Troy is a great communicator. Precision flying by the "crew".

I love IMC. And this is an example of why I was taught to remain skeptical on an approach that you'll get in, and assume you'll go missed. Psychologically it relieves the burden of making a decision so to speak, and procedurally it forces you to be ready before you begin the missed approach (not only to brief, but frequencies of any navaids already on standby). The funny thing is one of my lowest approaches was not indicated as such on the METARS just as I was beginning the descent. There was a ball of moisture sitting just over Martha's Vineyard as I was coming in, and a Jet Blue 737 was coming in first. I knew I would be using the procedure to descend but the METAR (which was old) indicated marginal conditions. Needless to say there was about a 400' solid ceiling above the airport (100' above minimums for the procedure) when I was cleared on the approach, but because the METAR only reported that as scattered at that level I had no idea how low it was going to be once everything turned grey and rainy/misty. But I went in with the mentality of assuming I wouldn't make it down, that I would have to return to the mainland where the weather was VFR, but ultimately I made it in and it was nice and clear after the cloud deck was penetrated. After I shut down I looked at the METAR again on Foreflight and it had changed of course to low-IFR/light pink, to which I exclaimed aloud, "no s*%t." ;).

I have flown with Troy before. He is a super professional pilot. Also he has the voice of God.

The decision to work that as a crew, and the way you worked together was excellent. Well-flown, well-crewed, nicely done.

Josh, best video of yours so far. As a PPL almost ready for my instrument, this was a perfect example of flying in IMC right down to minimums, when almost all of my 40plus IFR hours are under the foggles. You are spot on - having a second instrument-rated pilot in the right seat is priceless. Thanks for sharing this one!

Excellent video and flying procedures. Two guys up front...use them. Dividing up tasks eases the stress on the one focused on the gauges. Retired USAF HC & WC-130 and T-39 pilot. Miss it every day. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to your next one.

The cinematography and color grading is truly something else Josh. I sincerely enjoy watching your videos! What's the best way to get in contact with you?

This video is the embodiment of what I hope to do when I start aviation. Flawless radio work (callsigns aside), professionalism in the cockpit, and using it for a good cause.

I appreciate you both being honest about how tense, for lack of better term, that approach was. Obviously you both did a wonderful job flying but you could see the relief on your faces when you two were in the hangar. For a low time pilot that says a lot, that it's ok to be nervous but follow your training. Wonderful video.

Awesome video! I'm glad to see dedicated pilots like you sharing experiences with professionalism. Greetings from Costa Rica. Keep up the excellent work!

Fantastic video. I’m liking your use of music to emphasize tension. I’ve been watching your videos for a while now. The constant improvements on editing and musical score is evident and damn near perfect. Very well done.

Absolutely incredible Josh! Loved seeing you two working together and was able to learn a lot watching the way you guys work! Thanks for sharing!

Great video...content and camera work are super...one of best IFR approaches I've seen...I would be proud to fly with you both...learned a lot...well done!!

Excellent CRM, I love how you apply airline principles and philosophies to GA - you and your team are making the skies a safer place to be, one video at a time!

This one going down as one of my favorite vlogs of yours. High intensity approach (was literally grabbing my arm rests on short final). Awesome communication between the two of you, the CRM was without a doubt first class, textbook, airline standards if I may say. You're a hell of a mentor to me and hundreds of thousands of other pilots. Stay safe my friend.

Winter in Texas......70 during the day, 50 and fog to the ground that night, 38 and clear the next morning.......great job!

Definitely a difference in being current vs. being proficient in an approach like this one. Well done!

Was a pleasure to watch two VERY skilled pilots doing what they do!

Great video, I’m glad you decided film this flight it has already become one of my favorites.

Thanks Josh. Real and intense aviation. Excellent job capturing it.

Another awesome video Josh!!! Definitely one for the books as you said. I really enjoyed this one, I'll be checking out the full length on cockpit club. The CRM was superb, you guys worked like a well oiled crew that's been flying together for a while. Great job, Thanks!

I really value and appreciate when you include videos like this one. You have valuable experience to communicate to us newbies.

Insane video. Very well done Josh. Love watching these with how informational and educational you make it.

I watched this 6 months ago before I started any instrument training and was only picking up bits and pieces, now just waiting to schedule my instrument ride, it was fun to watch again while understanding everything!

Josh, great video. Great example of cockpit teamwork and procedures! Awesome.

Awesome IMC flight Josh and PIC! I was on the edge of my seat chair flying and waiting to see the runway lights! Then when you saw them they were so close! Happy new year!

Great video as always, getting ready for my IFR check-ride so Ive watched this one a bunch. :) That GFC AP really is amazing. Great Flying!

Very nice Josh. I'm about to finish my MCC, so this video landed right in time. You both did a really nice job splitting tasks and making use of the resources you had at disposal. Overall, what makes good CRM is communication and clear task splitting with both knowing who has the lead but knowing that you're "flying" as well as the pilot monitoring and that you need to point out when something's not right and keep the PF in the loop as well as the other way around (closed loop principle). Real training in CRM takes time and experience but your video was a great example of the essentials! Thanks for sharing and greetings from Switzerland.

This was such a good watch. Thanks for taking us along to learn from your experience. I'm working on my IR and I hope to emulate what you two have shown in this, while wearing my Av 101 hat. Keep up the great work Josh.

Great video - pretty intense coming in so 'low'. Saw the flashing lights and the runway about at the same time. Hope you had a great Christmas and a great New Year coming up. Take care - be safe. 'Spin'

I love seeing these approaches right down to minimums in real life IMC conditions. Thanks Josh! Happy New Year

Your videos, instruction and adventures are the pinnacle of aviation and I'm truly appreciative of your effort! To the cockpit club I go!

Very cool to see an approach as low as this handled as smoothly and cooperatively as you guys did! I'm looking forward to the full-length on Cockpit Club!

Terrific video! This is a great training tool and works well for recurrency . Well done guys!

Nice work gentlemen. I’ve done a few of those absolute minimum landings single pilot. Very unnerving but as you mention, training is why we do it. Having extra eyes is a huge advantage and any pilot would be a fool not to take advantage.

Well done, Josh. Really enjoyed. Thanks for sharing your experience!

that gave me the goos bump, and the will to push true all the long studying to get my IFR rating, one day it will be mine, thanks for sharing Josh that was great content right there.

It is a great feeling when that runway environment shows up right on schedule. Job very well done. You guys form a great team.

Great video and CRM. Fun to watch you and Troy doing that pilot stuff, working this approach. This triggered instant memories of getting in to KOXB on the GPS 32, down to 280 and minimums were 261.

woooow, this makes me want to get my instrument so badly! incredible! The engineering involved to develop and implement everything necessary to make these kinds of approaches happen blows my mind. The skills to fly these approaches sits on whole other level. Great flying!

Communication was vital. Team work made for a safe landing in some very difficult circumstances. Excellent job - congratulations to you both.

Excellent video Josh, and to my friend Troy amazing watching you do what you love. Thanks for sharing this flight too

This video came at a good time for me. I am working on my instrument rating currently and approaches are what I am doing right now. Super informative video.

Amazing approach and resource mgmt. You both knocked it out of park in this video. Thanks for sharing.

Another fantastic and professional video. Would expect nothing less. Great job man.

The absolute best IFR, down to minimums (100') vid ever. That would have been tough for a single pilot.

Great video. Very informative and shows the value of sharing piloting duties and coordination os IFR workload. Well done.

GREAT episode!! Wishing you and yours a Blessed 2021!

After just getting my instrument rating at just over 200 hours I can definitely see how it will be helpful one day down the road! I remember watching you before I even went to get my pilot's license and now a year and a half later I have my IFR and next week begin my commercial license classes!

Well done guys. What great team work!!! So professional and well prepared for minimums. IFR at its best.

As a low time pilot I very much appreciated you posting this

Seriously great communication between both of you... nicely done!

Great video. I’ll starting my instrument training soon. Talk about nerve racking, great job.

Great video, guys! The elevation of airport is important along with correct altimeter setting. I also think airspeed is important too preventing stall in the blind. Great team work.

Wow! I learned so much and you two were top notch professional grade!

Well, that was pretty intense from my couch... can’t imagine being in that cockpit. Nice job, great content.

What an incredible approach! Great job to the both of you. 🤘🇺🇸🛩️

Thank you Josh for posting that video. I learned a lot about working together as a crew. You two worked together very well. See you next time.

OMG, what an amazing approach. Mind blowing. I love you aviation videos. It bring a smile to my face. Thank you.

Great video !!! As a new instrument student this taught me a fair amount of the flow of the ifr flight in true IMC. Thanks !

Very nice. Thank you for the "VFR" distance call out. I think as instrument pilots we get caught up in the approach and even though there was no VFR traffic it's a good habit to announce where you are like '8 miles out straight in runway 34' so they understand. VFR traffic doesn't usually know fixes on an instrument approach so to say you're at PAXXE intersection on RNAV 34 doesn't let them know where you are.

Great video, thanks for sharing this.

Wow! Great flying to great film! Thanks so much for sharing

Impressive on so many levels! The CRM is cool and a blast to see in action. I can really appreciate this video, My favorite plane in our club is a 1978 182 RG, with Dual G5s, 430, and GFC500. Such a wonderful machine, and a great IFR bird. Troy has the T182 to make those climbs happen faster! Nice work... BOTH of ya'll!!!

The toga button was on my mind when Troy called out 100 to go! Great video and audio as well! Nice work Josh ! John.

Certainly a high pucker factor approach. No room for any kind of error. Thanks for posting, great video. Cheers from Winnipeg.

This was scary...excellent airmanship by you guys! Thanks for the helpful tips.

What a great video !!!! I learned a lot and my anxiety went up at the end ...

Superb !!!!! Excellent team work !!!

Really like the video. Especially the CRM you guys worked really good together:

This is one hell of a good video. From one pilot (just about to take the private checkride) to the other, this looked like it was one HELL of a challenge on approach. About a week ago (January 24, 2021) I went flying from KGEU to KIWA via Scottsdale airport as a waypoint. The clouds were broken with a hard ceiling of about 5500 if I remember correctly. It was raining all over the Phoenix area but it wasn't horrible. My CFI and I discussed the flight and we decided to go with a flight that wasn't going to be too risky. Both to the north and the south there were storms with HEAVY rainfall and the potential for icing. That's definitely not a good idea to attempt without the right equipment. The flight to Williams Gateway (KIWA) was pretty uneventful and I was able to get flight following. Whenever I do a cross country flight, I like either a flightplan or flight following. ATC here in the Phoenix area is VERY good about that. Flying into Gateway (KIWA) was really interesting because it has 3 large runways and a HELL of a lot of traffic both with Allegiant and several flight schools operating there. They gave me a good approach into 30 Right and I did a full stop taxi back, then a touch and go to begin my return leg to KGEU. I used the same routing on my return leg with flight following and ATC tried giving me 5000 as an altitude. I advised I'm a VFR student and they kept me at 4500. As I mentioned earlier ( and honestly this is the point that I'm making here) the clouds were broken but I was more than confident about flying my route and going through a few of them as I needed to. When I went through the clouds and saw how beautiful it was up there that day, I thought back to some of your videos where you've been in the weather. Between the training I've been receiving with my CFI and what I see here online, I knew just to fly the plane, pay attention and I would be just fine. Keep up the amazing work and posting video clips for us. Trust me, it helps. A few take aways from my trip as well as what I'm seeing here on this video. First off, CRM is HUGE. If you have people with you and they're able to help, take advantage of that. Secondly, ATC is an extremely helpful group of people. Their job is to help you get where you need to go safely. Finally, know your limitations as a pilot. A bad judgement call has the potential to get someone killed. If I had even a second of a doubt, I wouldn't have flown. I was able to pay attention to the weather, use ATC to my advantage, and plan my route accordingly. Either way, This was a great video and I look forward to more in the future.

Down to mínimums again. Well done Josh. You’re the man!💪

Excellent video as usual, thanks for sharing.

Enjoyed all aspects of this video. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome video guys. I'm doing my instrument stuff now and this is an incredible flight. Great CRM. Utilize all tools you have in your bag.

Wow I loved that! fantastic video and i loved the suspenseful music at the end.

Great CRM. Excellent video. Thanks for the "lesson".

Great video Josh!! The communications and technical skills involved with this type of flying really intrigues me and has me glued to the screen. I fly a Waco YMF and a Husky, which is just a totally different type of flying. Open cockpit, minimum instruments, no gps, and no need to really talk to anyone outside the usual CTAF calls. I'm anxious to get my instrument rating and move into the realm of technical IFR flying.

Excellent video of an intense IFR night flight to minimums. At the last second, the runway. Really enjoyed it.

You really were in the soup! Kudos to your professional handling of the situation.

That was amazing, the way the two of you worked together and kept really calm . I was in bed watching and I wanted to pull the covers over my eyes , I was nervous for you both , well done 👍😎✈️🧐

Well done. Thanks for sharing.

Used CRM many times in the Archer I fly. It’s a needed thing for all pilots to understand and as you said talk to the other pilot and know each other

That was beautiful. I love such difficulty. Times to remember.

Great video guys, wonderful teamwork.

I love how chill the departure controller was, great to hear after some of the center controllers going about as fast as they can.

Great video and an example of crew coordination!

Wow ! Nice & inspiring in so many ways !

Aviation 101 I was looking at an app called Flightradar24 about a week earlier and I was looking in your area and saw you flying around the Austin area circling the city and I screen shot to but don’t know how to post that pic in the comments. Anyways I thought it was awesome watching you fly around on that app. Love this channel I’m a pilot in training with 11 hours under my belt and I have learned a lot watching you. Thanks for the vids! If your ever in the northeast Alabama area I would love to fly with you. I know it’s a long shot but figured I would ask anyways.

Great flying skills.. I'm impressed of you both👍

Excellent video , thanks !

Nicely done !! Great CRM and teamwork !

Great video! Excellent content and discussion. Kudos!

Thanks aviation 101 your videos help make the skies! Safer 👍 👌

Impressive... loved when the runway lights came into view at the last minute... what a relief, eh? Nice job.

Great crew good flying

Wow....no words...good job both of you

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

That was a serious approach! Great to keep the skills sharp. And really good CRM.

Great work guys! Awesome mission!