Found the part where the “story” of an engine out is told. There is no video footage about that, just story telling.
I’m always amazed at the time disposal you guys have, being able to watch all these flight vids 
Still, intrigued by this very thread I quick forward/stop rewind the interesting bits of the vid.
Verdict: not being any close to white as snow, I will sure not throw any stone.
One very recent YT comment (no, not mine 
), Deepl translation:
Absolutely irresponsible and not worthy of imitation. The handling of the critical situation of the engine, the behavior depicted between flights and the comments that completely ridicule the seriousness of the situation are exactly what we pilots want to avoid. Daredevils without any sense of safety and reason endanger not only themselves, but also others in the air and on the ground, as well as the reputation of the otherwise very reasonable pilot guild.
Note: the recrudescence of all these kind of vids, crazy stunts, impossible bush flying, you name it, is setting a trend which is definitely unhealthy. Top that up with glass panels augmented by autopilots hi-perf ULs, and it can give a sensation of invincibility, still unhealthy on different levels…
I think “arrival phase” of flight officially starts 25nm around your destination
Reference please
there is no explicit rule stating this
Indeed; the UK wording is quite different
But anyway this flight wasn’t in the UK.
Is the flying around 19:20 really that reckless
The video cuts out the bit where they were in something like solid IMC, so it’s hard to say, but I would say this is not legal VFR even as shown. But, everybody does this, I did it on every long “VFR” flight simply because one can’t control where clouds happen to be Normally I flew VMC on top (using oxygen as needed) but sometimes one climbs or descends through cloud, and the important thing is to do it safely. Would I have posted illegal flying on YT? No. Can you get busted for it? Probably not, not least because they can’t prove the date+time.
The commentary I can’t comment on because I can’t speak German.
YT is full of dodgy flying videos. Some quite gory, too… They tend to be taken down after a bit.
What if they were on VFR clearance inside controlled airspace (radio audio) while in IMC?
Not legally possible, obviously.
What did the pilot say which was objectionable? Feel free to PM
Ibra wrote:
What if they were on VFR clearance inside controlled airspace (radio audio) while in IMC?The rest can’t be policed, especially OCAS
@Ibra, I think the usual defence will be “the camera shows the picture worse than it was, the real weather was VMC”, very hard to counter that.
And I’m here with @Peter on rules – it needs to be done safely, usually the difference between a VFR aircraft and an IFR aircraft is just in paperwork and depends on the country (part of Scandinavia & USA are much better in that sense – everything equipped IFR is IFR-capable), but I digress…
Here is another from the same guy, going straight for some showers, but nothing possibly illegal there
Am not sure they are proselytising reckless aeronautical decision making, and each pilot is expected to set their own, sensible standards and behaviour. While (I think Elon Mask said this) in theory you can learn everything on You Tube, not sure this video would make, other than the most susceptible of pilots, change their approach to safe flying.
I see the aircraft in the video is quite active and for sale
In the ad it says it’s an experimental. So no microlight?
I don’t get it why it’s on sale, because it had been sold only in December…
Anyway, 200 hp on that plane sounds interesting. :-)
