YouTube Pilot Avoids Fatal Mistakes!

Get your Buddy Check Box today at 👉 buddycheckbox.com/ This is an affiliate link and your purchase helps support my channel and it also supports Ryan. It's also a great way for you to stay safe! I changed the title on this video because of your feedback. Thanks for sharing your opinions on this. I spoke to Ryan before making this video and Ryan titled his own video “critical flight fail”. I was trying to make a point that it’s okay to “fail” a mission if it means staying safe and living to fly another day. My original video title implied something else and I’ve changed it

Hoover, thanks for doing a collaboration video with me and sharing the beauty of flying in Papua New Guinea with the world. I have really enjoyed your debriefs ocer the past year. Keep the videos coming. And for those wondering, no Hoover wasn't being critical of my flight. We worked together on this video.

I am relieved that this was actually a huge win rather than a failure. Good decisions were made. Greatly disciplined in his preflight as well. Good job sir.

I am a retired pilot that flew out of Goroka to Simbari and other places. It was tough flying VFR in similar conditions to the video. My stomach turns when I watched this video and remember the locations, it brings back some bad memories when I nearly crashed. I am envious of the GPS, phone and moving maps. (No electronics except the radio and maps were paper in my flying there.)

Proper, and I mean PROPER airmanship. Faultless.

Some people just have the right personality and discipline to be a good pilot. Some don't. Missionary Bush Pilot does.

Yep, the “When in doubt, DON’T” lesson is a lifesaver no matter what you’re doing!

This pilot is clearly a superior aviator in all ways.

It is great to see a confident pilot STILL running down his checklist even though he may have done this flight 500 times.. OVER-confidence is what gets pilots killed.... He briefs himself on the weather conditions... He formulates a plan for different situations BEFORE he ever encounters them, so that if he does.. he already knows what he is going to do... He obviously still maintains a HEALTHY respect for the task that lies before him... There is a BIG difference between a REAL pilot... and some guy flying a plane...

I've been following Ryan for a while now... He comes across as a very competent and skilled pilot. Great job

That was not a fail. He was fully aware of the situation, planned for eventualities and carried out a safe flight and landing. A success in anybody's book.

This video should be a mandatory watch for every pilot regardless of how may hours they may have. And for the newer pilots out there, this is a great example of proper risk management - risk assessment. This is how every pilot should approach every flight. Hat's off to Ryan. Well done sir!

I’m an airline pilot. I used to fly the bush in Alaska. Flying an airliner is a walk in the park compared to flying small planes to remote strips. Deep respect for these guys!

I’ve been following missionary bush pilot for years. This man devotes his life to helping others in extremely difficult circumstances and unusual dangerous terrain. He deserves our respect and admiration. 😍

Hoover, thanks for this debrief. I watch most of Ryan's videos, and am impressed with his professionalism. Flying alone, without a co-pilot, he still does everything as if there was someone sitting in the right seat, call it self-CRM. His explanations of what he's doing, and the decisions he makes, are perfect.

Thank you Hoover for showing us a pilot that made the right decisions and landed safely nice to see how professional he is, I have used something very similar to this buddybox and it is a huge help. thanks again for another great debrief.

Really great to watch a video where the pilot knows and demonstrates exactly how you plan and execute a successful flight, even though he had to land at an alternate runway and wait for better weather to pick up his passengers. Listening to Hoover comments as well as compliments for Ryan's performance on this flight was a real treat!

He’s always planning an escape route in those mountains. Good airmanship.

7 years flying bush strips in New Guinea, congrats mate.

Thank you Hoover, Ryan is one of the best pilots I have ever seen, and it is partly his local knowledge but most of all his life-preserving decision-making and utterly methodical approach that means that despite having to deal with some of the most challenging conditions in aviation, he never lets the holes in the swiss cheese line up, and so stays safe and manages risk brilliantly. I'm so glad that you rate his flying highly too.