Full IFR Flight - ILS to 400ft, Rain, Solid IMC

I'm done, man Irwin, you're seven miles from Gary's

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one six zero hold 3000 until localizer seven clears ILS runway one through your first impact market airport one six zero until 3000 until clearance clears establishment for the ILS 1/3 San Marcos no other do not raise it just a little have the runway in sight going down to 70 knots the power goes to idle let it lose speed there is the beautiful runway ahead and turn on Mia the smoker I flew to Dallas for the weekend to hang out I was out with a friend and on my way back home I had to photograph an ILS approach in this nasty weather.

It was a pretty drastic change from the night before because flying into Addison was just one of those beautiful nights where you can see the city lights emerging on the horizon. You can watch as you get closer and closer to the vast Metroplex, which is just a sea of ​​lights at night. Skyhawk 8-0 tower, another among 3,400 with zero zoo memory. 9, another outside the tower. Continue straight. on runway 33 our Idol 65 knots going down here's the round out there just keep it away from the red layer in here keep it away little blower wait wait wait wait there's a nice landing there for a light

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er nice okay with Addison contact regional focus on one to four point two five information oscar coyote 882 a Tiffin dirt track one five technology develop well like this that we We are going to have a rainy IFR day with ice and a descent that will go down to San Marcos and we pretty much have

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IFR to San Marcos, but the ceilings are good, the visibility is good, let's get our information Oscar, let's get our clearance ifr Madison terrain Skyhawk eight is zero nine or nine or one information Oscar IFR the hotel Yankee India well zero Nine thousand free terrain to the hotel Yankee Airport India feel your own runway departure course expected

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to departure Niner transition of Waco also maintain 2,000 wait four thousand 1 0 minutes after departure departure frequency one to four point three one two two two zero total San Marcos Airport on the departure runway in the direction of the radar radar vectors for Joe pull 9 then Waco as file come keep 2,000 wait four thousand ten minutes to park frequency one to four decimal three squawk two two two zero nine nine Rebecca right, I'm going to go well a procedure dsk hyi let's gopal nine waco oh, it's a good idea to get the set up avionics before we get in here that way we're not going to mess with it staying close to the runway and we're going to go to the procedure select exit to Joe throw nine Waco and get her there I have a good spot to see the The windshield with defrost right here he's cleaning it up, another kind of clue one five to get out, but you guys never did any.

Not here, we have Oscar texting I-15 via alpha 9. Another one, let's taxi to runway one five. we're clear on the left we're clear on the right check our gyros here turn left Clarence Lear 3 things are right turn I've got your San Antonio with Oscar everything Jarvis is upright the compass is swinging the gyros are quickly in the right direction ground clean tooth here alpha tango Leona Airport partners turn left heading zero five zero wait for the radar vectors to still stop at Niner departure Windu transitions mark an arrival hold 2000 wait flight level two two zero one zero minutes after departure the parts are frequency one two four point three six two five to try to clear some of this out, nice and cold, that's a little better, okay, I'll get closer to the runway, let's go ahead and change the tower and put two by three on the way out okay throttle checklist brakes are set fuel selector is on both trims is set to take off my controls free and correct I love it aileron up aileron down aileron up aileron down elevator up down left and right rudder my controls friend correct instruments check and set and everything good and calibrated here and everything we check the gyros, everything is neutral where the barometric pressure mixture should be set to get the best power.

Pete good green-green sufficient fuel suction is sufficient and the warning light works discharge ammeter in the warning light and it is operable return to idle the mat is fine with the heart idle and the reserve vacuum pump is operational the engine is Mr. Schack toy pressure temp is ok check idle is closed and throttle friction lock is set when check we complete pre take off flaps are set all the way up mixture is set for best power heat tent is off transponder we are squawking at- 220 heading error does not apply doors and windows closed and locked we are fine landing lights and strobes we will turn on the strobes on time no brakes we release an abort plan if we are not out from my Foxtrot we need to abort the takeoff any questions from any Skyhawk tower 8:09 and NR 1 waiting near runway one-five IFR alpha ready to take off only one man and a heading of 1/5 of the runway only 1 5 10 to takeoff traffic, so it's not final 2 miles, it's not far, please totally runway heading, runway one-five turns, takeoff those going to Victor from our continuous ILS, runway one-five and, for what I understand, he wants to do a touch and go and that guy is far to reach the runway once I Heard low approach number 2 - s tamanna' has final gender looks good airspeeds live pants and I meet Victor after the exit there by letting zero-five-zero maintain the flight runway 2000 heading to 2000 when zero seven zero at one for only one November 7 no and I don't want a separate croissant close to march good day no other one is fine as the leaving but I'm heading to 2010 six doors one thousand or nine thousand so you spent 16 regional first good afternoon information Julieta no Kern Adonis loves the two meters high 3 0 0 0 b 719 5,000 okay, john 5010 689 reports from our arrival, no complaints, smooth operation, sounds great, regional departure, sky hockey 0 9 91 heading 1 5 0 passing 1500 to check the at the same time on hold 1 1 0 dr.

Charlie turns left heading 180 0 interceptor oh no 1 5 vocalizing okay anyone 8 7 sf-15 locator 0 challenger 35 0 me original Lima approach good afternoon too far shameless hitting 2 2 0 vectors for the IRS 1 1 5 d Senate maintain 4,000 sparks f8 q q0 keep 4000 for 0 scott hockey 0 9 91 regional parks ready contact you were stepped on for sale to climb victor 1,800 m number 9 or 9 or 1 5 course 1 5 0 and keep 2,000 won 5-0 keep 2,000 8 0 9 1 premier 0 that's charlie 2 miles from mom hold 2,000 until it's over an old idiot cleared ILS ming14 at leveling 2,000 to establish a high clear last one five zero that's it, tella 1068 flies heading to 3 fine cock 2 3 5 and we have a Juliet, so it's 10: 16 Scott 99 to 1 cotton keep 3000 up to 3000 and another good continue the climb it's very hot here so I'm going to close that vent that spits a little come left just a little bit up until up one five zero on course passing 2300 up to three thousand turn off these panel lights we don't need I hate doing an anagram one came up quickly one two seven point six five two two one two seven six five eight zero nine ok everyone come up one two seven six five just cut it off Approach Waco sky hockey zero nine nine one level four thousand headache one five zero eight zero nine hundred my golf 1396 to another six eight zero nine one The engines look good everything is green without warning The suction of the lights is sufficient , okay, five inches where it belongs, heading one five zero four thousand DG, look and we're going to wait for San Marcos direct here in a few miles when there are winds zero two zero four knots in San Marcos cloudy 400 m.

Miss Oh Waco, if you could ask me one question, any reports on being between layers at or around my altitudes 3 T cube for native dad, no, this time you're the only plane I've had for the last half hour. a little crazy, but don't leave marks on my life. I think it's negative around 56 degrees outside, the temperature barely fluctuates from the ground to the altitude and the low altitudes at least right now that shows me that the atmosphere is very stable. I also have widespread stratiform clouds, constant rain or visibility, all of that is indicative of a stable atmosphere, remember 9/11, could Marcus rec Saint Marcus no, no thanks, enter directly, enter about 30 degrees, okay, done , there is my forward speed?

I just shaved an hour off my estimated time and route. Now there is a direct San Marcos. Take a look at our climate. It seems to be the surrounding airports. They are IFR. Do you prefer direct Laredo? Do you want to keep track of tinnitus? it's not the best five visibility five cloudy 400 that's above the minimums and the good thing is austin austin exact New Braunfels and everything basically south of that is IFR I mean yeah, just IFR, it's better than San Marcos Saint Marcus is a lower IFR and That's what I sat at the FBO waiting for so long.

I was waiting for the roofs of the surrounding airports to go up. The problem was that the area was so low IFR as if everything was below 400 feet, so I don't want to shoot. The approach to San Marcos has to go with the fist and then I am betting on whether I will enter my alternative. Victoria has like ten visibility files and 800 cloudy, so I introduced Victoria as my alternative, but also Austin has like 600 cloudy. visibility like 5, a pilot will get very nervous after shooting two approaches and missing those two approaches and now they say, oh my God, I'm going to go down and refuel thinking about fuel and you know where the horse is, better weather and everything that kind of thing I just didn't go in to get into that situation so I waited probably like I think it was like six hours I was at the FBO waiting right in the pilot's room I opened the laptop, it's work my personal minimum is that I want wide ceilings of at least 500 feet and if not, if it's widespread, it's not like you know that only one airport has 500 and the rest or 200, well, that airport could go down to 200 at any time and that's what I don't want playing with engines in green, a lot of fuel suction is enough.

There are no warning lights and important charging. The speed seems good. We are coordinated. We verify everything. Our gyroscope looks good. Sam Marcus 17 minutes ago. Cloudy 600 visibility five. trended up a little bit, everything around that area is IFR instead of a low position now, so that's in my favor, that's working, everything is going up as the afternoon goes on and then when it comes the night, everything is more likely, now that I have seen the forecast be wrong so many times, the ceilings will most likely go down again when the night ball arrives. I think an altitude is heading to make sure it's coordinated by checking our speed, but a moderate rain look at the instruments, everything seems to have good suctions. good, bends on the green, plays a few meters, loads without warning lights, level 4000, good, at heading speeds, good or coordinated, a little less grass, which will send information about dangerous weather for our center, weather warning one one zero five, balance for Waco. area for a low IFR and low visibility with some rain bilbo hi cutters tripathi guys on our wall will enter an area of ​​light precipitation in approximately four miles in an area of ​​moderate precipitation on its current course in approximately 1 0 miles that moderate It has about 5 miles in diameter and then back into the light for about three and then it's clear the path of that pattern under a Roger, we have a DSP on board but a negative radar, if you could help us with that cell in about 10 miles. d be gray we can turn left if possible jock Niner Niner a round you're putting one seven zero 170 in the headache man and I don't want to and once Saudi on the course fun fact single-engine propeller planes don't have windshield wipers because don't really need them the exploding prop pushes the water out of the windshield does a good job guys hug the mare another one looks like a straight turn hand Marcus here in about two more miles staying away from any moderate just a little bit of light during the next 15 and then lets it go a little sounds good thanks to the rotation of 3 kilowatts without a 14-13 have the numbers for Gregor are not everyone's, although they are in the 4-3 kilo-alpha way of approaching the rudders will keep six of six thousand they have me on a heading of 180 yes, they will hold it for some space out the name of the game is eyes on the instruments don't think about anything else except In the moment you are in now, think about flying the plane.

What you should do next, heading and altitude. Check the vacuum in the engine instruments. Make sure there are no warning lights. Check your direction. Make sure thatyou are on the right path. two seven two two eight zero nine one arriving one to seven point two two watching the instruments flip-flop make contact with Austin is approaching and we're going to request that we take a look at the weather real quick Saint Marcus wins zero one zero to four broken knots four hundred visibility, that's actually good enough for the Arnav three five and that the wind that's what the winds will favor, so that's what we're going to request from Austin in our initial contact.

Austin approaches the sky. Hawk is ages zero, nine, one level. four thousand direct San Marcos looking for Arnav one sorry now it's three five in San Marcos or eight zero nine Irwin also approach the same mark visit Iranian land one three you can plan the ILS fly course 2 1 0 vector study approach course two one zero wait that I don't know, no one thinks they're landing right on runway one three when zero-one-zero on 4 but I guess that's not enough for them in the north land, so I guess we'll have a little bit of a tailwind , so they told us to wait for the ILS 1/3, so now like they told us to wait, we're going to come in here and load it into the 430 and he set up the vectors, but I'm going to go ahead and load Gary is here, let's load because we can always activate the vectors to finish later when I do the same on my iPad and he will proceed to select the ILS 1/3 focus and we'll say Gary's level 4000 is heading to 1-0 those 2392 contact focus 1 to 5 dot 3 to 25-30 you have a great day okay, we're going to get 108 points 7 and the beef oak here we're going to go ahead and put it on beef oak on the 430 and since we have a number 2 radio, we're going to put one oh eight point seven and on the second radio also the final approach heading will be 1 to 6 degrees, we will set both eyes CD from 1 to 6 degrees. heading 2 1 0 level 4,000 interested Smiths are in the green section that's enough and there are no warning lights we have an Odom on the airport runway 1 3 railroad light out of service what that means is we're chasing rabbits, that is what we normally are Usually you see you know when you come down through the clouds it's out of order, what's 0 to 2, if we're talking to Austin, the approaches will probably deliver us to 19 nothing and the San Marcos Tower 1 to 6 8 2 and the tower. will be open, we have ground control clearance delivery and, well, we have two clearance deliveries, we are getting a vector for the approach coming back to my instruments heading 2 1 0 level 4,000 engine instruments are good, the section is good, so if we go to Gary's and you come out to do the procedure, turn where you need to stay at 3200 or so until you settle into final approach and we're going to get the drink 991 contact get close one one nine point zero one out of the series of points.

I'm not getting any good news, check with your heading, welcome, Austin approaching the zero hockey guy, another one under one level, four thousand, heading two, a zero vector for the ILS gate, there another one under one in the garage of approach, does it stop me completely? A magnet of skin underneath. one Roger, you'll have a brother facilitator at twelve o'clock one five miles you've been between fifteen and twenty miles I don't want her, you know, living there five areas of a moderate precipitation well line extending from your De 10 to one, you'll be at this for about eight fighting mouth, I'll get back to you, Senator Chris, I'm keeping one, 2,000, I'll get back to you, Center, one, three, four, point two, good day, we're in the final, we'll stay outside. of 2700 feet until we intercept the glide slope that will be before Gary's, we will check our altitude at Gary's, which should be 24 41 feet on the glide slope, the missed approach will be a direct climb to 2,000 feet upon reaching two. thousand feet begin an ascending left turn at 3,200 feet straight into the Gary NDB The Gary intersection is straight and an ILS 1/3 is in the middle of our half mile visibility 793, so that's two hundred feet AGL is what we are going to do, common Porthos tells those 2179 in the central group radar contact keep nine thousand clear jobs, paint that was destroyed, it was never at 24:20 keep one 2020 we will only take note that the rails in Saint Marcus are out of service, okay, another one, another one, how was your flight? the soft ring so far we have intimacy just occasional bumps here and there but pronounced soft we are IMC graduates thank you today's project appointments november 3-7 mike departed austin executive 1600 climbing 3000 education november 3-7 omg seperate identify yourself often altimeter at 904 maintained on your own a DSP says the same thing as the ATIS they agree I have to get lost New Braunfels is marginal Austin's marginal executive your IFR I would probably go to Bergstrom if I have to get lost lost bill leave the Bergstrom fire the ILS and a three-five to the right or to the left whoever they give me I always have a way out I have it I have a backup plan if this doesn't work if the clouds you know apart from what the meeting says that the 80s are all that and the forecast if the clouds are lower than all that said unexpectedly then I'm going to fail and I have backup plans Austin looks great San Antonio looks great, they're not even IFR.

The VFR looks good, we timed this perfectly well, ma'am, you're picking it up, so let's listen to the Morse code and identify everyone's a little bit weaker, but I hear it's a localizer for our images that you guys are live with. the 7 and 8 on the right place Rodriguez's horses that way they climb quickly above that and enter one and turn left heading 1 6 0 1 6 are nominal, wait man or one you are seven miles from the flight of Gary one six zero hold 3000 so 7 localizer cleared runway ILS 1 3 approached a market airport let's get down to 3000 until we establish clear for ILS 1 3 San Marcos not another reduced power descent checklist accessory and rich, let's start enriching and fuel selectors on both feet as required, let's go ahead and take it out to say wass, we have it again on the instruments on the side.

I'll tell you like 1966 Isis front water contact set to 0.32 good day sir miss cross check complete calibrated descent checklist let's go ahead be performance before landing checklist brake pedal testing an idea for a victory seems 35 correct / kappa / good pressure on the pedals landing on autopilot soft seat belts shoulder harnesses are tight and locked my eyes are on the instruments looking at the instruments everything is fine suction is good heading one six zero and down to 3000 mixture set to get the best power we're going to slow the car down with fuel on both and flaps as needed we don't want any flaps yet the heading looks good passing through 3500 about 500 feet one minute on the descent here's just a little bit left engine instruments are green our descent checklist Anthony's landing checklist is complete his company localizers are arriving so we will prepare to make our turn planning the lake to the north we have Quebec 352 on approach , I hope you have passed five left - 350 - you, you, factoring through the 35 left, begin a left turn, intercept the locator quite set, but the needles are alive while the majority is on the center so we will increase the power and maintain 3000. here we go to our final approach route Mandarin r1 contact a market r12 622 good day - 618 no no I'm not kidding we're just going to check tell them ILS 1 3 then Marcus tower skyhawk 81 and below 1 ILS 1/3 sky ok $0.99 or a salesman immediately ties a three foot line which pre-clears the ground no one no one ok 3000 we are set let's start lowering it to 2700 feet it looks like our glideslope is okay right on the localizer use the power just a little bit of carp eat here it's down once we go down a little bit we start going up towards the glide path and we're going to think about dropping the first notch of flaps and that will help us reduce the speed. down and the smell will help increase lift at lower speeds check my desired runway against my runway and use that to get a sort of ballpark on my gyro as to where I want us to go down to 2700 feet so the a has changed tomorrow hunger Oscar 2:246 Zulu wind 0 1 0 in for visibility two and a half miles rain condition roof 400 Wilton 800 temperature cloudy 172.16.0.0 jinyu notice a The airmen flee 1 3 flee a lot they did to get their life out of the service you wake up the divided clothing Mitchell contacts you you are going to probation Oscar Alta better 296 that is the important part and they also another important part are the minimums.

I'm comparing the lows to the reported ceiling or the reported ceiling is 400 feet still, so we argue that we'll just hold 2700 feet on the localizer until this glide path reaches us and it looks like a heading of about 1 1 5 will help me maintain the desired trajectory, perhaps around 1 1 0 now. the wind changes as we descend the wind can change speed change direction we just want to keep an eye on it our checklists are done our lights are on we have the weather or with some light we use light rain right now two and a half mile visibility broken 400 on the roof, okay, we're hitting the glide path here.

I don't want to use the approach control no, no one, no one, Roger, that's good, I'm happy, tell me I have control of the approach lights. we're going to go a little bit to the left and we're getting close to our glide path there we go we're a little bit to the right of course on two CD eyes okay which is good good good choices good engines on green, no warning lights, there's a glide path let's reduce the power and start going down there's the bell for Garry is coming thanks for the warning and trim them a little reduce the power to help us slow down come a little the left around one one zero looks good 2500 coming down 800 in the wine arc one thousand two thousand three thousand there's the first notch of the flaps they were a little bit to the right of course coming to the left about five degrees, these very gentle turns are all we need, you can even adjust it with a rudder a little bit we want an approach speed of 75 knots.

I'm coming out of the clouds in and out of the clouds here, but I'm NOT going to look out yet. I can look outside, but I'm not going to get ready outside. I'm cleared for the ILS, not the picture, so fly the ILS at 75 knots slightly to the right of course, let's just correct it a little to the left, look Johnny, oh that looks pretty good, we're not annoying like crazy and me. I have almost the perfect power setting for the glide path here. I still don't see the runway, don't look outside, don't look outside, our minimums are 793 feet on the altimeter, approximately 1.5 slope, slightly reduced power.

I'm controlling my speed with pitch and my descent speed is based on my glide slope with power, so I'm a little high, so I'm going to reduce the power a little. I'm a little fast, so I'm going to lift my nose a little. Well, 2000 feet, a little bit to the right, we're going to correct to the left and a little bit to the left, we're going to ease the energy a little bit, we're just going to increase the rate of descent a little bit and that psi will start to drop very gently, that It's great, how it works.

By the way, there are no feet to follow, going down through 1,800 feet by 800, come left about five degrees and there we are, we're right on the glide slope, right on the localizer, well, almost right on the locator, don't be fooled, Josh, a little to the left. a little to the left suctions good engine the instruments are good no warning lights I have control of the runway or approach lights more like a little above the glide slope he ran out of power just a little and I come a little to the left and some rain here a little bit fast so we're going to lift the nose a little bit we're going to take the power off a little bit we're correcting the left go back to those needles or a little bit high a little bit to the right he's the power out a At just 500 feet we have the runway in sight one white one red red on the glide path we are still cleared for the approach so we want to stay more or less on the needles until the minimums advance and add another notch of flaps one thousand two thousand three thousand that will give us a little extra lift my nose is pointing to the left so I have a crosswind to the left which means we are going to have to do a slide to the right side going down to 70 knots the power is coming to idle I've got the runway done a couple adjustment strokes those little right rudders let's stop it right above the runway let it bleed the speed there's the runway beautiful system 99 in one on the right it takes echoing from Integra Okay, I could go to the ground and another thanks Justin 99 or when did you notice the base of the clouds?

One last yes sir, they are about three hundred and fifty feet AGL right where they said they were and it was broken, thank you all. TRUE,not a bad ILS, not a bad corridor, that's the first legit approach I've made, which came down to about 400 feet, which was the first approach I've really made in a long time and I'm MC, so welcome to drop in Texas, it's time. in time to fine-tune skills in the clouds after landing the car's flaps are raised PETA or the landing light off the pitot will remain on the heat is off mix as necessary we will tilt it a little the trim assembly for takeoff the transponder is squawking altitude San Marcos terrain sky hockey zero no no no no one free from the runway one three echo going to the hangars this danger 99016 terrain we are ready area Charlie and alpha - uh parking Charlie alpha two parking another all good, good things, things Well, that was all a good exercise in my personal minimums because it's very tempting, you know, and you say, Oh, everything in Austin is cloudy at 400 feet and the focus allows me to go down to 200, so yeah, he Wow, yeah, It's very tempting to say that and that's where you know people will have what's called getting there.

It's a made-up disease where pilots will kill themselves because they'll try to force it because they really want to get there. At home, they really want to get to their destination, so they push it and get around the rules and all that kind of stuff. You have to work hard to overcome that and not give in because it's so easy to give. I got in, but I sat in the millionaire pilots lounge in Addison and I was just watching the weather and I just said, I'm not leaving until most of the airports in my area have at least a 500 foot ceiling and that happened.

Wait. Probably about six hours and it finally happened. It was a really amazing workout from my personal minimum. I've stuck it out and waited and waited and waited and was ready to stay in Addison another night and drop everything and go find a hotel. I was perfectly happy to do so if necessary. I think the point is that I really want to get away from this video. The important thing is that we all have our personal minimums and it is important that we stick to them and it takes some discipline to do so, but that's what it's all about.

I told myself I wasn't going to leave Addison a millionaire until I had what I wanted to know how far the weather goes and I stuck to it. I came away from this flight having learned something new about myself and my personal lows and I think that's something really important. If you liked the video, please like it if you did. You no longer hit subscribe and turn on notifications for more videos coming out in the future, stay happy, stay healthy, stay updated and competent, we'll see you in the next one.