Something Terrifying the FAA Needs to Talk About
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So you’re a CFI/CFII and ATP and you’re doing a rolling run-up, lots of time with your eyes inside the cockpit during taxi, you’re heads down on your laptop in Cruise? Matt I’ve trained pilots in single pilot jets for several years. You either need to hire a pilot or rethink what you’re doing while operating an airplane. You make great videos and I would love to see you continue to do that for many decades to come. I’m just trying to speak up when I see bad habits. I’ve lost too many friends and acquaintances to accidents.
Yea,this guy's a expert....been doing this for 50 yrs....not a good example!
As a CFI/II, hold the standard. Really bad example of flying here. Oh, and foreflight.
He doesn't expire when his brakes wear out and this is a Bonanza not a CJ. I know too many single pilot jet pilots that are nothing short of scary in piston singles and known a couple "jet experts" that killed themselves in piston singles. Training jet pilots doesn't make you an expert in piston singles.
@@BonanzaPilot Right. the guy needs to avoid those small mistakes. But i agree that jets are also easier and safer than pistons.
Nothing but a video ad for yet ANOTHER flying app.
I asked Flight service about a flight I was planning in south Georgia back in August about the density altitude since I knew I would be heavy taking off. He stated and I quote " Density altitude only matters in the mountains". I had to explain my reasoning behind the question and he stuck to his thoughts it only matters in the mountains.
Id encourage you to file an ASRS report if you remember the date and time of the call. Audio recordings are typically deleted after about 2 months, but with pilot feedback perhaps there can be recurrent training developed for those specialists to address these sorts of issues.
I missed the terrifying “something” that the FAA needs to talk about….
The tracking service with flight service
My point, which I did a bad job making, is that I rarely ever filed a VFR flight plan when I flew GA. Except as an instructor to teach my students about the benefit. But it has been about 25 years since I flew GA. Now ALL my flights are 100% tracked the entire trip.@@MrJeep75
@@MrJeep75 My point, which I did a bad job making, is that I rarely ever filed a VFR flight plan when I flew GA. Except as an instructor to teach my students about the benefit. Even for cross country flying I rarely ever used flight following. But it has been about 25 years since I flew GA and I missed the “terrifying” information provided in this video. Tracking just wasn’t a part of my repertoire. ALL my flights now are 100% tracked the entire trip. I do miss GA.
so it's important, it needs to be shared with everyone, but the title is "something terrifying the FAA needs to talk about", not "if you use leidos spidertracks you need to log in!"?
Would you honestly click on the video if that was the title? Probably not.
lol, welcome to this channel and constant Clickbait
And I had to search for several minutes to get to the part where he even talks about it. I get the need for the hustle but this is too much. I'm leaving pretty annoyed.
Thanks for the update, Matt. Be safe out there!
Happy new year Matt! nice to see you again, thank you for the heads up....!
Do you always rush and do a rolling run up? Do you teach your students to do it that way? Never, ever, be in a hurry….
Not in a hurry, just not wasting time
Haven't watched the video yet. But is it about you flying formation when you've been denied a formation card?
NOAA appears to be considerably more efficient. I get from them a notification to re-register my hiking PLB every two years like clockwork, and every five years they send me the notice that I need to send it out for battery replacement and pressure testing. It's a device that's designed to do exactly one thing well. It has a strobe, a 121.5/243.0 MHz beacon, and a 406 MHz channel to a low-orbit satellite constellation. the 406 MHz pings are a full 5 W, so they can get out from under the tree cover. They include the GPS location if the device has coverage, but the satellites can also get a pretty good fix by Doppler analysis of the received signal from the beacon. If I ever need to light it, I figure I'm likely done for anyway - I go pretty deep into the back country, and about a third of my trips are off-trail. But it will make life a lot easier and safer for searchers. I know they're coming for me if I go missing, and I've no way to wave them off, so I owe them at least that. (Search is the difficult, dangerous, and expensive part of Search and Rescue.)
The problem with relying solely on that though is the capability to reach those satellites behind a mountain, etc., after the fact.
@mattguthmiller sure. I hike among mountains, of course. The low-orbit satellites have much less of an issue. Basically, if you can see any sky at all, you're likely to be able to punch a signal through. Sure, it's a possibility that it won't work. But a "better" system is a lot more weight in my backpack, especially considering the limited battery life of the always-tracking systems. I used one a few years back on a 220 km solo trip through the Adirondacks and decided the additional security wasn't worth the weight. Of course, on an aircraft, you can haul more and generally have an alternator available to power it, so the tradeoff is different. NOAA still seems to be more efficient than the FAA about such things.
I’ve been waiting for more bonanza videos with anxious anticipation!!!
So, how much does it cost you to pack a backup GPS locator and roll it into a sleeping bag? Weighs what, a pound and a half, and you can pack it into a space smaller than your laptop bag. Assuming you're actually capable of surviving the crash in the first place, you'll need that sleeping bag, so now you have a way to stay warm while you wait for rescue. Unroll the sleeping bag, connect locator to battery, and then let it connect to the internet with Starlink and send an e-mail with your GPS coordinates to someone who cares about you. Pack a lunch and a deck of cards in there while you're at it. The days when you're going to be lost for a month and a half are over. The only way the GPS locator won't survive the crash is if you don't, and by a factor of ten or so.
I just tried to log in to the Flight Service web site and sure enough, "Account not found"... what a fail.
Hey, Matt. Long time haven't seen your videos. Happy Holidays' bro. Always good my brother. I didn't know you were a CFI. That's awesome. That's what I want to become. How long have you been a CFI? and what rating do you have? I think you mention you have all of them. Huge encouragement to become one. Again, thank you brother.
Love flying into KBZN. Finishing up my commercial and CFI/II to work up there.
I’m a big fan your content, and have been subbed for a while now. I share you’re enthusiasm about aviation and sharing the joy of it with others. Cool to see a new electronic flight bag in the market, looking forward to trying it out as well as watching its success! Just a small nit pick at 13:43.You’re already filming and flying a plane. Maybe it’s best to focus on those, especially the latter.
Very interesting Skyler thanks for sharing your story.
Not sure about the numbers, but the privatization of FSS - at least in my opinion - was a mistake. Like you mentioned, I’ve self-briefed since the changeover, which means I have some blind spots compared to what I had before the change.
Leidos is honestly the biggest pain in the ass to work with. Wish FSS would’ve stayed with the FAA.
G,day Matt from Sydney Australia. Sounds like you have developed some "handy" pilotage electronic tools. I am left pondering how YOUR FBO and airport info is so current? Great video, thanks. 🌏🇭🇲
Basically we developed a system that makes it possible for us to go ask FBOs for pricing every day
Thank you Matt!!!
Infomercial you do work. I would have guessed that this was out years ago. Keeping this updated will be a job in itself.
We spent a couple years developing the tech to keep everything updated
@@mattguthmillerweb scraping is a solved problem. Hire me.
How do you keep it updated?@@mattguthmiller
I just downloaded it, it looks like it will be very useful! @@mattguthmiller
Matt, when did you have your instrument panel redone?
I use Spot in the tracking mode. I have family members who have access to the account. I have it set for every 5 minutes it sends info to satellite and website.
Hope you are not teaching your students that it's ok to turn the autopilot on and then sit heads-down coding on your laptop. I've never seen anyone do that.
First, The FAA has a lot to talk about, how about 2 years waiting on an STC approval. Slow as a sloth. Your EFB do what GasBuddy does, users update fuel prices and it shows when the price update was done.
And I thought Transport Canada was slow for STC approvals. It takes us only a few months. May be your project was particularly complex.
Shocking! A government type funded agency refusing to be at least useful /helpful. I bet their budget only goes up too.
The problem is actually that most apps rely primarily on users, and there aren’t enough pilots regularly updating pricing for that to work. So we constantly ask the FBOs directly.
@@marc-andremuller1954all of "our ducks" have been lined up perfectly, just the Denver office is pathetically slow. It's not that complex, our HID landing and Taxi lights and our newer XeTREME output LED landing & Taxi lights just wanting to add aircraft to the AML on the HID and add our LED as well. XeVision Many of the FAA guys are still working from home. Was told by one California FAA guy to complain to our congressman to get faster action.
Thanks for sharing that. Now I am going to check my account status!
Call me old-fashioned, but I still use 1800wxbrief for my flight planning. I find it's a great place to start my planning, then jump over to the EFB for more info. Also, along with fuel prices and services, I put a ton of weight into the comments section of my EFB for the airports I want to go to. Bad reviews mean a skip. If your new app was andriod compatible, I would be more inclined to test it out. I just can't get on the apple bandwagon for my cell phone. It's bad enough that I have to have an ipad for foreflight.
Well it works on iPad (and Mac) too :) something better than reviews coming soon too ;)
Umm, I don't think I am the only one who uses 1800wxbrief before every flight. Especially, not that they completely revamped the website. And I don't do apple products.
Smokey, if you like 1800wxbrief - give aviationweather.gov a look. It was reset about a year ago. REALLY nice and easy to follow UI. Very close to the "bare metal" source of aviation weather.
Thanks for the hop.
Matt, if your’e still looking for a detailer I’d be willing to come out there to do both airplanes.
Wanna make a good app, make it so you can put in any Street address , for a business meeting, a friends house whatever and it’ll give you the 3 closest airports including Small GA AIRPORTS.
That’s coming in a couple months
that’s super easy, all you need is database of GA airports (available public as json) which has lon, lat and googlemaps API brings you lon, lat by default.. two lines of python and voila, done.. to scale up and speed up, one could put this as vector db and it would be lightning fast "overlay" e.g. as chrome extension or similar.. no need to create extra apps for this 😊
@@studiosevenai and yet Seattle avionics hasn’t done it w fly Q. . Idk if any of the others have it. But I do know it’s a PITA when your going somewhere to look up airports near the location.
@@jeffp862 there's an issue with using certain API's within commercial product, we can create opensource version pretty easily in fact..hold my aloe vera drink> # Given longitude and latitude (example: New York City coordinates) given_lon = -74.0060 given_lat = 40.7128 # Find the nearest airport nearest_airport = None min_distance = float('inf') for airport in airports: distance = haversine(given_lon, given_lat, airport["longitude"], airport["latitude"]) if distance < min_distance: min_distance = distance nearest_airport = airport if nearest_airport: print(f"The nearest airport is {nearest_airport['name']} at a distance of {min_distance} kilometers.") else: print("No nearest airport found.") like so.. but trying to implement google API into paid product, would result classic S Valley throwing their toys out of their pram :( so much for innovation...
Great info
I'll be done with my A&P training in August, and I'll need a job 👀 haha I'm sure you'll want some with experience
I could be persuaded to move to the Alpine area. It would take a lot of money though. Of course it would also give me an excuse to get a TAT system in the A36 🤔
Good seeing 367HP again thank you 👍🏼
If it was actually "terrifying" it wouldn't be BURIED HALFWAY THROUGH THE VIDEO.
An engine failure over the Rockies is as bad as it gets. Best if you follow a highway if possible to have a better chance of surviving a forced landing.
Back in the day (when still Flying) I wanted ane EFB That Did All that but Gave me a Flight Plan by having the Peramiters of the AC by N-Number. Then put in my Starting Point. Destination, Now if farther than in one Leg (VFR/IFR) with reserves & Alternate if Required, The Program would pick an Intermediat Destination. File that Flight plan And a 2nd/3rd/4th as necessary all based on Times and Weather forcasts. All with Alternats.
That’s what’s coming in a month or so ;)
Where is your landing spot if you loose your engine?
We actually need some app where pilots themselves would be able to update the fuel costs in airports.
That’s how most apps work, which doesn’t work. So we ask FBOs directly every day.
You can on ForeFlight now.
@mattguthmiller how do you plan to ask every FBO in the country everyday?
@@mrpielover615 that’s what we spent two years figuring out ;)
Spider their websites? or even robo call them? not exactly a new idea, many tech, commodity and luxury item sites do it. But a crap ton of work to implement for any specific purpose.
You put the wrong url on the screen at 7:00...I tried looking at it but nothing came up. I found the correct one in the notes...
They should both work
Not sure how you’re going to guarantee fuel prices are accurate, I don’t think FBO’s are required to report their prices to anyone.
That’s why unlike everyone else, we don’t rely on them to report. We go out and ask them every day.
@@mattguthmiller If you don’t have that much money I can see how that’s a problem. Just become richer my friend.
@@mattguthmiller Oh wow! Even the thousands of small airports like ours run by the county?
@@georgestuart2483 especially those ones (*almost* every day if the prices don’t change as frequently though)
@@mattguthmiller That’s impressive!
Where is Alpine? Utah? southeast of Draper?
What about ADSB? Can’t search and rescue use ADSB tracks?
Only good if you have adsb coverage. I am often in the Cascade mountains of Oregon and Washington with nay any adsb coverage. Especially in VFR conditions with a low , but still safe, ceiling I don’t show up on anything unless I fly over a receiver.
How do you keep the data from going stale?
That’s what we spent two years figuring out ;)
13:42 Coding while flying!?
I'm going to hope/presume it's filmed as flamebait B-roll footage with "clever" video editing, but there's probably going to be someone out there who takes it as an example and will try to one-up it for real thinking this is normal. There's been a lot of brain fog happening lately across every industry and people seem none the wiser to it...
You are a lucky sod being able to fly, that your own plane? Love to start to have flying lessons but can’t afford it, any idea how I go about it?
One step at a time. Save up enough to enroll in ground school. Then start chipping away at your flight time with an instructor. Private pilot license isn’t that expensive, maybe $7,000 depending. You could also get a job at a local airport and get to know some instructors and pilots who will help you out. Or join the military.
Agreed. But now yet another App... more memory, another source. Always wonder why we can't work toward simplifying things as we progress technically.
Oh we will ;)
Thanks for the PSA.
Does ATC/ATS units not use spacebased ADSB in the US ?
No, and doesn’t really work without top-mounted antennas, which no light planes in the US have.
@@mattguthmiller Interesting, thank you for letting me know. We have quite a few light aircrafts going trough Greenland on ferry flights, we dont use spacebased ADSB yet as surveillance. However, we have the feed, so i think i´ll check it when there are some comming trough Greenland.
ADSB used by ATC is primarily based on cell towers throughout the states.
gas cost more at the major airports.. fbo county airport is the cheapest in the area.
Looks to be an Apple App. Weird to use one name for the App and a completely different one for the web.
What plane is that?
Doesn’t ADSB cover this?
Why does it look like part of his right aileron is missing?
click bait - buried the lead story - selfish act
All of youtube is clickbait
Actually know...if you watch the entire video, he talks about the safety issue the faa needs to address.
He does that frequently.
The issue of stale user accounts is important, but I guarantee you this did not come from LEIDOS. This came from their client.
Will thos be available for Android or is this stricly going to stay Apple?
Not at the moment, but it also works on iPad and Mac
I may be interested in that A&P/IA position
Shoot us an email at inquiries@mattguthmiller.com
please make the app available on android.
This apps doesn't work with Androids only ipads and iphone,Here in Europe as well we need this apps.Do something matt.
Cross-platform electronic communication... Seems ' How does that work for you?;... Ya, it does not, it's up to you to do all the work and make sure it works and is operational. Not their fault, " Son you're on Your own! " as the motto goes...
I'm waiting for your next video on WhirlyGlobeViewController 😂
They need to review 61.113
really what you’re talking about is something that does for flyers what Tripadvisor does for people on a road trip
The only thing tu e FAA need to do is interview you on why a single pilot is flying whilst writing computer code on his laptop
Hoping you’re able to expand into Canada with the App. Appears to only be US at the moment.
We have some Canadian data along the border, but trying to add more. One major hang up is getting charts and navigation data from NavCanada, they make it incredibly expensive ($200k+ to get started); in the US that’s all free.
Leave it to Canadastan to make everything expensive!
Filter by clean bathrooms?
Soon ;)
We're you paying for that service during that lapse?
Yes
You should read an instruction manual or journalistic standards before publishing false info
Is an Android version in the future?
Not at the moment, but it also works on iPad and Mac
👍
When are you going to trade up for an F-16 🤔
I logged in, no issues. Hmm....
"The Tetons are looking perky as ever" lol
This dude looks like a clone of Hank green
WX800BREIF is GREAT and they just updated it. Please don't put it down. Every pilot should use it. IT IS GOV HOWEVER... It is your fault for not using it. Sorry. Whining not allowed. Also you should file flight plan, get IFR or VFR flight following, ADS-B and your commercial tracker and friends/family. On and on. You were not unprotested no more than you were not protecting yourself.
I was F.E on VIP DC-8 in Africa, we had Sat phones in cockpit , in bedroom and conference room,. Even inmthe middle of nowhwere in Africa I wa smaking calls to wife in the Netherlands.,
They know where you are...
Prices vary… a very lot. Pull in wanting 50 gal you get one price. Pull in wanting 200 gal… you get another.
Which is why that’s in there too
7 gallons and diet coke for me, thanks!
Why no Android, Isn't there enough Apple only Aviation apps?
Yes, so every pilot has an iPad now 😂
LOL, true! I even bought one just for flying, but my phone is Android and I refuse to go Apple with it. my only option that I have found for phone services is Garmin Pilot@@mattguthmiller
@@mattguthmiller No they don't. There are multiple languages and frameworks available for cross platform development, I don't see why it couldn't have been developed for both platforms.
@@TheLarWal come build it for us for free then
@@mattguthmiller do you work for free?
Why are there airplanes stalking me?
Another Apple-only EFB? :-(
Great info! Thanks. I don't do any flying in that remote areas but I do have a friend that does. I will check to see if knows that. I see a lot of snide negative remarks about how you do things. I realize your are doing a video for informational and entertainment purposes and NOT FOR TRAINING. Seems the snide remark either do not realize that or they just jealous! Thanks Matt. I am an ASMEL & Helicopters that used to fly Part 135 long before the internet. One of the planes was a G model Bonanza (1956) with the 260 HP Pressure Carburetor. That was one touchy flying machine!
Is the terrifying thing the fact you're programming while flying as a single pilot?
Good PSA Karen
This is a commercial for a crappy app.
His videos are just one long advertisement now!!
An advertisement on how not to fly safely.
The FAA is run by a bunch of people that run outside...point up to the sky and say 'Look...Airpane...Airpane'.
Eyes up and head on a swivel in the runway environment man. Private or not. Stay safe dude.
I stopped watching 5 minutes in because you were yapping about fuel prices instead of the clickbait-y subject of the video title. Get to the point if it's actually something important.
The data updates are only as good as the people "choosing" to update the data. There needs to be an incentive to get individuals or businesses to update "their" data. People are lazy.
That’s why we don’t rely on anyone choosing to update the data. We go out and get it every single day.
Love the channel Matt. Keep the flights coming. But your comments on data are so off the mark, it actually made me laugh. Good to hear your going to try something new, but no need to lie about what is already out there. I am assuming you are being deceptive. It would be difficult to believe your that obtuse about the vast amounts of data available to pilots. Even the none subscription offerings have a ton of data. Been that way since late 90s'. That said, looking forward to your "twist" on an already developed market.
Nice check list, in your head? 😂
Another 10 minutes wasted. If it matters so much to you why not calculate it ?
can't clean your own windshield huh?
TLDR. Basically and advert disguised as content
Clickbait
This channel has become really hard to follow with the terrible ADM, clickbait titles, and self promotion.
Sir this is KZhead.
Yeah doing the run up while taxiing kind of bothered me. If you want to fail a check ride that’s a sure way to do it. Major Runway incursion risk.
@@gano7297 I was on the runway…
@@mattguthmillermy guy how are you going to safely ensure your magnetos and engine instruments are useful at high rpm while taxiing at near idle?
@@landonturley1582 the same way you do when you’re sitting still, really, get a CFI and try it sometime
Terrifying for sure.
Now I remember why I stopped watching your videos. Should never have started again. The extreme click bait was bad enough. But now you hide what should be a boldly proclaimed public service announcement after an advertisement for your own product. Why did they have to be in that order? Just pure greed.
AND it’s totally incorrect.
Things that don’t happen for $1000.