[Video] Any of you fellas seen an airport around here?

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ChrisS
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[Video] Any of you fellas seen an airport around here?

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Keith and I were doing some shared cockpit flying to work on some basic skills when we ran into a little trouble finding KWHP on the way back in. There's a pretty good debrief at the end.

If you're not running shared cockpit, this should demonstrate how it changes the dynamic quite a bit. Keith and I talked about it after, and we're both in agreement that if we had been going in single pilot, we probably wouldn't have missed the field.

What do you guys think?
kullery
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Re: [Video] Any of you fellas seen an airport around here?

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Very interesting to go back and look at some of the subtle contributing factors. Very early on, you knew that you were slightly west of course and told Keith to come left. Then the distraction of Peter's flyby and discussion of the "Kevin Myers" drone may have distracted you from actually coming left as much as you had intended. You had mentioned "follow the power lines" but no one picked up when you started angling away from them to the west. Another clue was the San Fernando Reservoir. It had been identified as your "limit" to prevent you from busting the KVNY delta and that you would pass to the LEFT of the reservoir. But as you approached the resevoir, (now "off the nose") you were distracted by a "work email" and when directly over it there was the distraction of the other traffic (Cat, I believe) as well as the call to KWHP (with some discussion of runway). At that point it looked like the reservoir was either not spotted or the significance had been forgotten (you were supposed to pass LEFT of it).

By this point it looks like you were about a mile west of course. Interesting because that was about the only place where tuning the wrong NDB would cause a problem. If you were on course when tuning the NDB or further out, the alignment of the NDB would have taken you directly over KWHP and you might never have even noticed the mix up.

No question that the chart is easily confused given the placement of the frequency boxes for the 2 NDBs.

Thanks for sharing this......makes for a great case study of how some minor distractions can have a significant impact.
Ken Ullery - PPL-SEL, 1G5
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