I'm confused and have a question. 8:25 While I understand that in order to complete a landing in such conditions the pilot should, if able, intercept an ILS system however the emergency aircraft has a faulty engine which everyone must assume will fail before the landing has been completed. So why would the controller request that the emergency aircraft, which already has demonstrated that it can not climb effectively and has since degraded in performance, descend from 5k to 3k when in order to make a successful approach must, on its current course, complete a 180 degree course change? Why wouldn't the pilot challenge that altitude change? In the present conditions shouldn't the pilot want to keep as much altitude as possible and wait until the last moments to change to a lower altitude? With a dead engine I was under the impression that you should only trade altitude for speed in order to keep the aircraft flyable? Shouldn't he have waited to go to the lower altitude at least until after he made the 180 to approach the airstrip? Or even if a 180 wasn't required shouldn't he have descended only after determining that he could successfully glide to the airfield without an operating engine? As it stands after descending the pilot can't regain that altitude and if the engine does die, as is likely, he will have confirmed the arrangement of a probable tragedy in league with the controller. They were both wrong to change altitude so early? Did the controller simply treat an emergency landing, brought about by a lack of power via a failing power plant, as a standard approach to the airfield? Do controllers not understand to never trade altitude, unless necessary, when a power loss is being experienced by an aircraft? What am I not taking into consideration or understanding here? (Not even asking why the controller didn't vector the aircraft directly to the airfield without all of the standard approach course changes, straight in was a better solution, especially if ILS was available on that approach and especially with GPS guidance and knowing the airstrip's altitude).

Easiest to understand and well explained over other explanations. Thank you ❤

My first ever solo instrument flight was from EGTU England, to Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, back in 2014 in a Cessna 172 with no auto pilot. It was a 2.5 hr flight of hand flying IMC, I got airframe icing, and unforecast 30kt crosswinds on landing. I was alone, I won't forget that flight, especially crossing the Irish Sea! I descended over the ocean to melt away the icing.

"he got a pilot killed" ??? isn't that murder??? did you mean to say "one of his ferry pilots was killed during a ferry flight" vocabulary is very important you could implicate someone using such bad vocabulary.

come to this clip after watch Jeju air crashed by landing on runway. Do you think their case better be Ditched in the ocean?

Scud running IFR i folow roads / i follow rail roads ...least likely to catch a cell tower or windmill over these ..good landing or ditching spot where there would have human traffic to finde you . But best thing is to wait and appreciate life

Some good old fashioned skud running. Have tons of hours doing it in my 206.

The Gov use a sphere shape for obvious reasons , DoD, Cops, Fire etc. That is some weird shape.

she thought she was climbing and had not a care in the world.....oh except for the gopro cams!

This was an immediate subscription, awesome brother

Accident? Apparently her driving wasnt any better. The problems is the FAA hands out civil pilot licenses like CANDY! In Australia she would not make the grade and Kerry and her father would still be alive pursuing other interests.

Half-assed setup-no intercom with operator.

So true

This is a great video! You keep it real, love it.

Fun... until you hit the ground!

Great video, Kerry, nobody wants to talk about it but sometimes it's hard to avoid.

What no split S?

A lot of fart 💨 potential.

My DA40 has an "Essential Bus" toggle for when the alternator quits. And the G1000 will paint the screen with an Alternator failure warning when it quits. 2008 technology is pretty cool when you think about it.And pay for it. Informative video Kerry thank you. That is some crazy ass ferry work you do.

Just read his book. Highly recommend

excellent!!!

Liked the video, and have read one of your books. Laughed about the cookies, isn't that the Mn way, you say no twice, and they offer three times. At least that is how hospitality works up in the northern part of the state.

Hope you made your flight!

I’m not going to speak to your experience cuz it’s irrelevant. I lost track of how many reasons you gave to not fly and exhibited text book hazardous attitudes. Knowing your instruments were shit and not having an updated database, you weren’t even legal to fly IFR.

I've been in this situation before flying with a low time pilot (and myself as a student pilot), encountering a descending ceiling and scattered light showers. The low time PIC became fixated on maintaining the 1000ft AGL legal minimum altitude, and we were starting to skim the bottom of the clouds. I had to pretty forcefully assert that we descend immediately to remain visual, and consider turning back. I also recommended we use the "bad weather" configuration (which IIRC in that plane was 80 knots & 20deg flap). We radioed another plane a few miles ahead, and determined that it was an isolated pocket of weather, with higher ceilings again within another couple of miles. We were likely already halfway through it, so we pressed on. I recommended following a road that ran roughly parallel to our track to help maintain visual reference. The area was luckily coastal plains, so no mountains to avoid. We probably never got below 500ft AGL, though with patches of showers on the windshield it didn't feel like a lot. The scariest part wasn't the weather, but seeing a more experienced pilot than myself get fixated, and stop making preemptive decisions.

Not very many yootoobers in the aviation world that extol the virtues of experience and wisdom. Former bold, but older pilot here.

Keep the great videos coming. Good to have the ability to get a pop up clearance in your back pocket in situations like that.

lies

Seems that the engine was running……… Dead stick landing? / Not so much. CLICK BAIT 👎

Yeah I'm not doing that any time soon... hopefully.

Awesome, just a spin.

You don’t visually check or dip your tanks ? No bueno-

Gosh yanks are so excitable , I fly my grob Viking and easily enjoy myself without the porn soundtrack to go with it

That’s wild!! Haha those gliders have such an insane glide ratio that he can play around like that for a while I bet

Greetings from Cape Town. C182…

Good on you, you lucky b*stard… 👍😎😅⛺️

Around the 15-minute mark, when you popped up outta the clouds for a second boy, that was a beautiful picture. Beautiful blue sky.

Foreflight does NOT give you real time weather radar. ADSB has a delay that has killed many pilots. You also admitted your artificial horizon doesn't really work, but you took off knowing you might be IFR and went IFR. You also need a current NAV database in the plane's GPS (not the iPad) to be legal. I've never seen such gross incompetence. Perfect demonstration of how experienced pilots normalize deviant behavior because they've gotten away with it in the past and lived, until they finally don't get away with it....I'm speechless.

What a GORGEOUS BIRD! Love it Kerry and I was SO GLAD to meet you at Oshkosh 2024 this year! Love the books too I’m your #1 book fan! Hope to see you next year at OSH25! Cheers 🥂 -Caleb’s Aviation

Love it! I was just one row behind you this year! So glad to meet you this year Kerry! -Caleb’s Aviation

THERE WAS A REASON SE NIGHT IFR IS NOT GOOD IN THE ROCKYS SE IFR AT WAS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR CHARTER

“ This is just a spin “ You Ferry guys have the best stories. Note to self: never be a Ferry Pilot.

hey buddy, reminds me of the last time we scud runned all the way to Florida from Minnesota. Intense flying, but makes you feel like a pilot!

I watch videos of $100000 planes that have 3 axis auto plots all the time. What's up with an expensive Caravan w/o one?

Oh Dear, I hope my PPL students don't see this video and get ideas...

Kerry... you do things ass backwards, or totally fucking wrong. That's why I admire the hell out of you!! 😅😂 This is great stuff!!

Sounds like you had a few holes in the Swiss Cheese I am glad that they didn't line up. You always had the out of going IFR. Scud running without a out is suicide. I would have had flight following, if possible at that altitude. That way a pop up is not a big deal since they already know who you are. I guess that the high altitude gas savings with the turbine wasn't enough to cancel out the headwinds.

Is the Garret a mod for the camera?

Airplane reference

What would be wrong with a sphere.