Judge Ryan Dies in Cirrus SR22 Crash in Illinois 

I feel certain that, just by making this video available, at some place, at some time, you have already prevented at least one fatal crash. Thank you very much.

Newly minted pilot here, thanks for all you do, for those of us that fly.

It's so easy to say "I would have done that differently..." but you never know if you would have made the go / no go decision the same as Judge Ryan. Condolences to his family and friends. Thank you for the detailed story telling. The recent Mooney crash was another low IFR approach dipping below the assigned altitudes for the approach. Those charts were written in the blood of many aviators that did not make it home. If I ever find myself filling up at 1:00 AM and the fatigue has set in, hopefully I'll remember to hop in the back seat and sleep until it's clear skies ahead.

Great video!

Excellent presentation

Amazing job, about ready to have my instrument checkride and this a good reminder that all of us make mistakes but we can learn from them.

You’d have to think fatigue played a part, I mean he had to have been tired and wanting to get home.

Thanks for the info, just bought the book. Looking forward to reading it.

Nice new fresh to the point aviation channel looking forward to more of your videos

I just read your essay on this accident accident and am looking forward to more of your content. I wish success such that you don't have to fly for money anymore - unless you really want to.

Single-pilot, low IFR at night is as hard as it gets. This is no time to be even slightly unfamiliar or unpracticed with your avionics and automation. Only fly low IFR at night on a trip if you have recently practiced approaches under identical conditions at one or more familiar airports.

Not only beyond FSD on the CDI but more than 300' below glidepath and already BELOW MINIMUMS at point of impact. To have continued such a botched approach demonstrates a tragic and ironic absence of the most elementary standard of good judgement.

New alienautics, LATE night flight in IMC after a long day???...good judgment is essential for pilots...a beautiful morning flight the next day & home by lunch would be a better choice

RIP

Some lessons learned here: know your gear inside and out; get up-to-date weather on approach; don't fly night and IFR in a singe-engine piston at the same time. It's not fair to say, "shoulda", but as a student pilot I ask what I will do in that situation? 22 miles? I'd stay at the last FBO and sleep in the plane until morning. I've pulled over in cars during long drives and done the same when I or the road were in rough shape. I hope I won''t treat flying any different.

Sadly, it’s an all too predictable chain of poor decisions that leads to a fatality. Making 700 mile flight late in the evening when he was most likely tired, failing to recheck the weather enroute, especially in winder and darkness, third unfamiliarity with a new nav system, and fourth, failing to break off the failed approach and re capture the IAF on a new approach. Had he done any one of those things differently he would be alive today.

You'd be hard pressed to find a more labor-intensive endeavor than single pilot IFR at night.

WOW great analysis, I think pilot fatigue, night vs day, workload, complexity and flying when you’re normally sleeping. I don’t know the man but overconfidence maybe? Great video right to the point. Thanks

I learned that when getting there overrides safety nothing good happens, I got away with it with some shaky knees and a big kiss of some wet tarmac. I'll never again let my schedule risk my life. When in doubt, abort for another time.

Not ifr rated and haven't flown in 5 yrs but this is well done. Just got a pc w msfs 2022 & trying to fly an ils app has been difficult compared to earlier versions.

Single pilot night IFR is a serious handful….especially if the pilot is not intimately familiar - and proficient - with the avionics. Always one button push away from potential disaster.

Can someone help me understand this? When loading and activating Vectors To Final, at least a Garmin unit will intercept the final approach course outside the FAF. Am I misunderstanding something? Did this pilot load but not activate? This would have prevented descending down the (virtual) glide slope. I don't know if the Garmin sees a discontinuity or if it just turns onto the final approach course. The classic advice to always load an approach from a fix on the Garmin no longer holds. VTF will make the fixes available while allowing to intercept the final.

Unfortunately the same accidents keep happening.

I am curious what gave the pilot the confidence for a decent when the aircraft would have clearly indicated it was off the centerline. I have personally made plenty of mistakes myself where I misinterpreted some information. What was the most likely source of confusion here?

Mans Gotta Know His Limitations

A good example of why only professional pilots should be flying IMC at night. As systems become more complex, more time is required to learn them, and mist GA pilots don't have the time.

Sullivan was my home town, he would have better off to have waited till sun up. It's in country suround by corn fields he could have had a peaceful sleep and left in day light.

I installed a flightstream 210 in my plane. Made it simple to import my flight plan from ForeFlight. Would have likely kept him from the mistake.

When you punch keys on the GPS and the aircraft does not do what's expected

Cool video. Pronunciations for Vincennes, Wabash, and Terre Haute are all totally wrong.

Surprised he would attempt a late night poor condition landing with a new piece of equipment

Great work on this video, but it's fast and monotone, hard to follow.

This pilot must have just not been watching his approach on the instruments, Even when selecting the wrong type of approach one should have caught on right away, Pilots are trained to watch the instrument as approach changes come into play. I don't think the issue here was selecting the wrong approach it was not confirming each change in real-time, All pilots must keep an eye on (in no order) altitude, orientation, speed, and all approach changes all of these at all times, if you do this you will be okay. We must stay ahead of the plane, I hate to see good people die from simple mistakes, but in an aircraft, the smallest mistake is life or death, the good news is, follow some simple process and checklist you are golden.

An bait and switch clickbait ad for your book. How cute!

The risk of a GA aircraft crashing increases with the number of buttons in the cockpit.

Not to be that guy but Vincennes is pronounced “vin-sens” I used to pronounce it the exact way you did but a local corrected me. Good video though.

Vin-SENZ

Good programming..

Poor judgment Judge What happened to Cirrus’ PlanB?

Your voice is like butter on a freshly made pancake bruv

Please do an analysis of his iPad and four flight updates. Was the iPad security breached? And was that part of the accident? With enough meddling into software, you could give pilots false data and create a very dangerous situation by taking attention away from the Garmin and towards the iPad. As we all know, the iPad has that ability to suck attention with its frequency, lights and buzzers... I'm 💯 against any blue tooth and cell phone technology in the cockpit...

*S U B S C R I B E D ! ! !* WOW! EXCELLENT VIDEO!

turns out he forgot to switch google maps from driving to flying -- it was planning him to drive the rest of the way to the airport

You mispronounced Terra Haute.

The judge used poor judgment! Using unfamiliar equipment on a low IFR flight. He exceeded his limitations end of discussion! I hope his family did not sue someone because of his incompetence.

Liked subbed and gonna buy your book 🫡 Please keep up the good work . You have a nice speaking voice and a cadence for this type of thing. Its what drew me too it. . I listened to all of your videos and my only suggestion is to keep them like this. FACTUAL . No Drama lol. I think some of the other guys who do this not gonna mention names DG LOL Kinda add too much of their own personal into it. JUST THE FACTS MAN. 🫡

Excellent video!