Busted. LOL! The internet never forgets. Those videos are on other hard drives somewhere.
Having just caught up with this entire thread, some of those videos weren't too insane, but others weren't well advised at all.
We are in the "stabilized approach" era still, and probably permanently with FAA and CTLs with steep banks and whatnot, aren't going to make you any friends in the checkride world, or regulatory world.
That said, I've also talked to some folks who've had to keep the power in and make a real world tight turn to get themselves out of a not-so-great situation in a CTL scenario.
A LITTLE practice of such, isn't the end of the world.
Filming it, probably stupid.
Doing it every time you fire up a camera and post to YouTube, definitely stupid.
Even if you don't, it makes it look like every flight is flown that way. A "pattern of recklessness" the FAA would say before the Administrative Law Judge...
I do have a great story of a real world CTL in an airliner that was way low on gas after having to go missed at both the primary and the alternate and scrambling to beat an unforecast line of snow to the only airport with a company-approved approach.
I can't share the full details. Not my story.
But let's just say the crew worked together to make a VERY steep bank with a deadly serious pre-brief that went something like "If we break out in this crap, it'll be out my window. I'll maintain visual with the runway and we're going to crank it left real hard and land this damned thing, because we aren't going to get another shot at this. We don't have the fuel. I want you calling out altitudes continuously and ready with gear and flaps the instant I call for them, and I've got the power but if you see me getting slow just push on my hands if you have to."
Not an everyday occurrence, and not necessary the vast majority of the time, but the two guys I know who had to do it, walked away and lived to tell the story, in private.
They shared with me how much fuel was put on (company decided to top off the airplane to find out, and yes they did talk to the Chief Pilot about it and let him know just how close it had been, because they weren't too impressed with the fuel loads being chosen in questionable weather) and it was low enough to make me very uncomfortable. Their version of it, one of them describes it as "ass puckering".
Snow storm plus squall line plus "Holy crap, find an airport that's out ahead of this and lets get there right now!", and not quite beating the storm there after multiple misses... They'll readily admit wasn't their finest hour. But they both remember that approach.
I picked on one of them after he story was related to me... "Did you REALLY have the runway through the whole turn?"
He joked... "Well, I don't think anyone ever intended to do turns about a point with an approach light, but..."
