4K | Pilot's View | My First Landing at Aspen In Bad Weather 

guarantee the captain started with "hey man just fly it like you want too"

“No need to explain just go”😂

I think this will make interesting material for discussion in the next CRM recurrent

You were working hard on that landing.. Holding a lot of speed but thats way better then not having enough... good job dude.

I remember as a lyft driver i drove a pilot from KDEN to Aspen and he inspired me to want to go into aviation, and he told me how challenging this approach can be with the mountains, windsheer and everything else you could think of, but he talked about it like an old sailor in the 1600s and his love for the sea. Now i live in Wichita Ks working for Textron building the Longitude and im now doing groundschooling getting ready to take my written before starting to fly!

Fun for you guys, white knuckle for me ! Good landing .

This is the first time I've watched any aviation landing on RU-vid and genuinely felt the stress of the approach. Great job man. I bet the relief when handing over to captain after landing for taxi was nice.

Idle in icing, I feel for you! ATC seems to set everyone up for that by never letting you to slow and get dirty until its time to descend. Good two way communication between the crew, considering the circumstances CRM was fine, everything got done. If you’re recording, I’d be mindful of sterile cockpit on the ground until the brakes are set. Thanks for the video.

That was Awesome! Aspen is no joke. Good job on the landing!

You are the best, always quality and professionalism!

Nice job right seat lol that was fun. Good deal. Crazy wind in the valleys. Lots of fun!! Gotta love it.

I remember the 80s when I was approaching Aspen in a simulator...Solo Flight on a Commodore 64. Two lines on the green screen for the runway and some triangles for the mountains. Thank you so much for your video and happy landings from Germany.

Thanks so much for uploading this. It was informative and also kind of entertaining. My heartrate genuinely shot up before you touched down watching that yoke acting like it was having a seizure. But wow- great job!!

WOW! That was incredible! Lots of communication between pilot flying and pilot monitoring. Love it! This will be an invaluable resource for me while getting familiar with the CL650 in Xplane 12.

wonderful and your my inspiration; thank you for your expertise

What a magnificent landing! The communication is on point and having you guys always offer assistance is great! I hope to be an amazing pilot like you someday! You have amazing skills in the cockpit.

Wild! Got my adrenaline up, just watching. Good job, fellows!

One of the most challenging landings I ever made was in 2005 landing at the old KSGU airport on the plateau in thunderstorms rain heavy turbulence at night in IMC as a new captain on the emb-120.

Well done, holy moly that landing was stressful!

Fantastic and to stress. Good job.

Great video quality, great audio, great content! I'll sub to this! Thank you for uploading!

Great job, that didn't look easy! May I feature this approach and landing in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. All the best to you!

Great teamwork

Great job!

Wow nice work!

Great airmanship. Thanks for sharing -

Guys this is coolest video I ever seen on RU-vid it’s hard to describe my feelings and I’m not native English speaker so I’m sorry. I’m not a real pilot so I can’t to blame your crm and procedures, but I really appreciate you showed us honestly what it looks like real pilot job in really bad weather conditions and not as in most videos which show us day to day blue skies good weather no issues. I really liked the video.Good job guys!

Nice landing! Just found your channel pretty recently. Great content 👍🏼

wild approach. awesome.

beautiful landing mate

Scare stuff thanks to technology makes everything look’s easy, and awesome pilots like you guys.

Smooth landing!

Had to work for that one. Well done.

Wonderful landing man. Earned a sub !!

It was nice and well done despite the wind

awesome vid!

You have a new subscriber! Great video

Nice job, definitely a high workload approach. Can see the winds shift over the highway, from a stiff crosswind, slight tailwind, and then calm. That's common when you have winds out of the west on final. The blue "Anti Ice Fault" and ATC calls right at transition level made for a nice distraction from setting the altimeter. One thing that stood out CRM wise, I got the impression @13:00 and again @13:40 that the PF was expecting a right 360 to join final approach. But the left seat guy knew otherwise, so was prompting for early gear and flaps straight to 20°. But maybe not. Speaking of the approach, ASE isn't the place to be loading the FMS visual. Especially with the default 3° glidepath in the box. Just load the LOC DME-E and request that (straight in). It is used more than the current RNAV-F approach. That way you have vertical guidance up to the FAF. Then when you report the field in sight (hopefully at or before DOYPE), join the PAPI. No need to dip below it and get 4 red (it looks steeper than usual, as it is a 3.5° PAPI, but can still make the same turnoff). Plus, with the approach loaded in the FMS, you have a missed approach ready if you get told to go missed. And hopefully a late go-around was briefed, as you don't just fly the published procedure at that point. Oh, on final, forget the "follow the highway and fly down the valley stuff". When tower said "line straight up on final", they say that for a reason. Opposite direction traffic off of RW33 is often on the LINDZ departure procedure that wraps around the final approach course for inbound traffic to RW15. The Challenger does great at Aspen, especially with the ability to use spoilers with flaps. Just don't mess with tailwinds > 10 kts! Not sure if you have the optional multi-scan radar, but that is a big improvement. Again, nice job dealing with a busy approach in the weather.

Nice landing in extreme crosswinds.

Incredible weather and flying. However not so sure about the CRM. It's not clear who is PIC here and who is not. Agreeing on something is fine, but it sounds like an instruction flight with left seat barking orders that are way more than friendly advice. Nevertheless mighty impressed how you got down in what look to be nightmarish conditions.

well done mate

The way that each one of these keep me hanging on the edge of my seat, whew! You guys need your own tv series. Can you try to film and post a video of a take off? Anyway, safe travels be well!

Bravo 👏 that was a really good landing. I can't even do that in the sim.

Such a beautiful cockpit

What a workout! Well done! May I suggest using a GoPro chest harness instead of the head mount? It's very jerky to watch the scene flick this way and that. Thanks!

Excelente

I hope one day I'll be doing what you do. Working hard for my private first and just trying to stick with it full time.

INTENSE. The approach is touch enough - throw in turbulence, low ceiling and a gusting crosswind and you have about 9.2 on a scale of 10 difficulty.

Good video. That was definitely some lousy WX on the arrival.

I would love to have had an external cam on multiple angles of the aircraft on this flight............Nice job....

Wow, excellent job!!! Unreal!!! Subscribed😊

Great job. I wonder how many passengers kissed that tarmac when disembarking.

I don’t see any problems with CRM here. Aspen can be gnarly, especially for your first time there in bad weather. On approaches like that, I’d rather have over communication than lack of. Nice work 🤘🏼

awesome

my left ear enjoyed this approach. lol jk, good work tho! cant wait to fly the big boys. currently 300TT, asel private instrument rated working on my cax.

Geez man! Crazy shit right there, great job

What a rush! Liked ane subbed i think this channel is worth it......

Intense guys

Dayum

'No vis on anything,' had my attention! You want to get down out of the clouds... But in that environment, the terrain, could be a nasty surprise if you're in the wrong spot! I bet you had the anti-ice on in that mess! Leading edges, props, pitot heat, windscreen if you had it, all going! It sounded like ice until you got a bit lower. You could see the big rain splattering!

1 of my favorite airports to land at in Microsoft flight Sim. I land the C-17 there and the approach is fun and takes a lot of concentration. So incredible props for landing there in real life and with weather.

holy smokesssss.

Wow.. that was scary! -- QUESTION -- Could that computer landing thing on a plane be able to land that even with that wind etc and do a better job? Is there such a system or is it simply impossible for a computer to do this?

랜딩기어 언제 펴나요? 스위치 작동 장면 못봄 ㅠㅠ

What size Jet is that? glad i wasn't on that ride, all the rocking around and weather. gessss.. Nice fast landing though

That shit was no joke. Was this some sort of training flight? Unless the other pilot was just helping with info so you could keep your eyes out the window.

I would've been freaking out in the back.

I’m not sure if this was your first time coming into ASE, but my god the captain is doing you a major disservice with all of the constant chatter and directive attempts at CRM. He needs to relax a little bit with the CFI style of pilot monitoring. Correct it if it’s an issue but he doesn’t need to tell you every second what to do.

Nice job man. I’ve made approaches in similarly challenging conditions. It’s definitely a workout! Phew.

If they landed in bad look weather there what would it look like in a snow storm CAT III Landing, just curious.

Maybe establish some standardized calls to make the cockpit communication less clunky and argumentative. Establish limitations and as long as the FO is operating within them don't micromanage. Establish standardized calls if tolerances are exceeded to keep it professional.

well done bud. id always turn of the FD when flying Visually, it just distracts

Cool video, but am I missing something? Flying with 4 red on the PAPI intentionally seems sketchy. I did it once because I thought the PAPI wasn’t calibrated right, and I almost took out some power cables on short final…. 😂

And they wonder why pilots make so much money, nicely done!

Didn’t realize landing is so fast

I was stressed just watching that.

Captain definitely was a cfi

Nice job, great control and exceptional CRM. What aircraft is this ?

"Yep yep yep" reminds me of Muppet characters. lol

Are those Aspen glass cockpit panels, or Collins?

50 knot winds. Wtf man. That crazy

What kind of watch is that?

What kind of airplaine is this?

This guy musta had the time of his life

Aspen....mmmmm, California.... Great communication and teamwork!

Why do you keep the discontinuity in the computer that erks me

Bad day for an anti-ice fault, what ended up happening with that? Appreciate all your videos!

Imagine CirrusMax doing this all by himself

where can i download this plane

Terrible captain, but nice flying FO. Just take it as a lesson on how not to be when you upgrade.

What plane is this?

B737 기종 맞나요?

WeeeHa!

They need more mobile devices in the cockpit.

🙂

why is he asking you to slow to VREF that far out the definition of VREF is 50 feet above the runway that a good way to crash

What plane are u flying

What a CRM mess. Putting flaps out and forcing your hand on what to do.

Flight directors would be turned off for a visual approach in my company!

It would be much more interesting if we could see the instrumentation...