In this episode of Flight Chops, we’re Flying IFR in the TBM850 with 16 yr old Adam at the controls!

He and his dad have essentially rescued me to help get the RV-14 ready for the imminent trip to AirVenture in a few short days!

While there, Adam will get a taste of some real Flying Fundamentals in the T6 / Harvard with museum chief pilot Dave! Thanks to Jim from PTNR Production! He’s a long time pilot buddy that helped get the temp vinyl sorted out for the RV-14 in a hurry!

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An actual Emergency on the way to train for simulated ones!

Massive thanks to Osama for being an ongoing awesome IFR mentor! We’ll be flying the TBM 850 and the Phenom 300 more for sure!

In this episode of Flight Chops’ IFR Status Vlog Series, Steve trains with longtime mentor Osama and benefits from the opportunity to adapt in real-time as things don’t go as planned.

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Get caught up with this special VLOG series that gets into all the nitty-gritty details as Steve goes after his Instrument Rating:

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Welp… Let’s do this? I gotta beat this IFR thing…

I really appreciate Jason from The Finer Points, being a part of my journey – he’s got an amazing podcast and is now making YouTube videos regularly too. Definitely check his stuff if you’re not already familiar!

The Finer Points of Flying Podcast

On The Flight Line (The Finer Points Youtube Channel)

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Glad I don’t have to do this alone…

Hey everyone, 

It’s been a crazy year, lots of successes, but one ongoing sort of dragged out failure that has been in the back of my mind… what am I doing about the Instrument Rating – am I really going to let that beat me? 

It is hard to put into words the feeling of seeing all the support that was shared via the comments on YouTube when I published this the other day. 

I considered not making it a paid post here, but I actually did work a lot harder than I meant to on the editing, so it is legit… That said, going forward, the plan is to NOT work hard on editing these “IFR status vlogs”.  The energy needs to go toward the test prep and training.  

Most of these will include flying like this one… But I am also thinking some will be sharing the less exciting parts of the IFR training / test prep, like sitting in Osama’s kitchen and going over sample test questions; maybe I’ll boil down some of the best learning moments or written test prep things that I am having trouble with.  Would you want to see “IFR status vlogs” that don’t include flying footage?  I’ll still be sure to edit them in a way that doesn’t feel like watching paint dry. 

All that said, I rarely publish anything that I didn’t work harder on than I should have :P. 

Why don’t we put it to a poll – should these vlogs (which will be public) be paid or free posts here?  At most it will bring me to 4 monthly paid posts (like a regular episode every 2nd Friday, and one of these every 2nd Wednesday or so).

Thanks again for the support – This is a weird sort of personal journey that I am on, in a very public way – but it really seems to be resonating with the community and encouraging others – so despite being really hard, the whole thing is also very rewarding.

Steve

Watch more content related to Jason Miller:

Jason Miller

TFP (The Finer Points)

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Flying with Osama

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The WEIRDEST feeling flight maneuver I’ve ever learned!

I thought I was fairly prepared to handle an accelerated spin – yet upon doing it the first time I froze for a few seconds before I began the correct recovery… Every pilot should seriously consider some form of upset recovery training; even if they don’t want to go insane like I did covering so much more with Luke

Huge thanks to Harv’s Air for making this happen!  

They are one of the very few flight schools in North America that offer basic and advanced aerobatic training to all levels of pilots! 

Check them out at http://www.harvsair.com/

There are already several episodes from this series available! Including one flying there in the TBM 850! To keep up with where we are at in the series, search “Pitts S2b” and “TBM” here on the site.

Special thanks to Gill, who killed it as my cinematographer in Winnipeg!

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There are several raw / uncut supporter exclusives from this shoot available – here is the most recent.

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“Stay ahead of the Airplane” at a whole new level!

The idea of “staying ahead of the airplane” is very real in this jet; Everything happens very fast in the Phenom!

Huge thanks to Osama and Henry for being a big part of this one!

We’ll be making more content flying the Phenom and TBM!

To keep up with where we are at in the series, search “Phenom” and “TBM” on this site.

Looking for more IFR-related content? 

Check out what we’ve got using this tag.

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If you enjoyed this episode, check out this related content!

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https://flightchops.com/2016/02/05/landing-tbm850-turboprop-rnav-approach-ppl-ifr-atc-audio/

https://flightchops.com/2016/01/21/ppl-ifr-turboprop-flying-tbm850-turbine-engine-start-atc-audio-ferrari/

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1st time flying in the Flight Levels!

Huge thanks to Harv’s Air for making this happen! They are one of the very few flight schools in North America that offer basic and advanced aerobatic training to all levels of pilots!  Check them out!

We’ll be making a multi-part series covering the training! To keep up with where we are at in the series, simply look up the “Pitts S2B” and “TBM850” tags here on the site.

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If you missed the raw footage from this one, here’s 45 minutes of the best stuff: 

And there are raw versions of previous flights with Osama taking me to Rochester to get my FAA PPL a couple years ago. 

They are already available if you missed them: 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/supporter-tbm850-4193137

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If you enjoyed this episode, check out these related episodes!

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Watching the pitch change while deploying full flaps was amazing!

In Part 1 we covered turbine engine start up and take off!
Link to Part 1 of the TBM850 series:

https://flightchops.com/2016/01/21/ppl-ifr-turboprop-flying-tbm850-turbine-engine-start-atc-audio-ferrari/

My favourite quote from Osama about why he loves owning a TBM850:

“You can do what airliners can do without a single support person. I am not exaggerating here… You are the line guy, flight attendant, PIC, weatherman, dispatcher and everything else. That is what flying is all about for me. *I* am responsible for EVERYTHING. I can fly from Miami to Oshawa in 3:30 at 31,000 feet and I do not need to involve anyone but myself … including pulling the plane out of the hanger and putting it back in. “

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I am a “weekend warrior” private pilot, I fly for fun with no intentions of going commercial. I have had my PPL for over 15 years, but still consider each flight a learning experience – I generally take detailed notes after each flight to remind myself what went well or what I could do to improve…. Having the GoPro cameras to record flights like this is invaluable. I find these self analysis videos very helpful in my constant quest to improve, and am happy to share. Feedback is invited; however, please keep it positive.

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I made this promo last month, but kept it unlisted on YouTube, as it was mainly for a Facebook upload…
But I didn’t love the compression – and the fact that the Facebook default seems to be to “autoplay” a video muted is not awesome.

Anyway – I LOVE giving stuff away to viewers – please enter the monthly contest!
There is one more day for this one, and then the next one starts! (Spoiler: the main prize next month is a Bose A20 headset

Thanks,
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Ride-a-long as we learn to fly this extremely capable airplane!

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Link to Part 2 of the TBM850 series:

https://flightchops.com/2016/02/05/landing-tbm850-turboprop-rnav-approach-ppl-ifr-atc-audio/

Huge thanks to Osama for sharing is airplane with us!

And thanks to him I now have my American PPL for many more adventures flying in the U.S.!

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