It takes a good teacher to teach someone, who desires, how to fly. It takes a REALLY GOOD teacher to teach someone who has no desire, or is afraid, how to fly. That’s an excellent job you’re doing there, Jason!
Jason, thanks for taking on this project with us. Having watched your videos for a few years, I had high expectations of you...and was still completely blown away by your skill as a flight instructor and your ability to somehow tune in to the students needs...both in terms of HOW she needs to learn and also how to make her comfortable and confident. You always figured out the right next step to get her moving forward and knew when to call it quits for the day to come back fresh at another time. I couldn't be happier with the end result of her new flying skills and the videos on each of our channels, but those who watch my channel know that we feel the "journey is the destination" and the process of this collaboration also exceeded my expectations in every way. It was a lot of work, but made worth it by the time we all spent together and the fun we had. Looking forward to part 2!
Thanks Eric, it’s been awesome for me too! Both meeting you two and working with Ginny on such an emotional project. I am also very happy with the collaboration. It’s been really great. I hope that there are many more to come! 🙌
Problem with teaching your spouse to fly is one day you wake up to a note on the refrigerator they took your plane for the day with friends and will be back at dinner time ;)
This is outstanding and a very important and valuable lesson. She seems like a natural. My wife still has not flown with me and refuses to do so... maybe I should show her this video haha.
I literally was coming here to make a comment almost exactly like this here. Jason - you weren’t kidding, SoCal’s video is quite emotional and captures her journey in a very touching way (not surprised)… My wife watched their video with me and she even feels more confident that she can do more… and she does great now.
This sparked a bit of an emotional reaction to the beauty of how this came together and how you helped someone so terrified to fly in a gentle, yet strongly structured way. All of you rock!!! Well done.
Some thoughts from a flight instructor and active air traffic controller who loves your channel and who is close to rolling out a bunch of training materials for controllers about inflight emergencies including "pilot incapacitation events." The views are my own, not official FAA policy. For length, I will include the specific comments separately as replies to this comment. Before I dive in though, let me say that this is good stuff on several levels. Thanks Jason, and thanks Ginny.
Point 1 -- On communications, I encourage anyone in this situation to just relax and speak in plain English. Controllers will figure it out, and in fact I would encourage controllers to get on a first-name basis with the non-pilot who is suddenly flying and on the radio. "Ginny, my name is Dean, and I'm part of a whole team that is going to help you land safely."
Point 2 -- Also on communication, there is NO WAY in the world that I would ask someone to change frequencies -- especially early on -- unless absolutely necessary. I would clear everyone else off the current frequency, but I wouldn't risk having someone try to change frequencies to the guard frequency or to anything else because I wouldn't want to risk them getting lost in frequency-land. After several minutes, if we talk through it and take appropriate precautions, then we can look at a frequency change. Having said that, though, I ABSOLUTELY like seeing changing radio frequencies as a part of any pitch-hitter syllabus.
Point 3 -- In every single pitch-hitter course I have ever seen, something vitally important is missed and I want to change that. The issue that gets missed is the nature of the medical problem for the pilot. We all seem to assume that whatever it is is affecting the pilot only, but there are multiple documented cases of carbon monoxide poisoning being the problem. I would like every pitch-hitter course to cover carbon monoxide poisoning aspects such as symptoms and how to help alleviate the problem by venting the cabin and turning off the heater. For controllers, one of the early questions I want us to ask is something along the lines of "is anyone else including yourself feeling anything like a headache or anything else unusual. While airsickness or the stress of watching a pilot have a heart attack can be issues, if it seems like carbon monoxide is a possibility then I want controllers to take IMMEDIATE STEPS to address the issue. Recipients of pitch-hitter courses should be taught to think about the same issue.
Point 4 -- The training material I am developing for controllers breaks these events down into three separate phases. "Phase One" is the initial couple of minutes when the issue first presents on the frequency, and the emphasis is on just airplane stability and trying to see just what we're dealing with while we quickly get a team of pilot-rated controllers to help. Most controllers are not pilots, and so odds are that it might take a couple of minutes to get one on frequency. "Phase Two" involves having the pilot-rated controller provide something like an initial emergency flight lesson to the person while helping steer them towards a suitable runway. I prefer that we have the person overfly the runway a couple of times to help them with the sight picture. "Phase Three" is where all the risk is, because I argue that virtually anyone who calls us on frequency can get through the first two phases with plenty of drama but little actual risk. Phase Three is of course, the touchdown itself. I can't go into specifics here due to length, but if the runway is long enough I want to leverage that pavement length to our advantage by probably having them do the world's gentlest roundout while using more runway than "real pilots" do and then gently easing it down using some specific techniques that I can't easily discuss here but which we would explain to the person now flying. In other words, I do NOT like the idea of chopping the power as the plane comes over the threshold, as the person isn't expecting the nose to drop and I am concerned about the pitch excursions leading to a hard smack. Hence the gentle roundout if the runway length allows.
Just sent the link to my CFI. My CFI will do the Pinch Hitter Course with my wife in the coming weeks. Just important, that she will know, that the plane not just fall down. I also aks slowly my wife duri g the flights to set the frequencies. So she canset when needed. Next will be to make a non Pilot readable checklist in case I as a Pic would have a problem... Thank you for your inputs.
My wife has little to no interest in flying. But I am a firm advocate of this kind of training. We all hope nothing ever happens but like we often say as gun owners, "it's better to have one and not need it than to need one and not have it". Likewise with having the wife. a friend or family member ready, in the event of the unexpected, just makes good sense. Insist they at least have a basic understanding of controlling the airplane and working the throttle and radios. And don't just show them one time and expect full retention. Review procedures once in a while to keep them refreshed. Some day you just might be thankful you did it. Well done Jason, as always, your videos are the best!
Outstanding Jason. This is a critical subject matter that needs to be addressed. I think she did herself very proud and it shows how important having someone who you fly with regularly can take over and land the airplane when the pilot is incapacitated. This is the kind of video that reinforces my love for your channel. You're simply one of the best on YT!
Excellent video! I started out with an emergency response course....after my husband got his PPL which quickly changed my course and I decided to start training for my PPL. I just completed my first solo this week! Can't wait to see part two!
Wow, Jason you did a great job of simulating that. As I was watching I forgot for a second it was a training mission and I was really scared for her. She did an AMAZING job and her reactions to the first and second attempted landing could not be further apart. Again, wow!
“I do !” Hahahahahaahaha !!!! I fly a gyrocopter and I have been trying to persuade my wife to take ICE (In Case of Emergency) training.. One of the students at the same flight-school and I were chatting about it and the conversation went something like this... Him: “It’s not possible to land from the rear seat” Me: :”Of course it is. Our instructors do it all the time” Him: “Yeah. But they’ve been trained to. A regular person can’t do it. Especially if they don’t have any flight experience” Me: “But that’s why I want my wife to be trained to be able to do it” Him: “The chances of her getting on the ground safely are slim” Me: “Without that training, the chances of her getting on the ground safely are non-existent. I want her to have a chance of saving our lives rather than no hope at all”.
14:29 - Another thing to teach is how to Quick get to 121.5 on Many Com Radios any plane (Press and HOLD the Com Flip-Flop Key). That will auto tune to 121.5 and set it as active.
Wow!! Watching this with tears in my eyes. I think you did an amazing job on initial shallow turns and attitude with the marker line on the windscreen. This was truly one of the most encouraging and uplifting videos I’ve seen. I truly believe that she has plenty of capability in her to go as far as she wants in learning to fly. I know the purpose is not to create a private out of her but I saw by the end of this video her excitement of her accomplishments. Eric, you did fantastic by not saying a word and just being an observer. I think Jenny needs to understand that all of us know that fear and intimidation during various aspects of our training that she experiences just in being a passenger. I’m proud for you Jenny!! From one Texan to another.
All this is so familiar. My wife made her first ever flight while we were dating and she said she was fine but in reality I could see she was so scared she wasn’t even looking out the windows, just concentrating on me. Now, she’s asleep before we reach TPA. I have started having her ride the controls and feel what I’m doing and next want her to start trying some very shallow turns letting her increase according to her comfort. Slowly taking her one stage at a time. I hadn’t thought about getting her to fly compass headings, I’ll look at that once she can give me short breaks on a cross country. But an instructor setting up a class for this purpose is a fantastic idea!
Glad to see your version of this process less painful and dramatic as Eric's edit, who magically after years of seeing his wife suffer decided to make her comfortable and actually enjoy flying. I beg you, if you find someone really scared and uncomfortable in general going for the task, please make the first steps with them on a simulator, it will take all the stress off of them and learn the basic mechanisms in a forgivable environment and only after that make them fly the real deal. In this specific plane the glass cockpit with the speed bar on the very left and no instruments on the co pilot seat, not even an analog backup speedometer, is far from ideal, but she seems to be able to make it and hopefully see the numbers and coloring to make life and survival easier. Many thanks and great job.
There seriously cannot be a better person for this than Jason! Shh! 🤫 Don’t tell. But I think I’ll be checking out the ground school app - I mean, maybe Jason’s right - maybe I go for it? Thanks again to jason, his beautiful wife and his whole family. I hope that’s just the first adventure of many ❤️
I took my first passenger up today after getting my PPL last month. Let him do some shallow turns and after about 20 secs he said his palms were sweating and it was intense.
I love the way you made her bond with the plane and got her to trust it. I'm no pilot, but I've taught a lot of people driving dynamics, including people who are anxious or afraid to drive and I like to anthropomorphize the vehicle for that as well. I mean for us car guys it's normal, we say things like "she's not happy today, gotta check the engine" all the time, but most folks usually think of a car or a plane as these abstract cold machines and that's why they are afraid of entrusting their lives. But saying things like "feel how she's reacting, gently tell her what to do" like it's a living thing gets most people to bond very well with their vehicles. Anyways, you're an awesome flight instructor, I really enjoyed this video a lot. I'm a bit bummed you live half the world away, I'd love to have you teach me when I eventually want to get a PPL :D
Thanks! That's great that you do that. It was also lucky that Ginny had horseback riding in her background. We could have found something else if she didn't but it sure made the connections easier.
My wife flew with me for the first time a week ago! She always said she would when she's ready. I just didnt think it would take seven years. Lol. It was just around the pattern. Baby steps, baby steps.
Proud of you teaching them how to fly the plane and to use the radios. I don't know how many video's Ive seen were the passenger didn't know what to do. Every pilot should go over the controls and radio with there passengers. Thanks again great video!
I've got to say, you are an awesome instructor. I have about 40 hours of flight time with different instructors over a 3 year time span. Some of the instructors have told me I'm ready for solo but I don't believe I'm confident enough with the landings. You have a way of instructing and talking that is very good. If you were in Palm Beach Florida I would love to spend some time in the plane with you.
This is so important and it can really establish a comfort level with a passenger that is nervous to fly. I wish there were more courses for this scenario. Great video!
Ginny is talented for sure. If she ever would want to become a pilot she would go through process of getting a PPL like hot knife through a butter! Also great idea overall, looking forward to next episode on this! Thanks Jason and safe landings.
Wow what a great video and training project! I watched this video and the one on SoCal Flying Monkey’s channel back to back with my non-pilot Wife. So awesome to see Poppins pushing through her fears and making such fast progress! Great flight instruction as well!
Hey Jason, excellent video! I remember meeting you at FlightSimExpo2019 in Orlando when I said that my wife attended a course for spouses of pilots, where she was told to simply fly straight at the tower and waggle her wings if the pilot (me) became incapacitated. Well, that wasn’t really helpful (especially as she’s uncomfortable in small planes) and after watching many of your videos with me, she wished someone like you would teach a similar course instead. You mentioned that you might just make a video on that topic someday, and you didn’t disappoint! Ginny did very well under your guidance, and my wife is very much looking forward to Part 2! I’ve also been checking out your ground school app so it looks like you’ll have both of us as students! Thanks for all that you do for the aviation community!
I love SoCal! I’ll be honest, I left your channel for a while because it was starting to feel redundant. This was an awesomely fresh video and I’m glad I saw it. Keeps this unique stuff up! It’s the kind of video that brings back people like me!
Wow she did a great job on that second try congratulations! Part of feeling comfortable is you’ll just start to understand the boundaries of what you can and can’t do in the plane. Imagine if you would never written in a car before and someone just plot you in a car behind the steering wheel but I’m sure you drive a car and you probably don’t think twice about it. Flying a plane will become the same way. You just do it enough and it’s going to get very intuitive. Certainly enough for you to be able to handle the airplane in an emergency. That was so good! You almost flew it down and landed it.
My instructor used the line(actually a cross) method in my initial glider training flights and it set a foundation for a very solid education in aviating
Love your videos. I used your ground school app and passed! Official a private rated pilot now. Even at being 30, I still believe there is no such thing as too prepared. I would like to have my instructor do this with my wife someday soon. Awesome stuff. 👌
Great stuff! When I got my PPL my wife started the pinch hitter course. It is essential. And though she has yet not landed herself, she is now almost SIC, reviewing all checklists amd demanding them, to a level that sometimes when I fly alone I feel the difference (in a way that her helping increases safety). That is another part of this type of courses that help, though not legal and regulatory, we still get some of the safety benefits airlines have learnt to produce by there being “two pilots”. Again, not the same, but some.
Sounds exactly like where my wife and I are in our training! Just got my PPL back in April; she's had 3 in-air and maybe 4 earlier Sim lessons, still struggles to feel comfortable with straight and level flight, and with gentle turns, but can definitely do them. But she's grown tenacious with checklists; in fact, after I managed to forget key items on them (like parking brakes OFF before toe-brake check) when we first flew together (guess I was more nervous/distracted than I realized?!), I asked her to make her #1 priority something even easier than running checklists: insist that "we" run them, anytime I wonder why something isn't working or seem distracted. All she needed was to understand the phases of flight as expressed on our rental checklists (walk-up, cockpit, wings, empannage, engine, before startup, before taxi, etc) to go beyond just saying "let's run the checklists" and actively help, and she's already doing that really well. She's also doing a good job watching for traffic visually as well as handling the tablet and helping watch transponder traffic. We had our first "aviation day-cation" several weeks ago, a wonderful visit to the Aviation Museum near KMCN, and hope to do several more soon, as I work towards my instrument rating. Baby steps!
I will say it here too. She was so excited to take off. I think she is going to end up taking over. Only surprise was that you did not get her to reject the landing herself
I have presented Right Seat Ready! companion seminars for over a decade, teaching for AOPA and type-groups around the country. We have even turned many companions into licensed pilots. Hopefully as COVID eases up we will be able to offer the course again in person. This is a great video.
Absolutely love this video. My wife is also terrified to fly. I try to show her she is not alone and inspire her to take small steps to new adventures. I hope this inspires her to be as awesome as we know our wives are!!! I love his channel too!
Excellent! She is making it past her fear and working the problem. A tip of the hat to you. The connection between horses was awesome. I think she is much more capable than she realizes. I hope she takes control more often when flying in the future. Can't wait to see part two! Blue Sky's and Tailwinds
Thanks for sharing! I'm a wife who's a student pilot with extensive horseback riding experience and had mentioned to my instructor some things I'd been correlating to riding already in my head, so I guess it's time to get a copy of Stick and Rudder to dig into that a bit more! My husband probably won't have time to get his own certificate along with medical issues that might not allow him to pass a medical but he's enthusiastic about flying, so he's hoping to do 10 to 20hrs of flight training to be a semi trained companion to make our flying safer.
I was going to read "Stick and rudder" too. But now I`v found your channel and do not need read this book. Here I found much more info from your video than from the tons of books and even from my practice lessons. Great luck for me is your podcasts. Nice voice, clean language and useful information. Thank you Jason!
You should teach editing too! Intro was eye-catching & nothing overdone thoughout. Just facts. Well done! It was easy to see her confidence soar as time passed!
So good on so many levels! Already a fan of both you and Eric and I have been digesting “Stick and Rudder” for many years! The horse analogy was brilliant. I’ve seen enough of Eric’s videos to recognize Ginny’s genuine fear and general discomfort in the airplane. Your approach was wonderful and helped her overcome that fear. Excellent job by all!!
I really like what I'm seeing going on, here. I think more of this should be going on with spouses, and family members of pilots. Thanks for sharing this.
Love these videos. We live near the Auburn, Lincoln, Grass Valley area. My son (19) JUST decided to become a pilot. I'll make sure he watches vids from both channels.
I believe you've worked with the podcast Uncontrolled Airspace in the past Jason. If I recall correctly they had an episode where this topic was discussed. Glad to see a real life example of this.
Having new pilots control airspeed with pitch is vital. Getting that instinctive feel for the energy tradeoff between altitude and airspeed propagates to all phases of flight.
This is an amazing idea! Thank you so much for this. I'm on my way to being a Private Pilot and this is great advice for any family. My wife will be going with me and the instructor on a discovery flight SOON! :D
I bet this made her much more comfortable with flying, because she now understands what needs to happen in case of an emergency. I wouldn’t be surprised if she decides to pick up flying at this point. Hopefully she learns the list of radio frequencies she needs, or she knows where her husband has all that information as part of the pre-flight planning. Flying a plane in an emergency it is a little bit like a mild IFR training, because you’re taking headings from ATC instead of having planned your flight.
Since my wife used to ride horses and is not really into flying I had to show her your video - and the one from Socal flying Monkey - to show her how someone shitting her pants would eventually open up enough for the must-do’s. Fantastic job, Jason! I have given seminars on fear of flying but I can learn a lot from your approach. Popping, see you in this skies! Keep going!
The very first RUclips video I ever viewed was the incident where the pilot actually died in flight and his elderly wife brought the plane down successfully. I don’t see how it could ever be actually regulated, but I would hope pilots’ spouses, especially older ones, are strongly urged to have some familiarity of stick and rudder skills and radio communications.
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Maybe he should ad some alternate gauges on the Copilot side for her to make it easier to keep the speed and heading
Great video! I'm going to be working on this with my wife in our plane soon. Has been the plan since I got my license. I'm looking forward to see how she does... might even spark another licensed aviator :)
It certainly seems that Ginny is quite nervous but I'm thinking with some working knowledge of how the plane works she will actually want to know and try more. Looking down the line I wouldn't be surprised to see Ginny with her own pilot certificate in a couple of years.
It takes a good teacher to teach someone, who desires, how to fly. It takes a REALLY GOOD teacher to teach someone who has no desire, or is afraid, how to fly. That’s an excellent job you’re doing there, Jason!
Jason, thanks for taking on this project with us. Having watched your videos for a few years, I had high expectations of you...and was still completely blown away by your skill as a flight instructor and your ability to somehow tune in to the students needs...both in terms of HOW she needs to learn and also how to make her comfortable and confident. You always figured out the right next step to get her moving forward and knew when to call it quits for the day to come back fresh at another time. I couldn't be happier with the end result of her new flying skills and the videos on each of our channels, but those who watch my channel know that we feel the "journey is the destination" and the process of this collaboration also exceeded my expectations in every way. It was a lot of work, but made worth it by the time we all spent together and the fun we had. Looking forward to part 2!
It's smart decision not to teach your wife by yourself for safety reasons (Eric's and marriage safety 😆)
Great project, thank you guys!
Thanks Eric, it’s been awesome for me too! Both meeting you two and working with Ginny on such an emotional project. I am also very happy with the collaboration. It’s been really great. I hope that there are many more to come! 🙌
Problem with teaching your spouse to fly is one day you wake up to a note on the refrigerator they took your plane for the day with friends and will be back at dinner time ;)
I most definitely wouldn't bother to contact her, I would rather terminate her well being upon return!😜...
That moment at 16:05 when she was excited about how she did is great. From fear to excitement in that short amount of time is awesome.
Yes, she really blew me away. Up for the challenge 🙌
Look at the joy at 16:07. I think we are seeing the foundations of a future pilot being made here.
This is outstanding and a very important and valuable lesson. She seems like a natural. My wife still has not flown with me and refuses to do so... maybe I should show her this video haha.
Yes! She is a natural. Show her Eric’s too hahaha - it’s more about the emotional journey
I literally was coming here to make a comment almost exactly like this here. Jason - you weren’t kidding, SoCal’s video is quite emotional and captures her journey in a very touching way (not surprised)… My wife watched their video with me and she even feels more confident that she can do more… and she does great now.
I feel you there. My wife won't fly with me either...and I'm a commercial multi-engine IFR rated pilot.
This sparked a bit of an emotional reaction to the beauty of how this came together and how you helped someone so terrified to fly in a gentle, yet strongly structured way. All of you rock!!! Well done.
This is an excellent idea for those of us whom fly with our families!
Some thoughts from a flight instructor and active air traffic controller who loves your channel and who is close to rolling out a bunch of training materials for controllers about inflight emergencies including "pilot incapacitation events." The views are my own, not official FAA policy. For length, I will include the specific comments separately as replies to this comment. Before I dive in though, let me say that this is good stuff on several levels. Thanks Jason, and thanks Ginny.
Point 1 -- On communications, I encourage anyone in this situation to just relax and speak in plain English. Controllers will figure it out, and in fact I would encourage controllers to get on a first-name basis with the non-pilot who is suddenly flying and on the radio. "Ginny, my name is Dean, and I'm part of a whole team that is going to help you land safely."
Point 2 -- Also on communication, there is NO WAY in the world that I would ask someone to change frequencies -- especially early on -- unless absolutely necessary. I would clear everyone else off the current frequency, but I wouldn't risk having someone try to change frequencies to the guard frequency or to anything else because I wouldn't want to risk them getting lost in frequency-land. After several minutes, if we talk through it and take appropriate precautions, then we can look at a frequency change. Having said that, though, I ABSOLUTELY like seeing changing radio frequencies as a part of any pitch-hitter syllabus.
Point 3 -- In every single pitch-hitter course I have ever seen, something vitally important is missed and I want to change that. The issue that gets missed is the nature of the medical problem for the pilot. We all seem to assume that whatever it is is affecting the pilot only, but there are multiple documented cases of carbon monoxide poisoning being the problem. I would like every pitch-hitter course to cover carbon monoxide poisoning aspects such as symptoms and how to help alleviate the problem by venting the cabin and turning off the heater. For controllers, one of the early questions I want us to ask is something along the lines of "is anyone else including yourself feeling anything like a headache or anything else unusual. While airsickness or the stress of watching a pilot have a heart attack can be issues, if it seems like carbon monoxide is a possibility then I want controllers to take IMMEDIATE STEPS to address the issue. Recipients of pitch-hitter courses should be taught to think about the same issue.
Point 4 -- The training material I am developing for controllers breaks these events down into three separate phases. "Phase One" is the initial couple of minutes when the issue first presents on the frequency, and the emphasis is on just airplane stability and trying to see just what we're dealing with while we quickly get a team of pilot-rated controllers to help. Most controllers are not pilots, and so odds are that it might take a couple of minutes to get one on frequency. "Phase Two" involves having the pilot-rated controller provide something like an initial emergency flight lesson to the person while helping steer them towards a suitable runway. I prefer that we have the person overfly the runway a couple of times to help them with the sight picture. "Phase Three" is where all the risk is, because I argue that virtually anyone who calls us on frequency can get through the first two phases with plenty of drama but little actual risk. Phase Three is of course, the touchdown itself. I can't go into specifics here due to length, but if the runway is long enough I want to leverage that pavement length to our advantage by probably having them do the world's gentlest roundout while using more runway than "real pilots" do and then gently easing it down using some specific techniques that I can't easily discuss here but which we would explain to the person now flying. In other words, I do NOT like the idea of chopping the power as the plane comes over the threshold, as the person isn't expecting the nose to drop and I am concerned about the pitch excursions leading to a hard smack. Hence the gentle roundout if the runway length allows.
I love this from your point of view, Dean! Thank you!
the smile and absolute CHEER she exhibited says it all!!
Nice work! Very nice! “Aviate, navigate, communicate” - that's what you taught her for sure!
Just sent the link to my CFI. My CFI will do the Pinch Hitter Course with my wife in the coming weeks. Just important, that she will know, that the plane not just fall down. I also aks slowly my wife duri g the flights to set the frequencies. So she canset when needed. Next will be to make a non Pilot readable checklist in case I as a Pic would have a problem... Thank you for your inputs.
My wife has little to no interest in flying. But I am a firm advocate of this kind of training. We all hope nothing ever happens but like we often say as gun owners, "it's better to have one and not need it than to need one and not have it". Likewise with having the wife. a friend or family member ready, in the event of the unexpected, just makes good sense. Insist they at least have a basic understanding of controlling the airplane and working the throttle and radios. And don't just show them one time and expect full retention. Review procedures once in a while to keep them refreshed. Some day you just might be thankful you did it. Well done Jason, as always, your videos are the best!
Outstanding Jason. This is a critical subject matter that needs to be addressed. I think she did herself very proud and it shows how important having someone who you fly with regularly can take over and land the airplane when the pilot is incapacitated. This is the kind of video that reinforces my love for your channel. You're simply one of the best on YT!
Thanks Bog!
This is a great collaboration and I look forward to part 2
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Excellent video! I started out with an emergency response course....after my husband got his PPL which quickly changed my course and I decided to start training for my PPL. I just completed my first solo this week! Can't wait to see part two!
That is awesome! Congrats 🙌
Wow, Jason you did a great job of simulating that. As I was watching I forgot for a second it was a training mission and I was really scared for her. She did an AMAZING job and her reactions to the first and second attempted landing could not be further apart. Again, wow!
Thanks Sean! Yes, she really did great and picked up A LOT in a short time
“I do !”
Hahahahahaahaha !!!!
I fly a gyrocopter and I have been trying to persuade my wife to take ICE (In Case of Emergency) training..
One of the students at the same flight-school and I were chatting about it and the conversation went something like this...
Him: “It’s not possible to land from the rear seat”
Me: :”Of course it is. Our instructors do it all the time”
Him: “Yeah. But they’ve been trained to. A regular person can’t do it. Especially if they don’t have any flight experience”
Me: “But that’s why I want my wife to be trained to be able to do it”
Him: “The chances of her getting on the ground safely are slim”
Me: “Without that training, the chances of her getting on the ground safely are non-existent. I want her to have a chance of saving our lives rather than no hope at all”.
14:29 - Another thing to teach is how to Quick get to 121.5 on Many Com Radios any plane (Press and HOLD the Com Flip-Flop Key). That will auto tune to 121.5 and set it as active.
She's getting there. Great work. Can't stop smiling when i see the progress made there.
Wow!! Watching this with tears in my eyes. I think you did an amazing job on initial shallow turns and attitude with the marker line on the windscreen. This was truly one of the most encouraging and uplifting videos I’ve seen. I truly believe that she has plenty of capability in her to go as far as she wants in learning to fly. I know the purpose is not to create a private out of her but I saw by the end of this video her excitement of her accomplishments. Eric, you did fantastic by not saying a word and just being an observer. I think Jenny needs to understand that all of us know that fear and intimidation during various aspects of our training that she experiences just in being a passenger. I’m proud for you Jenny!! From one Texan to another.
All this is so familiar. My wife made her first ever flight while we were dating and she said she was fine but in reality I could see she was so scared she wasn’t even looking out the windows, just concentrating on me. Now, she’s asleep before we reach TPA. I have started having her ride the controls and feel what I’m doing and next want her to start trying some very shallow turns letting her increase according to her comfort. Slowly taking her one stage at a time. I hadn’t thought about getting her to fly compass headings, I’ll look at that once she can give me short breaks on a cross country. But an instructor setting up a class for this purpose is a fantastic idea!
Glad to see your version of this process less painful and dramatic as Eric's edit, who magically after years of seeing his wife suffer decided to make her comfortable and actually enjoy flying.
I beg you, if you find someone really scared and uncomfortable in general going for the task, please make the first steps with them on a simulator, it will take all the stress off of them and learn the basic mechanisms in a forgivable environment and only after that make them fly the real deal.
In this specific plane the glass cockpit with the speed bar on the very left and no instruments on the co pilot seat, not even an analog backup speedometer, is far from ideal, but she seems to be able to make it and hopefully see the numbers and coloring to make life and survival easier.
Many thanks and great job.
There seriously cannot be a better person for this than Jason! Shh! 🤫 Don’t tell. But I think I’ll be checking out the ground school app - I mean, maybe Jason’s right - maybe I go for it? Thanks again to jason, his beautiful wife and his whole family. I hope that’s just the first adventure of many ❤️
THATS how flight instruction should be! Everytime! Well done
I took my first passenger up today after getting my PPL last month. Let him do some shallow turns and after about 20 secs he said his palms were sweating and it was intense.
I love the way you made her bond with the plane and got her to trust it. I'm no pilot, but I've taught a lot of people driving dynamics, including people who are anxious or afraid to drive and I like to anthropomorphize the vehicle for that as well. I mean for us car guys it's normal, we say things like "she's not happy today, gotta check the engine" all the time, but most folks usually think of a car or a plane as these abstract cold machines and that's why they are afraid of entrusting their lives. But saying things like "feel how she's reacting, gently tell her what to do" like it's a living thing gets most people to bond very well with their vehicles.
Anyways, you're an awesome flight instructor, I really enjoyed this video a lot. I'm a bit bummed you live half the world away, I'd love to have you teach me when I eventually want to get a PPL :D
Thanks! That's great that you do that. It was also lucky that Ginny had horseback riding in her background. We could have found something else if she didn't but it sure made the connections easier.
My wife flew with me for the first time a week ago! She always said she would when she's ready. I just didnt think it would take seven years. Lol. It was just around the pattern. Baby steps, baby steps.
Awesome video Jason! What a great piece of mind knowing your spouse can save herself and the kids. Great job!
Proud of you teaching them how to fly the plane and to use the radios. I don't know how many video's Ive seen were the passenger didn't know what to do. Every pilot should go over the controls and radio with there passengers. Thanks again great video!
That is awesome! I’ve been having this same conversation with my wife, it’s an invaluable skill
I admire her willingness to try this when she's basically afraid of flying, It's not easy to overcome those fears. I know!
Wow what a great idea, Very cool collaboration… Great job Jenny👍👍👍
I've got to say, you are an awesome instructor. I have about 40 hours of flight time with different instructors over a 3 year time span. Some of the instructors have told me I'm ready for solo but I don't believe I'm confident enough with the landings.
You have a way of instructing and talking that is very good. If you were in Palm Beach Florida I would love to spend some time in the plane with you.
Thank you Jason. You put out very good material.
This is so important and it can really establish a comfort level with a passenger that is nervous to fly. I wish there were more courses for this scenario. Great video!
Good teacher; you're really able to calm people. Natural gift !!
Mrs. SoCal should really consider getting her PPL.
Ginny is talented for sure. If she ever would want to become a pilot she would go through process of getting a PPL like hot knife through a butter! Also great idea overall, looking forward to next episode on this! Thanks Jason and safe landings.
Wow what a great video and training project! I watched this video and the one on SoCal Flying Monkey’s channel back to back with my non-pilot Wife. So awesome to see Poppins pushing through her fears and making such fast progress! Great flight instruction as well!
At the end, instead of being overwhelmed she was laughing and clapping - she is enjoying flying an airplane now!!!!!! :)
She is probably one of those people that is natural at learning new things.
Ah two of my favorite youtube pilots joining forces. Very nice
Wow! She is doing great! What a good student and good idea.
Hey Jason, excellent video! I remember meeting you at FlightSimExpo2019 in Orlando when I said that my wife attended a course for spouses of pilots, where she was told to simply fly straight at the tower and waggle her wings if the pilot (me) became incapacitated. Well, that wasn’t really helpful (especially as she’s uncomfortable in small planes) and after watching many of your videos with me, she wished someone like you would teach a similar course instead. You mentioned that you might just make a video on that topic someday, and you didn’t disappoint! Ginny did very well under your guidance, and my wife is very much looking forward to Part 2! I’ve also been checking out your ground school app so it looks like you’ll have both of us as students! Thanks for all that you do for the aviation community!
I love SoCal! I’ll be honest, I left your channel for a while because it was starting to feel redundant. This was an awesomely fresh video and I’m glad I saw it. Keeps this unique stuff up! It’s the kind of video that brings back people like me!
Wow she did a great job on that second try congratulations! Part of feeling comfortable is you’ll just start to understand the boundaries of what you can and can’t do in the plane. Imagine if you would never written in a car before and someone just plot you in a car behind the steering wheel but I’m sure you drive a car and you probably don’t think twice about it. Flying a plane will become the same way. You just do it enough and it’s going to get very intuitive. Certainly enough for you to be able to handle the airplane in an emergency. That was so good! You almost flew it down and landed it.
My instructor used the line(actually a cross) method in my initial glider training flights and it set a foundation for a very solid education in aviating
Love your videos. I used your ground school app and passed! Official a private rated pilot now. Even at being 30, I still believe there is no such thing as too prepared. I would like to have my instructor do this with my wife someday soon. Awesome stuff. 👌
Great stuff! When I got my PPL my wife started the pinch hitter course. It is essential. And though she has yet not landed herself, she is now almost SIC, reviewing all checklists amd demanding them, to a level that sometimes when I fly alone I feel the difference (in a way that her helping increases safety). That is another part of this type of courses that help, though not legal and regulatory, we still get some of the safety benefits airlines have learnt to produce by there being “two pilots”. Again, not the same, but some.
Sounds exactly like where my wife and I are in our training! Just got my PPL back in April; she's had 3 in-air and maybe 4 earlier Sim lessons, still struggles to feel comfortable with straight and level flight, and with gentle turns, but can definitely do them. But she's grown tenacious with checklists; in fact, after I managed to forget key items on them (like parking brakes OFF before toe-brake check) when we first flew together (guess I was more nervous/distracted than I realized?!), I asked her to make her #1 priority something even easier than running checklists: insist that "we" run them, anytime I wonder why something isn't working or seem distracted. All she needed was to understand the phases of flight as expressed on our rental checklists (walk-up, cockpit, wings, empannage, engine, before startup, before taxi, etc) to go beyond just saying "let's run the checklists" and actively help, and she's already doing that really well. She's also doing a good job watching for traffic visually as well as handling the tablet and helping watch transponder traffic. We had our first "aviation day-cation" several weeks ago, a wonderful visit to the Aviation Museum near KMCN, and hope to do several more soon, as I work towards my instrument rating. Baby steps!
I will say it here too. She was so excited to take off. I think she is going to end up taking over. Only surprise was that you did not get her to reject the landing herself
I have presented Right Seat Ready! companion seminars for over a decade, teaching for AOPA and type-groups around the country. We have even turned many companions into licensed pilots. Hopefully as COVID eases up we will be able to offer the course again in person. This is a great video.
Awesome, Jason. I always think of teaching my passenger friends how to land, even I'm still not a pilot myself, lol, but hopefully soon. Great lesson.
Absolutely love this video. My wife is also terrified to fly. I try to show her she is not alone and inspire her to take small steps to new adventures. I hope this inspires her to be as awesome as we know our wives are!!! I love his channel too!
Excellent! She is making it past her fear and working the problem. A tip of the hat to you. The connection between horses was awesome. I think she is much more capable than she realizes. I hope she takes control more often when flying in the future. Can't wait to see part two!
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I don’t own a plane, I don’t plan on getting a pilot’s license, and this video was awesome.
Thanks for sharing! I'm a wife who's a student pilot with extensive horseback riding experience and had mentioned to my instructor some things I'd been correlating to riding already in my head, so I guess it's time to get a copy of Stick and Rudder to dig into that a bit more! My husband probably won't have time to get his own certificate along with medical issues that might not allow him to pass a medical but he's enthusiastic about flying, so he's hoping to do 10 to 20hrs of flight training to be a semi trained companion to make our flying safer.
pretty cool to see two of my favourite channels come together!
Great video! Cooking bbq and watching TFP is the best. Been thinking I should look into this same type of training for my fam.
I was going to read "Stick and rudder" too. But now I`v found your channel and do not need read this book. Here I found much more info from your video than from the tons of books and even from my practice lessons. Great luck for me is your podcasts. Nice voice, clean language and useful information. Thank you Jason!
Really nice job. You both did awesome!
You should teach editing too! Intro was eye-catching & nothing overdone thoughout. Just facts. Well done! It was easy to see her confidence soar as time passed!
So good on so many levels! Already a fan of both you and Eric and I have been digesting “Stick and Rudder” for many years! The horse analogy was brilliant. I’ve seen enough of Eric’s videos to recognize Ginny’s genuine fear and general discomfort in the airplane. Your approach was wonderful and helped her overcome that fear. Excellent job by all!!
So cool that y’all set this up! Looking forward to getting up in the air soon
11:00 she definitely would have at least gotten them on the ground alive with that approach. really great!
Awesome. She did a great job👍
Man, your videos are always a real treat to watch! Super informative and helpful to someone like me who's working on becoming a CFI. Thanks!
I really like what I'm seeing going on, here. I think more of this should be going on with spouses, and family members of pilots. Thanks for sharing this.
Love these videos. We live near the Auburn, Lincoln, Grass Valley area. My son (19) JUST decided to become a pilot. I'll make sure he watches vids from both channels.
Outstanding job.
Eric is already a lucky guy that his wife is willing to go up! Wish I could get my husband in a plane... Nice video and great job, Jason!
For sure
I believe you've worked with the podcast Uncontrolled Airspace in the past Jason. If I recall correctly they had an episode where this topic was discussed. Glad to see a real life example of this.
Fantastic!!! Don't think I'll ever get my wife to do that, getting her in the air is hard enough.
Same!!!
HARD FACTS!!!
Having new pilots control airspeed with pitch is vital. Getting that instinctive feel for the energy tradeoff between altitude and airspeed propagates to all phases of flight.
This is an amazing idea! Thank you so much for this. I'm on my way to being a Private Pilot and this is great advice for any family. My wife will be going with me and the instructor on a discovery flight SOON! :D
I bet this made her much more comfortable with flying, because she now understands what needs to happen in case of an emergency. I wouldn’t be surprised if she decides to pick up flying at this point. Hopefully she learns the list of radio frequencies she needs, or she knows where her husband has all that information as part of the pre-flight planning. Flying a plane in an emergency it is a little bit like a mild IFR training, because you’re taking headings from ATC instead of having planned your flight.
Since my wife used to ride horses and is not really into flying I had to show her your video - and the one from Socal flying Monkey - to show her how someone shitting her pants would eventually open up enough for the must-do’s.
Fantastic job, Jason! I have given seminars on fear of flying but I can learn a lot from your approach.
Popping, see you in this skies! Keep going!
Thank you!
Awesome vid! Great job working with the non pilot. She did a great job...
wow very smooth on the controls
Great vid. We are doing the same thing 😬 and for a bit of extra challenge we are doing this in a C170! So far, so good!
That was superb. A Must Watch.
That’s was amazing. Great idea and video!
This is a great little project. I enjoy both of your channels. I wish more spouses would take pinch hitter courses.
BOOM Jason,The issues of non-pilot in the seat not to scare souls on board but sometimes things happen.Pitch hitter coarse's !
"Pinch" hitter, there bud.
@@generalrendar7290 Fat Arthritic hams Can still Pinch the Pitcher lol
Great job. Really really good idea to get the Mrs up to speed
The very first RUclips video I ever viewed was the incident where the pilot actually died in flight and his elderly wife brought the plane down successfully. I don’t see how it could ever be actually regulated, but I would hope pilots’ spouses, especially older ones, are strongly urged to have some familiarity of stick and rudder skills and radio communications.
Maybe he should ad some alternate gauges on the Copilot side for her to make it easier to keep the speed and heading
Really like both youtube channels. Content from both are excellent. Great to see you collaborate on this.
Thanks Jason, you're awesome
Dang, she was flying better approaches on her third flight than I was! Well done.
AWESOME WORK Ginny!!!!!!
Good stuff, my wife also needs this
Mine too 😳
Just awesome to watch you teach your craft, amazing job Jason.
Thank you 🙏🏻🙌
Great video! I'm going to be working on this with my wife in our plane soon. Has been the plan since I got my license. I'm looking forward to see how she does... might even spark another licensed aviator :)
Yes, I can see it going that way for Poppins too 😊
Jenny did great!
123.00 is way too crowded around there, Lincoln, Angwin, Yolo, Calaveras, I even hear Half Moon bay sometimes.
But the CTAF @KHAF is 122.8
Excellent video! Thanks for producing. Tons of great info! FLy safe!
It certainly seems that Ginny is quite nervous but I'm thinking with some working knowledge of how the plane works she will actually want to know and try more. Looking down the line I wouldn't be surprised to see Ginny with her own pilot certificate in a couple of years.
You're in Grass valley? right up the road from me. I feel lessons coming.
Great video. I knew he had come up to work with you but not why. Awesome training session with her.
Such a great idea. Looking forward to the next part.