How to Interpret an ILS Approach Chart | KBJC ILS 30R | Rocky Mountain Metro Airport

As an instrument student it's great to see you dissect an approach for my home airport! Very clear, concise info as always.

Heck yeah more instrument and commercial stuff! Let’s get it! Thanks for your awesome videos

You make a "foreign language" understandable, presenting the translation in a simple and very clear way! I've never had any need of these procedures (not being a pilot) but I understand why so many aspiring pilots are put off when confronted with the planning, communication and procedural knowledge required to fly in controlled airspace. I am begining to grasp how all these aspects work together thanks to your patient explanations and demonstrations. Fortunately I'm too old now to have to deal with it in relality but am begining to use some of it when flying in simulation although as much of my flying is in Papua New Guinea where systems are simple, there is no radar or VOR and VFR and GPS is king, there isn't a lot of opportunity. That said I am now finding some RNAV procedures for approaching the bigger airfields through clouds and the organization you promote is a great help. Thank you.

Just got my instrument ticket last week! these videos were so helpful for supplementing knowledge and studying up. even now still great to watch and keep those skills sharp

Thanks for this video! I'm finishing up my instrument training at KBJC and use this approach quite a bit - including the sidestep when we have faster traffic behind us. It's definitely an intimidating looking approach plate but breaking it down line by line is super helpful. If you want to sound like a local, NSPYR is pronounced "inspire" and we call GLL the Gill VOR. Yesterday I watched through your Instrument Mock Checkride series and it helped me prepare a bit more for what to expect.

Surprised you didn’t talk about the alternate missed! My instrument checkride is tomorrow and I’ve been watching your videos over the past year as I’ve trained, thanks for everything!

KBJC is my home airport!! It is also a great place to talk about LLWS, turbulence, mountain wave, and other terrain based movement of air 😬 I heard someone on frequency last week mention "Colorado calm" in reference to the wind report

I'll take the RNAV, thank you.

Just a quick addendum for Sidestepping. The Sidestep runway will always have it's threshold equal in distance or beyond that of the approach runway. This is to enable time to maneuver and alight oneself with the Sidestep runway. Also, there are maximum distance limitations between runway centerlines to permit the publication of Sidestep minimums. 🙂

Climb gradiant is also affected by ground speed and at that altitude you're ground speed could be substantially higher therefore requiring higher minimums if you dont have the performance.

As someone that has only flown in simulators, this is scary complicated lol.

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Serious business. It will take a while for a person to familiarize with that. It sure won't be 5 mins.

Any discount on IFR ground?