ATC: We are declaring an emergency for you!"
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2024
- A pilot of a Cessna 340 is unable to hold heading or altitude after and autopilot emergency.
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The lady ATC did a awesome job communicating with 1 Charley Bravo
She was amazing!
I reckon she saved Old Mate’s life. She understood he was in trouble well before he could bring himself to admit it/and or understand it.
This is a good example of why I worry about self driving cars. So many thoughts 😳😳😳
I have been on the air traffic side of that conversation, she did a great job, it's not easy when there is a pilot that seems to be doing the opposite of everything you recommend/instruct, and then there are still other aircraft to work as well.
I received my PPL in 1976 at 17 years of age. IFR rated at 19, multi-engine at 20. I'm now 65 and still current. There was no such thing as a glass cockpit in those days. Flying a night VFR XCountry with paper maps, stopwatches, and an E6B calculator. - good old days! I thought it would be easier once I had my IFR rating. It just increased the workload. God forbid you dropped a pencil. I remember flying into Sydney International one night for an IFR training flight in a 310R. I was sure I was going to screw up and asked to contact tower. My instructor did not say a word for the whole approach.
The paper map days really made you get yourself organised in the cockpit.
I relate.
You know what? This “pilot” will tell his passenger that the AP was out of control and she’ll tell everyone what a great pilot he was for saving the day.
You are 100% correct. I made a flight in my Super Legacy and the autopilot quit working. Every time I made a frequency change I was off altitude and heading. It was pure work and concentration to get the beast down and where I wanted to go. Single pilot IFR is the hardest flying and practice is the only cure.
When I was at my peak currency back in the 90's, hand flying was no big deal. I did single pilot no autopilot ops all the time. Nothing scared me. Now? I don't know. I can still do it but I'm not nearly as confidant as I used to be.
Hey Buddy, you are putting out some great videos rich with information. I remember when you would come over and fly that commodore Amiga computer for hours. Me too! It definitely is the way to go for instrument procedure training! Loved the video!
4 years without flying, purchased an Arrow with an old single axis. Ten hours dual with a class 1 instructor and I was off the ground with my family on a cross Canada VFR vacation. The auto pilot was fantastic for reducing workload but I had to conciously remind myself to shut it off and practice my rusty hand flying.
Fuckin’ pilot kept stepping on ATC before they could finish their transmission.
This is an excellent video every instrument pilot should watch! That was a nail biter and ATC did a phenomenal job helping him survive. The Top Gun clips were hilarious for this incident!
The panic in his voice subsided only when he was on the taxiway.
Mine too.
Right on Kerry!! Thank you very much for showing the importance of hand flying it goes a long way. I’m an airline pilot and even to this day I demonstrate to my First Officers of just flying the damn airplane without an autopilot or Flight director and show them just that on a regular basis.
Amen. Just had this conversation with a friend (also a pilot). These pilots are not flying an airplane, they are operating a computer. I have never used an autopilot. I am sure they are good for long cross countries but I enjoy hand flying. I'll keep doing that.
When you started this Vid .. after 30 seconds I was thinking of one name ... 'Jenny Blalock'.
I had this happen to me in a flight from Long Beach, CA to Redmond, OR back in October. I fly a C441 and was at FL 280 when the autopilot disengaged. The work level in maintaining altitude and track makes implementation of revised clearances, pulling up necessary charts, radio communications, etc. require significantly more intense concentration. Every so often, I’ll fly from takeoff to my cruising altitude, with its more frequent requirements for altitude and track changes, completely by hand. I was glad to have that experience in my repertoire when the autopilot failure occurred. I’ll also add that, when hand flying, trim is your best friend.
My comment: I have 30y commercial airline. Now on LS 777 and 787. What I see everyday is nothing short of a total disgrace. You’re 100% correct. The situation is not just embarrassing, it’s out right dangerous. Most of my colleagues should be stripped of uniform and license and get demoted to baggage loader on the spot. It’s an awful charade. Where are the authorities?? This is unacceptable. If it was up to me GPS would be immediately turned off, AP,AT,FD banned completely below 10k. In the sim no automation whatsoever including ND and EGPWS. Downside? 95% fail rate and corpses everywhere.
I always enjoyed watching your ferry flight videos.
Watching that guy trying to get to the airport was really painful. I never thought he would make it.
maybe he had an aileron trim issue, or unequal fuel in the tip tanks... maybe he got disoriented by the need for an unexpected aileron trim setting, or didn't diagnose it while struggling w IMC. Also, sometimes in twins, the power levers aren't calibrated equally, and- when changing power settings - you have to move them in staggered positions & when you mindlessly move them together you produce asymmetrical thrust which can show up as an unwanted roll, which could be very disorienting in IMC... so something asymmetrical like that could explain why the autopilot couldn't keep the wings level in the initial climb-out. In the end, it was maybe more of an SA trainwreck (due to a lack of experience), as opposed to a pure case of spatial D.
Asiana 214 came out far worse but with similar issues. "Visual approach is very difficult" says the man.
lots of marine layer in Socal so ton of IMC actually. at least to get up and out and to land.
Good point.
the pilots that get very little if any actual are the guys in Phoenix area . Only real actual they get is big ole thunderstorms so no flying then. I was at a Cirrus owners event and talked to a fellow owner and he told me he had virtually zero actual . Myself being based just south of KPDX we get a lot of actual and I learned on a 172 steam guages and no auto pilot :).. but I will take the 22s panel over that any day.. keep up the good work enjoy your channel and perspective
your commentary was right on target. Absolutely deficient in skills. I do a Redbird simulator every six months with minimum visibility ceiling and maximum gusty winds. Its a hell of a challenge but it makes the light IFR I actually occasionally fly in pretty easy.
My assumption was that he kept trying to get the autopilot to work instead of scrapping it when it was not acting right. Maybe he was fighting the autopilot ( as if he couldn't get it to disengage) if this the case then why didn't he pull the breaker. His first clearance was to 8000 and never made it. Then to follow he didn't meet any of the other altitudes she stated. It seems this is a good case of Task saturation. Equipment is great until its not.
aviate, navigate, communicate... faff about with a broken autopilot is pretty far down the list there.
I think the more likely explanation is the autopilot simply disengaged and he wasn’t up to hand flying as the discussion suggested. It may have felt to him as if he were fighting the autopilot. The scary part was when he asked the controller “what do you want me to do?” That’s an indication that he was overwhelmed. Hopefully he learned his lesson and will get proficient.
Excellent video Kerry, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Indeed, Kerry, that was painful to listen to. Had he not made it, imagine the resources that would have been expended trying figure out what the "control problem" was? Probable cause would have been: "Pilot crashed a perfectly good aircraft for unknown reasons."
I really hope this guy has a good friend or mentor that's an experienced pilot to talk to him about this incident, and what he needs to do to avoid it happening again.
Kerry. Any updates. ? Did the FAA withdraw his license and send him to farther/ retrain.
Not that I know of yet. Not sure what would happen without an accident. They did call it an emergency though.
Great Video! I'm glad Charlie Bravo made it down OK.
I love that ATC person!!!!
Wow. Good comment about systems monitor. The whole Fun part of flying… is Flying! I mostly hand fly unless trip is over 2 hours. Instructor told me that fatigue can set in on longer flights so better to be fresh first and last 30 mins…. But otherwise, hand flying is part of the Joy for flying!
Would be interested in seeing more of your 'home simulator' set-up please Kerry - loved this video and your commentary. Thank you.
Coming soon!
Stick & Rudder Skills!
I 100% agree with you. None of the various training aircraft I flew for the first 300 hours of my flight training had so much as a wing leveler. Far cry from what you see today. My plane today has a full glass panel and a two-axis autopilot, which I definitely use for cross countries. But I will at time just click it off and practice holding heading & altitude to commercial standards once in a while, just to keep my hand in. The other day it was gusty and windy so I went up to do a bunch of hand flying, ground reference maneuvers, again to practice holding and maneuvering and FEELING the airplane. You need to keep that muscle memory active, or else how are you ever going to be able to call on it when all the automation goes away and you're left in an emergency?
IMC in SOCAL is much more common than you might think. Some months in California, particularly June, the marine layer makes for lots of IMC. I earned my PVT in SBA in '81 and immediately found I needed an IFR rating in SOCAL to get anywhere reliably. Currency and proficiency is a critically important.
My boss had a MU-2k with an auto pilot from hell and I would never use it. One day ATC vectored us through the worst part of a storm and took both of us to fly through the crap. First I had him slow us down as we were getting beat to hell then asked him to either take the pitch or the roll. He was always fearless and when I seen him wipe the sweat off of his hands I knew he had a handful. We got through it OK and as always if you have done your homework right, when we popped out of the cloud base it is always gratifying staring down the runway. I love nothing more than flying instruments and like you said Sim time never hurts either. Also if no one ever gets used to spatial disorientation they need not ever get into IMC. Its funny how different aircraft effect this as that MU-2 felt like you were always turning left. Its always fun trying a different aircraft for the first time in IMC to see what will happen (will it feel like it's turning left or right and on a rare occasion it actually feels straight). Not sure if it is just me or does this happen to others? Never have discussed this before. Take care
I've gotten a good case of the "leans" a few times and takes a lot to overcome it the first time. It was a good thing you guys were current in hand flying when you went through that storm. Might have been different if you were both autopilot cripples.
I'm a new PPL pilot and most scheduled flights at this time of the year in Chicago I have to cancel due to weather. I think a good plan is to actually fly my intended route on the simulator with present weather just to get practice. I have thought for a long time MFS is the best for practicing this kind of flying. GET THE SCAN GOING!
It works great.
Yes and no, it can cause new pilots to develop terrible habits.
I’m a private pilot, I’m not current at the moment because I sold my plane years ago so in an emergency I think I could get a single engine plane down without a major crash, although I can’t guarantee that it wound be a real smooth touchdown, I definitely would be stressed if that would actually happen. I’m old enough now that if I never fly again it will be OK but I do miss being able to do it.
The mistake started when he dispatched in weather which exceeded his limitations of knowledge/skill/experience. an autopilot failure is a regular situation and if the pilot was prepared should have not been an emergancy.
Flying MSFS in IMC with VR goggles is even more immersive.
What is needed is increased simulator/computer simulated training - cost effective training.
Great video! Thank you sir!
Glad you liked it!
have you seen "Children Of The Magenta Line"? AAL training captain lecture from ~2000 on the generation of automation-dependent ATPLs who'd come up since 1985 and only knew glass-cockpit airliners, and who'd been taught to use the automation as much as possible, and supervised the autopilot while it flew them into trouble.
I have, great video!
I was surprised when Kerry mention that he had about 9000 hrs. I would have thought it was more, but then I thought about it a bit more. 9000 hrs in GA is MUCH more “flying” than 9000 hrs for an airline pilot of similar age.
9000 GA hand flying = 9 hours airline autopilot
Ehhhhh @@tootallsvlog103might be backwards but I don't really know.
When learning to fly I remember starting out keeping the altitude + or - 100, then 50, then 20, then 10, then 5, then how long can I keep it on the hash mark. And after that it's keep that altitude, but do it tell it becomes easy. That actually doesn't take that long, but you have to practice it every time you fly.
Thanks for another great video.
Thanks for watching!
It's the same issue with ATPs as well. AP on at 200' and off at 200'
👍✅ Absolutely, the new automation and tec has made the younger generation loose or never learn manual skills in every profession and facet of life not just aviation. Tks Kerry!
Correct. 👍 I saw it in the industry in which I worked. I remember arguing over the phone with a young lady advising her calculations weren’t correct. She replied that’s what her program gave her……She had no idea how to do it by hand……And even though I explained to her the calculation she had no idea what I was talking about.
This wouldn’t have been life-threatening but I will tell you that I was dealing with millions of dollars each month. Someone would’ve been eating that and it wasn’t going to be me.
Agreed. Flying in REAL aircraft is NOT a video game. No-redos and only 1 life, and perhaps the lives of your passengers.
Your job: aviate, navigate & communicate. Simple rule.
Lots of fog on the California coast so lots of IFR potentially, and mountains in that area
I wish people cared this much about people driving on the roads.
I see so many people on the highway not paying attention...and they are way more likely to kill me than a pilot...since I'm always on the road and never in the sky.
I recently made a video which called the autopilot the most over used and under used system in the airplane. People like JFK Jr and many others inability to use the autopilot cost them their lives as they lost command and control of their aircraft. Yet, like you said, I fly with so many people that are taught or have learned on their own to use the autopilot after they reach 400 feet on takeoff. I use it on long cross country legs, but anytime I am talking to approach or departure, I hand fly, as it gives me practice receiving multiple commands in a single radio call (altitude, heading, and clearances for example).
Thanks for reminding your viewers of the importance of booming and staying proficient.
At my old airport, I REGULARLY clicked the autopilot on while at around 400 feet - because my airport was under a class B shelf at only 1000 AGL - our pattern altitude was 800 feet. My fairly fast airplane could easily bust that class B from a moment's inattention during initial climb, so I used the autopilot to ensure that didn't happen, until I was out from under the shelf. Glad I don't have to do that anymore.
Scott, I am 8 miles from O'Hare, but we have a carve out going to 3,000 MSL north and 1900 to the west, so I set my buffer at 200 feet. If I go to 3K (or 1900 to the west), I get an ALTITUDE callout by the system. I also call our tower and ask what altitude they show me at when I enter the 1900 shelf. When they say they have me at 1700, I now have that on tape. Your use of the autopilot is a good step to keeping you safe. Just make sure that baro right. ;-)
With 60 years of flying I totally agree…
I totally agree with you.
His voice sounds like he’s way behind
Not a pilot but this is pretty crazy, I keep seeing ppl who do have experience making terrible blunders...but then I think of Sky king. The guy had never flown a plane in his life, just in video games yet he was pulling off manuvers that were pretty incredible given his lack of experience. Now he never intended to land so we will never know how that would have gone, but damn whats up when a gamer shows better hand flying skill than some of these new pilots..🤯
Thanks Kerry. Good video and I’m happy this had a good ending…
As we say in the maintenance world… use it or lose it. Complacency is not forgiving.
Do ya think this pilot learned a lesson that’s all I gotta ask?
Keep up the great videos 👍
God I hope so!
Never had autopilot. Only hand flying. Stearman, Piper, Aero Commander, Stinson, Luscombe. None with glass cockpits. Only the Piper had GPS. Maintaining route speed, heading and altitude is what flying is to me.
As an airline pilot I engage the autopilot at 400ft on the way up and disengage at 400ft on the way down, with a some hand flying every six months in the sim.
Are you allowed to hand fly more than that if you want to? When I fly the Citation 650 I usually hand fly to altitude half the time and most of the approaches.
@@KerryDMcCauley We can hand fly all we want except in RVSM airspace (ie cruise ) and certain RNP approaches. I believe it safer to let the automatics do the work freeing up brain space, and as I’m approaching retirement this is shrinking. In past jobs I’ve flown analog instrumented turboprops without autopilot, spending all day hand flying. Modern airliners are immeasurably easier to operate. They don’t put all the bells and whistles in airplanes to make the job harder. Airbus are moving ahead with the “single pilot cruise “ concept with their ultra long range A350. The airlines will love it, two or three less pilot salaries per sector. We won’t see it but I believe by the end of this century airliners will be fully autonomous.
Wow this guy was all over the place. I snap to attention if my old Century AP deviates 5 degrees and I’m half mile off course. I’m already paying attention because it rarely holds altitude for a whole flight. 😂
I don’t know I actually like hand flying the airplane. I have an autopilot and never really use it. I’m sure this may change when I get my instrument rating but frankly flying VFR and hand flying and keeping the course and altitude on point gives you something to do on long flights and I enjoy it. Maybe that is just me though
That was such a good video for safety.
The guy was in deep, deep trouble when the auto pilot failed. He was also in denial which will only compound the problem.
"We are having problems with the controls." Yes, you have forgotten how to use them.
I am British but I did a lot of training in Florida, I flew up to a little airport north of Cedar Keys, I would fly there just for the food.
I was sitting there one day and a Piper Cub came in. The old pilot sat near me and we started to chat. I asked him where he had flown in from. "New York."
"Pardon?"
He had taken a few days to come down, all that way, on his own, virtually an open cockpit. This was before GPS, all done on charts.
He had been a flight engineer on the Berlin airlifts and went on to be a commercial pilot.
I never forgot him, that man was a pilot. Not a instrument monitor.
That was scary and embarrassing !
Haha i dont like a glass cockpit. I never have get-there-itis. Always ptefer to hand fly. Way too many gagets in a plane now
I am instrument rated and yet never see the "need" to be in IFR in a single engine. Thays just an emergenct waiting to happen. If i am enroute and get into IFR i am well capable of hand flying though it.
Even in VFR i practice holds and such with constant attention to altitudes and timing.
Kerry, thanks for posting this video and your exhortation to hand-fly our airplanes. This video was scary to watch and listen to. Thank the good Lord this pilot was able to land safely in the end. I have two points of comment, which I make as an instrument-rated private pilot.
First point: a lot of folks commenting here and elsewhere are designating themselves as Judgy McJudge, based on very limited information. This is cheap talk, and nothing more. We have no idea what was going on in the cockpit of that aircraft. The autopilot may in fact have malfunctioned and failed to disengage, or there may have been another avionics malfunction that we know nothing about. The situational disorientation that can hit when you have an equipment malfunction in your airplane can be severe. Until you have experienced this, you have no idea how bad it can be.
Second point: as Kerry ably points out, relying too much on your autopilot can be a death trap. (The recent fatal crash of Jenny Blalock is a recent glaring example. She apparently did not know how to operate her autopilot correctly, however.) On the other hand, your autopilot may save your life in an emergency, if used appropriately. A VFR pilot who flies inadvertently into IMC is in real danger, real fast… if he or she activates the autopilot and has it execute the 180 degree turn to get back to VMC, s/he is far less likely to become a CFIT or stall/spin statistic. Ask me how I know this next time we are sitting together in the pilot’s lounge!
As a PIC, it’s on you to 1) know how to fly your aircraft and 2) know your avionics inside and out. And then train for emergency procedures, if not for your life, then to avoid becoming the subject of RUclips aviation videos!
It's amazing that anyone hears anything on aviation frequencies.
Huh?
@KerryDMcCauley Sound quality on one end it seems.. headphones helps.
My dad had a Commance and listening to his radio and recalling five digits and letters, direction, traffic, frequency, repeat ATC directions. It's an intelligence test in itself and takes huge situational awareness, memory, and skill to be a good (living) pilot
So true!
Totally agree. Students should not be allowed to use the autopilot until they do a lot of hand flying. These glass cockpits are helping to create a lot of lazy pilots. I almost wish is was mandatory that students were required to learn in old school environments. Lots of young pilots have little knowledge of stick and rudder flying.
@peterpickguitar I realize that's what they are " supposed " to do but I also know that a lot of them cheat with their fancy i-pads and other modern electronic devices. I know of a ton of simple Cessnas with auto-pilots and glass cockpits that spoil these new age pilots. Al this modern stuff is awsome. Just make sure you can still keep the plane flying when the electricity guits working and all the batteries die.
Kerry remember that old 1990,s Microsoft simulator that used the Meigs Field , that what I used back then .
Ha, you're old! Oh, wait.
@@KerryDMcCauley I’m ancient.
If you want the plane to fly itself using autopilot and do not want to work on your hand flying skills.....book a commercial flight instead!
was it a trim problem? was he continuously trying to re-engage the autopilot and fooling with it too much? was he looking outside the aircraft too much and getting disoriented? after about the 10th warning about altitude and 20th course correction you would think his eyes would have been glued to the instruments, but no, didn't trust them?
CA can be challenging with the coastal fog and mountains.
What company doesn't encourage the use of automation, I thought that was the issue.
N711CB was a mess for sure…
Im not against hand flying but im exhausted by older pilots who denegrate pilots who learn how to fly in a modern aircraft. You notice these complaiing pilots dont complain that new pilots should have to call in for their weather briefing and if they do call in they should use an old rotary phone. Yes, relying on tech too much can get you in trouble.
Same thing is happened on the ground.
Do you think hand flying is becoming a lost art regardless of if it’s General or Commercial Aviation? So many incidents because of lack of proper training, CRM or experience.
There is no replacement for experience.
Just to be a devils advocate…99% of airline flying is on AP. This is the case especially outside of US that ATP types cant fly by hand. At least this guy was able to keep wings leveled and pitch neutral in a complex tween. Single pilot IMC is not easy and reliance on AP is unavoidable. Please go easy on this guy. BTW ATC did a great job helping him out.
If he was keeping the wings level he wouldn’t have been turning off course.
How much do you guys vary in altitude during a flight when maintaining an altitude? Is +-50ft ok
Great video, good advice on proper use of avionics, I remember JFK jr had a plane with ap but he got spatial disoriented at night over no horizon of ocean, btw I flew into Martha's vineyard in the 70's landing at Katama airport, a grass strip next to the beach, Obama's 12 million estate is just left of my final approach, hitchhiked to edgartown, had to sit next to a beautiful girl
I don’t think I’ve seen someone come that close to killing themselves but lived. Flying 29 years myself. That was bad.
nice vector
Took me a second to figure out what you were talking about! Love my vector almost as much as my VK 79.
Can anybody tell me why the angles aren't oriented upwards? Is this an artifact of projection or is the map rotated or something else?
*We’re gonna be parking at the porta-potty*
I think the main reason I could never be a pilot is that radio chatter often feels like unintelligible gibberish to me.
Did this Pilot have a Multi engine rating and had all the certifications to fly in his Cessna 340 ?
From what I understand he has a multi/commercial rating. Not sure about an instrument rating. I
m guessing he does but boy does he need practice!
I call that Tesla syndrome
Would you think it's a good idea to load up the plane with people when your flying skills are so lacking that it is an emergency if the autopilot is U/S? I would be some pissed at a pilot who put my loved one in his plane if this was his skill level. Further training required I think, and he does not seem to know his limitations which is not a good sign for him and his passenger's future health.
Most pilots won't admit that they don't have confidence in the skills necessary to fly safely.
Yes agree, I get kinda worked up by stupidity, it's just life though, it's not likely to change anytime soon, if everything was always safe there would be less drama on RUclips@@KerryDMcCauley
I like that BS reference lol
Haven’t heard a Charlie Bravo since 310 pilot. Anyone know what happened to that Chanel?
Kevin put 771BC and the hangar up for sale. The channel is still there www.youtube.com/@310Pilot. I think he got jet fever. Him and Jamie were still ATC there at OHare last time i was up that way.
"Back in my day" 😅
Don't make fun of your elders son!
Not unlike Kobe’s Instrument Instructor certified pilot who lost control. He’d clearly not done much actual IFR.
When I first began my flying lessons over 36 years ago I had a very rogue and unique flying instructor. He believed in putting the aircraft in real world engine stopping situations and forcing me to take the plane all the way to the ground. Not just simulating an emergency landing but actually taking it all the way down to a full stop. All of this took place in a very remote place in the US so the danger to people on the ground was close to non-existent but our risks were as about as real as it could get. Many times I took it down to various types of fields, gravel roads or empty highways. There were a few times I did not set up my glide path correctly or lost altitude too quickly and gained too much speed, or just didn't find something safe quickly enough and ran out of sky, so he would let me restart the plane and try it again. (Yes, he made me dead stick it until it became obvious we weren't going to make our planned destination)
I'm telling you and your viewers who read the comments all of this because later in my flying career, I had two in-flight emergencies and because of my weekly "real world" scenario training, taking the plane down safely was not nearly as stressful as it could have been, and I was able to deal with the situations rather easily.
One time I lost all electrical in my plane at night. I had no instruments, no nav lights, no landing lights and no radio. So in a totally blacked out aircraft, I had to find a poorly lit up gravel runway in the middle of the wilderness. I was able to fly to where I thought it should be based on the distance from the small town to the south, and began circling. All the while I had to depend completely on my feel of the aircraft since I had no instrumentation or indications of air speed, altitude, heading or attitude. When I was sure I had found the runway (it was marked with about 6 or 7 runway lights) I set up my approach and took her down to a rather bouncy landing with one strut on the gravel and one in the grass. But we made it home safely.
During the other in-flight emergency, I had an engine failure (daytime) and I just landed in a field. Been there, done that.
I know my training was very unorthodox, very risky and possibly illegal in most places, but I was a very excited student pilot who had 100% trust in my instructor. Honestly, I didn't know better, I guess, but the fact I could fly that plane without instruments and totally by the feel of the aircraft is something, as you said, current pilots have gotten away from. They think having every modern, digital touch screen gizmo will make them better pilots, and it doesn't. It just makes it easier to find the wreckage later on.
It sounds like you some of the best training there is! I'm putting my son and daughter through the same type of training.
I had to land my airplane with a dead engine 2.5 years ago, on a XC flight over Colorado. I was lucky in that I was flying over the flat part of CO, and not the bumpy part. But my uneventful landing in a field was due to having trained in dead-stick descents to a power-off landing in my early training. Since then, I have continued to do training in emergency procedures regularly. Training can save your life!
Let´s be real. Some companies have fuel saving bonuses and the equipment behind the autopilot can make better micro adjustments than most pilots over time thus there are a fuel saving to get by doing this. Some pilots using more fuel statistically risk consequences, or fear risk consequences, in some companies. Thus the skill level that can be crucial the day you need it, can be, well, as you put it "rusty", and in some cases, maybe to rusty, to perform on an optimal level overall.
I think this problem could be solved by simply making an international demand of recording "hands on" flying time, besides landing and TO, and put up a minimum percentage "hands on" demand, that all international flying companies have to make sure are complied with. Maybe combined with an uninterrupted hour of rough conditions, hands on flying, when having simulator training sessions.
Now how about that!?
I'd go for that!
@@KerryDMcCauley One, two...many!
I call them….”children of the magenta line”……if ya know…….you know.
Great video!
I am curious to know how this guy got his IFR rating! Private Pilots can do a better job than this guy! Before 911, they allowed me to ride in a jump seat when it was open in Commerical Aircraft. Then, I watch pilots making bad decisions. Many times, taking an active runway when the crosswind is unsafe for the type and model of aircraft. Today, I ride the train when I can and meet exciting people. I love Boeing Aircraft, for they are one of the few that don't rely upon only electricity to control the three control surfaces that control pitch, roll, and directional control. Something about having mechanical controls as a backup shows great wisdom by Boeing.
"D'oh"
Based on the pilot skill level an A340 was a lot of plane.
Haha. Cessna 340 (twin piston, six pax) not Airbus 340 (quad turbojet, 300 pax)
every component of a GA autopilot is a single point of failure so if you lose any one piece you have lost it all. As a computer engineer if we built corporate networks like that 1/2 the internet would be down an any given point and time. I understand we cant afford the weight to have a good level of redundancy but to trust your life to a system where every component is a single point of failure is just stupid. I have an instrument rating but I use it very little, my risk acceptance rules, rule out all but the simplest of ifr flights. unless you are flying professionally or all the time single pilot ifr is too hard to maintain to an acceptable level imho.. I am sure there are better pilots out there than myself.
Stick and rudder will save your bacon !
wow at the start atc transmission sounds like hot garbage.
A good pilot should have all his flight routes planned and written down and installed in the autopilot before you even call ground controllers !!! Duh 🙄
Painful....
Enough with the ‘Roger that’. Whenever I hear that I instantly know the pilot is a low time Chad.