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Thanks for the question! KFLL is a class C airport and a call to Clearance Delivery is required before calling ground. It has been my experience when departing class B and C airspace; clearance delivery is the best way to get the ball rolling for what you want to do or put on request when not grabbing an IFR clearance. In my case on this flight we are departing on a Defense VFR flight plan crossing the ADIZ. To legally cross the ADIZ you must be on an IFR flight plan or DVFR flight plan with a discreet squawk code. You need to have FF to get that code and be communicating with ATC if you are not on an IFR plan. If you are not communicating hence FF and without the transponder code you’re going to get intercepted if you cross the ADIZ. So, the easiest way to get that code going DVFR is have flight following. Since this was my first crossing to the Bahamas I believe I just wanted all my ducks in a row. (Forgive me but I’ve slept a few nights over the last two years since this vlog was published…LOL). Once you have your clearance to depart the class C it’s time to call ground and taxi. If you call ground at a class C or B airport without an IFR clearance or VFR departure clearance they will just say we don’t see your clearance and remind you to call clearance delivery first then call them back. So to answer your question I presume I called Clearance Delivery and got squared away to depart DVFR with flight following to make my intentions known, so I have the squawk I need and each ATC handoff have been pre-coordinated from the start to have FF. Remember this is a DVFR flight and requires a DVFR flight plan to be filed and opened. As well as filing an APIS report with customs since it’s an international flight. DVFR is just a little bit different than going on a normal VFR flight. Now I suppose I could have told Clearance Delivery I’m departing VFR to the east climbing to whatever altitude I chose. Then got my taxi clearance from ground. Take off clearance from tower and ask departure for FF before getting handed off to Miami Center. However, before you cross the ADIZ you will have to contact FSS to open the DVFR flight plan and get a code from them. If memory serves me correct I believe I called FSS just to make sure my DVFR was opened by clearance and the code I was on was in fact the code that I needed. Again it was my first time and I didn’t want any issues. So I treated my DVFR flight plan like an IFR flight plan. Hope your questions were answered. Thanks for watching!

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer Ohhh that makes sense! For some reason I thought you were coming out of KFXE, but that makes sense in a class C. Thanks!

Howdy!

That’s awesome Paul!! Once you taste the freedom of flight you’ll forever gaze to the heaven’s! The sky is no longer the limit but now a place we call home.

It always amazes me that this video is still being watched and commented on. So thank you for watching and adding a comment. To address your question, yes that is always a concern flying single engine over the vast open ocean. There are a lot of factors to plan when choosing to do this kind of trip. Altitude, glide ratio, weather, winds, etc. Can I glide back to land? Are we ditching in the ocean? For my wife and I it was always in the back of our head but a calculated risk that we had contingency plans for. Leaving Ft Lauderdale we chose the most direct route and altitude to follow the coast lines of each island in the Bahamas chain. That way if we lost an engine we could glide back to land. Leaving Gov’s Harbour after clearing customs enroute to Staniel Cay in the Exuma chain was the longest over water crossing of around 20-30 mins I think. I had it planned that if we lost the engine at a certain point that we would do a 180 turn and glide as far as we could back to Gov’s Harbour. Beyond a certain point we would glide straight ahead as far as we could toward Staniel Cay. If we had to ditch in the ocean my plan was to ditch near a shallow sand bar which you could see many from the air. The USCG requires that each occupant has an approved life vest; which you can see we wore. As an added element of safety we also had an approved USCG life raft and survival supplies on board. My wife and I briefed that if we had to ditch she would be in charge of the raft. And we briefed how we would get out of the plane if this was necessary. If we were away from sand bars we would look for sailing vessels, boats, cruise ships, or freighters and ditch near any of those for the fastest pick up and rescue. If we made it beyond a certain point we had it planned to be able to glide to Staniel Cay. All of that was planned behind the scenes off camera. Thanks for watching! Appreciate the comment. Consider subscribing. I hope to have another video out again soon.

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer You know, the modern "Bermuda Triangle Mystery" largely began with the loss of those 5 Navy torpedo bombers in December 1945. I think people underestimate the difficulty of surviving that. Planes lost, out of fuel, landing at night on the open sea in the rough and chilly waters of December, and so on. It would be more of a surprise were they in fact rescued. Many planes have been lost between the South Florida coast and the Bahamas, on a trip by air which might only take 20-30 minutes.

Thanks for the comment! Summer temperatures and low altitude really heats up the O-540 engine. I fly by CHT/EGT temperatures. With the cowl flaps open I can lean back to 13.5 to 14gph which gives me right around 380 degrees on the CHT’s and around 1370/80 on the EGT’s. It’s all about preserving that engine and taking care of the cylinders.

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer as an old engine guy and very familiar with the 0-540, maybe try playing with the cowl settings as sometimes less is more meaning you may have better air flow with a lower cowl setting. You are probably losing 3-5 MPH with the cowl flaps in the full open position. Just my thoughts.

Sorry couldn’t hold the phone and fly. What it is, the host of the event set up a target on the west side of the runway. You fly a standard traffic pattern. Instead of landing you fly a low approach. Our hard deck was 200 feet AGL. You then side step the runway to overfly the target and your passenger drops a bag of flower out the aircraft window in an attempt to hit the target. Everyone participating was given two flower sacks to drop. Lots of fun for everyone that participated.

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer woah sounds fun, thank you

I apologize, but I have not watched this video in a while and I don’t understand your question. This was filmed nearly 2 years ago.

Hey hey! Whats been going on? Yes, I’m still around. I know I haven’t put anything out in pretty close to a year…..😬. I have 5 videos that I need to edit. However, flying full time commercially for FedEx has taken up most of my time. I’ll be going to a 2 week on and 2 week off schedule soon and hope to have time to edit and put out an update.

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer What you flying for fedex?

@@Parr4theCourse C208B. Hopefully a C408 if we upgrade our fleet where I’m based at.

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer Are you planning to make a trip back to the Bahamas, soon?

@@mikespeers Hi Mike! Not this year unfortunately. We are going to Maine in a few weeks and northern MI in the fall. Maybe next year when we go back to the FL Keys.

She was! Just a lot of water for her on her first major water crossing. She watched a lot of tv on the iPad or read on her iPad to take her mind off all that water…🤣

To talk to Nassau if I remember correctly you need to be above 8,000 MSL. And no we flew below 8k. Just look at my Aspen display to fact check me. But I believe we just flew on our own monitoring island unicom for 20-25 min flight to Staniel.

Thats a great question! But, no. I fly CHT temperatures. I like to keep my cylinders around 380 degrees and with the ambient heat out there I prefer to leave them open so I can lean back to 380 degrees which gives around a 14.0 - 14.5 gallon per hour burn. If I close them I would have to enrich my mixture and that would bring my fuel burn up to 16 - 17 gallons per hour. With the cowl flaps open I save fuel, and keep the cylinders at the temps I want. I’m only sacrificing a couple of knots of ground speed. Thanks for watching, and subscribing. Thanks for the great question.

We are very blessed to have the 182. My flying career professionally has just kicked off and thus far have not had to fly 200 & 1/2. Hope to have some new content up soon. Appreciate the comment!

Outstanding thanks for following along! Appreciate the comment.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very true! The Bahamas are awesome!

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it.

100% concur! We also spent and entire day at the National Mall and Smith Air and Space Museum a few years ago. Zero regrets.

Glad you enjoyed it Marilyn! When you have the opportunity I highly recommend doing a flight over the falls.

Thank you Mark! It was such a great trip that year. So many memories made with my awesome amazing wife. Oshkosh, Mackinac Island, Canada. We want to explore Wisconsin, and Minnesota more as well. We always have a reason to go to MI though since all of my family is from there and we now have family in WI too. We'll definitely be filming and sharing more from UP north again soon.

Truly a nice place to relax and unwind after a day exploring the event grounds. Your 182 that we seen there if I'm recalling it correctly is an absolutely beautiful machine. Thanks for the comment!

We really did love going to Osh that year. We even went in 2020.....😜. No one was there but it was still fun to get a landing in. Great ATC for that Oct day. Unfortunately we were unable to go last year and will not be attending this year. However, we are going to Sun & Fun this year so if you're going look us up! I invite you to join us on social media at FB or IG to keep up with what's going on in between YT uploads.

We really loved Appleton Flight Center. Sloshkosh that year swamped out their GAC area so we had to shuttle our camping gear up by the FBO and camp there. But well worth it. The design of the FBO itself is quite impressive!

100% agree, Mackinac is the crown jewel of the Great Lakes. That's a great adventure route Mark!

Thanks Mel, glad you enjoyed this one. Appreciate the support.

Thank you Mr. J!!

Andrius! Welcome, glad you found our channel. I'd love to come to Germany and fly one day.

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer anytime… but first there ist OSH 2022 for us finally…

@@andriusdiksaitis2462, definitely go to Osh 22! You'll love it. We won't make it this year but are planning on being at Sun and Fun this year. Planning stages right now.

Been in OSH last time in 2016…

Well thank you Lee!! I have more "short" vids coming and a few full length vLog's I'm finishing up as we speak. So stay tuned, more to come!

Hey! Just subbed man. good vids..im diggin it. Music and flying. You end up using that Ghostbusters song edit I did on any of your vids?

I watched a lot your other vids but this video and doing this quick edits of your flight to music seems pretty fuckin awesome TBH. Make more of this. If you need song trim/edits let me know. Could be a theme to your channel..everyone wants to see a cool aircraft approach and landing clip to there favorite song.

What's good man!! Thanks for the sub, much appreciated! Not yet with your remix...but I've got something cooking for it 😉. Thank you for the comments. I have lots of "shorts" planned!

As will I now!!

Appreciate the support over the hard drive. We'll look into uploading some overland stuff.

Great comment Tom! I can definitely put a vLog together for all 4 of your points. Thanks!

@@OneEightyTwoFlyer Speaking of emergency situations and switches, this just posted up today: th-cam.com/video/GKRJmv5TGT4/w-d-xo.html Had to learn a little about about how to read a METAR to solves some puzzles for my geocaching hobby. How long does it take to learn that foreign language and do you carry a cheat sheet?

@@tombrotherman7838 Hey Tom! I'll check out that video tomorrow. As a fellow 'cacher myself that sounds like a cool puzzle find. Honestly when it comes to METAR's and TAF's I focused on learning the important short-hand i.e. wind/wind speed, ceiling, temperature, and altimeter setting. The remarks section rarely has any information of value accept during times of thunderstorm activity and wind sheer. You do need to put a few shorthand acronyms to memory such as BR (mist) etc. there are more obviously. But truth be told I fly with Foreflight and have for years now so all of the METAR and TAF data for weather is given in shorthand code and also in plain language format so interpreting weather is a breeze now.

I'll definitely consider throwing in some Airstream, camping, overland type videos. Thanks!

Thank you Adrian & Ruth!! Appreciate the kind words. Thanks for subscribing and following along!

Welcome to the channel and thank you for the subscription. Glad you enjoyed this episode. We have a couple more episodes to post from the Bahamas trip once we get them edited. Enjoy that DA40! Excellent bird!