My first flight in IMC was a doozy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2023
- After a couple of days of meetings in New York, I had to use my new instrument rating for real on the way home. I experienced my first IMC (on my own), with nearly 2 hours of solid instrument conditions on my 2.3 hour flight home. Join me as I manage my first real instrument flight, learning some lessons along the way, and learning just how valuable ATC is, especially for those of us in little planes!
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ATC always gets a bad wrap. They have always been amazing with me. All you got to do is be honest with them, and don't be a douche. They are always willing to help.
True story. I once lost all headings in IMC, only had a compass and ATC helped us back to base. I never understood the pilots vs atc mentality.
@@pedropinho573agreed
I got to fly a Sierra once when I first got my license. It was a Beautiful airplane to fly.
Thank you for sharing! Big shout out to all the air traffic controllers looking out for us
It wasn’t a supervisor, it was the trainer of a trainee controller. The controller was doing OJT, it’s the last step of controller training.
With over 26,000 hours, your flight made me nervous with no first officer, but you did a great job!😀 Flying IFR is much about confidence. Keep it going! Captain Doug
Thanks!
Captain please I want to come to Canada to take this course…which school would you suggest…and also would you suggest flight school or aviation academy
@@yakubucletus9041 I don't know about most of the schools in Canada. I did my initial pilot training at Durham Flight Centre, which is good, and Canadian Flight Academy, which is also at the CYOO airport, is also a good choice. I don't know about any others, though, and there are LOTS around Canada that you can google.
@@yakubucletus9041 Start Googling. There are a ton of great schools.
You know your response about having 26,000 hours and being nervous watching him fly is not unusual. I have friends who are airline pilots and they think that private pilot who fly single engine aircraft IFR single pilot are crazy. I told one of my friends, who is a 777 retired American Airlines captain, but I wanted to Get some more IFR training. He told me I was nuts. He told me to stay on on the ground and keep out of those small aircraft. I suspect they get so used to system redundancy and cockpit management with first officer/copilots present and elevated safety awareness and highly capable equipment to fly that they just cannot tolerate the idea of doing anything less in terms of handling workload.
Great video. As a VFR pilot, it's nice to see IFR from the perspective of newer pilots, it's very insightful. All that being said, you seem very calm, cool and collected with the process!
Awesome job staying calm, cool and collected the entire time!
This has to be one the best videos I've seen in a while about IMC conditions, support from ATC and a well calm cool and collected pilot. WELL DONE amazing video
That was really well done! Amazing work
I feel for you! Brilliantly handled, you seemed like an ifr veteran. Thank you for sharing, I've subscribed.
Thanks for sharing your ride. It reminded me so much of my IFR training experience. Enjoy the journey and stay safe.
Another inspiring and EXCELLENT video Kamal !
Thanks!
Great video! Going through IFR Training now and for your first IMC flight you performed like you have been doing it for years! nice job!
Thanks for sharing. ATC was very helpful getting and sharing information from other aircraft.
Great job on the flight/ADM & video!
thank you for the ride along...great awareness ,,,good job......
Great stuff and nice editing on the video!
Man, I’m currently working on my ground portion of my instrument, and I heard that departure flight plan, and was definitely so stressed out. You handled it like a champ! Truly inspirational for us VF our pilots looking to do what you were doing now. Keep up the good work!
Thanks very much, Russ, I appreciate that. Good luck with your instrument rating!
Wow!
Loved this video!
Thanks for sharing!
Love the Sierra! Owned one for 20+ yrs! Nice video
Really enjoyed watching this, thank you 🙂
Great Job!
Really enjoyed your video - many thanks!
Great Video!!!
Really nice video. As a guy that has been flying for over 30 years, you made this look easy. Blue side up!
great flight -- great video. welld one.
I am just an armchair pilot, but this was a great video about your first IMC experience... subscribed!
I agree. ATC has always been there to help when I was a low time IFR rated SEL pilot.
ATC is amazing. They are really helpful. Every now and again, you will find one having a bad day. And they are STILL helpful in my humble opinion. Single pilot IFR is always a heavy work load. Nice work. Good job!!! Thank you for sharing your flight. Welcome to IFR flying.
That was a really good show of IFR and but definitely doesn’t do you justice on how scary it is flying a single engine piston with no de-icing capability into showers at low temperatures. Very good experience no doubt. Fly safe!
Great video! Excellent work threading your way through the procedures and the weather!
Thanks Richard!
well done
as if you had been flying in IMC for HUNDREDS of hours
thanks for sharing with us
I’m working on my PPL. Flying IFR is such a big step but you handle like a champ in IMC. You seem very focus, cool and composed. Very impressive. ATC do such a good job re-vector you for a smoother flight. Greetings from NZWN New Zealand.
well done!!!
Another great video Kamal. I'm working on my IFR and found this vid very helpful, especially the ATC interaction and your decision making. Nice job!
Thank you, Joe!
Great job. You made that look easy and ATC was awesome.
Thanks, Reale, they really were incredible.
great job, cheers
Thanks for sharing. It helps to co-live the experience with you. Working on my IPC with a totally digital panel. Tough transition after 40 years of steam gauges.
Well done. A nice IMC flight and great support provided by ATC which is always a huge help.
Thanks! They really are indispensable
WOW! Thank you so much for this content. Appreciate the time you spent combining video and narrating. 10/10
Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words.
I love the way You present Yours flights on YT. Please keep filming. Greetings from helicopter guy.
200+ subs in the past few days! Well done! Love the videos!
Yeah now I just need to figure out what it was about this video that’s really resonating with people so I can build on it. 😀
@@WingsOverTO Honestly? The quality's great and the topic is something people are always looking for - I personally believe it simply comes down to consistency! You're doing it! Fly safe!
Nice video! I always heard the Teterboro controllers are nice IF you are on your A game as they have little time to spare. Must be quite stressful. Good job, that’s quite the flight for a first timer!
Well done.
ATC is my eyes in the sky and I always appreciate what they do to make my flight experience enjoyable
Totally agreed.
What sweet plane! love the modern engine other instruments
Really good action..does not look at all, that is your 1. imc alone..
Years ago as a student pilot, I flew into imc conditions, with my cfi in the right seat. We got a pop up IFR and I was able to fly an RNAV approach almost down to minimums. Scary as hell, but I learned early on that A) IMC is no joke, an B) Trust your instruments.
Best thing that happened to me as a student pilot.
Good job!
Working on my instrument. Great video. Got my sub.
One cool customer! Great job out of Teterboro and first time IMC single pilot. I enjoyed the ride along.
Thanks, Gary!
This video was so well put together.
Thank you!
Great video! I'm in the Chicago area and only was able to get a CFII once winter temps were here, so icing conditions were here. My checkride is later this month but I won't go actual until I get time with an instructor first.
Just about describes my feelings in my first proper solo IMC flight Shobdon to Exeter UK. Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video. I’m waiting for my IFR checkride. Your experience helps my confidence.
Thanks Paul. Good luck with your check ride!
Nice video!
I am working on my IFR right now and this video is helpful. Thanks and great job on your first IFR trip.
Glad it was useful! Good luck with the IFR.
That wasn't a doozy, you did great! Good job!
Thanks, Ricky!
Great video! Still have to get started with IR training, but I will probably be a little hestitant to flying into rain or any bigger cloud built ups. This helps getting a picture of such situations :) Thanks.
You were great.
Great video, especially shout-outs to ATC. Fully agree. They have nearly always been super helpful and courteous in my 10 years flying GA. I’m always happy to be talking with a controller on the other end!
100% agreed! I personally don't understand pilots who don't feel comfortable or just don't want to talk to ATC. The way I see it, the more people looking out for me up there, the better.
This is helpful to see, im working through my IFR now and based out of CYOO also. Awesome work.
Awesome, glad it’s helpful!
Really like your videos!
I appreciate that!
This is sick! Just came across your channel!! Love to see you flew over my airspace haha! I'm based in Allentown lol!
Thanks! Maybe someday I’ll stop there. 😀
Earned yourself a new subscriber bro.
Watched your first 2 ep after this one.
Diggin’ your way with the content.
Thanks! I went back and watched one of my early videos recently. Let’s just say my video making skills have improved somewhat since then. 😀 Maybe skip the first dozen or so.
@@WingsOverTO hey man. I actually watched your first two and THEN decided to subscribe. It was easy to see that I was gonna really CLICK with your way of presenting your content. 👊
Awesome content, love the music!
Thank you! You’re the first person to say they like the music, all other mentions of it are more like “music is not necessary”. Lol
Just shared it with a new ifr guy. Well done.
Thanks! Are you a CFII?
Great flight with no virus pain this time, in IFR. 👍🏻
LOL, no virus this time, thank goodness! Thanks Julio!
Well done all around. Shoutout to Piedmont’s “not bad” pirep. Helpful stuff.
LOL yeah I had no idea what to make of that.
Isn't it great when you first fly IMC..!!😎👍
Yeah, and so far it hasn't gotten old, either! Thanks for watching.
I fly a Sundowner and sometimes with a good tailwind the controllers call me a "Debonair". Not usually a Bonanza though. Beautiful Sierra you have there!
Nicely done sir. Your flight was no doozy, but your click bait worked XD
Really great video, very interesting. Personally (and I am confident I speak for most), I don't see a need for the background music at the start, I really just want to hear the natural sounds. Good luck with your future flights, I look forward to watching your adventures.
Thanks Iain! I’ve had a couple of people say that about the music, interesting. Personally I like a little bit of it for parts of the video, but I appreciate everyone has different preferences.
Great Video, Im a VFR single engine pilot with no instrument rating. im looking forward with instrument training ahead. Really enjoyed your video. Hope that im cool as you appeared
Thanks so much. For watching my video, and for the kind words. Good luck with your instrument training!
Nicely done! Keep an eye on convective and icing sigmets before you go flying. Another tip is to ask for a deviation in the direction you want to go without limiting yourself. Just say, I want a left or right deviation. If ATC needs to limit you, they will. I know you didn't do this in the video, but it might be helpful in the future.
Thanks, Adam, good tips!
having never flown with a auto pilot i would imagine that helps tremendously with IMC. ATC and a great pre flight / flight plan are amazing !
Hey Tim, thanks for watching. Yeah, I can't imagine flying in IMC without an autopilot! I know I could do it if needed (I will turn the AP off every now and then for a while to practice and keep proficient), but it takes so much of the load off.
I fly with the US east coast controllers a lot. They are really great!
Really enjoyed this video. IMC + Teterboro in a GA aircraft...not easy. Well done.
Thanks so much!
It can get tricky up there, indeed.
Super cool! I'm working on my Instrument Rating right now, and I'm more than 3/4 of the way done. I've already got about an hour of actual under my belt, and hoping for a lot more as the weather warms up here in northwest Ohio.
Oh nice, good luck with getting it finished up. I feel your pain about good flying days being few and far between this year.
Great job! My first encounter with wx after pilot training in Arizona was in S.C. in an F-4 with no autopilot no ILS, just a hand flown GCA. Scary at best but like you a confidence builder.
Thanks! I can't imagine doing IFR without the benefit of GPS. Of course I know people did it all the time, but it's so hard to picture myself being comfortable without the iPad in front of me and the 430W on the panel. Thanks for watching!
i missed the inrat written by 1 question felt like a real kick in the teeth, your videos are pretty motivating i think mainly because youre a local (got my CPL at YOO) love your videos man
Ouch, that's brutal! I hope you're able to take it again soon and get it out of the way. Thanks for the kind words!
Clearance dude read that super nice and slow, really great to hear it
For sure! I don’t know if they somehow knew that I’m new to this and spoke slowly for me, or if they’re always that deliberate about clearances. But I definitely appreciated it.
Congrats on your first. When asked if you had on board radar you should say no, I’ve got XM or adsb wx. That way he knows you don’t have live data. They can be a big help in navigating the heavier stuff. Good job!
Thanks, Pete
Great job. I’m one of those guys with my IFR and basically zero imc time since I live in Vegas.
Gotta say, I’m jealous. IMC conditions keep most of us little guys grounded for most of the winter where I live. And winter here is like November to May. 😀
IMC is so much easier than when I first got my rating in 1973. There were places that did not have radar coverage for their approaches and NDB;VOR was the main enroute navigation. Sometimes you had to find a LandLine to close your IFR FLT Plan.
Excellent job especially for a newly minted instrument pilot. One tip; you don't have to wait for vectors from ATC for weather. It's best to be proactive and pick a route that keeps you out of trouble ahead of time. I do it all the time and controllers are very cooperative.
Thanks very much, I appreciate that. I did pick a route that generally kept me safe, but the weather unfortunately does change and move around during longer flights. The route I chose showed some light to moderate precip, but nothing that made me think I should take a big detour to the west to avoid.
Nice vid
Great to see your real first test of IMC and handling EXCELLENT! and hats off to the air traffic controllers they are so busy sometimes its hard to bottle feed.
Nice video! You'll be okay flying IFR. If you find yourself getting tense, just take a deep breath, relax, and work your situation like a triage - fly the plane first, work out the rest in order of importance. If the wx gets too ugly, go the other way...
It's been said but really thankful for ATC.
Nice job. From the look of things, seems like the minor correction from ATC was busting the 1500 foot crossing restriction at WENTZ. It's a simple DP, but so many people make the same mistake you did. The simplest way to think about the RUUDY6 is to climb straight to 1500 and stay put, then up to 2000 after you cross WENTZ. Hard to say what exactly causes it, but that DP gets busted on altitude several times per week.
Ah KTEB! What a busy place to earn a PPL, but I'm glad I had the experience back in 1998/99. There were two or three flight schools back then and I did my training at MillionAir flight school. We would take off and fly over to MMU and CDW to practice landings (T&Gs). In fact, I actually soloed at MMU. Fun times learning in that busy airspace and keeping out of trouble, lol. As a private pilot, I haven't landed at TEB in decades. Even as an employee of the airport owner, I get no discount on landing fees, so it's just not worth it, when I can use CDW or MMU to pickup friends/family 😅
Oh wow, I cannot imagine doing PPL training at Teterboro! Even my home field of Oshawa gets busy from time to time for a newbie student, but KTEB would just be nuts. Good for you.
@@WingsOverTO yeah it was pretty hectic to say the least, lol. I have a friend who worked ATC there when I was training, so he'd help get me off the ground and minimize my burning avgas behind all the jets (whenever he could).😂 Overall, it was an awesome experience! Nice job on the flight and video, I'll have to check out more of your content, now that I stumbled across your page 👍🏾
@@WingsOverTO BTW, I live 20 mins from TEB and still enjoy driving over to the field occasionally to watch the jet traffic and daydream of flying one 😃😂
It is interesting to see your video it came up in my recommendations, Allentown is my stomping grounds fly out of there pretty often. Interesting pick, I hear often people pick teterboro because they think it be easier than the Big airports. However the flipside is now most think that making Teterboro harder. I recently learned it is cheaper and easier to go into Le Guardia. I emailed their FBO and their prices were cheaper than Tereboro.
Interesting. I didn’t even look at the airports because I just assumed they were off limits.
We did some commercial training in a Beech Sierra. Kind of like flying a brick.. (-: ATC is usually understanding and helpful. I've had a few that were quite nasty, or talked so fast you couldn't understand them. Mostly happens in busier airports. Yours were very good, I'd say.
Great video Kamal! Nice to see another newly-minded IFR pilot operating safely and confidently - you obviously had some great instruction from Allan!
Quick question: around the 9:00 mark in the video - your manifold pressure seems to dance up and down quite a bit more than I see when I'm flying a C182. Is that normal or perhaps an idiosyncrasy of your Sierra?
Regards,
Peter
Thanks Peter! Agreed, the training I got from Allan was awesome.
That fluctuation in MAP is a weird anomaly that’s been there since I had the JPI engine monitor put in. I don’t actually feel a fluctuation in the engine power so I believe it’s just something odd about the JPI or the sensor going into it, but my mechanic hasn’t seen anything unusual about the setup. I should try to track down what’s going on though.
This is exactly why I stress out to instrument students to get exposure to actual IMC. And believe it or not, some good DPEs refuse to do a checkride with applicants who have never been in clouds. They are looking out for our safety.
And if you manage to pass a checkride without ever seeing a cloud, bring a pilot friend with you on your first IMC flight. One with IR and some experience, of course. It should help a lot with confidence. That's what friends are for!
Been watching your video series over the past week. I noticed that the MP value is jumping on your JPI 900. I had the same issue. The problem can be corrected with a snubber being placed in the manifold line.
Oh interesting, that’s really good to know. I’ll mention that to my mechanic. Thanks!
Nice video. Your communication skills are top notch.
Curious, can’t tell from your panel if you are you ADS-B out equipped. If you aren’t equipped, are there exceptions for international fliers?
Thank you! I have a uAvionix TailBeacon that provides ADSB out in the US. I have flown into the Us before I got that installed, and there is a process for getting an exemption from the ADSB requirement on a one off basis, which I’ve done. But if you do that too often, they would probably just stop approving the request. I thought it would be better for me to just get it, even though it’s not required in Canada yet.
"found it less difficult than flying with foggles" did you actually hand fly anything? Or was it all on the autopilot?