Piper Meridian, 2 "Hot Starts" at 50°C in the Cockpit, Takeoff from Lucca, Tuscany (LIQL)

Lucca airport (LIQL), Tuscany. No fuel truck or aircraft tug was available so a turbine startup was required for taxiing to the near by gas station. 34°C outside, more than 50°C inside the cabin - air conditioning only works with a running engine. Unfortunately, due to weight limits we didn't load the aircraft cover on board to keep the cabin cool. The heat made things quite challenging as we had to carry the baggage and our little kiddies to the overheated plane. A real luxury problem of course :)
We finally took off from Lucca (05:23) abeam the beautiful historic city center on our flight to Saint-Tropez ...

[@pybelleau]

Sad to see that there is no new videos. Nice to see you flying in this wonderful region. Here everything is flat, super flat.

[@Lemmi993]

Gibt es bald neue Videos?
Macht Spaß eure Videos zu schauen .
Grüße aus NRW
Tobi

[@ElKarka2008]

Greetings from Patagonia Argentina!

[@wolfgangkarner]

THX! Phantastic area - I love the unique bizarre mountain scenery of Patagonia! All the best from Munich, Germany

[@MuaLAbuLma]

Greeting from Saudi Arabia

[@wolfgangkarner]

THX! You might probably say 34°C is a pretty chilly morning temperature 🙂

[@igclapp]

@@wolfgangkarner Haha...same in Kuwait!

[@ShubhamSingh-mo5nc]

get a matte screen film for the ipad, i'll help fight those reflections... Also, beautiful place.

[@audioenergy]

Kurze Frage: bieten Sie auch kürzere Geschäftsflüge an mit der Meridian? 😊

[@WolfKarner]

Nein leider nicht. Dafür müsste eine eigene Zulassung beantragt werden ;-)

[@stevenpike4404]

Wolfgang, I have noticed that in this and another of your videos that the ladies in the rear with the young children are not wearing headsets. How easy is it for rear passengers to have a conversation in the Meridian without wearing headsets? Is your Meridian standard or did you upgrade the sound proofing? Interesting videos, thank you.