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Nice video and good work. However as a professional pilot of more than 20 years, I am sick of some ATC who think it is okay to start a conversation about parking and taxi routes as the aircraft is decelerating at relatively high speed on the runway. Honestly it can wait at least until taxi speed, if not runway vacated. Very common in America.

Everyone told me that my first few night landings I would likely slam it in. I did not disappoint. The peripheral visual cues just seem to disappear altogether.

When you put her into high idle, is that simply unfeathering the prop?

dont know what all the fuss is about Steveo1kinevo has been flying one for years and seems to do it very easily, maybe go ask him for some tips. !!!!

What’s the point of comparing them. There are two completely different things.

Hi, I'm on a very similar journey as yours, got my PPL and IFR in my C182T with Nxi so that it would match the TBM's. Now I'm about to get the TBM. In the last video, you say I'm going to keep a few kts extra for the wind. Everything I read says not to add any speed, even for gust (sort of the opposite of what we are trained to do in trainers). Has your view changed on this since your first solo 3 years ago? Love your videos. Thanks so much for sharing them

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I ruled out TBM when Steveo had a $90,000 annual, then went to leave Daher and had a defective prop governor. He had to take it straight back to Daher, he never said what that cost on top of the outrageous annual. As far as being AOG that's the new reality in these days of "supply chain shortages". I've had to have parts made because there just weren't any available, in a couple of cases the parts had been discontinued. An updated part was being make, but not as a replacement part, only for new engine manufacture. These manufacturers don't seem to care about you unless you want to buy a brand new aircraft.

The only difference between landing a tbm and a 172 is spool up time

Not sure if you are still monitoring this video but ... Is the time you presented in the video to go through the 54 steps equivalent to real time when preparing for a flight (excluding getting the plane out of the hangar and fueling)?

No Offense but Steveo1kinevo has a better, smoother proceedure and everything checked for saftey, and 2 way radio traffic.

Looking forward to seeing more flights

You got a lot of work to do on your Atc comms.

your wife really looks very interested in the discussion.

great video. Very informative. 👍

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TBM is a lot easier to land in crosswind and turbulent conditions than most of the previous 9 or 10 aircraft I've owned and operated. The only thing unnerving about the TBM is just how slow you can and are supposed to get it on short final. Once you nail the correct speed on final your landings are short, smooth and nothing short of awesome. Just make sure to keep that nose up on flare and all will be good.

Joker talking plan crash, pathetic!

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You haven’t posted in a long while…

tbm is a chevy,,, pc12c is a Cadillac

Interesting review of both aircraft though I fear you miss many salient points. For me the big one being the 12 will operate from unpaved runways with great short field capability allowing it to operate virtually out of anywhere, it is much more versatile in this regard and far more comfortable with a considerably larger cabin, it requires far less compromises with its vastly superior full fuel payload, you do not have to balance passengers for either range or landing performance anything like as often. The cabin configuration possibilities are endless with typical hot and cold refreshments, it burns around the same fuel, is around 16% slower but carries almost a third more full fuel payload. It has far better landing characteristics over the slippery TBM, and it is vastly superior in handling turbulence and moderate chop

Really good info, thanks.

There was a sad double fatal accident in Milwaukee years ago KMWC. The father brought his daughter from out east to look over the local college. There was a quartering 7kt wind and on a failed roll out and prop strike they tried a go around. The TBM 700 stalled on down wind and the flames prevent the fire dept. from getting in close.

A Q about "activating vectors to final". Is that necessary since you were already in heading mode and then changing to 'Vloc' and pressing 'nav' should intercept? (sometimes ATC vectors planes inside the FAF then 'activating vectors to final' creates issues.) ps do you still have the TBM & are you ever going to do more vids for us??... thank you.

Miss yr videos bro!

Serious question, do all of the complexities take the fun out of flying?

What do you typically plan for fixed maintenance costs per year? (Annual, other inspections, etc)

Good info. For this annual did you use a TBM service center? How has maintenance & inspection been since your 2020 annual? Thanks.

Interesting to see that even an advanced turbine airplane can be sidelined by mere winter. Having winds, minimums, runway conditions, having to get hotels... this is the stuff of GA. "If you have time to spare, travel by air." It's just like flying a little Cessna. Only you can do longer distances. But it's not like a jet, where you're pretty much always going to get there without surprise overnights. Very instructive. Nice video!

Which yoke mount are u using? Is that iPad Air ? Which gen? i

The TBM is hard to land but once you master it I think it's amazing and really hones your stick and rudder (and trim) skills. The key / trick is putting in full pitch up trim on 1/4 mile final. It makes the flare extremely easy and eliminates the fear of a prop strike. I came from flying a premier 1 and gen 2 Cirri where you tend to land much flatter to prevent the opposite (tail-strikes). Once you master the TBM though, you can land just about anything.

Good overview.

The pro/owner pilot distinction (disregarding the dual pilot factor) is a very interesting topic you've raised here. It seems to me there are two aspects. First is standards and recurrent training. I would expect owners to be interested and capable of the exact same thing as pro pilots. Including actual currency. (Because that's what I always strived for in my PPL days. Currency? Shit - I wanted to fly every day! And to pro standards. I'd have my CFII and ATP, like a lot of my friends, including P.G. who you mentioned, if I hadn't had to quit for major medical issues.) But I realize that there are probably (many?) owners who have enough money to buy a turboprop and yet not be that way. A little scary. But besides the competency factor, there is the owner v. pro psychology. I would hope at that level of experience, the decision making would be the same. Perhaps the owner would be even more conservative about flying F&F. (Unlike the massive amount of idiocy I've witnessed in low-time PPL. Even moneyed ones like JFK Jr.) Well one can hope, I suppose. Money <> Smart. But you'd think they'd at least be scared. Oh well. Neither the SafeHome button nor a ballistic parachute will save you from going below MDA... Well anyway, cool video! Thanks for the channel! PS. My lottery fleet would be a PC-24 and a Lake amphibian. And some kind of helicopter - those are too fun.

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Great video. Would have have been even more interesting if a very short explanation accompanied each check, for those of us who do not have a pilots license (yet)! 😁

Nice thoughts and mainly true. One more big issue on the Pilatus is the flushing toilet? A great item to longer flights. And the better comfort on longer flights. The HALO System in the TBM 940 is awesome and makes it at least there safer to families in case of an pilot’s issue. On the Pilatus you can not get this even for money. The Garmin 3000 would be more professional and practical in the Pilatus. Older Pilatus with the Garmin 750 are very awesome.

I would recommend testing the O2 mask by actually pressing the push to test (red knob at the bottom of the mask that also can be turned and locked for EMER mode) instead of inflating the harnesses. Puts less wear and tear on the harnesses. Also, as others have mentioned, don't abuse the master warning and caution buttons. Also you might want to rethink starting with the Avionics and AP trims ON. The manufacturer checklist does start with them off, and SIMCOM teaches that method (the "single screen" start" using the PFD reversionary mode.) I agree that the 2 screen start is easier, and less "lame" but I have heard of people having avionics issues when starting this way.

Great video! Flying my dream airplane! Awesome stuff!!

Any more vids in the pipeline? Love the content!

I really enjoy your videos. I missed this one when you posted, and found myself thinking, “Hey, I haven’t seen a video by One Taco in awhile.” I was glad to find this one! Totally understand that producing videos of this quality is an undertaking, and I appreciate that you’ve done as many as you have. I hope you’ll find some other interesting topics down the road to post more. It was also fun to see you flying into the Bay Area, which is my home turf. I’m guessing that altitude restriction on approach was because the approach takes you right over Hayward airport. Happy flying!

No offense but no one is going to take you seriously dressed like that. The 20 something hype beast look ain’t your style man, and that’s ok.

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I fly the Honeywell system, and there are things about it that annoy me every single day. It is ridiculously cumbersome and unintuitive, with way too many steps required to accomplish routine tasks, such as testing GPWS, for one small example. I find it tragic that Pilatus went with that over anything Garmin, and would never choose that package for my personal aircraft.

Good work your videos! I had just started to fly the 850 in south america, can you tell where to find this ipad suport? thanks

Ipad air 4 wifi is good while training

What is that on your wrist? Great video as usual! Keep,them coming!

How often do you change tires? 300 hrs? 350?

You haven’t posted in a while. Things ok??

You should make a video on how you started your business and what it costs to own the tbm. I think a lot of people don't appreciate the complexity of owning a plane and operating a business at the same time