Notice the pilot's eyes... He's not fixated on any one instrument, and he NEVER, not once, looks outside until he reasonably expects to see the runway. That "pea soup" is incredibly disorienting. Good example of low vis flying.

Fucking fantastic

What an amazing instructor Brandon is. Right in the feels. Good job Josh, incredible work.

Tell your instructor to say "reduce power" instead of "pull power" sounds incredibly similar to "FULL power".. Could get you and him in a bad situation at some point!!

You and I don't know each other, but honestly - at 16:55 when you touched down and he said "wow" and put his arm around you - I was so proud of what you had done. I've been watching your progress for months now, and though i don't have PPL as of yet, I hope to soon. I hope my training goes as well as yours has. Great job! Thanks for the video's. Fly safe.

As an IFR student, that was perfect view point, great to see you stay calm/focus, and you can tell your instructor was supportive awhile with good communication. Cheers

Very good video, a few weeks ago I was shooting a ILS to mins at night in very heavy rain at a uncontrolled airfield and halfway down the approach I remembered to turn on the lights...I almost forgot. Not on a checklist but very important to remember. :)

One of my absolute favorite videos. It encourages me to get my IFR.

If that is your CFI he is the single most nervous individual in the right seat I have seen. Great video, great approach. Didn't seem like he needed to comment as much as he was. You did great!

I feel the controller never confirmed ALS would be on. She actually asked whether you were referring to the ALS or Runway lights and then proceeded to declare that all the RUNWAY lights would be on. Perhaps she should have specifically mentioned that ALS was out though. Nice video. Congrats on nailing the approach.

About the lighting, she never told you that anything other than the runway lights would be on. She didn't confirm the approach lighting would be on. Listen from like 2:30 on. When I listened to this the first time I was saying to myself, "She never confirmed anything other than the runway lights."

Great job teaching, letting the student fly the entire approach. Tap the rudder for the minor heading correction and use the trim more - trim for the 500 fpm and see if you can fly the whole approach with little to no control inputs. The closer you get to that, the easier even approaches to mins will be.

Videos like this are why I want to start flying. Pilot, aircraft, and sky working together to create memories. I bet this is a flight you'll never forget!

you kissed the surface of that runway like a pro man good job!

All u guys bashing the instructor. I do the same with my students. That's y they call students. They are learning. If u do in a jet that's different story. But these guys are not flying a citation jet or 777. It's a fucking cessna.

150 people didn`t like this video. How is that possible? Congratulations, sir. That was incredible.

Beautiful! You dont know how much I miss flying, I couldn't afford my commercial career after getting my pp license. Videos like this cheer me up for not giving up. Cheers from Mexico city

Josh, handled that calm and cool. You guys are a great team. Brandon did well.

You'll never forget your first approach to minimums, great job.

Been flying for 40 years, started in the 172...flew helicopters in the army for 30 years, and King Air’s overseas for the past 4 years. Thank goodness for the iPad’s/ForeFlight/stratus tools....great for SA and simplifies the ‘head work’ of flying IMC. Great crew/CRM work...keep doing it and keep challenging yourself...only way one gets better as a professional pilot.

Wow, that was about the most intense approach I've seen on KZfaq, well done.

Nice video! A bit too much of pressure and talking of the instructor in my opinion. Instrument flying is very very easy once you do it regularly and very very difficult at the beginning. Good briefing before the flight, the awareness of the common errors (a good portion of them are caused by the mere fact that a student pilot in IMC is nervous) helps. Do it in a simulator a couple of times to train your brain for the correct scanning technique. There is no rocket science behind an ILS, just a sequence of quite a lot of small steps and actions. I do not fly C172's a lot, I would suggest to fly these approaches with 10 deg flaps only, leave the flaps there until touchdown, any flap changes during the apporach produce a lot of pitch changes - very distracting. An ILS runway is plenty long enough for a C172 on a partial flap landing. Nice video - keep up the good work! Happy landings Guido

I really appreciated the instructor input. Coming from a student nearing the end of my commercial course I know what its like to have unfavorable and over bearing instructors that only point out the negative. I have flown with over a dozen instructors throughout my training and this guy seems to be quite the catch.

Only 3 minutes in an I already love this video! Lots of good real-world experience info with a dramatic flair to make it interesting

Hands down the best video I have seen you post! What an intense situation but Brandon did an awesome job coaching you through it! Great job!

Josh, for me, being a simple PPL I never ever seen a young guy performing a so proffessional job as you did. Congtrats!

U R Correct Sir. out of 1700 hours TT & maybe 400+ actual only made 1 ILS to miniums of 200' But vis was 1 mile & no Wind at Columbus GA with Alternate Chattanooga. The LOC & GS never moved off center ounce established. I kept taping the VOR head thinking it Quit with a stuck Flag but it was Right on, best ILS approach I ever made. Grate Video Man. You young kids have all the fun.

A little detail I loved...right in the beginning...the ATC telling you to descend, then your response, then fade the audio...then your intro. Just a cool bit of editing.

Jeez! You made feel I was inside that cockpit. I've followed you since your beginnings and I can 100% guarantee this is the best video you've uploaded so far. Congratulations dude!

Wooow!! Awesome!! I was holding my breath until the airfield was seen! Thank you for this amazing experience!

I know this is 3 years later... but I was trying to explain minimums to a fellow student pilot and I found this video. Perfect video! Subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching all your videos

Good video, and Brandon was a great instructor, he kept calm and let you fly the airplane.

I was on the edge of my seat watching, when you were in the clouds with no visual reference.. Great Cool Calm & Collected flying ..

Excellent video. Why are my palms sweating?!

That fight was awesome... Brandon was a good person to have along!

A challenge met brilliantly by both you...excellent flying...to say "reduce power"...makes more sense. Wishing you many more hours of sensible flying. Thanks for the video.

Love the hug at the end... Great video

Awesome Job Josh! As a student pilot i`ve learned a lot from you and i still am! Outstanding! Fly Safe!

Well done from a retired airline pilot!! You guys just blew the lid off the insanity of setting personal minimums and never violating them. Thank you Brandon for not buying into this stuff and passing it along to your students, and here's why. When training for your instrument rating, all approaches are flown to minimums. When you take your check ride, the examiner makes you fly all approaches to minimums. Then the idiots at the AOPA and other people will tell you to set personal minimums for yourself and never violate them. This instills in pilots an irrational fear that there is some hidden danger below their personal minimums. I was at an AOPA seminar once where the presenter passed around a document for those IFR rated pilots to SIGN vowing they would never violate there personal minimums! If you have personal minimums, you will never be a better pilot than your personal minimums. Let's say you are told to never go below 800 and 2 miles. You get to your destination and it is 500 and 1 mile. Are you REALLY going to divert rather than continuing to descend for another 300 feet? Diverting is far more challenging than continuing to descend an little longer. I have one suggestion for you on the approach you flew. I would have stayed at 4000 feet until intercepting the glideslope. If you are at 4,000 feet, and your clearance is to maintain at or above 3000 feet until the intercepting the localizer, stay at the higher altitude and intercept the glide slope from there. This gives you more time to figure out the power setting required to keep it centered. Just a suggestion for an otherwise well flown approach.

Shooting an approach into Aspen CO for the 1st time at minimums in the left seat of a Challenger 601 was definitely the highlight of my flying career

Great job!! One of your best videos. It kept me in tension till the very end :)

Wow! I agree with Jonny Hyman’s... confusing to hear “pull power”, though I’m sure sure you and your instructors already have a common understanding on communication. Great job!

Good thing when you guys can communicate this well.

good freakin job dude that visibility SUCKED!! When he said “if we dont see the runway soon we’ll have to miss” was INTENSE

You are a great pilot and you will only get better as the hours add up. Very nice job for a student pilot. My first IFR approach was an ILS into BWI (Baltimore) right down to the minimums. I will never forget that feeling. Great job and safe and long flying career!

Wow! Nice flight and control of situation. IFR is easy when you know you have the VFR as the second choice if things goes bad. When you just have one option, its become tricky.

7 minutes in and I really like Brandon as an instructor. Helpful yet laid back. No screaming like the old days.

You have a good Instructor and good friend in Brandon. He is patient and calm. He give constant positive feedback and constructive easy criticism. Great video and great job to both of you.

Good video! I still remember the first approach I flew down to minimums, it's amazing how close you are to the runway when you pop out at 200'. One small concern I have is that I didn't see either you or the instructor paying much attention to the actual decision height; my instructor always had me call out key altitudes, state aloud the actual altitude that we would go missed at as we started down the ILS glideslope, and count down at 100' intervals for the last few hundred feet. I realize that some of that may have been edited out of the video, but it's still a good thing to think about.

Awesome!! ...I'd strongly recommend you invest in an electric attitude indicator for backup.

GRRrreat video! Brings back some memories of working on my IFR ticket. The one thing I did not hear was any mention of MDA. You always want to know what is the minimum until you have that runway environment in sight. My CFII taught to call out 500 feet to MDA, 300 feet, 100 feet, finally MDA.

My dad was a Naval Aviator and every once in a while he would take me and my brothers flying. I remember him flying on instruments only, and the total concentration he had. One of my brothers followed him in Naval Aviation, but I decided that I would rather just look out the window.

Fun stuff. I enjoy watching your videos. You are on a life long adventure my friend. I have been a professional pilot now for 30 years. Hopefully you will always have the enthusiasm and enjoyment throughout your career as I have. I have not flown single engine planes sine about 1990. Watching your videos brings all of the excitement of the early years right back. Thanks for the videos. They are terrific. Have fun, be safe. If you are ever around the DFW airport stop in at CAE and I'll give you a tour and maybe hop in a simulator. I'm fleet chief over the Falcon 2000EX EASy.

This is an excellent video. Narration was placed in just the right places and very informative. :)

What said when you landed: Now, THAT'S impressive! You have a lot to be proud of - not the least of which is inspiring folks like me to add flying to my life experience. Thank you for that.

4 years late after watching from the beginning...impressed-and NOT surprised...and boy, I felt your instructors emotional pride at the sweet approach and landing...hugs of congrats to both o’ y’uns...grin Chas

Josh, as an non-instrument rated flyer, I was super-impressed with your performance. Have seen a few in my 33 years of flying GA and Experimental Amateur Home built planes. You are really lucky to have an instructor as good as Brandon - he is "da man!" I once had a "furloughed Pam Am Pilot" as my Instrument Instructor. He yelled and screamed at me, until I made a "one eighty" and went back to the field to NEVER fly with him again. And I did not! Josh, you are an excellent "manipulator of the controls," and have a great aviation career ahead of you. I'm jealous as hell :) Nice video, thanks, N-6395T p.s. the movement of the carb heat knob was really telling and important. I am one of those trained to have that carb heat: Either FULL ON - or FULL OFF. Halfway, sometimes, cools the air to 32degrees F - and with moisture, ICE!

great instructor, thanks for the video

I just flew an ILS down to minimums today at KVNY airport (Van Nuys), 16R. I couldn't help but think of this video, and I mentioned it to my instructor lol. Great experience flying down to minimums.

Wow those were some serious minimums...great job hanging tough through the 5500' blind out to runway!

Great video, great flight, and excellent use of CRM! I really like the fact that you learn a lesson with each flight. The best pilot is the one that is always willing to learn something new and take constructive critiquing. Blue skies brotha!

One of my favourite videos!

A very wonderful instructor and very good job flying IFR.

Sweet video! I've been looking forward to seeing this all day. Thanks for everything you do for aviation. You and your team are inspiring many of us.

I've only been an observer thus far. Never commenting on videos or anything like that but this one absolutely deserves a comment. You two make a great team together and honestly I am a bit jealous. I am in line to start my PPL next month (June 6, 2016) and I can only hope to be in your place one day. You are very detail oriented in all your videos which all came together on this approach. I usually like watching your videos in which you bring new people up (i.e. Avery's take-off smile) but the teamwork you and Brandon showed on this flight alone has gotten me so excited for my flight training. Keep up the great work and it will take you wherever you want. Thank you for the videos. Keep flying safe.

"Full power full power!" I would have firewalled it and started the go round.

Nice job. Brings back memories. On an ILS approach to minimums into KLNS in rain with a stiff crosswind, I made the mistake of initiating a turn to the runway when I saw it 20 degrees to the right of the nose. Rick, my flight instructor, quickly stated "Hold your heading!". He was so right, my current heading was working to keep me on the localizer, so it would get me to the runway....minus any shift in winds as we descended. The temptation to point the nose at the runway was VERY strong when it is all you can see. Fly safe!

The fact that I can't find instructors this good is one reason I am still low time VFR. I can see the two of you work exceptionally well together. I am so jealous. And thank you for including subtitles. On some videos even with clear trans and zero static the pilot and ATC are rattling it off so fast I only get a few words. You can't learn when you can't understand the voice com. And great job all around. I won't say you make it look easy but even making it look possible makes me re-consider going for my I.R. As we say the sky's the limit. Never know till ya try. So thanks! T/W and out.

awesome video, awesome approach, and awesome instructor!

Great video. One suggestion I would have is to get in the habit of calling out your altitude and the minimum altitude ie. 500 for 300 . This helps to know when you have to go missed and don't find yourself below minimums on the approach

Josh Man thanks again for all of this inspiration! every time I see this videos it's a full confidence boost!

Well done, there's nothing like seeing the runway right at minimums, and well prepared to go missed....nice job and great video

`Even though I have my instrument rating now I never got to do an actual approach in actual conditions, let alone to minimums (the bad part of taking IFR lessons in the winter in NY), so this was cool to watch! Good job

You're so fricken inspirational. You make me want to CFIT.

I learned to fly in a Cessna 150 then transitioned to a 172. It was like moving from a lively but low-powered MG 2-seater to a 6-cylinder Chevy sedan. The 172 was physically harder to fly but very solid and I did much of my Commercial training in it. Then I moved to a Piper Arrow, a fast machine with retractable gear and a constant-speed prop. What a sweet airplane! I spent dozens of hours in it in Instrument training, flying bizarre approaches and holding patterns, some times in actual IMC but always under the hood. Talk about fun! There is nothing more beautiful than flying through the air, or navigating thorough clouds and fog to a distant destination.

Instrument proficiency, especially in ILS approaches is a life saver and should be developed through practice. Well done.

Brandon is my flight instructor in Addison,TX He is the best

Great job! Love your videos :) greetings from France!

Very well done! Great instructor too! When said pull power I was thinking why full power? oh..Pull!

That was riveting! Nice work by both of you. I'm a relatively new PPL so really appreciated watching your IFR adventure! Thanks for posting!

Great video! I have the deepest respect for this performance and for you both, Congrats! I like the "Wow" and the slap on the back at 16:55, great human and noble reaction and character!

Before taking any lessons for the instruments ratings I suggest everybody to practice instrument landings all the way down to minimums in a flight simulator. In real life it is extremely intense.

My name is Denny. I'm a sim pilot doing my best to learn by the #s, just like you. I've decided to stop watching tutorials by other sim pilots because of their poor flight habits. You are my master class. I'm just about ready for my IFR pilot edge tests. Because of your video's I might just pass. You are an excelant teacher.

Wow! That's what I call a white knuckle landing. Beautifully executed penetration right down to the markers.

Your radio was really staticy/hard to hear but I think the controller said that the runway lights would be at full intensity but never specifically confirmed the approach lights.

+MrAviation101 That was some great flying and great voice over explanations too. I am student private pilot and haven't flown in several months due to money issues but I'll be back luckily in about two weeks to do a flight review with my CFI to get back on track and take my last 8 hours in training before my exam. Just wanted to say your videos are pretty awesome and I look forward to improving as well as you improve with every flight. True words spoken at the end ''test your limits, but do so responsibly'', ''cant be afraid to make mistakes''. Simply amazing, great flying and just great overall take on things. Your CFI was pretty damn proud, haha it just comes through the vid with his ''wow.....wow''. Safe flying and greetings from Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Phenomenal Josh! Loved this video. Glad to watch you grow as a pilot and gain such unique experiences!

Nice job. As only a flight sim pilot, having the G1000 in a plane makes everything so easy. Having to shoot the ILS by hand, with steam gauges is pretty darn good.

At 2:33. didn't she ask for rwy for app lights? And your instructor said "thank you for the [runway] lights." Then at 4:06 you said the approach lights weren't on. It's because you didn't request for them to be on, right? Great video, amazing landing, and amazing footage! Keep it up!

I see that you're on NAV page 2 on the 430. NAV page 1 is better for flying the approach in my opinion. Trying to fly the magenta line with precision is a fool's game. On NAV page 1 you have the indicator. If you set up the 430 to show DTK and TRK as long as you keep those the same, you'll stay right on the localizer. Nice job though. I am also quite impressed with your instructor.

Outstanding job! That is one of those experiences that builds confidence and makes you a better pilot. Well done!

9:33 and your instructors facial expression is priceless. God bless fearless CFIs.. Mine sure was. Tom Bogart,, if you ever see this comment,between jet jockey runs, I appreciated you.

IFR cockpit management is like a chess match. You always have to be thinking five moves ahead.

Way to electronically gang bang your magnetic compass.

What a helpful and supportive instructor!

It's nice to see weather once in a while. Here in Arizona, we have severe clear all the time.

My first ILS approach was last year at KIKV and our reserve fuel had been diminished due to DSM approach vectoring us for the ILS 36. We had enough fuel to try the approach once, and if we went missed at KIKV, then we were going to declare minimum fuel and land on the nearest runway at KDSM. It was quite the experience. The METAR was composed of 3/4SM OVC003 +RA. I'll never forget doing that approach as my first ILS experience! We got the runway in sight Roughly 20ft above minimums!

That was terrifying. I’m not a pilot. Never have been near that seat. I can tell you one thing, my heart was beating through my chest until those wheels touched the tarmac. I wouldn’t know that feeling of accomplishment but I certainly can imagine.

This was the first video i saw you yours, and many videos later its still my favorite. Such a great job in such an intense environment .

Your flight instructor has great demeanor. Just the right amount of encouragement and hand slapping. Well I know he doesn’t slap your hand that goes back to my day but you get what I mean. We both have a approach to minimums as our first in our logbooks. I don’t remember being too stressed out and found the challenge exhilarating. I found having perfectly centered needles right down to the ground to be extremely satisfying. I’m sure you did as well. Great job by you.