Thank you for posting this video. I think viewers get a lot more from seeing mistakes and hearing the debrief than they do from watching a normal flight. Great content!
Really appreciate your honesty in this video and posting it was absolutely the right call. At the end of the day I think this video shows us that we have a choice: we can either ignore our mistakes and move on as if they never happened, or we can use them as learning aids to become better pilots (and people)! Thanks for this - regards from South Africa
Love the fact that you’re not the typical macho UA-cam pilot and you share your mistakes as a learning experience not just for yourself but for all your viewers as well.
Honestly, seeing that you had trouble with a situation is a relief for someone who has anxiety about not being a perfect pilot. This shows that even someone who has flown a lot before still makes mistakes and learns from them. Thank you for showing this!
When I'm breaking out of clouds (above or below them) I always try to ignore getting a glimpse outside and stay glued to the gauges. It helps a lot. Spatial disorientation used to happen to me sometimes coming in and out of the clouds. It's just a video game your playing while riding as a passenger on a bumpy road. Play the game by the rules - which are to fly the instruments
I don't think it's a fair or safe to recommend avoiding getting the "glimpse of the outside". As a pilot you need to integrate multiple sources of information to ensure that things are consistent, including your instruments and your eyes. Your instruments could be wrong - you could make a mistake in setting your altimeter for example, etc. A quick look outside allows you to cross check your instruments, keeping in mind that certain visuals could be misleading, such as the horizon.
@@igvc1876 Agreed. I've had that kind of disorientation only once, while flying into a cloud in the evening and looking out as the strobe lit up the cloud. Suddenly my body said I as in a sharp left turn. I glued my attention to the gauges and they all agreed that I was climbing wings level just like I was supposed to be doing, and the weirdness went away.
igvc1876 extremely wrong. You never compare and contrast instruments to visual reference when IMC. That’s what instrument checks on the ground and once you’re possibly VMC are for. As long as you’re on IFR there is never a need to look outside in low vis. TRUST YOUR INSTRUMENTS
To add, the cross check and verification that the instruments are indicating correctly is by looking at the instruments in reference to one another. Attempting to use visual references in IMC can be very dangerous. I've experienced all of the common spatial disorientation issues and the only thing that kept me on course and on altitude was forcing myself to ignore everything outside and look at the panel only.
As a helicopter guy, even under the hood in an R-44 I can still a bit of the ground beneath me. When I was still just starting work on my instrument rating back in November it had just snowed about a foot everywhere so everything I could see in my peripherals was just white. As we were approaching the FAF on a GPS approach I saw a tree or house or something in one eye and every single sense in my body was telling me to bank hard left, even though I was straight and level. The "woah" I said made my instructor a bit nervous (as it should) and I ended up fixating on the attitude indicator and wasn't able to properly describe what I was experiencing. This caused us both to miss an ATC call saying VFR traffic was about to get in the way and to do a 360 for spacing. They weren't pleased that we missed their call. A bit of a stressful flight, but a great learning experience, as it's still the only flight I've had fully experiencing an illusion, but at least now I know what it will feel like and how to react better. The mistakes are often what make us all better in the long run if we are able to admit and learn from them. Now if only Covid didn't prevent me from doing the checkride I was a week out from... Gonna be rusty as hell trying to prep for a checkride again. :/
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Bugger about the timing of your checkride! Good luck for it!
Thank you for sharing this experience, I think that honesty and openness with mistakes in the GA community directly contributes to saving lives down the line.
My father was a pilot so I've read quite a few articles about trusting your instruments at night or in clouds. Seeing an actual video along with your honest experience being shared really was brought back some long lost childhood memories. Appreciate it.
Can’t like this video enough! Not just the great courage of owning up, but also for showing what can go wrong. „To trust your instruments you first have to make sense of them“.
Solid video. Very relatable. In our pursuit to become perfect pilots, that ever unachievable goal, pride can get in the way of sharing our mistakes. Thank you. I really appreciate how willing you are to use your experiences as a tool to teach the rest of us. Quickly becoming my favorite aviation channel.
Just found you here from the scooter video and flipped over to this one. PA28-181 - G5's and a GNS530W - no AP and just started my IFR - and man can I relate to the altitude challenges - I was all over the place on a bumpy day last week and had a couple of reminders first from my instructor and once from ATC (I love how ATC does that so politely). Thank you for posting - I think most of us are not nailing every departure, altitude, communication, procedure change, approach, and landing (or even every taxi) so it makes me feel good that like you, I am learning from mistakes I (and others) make and improving and working to be as good and safe as I can be. Sincerely, thank you.
Thank you for this comment- I appreciate you taking the time to send it. I agree- I think most GA IFR pilots do not fly perfectly and looking back on mistakes in a critical way can be very helpful.
7:42 your right hand tells the story of what you were feeling internally. Thank you for sharing this video even knowing it wasn’t your best flight. It will save other pilot’s lives potentially. 👍🏻👍🏻
I am only at the beggining of my, hopefully long carreer in aviation (PPL EASA), and I'd like to thank you for all your videos and even more specifically this video. Thanks for sharing your mistakes, it might save my life when I will be doing my IR. Cheers from France
Good call on posting this video. During my IFR training in a helicopter, we went out at night over the desert and I got spatially disoriented by a few headlights on the road, giving me a false horizon. I agree with you, you can't describe the feeling, you almost have to experience it. The fight between what your brain is telling you and what your body believes is real.
Love the honesty of this video mate. The fact that you highlighted that currency does not necessarily equal proficiency speaks volumes of your airmanship. Congrats on another sensational share.
Great job setting the example of accountability! That is brave of you to be so vulnerable on the internet no less! As a general aviation pilot who doesn't fly that much anymore...I think you're awesome. Thanks for sharing all of your content and for delivering complete flight videos with all the detail you do. It reminds me just how much success in flying (and in life) is in the details! Great job owning your mistakes and striving to be better in the air. It's honestly inspiring!
In the soup.. wow! What an honest video. Speaks to: "that which doesn't kill you makes you better & stronger." An old Av. guy here, I love how aviation has a way of doing this. Play by the rules or possibly pay very dearly. Thanks for lesson, thanks for sharing your own lesson learned, great job. Cheers!
Posting a less than perfect flight is proof that you are a better pilot than most. I’ve had similar experiences and they are the best teacher. Keep up the awesome content.
As a novice this is the 1st time I’ve had a clear breakdown explanation of the all mysterious ATC back and forth language/gibberish conversation with an awesome step by step airways chart guide....thank you and I look forward to more awesome adventures
Wow. so thankful for your willingness to post not just the great stuff but also the mistakes.... helps me become a better pilot, and is a goo dose of reality! thank you!
Such a great Video! I sure wish more aviation UA-camrs would post more like this, instead of the "perfect" flight all the time. Its a learning experience for us as well! Thanks for sharing and stay safe!
Compliments, there should be more video like this. Every one of us need to share to let other’s learn from our particular situation. This kind of video is one which saves life! Thank’s appreciate!
I love seeing real approaches with all the mistakes and sloppiness. Great way to learn and ballsy of you to post it. Most wouldn't because of all the aviation "experts" out there that love to gang up on mistakes.
Great video. As a student pilot, this video have tought me more than some textbooks out there! Experience is all we have in order to make ourselves better pilots and you have managed to make your experience a learning tool not only for you, but for some of us. My instractor always says "learn from your mistakes and don´t let them discourage you", and you have nailed it. Great video!
Just discovered your channel, IFR student getting ready for my check ride, Its very cool to see the mistakes as a 3rd person where I can review them and look at how you handled and how I'd handle them. Watching and entertaining, videos can also be good training. enjoyed it, looking forward to more. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing! As a uh-60 pilot I always have someone sitting next to me to back me up in stressful situations, so I can imagine what it’s like being all alone single pilot. We all have flights that we don’t have a warm and fuzzy about but that’s what makes us better. IFR and especially true IMC flights are always good training
Man I can appreciate this video. Honesty and integrity go hand in hand. Owning your points to improve is what makes you a good safe aviator. I'd be lying if I said all my approaches were perfect but that's why we train to stay proficient. I work overseas quite a bit so when I'm home I'm pretty rusty on instrument flying, and have yet to show one of my instrument flights on my One-Eighty-Two Flyer channel. So I commend you for sharing this experience with us. Makes me less apprehensive to share my short-comings......Now if I could just get better at editing and add some more cameras....LOL! Cheers!
Thanks for being authentic buddy, for me; it's frustrating having a bad flight sometimes, but it helps knowing that i'm not the only one!! Keep it up, thats great content
I’ve been “starting my IFR training” for a couple of years now but finally starting to get serious with various ground schools. (King, Sportys, MzeroA and Rod Machado). I really appreciate this video that illustrates how easy it is to get behind the airplane. Honest dialog means so much more to me than the ego driven videos I see from a few other aviation vloggers. I’m so glad I found you.
I appreciate you posting this despite it not meeting your standards. We can all learn from your humility! I will be starting my IFR training soon and have learned a ton from this!
Thank you for sharing this. Working IFR now. The honestly about getting disoriented bumps you up a few more notches in my book. Enjoy your content. Best
Amazing video. Starting my private license journey next year after moving to Phoenix and super thankful for your videos. Makes me feel like in the next seat learning. Cheers from Seattle
This is the right approach to improve, owning mistakes...unfortunately we gain experience after actually we had required that experience in a situation... thanks for the honesty and analysis, which is really appreciated. Take care, many happy landings!
This was really real world stuff. Going in and out of the clouds is more disorienting than solid clouds. That is one heck of a routing. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for posting this video. I am currently working on my Instrument now and it is really good to see other people mistakes to learn from. One of the things i love about aviation is people share their mistakes for others to learn. Thanks again.
Great video. Appreciate the honesty. It’s so easy to forget to report things like outer marker when your brain is saturated, and still dwelling on recent missteps.
Enjoyed the video. Don't feel like you're on an island, we have all had those days. The best part of our videos is the ability to review and learn from them. Thanks for sharing, the good and the bad, it's a chance for us all to learn.
Thank you for posting this video. I am sharing to my instructor to discuss. I truly appreciate your willingness to put yourself out there for the benefit of your viewers. Sincerely. Thank you.
It's already been said. But, thanks for posting this one. Way more will be learned by the rest of us by watching the less-than-perfect approach than the staged dialed in ones. Love the airplane.
Eric these videos are so good! I am currently working on my IR rating and I can not explain enough how much this content is helping me. Not only do I enjoy watching aviation videos (who doesn’t?!) but the fact that you explain the mistakes you make and how to correct them is really informative. Keep up the good content! #BlueSkiesAndTailWinds
I like mistake videos. I feel like we all learn more from them than the ones where everything happens perfectly; because more often than not we make a mistake somewhere down the line. It's nice to see a mistake occur and how to respond if we havent seen it ourselves yet in life.
Amazing video, and it shows that practice is always needed as IFR rated pilot, I've seen many pilot with thousands of hrs doing similar and worse mistakes, so it's ok.
Thank you for posting this video! I’m currently going for my private license right now and seeing that I’m not the only one to struggle at points is very reassuring!
Nice to see honest pilots admiting their faults rather than macho pilots . Sure you have learned a lot about that flight, and sharing with all of us is, in my opinion, a great lesson. Thanks for sharing (best thing you could do) and happy flights!
Now try this with steam gauges with a Garmin 430 as backup with no autopilot. I'm old. But owning your mistakes before they own you is part of your growth. I can remember my first solo long distance XC between KPAO and KLGB. I chose my return to KPAO via the coast at night and despite how beautiful it was with the moon brightly shining, there was nowhere to go in case of engine failure along the rocky coast. I'll save that trip for a ME aircraft next time.
Great video! Thanks for deciding to go ahead and post it. Most instrument pilots have had similar experiences to yours at some point and this video is a great reminder of how easy it is to make mistakes.
I'm glad you shared this video, I strongly believe we learn more from things that almost go wrong or did go wrong, or at least unfolded differently than we expected and struggled with adapting and improving at the moment. There will always be haters, who will spend more time critizing stupid stuff like your background music, or placement of cameras, and so on and so on! LOL You keep doing what you are doing, and know that there are people out here whose lives may be saved because of something they learned and realized from your videos! I also struggle with staying IFR current, so I browse videos on UA-cam to keep things in my mind and that's how I found this video of yours. I will be following your adventures now! God bless you and your family and may you always have a tailwind (once airborne that is!)
Thanks for posting this. I'm in the late stages of my IFR training (checkride soon), and this is spot on. Weird when one thing rattles you, how it seems to cascade from there. Game of mind control!
Great video. Like everyone else I love the honesty. There are so many pilots in GA who are adverse to admitting these uncomfortable feelings especially in IMC. Refreshing to see honesty.
you should log it* proficiency is proven by your log... it shows that you've gotten past the beginners mistakes. Please keep these honest video's coming, they're inspiring!
No matter how much ATD time you spend staying current on approaches, there's no substitute for actual IMC and the spatial disorientation. I really need to get more actual. Thanks for putting this video out there. I just bought a camera and it will be interesting to dive deep into a debrief to improve my flying. Your videos show just how powerful a tool that can be.
The debrief is great. I have noticed a lot of things I can improve on just watching back flights and creating these videos. Cloud ahoy can be a good debrief tool as well.
Awareness of weaknesses when you get rusty comes with practice. For me it's heading control (no A/P) so I pay a little more attention to that when in IMC. On approach I sometimes get tardy on descending and have to dive to capture the glideslope . So now I'm on the lookout for those tendencies and that keeps me focused to spot the errors and correct them when they're still manageable.
Beautiful video mann! ❤🔥Don’t worry about it you did great in the amount of stress you had! Always moving forward with the mentality of learning! Take me with you. I’d be a great Co-pilot G4 Pilot! Great kudos to you! 🙌🏽
A very real video. I haven't flown in some years but I could feel the disorientation as described. One habit that I had was having foggles handy for that period of in an out strobe light effect.
Such an awesome video man!!
Thanks so much!
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Sharing our "not perfect" flights, as if there is one, is always the right call. Helping others learn from mistakes makes us all safer.
Thanks for the encouragment. :)
“Helping others learn” is what it is all about!
This is very true. I subscribed because of this video.
Thank you for posting this video. I think viewers get a lot more from seeing mistakes and hearing the debrief than they do from watching a normal flight. Great content!
Really appreciate your honesty in this video and posting it was absolutely the right call. At the end of the day I think this video shows us that we have a choice: we can either ignore our mistakes and move on as if they never happened, or we can use them as learning aids to become better pilots (and people)! Thanks for this - regards from South Africa
Thank you for sharing so that we can all learn from your experience!
"The only mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
-Henry Ford
Love the fact that you’re not the typical macho UA-cam pilot and you share your mistakes as a learning experience not just for yourself but for all your viewers as well.
I appreciate that! Thank you.
I am macho
Honestly, seeing that you had trouble with a situation is a relief for someone who has anxiety about not being a perfect pilot. This shows that even someone who has flown a lot before still makes mistakes and learns from them. Thank you for showing this!
i learn something on every flight!
When I'm breaking out of clouds (above or below them) I always try to ignore getting a glimpse outside and stay glued to the gauges. It helps a lot. Spatial disorientation used to happen to me sometimes coming in and out of the clouds. It's just a video game your playing while riding as a passenger on a bumpy road. Play the game by the rules - which are to fly the instruments
I think the false horizon messed with me on this one.
I don't think it's a fair or safe to recommend avoiding getting the "glimpse of the outside". As a pilot you need to integrate multiple sources of information to ensure that things are consistent, including your instruments and your eyes. Your instruments could be wrong - you could make a mistake in setting your altimeter for example, etc. A quick look outside allows you to cross check your instruments, keeping in mind that certain visuals could be misleading, such as the horizon.
@@igvc1876 Agreed. I've had that kind of disorientation only once, while flying into a cloud in the evening and looking out as the strobe lit up the cloud. Suddenly my body said I as in a sharp left turn. I glued my attention to the gauges and they all agreed that I was climbing wings level just like I was supposed to be doing, and the weirdness went away.
igvc1876 extremely wrong. You never compare and contrast instruments to visual reference when IMC. That’s what instrument checks on the ground and once you’re possibly VMC are for. As long as you’re on IFR there is never a need to look outside in low vis. TRUST YOUR INSTRUMENTS
To add, the cross check and verification that the instruments are indicating correctly is by looking at the instruments in reference to one another. Attempting to use visual references in IMC can be very dangerous. I've experienced all of the common spatial disorientation issues and the only thing that kept me on course and on altitude was forcing myself to ignore everything outside and look at the panel only.
As a helicopter guy, even under the hood in an R-44 I can still a bit of the ground beneath me. When I was still just starting work on my instrument rating back in November it had just snowed about a foot everywhere so everything I could see in my peripherals was just white. As we were approaching the FAF on a GPS approach I saw a tree or house or something in one eye and every single sense in my body was telling me to bank hard left, even though I was straight and level. The "woah" I said made my instructor a bit nervous (as it should) and I ended up fixating on the attitude indicator and wasn't able to properly describe what I was experiencing. This caused us both to miss an ATC call saying VFR traffic was about to get in the way and to do a 360 for spacing. They weren't pleased that we missed their call. A bit of a stressful flight, but a great learning experience, as it's still the only flight I've had fully experiencing an illusion, but at least now I know what it will feel like and how to react better.
The mistakes are often what make us all better in the long run if we are able to admit and learn from them. Now if only Covid didn't prevent me from doing the checkride I was a week out from... Gonna be rusty as hell trying to prep for a checkride again. :/
Bugger about the timing of your checkride! Good luck for it!
Thanks for sharing your experience, Logan!
Don’t beat yourself up. A good pilot is always learning! Great job. I would recommend taking a CFII with you next time for safety!
I would think he would know that is an option goof
Thank you for sharing this experience, I think that honesty and openness with mistakes in the GA community directly contributes to saving lives down the line.
My father was a pilot so I've read quite a few articles about trusting your instruments at night or in clouds. Seeing an actual video along with your honest experience being shared really was brought back some long lost childhood memories. Appreciate it.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the message!
Great job posting this video, it’s easy to post the perfect stuff but it shows real character to post the mistakes too!
Wow! Great episode! Walking the viewer through Spacial D in real time and the ensuing snowball of events.
Thanks for posting!
Thanks Juan- I appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed it. I hope it's useful for a lot of people.
Can’t like this video enough! Not just the great courage of owning up, but also for showing what can go wrong. „To trust your instruments you first have to make sense of them“.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Solid video. Very relatable. In our pursuit to become perfect pilots, that ever unachievable goal, pride can get in the way of sharing our mistakes.
Thank you. I really appreciate how willing you are to use your experiences as a tool to teach the rest of us. Quickly becoming my favorite aviation channel.
Just found you here from the scooter video and flipped over to this one. PA28-181 - G5's and a GNS530W - no AP and just started my IFR - and man can I relate to the altitude challenges - I was all over the place on a bumpy day last week and had a couple of reminders first from my instructor and once from ATC (I love how ATC does that so politely). Thank you for posting - I think most of us are not nailing every departure, altitude, communication, procedure change, approach, and landing (or even every taxi) so it makes me feel good that like you, I am learning from mistakes I (and others) make and improving and working to be as good and safe as I can be. Sincerely, thank you.
Thank you for this comment- I appreciate you taking the time to send it. I agree- I think most GA IFR pilots do not fly perfectly and looking back on mistakes in a critical way can be very helpful.
7:42 your right hand tells the story of what you were feeling internally. Thank you for sharing this video even knowing it wasn’t your best flight. It will save other pilot’s lives potentially. 👍🏻👍🏻
I am only at the beggining of my, hopefully long carreer in aviation (PPL EASA), and I'd like to thank you for all your videos and even more specifically this video. Thanks for sharing your mistakes, it might save my life when I will be doing my IR.
Cheers from France
Thank you for the support and encouragement. I'm so glad you found this video useful.
That hip hop instrumental beat at 3:30 seconds was killer! Just when I thought your videos couldn't get any cooler!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You did good! It takes courage to admit mistakes, but its important you're continuously improving!
I want to keep sharing my appreciation for your great content, filmmaking skills and humility. This was a great video and great lessons learned!
You are certainly NOT the only one who has learned from this flight. You’ve taught me also. Thanks.
Thanks! Glad the video was useful for you. :)
Good call on posting this video. During my IFR training in a helicopter, we went out at night over the desert and I got spatially disoriented by a few headlights on the road, giving me a false horizon. I agree with you, you can't describe the feeling, you almost have to experience it. The fight between what your brain is telling you and what your body believes is real.
Love the honesty of this video mate. The fact that you highlighted that currency does not necessarily equal proficiency speaks volumes of your airmanship. Congrats on another sensational share.
Glad you enjoyed it. Trying to keep it real over here. LOL :)
Great job setting the example of accountability! That is brave of you to be so vulnerable on the internet no less! As a general aviation pilot who doesn't fly that much anymore...I think you're awesome. Thanks for sharing all of your content and for delivering complete flight videos with all the detail you do. It reminds me just how much success in flying (and in life) is in the details! Great job owning your mistakes and striving to be better in the air. It's honestly inspiring!
Wow thank you so much. That means a lot to me and keeps me going on the goals I have for this channel.
In the soup.. wow! What an honest video. Speaks to: "that which doesn't kill you makes you better & stronger."
An old Av. guy here, I love how aviation has a way of doing this.
Play by the rules or possibly pay very dearly. Thanks for lesson, thanks for sharing your own lesson learned, great job. Cheers!
Posting a less than perfect flight is proof that you are a better pilot than most. I’ve had similar experiences and they are the best teacher. Keep up the awesome content.
Thanks so much for the support - I appreciate it!
It is said: " If you want to learn, teach it to others". The video was enlightening. Thank you.
As a novice this is the 1st time I’ve had a clear breakdown explanation of the all mysterious ATC back and forth language/gibberish conversation with an awesome step by step airways chart guide....thank you and I look forward to more awesome adventures
So glad I found your channel. I want to learn to fly within the next 5 or so years. It's fun to watch, learn, and dream. Thanks!
I hope you are able to pursue your desire to learn to fly. It's very fun and rewarding.
Thank you for the honesty. It's a great encouragement to others learning to "straighten up and fly right"
Wow. so thankful for your willingness to post not just the great stuff but also the mistakes.... helps me become a better pilot, and is a goo dose of reality! thank you!
Glad you found it helpful.
As an aspiring pilot I found this video very informative! The ease of which spatial disorientation can set in is incredible! Love your videos!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A really good ATC! Congrats on being so honest!
Such a great Video! I sure wish more aviation UA-camrs would post more like this, instead of the "perfect" flight all the time. Its a learning experience for us as well! Thanks for sharing and stay safe!
I have literally never subscribed faster to anyone! One of your videos is all it took, WOW!!
wow thank you so much. I hope I can meet your expectations in the future and will work hard to make the best videos I can!
Compliments, there should be more video like this. Every one of us need to share to let other’s learn from our particular situation. This kind of video is one which saves life! Thank’s appreciate!
I really like your attitude Eric! Acknowledging your mistakes is the fastest way to perfection!
I appreciate that! and fully agree
I love seeing real approaches with all the mistakes and sloppiness. Great way to learn and ballsy of you to post it. Most wouldn't because of all the aviation "experts" out there that love to gang up on mistakes.
Thanks for the support and encouragement!
Great video. As a student pilot, this video have tought me more than some textbooks out there! Experience is all we have in order to make ourselves better pilots and you have managed to make your experience a learning tool not only for you, but for some of us. My instractor always says "learn from your mistakes and don´t let them discourage you", and you have nailed it. Great video!
Thanks so much. I’m not a CFI so definitely listen to your instructor. I’m glad my experience is helpful for you.
Awesome video and everyone make mistake. I'm over 1500 hours and still learning something new every flight. Love your videos!
Thanks for watching!
We all learn way more when someone like yourself is willing to share. Thank you
Thanks for the encouragement!
Just discovered your channel, IFR student getting ready for my check ride, Its very cool to see the mistakes as a 3rd person where I can review them and look at how you handled and how I'd handle them. Watching and entertaining, videos can also be good training. enjoyed it, looking forward to more. Cheers.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing! As a uh-60 pilot I always have someone sitting next to me to back me up in stressful situations, so I can imagine what it’s like being all alone single pilot. We all have flights that we don’t have a warm and fuzzy about but that’s what makes us better. IFR and especially true IMC flights are always good training
Man I can appreciate this video. Honesty and integrity go hand in hand. Owning your points to improve is what makes you a good safe aviator. I'd be lying if I said all my approaches were perfect but that's why we train to stay proficient. I work overseas quite a bit so when I'm home I'm pretty rusty on instrument flying, and have yet to show one of my instrument flights on my One-Eighty-Two Flyer channel. So I commend you for sharing this experience with us. Makes me less apprehensive to share my short-comings......Now if I could just get better at editing and add some more cameras....LOL! Cheers!
Thank you very much. the more you edit the easier it gets...
Thanks for being authentic buddy, for me; it's frustrating having a bad flight sometimes, but it helps knowing that i'm not the only one!! Keep it up, thats great content
Thanks for the encouragement. No one is perfect and I think it's great to learn from our collective mistakes.
At least you are aware of what you need to work on. My last approach I also learned some stuff. We should continually be learning. Enjoyed the video.
Glad you liked it! one thing I love about aviation is that you can keep learning- you never know it all, there is always something new to discover.
My new favorite channel! Quality vids! Love it!
Wow, thanks!
I agree. By posting this, you're owning it, and more importantly, giving us insight and preparedness . Thank you for this. Keep'em coming.
Appreciate the video. Let everyone learn from your mistakes.
I’ve been “starting my IFR training” for a couple of years now but finally starting to get serious with various ground schools. (King, Sportys, MzeroA and Rod Machado). I really appreciate this video that illustrates how easy it is to get behind the airplane. Honest dialog means so much more to me than the ego driven videos I see from a few other aviation vloggers. I’m so glad I found you.
Thanks so much for this comment and encouragement. Good luck on your IFR training. It is so rewarding once it all clicks!
I appreciate you posting this despite it not meeting your standards. We can all learn from your humility! I will be starting my IFR training soon and have learned a ton from this!
Hope you enjoy the IFR training. I loved it- super challenging and fun.
Love that you share your own teachable moments!
Thanks! Hope it’s useful to others.
Thank you for sharing this. Working IFR now. The honestly about getting disoriented bumps you up a few more notches in my book. Enjoy your content. Best
Glad youre enjoying it!
Amazing video. Starting my private license journey next year after moving to Phoenix and super thankful for your videos. Makes me feel like in the next seat learning. Cheers from Seattle
good luck on your flight training!
This is the right approach to improve, owning mistakes...unfortunately we gain experience after actually we had required that experience in a situation... thanks for the honesty and analysis, which is really appreciated. Take care, many happy landings!
Thank you!
Great video. And for my family, as new to flying, I like seeing this. Thanks for sharing it.
I love your honesty and a great lesson for us all. I have always struggled with imc and your videos are a tonic. Thanks.
This was really real world stuff. Going in and out of the clouds is more disorienting than solid clouds. That is one heck of a routing. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for posting this video. I am currently working on my Instrument now and it is really good to see other people mistakes to learn from. One of the things i love about aviation is people share their mistakes for others to learn. Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful! Good luck on your instrument rating. It is challenging but super fun.
I think that’s your best video yet, kept it up!
Thank you for the encouragement!
@@SoCalFlyingMonkey no, thank you for showing all sides of flying. It helps people like me trying to get into flying.
Appreciate you sharing the vulnerability and honesty... it helps us all!
Thx for sharing your “not perfect” flight. We all learned from this. And that made it perfect!
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Nice man! Love the honesty! Cant be a legend every flight!
Great video. Appreciate the honesty. It’s so easy to forget to report things like outer marker when your brain is saturated, and still dwelling on recent missteps.
Thank you. Yeah I don't know why I spaced on it.
Thanks for your honesty !
Owning up to your mistakes in any situation is a noble trait. We all learn.
Thanks! Hopefully it is useful.
I’m not a pilot, but I appreciate your willingness to publish this video. I think we can all learn from it.
Thanks for the supportive comment. :)
Enjoyed the video. Don't feel like you're on an island, we have all had those days. The best part of our videos is the ability to review and learn from them. Thanks for sharing, the good and the bad, it's a chance for us all to learn.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for posting this video. I am sharing to my instructor to discuss. I truly appreciate your willingness to put yourself out there for the benefit of your viewers. Sincerely. Thank you.
I appreciate that encouragement thank you.
It's already been said. But, thanks for posting this one. Way more will be learned by the rest of us by watching the less-than-perfect approach than the staged dialed in ones. Love the airplane.
Thanks for the feedback and support!
This student instrument pilot appreciates you sharing this. Thanks so much.
glad you enjoyed it!
Eric these videos are so good! I am currently working on my IR rating and I can not explain enough how much this content is helping me. Not only do I enjoy watching aviation videos (who doesn’t?!) but the fact that you explain the mistakes you make and how to correct them is really informative. Keep up the good content! #BlueSkiesAndTailWinds
Great to hear! Glad it is helpful to you. Thanks for the feedback.
SoCal Flying Monkey definitely! If you ever find yourself in the Boise area I’d be happy to link up with you!
I like mistake videos. I feel like we all learn more from them than the ones where everything happens perfectly; because more often than not we make a mistake somewhere down the line. It's nice to see a mistake occur and how to respond if we havent seen it ourselves yet in life.
Amazing video, and it shows that practice is always needed as IFR rated pilot, I've seen many pilot with thousands of hrs doing similar and worse mistakes, so it's ok.
Thank you for posting this video! I’m currently going for my private license right now and seeing that I’m not the only one to struggle at points is very reassuring!
Absolutely the right call to post it, and I appreciate seeing what looked weird so I can be more ready when -- not if -- I deal with it, too. Thanks.
Thanks for the support.
Thank you for sharing this! The internet is a savage place and I applaud your willingness to share this despite that fact so that others can learn.
There will always be negativity no matter what the content is I think. I'm ok with that. Thank you for the encouragement- I truly appreciate it
Glad you shared this...never be afraid to admit your mistakes...in this case, sharing them is helpful to other pilots.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Nice to see honest pilots admiting their faults rather than macho pilots . Sure you have learned a lot about that flight, and sharing with all of us is, in my opinion, a great lesson. Thanks for sharing (best thing you could do) and happy flights!
Just found this channel, Loving ALL of your videos. Very well done.
Awesome, thank you!
good attitude with adequate IFR knowledge, Happy landings Capt
Thanks!!
Great video SCFMonkey- we all make mistakes flying and need to learn from them. IMC will load up your brain fast. Glad you made it back safe.
Thanks 👍
This is maybe the best GA/IFR video i have seen. Not only by the content but by the way it was made ...
wow thanks so much- I really appreciate that. Feel free to share it! :)
@@SoCalFlyingMonkey I already have ... maybe you want to have a look at my FB page "airWORK aviation media"
And that's why flight simulation is such a great tool to maintain proficient.
Great video as always!
Thanks!
A skilled eye will spot someone advertising themselves... :-)
As a student pilot, seeing mistakes, and how good pilots make them, is incredibly valuable. Thank you for posting this video.
Thanks for the feedback. I am really glad you found it useful.
My favorite channel! Please keep posting
Thanks for the encouragement!
Now try this with steam gauges with a Garmin 430 as backup with no autopilot.
I'm old.
But owning your mistakes before they own you is part of your growth. I can remember my first solo long distance XC between KPAO and KLGB. I chose my return to KPAO via the coast at night and despite how beautiful it was with the moon brightly shining, there was nowhere to go in case of engine failure along the rocky coast.
I'll save that trip for a ME aircraft next time.
I flew from Seattle to LA on steam gauges with no autopilot over 3 hours in IMC and loved it. Same airplane just before the upgrades.
Great video! Thanks for deciding to go ahead and post it. Most instrument pilots have had similar experiences to yours at some point and this video is a great reminder of how easy it is to make mistakes.
Thanks for the support!
I'm glad you shared this video, I strongly believe we learn more from things that almost go wrong or did go wrong, or at least unfolded differently than we expected and struggled with adapting and improving at the moment. There will always be haters, who will spend more time critizing stupid stuff like your background music, or placement of cameras, and so on and so on! LOL You keep doing what you are doing, and know that there are people out here whose lives may be saved because of something they learned and realized from your videos!
I also struggle with staying IFR current, so I browse videos on UA-cam to keep things in my mind and that's how I found this video of yours. I will be following your adventures now! God bless you and your family and may you always have a tailwind (once airborne that is!)
Thanks very much for the support. I appreciate it! I'm glad this video might be useful for you.
Thanks for posting this. I'm in the late stages of my IFR training (checkride soon), and this is spot on. Weird when one thing rattles you, how it seems to cascade from there. Game of mind control!
glad you found it helpful!
Good on you for sharing this video. You've helped a lot of people that may encounter this disorientation in their future! Good looking plane btw!
I hope it is helpful for some. Thanks for the feedback. :)
Great video. Like everyone else I love the honesty. There are so many pilots in GA who are adverse to admitting these uncomfortable feelings especially in IMC. Refreshing to see honesty.
Thank you for the support. I appreciate it very much.
you should log it* proficiency is proven by your log... it shows that you've gotten past the beginners mistakes. Please keep these honest video's coming, they're inspiring!
No matter how much ATD time you spend staying current on approaches, there's no substitute for actual IMC and the spatial disorientation. I really need to get more actual. Thanks for putting this video out there. I just bought a camera and it will be interesting to dive deep into a debrief to improve my flying. Your videos show just how powerful a tool that can be.
The debrief is great. I have noticed a lot of things I can improve on just watching back flights and creating these videos. Cloud ahoy can be a good debrief tool as well.
Awareness of weaknesses when you get rusty comes with practice. For me it's heading control (no A/P) so I pay a little more attention to that when in IMC. On approach I sometimes get tardy on descending and have to dive to capture the glideslope . So now I'm on the lookout for those tendencies and that keeps me focused to spot the errors and correct them when they're still manageable.
Thank you for this!
As someone who is working on their instrument rating, this was a great learning experience for me. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
1st time viewer.
New subscriber.
Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful video mann! ❤🔥Don’t worry about it you did great in the amount of stress you had! Always moving forward with the mentality of learning! Take me with you. I’d be a great Co-pilot G4 Pilot! Great kudos to you! 🙌🏽
Superb video along with graphics. Just passed my IFR written and going to start the practical so this was of good value.
Glad it is useful to you!
A very real video. I haven't flown in some years but I could feel the disorientation as described. One habit that I had was having foggles handy for that period of in an out strobe light effect.