this video is brought to you by the book in-flight emergencies a step-by-step guide to handling the unexpected inside the book Jason shares his stories and dozens of others in addition to video from actual emergencies visit in flight emergencies comm to learn more and grab your copy guys go ahead and get started today we're talking about handling in-flight memories so I'm going to share this guys this is a presentation I've done literally all over the country some of you have the fliers about the aviation seminar at sea I've done it there some fun Oshkosh AOPA aviation summit really highly sought after presentation I'm really fortunate excited to share it with you guys today so a lot of you may be asking first off who the heck is this Jason guy anybody here ever heard a web cycle Danzer a comm or seen any videos cool so a few people awesome I run a flight training video blog called m0a comm we were the first people to actually externally mount cameras on general aviation aircraft for the purpose of flight training so really really big stuff just like the video clip you saw at the very beginning they're really taking flight training to a new level and educating people via the internet via YouTube with those videos doing those videos led to us currently having the number one rated online ground school and that also led to over six best-selling books seven books in total all books which are available here today pass your private and instrument check rides actual examiner's questions are literally setting on hundreds upon hundreds of check rides wrote down every single question the examiners ask leave proper answers to those questions compiled it all into a book for you guys to enjoy also the book in-flight emergencies which a lot of these videos and clips you guys are gonna see today that's where those are actually taken from and also very privileged to be asked by the FAA to rewrite the pilots handbook of aeronautical knowledge and the airplane flying handbook include videos and that and the most recent bestseller is the far name and claim English I took that big 1,200 page firing and can then sit down to about 100 pages what you really need to know for your privates for pilots of different books and then explain and that ultimately led us to have in our most recent thing the aviation seminar and see which I gave you guys fliers about we're on to our second annual and now doing seminars and see issuing advance and master wings credits to help renew your public speaking at sea went to airport beach in st. Maarten so really really a neat trip and of course you're wondering how the heck does Jason do all this stuff well I couldn't do it without my wonderful support team that's my lovely wife those are the goats now pay attention this the goats are prompt rudder and strut and the dogs are pedo and Magneto now I'm actually told me I'm not allowed to name the children although I think Bernoulli is a really good name little boy that's just my personal opinion make it pick on school but kool-aid so many ways what we're going to talk about today someone something earlier the shirt is really appropriate keep calm and fly on for in-flight emergencies what we're going to talk about today is just that we're going to talk about how to handle three types of emergencies we're going to talk about an ancient failure in flight we're going to talk about ancient failures on takeoff both with runway remaining and with outrun we've been in two very different scenarios we're also going to talk about how to better plan for the unexpected so for those of you living taking notes I definitely suggest having your notepads ready with that so the first thing I want to talk to you guys about is this an engine failure in flight and I'm going to share this video with you guys it's it's slightly humorous employment at some points I had to bleep out all the colorful language so it's PG I promise this is back to gentlemen this is back when the company data toys first really pioneered in-flight video I mean the system was very expensive to have small people had this was a very first year of them release in that these two gentlemen are actually flying through this very event about six years ago flying to Southern fun about six years ago and ended up having a engine failure in flight so we're going to kind of watch this and analyze this this incident and if I'm not a big fan like glue and do stuff then certainly in a positive manner they actually end up blamed it on a road and like pull into a Taco Bell so everything was okay you guys look to be able to see that real quick so let's go ahead and watch this clip cars we mostly just worried about the Wigmore anything at that point an engine failure in flight again just just to bring this home I mean these are two people just trying to do what a lot of you guys do that's why in the Sun and fun I mean really an interesting situation to see I can imagine they have called the police and said hey I'm at the Taco Bell and Winterhaven and I need a tow truck you know and this also brings up the other question though and this is debated a lot do i if I was to land on a road do I land with the traffic like they did in that case Joyland against the traffic any thoughts on that by the way with the traffic the traffic there so fortunately next time you're driving never look up and deserve all the power lines and that sort of stuff on these people are so fortunately I mean it's a great that we can use this video you know share that kind of experience anybody ever heard of something called the ABCs of an emergency anybody ever never even heard of that Chris I know you forgot the ABCs of an emergency if that engine were to quit and this is something these people effectively follow though we don't see all of it we know they have to have the ABCs of an emergency that a in our ABCs that a stands for air speed you're exactly right air speed is king I did a presentation yesterday I'm a secret of perfect landings we talked all about air speed air speed is king in this case you're slow you don't have that back thrust you need that air speed yes the engine quits you know at that point we're at an expensive glider I fully understand that but let's not stall that airplane let's do whatever we can to bring that down as slowly and as safely as possible so pitching for VG our best glide speed what's going to keep me in the loft as long as possible to trouble that issue and what's gonna allow me to travel the farthest I'm not only going to pitch for it I'm gonna trim for it trim is a poor man's autopilot I want to trim up for that thing so I can forget about air speed so I can focus on the B and the C of my acronym the B stands for best landing area you're exactly right now this is why I want you guys to burn into your brain I mean I have thousands upon thousands of hours teaching students and doing in-flight emergency scenarios I pull that throttle back the first thing every student wants to do is take a tunnel vision what's right out in front of me and I as a kind of a sick flight instructor also sometimes put that beautiful runway right back down behind them and they're just so glued on what's in front of mine say listen your beautiful runway right down there behind you so not to get television look for your best landing area keeping in mind your best landing area might be behind you or below you below you would be the best case scenario so look for that best landing area and don't get tied up in tunnel vision once you have that best landing area by the way you need to stay committed to that you want to talk about a quick way to screw up on a check ride a quick way to screw up in a real life situation like this is to go I got this feel any kind of you head that way towards that feeling you know this feel looks better the head towards this field and you can't commit to a decision and what happens is you miss both fields ultimately once you pick that point you've got to stick with that point because you're going to devote all that last bit altitude you have to actually make in that point and the see in our acronym is for our checklist now I fully understand that and not in every scenario are you going to be able to pull out the checklist and somewhere out those papers you've got to make the most important landing of your life hey I totally understand you may not have time to fumble through that checklist but you should have some sort of flow check memorize again assuming you have time for example of assessing 155 once you Romeo you guys seen all the videos if I were to have an engine issue I'm gonna start on the floor with my fuel selector valve I'm gonna work my way up to check the mixture I'm gonna come across to check my car peep work all the way past those fuses fuses are going to help me with anything all the way over check my primer check my ignition ok I'm going to troubleshoot all the things I have a whole flow check if you read my actual checklist it's exactly what tells you to do I just have it memorized from the floor up and the easiest way to remember it's called a flow check do it through muscle memory and that's going to help you in time from there I'm squawking 7700 and I'm really talking to anybody they listen a lot I mean a lot of the older books teach a you go to 120 1.5 you know what no one's listening to 120 1.5 anymore it's just it's just a reality of yes I know the Civil Air Patrol does yes I know some hair liners to listen to it but especially all these tower closures that may happen now there's really not that many buddy listening to one 21.5 so I'm going to jump on flight falling I'm going to jump on some frequency or somebody's going to listen to me so I can tell them what's up I wouldn't use one 21.5 is such a reliable source as it used to be say five years ago anymore so C is checklist this of course like we saw in our video is certainly time permitting these guys in this case they were at what you know I mean they're approaching at the southern you know have read the note am in a while but you know 1200 1500 feet you're coming in here at you don't have time for a checklist they make the right decision page for my proper airspeed and find it find the area lane they thought about a field they commit to the road and they stuck with it and had a positive outcome with that choose your field stick with it if you don't have time for the checklist that's a okay focus because you're meant to make the most important landing of your life effectively all right so that's our engine failure in flight let's take a segway real quick and let's talk a little bit about planning for the unexpected by show hands who airline it in here and liner to Sun and fun few people okay and I know we've all flown on airliners report who has as a pilot ever been sitting on that airliner thank as completely as pods we're not a very humble Bunch sometimes sitting in the in the back of that airline thinking if they came over the loud speaker said are there any pilots on board any pilots to the front of the cabin please how many of us have really thought about that you're like I think I can do that I've raised my canopy we all think about that as pop you're a very cocky bunch I don't know what's up with pilots but we all have had that thought well this is something that actually happens it's about an eight-minute audio clip let me share with you guys of a gentleman I'm talking brand-spanking-new Private Pilot 50 hours just past his check ride as newbies you can get decides he's gonna celebrate by chartering a king and he's not the pilot he's chartering a king air to take his family on a vacation to the Bahamas to enjoy it to celebrate his success of becoming a private pilot Charlotte King air King Air 200 single pilot he his wife the kids are all in the back having a good old time and the pilot actually passes away in flight so now the only pilot on board is this 50 hour you know Cessna 172 pilot who's gonna have to hop in the seat of this King Air 200 and by the way his family is behind them it's a slightly humorous but and of course again I show you guys always has a positive outcome we're not into that gloom and doom sort of stuff but just to listen to how he interacts with air traffic control and how they work with him and really see how that that system works so it's about eight minutes and let's play that real quick for you guys and welcome back to centre maintain 4,000 is you loud and clear Tommy I got the grammar - one 3.77 like 20 30 for contact - which one - 0.5 want to wonder a tournament a mate and I know dr. whisky maintain one 2,000 and you look at the there you don't see anything unable to disengage we're having hand fly the plane then asides out the whiskey affirmative disengage the autopilot now at one 7,000 the rescue lodges in number nine number nine or Delta whiskey just so you know what we're doing here we're going to get you down to one one thousand I'm going to make you a cake to the aterna the West I'm going to hand you off to Fort Myers approach and they've got some controller that also a pilot experience and they're going to talk you all the way and down to the landing that do you have any experience than a king ass I know if I thought that what you're doing a real good job just keep you doing all right a very good holding your having a real nice descent there let us find out the whiskey affirmative I just didn't want to turn you while you're defending if you're comfortable with that if you turn out to the west while you're defending us up to you would you like to continue straighter in the descent or make a turn with the belt okay I'm not showing any weather on my way down here but I only show precipitation but let me just make sure I confirm what you said you said you'd like to make a turn to the left while you're defending that okay number five dollar whiskey just a nice easy turn to the left whatever you're comfortable real shallow real gentle on the control you're going to turn left fly a heading of us about a two seven zero heading and continue that descent down to one 1000 or whatever you're comfortable with number nine is also is he got any questions about what you're doing right now are you okay you're doing well and will level it looks like you're just about level by one 1000 now holding it well and now if you can't it's going to be the one three two point zero seven if you do have it set up in the second radio sir yes you would you would switch to so what I'm going to do number five thousand whiskey is contact Fort Myers approach one three two point zero seven by pushing to if you have if you do not get them just switch it again and you'll be talking to me now five-dollar risky era okay here's five five Niner Delta whiskey for minors approach young full hours later here five letters g KN 5 5 9 FL the whiskey for minors approach and again if they sent right now sir uh you know what you want me to do is how old are actually if you can we can just start a descent down to 5,000 and we're getting some help from another pilot that's familiar with airplane we'll get you some information can you descend the airplane I can down the five thousand adding Suzhou and 0 there's a King Air 200 dinars all the whiskey Roger repenting and information now if you're able flying heading two four zero and descend and maintain 5,000 just take your time we'll set you up for the airport and of every nine days after whiskey air using the autopilot are you flying the airplane made a good lord hand glove okay very good thank you know one of my favorite clips my forehead I'd share the whole thing with you the whole thing runs about 30 minutes and you can get the entire thing inside that book I mentioned earlier in flight emergencies how to handle the unexpected but it really talks about that sixth scenario that runs through our minds sometimes as pilots if I was on an airliner and they call for any any pilots on board could I handle that situation and I need us to say I'm this gentleman did a great job for a guy from southern Georgia and not that you guys could tell that by any means but it's really just a neat story I mean you can find the whole thing in the book he ends up making a better landing than most qinger pilots would make and gets everybody on the ground safely but it's just it's cool to really see that interaction between pilots even load time pilots find something like that and the controllers and if you notice just how calm that silly guy is I'd be up there shaking in my boots you know and for him to be on I mean we're there sometimes we get professional like left to two seven zero Niner Delta whiskey's like so it's just a really neat situation and I wanted to share with you guys again the full things from the book if you guys want to check that out so that's plan for the unexpected guys we walk into situations all the time flying with friends chartering a king here for goodness sakes but you always may be ready and always planning and prepared for that unexpected situation so really the the third and final thing I want to share with you guys is this and really the one that that needs the most attention because this is a huge gotcha area for pilots and it's the engine failure on takeoff again you are in this situation you are low you are slow you are at a very high angle of attack and you are the heaviest you are ever going to be throughout that entire flight during takeoff so the two situations I want to run through with you guys are the first width runway remaining this really engine failure on takeoff this is the preferred situation to have you know I simply take off I get a few hundred feet above the ground the engine quits i knows it back down land safely it sounds so easy has anybody ever actually practiced this literally find a 10,000 foot runway you go out you take off get 100 feet pull up pronto back to idle and what what surprised you most about it when you did it you're exactly right the same thing yeah exactly right you get up you pull that throttle back to idle and before that girl hits idle the stall warning one's on it's already on you have to notice that thing down so much almost a bumper your butt's leaving the seats because you've been pretty buckled in tight to get down even have a shot and making that runway you have to think instantaneous and I challenge each and every one of you here to go out like this you know as the gentleman said in the clip before and find the longest walk this runway you can and go ahead and practice something like that you can do it I prefer you do it from a full stop takeoff get to just a hundred feet and have an instructor somebody smoothly bring that throttle back to idle you will be shocked at how much first off pressure and how quickly you have to push that nose over and something every single takeoff got to be ready for we always talk about you know a sterile cockpit no talking about last night's football game anything like that no fuddling around the stuff you know you're trying to set your approach frequency as you're taking off just a little distraction like that can end up bite me in the butt so I highly encourage you guys to get out there and practice an engine failure on takeoff with runway remain really the preferred situation because the other one is this it's without runway remaining and I have a clip of this actually and when you run into a situation without runway remaining they like to use the phrase the impossible return it got that word impossible for a reason what a lot of people think is I take off say I get the 500 feet the engine quits they think well I'll just come right back to where I came from and make that turn back round but what people don't realize is if I just made a maybe three turn off the runway I just departed from I just don't let downwind at that point you know it really takes me like a 230 240 degree turn to come all the way back around to make that it's called the impossible turn for a reason and what I teach is if you're below 1,000 feet AGL above ground level you're going straight ahead and it's just that simple you I'll give you like a 30 degree window 30 degrees my left 30 degrees to my right really to maneuver with but I'm low I'm slow I'm the heaviest I'm gonna be a man by angle of attack okay those are four ingredients right there to a stall spin scenario and now you want to add a turn to it let alone a pretty extreme turn 230 degrees back around just to try to make a piece of pavement when actuality out in front of you may be a great field one thing I do with my students is you know we work with that hey if we departed runway 2 8 where do we go for a dimension it's like well Jason there's a road right over here oh there's that cow pasture right over here nobody where we're gonna go before we ever depart that actual field but I just want to beat it into your brains below a thousand feet you're going straight ahead and what you'll see in this video clip this is a gentleman who was about 1,500 feet AGL flying a moody anybody who's flown a moonie knows that when you take power away from a moonie it is a very expensive paperweight at that point it likes to fall out of the sky without that power so this is a gel but this clip was actually taken from a OPA who departed down to about 1500 feet had an engine failure and opted to come back you made a good decision contender fee I'm totally ok with that but I want you to see first of all I want you to listen listen to these the terrible noises this engine makes you know adding the noise the gearing on the stall warning or is going off all this is playing into your mind as you're trying to make it again the most important layman of your flying career and I want you to notice the bank angle and how much turn he has to make he actually has to make two turns because of 230 degree turn put you in like a 45 degree angle and then by the way I've got a square put the runway again you fregley make two terms you make an S turn to come back around so I want you guys to check out this clip real quick yeah and it just goes to show you everybody always thinks they're mine Oh engine quits I'm going back didn't you see the bank angle that poor guy had I mean this man is doing a steep turn you know about 1,300 feet at that point yes sir I uh know it my preference would be to turn left to be honest with you I don't know why he made a right turn in that case it may have just but what came naturally to him I'm not positive on that you know but just to show the exaggeration in that turn he had to make and by the way he didn't just make one turn you saw he had make a second turn and then he saw he was on top of the year before that Mooney must have climbed it out of there you know like a little bandit because you know he was thankful that displaced threshold in that runway because he needed every little bit of that piece of payment and just again you heard how heavy that guy was breathing you heard the terrible sounds the better but that engine was making the Iranian horn the stall warning horn everything going off at once and now he made two almost three turns as he kind of oscillated back and forth my whole point of sharing that with you guys is it's called the impossible term for a reason if you are below a thousand feet you're just going straight ahead it's that simple if you're above a thousand feet you can make that 10 Fagin case this is something you can practice by the way and I encourage you to go out and practice this go up climb up to 3,500 feet treat it like you'd practice a power on stall slow the airplane down to about 60 your rotation speed smoothly apply full power we're treating 3,500 feet legate's the ground climb up climb up it's about 700 feet and try it bring that power all the way back and try to make a 230 degree turn back around and see if you can do it before 3500 feet it won't happen you have to crank that thing around so much and you're such a stall spin scenario as I want you up there if I practice in it just to kind of see that and you know what you may say it personally for me I know Jason's 2,000 I'm making it a 1500 for me but I tested that thing that's a hard maneuver to do so go out there and practice that sort of stuff so just a real quick recap and then we're actually done here just to recap the ABCs of emergency the a was what air speed you're exactly right pitching for VG my best glide speed what's gonna keep me up there the longest to troubleshoot and what's gonna allow me to fly the greatest distance what was the B in acronyms yeah best landing area you're exactly right keeping in mind where mine are best landing area B yeah behind this or below us don't get in that tunnel vision scenario okay keep in mind your best lane area might be behind you or below you and the C was what yeah oh yeah I like that absolutely checklist and communicate we have a B C C's exactly exactly so again checklist very much time permitting if you're a thousand BTM engine failure I'm not gonna troubleshoot anything I'm just gonna focus on landing that airplane backing points okay checklist time permitting always be prepared for the unexpected like we learned from Niner Delta whiskey guys you never know what situations you're getting yourself into you may think you're just going for lunch with your friend he's the pilot commander whatever you're just you know you're lucky you even brought your headset along with it you're just happy to go flying for lunch always be prepared for the unexpected never fall into that trap of complacency the last thing we shared was never attempt to turn back to the runway the impossible turn below a thousand feet AGL AGL meaning above ground level guys I hope you really enjoyed this there are books available in the back especially in flight emergencies again three of the clips I shared with you were from that book there's a dozens more for you guys to enjoy so you can check those out everything is at a $20 ton fun special most these books are as high as sixty seven dollars sometimes for some of the exam prep stuff so now is your time to grab them all so before you guys go summed I'm very passionate about and now involved with actually these shirts you see here are from a company called pilot life you can visit my Pat like calm just likes the brand Tom's the shoe company you buy a pair of shoes they give away a pair of shoes you buy a t-shirt all those funds 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Eh... I'd want my money back.
There is one very great moment in this presentation, and it has nothing to do with the presenter.
Skipt to 15:10 in the video and listen to the freshly minted private pilot who found himself in control of a King Air 200 (the pilot died,) stressing out about how to get the autopilot to level off.
Then, starting at about 18:30, there is a shift in controllers, and the new controller recommends he disconnect the autopilot.
You'll hear a very, VERY distinctive shift in the pilot's voice as he realizes that he can in fact fly the airplane as long as the automation isn't in control.
The lesson to be learned is this:
Don't EVER feel like the airplane is flying you. If you are ever in doubt, disconnect the fucking autopilot and fly the damn airplane.
Full audio of the King Air:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhMom-YHgoU
I agree with 1000 ft agl, but during my CFI training my instructor and I did an impossible turn at 500ft agl in a piper Arrow. The bank angle was steep but other than that it worked out into one of my smoothest landings.
Aw jeez. That guy who finds himself at the yoke of a king air sounds like a bit of a dingus.