I love IMC. And this is an example of why I was taught to remain skeptical on an approach that you'll get in, and assume you'll go missed. Psychologically it relieves the burden of making a decision so to speak, and procedurally it forces you to be ready before you begin the missed approach (not only to brief, but frequencies of any navaids already on standby). The funny thing is one of my lowest approaches was not indicated as such on the METARS just as I was beginning the descent. There was a ball of moisture sitting just over Martha's Vineyard as I was coming in, and a Jet Blue 737 was coming in first. I knew I would be using the procedure to descend but the METAR (which was old) indicated marginal conditions. Needless to say there was about a 400' solid ceiling above the airport (100' above minimums for the procedure) when I was cleared on the approach, but because the METAR only reported that as scattered at that level I had no idea how low it was going to be once everything turned grey and rainy/misty. But I went in with the mentality of assuming I wouldn't make it down, that I would have to return to the mainland where the weather was VFR, but ultimately I made it in and it was nice and clear after the cloud deck was penetrated. After I shut down I looked at the METAR again on Foreflight and it had changed of course to low-IFR/light pink, to which I exclaimed aloud, "no s*%t." ;).
As a current IFR student, this video is absolutely amazing. I appreciate and love the CRM utlized here. Josh you are consummate professional in not letting your CFI hat get in the way. Excellent communication and brief on what to do before getting into IMC. Outstanding! Teamwork!
Excellent video and flying procedures. Two guys up front...use them. Dividing up tasks eases the stress on the one focused on the gauges. Retired USAF HC & WC-130 and T-39 pilot. Miss it every day. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to your next one.
Josh, best video of yours so far. As a PPL almost ready for my instrument, this was a perfect example of flying in IMC right down to minimums, when almost all of my 40plus IFR hours are under the foggles. You are spot on - having a second instrument-rated pilot in the right seat is priceless. Thanks for sharing this one!
This video is the embodiment of what I hope to do when I start aviation. Flawless radio work (callsigns aside), professionalism in the cockpit, and using it for a good cause.
Awesome video! I'm glad to see dedicated pilots like you sharing experiences with professionalism. Greetings from Costa Rica. Keep up the excellent work!
I appreciate you both being honest about how tense, for lack of better term, that approach was. Obviously you both did a wonderful job flying but you could see the relief on your faces when you two were in the hangar. For a low time pilot that says a lot, that it's ok to be nervous but follow your training. Wonderful video.
Excellent CRM, I love how you apply airline principles and philosophies to GA - you and your team are making the skies a safer place to be, one video at a time!
This one going down as one of my favorite vlogs of yours. High intensity approach (was literally grabbing my arm rests on short final). Awesome communication between the two of you, the CRM was without a doubt first class, textbook, airline standards if I may say. You're a hell of a mentor to me and hundreds of thousands of other pilots. Stay safe my friend.
Nice work gentlemen. I’ve done a few of those absolute minimum landings single pilot. Very unnerving but as you mention, training is why we do it. Having extra eyes is a huge advantage and any pilot would be a fool not to take advantage.
Great video...content and camera work are super...one of best IFR approaches I've seen...I would be proud to fly with you both...learned a lot...well done!!
I used to watch stuff like flying wild Alaska, after few years watching different UA-cam channels on aviation, real, honest stuff, it's very difficult to even watch an episode of the "made for tv" I don't know how many times the same clip was played over and over dramatic effect on the tv stuff. UA-cam video's like this don't even need the filler, good stuff.
Very nice. Thank you for the "VFR" distance call out. I think as instrument pilots we get caught up in the approach and even though there was no VFR traffic it's a good habit to announce where you are like '8 miles out straight in runway 34' so they understand. VFR traffic doesn't usually know fixes on an instrument approach so to say you're at PAXXE intersection on RNAV 34 doesn't let them know where you are.
After just getting my instrument rating at just over 200 hours I can definitely see how it will be helpful one day down the road! I remember watching you before I even went to get my pilot's license and now a year and a half later I have my IFR and next week begin my commercial license classes!
This was such a good watch. Thanks for taking us along to learn from your experience. I'm working on my IR and I hope to emulate what you two have shown in this, while wearing my Av 101 hat. Keep up the great work Josh.
The cinematography and color grading is truly something else Josh. I sincerely enjoy watching your videos! What's the best way to get in contact with you?
Very nice Josh. I'm about to finish my MCC, so this video landed right in time. You both did a really nice job splitting tasks and making use of the resources you had at disposal. Overall, what makes good CRM is communication and clear task splitting with both knowing who has the lead but knowing that you're "flying" as well as the pilot monitoring and that you need to point out when something's not right and keep the PF in the loop as well as the other way around (closed loop principle). Real training in CRM takes time and experience but your video was a great example of the essentials! Thanks for sharing and greetings from Switzerland.
I watched this 6 months ago before I started any instrument training and was only picking up bits and pieces, now just waiting to schedule my instrument ride, it was fun to watch again while understanding everything!
This is one hell of a good video. From one pilot (just about to take the private checkride) to the other, this looked like it was one HELL of a challenge on approach. About a week ago (January 24, 2021) I went flying from KGEU to KIWA via Scottsdale airport as a waypoint. The clouds were broken with a hard ceiling of about 5500 if I remember correctly. It was raining all over the Phoenix area but it wasn't horrible. My CFI and I discussed the flight and we decided to go with a flight that wasn't going to be too risky. Both to the north and the south there were storms with HEAVY rainfall and the potential for icing. That's definitely not a good idea to attempt without the right equipment. The flight to Williams Gateway (KIWA) was pretty uneventful and I was able to get flight following. Whenever I do a cross country flight, I like either a flightplan or flight following. ATC here in the Phoenix area is VERY good about that. Flying into Gateway (KIWA) was really interesting because it has 3 large runways and a HELL of a lot of traffic both with Allegiant and several flight schools operating there. They gave me a good approach into 30 Right and I did a full stop taxi back, then a touch and go to begin my return leg to KGEU. I used the same routing on my return leg with flight following and ATC tried giving me 5000 as an altitude. I advised I'm a VFR student and they kept me at 4500. As I mentioned earlier ( and honestly this is the point that I'm making here) the clouds were broken but I was more than confident about flying my route and going through a few of them as I needed to. When I went through the clouds and saw how beautiful it was up there that day, I thought back to some of your videos where you've been in the weather. Between the training I've been receiving with my CFI and what I see here online, I knew just to fly the plane, pay attention and I would be just fine. Keep up the amazing work and posting video clips for us. Trust me, it helps. A few take aways from my trip as well as what I'm seeing here on this video. First off, CRM is HUGE. If you have people with you and they're able to help, take advantage of that. Secondly, ATC is an extremely helpful group of people. Their job is to help you get where you need to go safely. Finally, know your limitations as a pilot. A bad judgement call has the potential to get someone killed. If I had even a second of a doubt, I wouldn't have flown. I was able to pay attention to the weather, use ATC to my advantage, and plan my route accordingly. Either way, This was a great video and I look forward to more in the future.
that gave me the goos bump, and the will to push true all the long studying to get my IFR rating, one day it will be mine, thanks for sharing Josh that was great content right there.
Fantastic video. I’m liking your use of music to emphasize tension. I’ve been watching your videos for a while now. The constant improvements on editing and musical score is evident and damn near perfect. Very well done.
Great video, guys! The elevation of airport is important along with correct altimeter setting. I also think airspeed is important too preventing stall in the blind. Great team work.
Love this, and I agree 100%... "leave no bug unattended". In a similar way, my CFII taught me "no blinkie", e.g. on the FMS, don't leave any waypoint blinking, as you might (without thought) hit e.g. Direct-Ent-Ent, and you're going there, and that might not be where you want to go. As always, very nice and informative video. Thanks! Wayne
Very cool to see an approach as low as this handled as smoothly and cooperatively as you guys did! I'm looking forward to the full-length on Cockpit Club!
Great video and CRM. Fun to watch you and Troy doing that pilot stuff, working this approach. This triggered instant memories of getting in to KOXB on the GPS 32, down to 280 and minimums were 261.
Another awesome video Josh!!! Definitely one for the books as you said. I really enjoyed this one, I'll be checking out the full length on cockpit club. The CRM was superb, you guys worked like a well oiled crew that's been flying together for a while. Great job, Thanks!
Aviation 101 I was looking at an app called Flightradar24 about a week earlier and I was looking in your area and saw you flying around the Austin area circling the city and I screen shot to but don’t know how to post that pic in the comments. Anyways I thought it was awesome watching you fly around on that app. Love this channel I’m a pilot in training with 11 hours under my belt and I have learned a lot watching you. Thanks for the vids! If your ever in the northeast Alabama area I would love to fly with you. I know it’s a long shot but figured I would ask anyways.
You always remember your first approach to mins. Mine was very early in my IFR training, C-152 into Okmulgee, OK, popular place to shoot approaches for Spartan students. First IMC to mins in a military jet was in a T-38, the ground comes up fast in an approach cat E aircraft, tacan/ils at KDLF. Formation instrument approaches are the best, but higher minimums apply so you never get to go down to mins on the wing, but still a great ride.
Just flew an ILS tonight into TPL, 200 OVC 1 mile vis. Ended up reaching the DA and put power in to go missed only to see the approach lights a few seconds later. For my first real solo IMC approach it was fun! Although I decided to go to Waco after that as I didn’t want that adrenaline rush again with no real reason to land at TPL.
This video came at a good time for me. I am working on my instrument rating currently and approaches are what I am doing right now. Super informative video.
Impressive on so many levels! The CRM is cool and a blast to see in action. I can really appreciate this video, My favorite plane in our club is a 1978 182 RG, with Dual G5s, 430, and GFC500. Such a wonderful machine, and a great IFR bird. Troy has the T182 to make those climbs happen faster! Nice work... BOTH of ya'll!!!
Great video Josh!! The communications and technical skills involved with this type of flying really intrigues me and has me glued to the screen. I fly a Waco YMF and a Husky, which is just a totally different type of flying. Open cockpit, minimum instruments, no gps, and no need to really talk to anyone outside the usual CTAF calls. I'm anxious to get my instrument rating and move into the realm of technical IFR flying.
I am so glad to watch videos where people are not risking their lives flying an instrument approach - unlike another aviation UA-camr who likes to push the boundaries of Instrument flying. Great job on the CRM and communications between you both and great flying as always!
This was a very impressive video and these guys were the true embodiment of professional pilots. I've done gobs of IFR flying in my younger years as a commercial pilot here in Alaska down to these kinds of minimum situations with plenty of "go-arounds" at DH. Anchorage is terrible with fog during the winters. I definitely would not want to do what these guys were doing in a C-180RG because of the icing potential here in Alaska, but I guess they can get away with that sort of thing where they were operating. All of my flying has been in larger stuff, Cessna Caravan, DeHavilland Twin Otter, Beechcraft 1900, DeHavilland Dash. So.....much better tools to handle icing. Both of these guys showed me they knew their S..t.
Late to the party but timely for where I am at right now. A great demonstration on why I find so much comfort having a CFI or another pilot right seat. It gets SOOO busy from the IAF on in.
woooow, this makes me want to get my instrument so badly! incredible! The engineering involved to develop and implement everything necessary to make these kinds of approaches happen blows my mind. The skills to fly these approaches sits on whole other level. Great flying!
Great Approach. Maybe on one of your next hand-flown ILS approaches, you should talk about setting up your HSI and how it interacts with the 430. Turning your CDI to the intercept course to be flown, then turning your heading bug before turning on final. When to go from GPS mode to VLOC mode.
This was impressive on two levels. First, both realized you needed to work your experience levels to combat the two combined risk levels of IMC, night to minimums at an uncontrolled field. Second, you planned carefully to divert if the approach didn’t work. Having the autopilot coupled really helps during transition to visual. Lot’s of good CRM working also to reduce risk which was awesome.
Really great job sharing the responsibilities in the cockpit in this challenging landing. It shows how important CRM to a successful. Sure, that landing would have been possible solo, but at about eight times the stress, do you really want to try that? Nope.
I'm headed over to Cockpit Club to see this one in full. That was a seat pucker moment but it was also cool to watch two pilots handle it. When I was working on my instrument rating GA didn't have glass and GPS was just becoming a thing. My instructor had me in actual fairly early. KVCT is usually good for some fog and my first approach to minimums was 500'. I've used XPlane 11 down to 200'. Not the same... the ground is softer :) but the emotion is there (for me anyway). A few weeks ago I flew XPlane 11, C172, from KFMN to KCEZ because there was a snowstorm enroute, 200' ceilings and lower... really crappy day that matched real life. I wanted to see what would happen. Basically the aircraft iced up and fell out of the sky (I expected it but not when it happened) about 1/2 way to Cortez. I had started a 180 but not soon enough. Sometimes Xplane 11's "visuals" are a little too real. Anyway... enough flightsim rambling... Headed to the CC.
Awesome IMC flight Josh and PIC! I was on the edge of my seat chair flying and waiting to see the runway lights! Then when you saw them they were so close! Happy new year!
Troy is a great communicator. Precision flying by the "crew".
I love IMC. And this is an example of why I was taught to remain skeptical on an approach that you'll get in, and assume you'll go missed. Psychologically it relieves the burden of making a decision so to speak, and procedurally it forces you to be ready before you begin the missed approach (not only to brief, but frequencies of any navaids already on standby). The funny thing is one of my lowest approaches was not indicated as such on the METARS just as I was beginning the descent. There was a ball of moisture sitting just over Martha's Vineyard as I was coming in, and a Jet Blue 737 was coming in first. I knew I would be using the procedure to descend but the METAR (which was old) indicated marginal conditions. Needless to say there was about a 400' solid ceiling above the airport (100' above minimums for the procedure) when I was cleared on the approach, but because the METAR only reported that as scattered at that level I had no idea how low it was going to be once everything turned grey and rainy/misty. But I went in with the mentality of assuming I wouldn't make it down, that I would have to return to the mainland where the weather was VFR, but ultimately I made it in and it was nice and clear after the cloud deck was penetrated. After I shut down I looked at the METAR again on Foreflight and it had changed of course to low-IFR/light pink, to which I exclaimed aloud, "no s*%t." ;).
This is golden IFR training for those trying to get to this level. Thank you for providing this for the world to see!
As a current IFR student, this video is absolutely amazing. I appreciate and love the CRM utlized here. Josh you are consummate professional in not letting your CFI hat get in the way. Excellent communication and brief on what to do before getting into IMC. Outstanding! Teamwork!
The decision to work that as a crew, and the way you worked together was excellent. Well-flown, well-crewed, nicely done.
I have flown with Troy before. He is a super professional pilot. Also he has the voice of God.
😂 thanks Bryan.
Excellent video and flying procedures. Two guys up front...use them. Dividing up tasks eases the stress on the one focused on the gauges. Retired USAF HC & WC-130 and T-39 pilot. Miss it every day. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to your next one.
Josh, best video of yours so far. As a PPL almost ready for my instrument, this was a perfect example of flying in IMC right down to minimums, when almost all of my 40plus IFR hours are under the foggles. You are spot on - having a second instrument-rated pilot in the right seat is priceless. Thanks for sharing this one!
This video is the embodiment of what I hope to do when I start aviation. Flawless radio work (callsigns aside), professionalism in the cockpit, and using it for a good cause.
Awesome video!
I'm glad to see dedicated pilots like you sharing experiences with professionalism.
Greetings from Costa Rica.
Keep up the excellent work!
Ismael Alvarado Costa Rica here too 🤙
I appreciate you both being honest about how tense, for lack of better term, that approach was. Obviously you both did a wonderful job flying but you could see the relief on your faces when you two were in the hangar. For a low time pilot that says a lot, that it's ok to be nervous but follow your training. Wonderful video.
Winter in Texas......70 during the day, 50 and fog to the ground that night, 38 and clear the next morning.......great job!
Definitely a difference in being current vs. being proficient in an approach like this one. Well done!
Excellent CRM, I love how you apply airline principles and philosophies to GA - you and your team are making the skies a safer place to be, one video at a time!
As a low time pilot I very much appreciated you posting this
This one going down as one of my favorite vlogs of yours. High intensity approach (was literally grabbing my arm rests on short final). Awesome communication between the two of you, the CRM was without a doubt first class, textbook, airline standards if I may say. You're a hell of a mentor to me and hundreds of thousands of other pilots. Stay safe my friend.
The absolute best IFR, down to minimums (100') vid ever. That would have been tough for a single pilot.
great approach and crm! loving to learn more and more about each IFR experience. I remember my training in IFR. it's truly the best part of flying
Excellent video Josh, and to my friend Troy amazing watching you do what you love. Thanks for sharing this flight too
Was a pleasure to have you ACTUALLY on board the airplane recently. Let’s do it again!
Nice work gentlemen. I’ve done a few of those absolute minimum landings single pilot. Very unnerving but as you mention, training is why we do it. Having extra eyes is a huge advantage and any pilot would be a fool not to take advantage.
Great video...content and camera work are super...one of best IFR approaches I've seen...I would be proud to fly with you both...learned a lot...well done!!
I used to watch stuff like flying wild Alaska, after few years watching different UA-cam channels on aviation, real, honest stuff, it's very difficult to even watch an episode of the "made for tv" I don't know how many times the same clip was played over and over dramatic effect on the tv stuff. UA-cam video's like this don't even need the filler, good stuff.
Great video, I’m glad you decided film this flight it has already become one of my favorites.
Very nice. Thank you for the "VFR" distance call out. I think as instrument pilots we get caught up in the approach and even though there was no VFR traffic it's a good habit to announce where you are like '8 miles out straight in runway 34' so they understand. VFR traffic doesn't usually know fixes on an instrument approach so to say you're at PAXXE intersection on RNAV 34 doesn't let them know where you are.
After just getting my instrument rating at just over 200 hours I can definitely see how it will be helpful one day down the road! I remember watching you before I even went to get my pilot's license and now a year and a half later I have my IFR and next week begin my commercial license classes!
This was such a good watch. Thanks for taking us along to learn from your experience. I'm working on my IR and I hope to emulate what you two have shown in this, while wearing my Av 101 hat. Keep up the great work Josh.
The cinematography and color grading is truly something else Josh. I sincerely enjoy watching your videos! What's the best way to get in contact with you?
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I really value and appreciate when you include videos like this one. You have valuable experience to communicate to us newbies.
Thanks Josh. Real and intense aviation. Excellent job capturing it.
Very nice Josh. I'm about to finish my MCC, so this video landed right in time. You both did a really nice job splitting tasks and making use of the resources you had at disposal. Overall, what makes good CRM is communication and clear task splitting with both knowing who has the lead but knowing that you're "flying" as well as the pilot monitoring and that you need to point out when something's not right and keep the PF in the loop as well as the other way around (closed loop principle). Real training in CRM takes time and experience but your video was a great example of the essentials! Thanks for sharing and greetings from Switzerland.
I watched this 6 months ago before I started any instrument training and was only picking up bits and pieces, now just waiting to schedule my instrument ride, it was fun to watch again while understanding everything!
Absolutely incredible Josh! Loved seeing you two working together and was able to learn a lot watching the way you guys work! Thanks for sharing!
This is one hell of a good video. From one pilot (just about to take the private checkride) to the other, this looked like it was one HELL of a challenge on approach.
About a week ago (January 24, 2021) I went flying from KGEU to KIWA via Scottsdale airport as a waypoint. The clouds were broken with a hard ceiling of about 5500 if I remember correctly. It was raining all over the Phoenix area but it wasn't horrible. My CFI and I discussed the flight and we decided to go with a flight that wasn't going to be too risky. Both to the north and the south there were storms with HEAVY rainfall and the potential for icing. That's definitely not a good idea to attempt without the right equipment.
The flight to Williams Gateway (KIWA) was pretty uneventful and I was able to get flight following. Whenever I do a cross country flight, I like either a flightplan or flight following. ATC here in the Phoenix area is VERY good about that. Flying into Gateway (KIWA) was really interesting because it has 3 large runways and a HELL of a lot of traffic both with Allegiant and several flight schools operating there. They gave me a good approach into 30 Right and I did a full stop taxi back, then a touch and go to begin my return leg to KGEU.
I used the same routing on my return leg with flight following and ATC tried giving me 5000 as an altitude. I advised I'm a VFR student and they kept me at 4500. As I mentioned earlier ( and honestly this is the point that I'm making here) the clouds were broken but I was more than confident about flying my route and going through a few of them as I needed to.
When I went through the clouds and saw how beautiful it was up there that day, I thought back to some of your videos where you've been in the weather. Between the training I've been receiving with my CFI and what I see here online, I knew just to fly the plane, pay attention and I would be just fine. Keep up the amazing work and posting video clips for us. Trust me, it helps.
A few take aways from my trip as well as what I'm seeing here on this video. First off, CRM is HUGE. If you have people with you and they're able to help, take advantage of that.
Secondly, ATC is an extremely helpful group of people. Their job is to help you get where you need to go safely.
Finally, know your limitations as a pilot. A bad judgement call has the potential to get someone killed. If I had even a second of a doubt, I wouldn't have flown. I was able to pay attention to the weather, use ATC to my advantage, and plan my route accordingly.
Either way, This was a great video and I look forward to more in the future.
The toga button was on my mind when Troy called out 100 to go! Great video and audio as well! Nice work Josh ! John.
that gave me the goos bump, and the will to push true all the long studying to get my IFR rating, one day it will be mine, thanks for sharing Josh that was great content right there.
Fantastic video. I’m liking your use of music to emphasize tension. I’ve been watching your videos for a while now. The constant improvements on editing and musical score is evident and damn near perfect. Very well done.
Great video, guys! The elevation of airport is important along with correct altimeter setting. I also think airspeed is important too preventing stall in the blind. Great team work.
Your videos, instruction and adventures are the pinnacle of aviation and I'm truly appreciative of your effort! To the cockpit club I go!
Love this, and I agree 100%... "leave no bug unattended". In a similar way, my CFII taught me "no blinkie", e.g. on the FMS, don't leave any waypoint blinking, as you might (without thought) hit e.g. Direct-Ent-Ent, and you're going there, and that might not be where you want to go. As always, very nice and informative video. Thanks! Wayne
Very cool to see an approach as low as this handled as smoothly and cooperatively as you guys did! I'm looking forward to the full-length on Cockpit Club!
Great video and CRM. Fun to watch you and Troy doing that pilot stuff, working this approach. This triggered instant memories of getting in to KOXB on the GPS 32, down to 280 and minimums were 261.
Another awesome video Josh!!! Definitely one for the books as you said. I really enjoyed this one, I'll be checking out the full length on cockpit club. The CRM was superb, you guys worked like a well oiled crew that's been flying together for a while. Great job, Thanks!
Well, that was pretty intense from my couch... can’t imagine being in that cockpit. Nice job, great content.
Thank you Josh for posting that video. I learned a lot about working together as a crew. You two worked together very well. See you next time.
Communication was vital. Team work made for a safe landing in some very difficult circumstances. Excellent job - congratulations to you both.
Aviation 101 I was looking at an app called Flightradar24 about a week earlier and I was looking in your area and saw you flying around the Austin area circling the city and I screen shot to but don’t know how to post that pic in the comments. Anyways I thought it was awesome watching you fly around on that app. Love this channel I’m a pilot in training with 11 hours under my belt and I have learned a lot watching you. Thanks for the vids! If your ever in the northeast Alabama area I would love to fly with you. I know it’s a long shot but figured I would ask anyways.
wow. Better than any movie I'll ever watch. Plus I learn so much from your videos. Phenomenal
Josh, great video. Great example of cockpit teamwork and procedures! Awesome.
Good job, nothing better than breaking out and the runway is where its supposed to be!
Don’t you hate when they’ve moved it? 🤣
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Lots of times with a good crosswind pilots can miss it. That’s why I always give a clock angle when I call runway in sight to the pilot flying.
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Good point.....
Well done guys. What great team work!!! So professional and well prepared for minimums. IFR at its best.
I love seeing these approaches right down to minimums in real life IMC conditions. Thanks Josh! Happy New Year
Certainly a high pucker factor approach. No room for any kind of error. Thanks for posting, great video. Cheers from Winnipeg.
Wow! I learned so much and you two were top notch professional grade!
You always remember your first approach to mins. Mine was very early in my IFR training, C-152 into Okmulgee, OK, popular place to shoot approaches for Spartan students. First IMC to mins in a military jet was in a T-38, the ground comes up fast in an approach cat E aircraft, tacan/ils at KDLF. Formation instrument approaches are the best, but higher minimums apply so you never get to go down to mins on the wing, but still a great ride.
It is a great feeling when that runway environment shows up right on schedule. Job very well done. You guys form a great team.
Used CRM many times in the Archer I fly. It’s a needed thing for all pilots to understand and as you said talk to the other pilot and know each other
Great video. I’ll starting my instrument training soon. Talk about nerve racking, great job.
Awesome video guys. I'm doing my instrument stuff now and this is an incredible flight. Great CRM. Utilize all tools you have in your bag.
Terrific video! This is a great training tool and works well for recurrency . Well done guys!
Just flew an ILS tonight into TPL, 200 OVC 1 mile vis. Ended up reaching the DA and put power in to go missed only to see the approach lights a few seconds later. For my first real solo IMC approach it was fun! Although I decided to go to Waco after that as I didn’t want that adrenaline rush again with no real reason to land at TPL.
Excellent video of an intense IFR night flight to minimums. At the last second, the runway. Really enjoyed it.
Seriously great communication between both of you... nicely done!
This video came at a good time for me. I am working on my instrument rating currently and approaches are what I am doing right now. Super informative video.
I love how chill the departure controller was, great to hear after some of the center controllers going about as fast as they can.
Impressive on so many levels! The CRM is cool and a blast to see in action. I can really appreciate this video, My favorite plane in our club is a 1978 182 RG, with Dual G5s, 430, and GFC500. Such a wonderful machine, and a great IFR bird. Troy has the T182 to make those climbs happen faster! Nice work... BOTH of ya'll!!!
Great video Josh!! The communications and technical skills involved with this type of flying really intrigues me and has me glued to the screen. I fly a Waco YMF and a Husky, which is just a totally different type of flying. Open cockpit, minimum instruments, no gps, and no need to really talk to anyone outside the usual CTAF calls. I'm anxious to get my instrument rating and move into the realm of technical IFR flying.
I am so glad to watch videos where people are not risking their lives flying an instrument approach - unlike another aviation UA-camr who likes to push the boundaries of Instrument flying. Great job on the CRM and communications between you both and great flying as always!
At least the other U tuber has 2 engines.
@@bobbrandt6383 agreed. Single engine in those conditions is risky.
This was a very impressive video and these guys were the true embodiment of professional pilots. I've done gobs of IFR flying in my younger years as a commercial pilot here in Alaska down to these kinds of minimum situations with plenty of "go-arounds" at DH. Anchorage is terrible with fog during the winters. I definitely would not want to do what these guys were doing in a C-180RG because of the icing potential here in Alaska, but I guess they can get away with that sort of thing where they were operating. All of my flying has been in larger stuff, Cessna Caravan, DeHavilland Twin Otter, Beechcraft 1900, DeHavilland Dash. So.....much better tools to handle icing. Both of these guys showed me they knew their S..t.
Late to the party but timely for where I am at right now. A great demonstration on why I find so much comfort having a CFI or another pilot right seat. It gets SOOO busy from the IAF on in.
Amazing approach and resource mgmt. You both knocked it out of park in this video. Thanks for sharing.
You really were in the soup! Kudos to your professional handling of the situation.
woooow, this makes me want to get my instrument so badly! incredible! The engineering involved to develop and implement everything necessary to make these kinds of approaches happen blows my mind. The skills to fly these approaches sits on whole other level. Great flying!
What a great video !!!! I learned a lot and my anxiety went up at the end ...
Great video !!! As a new instrument student this taught me a fair amount of the flow of the ifr flight in true IMC. Thanks !
Another fantastic and professional video. Would expect nothing less. Great job man.
Great teamwork and very educational
Wow....no words...good job both of you
Great CRM. Excellent video. Thanks for the "lesson".
Great Approach. Maybe on one of your next hand-flown ILS approaches, you should talk about setting up your HSI and how it interacts with the 430. Turning your CDI to the intercept course to be flown, then turning your heading bug before turning on final. When to go from GPS mode to VLOC mode.
This was impressive on two levels. First, both realized you needed to work your experience levels to combat the two combined risk levels of IMC, night to minimums at an uncontrolled field. Second, you planned carefully to divert if the approach didn’t work. Having the autopilot coupled really helps during transition to visual. Lot’s of good CRM working also to reduce risk which was awesome.
Excellent comms guys. I know I’m three years late. But the video still hits well.
Also, DC-3/C-47/R4D (??) at 16:11 !
Great video. Very informative and shows the value of sharing piloting duties and coordination os IFR workload. Well done.
Great crew good flying
Superb !!!!! Excellent team work !!!
Nice teamwork.
Insane video. Very well done Josh. Love watching these with how informational and educational you make it.
Really like the video. Especially the CRM you guys worked really good together:
A-MA-ZING!!!!! Well done 👍
Regards, Chris, from the UK.
Down to mínimums again. Well done Josh. You’re the man!💪
Really great job sharing the responsibilities in the cockpit in this challenging landing. It shows how important CRM to a successful. Sure, that landing would have been possible solo, but at about eight times the stress, do you really want to try that? Nope.
Great video and an example of crew coordination!
OMG, what an amazing approach.
Mind blowing.
I love you aviation videos.
It bring a smile to my face.
Thank you.
That was intense. Absolutely loved it
That's sceary, but training and team work did it BRAVO guys !
I'm headed over to Cockpit Club to see this one in full. That was a seat pucker moment but it was also cool to watch two pilots handle it.
When I was working on my instrument rating GA didn't have glass and GPS was just becoming a thing. My instructor had me in actual fairly early. KVCT is usually good for some fog and my first approach to minimums was 500'. I've used XPlane 11 down to 200'. Not the same... the ground is softer :) but the emotion is there (for me anyway). A few weeks ago I flew XPlane 11, C172, from KFMN to KCEZ because there was a snowstorm enroute, 200' ceilings and lower... really crappy day that matched real life. I wanted to see what would happen. Basically the aircraft iced up and fell out of the sky (I expected it but not when it happened) about 1/2 way to Cortez. I had started a 180 but not soon enough. Sometimes Xplane 11's "visuals" are a little too real. Anyway... enough flightsim rambling... Headed to the CC.
yes please would love to watch it again on another angel fight that was awesome guys working together loved it......
Great approach, great crew teamwork, great communication!
This was scary...excellent airmanship by you guys! Thanks for the helpful tips.
That was beautiful. I love such difficulty. Times to remember.
Awesome IMC flight Josh and PIC! I was on the edge of my seat chair flying and waiting to see the runway lights! Then when you saw them they were so close! Happy new year!