GROUND REFERENCE Maneuvers - S Turns Across a Road - Private Pilot Training in light airplanes

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3 жыл бұрын

This video covers one of my favorite ground reference maneuvers, S-Turns Across a Road (or in this case a canal). Ground reference maneuvers are easy if you can follow a few basic principles. This video covers what those are! Please enjoy!
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@natedelong5962 4 ай бұрын

I’ve been struggling with S turns. I just watched this video and practiced right after and suddenly it clicked. My s turns somehow are now perfect without flaw. This video helped me a lot.

@Aleksandar6ix 3 жыл бұрын

NOW I understand the flow of these maneuvers! Instruction like yours is the best for these, and many others. I haven't practiced them in real life recently, but I certainly do practice the procedure in my flight sim!

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! thx

@BrianOgilvie79 3 жыл бұрын

S-turns were always one of my favorite private pilot practice maneuvers. So much so, i used to do them occasionally when i became a certificated pilot. Thanks for the great video Jason. Brought back so many great memories from 20 years ago.

@rileyroche 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! One thing I'd like to add based off my recent training experience. You said in the entry turn that the semicircles can be whatever size is appropriate, as long as they are consistent throughout the maneuver. My maneuvers book says to stay approximately 1/4 to 1/2 mile from any ground reference. I did my flight training in Iowa, where all the roads are in exact 1 mile grids and the farm fields are all either 1/2 or 1 mile long; my flight school expected me to do precise 1/2 mile turns for all of the ground reference maneuvers with the fields as an additional guide. Your ground reference doesn't just have to be a single point - use as much available terrain as you need to get perfectly round turns.

@clearofcloud2038 3 жыл бұрын

I was only wondering about this yesterday !! Thanks Jason

@wbmc3rd 3 жыл бұрын

This is what I am doing now and going to master. Thank you

@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 9 ай бұрын

GRM i taught at the GRM real speed we used when E line Patrols. At Vglide Speed, with 10 degrees flaps. Some CFI's want almost cruise speeds and no flaps. Very Unreal. You do GRM to see small things on ground like animals. That is why so many stalls on GRM lke the so called "Moose Stall". And the many Flyover Turnback stalls and Box Canyon stalls. Turnbacks after a flyover have killed many that didnt know those GRM Flyover Turnbacks. There 2 kinds of. The Teardrop kind and the Hook Turnback" ( both are done to Turnback after a flyover).

@peregrinussolutionsllc6010 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, I really appreciate the pro teaching tips in each of your videos! My instructor and I have been practicing these and it's really cool to have KZfaq flight instruction to supplement my in person flight training :-D Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience! May you, your friends, and family fly safe, happy and healthy, especially with COVID-19 :-) Best Regards, Christian

@davidwallace5738 3 жыл бұрын

Great video lesson sir.Thank you!

@bryan.meijer 3 жыл бұрын

Just the video I needed👌

@ProfSimonHolland 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant....one of the best student manoeuvres...teaches a lot and is reasonable easy for them to do.

@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 3 жыл бұрын

Easy to do things dont teach at all. They fool you into thinking you know all of that. You only know it the easy to do way. Stupid to think that creates good pilots.

@tobyrice99 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason and Jimmy Bobby!

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

It's very nice of Jimmy to let us publish his flight training to the internet! hahaha

@WolfTangoFox 3 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Bobby is the best!

@UncleStepon Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@jonathanshadmi3208 3 жыл бұрын

As always...great!!

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@prestonmiller9552 3 жыл бұрын

As always, Great tips and tricks. Thanks

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! It's my pleasure.

@franktaylor7978 3 жыл бұрын

I did my S turns over this same canal.

@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 3 жыл бұрын

I used to teach them with a strong wind so they could see the wind effects better. Mild winds and mild maneuvering GRM dont teach well. Most GRM accidents are by mild maneuvering guys surprised by Hard Maneuvering GRM, which is much more demanding. Some times you have to fly in not mild winds, like when had to do it on a sightseen flight paid by the friends.

@hollyfoxThe 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. worked on these in the Redbird today. Not as easy as this video shows it, but I think I am getting the gist of what is needed. Thanks.

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@alejandrogodoy4696 3 жыл бұрын

THANK U!!!

@ykntwatch 3 жыл бұрын

A lateral axis parallel to the reference line assumes a wind 90 degrees to the reference line correct? If we had a non-90 degree wind to the reference line we would have a bit of a WCA (crab). In those cases do you still teach a “lateral axis” parallel to the reference line?

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly. I should have been more clear but that is what I meant by "pick the right spot" you need to find a reference 90º to the wind.

@Justin-ny8df 11 ай бұрын

So, how my CFI taught me was "on the downwind side count to 3 thousand after crossing your point then do a 30deg. bank, on the upwind count 5 thousand then do the same." How do you feel about this strategy? I mean, it worked...but it wasn't exactly what everybody else teaches.

@gorgly123 3 жыл бұрын

In your student pilots experience, is this where the DPE pulls the engine back to simulated engine failure? During Ground ref maneuvers? Just curious. Or do they do it at a higher altitude?

@Parr4theCourse 3 жыл бұрын

My DPE pulled my power on a takeoff and asked where would I land . . .

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

They will usually to the full "simulated engine failure' from altitude but that doesn't mean they won't also pull it here (or on takeoff) to see how you react

@Parr4theCourse 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFinerPoints Yep, I definitely wasn't expecting it on takeoff, he slapped my hand (it was on the throttle), pulled power and grilled me . . .

@presleycosta4127 3 жыл бұрын

are these maneuvers harder to do in a low wing or is it basically the same principles

@RedSailor1701 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same principles but your references to the ground are a little harder due to the reduced visibility. I would say the top tip in getting this right is as you come over the line feature pick an obvious point along it which will become the center of your arc. Pick a point that is just on/ or just over the wing tip so that it is far enough away that you wont lose it under your wing. Remember: This is the point you are flying around, NOT flying in an arc towards! Much as you keep a point on the runway in the same place on the windscreen in a forced landing, the same thing kinda happens here. You fly in an arc around that fixed point at the same distance and height and you'll nail it.

@pelinelden Жыл бұрын

Is that a Miami Canal ? :)

@flankerskioneniner4290 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Capt 👍 Anyway.. may i know the opening backsound's title ?

@TheFinerPoints 3 жыл бұрын

It was written (and performed ... yes, all the instruments you hear) by my friend and former bandmate Michael Bizar. I don't think it is available anywhere but we're talking about putting some of our old stuff up on the web for people if they want it. I'll ask him where we are with that ...

@flankerskioneniner4290 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFinerPoints thank you very much sir. I like that song, it sounds like cha-cha, one of latin music genre. Thanks sir, for the new knowledge and the backsound, always safe flight Capt 👍👍

@richardmortenson8525 2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of Andy Fortuna’s rendition of Speak Up Mambo … kinda.

@outwiththem 3 жыл бұрын

Teach Question Mark Turnbacks too. The hardest turns are those Question Mark Turns.. I taught Hard GRM with high winds and not too high. Real GRM. Hard GRM makes hard to knock down pilots.. Weak GRM makes weak pilots. Ever tried GRM with 20knots winds and only 600 agl?? Real GRM trains better.. And it is more fun too. Weak and Hard GRM are different.. Weak maneuvers makes weak pilots.

@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 3 жыл бұрын

Heyy.. right. Another Mild turning, Mild Maneuvering video here too. Mild Maneuvering pilots to crash later on when had to do Hard GRM. Gee.. no wonder so many crashes in california.

@briant6333 3 жыл бұрын

now there is something i have not purposefully gone out and done in 30+ years... something to go do next time the mission is to just bore a hole in the sky and smile at the suckers on the ground

@alejandrogodoy4696 3 жыл бұрын

As Usual. Thank U Maestro! It could b Very nice if U have "2 or 3" Instruments used 4 the Particular meneuver. 1 on each 2-3 corners of the Screen. kind of Big. Bcause its very Difficult 2 watch the instruments when U show them to us. PLS try?? 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟