Good vid. The IFR environment is all about managing tasks and mitigating risks. One thing I have noticed in the GA world is that very few people seem willing to launch with Pitot Heat already on and verified working. Instead waiting until they enter cloud and hopefully, not forgetting it. Making it part of the before takeoff routine is habit forming and removes one more thing to think about at a time when you are task saturated. It is standard ops for us at the airlines and when I fly my personal RV, my pitot heat is always on.
Great video! My pilot mentors have always told me the instrument rating is the most satisfying of all. It's the only additional rating I've earned and it opens up the skies, requires discipline and situational awareness, and extends flyable days to most days of the year. Loved watching you guys in and out of the clouds following the needles. It was intense! Even though instrument is most satisfying, I can see a CFI rating in your future... :)
Blake certainly needs to get a Wind Deflector 2000 with the optional iPad Cooling Attachment for his Cherokee Six. I wish I was still flying, and I wish I was in the market for an airplane. I REALLY want a DA42 VI. I'm going to be looking forward to that video series after the first of the year.
Thanks - I talk to myself the same way, so I hope I didn’t come off as “instructing” Blake, so much as working through everything with him. I am still relatively new to IFR. But yeah, maybe one day I will get the rating.
Be careful with all those head movements while you are IMC. If you need to stretch to reach a control, do it slowly and keep your head level. Vertigo can catch you at any time and you won't feel it coming!
This was a jam-packed episode! Glad I got to watch the raw footage with Blake; the additional content really helped to grasp the big picture. To be honest, this episode felt like it was mostly teasers. That's the problem with juggling so much different content; you want to keep your viewers informed about your process as well as your experience, but having to introduce so many different experiences in one episode leaves the viewer feeling like they have ADD. Maybe it's just my old brain wanting to slow down and focus on one thing at a time. As a director with a tremendous amount of excellent content in the vault, you have some tough decisions to make on what, when and how to present topics. I don't envy you. As for my build, I'll probably send you an email; getting very close to being finished.
No I think you are on the mark with your comment. I have a hard time watching his newer content as I find the episodes jump all over the place leaving you feeling lost and confused about what is going on.
@@FlightChops Yeah I know you’re always watching 😉 No insult intended and hopefully you take the comment as constructive feedback. You will never please everybody by any means but I have been finding the content pretty fragmented lately, it can be hard to follow if you’re not real focused on what is going on. There are often cuts to other projects or back to briefings and I find it breaks the immersion for me. All that said, I’m just an internet random and you’ve built a very successful channel so you really don’t owe my opinion any weight whatsoever. I respect the hell out of what you’ve built and we’ve even met once upon a time. Believe me I don’t mean any disrespect at all.
Hey Kurtis - curious as to your thoughts on the first of the series that was just published a couple days ago - I tried to keep the edit as linear as I could... but ultimately got up to my old tricks to some degree; I felt the ned to cross cut related contextual bits from my "initial familiarization" flight in Canada, and the "acceptance flight" that I rode along with Micke for in Austria.
@@FlightChops I enjoyed the episode. There was cross cutting, but it was mostly between similar flights and in the same phase of flight so it flowed well for me. I think the stuff that threw me off a bit in the past was things like being in an IFR video then my kid distracts me and I look back and we’re doing aerobatics. These cuts seemed fairly linear and to all be telling the same story about learning the airplane ahead of your big crossing. Thanks for asking!
I was doing the IFR flight training when I noticed that my extreme peripheral vision was defeating the foggles ( because of a game we played when I was a child, I see everything to the extreme edges on both sides all the time ) not good when trying to simulate IFR . I in effect had a horizon on both sides all the time. It was necessary to close in both sides of the view limiting device . Not having fully restricted vision does not prepare a pilot for real IMC conditions . That adjustable device looks like it works well. My flight instructor said that my recovery from unusual attitude while under the hood was the fastest he had ever seen.
You should look into an iPad mount with fans on. I 3D printed a mount to stick on the copilot panel on my Mooney, and the current version of that (redesign 3) includes a cutout for an 80mm PC fan, along with some channels to allow air to flow freely along the back of the iPad. Stuck a USB powered fan on the hole and haven't had an overheat cutoff since I started using it.
With the direct entry I found flying outbound for 30s before making the turn to the outbound heading works fine. When you then turn inbound again, you'll usually be pretty much lined up with you inbound track.
It's a common issue with the direct entry, a lot of training is done with the entry being very close to the inbound track, where an immediate turn to the outbound track is appropriate, but then if you actually enter at say around 90 degrees from the inbound, you've already effectively done half the turn, so you should probably delay the rest by 30s to put you in the right place...
20s for a 90deg (following a circle is 1.57 the straight line radius.) but the first outbound leg would also be reduced by 20s because the entry turn had its center shifted by one radius. Dang now you got me using CAD and a spreadsheet to find the delays and offsets. Looks like 6 seconds per 30 degrees is a good approximate for an outside(coming from the unprotected side) direct entry and the outbound leg is reduced the exact same amount of time. For an inside(protected side) direct entry, and the assumption of no acceptable way to start the turn early, then all the measures are less tidy. Also, adding delays in the turn at 180 to the entry angle is too complex for common use in flight, so you will always end up starting the first outbound leg too close to the inbound leg and needing to make it longer. The outbound leg will need to be extended roughly 8 seconds per 30 degrees of entry angle from the protected side. The exact correction for reference, a worst case -70deg direct entry is to exit the entry turn 9.2 degrees early and then fly outbound for 79seconds, while a -30 angle requires only 2 degrees and 67 seconds. (All before correcting for wind.)
The short version is an adjustment of 6 seconds per 30deg ( 2s per 10deg may be easier for some. ) from a true direct entry is close enough inside or outside, it just needs to be added or subtracted in the right places. And 2-10 degrees wide on the outbound heading for a protected side direct entry.
Thanks Dan - I kinda felt that way while editing this one - much of that footage was filmed for debrief purposes with no intensions to necessarily share. But then I saw some learning moments and figured with some added context there could be value to share.
The idea is that your scan is following the tempo of the song. sometimes you might need to stay on one thing for a few beats (such as tuning a radio or setting up the GPS). Thinking about the tempo helps to avoid fixating on any one thing - like you definitely don't want to find yourself looking at one thing for over 30 seconds with out checking in on the status of the primary instruments.
Great lesson about task saturation. I believe you are a bit too dependent on the ipad, it seemed to take a substantial amount of your attention on a "non-critical" item during high workload. The actual backup instruments for the attitude indicator are the turn and bank coordinator along with the directional gyro or magnetic compass. I have caught myself on the ipad dependency issue and have cut back drastically on its use in flight. It keeps me too heads down for my liking.
I hear you about the “certified back up instruments”. But if we lose the vacuum pump, we lose the DG as well as the AI. The power of a solid state full AHARS back-up when flying an old airplane like this can’t be overstated.
@@scottmonroe6522 Yes, but the previous comment mentioned the DG. Anyway - yeah - all well and good, but I like to equipe myself with as much back up as able. So it didn't feel great to have a solid state AHARS system sitting unusable because I had't thought through the set up enough. That was the point of sharing this lesson.
@@FlightChops I get it for situational awareness. Be very cautious of non-panel mounted backups. Turn & bank coordinator, Vertical Speed indicator, and the magnetic compass combine to replace the vacuum instruments. The Ipad has so much information it is very easy to get distracted from the most important rule of flying. Fly the airplane. Fly safe, keep learning!
Cool yea, but to clarify, I am not using the iPad back up AHARS primarily, it is there to glance at and confirm everything else is telling me the truth. If I got into a real emergency with a failed AI, yes, I *could* fly partial panel using the turn co ordinator as a primary, but man, that would be scary, and having synthetic vision on the iPad to confirm what I am seeing on the partial panel is correct would sure be nice - If they started disagreeing with each other that would make for an uncomfortable situation though.
For changing direction within the hold in a TAA aircraft I think the best way would be to suspend the course and "manually hold" with the timer. Sometimes this is the best way to hold, period, with the G1000. In Garmin products, it can sometimes be quite onerous to input a new random hold while flying the airplane.
Oh, and spotted another minor mistake. He started the timing of the last outbound leg after completion of the turn. Should have waited until abeam the beacon.
Kind of have to agree, while a nice addition to situational awareness, a pilot should feel equally comfortable with the certified gear in the airplane. Why no paper checklists?
Fully agree, but I need to clarify this is not about superseding the certified equipment, but rather supplementing it. In the case of Blake's plane, I don't trust the original vacuum system much more than I trust the old transponder... So when I am planning to fly IMC, I want the back up AHARS that I get with ForeFlight / Sentry.
@FlightChops You handled it professionally, please don't take it the wrong way and throwing it to the ground was a very smart move. I do like foreflight, especially for planning. I can just see a lesser pilot getting distracted trying to fix it becoming further behind the plane or panicking. In VFR conditions this is bad, in single pilot IMC, life threatening. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I see more and more younger pilots glued to the devices relying on it for everything. (nav, check lists, notes, calculations etc)
Oh, and Alex, we do have paper check lists in that plane too, but I wasn't going to pull them out for that cruise check in the bumpy IMC conditions - so for that case it was gonna be a memory list regardless... I cross checked later when I had the iPad back online.
As a non American/Canadian IFR pilot, I never knew you could do solo IFR time in the US/Canada without a rating haha. Also how is this aircraft IFR capable if it doesn't have GNSS (technically legal in Australia but there are pretty much no ground based navaids), duplicated AIs or power sources for the primary gyros? Seems rather dangerous if you have a vac pump failure in IMC. Partial panel flying in hard IMC is an incredibly high risk undertaking. Overheating iPads are a given in Australia so as a result, you're pretty much required to have a backup as a chart reference and it's prohibited to use them as a source of instrumentation.
Clarification required: it IS NOT legal to solo IFR with out the rating, the airplane IS certified for IFR even with out a GPS, and the iPad is NOT a primary nav source. But agreed I’d rather fly with more systems back up than a single vacuum system in a 6 pack, which is why the RV-14 we’ve just built has an insane quadruple redundant panel.
@@FlightChops Thanks for the clarification, guess I was confused given that you mentioned that 'he was coming up for his IFR', maybe you meant his proficiency check? It does make sense that that the iPad was not a primary source, I was running off the assumption that you needed a backup for the AI. I still maintain that is absolutely crazy that aircraft is IFR capable without backup instruments/gyro sources, did you only navigate using VORs/NDBs? Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, you make great content.
The pandemic has nearly erased the passage of time the past couple years… but yes - Instrument Rating earned Jan 7th 2020… Jan 7th 2022 = the start of my 3rd year with the rating (which is how I worded that voice over I believe).
I'm not sure what your point is...? When you're the safety pilot, you're already acting PIC since the pilot flying is under the hood. Therefore, it's no big deal for the safety pilot to get an IFR clearance. While the pilot flying is under the hood, they can also log PIC since they're the sole manipulator of the controls. The only real caveat here would be for the time the pilot flying isn't under the hood -- they'd essentially get to log nothing. This is because the safety pilot would remain acting PIC but no longer essential for the flight when it comes to logging purposes.
Dude if Blake is not instrument rated yet, and you fly in clouds, as an instrument rated pilot you would have to be PIC. You would not be “safety pilot” unless you were a CFII. As PIC in the clouds put the flippin camera down! This accident report would be hard to read.
To clarity, I was PIC, and at no time was I not aware of the status of the panel. Blake held heading and attitude as good as I would have if my hands were on the controls. This was about capturing a debrief for us to both improve and it wasn’t until I saw what I had that I even decided it was worth sharing the learning moments - the vloggy intro I shot the day we scrubbed, was going to be about making a no go decision, but I decided to use it here.
Ya, I'm going to have to agree with Adam here. You're acting PIC and Blake is flying on your ticket. When you're IMC, it's time to put down the handheld cameras and concentrate on the panel. Poor form and shows some bad habits. It seems like everyone these days is all about the clicks and safety takes a back seat. I love your content...but this should have been captured with mounted cameras so you could concentrate on the primary task -- being PIC.
The feedback is valid and appreciated. I didn’t look at it objectively enough; as it stands it does not present as a good example. Regardless of the fact that I did feel entirely safe and was very acutely aware of the scan at all times while in IMC, it still doesn’t look good. I’ll do better in the future.
@@FlightChops the fact that you didn't get defensive and argumentative (like so many other creators) makes me love your channel even more. Happy flying, stay safe and Merry Christmas!
Probably one of the most challenging things about RUclips is making titles that are engaging, cover the topic, and also don't use a lot of characters. It was a calculated grammatical decision. If you have a better idea for a title for this one, I'm open to suggestions.
@@FlightChops your response to this combined with your humble approach to everything I have seen you do in the past on this channel, makes me want to nominate you for public office. My hats off to you, sir!
I tried changing the tile to this - it's way not shorter, but yolo: "Equipment Failures during Intense IMC climb + Test Flying new tech with Baby Yoda"
@@jimbob100-d3l I know right? I mean he’s around 60 yrs old, Canadian. I was just guessing that he licks Justin Trudeau boots but he fits the description of baby boomer communist. How about you? Are you a baby boomer communist too that took the clot shot in the arse ?
LOL, of course he did, he believes in science and RIDES science through the air... anti-vaxxers can't fly because they don't believe in science. Bernoulli??? That's a big pile of BS, nothing but black magic and if the Lord intended man to fly, he would have put wings and feathers on him !!! Science is BS !!! Say no to the jab !! LOL.
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"I'm not sure how close that cloud is but it's at least 2000 feet away" - said every pilot in history
"it's so hard to tell"
“I am totally not In the cloud”
*said every VFR pilot... :)
I love that you still have the T6 picture as your phone background. Those are some of my favorite videos you’ve ever done
Good vid. The IFR environment is all about managing tasks and mitigating risks. One thing I have noticed in the GA world is that very few people seem willing to launch with Pitot Heat already on and verified working. Instead waiting until they enter cloud and hopefully, not forgetting it. Making it part of the before takeoff routine is habit forming and removes one more thing to think about at a time when you are task saturated. It is standard ops for us at the airlines and when I fly my personal RV, my pitot heat is always on.
Always humble and engaging! Great job! All the best and Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the constant support and encouragement as always - and it’s been amazing you watch you handle that Baron like nobody’s business
@@FlightChops thank you 🤩
great leading moments...nice ifr hood......and cool diamond twin....wow...made my day!
Wow, you've come a long way, you'll be a great instructor
Appreciated! Maybe one day I'll go for that rating.
Great video! My pilot mentors have always told me the instrument rating is the most satisfying of all. It's the only additional rating I've earned and it opens up the skies, requires discipline and situational awareness, and extends flyable days to most days of the year. Loved watching you guys in and out of the clouds following the needles. It was intense! Even though instrument is most satisfying, I can see a CFI rating in your future... :)
I'm really looking forward to the Atlantic crossing in a Diamond!
Blake certainly needs to get a Wind Deflector 2000 with the optional iPad Cooling Attachment for his Cherokee Six.
I wish I was still flying, and I wish I was in the market for an airplane. I REALLY want a DA42 VI. I'm going to be looking forward to that video series after the first of the year.
Great informative video!!!! You handled that departure very well.
Glad you enjoyed it! And the friendly feedback is appreciated!
You’d make a great instructor! You have the patience for it! Keep up the good work!
Thanks - I talk to myself the same way, so I hope I didn’t come off as “instructing” Blake, so much as working through everything with him. I am still relatively new to IFR.
But yeah, maybe one day I will get the rating.
Seriously impressed.
Your going to be the instructor everyone wants.
Good decision to chuck the iPad and fly the plane. 👍🏻 Merry Christmas. Best wishes to Hoover and family for 2022.
Thanks, you too!
Great webinar, thanks for answering my question.
Be careful with all those head movements while you are IMC. If you need to stretch to reach a control, do it slowly and keep your head level. Vertigo can catch you at any time and you won't feel it coming!
That's what happens.. Best pilots out there have had Veritgo..
This was a jam-packed episode! Glad I got to watch the raw footage with Blake; the additional content really helped to grasp the big picture. To be honest, this episode felt like it was mostly teasers. That's the problem with juggling so much different content; you want to keep your viewers informed about your process as well as your experience, but having to introduce so many different experiences in one episode leaves the viewer feeling like they have ADD. Maybe it's just my old brain wanting to slow down and focus on one thing at a time. As a director with a tremendous amount of excellent content in the vault, you have some tough decisions to make on what, when and how to present topics. I don't envy you. As for my build, I'll probably send you an email; getting very close to being finished.
No I think you are on the mark with your comment. I have a hard time watching his newer content as I find the episodes jump all over the place leaving you feeling lost and confused about what is going on.
He’s standing right behind you.
Anyway - the DA-62 Altantic crossing series will hopefully be more to your liking.
@@FlightChops Yeah I know you’re always watching 😉 No insult intended and hopefully you take the comment as constructive feedback. You will never please everybody by any means but I have been finding the content pretty fragmented lately, it can be hard to follow if you’re not real focused on what is going on. There are often cuts to other projects or back to briefings and I find it breaks the immersion for me. All that said, I’m just an internet random and you’ve built a very successful channel so you really don’t owe my opinion any weight whatsoever. I respect the hell out of what you’ve built and we’ve even met once upon a time. Believe me I don’t mean any disrespect at all.
Hey Kurtis - curious as to your thoughts on the first of the series that was just published a couple days ago - I tried to keep the edit as linear as I could... but ultimately got up to my old tricks to some degree; I felt the ned to cross cut related contextual bits from my "initial familiarization" flight in Canada, and the "acceptance flight" that I rode along with Micke for in Austria.
@@FlightChops I enjoyed the episode. There was cross cutting, but it was mostly between similar flights and in the same phase of flight so it flowed well for me. I think the stuff that threw me off a bit in the past was things like being in an IFR video then my kid distracts me and I look back and we’re doing aerobatics. These cuts seemed fairly linear and to all be telling the same story about learning the airplane ahead of your big crossing. Thanks for asking!
I was doing the IFR flight training when I noticed that my extreme peripheral vision was defeating the foggles ( because of a game we played when I was a child, I see everything to the extreme edges on both sides all the time ) not good when trying to simulate IFR . I in effect had a horizon on both sides all the time. It was necessary to close in both sides of the view limiting device . Not having fully restricted vision does not prepare a pilot for real IMC conditions . That adjustable device looks like it works well. My flight instructor said that my recovery from unusual attitude while under the hood was the fastest he had ever seen.
You should look into an iPad mount with fans on. I 3D printed a mount to stick on the copilot panel on my Mooney, and the current version of that (redesign 3) includes a cutout for an 80mm PC fan, along with some channels to allow air to flow freely along the back of the iPad. Stuck a USB powered fan on the hole and haven't had an overheat cutoff since I started using it.
With the direct entry I found flying outbound for 30s before making the turn to the outbound heading works fine. When you then turn inbound again, you'll usually be pretty much lined up with you inbound track.
It's a common issue with the direct entry, a lot of training is done with the entry being very close to the inbound track, where an immediate turn to the outbound track is appropriate, but then if you actually enter at say around 90 degrees from the inbound, you've already effectively done half the turn, so you should probably delay the rest by 30s to put you in the right place...
20s for a 90deg (following a circle is 1.57 the straight line radius.) but the first outbound leg would also be reduced by 20s because the entry turn had its center shifted by one radius.
Dang now you got me using CAD and a spreadsheet to find the delays and offsets.
Looks like 6 seconds per 30 degrees is a good approximate for an outside(coming from the unprotected side) direct entry and the outbound leg is reduced the exact same amount of time.
For an inside(protected side) direct entry, and the assumption of no acceptable way to start the turn early, then all the measures are less tidy. Also, adding delays in the turn at 180 to the entry angle is too complex for common use in flight, so you will always end up starting the first outbound leg too close to the inbound leg and needing to make it longer. The outbound leg will need to be extended roughly 8 seconds per 30 degrees of entry angle from the protected side. The exact correction for reference, a worst case -70deg direct entry is to exit the entry turn 9.2 degrees early and then fly outbound for 79seconds, while a -30 angle requires only 2 degrees and 67 seconds.
(All before correcting for wind.)
The short version is an adjustment of 6 seconds per 30deg ( 2s per 10deg may be easier for some. ) from a true direct entry is close enough inside or outside, it just needs to be added or subtracted in the right places. And 2-10 degrees wide on the outbound heading for a protected side direct entry.
I have the same baby yoda bobblehead in my car!
He's a good little buddy to have there
@@FlightChops He has a jawa to keep him company.
Nice work.
Which aircraft is this? Looks nice! (Sorry if I missed it)
The Cherokee Six?
There is an article on one of the magazine to route a cooling vent into the iPad to keep it cool. Probably more work than a dedicated cooling pad.
Watch a patreon exclusive Flight Chops video, followed by a general release one. Definitely getting my content today, thanks Steve :)
Whups, yeah, I need to get this one posted to Patreon too. The exclusive was a free post
What kind of flight control check was that?
A not great one?
Quintessential fc imo.
Thanks Dan - I kinda felt that way while editing this one - much of that footage was filmed for debrief purposes with no intensions to necessarily share. But then I saw some learning moments and figured with some added context there could be value to share.
Could somebody explain the "Staying Alive" song while IMC?
The idea is that your scan is following the tempo of the song. sometimes you might need to stay on one thing for a few beats (such as tuning a radio or setting up the GPS). Thinking about the tempo helps to avoid fixating on any one thing - like you definitely don't want to find yourself looking at one thing for over 30 seconds with out checking in on the status of the primary instruments.
Great lesson about task saturation. I believe you are a bit too dependent on the ipad, it seemed to take a substantial amount of your attention on a "non-critical" item during high workload. The actual backup instruments for the attitude indicator are the turn and bank coordinator along with the directional gyro or magnetic compass. I have caught myself on the ipad dependency issue and have cut back drastically on its use in flight. It keeps me too heads down for my liking.
I hear you about the “certified back up instruments”. But if we lose the vacuum pump, we lose the DG as well as the AI. The power of a solid state full AHARS back-up when flying an old airplane like this can’t be overstated.
@@scottmonroe6522 Yes, but the previous comment mentioned the DG. Anyway - yeah - all well and good, but I like to equipe myself with as much back up as able. So it didn't feel great to have a solid state AHARS system sitting unusable because I had't thought through the set up enough. That was the point of sharing this lesson.
@@FlightChops I get it for situational awareness. Be very cautious of non-panel mounted backups. Turn & bank coordinator, Vertical Speed indicator, and the magnetic compass combine to replace the vacuum instruments. The Ipad has so much information it is very easy to get distracted from the most important rule of flying. Fly the airplane. Fly safe, keep learning!
Cool yea, but to clarify, I am not using the iPad back up AHARS primarily, it is there to glance at and confirm everything else is telling me the truth. If I got into a real emergency with a failed AI, yes, I *could* fly partial panel using the turn co ordinator as a primary, but man, that would be scary, and having synthetic vision on the iPad to confirm what I am seeing on the partial panel is correct would sure be nice - If they started disagreeing with each other that would make for an uncomfortable situation though.
For changing direction within the hold in a TAA aircraft I think the best way would be to suspend the course and "manually hold" with the timer. Sometimes this is the best way to hold, period, with the G1000. In Garmin products, it can sometimes be quite onerous to input a new random hold while flying the airplane.
love the da62 awesome plane and turbo jet fuel engines best twin made today
Looks like Icarus is the future of hood training.
I’d say so.
Special direct entry instead of a direct entry!
Oh, and spotted another minor mistake. He started the timing of the last outbound leg after completion of the turn. Should have waited until abeam the beacon.
This is why certified gear such as the Garmin are so expensive!
While not cheap they are solid. The over reliance on these pilots aids is concerning.
Kind of have to agree, while a nice addition to situational awareness, a pilot should feel equally comfortable with the certified gear in the airplane. Why no paper checklists?
Fully agree, but I need to clarify this is not about superseding the certified equipment, but rather supplementing it. In the case of Blake's plane, I don't trust the original vacuum system much more than I trust the old transponder... So when I am planning to fly IMC, I want the back up AHARS that I get with ForeFlight / Sentry.
@FlightChops You handled it professionally, please don't take it the wrong way and throwing it to the ground was a very smart move. I do like foreflight, especially for planning.
I can just see a lesser pilot getting distracted trying to fix it becoming further behind the plane or panicking. In VFR conditions this is bad, in single pilot IMC, life threatening.
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I see more and more younger pilots glued to the devices relying on it for everything. (nav, check lists, notes, calculations etc)
Oh, and Alex, we do have paper check lists in that plane too, but I wasn't going to pull them out for that cruise check in the bumpy IMC conditions - so for that case it was gonna be a memory list regardless... I cross checked later when I had the iPad back online.
As a non American/Canadian IFR pilot, I never knew you could do solo IFR time in the US/Canada without a rating haha. Also how is this aircraft IFR capable if it doesn't have GNSS (technically legal in Australia but there are pretty much no ground based navaids), duplicated AIs or power sources for the primary gyros? Seems rather dangerous if you have a vac pump failure in IMC. Partial panel flying in hard IMC is an incredibly high risk undertaking.
Overheating iPads are a given in Australia so as a result, you're pretty much required to have a backup as a chart reference and it's prohibited to use them as a source of instrumentation.
Clarification required: it IS NOT legal to solo IFR with out the rating, the airplane IS certified for IFR even with out a GPS, and the iPad is NOT a primary nav source.
But agreed I’d rather fly with more systems back up than a single vacuum system in a 6 pack, which is why the RV-14 we’ve just built has an insane quadruple redundant panel.
@@FlightChops Thanks for the clarification, guess I was confused given that you mentioned that 'he was coming up for his IFR', maybe you meant his proficiency check?
It does make sense that that the iPad was not a primary source, I was running off the assumption that you needed a backup for the AI. I still maintain that is absolutely crazy that aircraft is IFR capable without backup instruments/gyro sources, did you only navigate using VORs/NDBs?
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, you make great content.
3rd year with the rating? didnt you just get IFR certified like in 2020??
The pandemic has nearly erased the passage of time the past couple years… but yes - Instrument Rating earned Jan 7th 2020… Jan 7th 2022 = the start of my 3rd year with the rating (which is how I worded that voice over I believe).
Groku
Don't rely on Technology rely on what you have as my bro inlaw got his IFR in the 1970s.
In the states, a safety pilot can't enable IFR unless the safety pilot is either PIC or a CFII.
I assume it is the same here. I filed and logged that flight as PIC
I'm not sure what your point is...? When you're the safety pilot, you're already acting PIC since the pilot flying is under the hood. Therefore, it's no big deal for the safety pilot to get an IFR clearance. While the pilot flying is under the hood, they can also log PIC since they're the sole manipulator of the controls. The only real caveat here would be for the time the pilot flying isn't under the hood -- they'd essentially get to log nothing. This is because the safety pilot would remain acting PIC but no longer essential for the flight when it comes to logging purposes.
I prefer to fly IFR with an old school 6 pack and 2 VORs vs. glass.
Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here
Dude if Blake is not instrument rated yet, and you fly in clouds, as an instrument rated pilot you would have to be PIC. You would not be “safety pilot” unless you were a CFII. As PIC in the clouds put the flippin camera down! This accident report would be hard to read.
To clarity, I was PIC, and at no time was I not aware of the status of the panel. Blake held heading and attitude as good as I would have if my hands were on the controls. This was about capturing a debrief for us to both improve and it wasn’t until I saw what I had that I even decided it was worth sharing the learning moments - the vloggy intro I shot the day we scrubbed, was going to be about making a no go decision, but I decided to use it here.
Ya, I'm going to have to agree with Adam here. You're acting PIC and Blake is flying on your ticket. When you're IMC, it's time to put down the handheld cameras and concentrate on the panel. Poor form and shows some bad habits. It seems like everyone these days is all about the clicks and safety takes a back seat. I love your content...but this should have been captured with mounted cameras so you could concentrate on the primary task -- being PIC.
The feedback is valid and appreciated. I didn’t look at it objectively enough; as it stands it does not present as a good example. Regardless of the fact that I did feel entirely safe and was very acutely aware of the scan at all times while in IMC, it still doesn’t look good. I’ll do better in the future.
@@FlightChops the fact that you didn't get defensive and argumentative (like so many other creators) makes me love your channel even more. Happy flying, stay safe and Merry Christmas!
Failure. The noun.
Probably one of the most challenging things about RUclips is making titles that are engaging, cover the topic, and also don't use a lot of characters. It was a calculated grammatical decision. If you have a better idea for a title for this one, I'm open to suggestions.
@@FlightChops So, you intentionally used a misnomer? Just add ure to fail to make it correct.
@@FlightChops your response to this combined with your humble approach to everything I have seen you do in the past on this channel, makes me want to nominate you for public office. My hats off to you, sir!
I tried changing the tile to this - it's way not shorter, but yolo:
"Equipment Failures during Intense IMC climb + Test Flying new tech with Baby Yoda"
@@bjs2022 forget about the video, nothing gets Bruce more triggered than a left out ure
I bet you got the jab.
yeah that seems relevant to the video
@@jimbob100-d3l I know right? I mean he’s around 60 yrs old, Canadian. I was just guessing that he licks Justin Trudeau boots but he fits the description of baby boomer communist. How about you? Are you a baby boomer communist too that took the clot shot in the arse ?
It really hurts that you think I'm 60.
LOL, of course he did, he believes in science and RIDES science through the air... anti-vaxxers can't fly because they don't believe in science. Bernoulli??? That's a big pile of BS, nothing but black magic and if the Lord intended man to fly, he would have put wings and feathers on him !!! Science is BS !!! Say no to the jab !! LOL.