Wally, I was looking forward to this series since you mentioned it. Jeff seems like a great pilot, and with his numerous type ratings and overseas experience, he seems like a valuable resource. As always, I look forward to your next installment. Safe travels -- Randy
Yeah, you can see in this video we're both a little unsure of each other, but we got it together as the flights went on. He was great to fly with, and I'm looking forward to hopefully flying with him in the future too! The next video should drop in a few weeks.
Published visual approaches sure throw a wrench in the gears if you're unfamiliar with the airport. When I got into the right seat of the CJ2+, it was with a pilot I'd flown with for 30-years, so we knew how each other worked. Our second leg, from Santa Barbara to Reno, he said, "This is your leg, buddy. Take us home," and that was my first time to fly it. After that, we always traded legs. Flying with someone you've never flown with before can be good... or bad. It's apparent the two of you had a good working relationship. Great flight, Wally!
I had talked to and we had planned a lot of stuff over the phone, but the first time I met Jeff was the night before this flight, when he flew back with me from Greensboro. We got along great, and you can see us become familiar and used to each other as the flights progress. As for the visual approach, it's the first time I've ever actually flown a charted visual approach. Jeff had flown that one before (I believe), but never tried to load it into the avionics, so it was a fun exercise to do so!
Thanks and welcome to my home state of Maine! I live about an hour and a half north west of there. There is a "secret" (oops I revealed it) naval base near Rangeley Maine and occasionally see fighter jets fly over my house. Jeff's audio could have been a little louder, but excellent video with fantastic views and excellent descriptions on your procedures. I can't wait to see the rest of the trip. I can't wait to see Hungary as I have some ancestry there as well. Take care!
Yeah, the headset that Jeff was wearing didn't come through all that great in the audio. In the second video I made a concentrated effort to boost his audio as I too noticed there were areas in this one where he seemed very soft spoken, but I (and obviously ATC) could hear him just fine. Your state is beautiful! Although I didn't stay there long on this trip, it was still beautiful and scenic coming in there! We picked up lobster roll catering there too and ate it on the way to Canada! Thanks for always watching!
@@AccidentalAviator Thanks! I really wanted to hear Jeff better because he seems like a heck of a good pilot. I hope you do more with him in the future. Also, my grandfather used to take me up in his 1973 Cessna 150. He LOVED to fly and we used to fly out of the Bar Harbor area (Trenton) where he was born and raised. He used to skip church an sneak over to the local grass runway airport when he was a kid.
So glad the European trip has started, and thanks again for letting me fly along. So you will give us all a notification when you show the next leg? Love watching your video's!!
The best way to know when new stuff is coming is following me on Instagram (if you have that)... If not, the second one will probably be out in about 2 weeks!
I didn't really get into flying the bigger stuff until about 8-9 years ago, although I've always been around aviation! It's never to late, but obviously it's not always the easiest thing to dive into!
@@AccidentalAviator yeah, totally need that $50k investment money.. lol Maybe not that much.. but i have 240TT, need instrument, then commercial, but with the costs of rentals these days, it is nearly impossible to get time and train.
Follow me on Instagram, you would have seem that I spent about a month over in Europe. I've been crazy busy lately, so finding time to get these edited up has been a challenge. I have the second one about done too, so look for that in a few weeks!
I'll pass along the greetings to Jeff! My name is Wally. I was the left seat pilot! Thank you from watching! I'd love to visit your country at some point!
A buddy of mine and yours (J. Wagner) put me onto your videos. These are super informative and a pleasure to watch. As someone who edits video, I imagine the editing process for these flights can be a bit daunting with so much footage to sort through haha. Anyway great videos man, I’ll continue to watch for sure.
Jason is awesome. I've known him for about 10 years I think. Are you the one he gave my number to for video editing? If you are I apologize I haven't called you back yet, I've just been crazy busy! I'll try tomorrow!
@@AccidentalAviatorYeah J is a great dude, I’ve known him for about the same amount of time. And yes, that’s me! Haha. But no rush at all, I fully understand being busy, so it’s all good!
Great video, thank you! I'd be interested to know what your view on the all too ubiquitous so called chemtrails. As a pilot you can't have missed the fact that they are becoming oppressive, or?
I'm interested in that subject as well. My thoughts on it are: Where are the supposed tanks that store this supposed chemical that "makes" the chemtrails? How do they justify all of that extra weight on the chemical on an aircraft? The only other place "they" could put it is in the fuel. It's not like the diesel industry where they have special tanks for lovely DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) to inject into the exhaust. There has been a lot of attention toward this subject. The thing we need to realize is that there is a big difference between can "make" chemtrails verses ALL aircraft making chemtrails. In other words, they may have actually intentionally done this in the past or are currently are doing it in some capacity, doesn't mean they actually do it in all aircraft. The FAA loves to keep everything secret!
I'm guessing you're referring to contrails. Yeah, there are a lot more of them in the sky because there are a lot more aircraft in the air than there were 10 or 20 years ago. There is nothing ubiquitous about what amounts to water vapor and ice crystals.
@@AccidentalAviator Living in Maine I can understand that. Trucks exhaust pipes put out white steam when it gets below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Water vapor comes when you burn a hydrocarbon fuel completely. Gasoline will do this to, but at a much higher temperature. (above freezing). I believe the information on deliberate tempering with our skies is largely misunderstood. CAN do this and actually are doing this are two different things. I don't know much about the subject, other that it would cost a fortune and be impractical even if they wanted to do it. I still wonder why super high altitude air traffic seems to have no trail at times. Take care and thanks again for the interesting discussion.
I'm working on them, albeit slowly! My real work has been crazy busy and with it being football season I'm away on the weekends a lot, so I haven't had much time to work on them unfortunately! I've been looking for someone that might want to help with editing if you know anyone!
@@emylrmm I didn't take it that way. Trust me, I'd rather be working on those videos! I'm also trying to sneak it some time to get my CFI writtens out of the way 🙂
Interesting approach! Be glad both of you prefer the North Up view in the MFD. On the CJ3+ what falls under the RECOG lights, when switching to RECOG/TAIL LT? Looking forward to the others coming; thanks for sharing.
Ya know, Jeff never asked me about the "north up" on the MFD. When you fly with someone else though, you tend to leave things they way they have it. He did change a few settings on his PFD (after asking me about it), and you'll see when he flew in the left seat that he used the dual-cue flight director. I tried it once or twice on these trips :-) As far as the RECOG lights go. That switch doubles as The Landing and Taxi/RECOG lights. There are 2 lights under the fuselage. When the switch is in landing, they are on full brightness. When it's in Landing/RECOG, it's on 50% brightness. I believe when the gear is up and it's on RECOG it also arms the automatic pulsing system for any kind of traffic TA. If there are any other CJ pilots out there, maybe they can confirm that for me! I'll try to look it up a bit later.
@@AccidentalAviator Thanks for your quick response; I think you can get used to almost anything, but NOT North UP makes me to calculate it back to North UP, very confusing 🤔. I can also find nothing about the RECOG lights in my AOM, hence the question and you provided a good enough answer, thanks. Here is an example where it may be easier to switch it on at the same time as changing to Local Altimeters, but so taught and after so many years at 10,000' , it is better to stick with the one you know by heart. Good talking to you again!
@@raccoonair I always used to do track up, but the other 2 guys pilots I used to fly with both used north up on the center screen, so I just got used to it rather than constantly changing the avionics. When I have the maps up on the PFDs, they are always track up. You get used to looking at North up and doing quick calculations on it. I'm guessing Jeff does the same thing on his MFD (North up), but I'll ask him when I see him tomorrow.
@@AccidentalAviator Funny, for me the other way around. Always North Up for me; I think that it looks more familiar due to remembering geo-charts (from school). It's just the reference and with a heading of 080 you just have to glance at the map to confirm it with North Up. Also when ATC clears you yo depart a fix or a VORTAC on a radial or a hold, you can see it right there on the map. I never crossed the Atlantic on my own. You must have had done some triple preparation assurance issues before leaving Canada. I hope you have fun in Europe and looking forward to the next clip.
@@raccoonair I think lines may have been crossed. I'm always north up on the MFD and track up on the PFDs. I just had lunch with Jeff and asking him about how he normally sets up his planes, and he said the same way I have this one. Which is what I figured since he didn't ask me about it. You'll see when I let him fly a few legs though that he likes a dual cue flight director which I've never been able to get used to.
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Great video! Looking forward to following the series.
Thank you!
Thanks captain for taking us with you on this new adventure
My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Wilmington here!
I love it! Sorry I took so long responding. I've been everywhere except Wilmington!
Wally, I was looking forward to this series since you mentioned it. Jeff seems like a great pilot, and with his numerous type ratings and overseas experience, he seems like a valuable resource. As always, I look forward to your next installment. Safe travels -- Randy
Yeah, you can see in this video we're both a little unsure of each other, but we got it together as the flights went on. He was great to fly with, and I'm looking forward to hopefully flying with him in the future too! The next video should drop in a few weeks.
Awesome video! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series
Thank you! I'm hoping to have the second one out in 2 weeks.
@@AccidentalAviator I'll keep my eyes out for it!
Published visual approaches sure throw a wrench in the gears if you're unfamiliar with the airport. When I got into the right seat of the CJ2+, it was with a pilot I'd flown with for 30-years, so we knew how each other worked. Our second leg, from Santa Barbara to Reno, he said, "This is your leg, buddy. Take us home," and that was my first time to fly it. After that, we always traded legs. Flying with someone you've never flown with before can be good... or bad. It's apparent the two of you had a good working relationship. Great flight, Wally!
I had talked to and we had planned a lot of stuff over the phone, but the first time I met Jeff was the night before this flight, when he flew back with me from Greensboro. We got along great, and you can see us become familiar and used to each other as the flights progress.
As for the visual approach, it's the first time I've ever actually flown a charted visual approach. Jeff had flown that one before (I believe), but never tried to load it into the avionics, so it was a fun exercise to do so!
Thanks and welcome to my home state of Maine! I live about an hour and a half north west of there. There is a "secret" (oops I revealed it) naval base near Rangeley Maine and occasionally see fighter jets fly over my house. Jeff's audio could have been a little louder, but excellent video with fantastic views and excellent descriptions on your procedures. I can't wait to see the rest of the trip. I can't wait to see Hungary as I have some ancestry there as well. Take care!
Yeah, the headset that Jeff was wearing didn't come through all that great in the audio. In the second video I made a concentrated effort to boost his audio as I too noticed there were areas in this one where he seemed very soft spoken, but I (and obviously ATC) could hear him just fine.
Your state is beautiful! Although I didn't stay there long on this trip, it was still beautiful and scenic coming in there! We picked up lobster roll catering there too and ate it on the way to Canada!
Thanks for always watching!
@@AccidentalAviator Thanks! I really wanted to hear Jeff better because he seems like a heck of a good pilot. I hope you do more with him in the future. Also, my grandfather used to take me up in his 1973 Cessna 150. He LOVED to fly and we used to fly out of the Bar Harbor area (Trenton) where he was born and raised. He used to skip church an sneak over to the local grass runway airport when he was a kid.
@@W1RMD He'll be in the entire Europe series except the last leg (Teterboro -> Wilmington). I loved having him on board. I learned a lot from him!
So glad the European trip has started, and thanks again for letting me fly along. So you will give us all a notification when you show the next leg? Love watching your video's!!
The best way to know when new stuff is coming is following me on Instagram (if you have that)... If not, the second one will probably be out in about 2 weeks!
wow... looking forward to seeing the series! that would be so much fun.. i wish i was younger to begin a corporate pilot career.
I didn't really get into flying the bigger stuff until about 8-9 years ago, although I've always been around aviation! It's never to late, but obviously it's not always the easiest thing to dive into!
@@AccidentalAviator yeah, totally need that $50k investment money.. lol
Maybe not that much.. but i have 240TT, need instrument, then commercial, but with the costs of rentals these days, it is nearly impossible to get time and train.
AHA! Now we know why you hadn't posted in awhile...You were busy creating content. Looking forward to following your adventures.
Follow me on Instagram, you would have seem that I spent about a month over in Europe. I've been crazy busy lately, so finding time to get these edited up has been a challenge. I have the second one about done too, so look for that in a few weeks!
greetings from brazil ... dear jeff
I'll pass along the greetings to Jeff! My name is Wally. I was the left seat pilot! Thank you from watching! I'd love to visit your country at some point!
A buddy of mine and yours (J. Wagner) put me onto your videos. These are super informative and a pleasure to watch. As someone who edits video, I imagine the editing process for these flights can be a bit daunting with so much footage to sort through haha. Anyway great videos man, I’ll continue to watch for sure.
Jason is awesome. I've known him for about 10 years I think. Are you the one he gave my number to for video editing? If you are I apologize I haven't called you back yet, I've just been crazy busy! I'll try tomorrow!
@@AccidentalAviatorYeah J is a great dude, I’ve known him for about the same amount of time. And yes, that’s me! Haha. But no rush at all, I fully understand being busy, so it’s all good!
Great video, thank you! I'd be interested to know what your view on the all too ubiquitous so called chemtrails. As a pilot you can't have missed the fact that they are becoming oppressive, or?
I'm interested in that subject as well. My thoughts on it are: Where are the supposed tanks that store this supposed chemical that "makes" the chemtrails? How do they justify all of that extra weight on the chemical on an aircraft? The only other place "they" could put it is in the fuel. It's not like the diesel industry where they have special tanks for lovely DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) to inject into the exhaust. There has been a lot of attention toward this subject. The thing we need to realize is that there is a big difference between can "make" chemtrails verses ALL aircraft making chemtrails. In other words, they may have actually intentionally done this in the past or are currently are doing it in some capacity, doesn't mean they actually do it in all aircraft. The FAA loves to keep everything secret!
Can't be worse than "low" leaded avgas.
I'm guessing you're referring to contrails. Yeah, there are a lot more of them in the sky because there are a lot more aircraft in the air than there were 10 or 20 years ago. There is nothing ubiquitous about what amounts to water vapor and ice crystals.
@@AccidentalAviator thanks for the answer
@@AccidentalAviator Living in Maine I can understand that. Trucks exhaust pipes put out white steam when it gets below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Water vapor comes when you burn a hydrocarbon fuel completely. Gasoline will do this to, but at a much higher temperature. (above freezing). I believe the information on deliberate tempering with our skies is largely misunderstood. CAN do this and actually are doing this are two different things. I don't know much about the subject, other that it would cost a fortune and be impractical even if they wanted to do it. I still wonder why super high altitude air traffic seems to have no trail at times. Take care and thanks again for the interesting discussion.
What happened to the balance of the European video series? 😢
I'm working on them, albeit slowly! My real work has been crazy busy and with it being football season I'm away on the weekends a lot, so I haven't had much time to work on them unfortunately!
I've been looking for someone that might want to help with editing if you know anyone!
@AccidentalAviator I know you're busy, and i didn't mean to pressure you. I'll make some inquiries about video editing help.
What software do you use for editing?
@@emylrmm I didn't take it that way. Trust me, I'd rather be working on those videos! I'm also trying to sneak it some time to get my CFI writtens out of the way 🙂
@@emylrmm Adobe Premier. It's pretty time consuming to get everything synced up, then edited down to 25-30 minutes.
Interesting approach! Be glad both of you prefer the North Up view in the MFD. On the CJ3+ what falls under the RECOG lights, when switching to RECOG/TAIL LT? Looking forward to the others coming; thanks for sharing.
Ya know, Jeff never asked me about the "north up" on the MFD. When you fly with someone else though, you tend to leave things they way they have it. He did change a few settings on his PFD (after asking me about it), and you'll see when he flew in the left seat that he used the dual-cue flight director. I tried it once or twice on these trips :-)
As far as the RECOG lights go. That switch doubles as The Landing and Taxi/RECOG lights. There are 2 lights under the fuselage. When the switch is in landing, they are on full brightness. When it's in Landing/RECOG, it's on 50% brightness. I believe when the gear is up and it's on RECOG it also arms the automatic pulsing system for any kind of traffic TA.
If there are any other CJ pilots out there, maybe they can confirm that for me! I'll try to look it up a bit later.
@@AccidentalAviator Thanks for your quick response; I think you can get used to almost anything, but NOT North UP makes me to calculate it back to North UP, very confusing 🤔. I can also find nothing about the RECOG lights in my AOM, hence the question and you provided a good enough answer, thanks. Here is an example where it may be easier to switch it on at the same time as changing to Local Altimeters, but so taught and after so many years at 10,000' , it is better to stick with the one you know by heart. Good talking to you again!
@@raccoonair I always used to do track up, but the other 2 guys pilots I used to fly with both used north up on the center screen, so I just got used to it rather than constantly changing the avionics.
When I have the maps up on the PFDs, they are always track up.
You get used to looking at North up and doing quick calculations on it.
I'm guessing Jeff does the same thing on his MFD (North up), but I'll ask him when I see him tomorrow.
@@AccidentalAviator Funny, for me the other way around. Always North Up for me; I think that it looks more familiar due to remembering geo-charts (from school). It's just the reference and with a heading of 080 you just have to glance at the map to confirm it with North Up. Also when ATC clears you yo depart a fix or a VORTAC on a radial or a hold, you can see it right there on the map. I never crossed the Atlantic on my own. You must have had done some triple preparation assurance issues before leaving Canada. I hope you have fun in Europe and looking forward to the next clip.
@@raccoonair I think lines may have been crossed. I'm always north up on the MFD and track up on the PFDs. I just had lunch with Jeff and asking him about how he normally sets up his planes, and he said the same way I have this one.
Which is what I figured since he didn't ask me about it. You'll see when I let him fly a few legs though that he likes a dual cue flight director which I've never been able to get used to.