@@EvanLuft It's absolutely AMAZING that our Mark 1 Mod 0 eyeballs are FAR BETTER than camera+display technology. No camera tech can recreate what our eyeballs see.
The situational awareness you get from a glass cockpit is absolutely unmatched. I don’t think I would ever try this in a steam gauge six pack equipped aircraft.
@Secret Squirrel personally, if I'm flying into IFR, I wouldn't trust trying to go from base to final wearing a blindfold without nothing more than a VOR. But then again, I'm addicted to living. Let's say you have nothing but an altimeter, and an attitude. Your attitude will change very quickly if your depending on just an altimeter and a compass to find an airport without being able to see the ground. That's when it's a good time to squawk!
My all time favorite moment, in 25 years of flying, was exactly this. Couldn't have been more than 5' above mins....approach lights....come on down...threshold, runway, PAPI lights...grease it in on the 1000footers! Kinda makes ya feel like a wizard!!!
Friends Business partner, who didnt have perfect communications with atc, landed 200 feet short of the runway n lost his and a friends lives a few years ago. now i can get what fog looks like. Being from nevada, I never had any first hand experience with fog or the concept of "visibility" it is always so damn clear here.
When you have the als in sight you can decend to 100´ above the tdze, it kinda looks like you went under without saying you had the reils insight, not sure if this is true but looked a little iffy haha
@@aviator1111 I assure you, with that answer, you are absolutely not an airline pilot. The touchdown zone is mandatory for all US airlines. Landing in the first 1/3 of the runway or the first 3,000 ft, whichever is less.
@@captclyde7233 i did not claim something about me being an airline pilot. also i do not know about FAA regulations but just search some approach videos and you will see that it is not rare for planes to land after TDZ. TDZ is just for situational awareness. If runway is long enough some airlines have different landing roll limitations.
@@aviator1111I can only speak confidently in regards to airlines, being one for 10 years. All require landing in the touchdown zone, first 3000 or 1/3. All our landing performance data that makes every landing legal is based on that, if you float beyond it, mandatory go around. As for GA, it is at best, sloppy. You are assuming your brakes are going to work perfectly, there's no contaminates, no traffic behind you, and you are adding risk, reducing safety, all to save 2 mins of taxi time by holding it off a few thousand feet. Would never, ever fly at any airline. Airlines have a division called FOQA that will analyze all data from the FDR black box and it tells on the pilots if they land beyond the TDZ. then you get a call and have to fill out paperwork to protect yourself and your license.
The craziest landing I ever had was in Terace BC on Boxing Day. In a blizzard 🌨️. The pilot turned the lights on and all I could see was white. We hit the runway so hard and bounced up. Going Way too fast. So he pinned the throttle to try and take off again. We barely cleared the trees at the end of the runway. Second time around. There was so much snow, we couldn’t taxi to the building. So everyone had to get out and walk in a foot of snow. I do not recommend.
Yep, just the other day I had to flight three approaches right to minimum. I have to say it was quite the experience since I haven’t flown an approach to minimum’s in a few months.
If I was flying with you, I would say you greased it. I've only been up in a twinkle two or three times in my life, but it was fun. I'm a 172 fan myself, but I'll enjoy a piper if I can't find anything else. They are a little more gentle in a stall. I guess I like a view under my wings.
What did you do to get into the commercial pilot area, I've been exploring options with becoming a commercial pilot as I am a LST at a local fbo but it's hard to find info on how to get jobs after obtaining something like a ATP liscense, I watched your video on ppl how much more was it to get your commercial liscense and how long before you actually had started the career, if you don't mind me asking😄
Not to detract from Evan's skillz, but aren't pretty much all normal landings silky smooth with a trailing link gear? If he was flying a 402 I'd be more impressed. Either way great video and way to slay low mins!
Actually, almost correct. Having them in sight allows you to drop to 100' above TDZE. Usually, it's the same thing due to 200' minimums being so common, but not always
Note to self after a steal an airplane After the geomagnetic Storm happens I will descend below minimum once runway in sight...ooo need to do one on setting alt. . . No atc. Nevmnd
With low visibility conditions my main fear would be having a very high descent rate and landing short. Besides that, very smooth landing sir, that’s the advantage of being in a smaller aircraft, you can use as much of the runway as you want as long as it’s a very long runway!
Technically, you can only descend to 100’ agl (or additional 100’?????) when u have the approach lights in sight, u need the “runway environment” in sight to bring it down all the way. Someone correct me if I’m wrong trying to remember my FAR’s
That's was a hell of a smooth landing in VFR conditions, let alone that you didn't see the pavement until about 100' or so from the ground. I can imagine that someone who doesn't handle it particularly frequently could find it quite a scary experience to go down that low... I hope you had plenty of better alternates at least
Thanks so much!! I have to say sometimes you get lucky and flare at the right time and sometimes you don’t! Haha I find that IFR flying when it’s low… is sometimes easier because you are very focused and it forces you to be prepared. :)
You mentioned descending below DA because of the "runway lights" Assuming you meant approach lights(since you said you would be following them), did you just opt out of verbalizing descending to 100ft above TDZE?
Fun fact about the regs: seeing the runway lights does not allow a pilot to descend all the way to the runway. If you have lights in sight, you can go below minimums, down to 100' above the touch down zone elevation (which is why it's always printed on approach plates), by which time you must see some of the actual runway
