GROUND REFERENCE Maneuvers - S Turns Across a Road - Private Pilot Training in light airplanes

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  • Опубліковано 10 жов 2020
  • This video covers one of my favorite ground reference maneuvers, S-Turns Across a Road (or in this case a canal). Ground reference maneuvers are easy if you can follow a few basic principles. This video covers what those are! Please enjoy!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 44

  • @natedelong5962
    @natedelong5962 4 місяці тому +1

    I’ve been struggling with S turns. I just watched this video and practiced right after and suddenly it clicked. My s turns somehow are now perfect without flaw. This video helped me a lot.

  • @emergencylowmaneuvering7350
    @emergencylowmaneuvering7350 9 місяців тому +1

    GRM i taught at the GRM real speed we used when E line Patrols. At Vglide Speed, with 10 degrees flaps. Some CFI's want almost cruise speeds and no flaps. Very Unreal. You do GRM to see small things on ground like animals. That is why so many stalls on GRM lke the so called "Moose Stall". And the many Flyover Turnback stalls and Box Canyon stalls.
    Turnbacks after a flyover have killed many that didnt know those GRM Flyover Turnbacks. There 2 kinds of. The Teardrop kind and the Hook Turnback" ( both are done to Turnback after a flyover).

  • @Aleksandar6ix
    @Aleksandar6ix 3 роки тому +13

    NOW I understand the flow of these maneuvers! Instruction like yours is the best for these, and many others. I haven't practiced them in real life recently, but I certainly do practice the procedure in my flight sim!

  • @BrianOgilvie79
    @BrianOgilvie79 3 роки тому +5

    S-turns were always one of my favorite private pilot practice maneuvers. So much so, i used to do them occasionally when i became a certificated pilot. Thanks for the great video Jason. Brought back so many great memories from 20 years ago.

  • @clearofcloud2038
    @clearofcloud2038 3 роки тому

    I was only wondering about this yesterday !! Thanks Jason

  • @peregrinussolutionsllc6010
    @peregrinussolutionsllc6010 3 роки тому

    Great video, I really appreciate the pro teaching tips in each of your videos! My instructor and I have been practicing these and it's really cool to have UA-cam flight instruction to supplement my in person flight training :-D Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience! May you, your friends, and family fly safe, happy and healthy, especially with COVID-19 :-) Best Regards, Christian

  • @rileyroche
    @rileyroche 3 роки тому +8

    Great video! One thing I'd like to add based off my recent training experience. You said in the entry turn that the semicircles can be whatever size is appropriate, as long as they are consistent throughout the maneuver. My maneuvers book says to stay approximately 1/4 to 1/2 mile from any ground reference. I did my flight training in Iowa, where all the roads are in exact 1 mile grids and the farm fields are all either 1/2 or 1 mile long; my flight school expected me to do precise 1/2 mile turns for all of the ground reference maneuvers with the fields as an additional guide. Your ground reference doesn't just have to be a single point - use as much available terrain as you need to get perfectly round turns.

  • @davidwallace5738
    @davidwallace5738 3 роки тому

    Great video lesson sir.Thank you!

  • @wbmc3rd
    @wbmc3rd 3 роки тому +1

    This is what I am doing now and going to master. Thank you

  • @UncleStepon
    @UncleStepon Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @tobyrice99
    @tobyrice99 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks Jason and Jimmy Bobby!

    • @TheFinerPoints
      @TheFinerPoints  3 роки тому +2

      It's very nice of Jimmy to let us publish his flight training to the internet! hahaha

  • @ProfSimonHolland
    @ProfSimonHolland 3 роки тому

    Brilliant....one of the best student manoeuvres...teaches a lot and is reasonable easy for them to do.

    • @emergencylowmaneuvering7350
      @emergencylowmaneuvering7350 2 роки тому

      Easy to do things dont teach at all. They fool you into thinking you know all of that. You only know it the easy to do way. Stupid to think that creates good pilots.

  • @prestonmiller9552
    @prestonmiller9552 3 роки тому

    As always, Great tips and tricks. Thanks

  • @bryan.meijer
    @bryan.meijer 3 роки тому

    Just the video I needed👌

  • @jonathanshadmi3208
    @jonathanshadmi3208 3 роки тому +1

    As always...great!!

  • @WolfTangoFox
    @WolfTangoFox 3 роки тому +1

    Jimmy Bobby is the best!

  • @emergencylowmaneuvering7350
    @emergencylowmaneuvering7350 2 роки тому +1

    I used to teach them with a strong wind so they could see the wind effects better. Mild winds and mild maneuvering GRM dont teach well. Most GRM accidents are by mild maneuvering guys surprised by Hard Maneuvering GRM, which is much more demanding. Some times you have to fly in not mild winds, like when had to do it on a sightseen flight paid by the friends.

  • @franktaylor7978
    @franktaylor7978 3 роки тому +1

    I did my S turns over this same canal.

  • @hollyfoxThe
    @hollyfoxThe 3 роки тому +1

    Wow. worked on these in the Redbird today. Not as easy as this video shows it, but I think I am getting the gist of what is needed. Thanks.

  • @Justin-ny8df
    @Justin-ny8df 11 місяців тому

    So, how my CFI taught me was "on the downwind side count to 3 thousand after crossing your point then do a 30deg. bank, on the upwind count 5 thousand then do the same." How do you feel about this strategy? I mean, it worked...but it wasn't exactly what everybody else teaches.

  • @pelinelden
    @pelinelden Рік тому

    Is that a Miami Canal ? :)

  • @ykntwatch
    @ykntwatch 3 роки тому +1

    A lateral axis parallel to the reference line assumes a wind 90 degrees to the reference line correct? If we had a non-90 degree wind to the reference line we would have a bit of a WCA (crab). In those cases do you still teach a “lateral axis” parallel to the reference line?

    • @TheFinerPoints
      @TheFinerPoints  3 роки тому +2

      Yes, exactly. I should have been more clear but that is what I meant by "pick the right spot" you need to find a reference 90º to the wind.

  • @alejandrogodoy4696
    @alejandrogodoy4696 3 роки тому

    THANK U!!!

  • @presleycosta4127
    @presleycosta4127 3 роки тому

    are these maneuvers harder to do in a low wing or is it basically the same principles

    • @RedSailor1701
      @RedSailor1701 3 роки тому +2

      Exactly the same principles but your references to the ground are a little harder due to the reduced visibility.
      I would say the top tip in getting this right is as you come over the line feature pick an obvious point along it which will become the center of your arc.
      Pick a point that is just on/ or just over the wing tip so that it is far enough away that you wont lose it under your wing.
      Remember: This is the point you are flying around, NOT flying in an arc towards!
      Much as you keep a point on the runway in the same place on the windscreen in a forced landing, the same thing kinda happens here.
      You fly in an arc around that fixed point at the same distance and height and you'll nail it.

  • @outwiththem
    @outwiththem 3 роки тому +2

    Teach Question Mark Turnbacks too. The hardest turns are those Question Mark Turns.. I taught Hard GRM with high winds and not too high. Real GRM. Hard GRM makes hard to knock down pilots.. Weak GRM makes weak pilots. Ever tried GRM with 20knots winds and only 600 agl?? Real GRM trains better.. And it is more fun too. Weak and Hard GRM are different.. Weak maneuvers makes weak pilots.

    • @emergencylowmaneuvering7350
      @emergencylowmaneuvering7350 2 роки тому

      Heyy.. right. Another Mild turning, Mild Maneuvering video here too. Mild Maneuvering pilots to crash later on when had to do Hard GRM. Gee.. no wonder so many crashes in california.

  • @gorgly123
    @gorgly123 3 роки тому

    In your student pilots experience, is this where the DPE pulls the engine back to simulated engine failure? During Ground ref maneuvers? Just curious. Or do they do it at a higher altitude?

    • @Parr4theCourse
      @Parr4theCourse 3 роки тому +2

      My DPE pulled my power on a takeoff and asked where would I land . . .

    • @TheFinerPoints
      @TheFinerPoints  3 роки тому +1

      They will usually to the full "simulated engine failure' from altitude but that doesn't mean they won't also pull it here (or on takeoff) to see how you react

    • @Parr4theCourse
      @Parr4theCourse 3 роки тому

      @@TheFinerPoints
      Yep, I definitely wasn't expecting it on takeoff, he slapped my hand (it was on the throttle), pulled power and grilled me . . .

  • @flankerskioneniner4290
    @flankerskioneniner4290 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks Capt 👍
    Anyway.. may i know the opening backsound's title ?

    • @TheFinerPoints
      @TheFinerPoints  3 роки тому +4

      It was written (and performed ... yes, all the instruments you hear) by my friend and former bandmate Michael Bizar. I don't think it is available anywhere but we're talking about putting some of our old stuff up on the web for people if they want it. I'll ask him where we are with that ...

    • @flankerskioneniner4290
      @flankerskioneniner4290 3 роки тому

      @@TheFinerPoints thank you very much sir. I like that song, it sounds like cha-cha, one of latin music genre.
      Thanks sir, for the new knowledge and the backsound, always safe flight Capt 👍👍

    • @richardmortenson8525
      @richardmortenson8525 2 роки тому

      It reminds me of Andy Fortuna’s rendition of Speak Up Mambo … kinda.

  • @briant6333
    @briant6333 3 роки тому

    now there is something i have not purposefully gone out and done in 30+ years... something to go do next time the mission is to just bore a hole in the sky and smile at the suckers on the ground

  • @alejandrogodoy4696
    @alejandrogodoy4696 3 роки тому

    As Usual. Thank U Maestro! It could b Very nice if U have "2 or 3" Instruments used 4 the Particular meneuver. 1 on each 2-3 corners of the Screen. kind of Big. Bcause its very Difficult 2 watch the instruments when U show them to us. PLS try?? 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟