We Almost Screwed Up Big Time

[@ronmoore5827]

Another nice one gentleman, in and out of the clouds never gets old. As for the mistake, you caught it fast and no harm done.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely, thanks for watching!

[@skyking4581]

Nice recovery to 36R. You're not alone. It has happened to me once or twice on a visual to parallel runways. Good Job.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@skyking4581 Thanks!

[@davidpeveto1749]

Increased situational awareness, a sterile cockpit, and the fact that you caught the mistake almost immediately only reinforces the professionalism and attention to detail of the crew. Great work guys!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@_Joy_Unleashed]

Rare af these days

[@twvs5]

This is really interesting, especially your description, great transparency. Keep up the good work.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@JetpilotMuz]

"We" did a great job notifying PF HE was about to overshoot. The perfect copilot 😂 Great video as always, thank you.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@ghostrunner2138]

Beautiful debrief and situational awareness as a person working through commercial with the goal of flying these jets I love this videos

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@ghostrunner2138 Thanks!

[@owensed01]

look at the view! incredible. must be a very fulfilling and satisfying career. We love you pilots who keep us safe in the air!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@owensed01 It is really fun, thanks!

[@BlueDevel]

Thank you for sharing your "mistake" with us. I love the flight community for exactly this. There are so many industries where people actively try to hide their mistakes. The flight community has (mostly) the attitue of continously improving itself.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely, thanks for watching!

[@eudesrafael3029]

Great coordination to get into 36R, that's why two pairs of eye are needed!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely, thanks!

[@CrustyBalls007]

Pic, seems a little snappy. But great recovery, love the videos keep em coming 👍

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@CrustyBalls007 Thanks!

[@timhopper8688]

Kept waiting to see the mistake but y'all handled it so smoothly!! Had to read the comments to see what happened 😁😁😁

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@timhopper8688 Haha thanks!

[@tomjones3113]

Like watching your videos. Even when you make mistakes, you still show you are human in the videos. Keep up the great videos.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@C.D.-tz6sk]

One of the most beautiful asthetic Jets ever!!! Saw one at bentonvill and the pilot was merciful and kind enough to invite me to tour it and sit in the cockpit... I got a commercial back in 2001 and started flight school sept of 2001 got all my ratings but jobs were gone... beautiful aircraft it was a cloudy dreary day... I was overwelmed by the small windshield....

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Cool! it is a small windshield haha I wish more light could have entered the cockpit for better pictures/videos

[@jamesbelliv]

Nice recovery gentleman. Love the vids as I’m almost done with flight school and hoping to jump into the corporate world. Keep up the great work!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks! keep up the good work

[@jorgeenriqueatehortuagavir4151]

Excelente Capitan, Dios los xontinue protegiendo inclusive a sus pasajeros,Buen viento y excelentes vuelos 🛫✈️

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thank you sir!

[@ClearedAsFiled]

Great flight....much respect for your ability to manage the technology, fly the plane and interact with ATC...landing on parallel runways is always challenging.😊

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@SpiralOut86]

Nobody's perfect, nice catch and correction. Thanks for posting

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely, Thanks!

[@adtancredi]

Great video. Another reason why we need 2 pilots in the cockpit. Keep it up!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@firepilot109]

Great video as always. $H!T happens, we hopefully learn from it and move on! Hoping to get some jet time this year and can't wait see more of your flights.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely, thanks!

[@tuckertucker1]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing the mistake. Honesty makes everyone safer.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely, Thanks!

[@1EyedRooster]

This was really fun to watch

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@etravix]

I enjoyed the flight. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks for watching!

[@austinformedude]

Very good CRM. Especially like the FO ground call outs

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@marklupus]

Nice chap, tipping his hat to you calling out the correct runway on the approach. Lots of PICs would just have assumed try to forget their mistake and hope you would too.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Exactly, thanks!

[@ratamacue148]

the saying is "just as soon", not "just assume"

[@marklupus]

@ WTF ever dude....

[@dylancimbala3101]

Home airport, welcome to Austin!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@David-m5v3b]

This video proves that having 2 pilots in the cockpit is invaluable.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely

[@shiftW420]

This is exactly why I argue against single-pilot ops. Having two sets of eyes makes a load of a difference. Nice catch.

[@adb012]

When (not if) we have single pilot ops, it will not be with today's planes. It will most likely be the plane doing the flying and the pilot making strategic decisions (if needed) and monitoring. The plane (automated) would have not made this mistake to begin with, and the pilot would still have been there to intervene if necessary. Let me clarify one thing: I don't like the idea of single pilot ops for transport category planes. I just see it as inevitable. So I prefer to think on the conditions that the plane and other systems (navigation, ATC) would have to meet to make it safe rather than "fighting" the inevitable because it's a loosing move.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

It’s definitely a complicated topic, with the current airplanes we have probably not gonna work

[@Gryper-c3s]

Descents always seem to take forever. Good teamwork.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@alpiinoo135]

Nice landing, beautiful aircraft.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@twon4203]

14:31 that pilot has got some attitude sheesh

[@TheChallengerPilot]

All good, we are good friends and nothing is personal

[@traffictraffic]

4:10 such a cool shot plunging into the clouds

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@jessesalgado6705]

it what i had thought too

[@JJM2222]

nice recovery capt, and good catch co

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@foxtrot789]

Great save by the FO!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@idahoairplanes1235]

4 eyeballs and great CRM mean no problem. Fun video.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@patrickunderwood5662]

Learned to fly at Centennial, KAPA, which has parallel runways. You’ve probably been there. Drilled into us never to overshoot! Hey did you ever make it to the National Museum of WWII Aviation in the Springs?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@patrickunderwood5662 Absolutely! Unfortunately didnt have time to visit the museum, we departed straight away

[@Shaytesler30]

Waited for the weekly video 🎉

[@aviatortrevor]

The requests to configure and run the checklist I think added to the workload and your ability as PM to watch the airplane. When "cleared for the visual" was stated, there should have been another mode armed to capture the final approach course. Lesson learned. I've had something similar happen as PM.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

we had the ils set as a backup, it was an honest mistake, we should have done better, but we learned from it and moved on

[@JeffrikOG9]

Its amazing that we can fly and go around the world in a few hours

[@TheChallengerPilot]

It is!

[@JeffrikOG9]

@TheChallengerPilot im going to germany from texas in a couple weeks. I always appreciate how easy it is. So many thing we take for granted.

[@tlyke7]

My home airport so interesting to watch

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@AARONJW84]

twas a bit hairy, but you caught it in time. good catch.👍

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@DiamondOrPoor78]

And this is why you have two pilots Airbus

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Haha indeed

[@crooked-halo]

I wonder, at airports with parallel runways, if tower regularly corrects planes going toward the incorrect runway? Perhaps it's actually rare?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

It is defiantly not frequent, but I bet it happens once in a while

[@natebarr7]

I love aviation and you have amazing videos, I actually had a question about aviation, when flying the plane, what elevation do you turn autopilot on and off for landing and takeoffs? For example 4,000 feet on a takeoff you turn on autopilot and 4,000 feet turn off autopilot for landing.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Really depends on the situation and who you are flying with, sometimes at 1000 feet sometimes at 13,000 feet

[@EASsirenVids01]

Looks like a very fun job. I do have a passion for aviation and am an avgeek at heart, but unfortunately I can't be a pilot. My second pick job would be mechanic, but I also have a passion for fire alarms, and I think that's where my life belongs.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

It is a great job

[@BeautyoftheUniverse333]

Where was the mistake that you almost made. Love the videos!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@BeautyoftheUniverse333 We went past the runway approach path and almost busted the other runway’s approach path

[@DavidM.R.]

@@TheChallengerPilot I was waiting for no flaps, no landing gear or something like that. You solved it in a calm way

[@flyoverfredusa]

Navy/USAF approach, looked good to me 😁

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Haha i guess so

[@briand3837]

Never hurts to still use localizer for situational awareness, even on a visual.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely

[@AnthonyRobson-tl6zs]

well done gents

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@AnthonyRobson-tl6zs Thank you sir!

[@yoerilebon]

Only just discovered your channel, wonderful content ! Can i ask what you use to record? Is it a pair of glasses with a built-in camera? I love this kind of content, keep it coming ;-)

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@yoerilebon Thanks! using the go pro hero 12 mounted on my head

[@NicholasPatel00]

Your quality of your videos are insane! How do you record through a camera or glasses?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Go Pro Hero 12

[@banjovic]

Would it be worse if it was not a visual approach? I feel like busting a approach on a ILS would be more tricky.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@banjovic I guess it would be if it was an ils in imc, and especially if there was a second airplane on the parallel runway

[@spediegunz]

this has happened to me to me a few times on vatsim network in the sim so the question is how did you overshoot? did atc give you the turn too late? was the turn to final to sharp a turn for the auto pilot to handle? was approach mode not armed? I saw the captain ask you a second time for the heading did the delay in the turn play a factor ?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

No just a moment of not being concentrated and not looking at the runway

[@AllenPortman]

Even though communication was positive but you could tell with the 2 ex-military mentality it was a challenge at times to accept comms coming from the other :) I am sure both pilots have type-A personalities? I am a retired firefighter (captain) and it is sort of this way in the fire service majority have type-A personalities 🙂

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Haha something like that, but we manage to get along pretty well

[@lsubandtrumpet2014]

Dont worry professionals! Uall got this!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Thanks!

[@Vikram-n5e]

Isn't the challenger equipped with the RAAS? That was a pretty quick correction! Great work!

[@TheChallengerPilot]

only the 350 and the 3500, Thanks!

[@Randalllongshoes]

I saw you flying when this happened.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Cool!

[@ranger2316]

Not a pilot... I'm not sure what the problem was...looked pretty normal to me. Thank you for bringing us along. BTW... why do the controllers talk so fast?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

That good haha, they dont talk so fast, once you know what they are about to say its easier to understand what they are saying

[@GL7T-7500]

Why did the PF lower the gear?.. No, approach loaded as a back up to the visual on 36R? no missed approach altitude set?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

ILS approach was loaded as backup, no missed approach altitude cause there isn't one, its a visual approach

[@GL7T-7500]

@@TheChallengerPilot So if it's a visual approach backed with an ILS, why not put in the published missed approach altitude vs listening to the altitude alert going off all the way to landing. The ILS obviously wasn't in approach mode, or nav armed hence the fly through of the centerline, just sayin

[@toxifyfnlive7099]

hey captain where you guys in KTMB on 1/10/25?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

I think the airplane was, I’m not on it currently

[@toxifyfnlive7099]

@@TheChallengerPilot ohh thank you captain :)

[@SpidaMez]

something like that happened when i was flying a cessna 150, execpt the tower saved me from crossing over thank god

[@TheChallengerPilot]

We all make mistakes sometimes, gotta learn from them and move on

[@AshtonWilkerson-l1j]

What company do you fly for

[@TheChallengerPilot]

a 135 company

[@gaelcaceres4973]

what does he use to record?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Go pro hero 12

[@jetpilott2420]

What’s the point of running the before landing checklist once, just to run it again? Why is the captain swinging his own gear while he’s flying? So many questions.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

I think his mentality was to run the checklist again cause we just made a mistake, lets just double check that everything is ready for landing and that we have not made other mistakes that we did not notice yet.

[@gankala8]

do understand exactly where you messed up the visual approach. Seems normal to me unless you point out exactly at what time.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Theres a chapter there before the turn to final where we made a mistake

[@AvStuff1]

What plane?

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Challenger 300

[@AvStuff1]

@ ohhhh, ok

[@Manguitos_aviation]

Is in Austin tx

[@TheChallengerPilot]

@@Manguitos_aviation Yes

[@Socrates-o4q]

When GB fumbled and got it back then an Eagle jerks it out of GB tummy after a couple of seconds even on the ground and the Eagle has the ball then the REF whistles, Eagles' ball. Even the commentators were surprised as well as many others who saw it. GB fumbles at Philadelphia always goes Eagles's way to build up their fan base.

[@Nico-dt3pf]

The average passenger would freak out in this situation. Not aviators.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Passengers usually dont even know it happened 😅

[@Nico-dt3pf]

@ I know that my point it’s good that they don’t lol

[@braedonpitts5522]

Nice catch by the FO, perfectly handled by the PIC. Get rid of the automation, fly the aircraft. Flown with too many captains that would try to correct it with automation.

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Absolutely, thanks!

[@nealrasmussen4832]

This software dude thought cleared for 36 left. I should listen better.

[@gankala8]

literally your video could have been for 90 seconds and we would have been good to go....

[@TheChallengerPilot]

I could, but I upload the whole approach when I post a video...

[@Narsil1794]

Oops. :/

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Mistakes happen, we learn from them, and move on

[@terrancestodolka4829]

Seems we now easily have information overload... And all while trying to underhand what some electronic PFI screen is providing to us instantaneously and is it truthful and useful at all...

[@TheChallengerPilot]

Definitely, you need sometimes to just get your head out there and fly it oldschool, we do it a lot, this time it almost got us