- Doug White

“Real Pilot Story: Pinch Hitting a King Air”

Tanner White appreciate that

Absolutely....I was going to say the same thing...

That was a Charlie Daniels "That's how you do it son moment. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5eTh9tol-C-m3U.html 🙂

Lots of us love theC-90. 👍👍. Its a bad ass jet prop .

+Anthony Yong ha....3 point, ur missing when the mains and nose hit

+captg5 haha... of course I knew that. Just 'pulling' your legs

Haha true. Everyone one that 'shocked the world' should get 2 down.

$12? 9

According to the Airport diagram, it is a left pattern for runway 18 and a right pattern for runway 36. Looks to me like the pilot didn't read up on it.

Clearly he his being instructed by approach/tower if you listen to his comms so doing what he is being instructed isn't incorrect

It's an uncontrolled airport there is no tower.

Uncontrolled?

Yes, it's an uncontrolled airport. No tower, no air traffic controllers on site. There's a radio frequency assigned to this airport that pilots use. They announce their intentions when taking off and landing for other pilots to hear. It's very common in the United States at airports that don't have enough traffic to justify a control tower and paid air traffic controllers. It's known as CTAF or common traffic advisory frequency. Some airports such as the airport I learned at have a tower that is only open during the daytime, at night you use the same tower frequency as a CTAF frequency and it turns into an uncontrolled airport. Read through the information and you'll see where it says no tower and then farther down you will see the CTAF. www.airnav.com/airport/ktvl

He was crabbing into the wind. Look it up. Great technique on this pilot.

@@japoluga1348 No he wasn't. The nose of the plane never changed position. I was looking at his track toward the runway not the orientation of his plane around the X-axis.

@@deadstick8624 We're looking at this from the position of the camera with barely any of the plane's front visible to properly assess the track. My conclusion is simply based on the fact that as he crossed the numbers he straightened his heading to align with the runway just before landing. Looks nothing more than a classic crosswind landing to me.

@@japoluga1348 You must not be a pilot if you can't see the track the plane was on while getting closer to the runway. That is something that you learn to do before you can even solo for the first time. It has nothing to do with the position of the nose's heading, it's the track over the ground that you have to look at. There are maneuvers that you have to learn before you get your Commercial License where you have to pay attention to the ground track of your plane, which is good practice for leaning to play with crosswinds.

@@deadstick8624 That's right, my reading of the situation differs from yours therefore you question my credentials. Typical irrational Internet talking head.

Junio Gracielo Lake Tahoe Airport (IATA: TVL, ICAO: KTVL, FAA LID: TVL)

That's an altitude warning. Probably that he was close (or at) minimums.

loch70 it's an Altitude Alert alarm to alert you when you are 100 ft away from the altitude set on the Altitude Hold of the A/P

It’s actually 1000 feet away from selected altitude, or deviating more than 300 feet from captured altitude.

+Wobbly Law Yes, it is hard to drive. That is why they fly it...

+taimoor ahmed rising to the challenge "well done"

haha :)

i thought the same thing ....was waiting for a deer or elk to dart across the runway

So what? It’s not a friggin contest.

@@Bartonovich52 👎🖕

zippy the beautiful scenery? The perfect approach? The smooth landing? Have some taste.

funny how they never address these comments

Not even close. I go on google earth and I can get a pretty good idea of where he was when you hear the 500' call out. I measure that to the end of the runway and it works out to 1.75 miles from the numbers. That converts to a slope of approximately 5.4% which converts to a 3.09 degree approach angle. Go to Airnav and look up KTVL which is the identifier for the airport. Notice that the PAPI lights for runway 18 are set to a 3.00 degree angle. He was basically right on the glide slope, not dragging it in at all and definitely not below the glide slope.

+Bruce you would be correct if this were not an instrument runway, but it is. The PAPI's are, as you said set for a 3.0 deg path but not to the numbers. If you look at the approach plate the PAPI path has a TCH (threshold crossing height ) of 49ft. This means if he was on the visual glide slope, as he should be, he would cross the threshold at 49' above the touchdown zone elevation and if he doesn't flare at all, he would hit the runway 993 ft down where those big aim point markings are and NOT the numbers. Since we flare to land, the expectation is that the plane will touchdown beyond the 1000' markers. The only time you should aim for the numbers (i.e. Ducking under) on an instrument marked runway (even if flying a visual approach) is if absolutely necessary for landing distance. Obviously not the case here So since we call all see that he was only a few feet above the runway when he crossed the numbers we KNOW he did not stay on the PAPI path. So let's see what angle he flew.

+Bruce IF he was as you estimated, 1.75 NM from the end of the runway at 500 ft agl, his distance to the aim point at 1000 ft down the runway would be 1.9nm putting him approx 75ft low on a 2.6 deg glide path at that moment in time so yes he was drug in.

Fuck off!

Ah yes, the old drag it in and cross the threshold about two feet above the runway and then float 1,500 feet approach.