency-IFR for the soon-to-be VFR pilot" lesson that covers the basics of GPS, LOC/ILS approaches before or immediately after a PPL Checkride. I understand the idea of not wanting to overload your student and I wouldnt expect any student to memorize/learn it until they are going for their Instrument rating, but having a basic understanding or even just basic knowledge of the approach plate (MSA, frequencies, etc) without practice could save their lives.
There are so many things I've learned latter in my piloting career (and it's not like I have thousand's of hours) that I wish I had known during my primary flight training... I include basic approach knowledge with flying a stall for an extended time especially through turns and a traffic pattern and doing significant-upset/spin training as things that the PPL syllabus and the instructors seem to eschew in favor of "immediate recovery" or "awareness" yet I've found knowing the quick basics of an instrument approach, the edge of my plane's slow flight performance, that a stall is not necessarily a "bad" thing and that I could get myself out of an unintentional (or intentional for fun) spin to have been incredible boosts to my awareness and avoidance of those situations.
I suppose there is an argument that the boost might give a newly minted pilot a false bravado to take a risk they arent ready for I understand why instructors avoid them; they can be risky to begin with and even more so with a student pilot at the controls but I think the instructors do their students a disservice.
I flew with an instructor just recently for a rental checkout and she was so nervous because I could and would take the plane to the edge of the performance envelope and back... She absolutely hated my approach speeds and didn't seem to understand where the 65 kts book speed was derived from. It was like she thought we'd stall and fall out of the sky at any second... Of course she was probably a newly minted CFI and didn't have many more hours than I do; she certainly didnt have the variety of experience.
I've also argued the proper response to a DPE telling you your "ipad just died now what" is to tune 121.5 (or whoever you may already be talking with) and declare an emergency (at least when you are unable to continue with your flight plan). The regs only require you to carry one set of charts, they permit an EFB as adequate and while paper might not have a battery life but it is prone to its own failures (tears, spills/stains, flying out the window, under the seat, etc.) and at night a paper chart is just as unreadable without a flashlight as your now dead iPad.
What a great instructor. I wish i had one like him. He knew I was going for my Commercial PL but he only wanted me to learn the basic for Private Pilot. In the end I found someone that was supper cool and helped me alot. Kudos to you flight trainer.
I'll pass it along. We already tell him that he's the best, though ;)
Love this video and it's length. Really shows all the steps without the possibility of missing things due to cuts.
Well, it is cut, and you did miss some things, but I assure you, you missed nothing more than us making stupid comments on 122.75 to 53996, and playing Kino on short final ;)
Great video. Just passed My IFR Written and have about 3 weeks before the checkride. This is a very helpful and informative video for anyone about to jump into Instrument flying.
Excellent! Good luck! :D
Such a cool video. Best I've seen in a long time. Itching to get into my aim to have a go. Thanks a million.
Congrats on what looked like an amazing flight. Well done!
It was so much fun! :)
Excellent job to you both!!!
Excellent! Put me right back in my training days. You were both very Professional
I've been watching your videos for a while, and I am really impressed! In fact, I am starting my PPL training tomorrow, and these videos are making me very excited to start! Thanks very much for the great content!
You are so welcome! Congratulations on starting the adventure.
this is exactly what I was looking for in your channel
Fantastic :)
Great video!! I'm glad you guys clarified with tower on traffic. I was getting the heebee jeebees with the confusion.
Excellent video and full of really useful information. Well done for the uncut version.
Thank you for sharing this. It was very helpful.
Hi Nick. I am a low hour student who tends to watch way too many youtube flying videos. This is, by far, the best vid I have seen. Thank you.
Outstanding, very well done! I really enjoy the videos! Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed!! :)
Loved the video! Typical flight instruction and good pace and energy. Good to see you struggle a bit and push the enveloppe. Very nice video!
Fantastic video. What a great instructor. Your confidence in your responses were the key to why he had you doing more under the hood I think. It would be interesting to see what you want to improve on from this and make a series of videos from that. Thanks for sharing your experience today.
Great video, thanks for uploading!
You're very welcome, friend :)
Fantastic video! Loads of great information presented.
Excellent. Glad you enjoyed.
Hey Friendly Skies, quick question. Your instructor mentioned best glide is with 20 degrees flaps. I always thought best glide was flaps up but I wanted to ask you. Also in my IFR training we did flaps 10 degrees at the FAF then when visual added flaps as needed. Thoughts? Awesome job on the approach and comms man, keep the good content going.
Huh, where did he say that? Can you give me a time stamp? Maybe I missed it, but I would have to ask him too, because I agree with you.
It is at the 38:00 minute mark
Wow, this video brought back memories of my flight training in a C172 with the stalls, engine out and other various maneuvers. You guys were a great team up there. Solid instruction while you clearly demonstrated your knowledge and flying skills. Fun watch !
Glad you enjoyed :)
Sorry it's late today, guys. CZcams overhauled everything, and it's still got some bugs. Skip to 6:05 for my favorite moment!
I wouldn't worry about timing. The videos come when they come. Rather have them later and as good as you've been making them.
:-) it seems to be their job to change things for change's sake. Everything worked fairly well, but we can't have that for too long. Y'know...'cause it's not fresh. Or something.
Friendly Skies Film its vfr not brf
Biannual Flight Review.
Friendly Skies Film ... Hey would you or your instructor happen to know a Cliff L? He's my brother!
I'll ask him.
one of the best YT videos I have seen,,, thanks!
I was listening to this in the background, but had to actually watch it. Very good.
Thank you for sharing. I feel like I got shorted on my last flight review. I wasn't challenged AT ALL. I need a new CFI. We just did a few take offs and landings, and navigated to one airport and back, and that was it. I have been under the hood before, and I seem to do very well like you did here. My previous instructor would have me put the hood on before departure, and lower it down as we climb out. I did nearly my whole flight review under the hood, navigating to 3 airports over a Michigan great lake, and an ILS approach at the end. He retired, and I miss being challenged... Thanks again for sharing.
Great Video i just completed my BFR on 6/30/18 and my instructor did the very same thing. i ended up shooting 2 vor approaches and a loc back course fun stuff
Nicely done, mate!
One of the best videos I've seen from Friendly Skies! Great job! I learned a lot!
Not sure what that says about the other ones! Haha, glad you enjoyed :)
No, you're consistently good. I always learn something. But this one is special :)
Yay :)
Excellent video, really really good. Bit of everything - checkride info, instrument flying info, slightly less common ATC comms. Great stuff! :D
Glad you enjoyed :)
Great video... Learned alot just from watching this. Keep up the great work Nick!
Good to hear :)
Friendly Skies Film i like these videos and would love to see more. Tyler was great and very feiendly
Nice IFR training, good instructor, thanks for sharing.
Wow, thanks for that. I almost feel I should send you or your CFI a check. Great video.
Glad you enjoyed! I'll let him know :)
As beginner pilot it's nice to have videos like that to guess in direction I need to learn and to perfect it. Instructor is awesome, lots of on spot info why he is doing this way but not the other. Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks for your enjoyment :)
What a great video, if I was ever to learn how to fly, I would seek either of you out,
Intellectual, calm , logical decision making .
Impressive when student states he had practiced verbally, the different oral commands, and jargon.
Great team of guys .
This format is just fine.
Good :)
I really love these kinds of uncut videos. A friend of mine is getting his private pilots license right now and It has got me thinking about getting my own in the future. I feel like I learn a lot when things are explained as they are happening.
Great! Glad I could do that for you :)
I really enjoy your videos! I am currently saving for my PPL in the DFW metroplex area and your videos are making the wait much more bearable. :)
Excellent. So glad I could help :)
Great video! I learned a lot watching it!
Same here! XD
Wow! That instructor is the best. I haven't begun any flight training yet but I can tell you would be well off with that guy. Excellent at explaining things while keeping it interesting.
I'm coming up on 1 year of no flying after retirement from airlines, I'm learning on this video. I've not flowing VFR for 20 years at least. Scary lol. Good Job. Thanks for sharing.
Very good video. Your instructor is excellent.
Thanks for sharing this video, I’m sure I will get pages of notes from this.
Great Flight once again
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Thanks, 007 :)
Another great video.
This was a great ... Really enjoyed it !!
Great video! Great instructor. Good work!
What an excellent video and instructor !!
We all love Tyler so much! :D
I thoroughly enjoyed this longer format video, I wouldn't mind seeing more of these. I'm not a real world pilot, just a flight simulator guy, but even I learned something out of this about recovering from stalls. Between yourself, FlightChops and Josh Flowers, I enjoy flight videos a lot due to the professionals showing us their stuff.
More on its way! :)
Fantastic footage, very informative. I like these long instructional videos.
I'm glad! We'll see what everyone else thinks.
Friendly Skies Film Personally, I'd LOVE to see a series! If you decide to pursue an instrument rating I'd love to see every minute of it. Thanks for the response!
Fly safe!
Fantastic video!
It was cool to see you go to New Bedford! I have been at KEWB for a while getting all my ratings, hope you enjoyed my home airport.
Great video! It gave me a general insight into what a BFR may include. I can say instrument training can get intense with approaches and challenging with coms. Keep learning and practicing those approaches and you'll get your instrument rating without a problem.
Wow, thank you so much for this. Haven't even started flight school for my PPL yet, but I feel like this will be incredibly useful.
Excellent! Glad I could help :)
Great video! This is really rich in content, and useful for me as I'm about 3/4 way through PPL. I had always wondered what it is like to do instrument landing, and the instructor comments really reinforced the usefulness of IFR rating. Various people I've spoken to have said they won't do IFR because of the currency requirements, but it always seemed to me that in an emergency who really cares if you're current; if you know how you massively increase your survival chances.
Also, kudos for putting up a video where you're outside your comfort boundary (which is me on just about every flight). Its a good reminder that we all have to keep some humility and keep learning.
That's what I like to think this channel is all about :)
Mark, do you know what the currency requirements are? I just looked it up. In a period of six months, you must do six approaches, holding procedures, and intercepting and maintaining courses through the use of a navigation system. Under 61.57.1.c, it says "performed and logged under actual or simulated instrument conditions." You would need to clarify with an instructor if that means IMC, or just flying an IFR flight plan. Furthermore, what amount of IMC do you need? If you are on top at 5,000' and descend in IMC to 3,000' on an instrument flight plan, and then pop out while you're on approach, does that count? The rules are somewhat vague, but a couple of hours with an instructor ever six months, or a little less twice in that period to keep you current, certainly doesn't sound like a terribly horrible thing to me.
Hi Gary. I'm in New Zealand so the requirements may differ. I think the thing that puts many recreational pilots off here (that I've spoken to) is the requirement to have done 3 instrument landings via published procedures every 3 months, as well as 3 hours instrument time. It sounds similar on average to what you're saying. I guess if you're flying frequently, that's probably fine, but if you're flying a couple of times a month like some of the recreational pilots, that's one third of your flying to maintain a rating.
I've seen a mentality here that I don't understand which is to cheap out on things. e.g. there are some high hour (for rec) pilots that don't file a flight plan cross country, saving like $20 or something, but meaning that search and rescue are not covering you. Or avoiding flight following. In the terrain we have here, plus a fair amount of cross-water, this seems like nickel & diming on the wrong things. And we don't even use nickels or dimes :-p
Mark, hello to that part of the planet. I don't want to say 'Down Under' because you might think I think New Zealand is a part of Australia or something, and I do know better than that. :)
I'm not sure what a Recreational Pilot in NZ is, the one we have here would not be allowed to fly in IFR conditions at all.
www.aopa.org/advocacy/advocacy-briefs/quick-comparison-of-pilot-certificates
I'm thinking your Rec pilots are more like our Private Pilots with an Instrument or Multi-Engine (or both) ratings.
Ha, yes, there is some rivalry :-) We have similar divisions between rec (RPL), PPL, sport, CPL etc, with some differing parameters. Of the people I've been training with, they are all going for PPL but most of them are flying recreationally under PPL. I think the restrictions on RPL here include no IFR, no night, and only 1 passenger. I suspect more people would only apply for an RPL if the passenger limit was raised to 4. I believe CAA (NZ equiv of FAA) are reconsidering this at the moment, as well as medical requirements, since there isn't any data supporting increased risk for RPL pilots that can't get PPL.
Where abouts are you? And do you fly?
Awesome job Nick. That was interesting information. Hope we get to see some instrument work also.
Glad you enjoyed :)
Man your videos are just so great, I really think you should look forward to get your IFR ratings
So glad you guys enjoy them :)
Friendly Skies Film It would be awesome to get more videos of complete training flights or even flights where you explain technical stuff
You'll enjoy Killian's lessons, then :)
I wish my current CFI was this informative and engaging... Nice video! I like the ventral camera position, it's cool.
Great and instructive video. Thanks a lot!
You're welcome :)
As I have my BFR coming up this fall, this video was VERY helpful. Very thorough and complete. Great information. Thank you for posting!
Glad I could be of service! :) I like to think it's the least I can do for one of my contributors. Beautiful new building you have there at FIT, btw!
Thanks. You should stop out sometime. Next Tuesday we have a space suit designing giving a presentation! We're pretty excited about that so I'm trying to spread the word.
Yeah, I saw that on social flight! I haven't spent much time at FIT after your diner closed, so I'm due for a visit. What time should I be there?
Friendly Skies Film be there at 7PM. Ya, bummer about the diner, but we have a new terminal and the FPA Aviation Center is very nice.