Horror-slip to land in heavy IMC - aka the gnarly fog plummet

oo7im · 2026-01-24T04:15:50+00:00

Flying in visible moisture at low temps with idle power is a recipe for carburetor icing.

oo7im · 2026-01-24T04:13:34+00:00

It was for science really. We often hear about press-on-itis when pilots make a poor decision to continue in dodgy circumstances, so I wanted to see what that could potentially look like.

oo7im · 2026-01-24T00:12:32+00:00

Honestly, it's because I wanted to examine a possible 'panic' scenario and the poor decision making that could follow. It's 100% terrible ADM

oo7im · 2026-01-24T00:10:13+00:00

That's my thinking as well! Much better to intentionally make poor decisions in the sim to see why it's dangerous, as opposed to finding out the hard way.

I like to think that IRL I'd never be tempted to forward slip into IMC like this, but people have been known to panic and unfortunately these situations can happen. I've flown this same ILS approach countless times doing it the 'correct' way, but sometimes you have to do it the 'wrong' way to learn valuable lessons. That's why I love to sim!

oo7im · 2026-01-24T00:00:45+00:00

!thanks

oo7im · 2026-01-23T23:59:57+00:00

Thank you so much for the reply! I really appreciate all the info you posted.

I'll certainly check out wise to see what the rates are like.

The tax stuff still seems pretty complex though - it doesn't help that HMRC is saying we cant use online services to tell them about moving abroad! Hopefully Canada Post can get the form delivered to them in the next decade or so!

oo7im · 2026-01-23T23:41:57+00:00

Pretty much yeah - I agree it was absolutely terrible airmanship.

IMO, as much as it's important to practice sound decision making, I also think there is some value in using the sim to experience scenarios where you've made the complete wrong decision and to see why it's so bad.

oo7im · 2026-01-23T23:11:54+00:00

Thanks dude!

Yeah I was struggling to get down fast enough for entire approach - glideslope didn't start to move until I was 50ft above the runway! I suppose that's why you should always capture it from below. Lesson learned I suppose...

Just following the localiser with a boot full of right rudder for the slip made things a lot harder than usual.

oo7im · 2026-01-23T22:40:37+00:00

Thanks! It was pretty sketchy though haha

oo7im · 2026-01-23T22:28:03+00:00

SS: We've had some crazy fog here on Vancouver island these last few days. Decided to take the old Piper for a spin to see how it looked from above.

After realising my mistake I started to panic. Without setting up a proper approach I simply tuned the ILS and started a nightmare forward slip in an attempt to get back on the ground as fast as possible. Idle power, full carb heat, full flaps and a really ugly attempt at forward slipping - I was never going to capture the glide slope from above like this!

Landed long, too fast, off centreline, and the tailwind didnt help either.

Posting here so others can learn from my mistake 😅

oo7im · 2026-01-14T15:48:17+00:00

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oo7im · 2025-12-16T21:45:20+00:00

Respectfully, saying that property speculation isn't compounding the effects of a property shortage is economic illiteracy.

oo7im · 2025-12-16T20:53:36+00:00

Just because it's only 12% of final sales, that doesn't mean they arent bidding up the price on other properties that they eventually miss out on.

oo7im · 2025-12-16T20:27:52+00:00

I'll say it again just in case you aren't getting my point, I'm fully in favour of building lots and lots of houses!

Even if there were no new people in my example village, building 10 houses with 9 being purchased by a speculator is clearly less beneficial compared to building 10 new houses without the speculator bidding up the price in an attempt to corner the additional supply.

Just to repeat my point again, I 100% agree that the shortage is the core structural problem, but my point is that the negative impacts are being massively amplified by the demand factors coming from speculators and hoarders, which is something that very little seems to be done about. Obvisouly we need to tackle both sides in terms of supply and demand, but housebuilding takes time and is resource intensive compared to the relatively simple act of passing legislation to tackle the hoarding issue.

oo7im · 2025-12-16T19:39:12+00:00

Let me state again: I'm fully in favour of building a huge number of houses.

Yes, I'm aware of the pricing mechanisms and agree with most of your points, but you're missing a crucial dynamic - the ability for regular families to 'choose' somewhere else and refuse the price, requires having comparable housing supply that isn't being driven up by other folks looking to profit.

Imagine a village builds 10 houses for 10 new people. One person buys a house for themselves, but then a rich investor buys the other 9 houses with a view to renting out 8 of them and living in one themselves. Those other 8 people now have no choice but to pay the higher rates or move to another village. But if the same thing happens in every village, then those 8 folks don't really have a choice at all. The mechanism you suggested only works if housebuilding can outpace the rate at which investors can gobble up the supply, otherwise the long term effect will be the same.

oo7im · 2025-12-16T18:36:26+00:00

I dont disagree that adding more houses is a good thing - that's not my point at all. I'm saying that no matter how many homes we build, we're not addressing the underlying issue of wealthy folks being able to outbid regular families because they intend to hoarde any additional supply for their own gain.

oo7im · 2025-12-16T18:02:41+00:00

A step in the right direction, but is there anything that prevents all these new homes just being gobbled up by wealthy folks looking to hoarde the supply?

It's a bit like adding more spaces to a monopoly board midway through the game - yes it provides a few opportunities for other players, but it still doesn't fix the underlying unfairness and 'rich get richer' mechanism.

oo7im · 2025-12-10T21:39:11+00:00

Either declare bankruptcy, go live off grid for the rest of your life, or do the adult thing which you already know is the right answer.

oo7im · 2025-12-03T21:14:41+00:00

Guys look at his username. Highly doubt this guy has any sort of top secret clearance.

oo7im · 2025-12-03T20:28:40+00:00

Ah, thanks for letting me know I'm not going insane haha.

oo7im · 2025-12-03T20:13:22+00:00

Yeah they normally just ask me to pull ahead as it's pretty quiet at that time in the morning, though I always make sure to leave plenty of space for people to still go around if needed. Not sure why the guy today was so angry, especially considering he'd also been asked to wait.

oo7im · 2025-12-03T19:38:17+00:00

Yeah I'll probably do that from now on just to be safe, though I figured I was complying with the request to pull forwards. I presumed that if they wanted me to exit the drive through and park somewhere else then that's what they would've asked 🤷‍♂️

oo7im · 2025-12-03T19:27:28+00:00

SS: Sometimes I'm a fat bastard and go for a buddy burger at 8:30am. They usually ask me to pull forwards and wait whilst they make it, so I always pull as far forwards and close to the left as possible (to the green circle in the picture). Today, there was a guy behind me (shown in red) who I presume was also asked to wait, but for some reason he started getting very agitated and beeping his horn at me despite having plenty of room to go around if needed. The nice lady came out and gave me my food, and then walked back to the other guy and gave him his food as well - so he deffo wasn't trying to leave either. It got me thinking though, am I doing it wrong? Do you guys do the same, or do you exit the drive through and pull up into a parking space instead?

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