Chelsea Preps for IFR | Actual IMC Across Florida 

With the scenery I was half expecting to hear "welcome to the sky" 😏

Congrats to Chelsea on getting her instrument rating. After 3 years if patiently waiting I finally restarted my instrument training in a Cutlass (love that airplane). I need to watch this on the cockpit club...

Nice instruction Josh. Enjoy seeing you two work together!

One of the best yet Josh. The nuts and bolts of IFR training were great for this aspiring IFR guy!

Chelsea did great, so cool to see her evolution! Well done you two!

Chelsea, to do this and have it videoed and shown to the world tells me allot about you. You're already a good pilot and you will become all that you can be because of your attitude and proficiency. Congrats and I wish you all the best that life can offer!

Great IFR instruction, Josh. Always learn new tips & tricks from your videos. Congrats on your new rating, Chelsea. Don't stop flying IFR now! Stay current.

Killed the landing. So dang proud of Chels! Congrats!

Nice to see you both. Brilliant video buddy it looks so different at night.philip is trying to learn as much as possible in the cockpit of all different planes on you tube.take care and happy flying buddy phil.

@ 18:35 love that you TOLD them what you wanted/needed and another excellent video

Congratulations on the IFR! Im in the middle of mine right now and love every minute of it even when things get confusing. Hope to finish soon!

Thanks for sharing Josh. Chelsea is doing great! Hope to see you at ACCA.

Congratulations Chelsea, thank you for putting yourself out there for us to learn from and well done!

Another great video! Thanks, Josh! Congrats, Chelsea! You were fantastic!

I Love it when Josh post flight geek videos like this. I’ve been at it for a Loire while now and it takes the pressure off to go see I’m not the only person that the communication aspect isn’t as fluid as they want it to be. She’s doing a awesome job. Love the videos

Another great video. I needed this IFR refresher as my planes been down so many months, now I’m going to have to IPC it in a week when she’s ready.

Another GREAT video! I appreciated the candid nature of this video - lots of radio traffic and some unexpected situations - that's real world. Thanks for letting us observe.

Honestly been watching your channel for years. This segment was one of the best IFR educational references Ive seen for the general youtube community. Access to such great information like this from someone like yourself wouldve saved me a lot of stress when I first went through IFR training in the 70's. I am using yours and a few others GA channels currently to motivate young people into a career in GA/Aviation in general. There are great opportunities for them right now that weren't available to generations before without spending lots and lots of money. It's amazing how little exposure the younger generations have to GA beyond FS's. I truly believe that GA is on the cusp of something similar to the 50's and 60's and young people will gravitate to it when they can really see it, feel it, touch it and experience it. They are the future of GA and we need to make it as accessible as possible to them so they can enjoy the wonder of flight safely. Cudos to you and the other channels that are promoting GA in a positive, safe and exciting way, truly a blessing for the skies.

Congratulation Chelsea, can't wait to see the next video. Good job guys.

I did all of my flight training in Pensacola out of KNSE/KNDZ and ILS 17 at KPNS was always the classic move. I had my point-to-point heading to PENSI memorized by the time I got my instrument rating. So cool seeing y'all doing the approach!

Freshest video I've come across! Hope ta see you in a couple weeks @ OSH.

Okay this video is so amazingly helpful for me! I'm a dispatcher so IFR is my jam and my airline regularly operates in and out of PNS. But there's still that gap between my theoretical knowledge as a dispatcher and all of these microsteps! Even when I'm in the jumpseat, all of these things you're explaining so well in detail go by in a silent blur to a non pilot like myself. Thanks for the video! Keep it up!!!

Lots of information there, really enjoyed it, and by the way she greased that landing !!!!! Thanks again guys !!!!

Could not have asked for a better, more thorough, concise, descriptive, patient, considerate, calming flight instructor/husband. Excellent is an inadequate term. Thank you for this wonderful flight adventure tutorial.

Haven't seen you in awhile, Josh. You're looking good! Glad to see where you've taken your flight career. You're lookin' good! God bless!

Great ILS Instruction! Chelsea is certainly advancing under your guidance. I've learned key basics here, enjoying the flight tour itself.

Awesome video. Josh is the best CFI. congratulations to Chelsea for passing her IR.

Great video Josh! I took a screen shot of PTAC. Great acronym for the approach clearance.

Josh I love your videos please keep uploading as a kid with a dream to be a pilot your videos make my day thank you josh.

Perfect timing! Working on IFR so this is great inspiration! Thanks gang :)

Excited to see another video! Love your content! Keep it coming!

Congrats Chelsea !!

Chelsea did an awesome job remembering all that information being thrown at her and flying the airplane. You did an awesome job keeping your cool teaching her.

No better instructor than Josh to get you through the rating congratulations and you make a great looking couple.

Thank God for you and thanks for being a pilot who shares safety knowledge 👍

Thanks for sharing this! I love learning from your videos.

#Goals! Look forward to seeing ya'll at Osh!

Excellent tutorial....Brings back memories

Great video guys love watching your both so very talented living the dream…looking forward to more

Congratulations Chelsea on getting your instrument rating! Enjoyed the content Josh.

Just found this channel watching your Alaska videos. Incredible series btw! Have a sprained ankle, so you and Citation Max have been keeping the spirits up while I'm laying in bed. Have my skydiving license but going for the pilots in a couple weeks. Keep it up with the good content!

Dude. She nailed that landing ! Take THAT Mr. Aviation ! Great vid.

smooth as silk.. nice job!

great instructing Josh good call on going visual rather than holding at night after long flight

I know it is a bit delayed but Congratulations Chelsea. I am working on my IFR now. Great job on another great video Josh.

Been a while since we've gotten a really meaty technical flying video, double bonus of Chelsea in the left seat and you instructing. Loved it.

Aww using Autopilot cushion to get Chealse reach the rudder peddals. Awesome ifr flying too.

AWESOME JOB you 2 !! Great vids!

Really great instruction. I’ve completed my IFR training and now scheduling checkride, but still need to polish approaches. Disappointing that actual steps in approach are nowhere in IFR Handbook or IFR Procedures Handbook. My CFII makes me write out ”recipe “ for each approach step so I don’t miss anything, such as GPS to VLOC. Flying a Cardinal 177 w/ 2 G5’s, Avidyne 540 (& a PowerFlow!). Chelsea has done great! Congratulations! There’s quite a lot in IFR flying and so easy to get fixed on one item and blow through heading or altitude.

As a fledgling Instrument pilot, I'm garnering so much info from your videos, such as this one.

great video I just bought my first plane. Waiting to get my engine back from the overhaul shop. I will be working on my IFR rating after I get used to my new bird.

Just about to start my instrument training. Very helpful info!

‘Like butter’ I love it!

Great new opening.

Wow, Chelsea greased the landing. Good job!

Takes a lot of confidence to learn on video. Chelsea nailed it!

Way to go Chelsea!! Instrument pilot now awesome

Great Video Josh, thanks!!!

Congrats!

Great video guys! Congrats to Chelsea on the instrument rating! Now just need to acquire that velocity twin and take us to more cool places in style (and much faster ;-) )

Thanks, great video.

Excellent choice of the Colorado 14ers shirt

I hope you ate some tamales at Abe's in Cleveland. The Blues Trail is one of my favorites. Can't wait to see the next video! Great work, Josh!

Excellent job!!

I am not a pilate but i have flown in quite a few commercial planes and i enjoy seeing how safe it is in flying in in the air

As always, I thoroughly enjoyed this 80991 video!

Oh dear, now I’m hooked on another aviation channel … you are both enjoyable to watch and listen to. Saw the kitten episode … it endeared you as kind people ..am waiting for cat headphones! 🇳🇿🇳🇿🐑🐑 cheers from NZ

Great landing! Yay

Well done and all the best cheers

Great video once again!

Dang man, you got the “that’s fine…” at 18:49. #itaintfine

Great video here. Thanks !

Great video and great instruction! Hope to see you at Oshkosh🙏

Congratulation Chelsea. Great job well done.

So much good info in this video.

Congrats Chelsea. Nice landing. Put a little heat on Josh LOL.

I was just as nervous as Chelsea. :-) GREAT episode!!

So much to learn. Very nice that Chelsea seems to have your love of flying. What a great teacher to have. Proud of her, but look who she had as her instructor.

Like Buttah. And don'tcha love it when you get to a decision point - be it "choose the approach" or DH - and lo, there's the airport... Definitely like high at night, especially when the chart shows obstacles in the vicinity of the runway... although it does take a little doing to get the 'Hawk to behave with extra energy. Clearly Chelsea has this nailed, though...

A displaced threshold or DTHR is a runway threshold located at a point other than the physical beginning or end of the runway. The portion of the runway behind a displaced threshold may be used for takeoff in either direction and landings from the opposite direction.

Great insight for pilots considering gaining an instrument rating. Very interesting viewing for non pilots as well. Thanks

Josh your level of proficiency and professionalism is amazing! Are you considering a pilot career beyond what you’re doing now?

Well done!

thanks for your content

Congratulations....... you kids make a great couple 💑 ! Thanks for sharing 🍸

Great information!!!

G,day from (Quarantine house lockdown) Sydney Australia. Really appreciate the film: nice flying into Pensacola Florida just after sunset. * Congratulations Chelsea on meeting the FAA IFR competent. (Instruments & synthetic vision). 🌏🇦🇺

Great video, she’s doing a fine job

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! :-)

Ahhh Apopka. My home base area. Drove by that airport Thursday.

Love the shirt! Done a couple of those before

very enjoyable ride along. thanks for sharing. You and Chelsea should come on up to East Texas. Lunch is on me at the Picket House.

@4:10 I stand ready to be corrected, but I believe a displaced threshold demarks the usable runway for a plane when landing. It does not restrict a plane during takeoff or during the roll out after landing.

👍☑️Nice flight and great landing!

Just last month, I finally did my IPC after many years of VFR only flying in Arizona. It feels good, but I still need a lot of practice! Current, but not especially proficient. It's been a long time! ATC can make it difficult to practice what needs to be practiced sometimes. With dozens of flight schools in the Phoenix/Tucson corridor, ATC is always very busy...

Love the intro

I was taught to load the fix on your side of the approach...if you give vectors, just hit proc, go to the FAF and hit direct to , direct to, Enter, and that will load the last segment...same thing when intercepting an airway on the GPS...

Congrats Chelsea on the the instrument rating!

Thanks appreciate for this, very interesting 🤔 never fly some of this in a plain it was 👍 awesome to hear.

Nailed the landing