My daughter Katey and I head to South Lake Tahoe to pick up a cardiac patient for treatment in Phoenix. Due to fires that are covering most of the western US, we are in full IMC right down to minimums and surrounded by mountains.
I love your channel and I Love your approach to your flying. Competence without arrogance, caution without timidity, attention to detail without tunnel vision.
I love following your flights. This was surely the most detailed with minimums, a busy controller and instructing a student. Well done to you both. Greetings from Brisbane Australia.
Amazing video!! Been watching these for several years now and this is one of my favorites! So much detail that I can't even imagine understanding as a non-pilot. Thank you for sharing
Just found your RU-vid channel and I’ve now subscribed. Great flight...kept my attention completely! I flew and owned and flew a Cherokee 180 for 24 years, which sounds like what Katie flies...great plane! I little over a year ago I had to stop flying and sell her...now I’m going to relive flying with you two! Thanks for sharing your adventure. Katie, keep up the great flying! A L/R hint...look at the back of your hands, with thumbs sticking out...left hand should look like an L.
Good Day Sir. I just discovered your channel today and have watched 3 or 4 of the videos, including your daughters solo flight. She definitely takes after her Dad, she handled the curves thrown at her like a pro. You have a Beautiful family and I love watching someone that is a Safe and Sane pilot as are you. Thank you for sharing, I will be continuing to watch and learn.
Fun video, I was behind you in a Comanche awaiting IFR release when you cancelled to depart VFR, Never been to KFFZ before, man that place is a circus. I got the Mesa 1 Ifnur to PXR V190 to go NE but ended up getting vectors around Gateway to join V190. Nutty the amount of flight school traffic there! Fun to hear Katie on the radio, congrats to her on her aviation journey, you two crack me up
I got my PPL and instrument out of FFZ and yeah the airspace around there is absolutely saturated with traffic. During instrument training I flew the Mesa1 IFNUR every flight as all the approach training is done so the south at the airport CGZ since it's an uncontrolled field with a VOR, ILS, and a GPS approach.
Before I was instrument rated, I used to marvel at these pilots dropping out of the bottom of a cloud, never thought of dropping out of the thick smoke like that. Excellent video. I only fly flight simulators on my computer now. Thanks for the video.
What an inspiration Katey is! A truly wonderful God centered family. The Reno controller left me, upon initial contact, with the impression that he had your destination as Truckee instead of South Lake Tahoe.
Don’t worry about your dislexic directional condition. My dad actually made “left” and “right”placards and put them on either side of the directional gyro. To avoid a wrong turn.
An old Navy admiral had a wooden box in his stateroom, and he would always close the door in the morning and look in the box. One day, his sailors saw him look in the box. He passed away, and one of the sailors ran to the box. There was a card in the box that said, "port left, starboard right."
Enjoy your videos with your daughter Katey. Very proud of her as I'm sure that you are! Being as I have 3 daughters of my own I know how proud Dad's can be when our kids accomplish great things. I'm confident she's going to be a great pilot.
Well done Katie, your father is a great instructor and with more practice and added confidence, you are well on you way to becoming a full fledged pilot - bless you
Well done guys! I'm in the fact finding phase of a Malibu purchase and all of your vids are extremely helpful. Got over 7k hours of flying high performance aircraft and Large Cabin Gulfstreams. I really do enjoy the professionalism and airmanship you provide in your videos. Keep it up and looking forward to the next one. Tailwinds!!
Holy crap, greased it young lady, and in crappy conditions. Good job! And good job dad! And last but definitely not least, bravo to ATC, he had his hands full.
Welcome Back! Thanks for taking the time to produce this video for us and congrats to your new personal chauffeur. Also cudos for the flight to assist someone in need.
CPT. Malibu, (4DT) I concur with all the other kudos that you had received from other viewers. Can't believe but you have been flying such a short time and have achieved such a commanding array piloting skills. I just had to stop & tell you how really impressed I am by how you conduct your "PIC" AUTHORITY! You seem to have a very confident grip on airman's manual. You're one smooth operator and obviously have a good personality. Your love for your family comes shining through and is very admirable. Are you going to buy the M600? You know, I can almost see you taking to the skies in the new "Honda elite"! (hey why not?) Will close by thanking you for some outstanding videos. Remember the 5 Ps: proper planning produces perfect performance. GODbless!!! Chuck
Its good to see your back on the channel, I was looking forward to your videos, I learned alot from them. I just got my PPL and would love to meet/fly with you sir. If your ever in PDX let me know. I'll be in Phoenix this week visiting my family. God bless y'all!
Great flight. Seems you have to set descent rate every time. Is there a default you can set to save that extra step? Katie did a commendable job. Thanks for sharing.
That was a complex approach with unusual circumstances. Well done to the both of you! You know, that flight was a great instructional video that I hope gets watched repeatedly.
Very cool! I'm currently going through IFR training, so I really appreciate seeing the in-depth look into the enroute and approach segments of the flight. I've flown to KTVL VFR once, it's too bad the smoke was covering up the beautiful views. Thanks for the great video!
It was interesting to watch as you worked through the flight and transitions. It looks like you can enter changes in altitude and even direction while staying on autopilot. It looks like that would be a fun plane to fly. And Katey did well for a relatively new pilot. Congratulations. Dave
nice landing Katey .. wow that controller was busy .. sheeesh . very interesting to see in these smokey conditions .i have a cousin that lives in south tahoe
19:57 “operational necessity”....the arriving AA flight on the radio needed a runway at Reno that wasn’t currently being used by the airport...for whatever reason-performance, approach capability, etc-and the controller needed the crew to state exactly why they needed it.
Suggest finding a MP power setting for your approaches. Your speed looked like it was down in the mid to upper 70s, pretty slow for an approach in case you need to go around. And let your daughter move some of the levers or push some of the buttons, as many folks learn that way. Great video!
Although I've never flown a Malibu, the 75 kt speeds on approach, looked a bit low in my estimation as well..(?) Congrats Katey on your ppl! Hope to run across ya'll at the airport sometime! Thanks for the vids. S/s Colorado pilot...
It's funny, my wife of 46yrs, who is a RN has the same problem. We just decided to use "UP" for left and "DOWN" for right.. LOL.. Great video. Have really missed your flights.
You're not alone, Katey. I announce baseball games and was constantly getting confused about whether the ball went to right field or left field. Now I have an "R" tattooed on my right hand between the base knuckle of my thumb and the base knuckle of my index finger, and an "L" on the same position on my left hand.
Nice flight - thank you for sharing it with us! @Katy - if this „LeftRight-thing“ really gives you a hard time, then just do as my neighbour did... on his 50th birthday he got himself a R & L tattooed on the inside of his thumbs - and he said „my life would have been a lot easier if i had done this 30 years ago.“ Greetings from Gernany ... Save landings👋🏻
It's been really awful for vfr flying these last 4-5 weeks. Thankfully the smoke has finally cleared and its blue skies again. Nice job flying and on the radios, Katey.
Great to see a new post ... and to see Katey progressing. My only complaint ... would love to see/hear you cancelling IFR on the ground. I was getting anxious watching the (accelerated) taxi ... afraid that someone up there was going to be making unnecessary circles to the right if you waited too long / forgot to cancel 😉. Those fires are serious, be safe and blessings to you and your family!
It's weird how the iPad showed 1,000' higher than you were....Surely the Altimeter setting wasn't that far off, I thought that Foreflight was supposed to be spot on with the ADSB receiver?
I flew into Minden MEV in my bonanza a few days ago, just east of tahoe and ended up flying in and out IFR due to the smoke. Pretry much the same experience
This was fun to watch, but the number of ads exceeded my tolerance level, the video was interrupted at least 5 times and there were 2 ads per interruption. I don't know if that's your choice or RU-vid's but the value proposition for an A/C I will never fly isn't there for me.
You can opt out of Ads you know. I watch Malibu Flyer to both learn and relax... I enjoy the teaching, family, flight, and views... ads do get in the way, but if they are overwhelming, there is always the option to pay RU-vid. Right?
Nice video, very enjoyable. As a non flyer I wonder about the effect smoke, especially heavy smoke at altitude, like the fires out west, might have on your piston engine. Aren't most aircraft engines not on unfiltered intake air??
