RV 10 N783V My 1st Emergency HD 720p

well today i'm going to share a video with you that's really a little embarrassing but hopefully it will help other pilots learn from this pilot's stupid mistakes so here's the back story this is my first pleasure trip after four years of building an rv10 it's a cross-country flight and on my bucket list is to fly over the grand canyon this is on the second leg the first leg was from kbaz out of new braunfels texas going to roswell new mexico where i stopped for lunch and for some gas my second leg from roswell i was planning on flying over santa fe then over farmington new mexico over four corners flying monument valley and then into page arizona where i would attempt to fly the grand canyon in the next couple of days so this video picks up after i had already passed through monument valley the conditions had been low and bumpy for quite some time going through the area of santa fe i had passed through or between a couple of rain showers conditions continued to look like they would deteriorate for a minute and then let up deteriorate and then let up so i felt confident because of the weather reports in page i was going to be able to make it the whole way so here's the moment when things began to turn south it was at this point that i could still see a little bit of sunshine peeking through somewhere but i also had in my head i might should turn back to farmington and stay the night but i decided to press on the conditions at page were supposed to be rainy all next day and i really wanted to make it in there this day so i got a little case of get there itis always a bad thing for a pilot this is where i made mistake number one this is the moment i should have turned around but i could still see the ground and i had just convinced myself it was going to be temporary so i pressed on not a good decision this is why i decided to get help you see me looking up frequencies for the closest atc center i was flying through denver center so i dialed in their frequency and attempted to make a call denver center this is experimental 783 victor with you here you see me trying another frequency when you get no answer every second feels like a minute and every minute feels like an hour i had gotten no response so i thought i'd try something different denver center this is experimental 783 victor with you i finally got a response experimental i think it was 783 victor looking for python uh negative i actually need to get clearance i got caught in imc i'm at 10 300 trying to get into page and i got covered up with some clouds okay i understand sir um uh but you don't have a flight plan on file is that correct i do not have a five penalty file i am uh ifr rated and it's one zero seven niner kilo uh seven eight three victor eight three victory seven eight three victor fox code six five six five and the page altimeter 2964. all right 2964. victor i see out there about 25 miles east of the page airport and uh i can clear you ifr either up to 12.5 or if you can make a turn to the southwest it's a little bit maybe 10 15 degrees i can leave you at 10. [Music] okay yeah i can uh turn 10 to 15 degrees 113 victory to copy that uh yes uh turn in uh let's see turn into uh one eight nine right now what heading do you want me on eight three victor about a one uh 120 or so we'll do it and just verify you got your transponder on squat code is six five six five i understand you're busy at this point i had finally calmed down just enough to 88 i was flying the plane straight and level and on heading at the right altitude so right now i'm just trying to settle some nerves all right denver approach 783 victors back with you got my bearings straight i'm going uh direct page right now and i guess i'm looking for the 1-5 approach in the page at this point i get no response and i thought well have i lost communication not a good thing when you're dependent upon atc to vector you in to get you down safely this irritating noise is me trying to mute the squelch on my radio when you mute the squelch it makes your radio more sensitive so i'm hoping i'm just on the edge of his reception and i'm still trying to get in touch number five papa kilo denver center roger decided to maintain five two six zero let me know when you have the current mantra as well approach are expecting remember every second feels like a minute every minute feels like an hour [Applause] number five papa kilo reaching five level two six zero clear direct gauge number four echo victor good uh yeah e3 victor is direct uh paige and i guess i need to set up for the one five approach please jet car 328 denver center definitely maintain five zero or do you want to set up for the rnav approach from the north i don't know if i can get visual i think the clouds are going to keep me out of visual right now all right three victor yeah i'm showing the layers scattered six thousand ceilings broken seven thousand five hundred turn right heading three three zero for now i'll be right back if you wanna get that loaded up all right right to three three zero and then i'll get loaded up uh load it up for the one five approach is that correct yeah i believe ross goes the initial let me take a look and i'll get right back with you raise three victor i just verify have you had a chance to pick up the current page weather negative uh let me do that real quick if i can at this point i'm still feeling behind the airplane normally when i fly ifr conditions i plan 20 minutes in advance at this point i feel like i'm at least 60 seconds behind on everything the 2-5 visibility 1-0 layer scattered at 6 000 feeling broken 7 500. now i may have missed a small opportunity here as you can see i can see the ground now there is a hole in the cloud but i was unfamiliar with the terrain and i really didn't know if i went lower and tried to go in visually what terrain may jump up to get me so i just decided to continue on with atc's guidance to get me down to the airport november 783 victor i understand you're pretty busy right now what was your departure airport uh i came out of new braunfels texas uh k-b-a-z okay 783 victor and could you just if you have time quickly give us the fuel on board the soul souls on board fuel remaining in minutes the color of the aircraft and a uh a phone number for search and rescue purposes if you want to yeah these questions are always a little concerning let me interpret them for you that's just prescription wrecks you purposely just want us to have to get gather that information we'll get you set up over rascal for the straight in here in about two or three minutes fly heading of three zero five now three zero five seven eight three victor all right number eight three victor clear so this is when things got really interesting you hear those noises that's my autopilot kicking off my air speed indicator going blank and my stall warning horn going off some help so my air speed just went out all right a couple of things going on here first off look at the left-hand screen i'm again in a bank i'm forgetting to aviate and i'm trying to figure out what in the world is going on the other mistake i made is the reason i lost airspeed indication is i forgot to turn on a thing called keto heat my pitot tube had ice stuff but i live in south texas i haven't had to turn on pedo heat in 15 years so this really caught me by surprise and in the moment i really had no idea why things were trying to take over the field all right one seven five seven eight three victory victor uh thank you and uh if you can make that a right turn for my higher terrain um that'll help out make it a 180 heading as soon as you're able all right i'm sorry what what uh tell me what heading i need to be going right now please try heading one eight zero one eight zero by this point i had figured out i was in a bank had straightened it up and now i'm being asked to turn again so i'm concentrating on trying to point you but again very hard to concentrate when you've got all these bells and whistles going on the next thing i start to do is to try to figure out what is failing because at this point i thought it was an equipment failure i did not a pilot here you can maintain niner thousand safely that is my minimum mile cross in that area all right nine our thousand two one eight zero november five eight five pop a kilo change advisory report you can't play some downtime with me this frequency at this point i still don't know what's going on but i decided i had an equipment problem so i start pulling some circuit breakers and i'm trying to reset some of my equipment i'm thinking maybe it's just a computer glitch in one [Music] this is when my training kicked in one of the things my ifr instructor taught me was if you have the proper power and the proper pitch you know what your plane's performance is that has stuck in my head forever i knew i had power i knew i had the right pitch so i knew the stall was not a sphere i knew that i was flying straight and level and i just needed to concentrate on aviating the plane and then trying to figure out what was going wrong i'm killing your airspeed across the ground one four one currently i know you're not showing that on your instruments at 141 across the ground what i'm depicting roger that thank you damage 873 contact denver center one two seven okay at this point at least i got the buzzing to stop when i reset the equipment the buzzing but i still had no speed indication and my aoa indicator was still showing i'm gonna stall another minute elapses but look at the switch i just pushed that's when it dawned on me i'm in freezing temperatures in the clouds which have moisture my pitot tube had frozen up piloting 101. i just now realized it as soon as i hit that switch it took less than 10 seconds for me to get my airspeed indication back my blood pressure went way down in that moment okay there's no problem the airport is at your uh as you make the turn gonna be about one o'clock and maybe seven miles um just call the field when you get it in sight we can put you on the visual roger that i'll let you know when i get it uh inside we'll go visual 783 victor i do have the airfield in sight now november 783 victor cleared visual approach to the page airport cleared visual for page 783 victor thanks for your help today i'm sorry for all the trouble 783 victor that's our job uh change over to advisors now you can talk to advisories there just report your cancellation and down time with me this frequency all the way to the ground man the runway has never looked so good to me forget the fact that they were reporting a 70 degree gusting to 25 knot crosswind that was the most beautiful runway i had ever seen in my life oh that my friends is the sound of relief different centers experimental 783 do you copy and somebody else caught on 27 55 say again uh yeah this is 783 victor just calling him on the ground and safe 783 victor we like to hear that thanks very much we'll close out the flight plan and have a nice day all right thank you again for your help i really appreciate it though it's embarrassing to go public with your mistakes i hope another pilot will learn from mine please don't get get there itis turn around if you get caught aviate before you navigate and please remember the pedo heat i also want to thank the denver controller that helped me out he played a big role in me getting on the ground safely

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Length: 15min 0sec (900 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/nerdinabird]

I just saw this and hadn’t seen it posted here. This pilot is very frank about his mistakes, and while I hope I never succumb to getthereitis, the reality is that I think all of his mistakes are very relatable.

I had an attitude indicator roll over and die on me in IMC and the extent to which stress affects decision making is real, particularly when you have to use extra brainpower just to make sure you’re flying level and on speed.

Makes me want to simulate equipment failures more, both under the hood and not. What failures do you practice?

[u/PlaneShenaniganz]

“Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.”

Well-handled and a good example of why not just practicing emergencies, but also chair-flying and thinking about them at home are necessary to reduce your workload and stress levels when they happen in the actual airplane.

[u/legitSTINKYPINKY]

As a new flyer this made my blood pressure raise 1000%😂

[u/cactuswest]

I know he admits to it being a mistake but it’s still kind of crazy he didn’t turn around when it became full blown IMC. I’ve flown VFR through dense forest fire smoke and I get how you can convince yourself “well I can still kind of see....there’s an obscured horizon and the ground...” but looking through his windscreen he really couldn’t see shit. I’d peace out of there.

Edit: also I didn’t hear him say he was instrument rated but if you are I can see how that would influence your decision to press on

[u/hakuna_matitties]

Layman question, but why is pitot heat not automatically engaged at a certain temperature? Would there ever be a reason to not have it on?

[u/ThicknCrispy]

I agree with all the comments here but the thing that annoyed me the most about this video is all the long radio calls without saying his callsign. You can definitely tell he’s flustered.

[u/nlcircle]

My compliments for the brave decision to share this. You were quite open about some challenges and your responses during flight. I learned a lot from the video and thank you for sharing.

[u/Ocorn]

Not many pilots go VFR into IMC and make it out. Really informative video. Thanks for sharing.

[u/Lyme860]

AAA video... thank you for sharing these lessons. But for the grace of.... etc...

PS: nice panel.