If you don't like turbulence don't fly below clouds with a bumpy/boiling base. That's convective activity rising into the cloud base. Watch for plowed fields and other dark areas that could be generating updrafts. Watch the water for where a sheer line is from winds curving around mountains. Storm fronts and squall lines have abrupt air flow movements around them. Where you can really get hurt is the mountain sheer lines that will try bouncing your head off the ceiling even when strapped down tight as you hear control cables being slapped on the internal skin of the wings and fuselage. Have fun cruising and keep a good scan inside and out. You play around scud running below boiling cloud bases you might find yourself flying 45 degrees or more down to maintain altitude.
It never ceases to amaze me - no matter how many of these GA videos I watch - that pilots seem to hardly ever turn their heads and actually search the skies around them for other traffic. Compare these GA videos to cockpit videos of military aircraft and you'll see that the military guys are constantly swiveling their heads in search of other aircraft - even when they're simply flying cross-country or shooting landings at some field. An examiner would have a fit at the lack of traffic awareness displayed in this vignette. Next time you go flying around it might be prudent to understand that most of the other pilots in your area are probably glued to their high-tech toys and are oblivious to all the other traffic that may be present.
+Mega Davis Did you really just compare GA pilots to Military pilots? Thats like comparing taxi drivers to F1 racers. The pilot here looks outside just fine, he checked final before entering the runway and everything. Considering the training he's probably received and the weather conditions this day he's doing well.
+Mega Davis military pilots operate in this manner for 2 reasons: 1. their aircraft are capable of high G maneuvers and course reversals; in other words they can turn and complete a 180 in about the same amount of time it would take this guy to even start rolling into a bank (watch a GA pilot performing spins or other aerobatics). 2. target acquisition and avoidance practice; in other words they need to be constantly aware of who/what is around them for combat purposes so that they can avoid getting themselves blown out of the sky and so they can quickly respond to a threat from all angles whereas this guy really only needs to be concerned with what's in his flight path and he does not need to worry about someone sneaking in behind him and shooting him down. So much of what humans do is "muscle memory" so military pilots maintain the "head-on-a-swivel" attitude even in "friendly" skies to avoid establishing a habit pattern that may get them killed when flying not-so-friendly skies.
Here's number 3: 3. The speed at which they move. A cessna pilot hears 10 miles vis and doesnt think twice. Even pushing down towards minimums at 3 miles is workable when you're only covering 1 mile every 30 seconds but few military planes put along at anything under 200 KTAS, heck the pre-jet WWII fighters and bombers had speeds over 250. There are only a handful of GA aircraft capable of these speeds and many of them are military conversions (such as P51's or P51 scaled models that are still flown GA); though I am excluding jet-type GA aircraft for the sole reason that GA jets typically are flown on an IFR flight plan. In the vast majority of GA aircraft of a non-jet type, a collision course with a target 3 miles out gives you anywhere from 45 seconds to 120 seconds to see, react and avoid. At jet aircraft speeds, that time is reduced to less than 20 seconds and thats at "low speeds" of 420 if you consider most of US fighters for example are supersonic that gets even lower or if you wanted to get really crazy, just look at the SR71 at Mach 3.3 and capable of faster it holds several speed records. Its flown: LA to Washington DC in 1 hr 7 min 53.6 sec NY to London in 1 hr 54 min 56.4 sec LA to London in 3 hr 47 min 39 sec St Louis to Cincinatti in 8 min 32 sec That last one at 2500kph is the fastest its been timed (though questionably not the fastest it can go) and its also the most comparative... A cessna at 120KTAS would take about 2.5 hours to make that trip so what a Cessna pilot puttering along at 120KTAS can "see and avoid" in 3 nautical miles or 90 seconds, a SR71 pilot needed to "see" to avoid at 60 nautical miles away. Granted the SR71 only operated at those speeds at very very high altitude (double the altitude most airliners are permitted to fly) at FL800 (80,000) so its not like they were actually likely to encounter anything they had to avoid but the entire intent of the plane was to fly above the speed and altitude of all other aircraft and air-defense capabilities; a job it is still fit to do though they've since been retired. Though many operations are conducted on flight plans following a flight plan, military jets are flown VFR more regularly than their GA counterparts. The straightlines normally flown between point A & B would get them killed in a scenario where they were called to service In addition to adding #3 as above, I'd like to add a general disclaimer as well: Just to be clear, Im not advocating against better traffic awareness and a more "head on a swivel" traffic avoidance technique, just stating that military pilots have a much different reason for the technique than GA pilots. I do think the guy in this video is too unaware of his surroundings though as Scott Cozart points out below me, its not like there was much for him to watch for as he was already acting with some rather poor judgement flying in that type of weather. And dont think the head on a swivel technique means the military pilots are necessarily better at acquiring targets; especially slow moving ones as the human eye is better at detecting movement than stationary targets. When I was in my student days (Im still learning and consider myself to still be a student but I have my ticket punched), I was flying a solo practicing my S turns along a road for my check ride. I did a clearing turn to the left and one to the right, saw no traffic and started on my S turns. I did 2.25 s-turns (3 turns total - left 180, right 180, left 180, right 180, left 90). It wasnt the manuever I had planned but as I was rolling out of my last right 180, there were 2 fighters flying in the same direction I was about to go in and not very far below me and I was between 2000-2500 AGL. They were definitely moving faster than I was and they were already a bit ahead of me so there wasnt a real reason to turn other than knee jerk reaction. They were not on a VR/IR XXXX flight path but were flying a VORTAC Radial/V-route. I assume they were visual because I had been in the area for a while doing the manuevers and cant figure out why controller would put them in such close proximity unless maybe it was a "lets play with the new pilot."
+Tony Smith a little long winded but I think I agree. it's like a military person telling a hunter to keep his elbow in woke during a shotgun because he could be seen. there are some arguments to be made, but not on the level of insulting this average looking pilot for sharing his skies on youtube.
Others are upset, I think this is a great example of staying out of weather and not experiencing turbulence. How turbulent is it for GA? Not much if you stay out of the thunderstorm. Point well made, sir. Now, how did he talk without moving his lips?
That wasn't bad. But I never trust precipitation. The light rain you leave going to the practice area, can become a popup thunderstorm on the way back home. 15 to 25 miles around it is what is recommended.
Interesting video; thank you. There appeared to be a commercial off-the-shelf camera suction-cup-mounted to the central area of the inside of the windshield, with no secondary retention such as e.g. a safety tether or lanyard to secure it to a higher support point. What might happen should the camera system demount itself from the windshield and get tangled up in the flight controls? In my experience, such suction cups demount themselves somewhat frequently, especially in bumpy/cold conditions.
+Hec. Davila Agreed. This guy is so concerned with his toys he never checked final before rolling onto the runway for takeoff. Also he is either an incredible ventriloquist or he added the radio calls for landing in post production because people gave him too much shit.
Can it be that you mixed something up ? GPS cannot depict the weather, only help to find your own location as related to nearby wheather. And surely the depiction of weather is not done by help of ADS-B. If it was so, next time you may be telling us you saw the weather on your transponder. But okay as you at least survived at last.
Thomas Godehus ADS-B does report weather and if its fed through a GPS it overlays it on your map. This is how most pilots get weather + navigation on their Ipad. Google search "ADS-B weather"
I cant see where there was any violent turbulence. Nice show but I would have rather seen this pilots control inputs as opposed to looking out the windscreen. Not a lot of jockeying seen with the pilot working the yoke and rudder, but nice touchdown.
Telling that this is turbulent..., it only encourages you to go into it as well, it seems more fun than dangerous! Why don't you find a CB next time, spot it's core and go right straight for it, then tell us what turbulence should really be!
+Pittsed Off That's what I noticed right away as well... this seems to be a VFR flight but instead of honoring the "visual" part in the VFR acronym he rather went "instrumental" and had his eyes in the cockpit most of the time... even in the critical phase of flying over the airfield and entering the pattern. Seems very dangerous to me.
TURBULENT?? FIND OUT!!!! BUT NOT IN THIS VIDEO !!!! I JUST WANTED TO SHOW OFF MY NICE LEATHER SEATS AND MY WEATHER RADAR. FLY REAL CLOSE OR GET MY PLANE WET ???? NO WAY!!!!! WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS VIDEO ANYWAY???? HOW TURBULENT DOES IT GET??? GET YOUR OWN PLANE!! NOT MINE!!!
If you love your instruments so much why don't you play flight sims on your computer and maybe save someone from a mid air collision? You didn't scan for traffic, not even once. The most reckless and dangerous kind of flight who gives GA a bad reputation.
Thats not turbulence! Turbulence is when you cant keep your headset on, you flopping all over the place, forget about IFR charts and all you can do is sit there and take it like a man.
Scary thig is how distracted you are by toys in the cockpit...you are VFR!!! SEE AND AVOID. Look outside for goodnes sake! Please use this as a wakeup call to fix that dangerous habit. 90% of your time should be spent looking outside in VFR flight.
Its the little things in life that I enjoy, and that interior is really nice. I cold imagine sitting in that backseat, enjoying the flight. Fantastic.
Reminded me of several flights... a 40 minute flight taking 60 minutes to remain clear, dry and level. Loved the extra 20 minutes every time!
If you don't like turbulence don't fly below clouds with a bumpy/boiling base. That's convective activity rising into the cloud base. Watch for plowed fields and other dark areas that could be generating updrafts. Watch the water for where a sheer line is from winds curving around mountains. Storm fronts and squall lines have abrupt air flow movements around them. Where you can really get hurt is the mountain sheer lines that will try bouncing your head off the ceiling even when strapped down tight as you hear control cables being slapped on the internal skin of the wings and fuselage. Have fun cruising and keep a good scan inside and out. You play around scud running below boiling cloud bases you might find yourself flying 45 degrees or more down to maintain altitude.
It never ceases to amaze me - no matter how many of these GA videos I watch - that pilots seem to hardly ever turn their heads and actually search the skies around them for other traffic. Compare these GA videos to cockpit videos of military aircraft and you'll see that the military guys are constantly swiveling their heads in search of other aircraft - even when they're simply flying cross-country or shooting landings at some field. An examiner would have a fit at the lack of traffic awareness displayed in this vignette. Next time you go flying around it might be prudent to understand that most of the other pilots in your area are probably glued to their high-tech toys and are oblivious to all the other traffic that may be present.
+Mega Davis Did you really just compare GA pilots to Military pilots? Thats like comparing taxi drivers to F1 racers.
The pilot here looks outside just fine, he checked final before entering the runway and everything.
Considering the training he's probably received and the weather conditions this day he's doing well.
+Mega Davis military pilots operate in this manner for 2 reasons:
1. their aircraft are capable of high G maneuvers and course reversals; in other words they can turn and complete a 180 in about the same amount of time it would take this guy to even start rolling into a bank (watch a GA pilot performing spins or other aerobatics).
2. target acquisition and avoidance practice; in other words they need to be constantly aware of who/what is around them for combat purposes so that they can avoid getting themselves blown out of the sky and so they can quickly respond to a threat from all angles whereas this guy really only needs to be concerned with what's in his flight path and he does not need to worry about someone sneaking in behind him and shooting him down.
So much of what humans do is "muscle memory" so military pilots maintain the "head-on-a-swivel" attitude even in "friendly" skies to avoid establishing a habit pattern that may get them killed when flying not-so-friendly skies.
mega Davis . look at the sky he's the only one dumb enough to fly in that weather. that's why he's not checking for traffic.
Here's number 3:
3. The speed at which they move. A cessna pilot hears 10 miles vis and doesnt think twice. Even pushing down towards minimums at 3 miles is workable when you're only covering 1 mile every 30 seconds but few military planes put along at anything under 200 KTAS, heck the pre-jet WWII fighters and bombers had speeds over 250.
There are only a handful of GA aircraft capable of these speeds and many of them are military conversions (such as P51's or P51 scaled models that are still flown GA); though I am excluding jet-type GA aircraft for the sole reason that GA jets typically are flown on an IFR flight plan.
In the vast majority of GA aircraft of a non-jet type, a collision course with a target 3 miles out gives you anywhere from 45 seconds to 120 seconds to see, react and avoid. At jet aircraft speeds, that time is reduced to less than 20 seconds and thats at "low speeds" of 420 if you consider most of US fighters for example are supersonic that gets even lower or if you wanted to get really crazy, just look at the SR71 at Mach 3.3 and capable of faster it holds several speed records.
Its flown:
LA to Washington DC in 1 hr 7 min 53.6 sec
NY to London in 1 hr 54 min 56.4 sec
LA to London in 3 hr 47 min 39 sec
St Louis to Cincinatti in 8 min 32 sec
That last one at 2500kph is the fastest its been timed (though questionably not the fastest it can go) and its also the most comparative... A cessna at 120KTAS would take about 2.5 hours to make that trip so what a Cessna pilot puttering along at 120KTAS can "see and avoid" in 3 nautical miles or 90 seconds, a SR71 pilot needed to "see" to avoid at 60 nautical miles away.
Granted the SR71 only operated at those speeds at very very high altitude (double the altitude most airliners are permitted to fly) at FL800 (80,000) so its not like they were actually likely to encounter anything they had to avoid but the entire intent of the plane was to fly above the speed and altitude of all other aircraft and air-defense capabilities; a job it is still fit to do though they've since been retired.
Though many operations are conducted on flight plans following a flight plan, military jets are flown VFR more regularly than their GA counterparts. The straightlines normally flown between point A & B would get them killed in a scenario where they were called to service
In addition to adding #3 as above, I'd like to add a general disclaimer as well: Just to be clear, Im not advocating against better traffic awareness and a more "head on a swivel" traffic avoidance technique, just stating that military pilots have a much different reason for the technique than GA pilots. I do think the guy in this video is too unaware of his surroundings though as Scott Cozart points out below me, its not like there was much for him to watch for as he was already acting with some rather poor judgement flying in that type of weather.
And dont think the head on a swivel technique means the military pilots are necessarily better at acquiring targets; especially slow moving ones as the human eye is better at detecting movement than stationary targets. When I was in my student days (Im still learning and consider myself to still be a student but I have my ticket punched), I was flying a solo practicing my S turns along a road for my check ride. I did a clearing turn to the left and one to the right, saw no traffic and started on my S turns. I did 2.25 s-turns (3 turns total - left 180, right 180, left 180, right 180, left 90). It wasnt the manuever I had planned but as I was rolling out of my last right 180, there were 2 fighters flying in the same direction I was about to go in and not very far below me and I was between 2000-2500 AGL.
They were definitely moving faster than I was and they were already a bit ahead of me so there wasnt a real reason to turn other than knee jerk reaction. They were not on a VR/IR XXXX flight path but were flying a VORTAC Radial/V-route. I assume they were visual because I had been in the area for a while doing the manuevers and cant figure out why controller would put them in such close proximity unless maybe it was a "lets play with the new pilot."
+Tony Smith a little long winded but I think I agree. it's like a military person telling a hunter to keep his elbow in woke during a shotgun because he could be seen. there are some arguments to be made, but not on the level of insulting this average looking pilot for sharing his skies on youtube.
That was so bumpy, my monitor fell off my desk.
Nice landing and beautiful short flight in a very nice aircraft. Plus, A Free plane wash!
G'day interesting filming John lovely plane I enjoyed watching it thanks. Regards John Tasmania Australia
Others are upset, I think this is a great example of staying out of weather and not experiencing turbulence. How turbulent is it for GA? Not much if you stay out of the thunderstorm. Point well made, sir.
Now, how did he talk without moving his lips?
What turbulance, did I miss something?
I've had the fillings shaken out of my teeth avoiding the base of a squall line over Bimini flying an Aztec , so this was mild .
Nice panel, nice interior. I’m jealous.
I hope you keep a few sic sacs handy, if you ever actually hit some turbulence you will most likely need them.
Watched this with my Oculus Rift, felt like i was your co-pilot. Man i want to learn to fly.
Nice seats..
I wishe you do vídeo longer lenght. Love the vídeo. Tumbs up.
Keep in mind that weather information can be delayed as much as 5 minutes.
+Tuckthemuck Try 20min.
I saw one good bump, otherwise didn't look "turbulent" at all! Otherwise, nice cameras and editing. Looks like a really nice plane!
Good job!
Rainstorm or thunderstorm? I've been in and near the rain before where it's smooth as silk.
Nice video!
That wasn't bad. But I never trust precipitation. The light rain you leave going to the practice area, can become a popup thunderstorm on the way back home. 15 to 25 miles around it is what is recommended.
Looks like he is flying a Toyota Camry from the inside...
Interesting video; thank you.
There appeared to be a commercial off-the-shelf camera suction-cup-mounted to the central area of the inside of the windshield, with no secondary retention such as e.g. a safety tether or lanyard to secure it to a higher support point. What might happen should the camera system demount itself from the windshield and get tangled up in the flight controls?
In my experience, such suction cups demount themselves somewhat frequently, especially in bumpy/cold conditions.
Gee. I got scared.
Over & Back by Wild Bill Callahan on Amazon. Beech 18s, DC-3s, C-46s...Mexico, 1980s from south Texas airports.
nice plane, good landing
Is this McCollum field?
My entire house shook.
You fly out of KRYY!! Same here!
I thought you were the John Visser who taught me how to fly back in in 2002. Guess not!
It does get quite bumpy at 1:50
Very fancy plane
Delta would be freaking out!
What turbulence? Did I miss it ?
1:57 that's your turbulence
Would there be turbelance if you flew into a tornado accidentally?
Would there be an internet shitstorm if dumb people asked dumb questions?
NIce video but concerned pilot does not do much traffic monitoring at all, even while transitioning overhead destination airport.
+Hec. Davila Agreed. This guy is so concerned with his toys he never checked final before rolling onto the runway for takeoff. Also he is either an incredible ventriloquist or he added the radio calls for landing in post production because people gave him too much shit.
What aircraft is this?
Can it be that you mixed something up ? GPS cannot depict the weather, only help to find your own location as related to nearby wheather. And surely the depiction of weather is not done by help of ADS-B. If it was so, next time you may be telling us you saw the weather on your transponder. But okay as you at least survived at last.
Thomas Godehus ADS-B does report weather and if its fed through a GPS it overlays it on your map. This is how most pilots get weather + navigation on their Ipad. Google search "ADS-B weather"
Please rename this video. Maybe “Smooth and easy VFR flight on a cloudy day…… and I never checked once for other traffic!”
2:23 - the cloud smiled at you.
haha
Mild IMC?
I suppose I don't know what is turbulence!!!...
His seatbelt is twisted,, I can't stand that!!!!
I cant see where there was any violent turbulence. Nice show but I would have rather seen this pilots control inputs as opposed to looking out the windscreen. Not a lot of jockeying seen with the pilot working the yoke and rudder, but nice touchdown.
Ive had more turbulence going through Wal-Mart with my shopping cart
It isn't turbulence until your headset is thrown off
You call that turbulence?
Telling that this is turbulent..., it only encourages you to go into it as well, it seems more fun than dangerous!
Why don't you find a CB next time, spot it's core and go right straight for it, then tell us what turbulence should really be!
I got more turbulence in the circuit - stay on the ground.
Guess we'll never know.
I experienced more turbulence during my crap this morning!😕
dude...c'mon...
turbulence??? bumpy???? where?????
Must not have flown radar-less Beech 18s on scheduled runs maybe?
155 ish
P~~s poor LOOKOUT Mr. Eyes constantly in the cockpit. Would be a fail in my book!
+Pittsed Off That's what I noticed right away as well... this seems to be a VFR flight but instead of honoring the "visual" part in the VFR acronym he rather went "instrumental" and had his eyes in the cockpit most of the time... even in the critical phase of flying over the airfield and entering the pattern. Seems very dangerous to me.
TURBULENT?? FIND OUT!!!! BUT NOT IN THIS VIDEO !!!! I JUST WANTED TO SHOW OFF MY NICE LEATHER SEATS AND MY WEATHER RADAR. FLY REAL CLOSE OR GET MY PLANE WET ???? NO WAY!!!!! WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS VIDEO ANYWAY???? HOW TURBULENT DOES IT GET??? GET YOUR OWN PLANE!! NOT MINE!!!
Wow are you a angry person.Simmer down there Buck Rogers.
Nic Coursey It really didn't look that bad. I've flown in 152s that have been bounced around WAY more than that.
Somebody seems to be quite jealous of this guy's 182...
If you love your instruments so much why don't you play flight sims on your computer and maybe save someone from a mid air collision? You didn't scan for traffic, not even once. The most reckless and dangerous kind of flight who gives GA a bad reputation.
Thats not turbulence! Turbulence is when you cant keep your headset on, you flopping all over the place, forget about IFR charts and all you can do is sit there and take it like a man.
????
Hahah
Scary thig is how distracted you are by toys in the cockpit...you are VFR!!! SEE AND AVOID. Look outside for goodnes sake! Please use this as a wakeup call to fix that dangerous habit. 90% of your time should be spent looking outside in VFR flight.
Well, THAT was a waste of time!
Very dull video. 🤭
Someone with too much money and too little brain. Flying into bad weather? Daa. These are the folks who give good flyers a bad name.
that's sure enough one boring video!!
Boring!!