I scared myself with this flying mistake… finally ready to share it.

I was shaken up by the first time I truly felt scared while flying my own airplane. It took me a while to be able to talk to others about it, even though no one was hurt and everything turned out okay. Feeling out of control and like a passenger in your own airplane is maybe the worst feeling as a pilot, and I got a dose of that a little over a year ago in the mountains.

I know reflecting on this flight has made me a much safer pilot, and so I wanted to put it together in this video to hopefully help other pilots finding themselves in similar scenarios. The mistakes I made in this flight can happen anywhere, not just in the mountains.

I hope it helps, and I hope we are all a little safer learning from the mistakes I made. Blue skies!

0:00 Intro
0:58 Set Up / Context
2:38 Approaching the Airport
3:35 Pattern Gets Crowded
4:38 Things Get Fast and Tight
5:57 Base and Final Get Worse
7:44 Landing I’m Not Proud Of
9:10 Four Critical Errors
9:25 Critical Error #1
10:18 Critical Error #2
11:03 Critical Error #3
11:38 Critical Error #4
12:46 My Biggest Takeaway for Any Flight

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