Pilot Tries Dangerous & Illegal Approach!

The reason this was so dangerous is because it reinforced the pilot's belief that he can always just cancel IFR and duck under the weather and make things work. If you have an instrument rating, you need to maintain proficiency to fly IFR and that means understanding how to fly an approach. Let me know what you think in the comments below and then be sure to also watch the video about the Dad that was taking his family on vacation and crashed 👉 https://youtu.be/yMpLo1zFGWc

That pilot had absolutely no business being in that airplane

That controller deserves an award. I would have been so pissed. 😅

1900 ft broken is about as easy an instrument approach as you can get. This guy managed to turn it into an emergency. The fact that he was using his iPad as a primary flight instrument for shooting the approach is shocking. Kudos to the controller for an excellent job

I commend the controller trying to help this pilot who was so confused, I really hope the pilot didn't fly again until he got some proper training. Thank you Hoover I really appreciate how you respect all involved in your debriefs.

"My ipad died." "Great, that would have been fantastic to know 30 minutes ago."

I only fly for fun on nice sunny days . So far I have flown 45 years without any problems. I know my limits

I was involved with early development of a class II EFB (handheld device showing moving maps, IFR plates, etc) and at the time, the FAA did not allow us to show our ownship on the moving map, because they believed pilots would become too dependent on a non-certified device for primary navigation. This incident is exactly what they were trying to avoid.

The fact that he didn’t accept vectors onto an ILS is “wow.” That’s as simple as it gets, all you need to do is tune a frequency. It’s like his brain had one path it needed to follow and he couldn’t even consider anything else.

At least he sold the plane a month after that. Hopefully he had some sense scared into him.

After all of that mess with a dead iPad and complete confusion about the operation of the onboard nav equipment, even a quasi-proficient IFR pilot would've accepted a tried and true precision ILS approach. Personally, I'd take an ILS over an RNAV approach any old day. Something is seriously amiss here and I hope the FAA figures it out before this guy starts recklessly divebombing holes in the deck again. That endangers more than just him! PS Kudos to the controller. If patience is a virtue, that controller should be canonized.

Controller had the patience of a saint which he really shouldn't have needed to have. Sheesh. Give that dude a raise, genuinely, or at the very least pilot should be sending a thank you (hopefully not pissed at the controller for the extta training he definitely needs).

how is this not a licence revoked ? lied to the tower and tried to do an illegal approach all while messing around and causing issues for the controllers and other aircraft before he decided to just go below the clouds himself and then land the wrong way ? how is that just a more training situation.

I’m seeing that more and more. We have actually hired “professionals” that absolutely can’t fly without an iPad and certainly can’t fly without a moving map. It’s disgusting.

Looks like another iPad dependent pilot. This is becoming is a very dangerous trend.

Hoover, you’re incredibly valuable to us who are trying to understand why these pilots get into trouble in what seems to be a typical flight. Arrogance, overconfidence appear to be contributing factors in so many. Thank you for your channel.

It is very clear that the pilot used the Ipad solely for navigation and had no idea how to fly any of the approaches.

I did a check ride with a student yesterday for an initial type in a C525. When he started the ILS, he is looking at his iPad mounted on his yoke. The plane has dual 750’s and Dual G600’s 9Beautiful panel for a CJ1). Both 750’s had chart option enabled and current charts. The controller asked him to let them know when he got to the FAF (we were in and out of a light broken layer) To my amazement, the student never entered the procedure on the 750’s, never put in the ILS frequency in either of NAV1 or 2, and he was flying the effing ILS approach off his iPad. He obviously failed at that point. Where do pilots get that they can fly IFR off an iPad??? It’s a great tool for situational awareness, but I was flabbergasted that a commercial, multi, instrument pilot would do that ( He was an older gentleman)

Confusion of any sort in the cockpit can be catastrophic. I am glad he was able to get down safely.

These debriefs are fantastic in keeping us safe, I have learnt so much from your breakdowns of what went wrong and how to avoid dangerous scenarios. Thank you Hoover for your content and service