Thanks. I have about 15 training hours from 20 years ago. I was able to retire last year and watching your videos has stirred such a desire to finish my PP license. It’s great to see your boys in the back. My dad was in the USAF for 30 years and incidentally has 6500 hrs as a flight instructor in the T-37. He had a Baron 58p for about 10 years but I was already out of the house starting a career and family. Thank you again for your “inspiration “.
Glad you're enjoying the channel Tim! Hope you're able to get back up soon. Even with a 20 year break, it will be like riding a bike getting back to where you were. Good luck on finishing up your PPL if you decide to go that route. :) Those P-Barron's are nice planes...to bad you didn't get to fly in it more.
In 1974 on the 4th of July I flew from Elkhart, IN. to Decatur, AL.in a Piper Aztec Twin. We took off right into and through a thunderstorm. The pilot was Mr. Louis Shaum (Shaum Electric ). It was a frightening trip for sure. I thought Mr. Shaum had lost his mind. But he was a steady 70-year-old at the time with some 3000+ hours. It was a memorable flight for sure.
Kevin, this may surprise you but I watched this video many times. I like the way you started it, a nice video of your plane before you got in it, what a beauty !! Futuristic looking ( wing tip fuel tanks ) What caught me on this video was flying at 2500 with snow covered terrain, your right, the 310 air speed is awesome, perfect to me. Watching the snow terrain coming from up front only to go by quickly in the right windshield, but it’s not to fast, I look at the right spinner cap, looks neat. Nice banks, engines purring, I can hear those props, then you make a dead center landing, didn’t surprise me, thank you for cheering me up, I look forward to every video, I’ve even gotten attached to your plane, best twin ever made, your instrument panel looks fabulous!!
Like the short flights just as much as the longer ones. Thanks for taking us all along. Really like the way you talk us through whats happening. Makes it very interesting.
Awesome...thanks for the feedback Tom! I was hoping people don't get too tired of the short hops. We do have a breakfast run coming up, another short heat finally repaired one and then Jaime and I fly down to Texas! Lot's more fun stuff planned for the year. Glad you're enjoying it so far.
Glad you liked it James! I figured since I'm probably boring people with the short little flights I could add a little extra. :) We just flew to TX and used the new heater the entire way...it was so nice!
Another great video, I really enjoy watching you fly, I believe your handling is very good. Thanks for sharing your flying experiences, many happy landings and always looking forward to the next one.
Thank you Christian! Really means a lot when I get a compliment like that from the pro's. :) We just delivered the plane down to TX for the new Genesys STEC 3100 autopilot and I'm really excited about this upgrade. It will transform us into a mini airliner with all the amazing functions of it. Will be able to turn it on after departure at 200 agl and it will fly every aspect of the flights down to 200 agl on the approach. It has IAS/FPM climb and descents, altitude pre-select, envelope protection, GPSS and more. :)
Enjoy your video's. . . . . Sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I believe you two are ATC's? I too was one a LONG time ago, when Reagan pulled his little firing stunt back in the early 80's. Left that for another career tho. . . At any rate, I wanted to thank you two for working w/o pay recently. I've "been there, done that" during my many years of Federal service. Thanks again and be safe!!
Glad you're enjoying the channel Jeff! Yes, we are both TRACON controllers in Chicago. Sorry about what you guys had to go through back in '81. Here's hoping they reach an agreement and we don't have to go back to the no pay thing again here in a couple days.
Thanks for taking us along on another flight. I'm always impressed with how professional you are in pre flight, during your flight and landing. I'm not a great fan of flying in small planes but you would be someone I would be comfortable flying with. Missed Jaime on the flight but I sure she can't always go with you and not having a heater was probably enough for her to say, I'll go another time. Fly Safe.
Thank you for the nice compliment Dave! I always take every aspect of flying very serious as it can be very dangerous if we don't do that. I sure wish she could go on every flight but sometimes (especially these short maintenance flights) that just can't happen. I have to try my best to work the radios in those cases. :) We do have an upcoming breakfast run to Madison together and then she come with on a flight down to TX. Used the new heater the entire flight. Stay tuned...lot's more fun stuff planned for the year.
It does look nice Jeffrey! Hope you have fun up there. We are going to swing by there to grab Jaime's car. We flew down to TX yesterday and dropped her off for the autopilot upgrade! We could swing by and say hi if you're still on the ground...just have to remind me where you keep your bird. :)
Glad you enjoyed it Tim! I'm glad to wrap up these quick little flights and get on to some really cool flights we have planned for the year. We just flew down to TX for our first cross country of the year. Used the heat the entire way!
I feel for you the heater in my 1996 chevy pickup quit last week, it was 3 degrees this morning. As always had to make a parts run, it was a cold 50 mile ride. Awesome video thanks for the post.
Ouch...3 degrees and no truck heat. I hate grabbing the steering wheel like that! I'm glad to get my heater finally fixed in the plane...hope you got your Chevy's heat fixed as well. :)
Nice to see you flying again. It must have been a cold flight home without a heater. Hopefully, you will get the heater back soon. Take care and hopefully on 2/15 there will not be another government shutdown. C Yaa!
Always glad to be in the air James! The flight dropping the plane back off for the heater installation (probably the 2nd or 3rd upcoming video) was the coldest I've ever done. I could see my breath with each transmission. Sounds like they may reach a deal to keep the pay checks coming...hopefully. :)
Thanks for showing that heater! I was super curious about that (I like anything mechanical no matter what it's on, or from). Looks like a torpedo heater, only you're not blowing the exhaust into the cockpit, for obvious reasons (that wouldn't be a very productive flight, lol!). I also wondered if pilots used differential thrust to help turn twin-engine aircraft - thanks for clearing that up, too! Always a great flight - I never care how short, or long it is - just enjoy the virtual flight ... and of course, virtually hanging out with you, Kevin! Glad you're well on your way to having a warm cockpit again - it's going to be sweet when that day arrives! Bet you'll never take cabin heating for granted again, lol! 😉 😁 Have a good one, Kev. We'll see you on the next flight!
Glad you enjoyed it Smitty! I'm mechanically curious as well. We just got back from a cold flight down to TX and the new heater was amazing! I won't take that lightly in the future if I ever have issues with it again. :)
My husband agrees with the differential power of the twin when taxying Its really advantageous. We had a single and it takes braking and steering to make the tight turns. No heat in the plane during winter is very discomforting. Getting it fixed and reinstalled is really great feeling. We don't have that problem any more though. We have a TBM now. We had a piper Seneca before.
Tight turns in singles can result in some hopping as you tap the brake to try to get it to turn tight...much easier in a twin as you mention. We just made a cold flight down to TX and were excited to have the heat fixed for that flight. Warm and toasty. :) You guys for sure don't have that problem anymore....upgraded to my dream single! Hard to beat a TBM...congrats!
Thanks for the ride, Kevin. Aw the joys of aircraft ownership. A zillion bucks to remove, a bizillion bucks to have repaired and another zillion to reinstall.
This is great. Haven't just gone up and just flown by myself in forever! I'll have to go up and do this sometime! Thanks for posting and good luck with the heater eh.
Glad you enjoyed it! Good luck on getting up by yourself and boring holes in the sky. :) I did a cloud surfing video where I simply just fly around to play with clouds...that was a lot of fun. :)
Another cool flight, it looked very pretty with the snow :) We have been lucky so far this year to have very little snow, I might regret saying that now ;) Looking forward to your next trip as always :)
Glad you enjoyed it Rab! I do like the view of the pure white snow....for about 5 minutes each winter. :) I'm looking forward to spring now! Jaime and I just flew down to TX and it was below freezing down there....we just can't catch a break from the cold.
I am not a pilot, but I love this channel. I've watched every video! I've always wanted to get a license and love flying, but the resources have just never come together to make lessons a possibility. It's on my bucket list however. Question: You had to choose between a left downwind that would take you into 27 or a right downwind into 33. You chose 27 because it gave you a couple minutes more of flight time. Would 33 have been pretty much a straight in landing?
Awesome...glad you're enjoying the channel! Hopefully you'll have the chance to quench your flying thirst one day. :) I could have landed on 33 just as easily but decided to ask for 27 to buy just a little more time as I was trying to burn the same amount of fuel out of each aux tank. I needed one more minute on the right side for them to be even. In the 310, you have to takeoff and land on the main tanks. I figured left downwind to 27 was 3 turns and 33 would have been two turns. Honestly both would have worked out the same. 27 does provide a much shorter taxi to my hangar so that was the deciding factor. :)
Thanks for the heads up Larry! Sounds brutal. Glad to have it replaced and running good. Wish I would have done it sooner while it was still warm but glad to have it resolved nonetheless. :) I've tested it at -22C and I was perfectly warm with it turned down a bit. I'm thinking it could probably handle -40...now the pilot...not so much. :)
Thank you Keith...glad you enjoyed it! Blue line is an actual line on the airspeed indicator that depicts what the best single engine rate of climb speed is. It is very important in the twin world to not drop below that speed if you lose an engine. If an engine is lost and you get too slow, the asymmetric thrust will create an uncontrollable situation. As long as you stay at or above that speed, all is well. Hope that makes sense. :)
Yes it was!! You could see my breath on every transmission. So glad that is fixed and behind us now. I'm about a month behind on my editing. About the best I can do is one video a week. :)
Damn buddy, you have a really good hold on landing that bird. It’s awesome. I watched the video with my noise canceling headphones and it’s such a great experience with the airplane noise. Felt like i was in the cockpit. It’s a perfect mesh of ambient noise/cockpit audio. I could hear the taxi warnings from the iPad too. :) Nice job!
Thanks Mike! Just wait for it...one is going to sneak up and bite me soon. :) Wow..glad the audio turned out that well. I've never been able to hear the iPad warnings when watching or editing them . I'll have to try some new headphones. I just edited the breakfast flight to Maddison and I used a couple of your pictures in the beginning. I gave you credit by name, that okay?
310 Pilot that’s totally fine with me. :) yeah, in the audio, it’s subtle, but I could definitely hear the iPad audio. It’s a robotic voice calling out runway and taxiway warnings. I dig it
Cool...thanks Mike! My headphones are blue tooth so I can synch my iPad to them and hear it. I've actually left that off lately because sometimes the alerts are at a bad time and I just listen to it faintly from in the plane. I wonder if I have the volume turned all the way up or not...I'll have to check that.
I was in your area earlier this week and had some time to kill so I hung out at your airport for a while. It was solid IFR so there wasn’t much going on. Looks like a neat place!
Sorry we missed you William! I wish TH-cam had an PM function where someone could notify you something like that. If we were around we could have said hi. JA is a really nice FBO and I love our hangar complex on the south east side (sky haven). Nice multi-runway airport with ATC but a nice small town feel. :)
I noticed in this video and several others of yours that immediately after you rotate, the plane seems to yaw to the left. Is this indicative of a twin engine plane? Just curious. Love your videos!!!
It's actually more noticeable in a single engine plane but happens in twins without counter rotating props as well. The yawing tendency is caused by "p-factor". Basically the descending blades have more thrust (higher angle of attack) than the ascending blades. The right engines descending blades are farther from the center of the plane causing a slight yaw nose left. You're seeing this because for some reason I was getting a little lazy on the rudder. I think it was my subconscious let off the pedal as I tap the brakes to retract the gear. Glad you're enjoying them Donald!
Nice touch with the camera on the wing. BTW, not in this video, but in a couple you've done a "handclap sync", after the video's been running for a bit. Any particular reason for that?
I really enjoy your channel because I’m such a wanna be pilot. I’m retired now but when I worked for the Sheriffs Office, I was lucky to supervise our Air support unit for a few years. Our aircraft is a EC-120 Eurocopter which was a lot of fun. I also go out and rent time with a pilot and fly fixed wing every once in awhile. Keep the videos coming 😎
Hi Kevin, did my eyes deceive me or were there only 2 green shown when you lowered the gear? I thought I always remembered 3 green. Keep an eye on that heater. Had a Southwind heater light up in the nose of a king air back in the 70's. Got exciting, thankfully it was on the ground, but still created some anxious moments. Great trip, thanx for the ride. Tell Jaimie hi. God speed.
Glad you're enjoying them Tyr! The operating handbook for the 310 calls for it prior to retracting the gear. The reasoning behind that (as I understand it) is to stop the rotation of the tires before retracting them as they can expand due to centrifugal forces.
Sweet landing Kevin!!! What a great life Kevin! I love listening to those twins power up for take off! I hope you get your heater soon! We woke up to our 1st snow of the season, 3 inches this morning in the PDX area and its been in the 20's for a week but thats about as bad as it gets here! It sounded like you knew all of the controllers on this flight, and one of them even sounded like Jaime! If I remember correctly don't you both work out of Chicago ATC? Forgive me if thats too personal if a question Kevin! I thought it had been mentioned in previous videos. Take care! Don in Oregon
Thank you Don!! Been on a nice streak with the landings lately. :) We just got back from a cold flight down to TX and were excited to have the heater fixed. I had it at 50% and was warm and toasty. Yes, Jaime and I both work at the same facility here and we know everybody here. I think on the next video or two she actually works me back up to have the heater installed. :) Loved my snowboarding trip out to Mt Hood I took several years ago. Really pretty out where you live.
Hey Kev... I hope you are doing well. Just wanted to say I really enjoy tagging along on your flights, but as an aspiring pilot I wanted to ask if you might be able to "occasionally" do a little teaching when you're commenting. Maybe you can detail what you are hearing on the radio and convey what that all means, or explain operations of the aircraft in a bit more detail. Not asking for a crash course on being a pilot, but a little context and education would be interesting. Thanks!!
Glad you're enjoying the channel Craig! Congrats on your decision to get your pilot's license. I'm sure you won't be disappointed. :) We are doing well. We just dropped the plane off in TX this past week for a new autopilot and had to airliner it back home...reminded me why I haven't been on an airliner since buying her. Thank you for the suggestion. I will try to add a bit of that into future videos as you mention. :)
Thanks for the video, great entertainment as always. Just a quick question , does your 310 have an autopilot? Is just that I always see you always moving the controls.
Glad you enjoyed the video! My 310 DID have the original autopilot in all the videos posted so far and the next few I'm going to post. I delivered it to TX the other day to have the old autopilot removed and install the new STEC 3100. My old one was acting up in the pitch axis and was uncomfortable so I never used it. This new autopilot is going to be a game changer for us. It has a ton of great features and will really transform our plane to a mini airliner. :) I will have lot's of new videos showing all the features of the new autopilot in the near future. :)
were lucky mildish early spring time weather here for next 2 weeks at the mo early february is strange but good mate ,hopefully warms up for you in US.
Kevin, I admire your fuel management. I couldn’t figure out what you were doing or why you needed 1 more minute during your pattern back at Aurora. So, you were running off the Aux’s and switched to the mains for landing, got that. Were you actually trying to balance the fuel in the tanks? I find my fuel gauges to be off enough that I am not sure it would be worth the trouble.
Thank you MC! In Twin Cessna's, the main tanks are the tips with 50 gallons per side. I have 31.5 gallon aux tanks in each wing. You have to take off and land on the mains. I use the mains by time (has 1 hr and 5 min in each) and the fuel not used goes back to the mains. So you have to burn at least 90 minutes out of full mains before using the aux's to make room for the returning fuel. I also offset the aux tanks by 5 min just in case you run one dry so they don't sputter at the same time. In this case I needed just another minute to have the same time used out of the aux's. I guess it was more OCD than anything as it wouldn't have mattered if I selected main's 1 minute sooner. :) Hope that makes sense/answers your question.
310 Pilot thats cool. I think I get it. You weren’t reading the fuel level gauges per se. You were justing running you aux tanks on a time schedule👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the short flight, Kevin. I see by the other comments you got your heater and your copilot reinstalled, at least for the TX flight. Moving ahead with the autopilot upgrade, too. Did you have to leave bravo charlie there and come back commercial?
You're welcome Don....glad you liked it. We did leave her down there for a few weeks. She's in really good hands though and will come back like a new bird. Can't wait to fly behind the new STEC 3100 autopilot. :) Unfortunately we did commercial it back and I instantly realized why I haven't been on an airliner since buying her. What a hassle.
Great video Kevin, quick Controller question. I fly out of KSCH. Active is 22. The controller says taxi from FBO via B , A to 22 at Delta. Would you want the read back 22 at Delta or B,A, 22 at Delta. This is a discussion-among the local pilots.
Glad you enjoyed the video Roy! The ATC requirement is that they get a read back from the pilot of the assigned runway. In this case, 22 at Delta. As a controller, I was perfectly happy with the minimum. That being said, if the pilot wanted to read back everything to ensure they got it correct, I would listen to the read back and verify its accuracy.
Man that sure is a nice hangar. Did you do the floor or was it like that when you moved in? When I moved my plane to the airport when they had just completed new hangars and I painted the floor before any oil got on it. Sadly, after ten years of building the airplane, its not nice looking anymore...
Thank you! Luckily it was like that when we bought it. All we did was get the rug, couches, tables and fridge. I wouldn't have had the patience to tile the entire thing but am glad t it was done and I have several boxes of replacement tiles that are easy enough to replace when needed. Too bad about your floor...the pained ones always look great to start with but as you said, the years can take its toll on them.
Another great flight thanks Kevin , was it the camera angle or my eyes playing tricks , I couldn't tell if the rh gear down light was on :) ? And a tech question if I may, with the Yaw Damper in a 310 is there a big difference to handling if it is off during cruise (.e.g uncomfortable dutch roll) enough to add to pilot workload ? Cheers from Aussie.
Paul Scotchford, I thought the same thing, when I saw that light. It looked like 2 green, instead of 3 green. My first thought was, “Was he going to land with a right main not all the way down?” But, then I remembered. Kevin is a great and careful pilot, so he either saw the light, or it was just a dim bulb. The camera angle may have made that light look like it wasn’t on, too.
Glad you enjoyed it Paul! I've had a problem with this before. It's the camera angle and the goofy twist to dim that slide things in front of the bulb. From my seat it looked great. I even upgrade the bulbs to bright LED's. I will see if I can fix that. While a Yaw Damper isn't required for a 310, it sure is nice. The heavy tip tanks can cause a bit of tail wag and the YD really does a good job making it more comfy in the back. It's also nice for me to forget my feet whenever I'm flying until the flare. :)
I kind of figured that’s what it was with the bulb, Kevin. You are too good of a pilot to not recognize that a gear indicator light wasn’t on, and land anyway. I’ll bet it was cold in that cockpit, though. You folks really got a lot of snow on the ground. I can see where it it would be hard to see the runway from 5 miles away, with all that snow around. Glad you made it back to Aurora safely, and didn’t freeze your butt off. Good Luck with getting the heater repaired. Hope you are able to get it done soon. Happy Flying, and, as always, Safe Landings.
Was wondering if this was a flight after the recent polar vortex and it seems it was. I have a friend in Eureka, and it was darn cold down that way. I'm guessing without the heater you remained on the ground that week, right?
Pete, this flight would have been right before that. I'm a little behind and can only edit about 1 video a week. During that cold spell I did drop the plane off for the heater installation and flew it back at -7F and was warm and toasty. :) I'll get those videos up soon.
That was my old radar display. I just replaced that and the screen above it with an Avidyne EX500 that will be a MFD and display my radar in digital/color. Excited about that upgrade and the autopilot they are currently working on. :)
Hey man... thanks for all your videos: I really enjoy them. I just happened to be watching this video while getting ready to head into work -- is that your wife on the "Surface Watch" link when we log into the schedule???
Glad you're enjoying the videos Tyler! You have a good eye...that is her. That was back when she worked at TPA. Where do you work? We are heading back in this afternoon.
I had the same moment when I first saw it. Walked over and pulled it up for her...she thought it was pretty funny they after all those years they decided to put it on there and cedar whenever you log in. Too bad she didn't get to title her own message below...could have been funny. Congrats on JAX...is Aaron still the ATM? If so, we know him very well....great guy and tell him we said hi! He was a controller at C90.
@@310Pilot thanks! And yeah, he's still here... will do! I actually asked him about you guys after I saw your video when you flew down to Florida and did a shout-out to him.
Thanks for sharing another flight! Glad you're getting your heater fixed. (You're getting an autopilot installed soon too, right?) And... From the camera point of view that landing looked like a greaser. Nice!
Glad you enjoyed it Mike! I'm a couple weeks behind on editing but the heater is fixed. We just flew down to TX on the back side of a cold front and we were warm and toasty the whole way. :) We just dropped the plane off to have the Genesys STEC 3100 installed...I'm crazy excited about this one!
Glad you thought so William! It can be really hard to spot the runways around here in the winter. I do occasionally ask for the lights to be stepped up during dusk or at the uncontrolled airports I'll key the pilot controlled lighting sometimes. Seems to have mixed results during the day.
Hey there Kevin. Just wondering about requesting flight following. While obviously an advantage for the pilots, how does ATC feel about it? Do they prefer aircrafts be ID'd, or is it a hinderance for them to have to track and inform more planes? Thanks! And hope your heater gets fixed soon.
Hey Wally. The answer I guess is, it depends. If they are extremely busy with IFR traffic, they may not be able to provide flight following to all the VFR's as it is workload contingent. That being said, I would prefer to be talking to them so I know what they are doing (altitude and course) so that I can provide a good service to the other aircraft I'm talking to. Also, I'm always happy to provide an extra set of eyes to help them with possible traffic. We just flew a cold flight down to TX and the heater was working amazing. :)
So do you own the hangar, or lease? Sweet setup... only one I’ve seen like it was a guy in Big Bear, Ca. who kept his King Air and a Steerman in it. You could ear off the floor... He used to fly the King Air to Van Nuys every day to his Honda dealership
Interesting heater. Hey, second request. During a future flight would you explain the indexing you use for your mixture levers? Left pulled a bit lean from the right? I noticed a 414 owner who posts videos does much the same. What is that all about?
I'll try to hit on that in an upcoming video. Basically each engine is setup different and has different lengths in cables. It's hard to get them to match perfectly. I will have them setup the fuel flows again during the upcoming annual and see if they can improve on them a little. I do run the same fuel flow to each engine and where the levers end up is just where they end up. :)
Thanks for answering. As I mentioned, another Cessna twin pilot (Jerry W) posting videos from his 414 was doing just about the same orientation with his, so was wondering if it was a Cessna thing... You can observe it in his video titled "Auburn to Byron to Phoenix Arizona March 27 2018". He may have recently sold that 414 (N8134Q) in favor of another better equipped 414. @@310Pilot
Short and sweet! Too bad they can't tweak it for AC for the next Bahamas Trip! LOL $$$$$. Kevin, how much fuel does the heater burn at high heat settings,?
Glad you enjoyed it Kyle! AC would be nice for the Deep South but up at altitude it's always nice and cool. I don't like how much they weigh in our planes. :) The heater uses about .5 gallons per hour at max setting out of the right main tank.
How do you choose your service providers for the avionics updates, annuals, the heater fix and other repairs? Do you have a budget for these kinds of things?
Jeff, really just trail and error on the maintenance shop. I used a couple in the area but Burlington Air Center has been by far the best so I now stick with them for everything. For avionics, I went to Sun n Fun air show where all the major avionics company display their equipment and I was able to play with them all and decide on what I thought was the best.
How much improvement does your yaw damper provide? I've been pondering one for a while and trying to decide the priority compared to other upgrades. Thanks in advance!
Tough to answer Michael. It for sure locks the tail in and is most noticeable to back seat passengers in rough air. The tip tanks do make for some minor tail wag. It is pretty nice to not have to worry about your feet during the flight. :) I guess it would be something I would add when getting a new autopilot but wouldn't consider adding in itself. Mine is currently getting pulled for the STEC 3100 upgrade with built in yaw damper. If you are considering something like that, I would suggest getting it while everything is pulled apart. What autopilot do you have now and what are you considering for upgrades?
Thanks! I only have the SYS30ALT from S-TEC/Genesys--my '68 C-310N (now based in Colorado) was kind of bare bones when I bought it 4.5 yrs ago and I've been slowly upgrading the panel, etc. I'm considering upgrading to the full SYS30, or adding a Yaw Damper, but probably not both at the same time. Trying to decide if the yaw damper would be more helpful (to passengers) than the full SYS30 to me (the pilot). I have a masters degree in Aero Eng/flight controls which makes the yaw damper kind of geeky appealing to me, but I'm also a retired USAF fighter/test pilot who didn't have to pay for this kind of stuff in my previous life! Now that I have to slap leather, I have to think it through more carefully. :^)
I hear you on the upgrade decisions. It is a methodical decision for me as I don't have an infinite amount of money to throw at the plane either. :) I know STEC has some really good upgrade deals on their 3100 for people with existing STEC's. I would at least price that as it seems to be a good deal...especially if you are considering adding two additional servos to what you have. If you decide against it and really want a yaw damper, I'm not sure if mine is transferable or not but I plan to throw everything they remove on eBay. It was the original Cessna installed Yaw Damper and works great. I'm certain it will go for CHEAP. :) Thank you for your service Michael!! Were you ever at Eglin in your test days? I was a controller there during my AF time.
Thanks for the reply and thank you for your service! Yes, let me know if you put the YD up for sale. I'll look into that 3100. While I was never stationed at Eglin, I did fly F-15's operationally out of there in 1994 while on a TDY and again periodically in 2005-2006 for test.
Gene Pollard An A&P would need to do the work. Although Kevin could do the work if he was supervised by a licensed mechanic, but the mechanic would still have to sign off the work.
Gene, Aaron nailed it. There are certain things the owner is allowed to do and I do all they allow me to. (i.e. change the oil, change spark plugs, change batteries, etc). In this case the A&P had to pull the heater, amend the weight and balance, cap fuel lines, pull circuit breakers, fill out appropriate paperwork, etc. One day (when I retire) I'm going to get my A&P... I wish I could do more.
@@310Pilot Thanks Kevin. I've had friends that had 172 's and two engine in line push /pull in line engine's. But I never ask them about that. I hope that you get the heater installed soon because we miss your right seat radio operator. Thanks again for your video's.
The timing of this video is perfect timing because I had a quick question. We had a twin Cessna crash upon takeoff not far from where I live last week (you might have heard of it). Anyway the plane had taken off from Fullerton Munic. Airport and had some sort of catastrophic problem as he was climbing and came down into a house and killed the family on the ground, along with himself. When I asked about what might have happened my friend said that twin cessnas like that are prone to a violent shift when climbing at full power if they lose an engine, which could have caused him to lose it. The plane came apart in the air. There is video of it. Just curious if that theory is accurate? Seems to me a good well trained pilot would be able to counter something like that.
I think the weather down there wasn't the greatest either. Could have been a loss of control and then overspeed to have the aircraft break up in flight like that. I don't think a stall spin would have had the necessary forces to cause the plane to fall apart.
I have seen many videos and read some of the news reports about this crash. Very tragic for the pilot and people on the ground. At this point, it would all be speculation as I'm not sure they have enough evidence to explain what happened. I will say that the primary danger from loss of an engine is the first few seconds after takeoff. Not in this planes case it would seem. At the altitude he was at, an engine failure should have been able to be handled easily with a well trained pilot. The 414 does well on one engine especially with such a light loading (single pilot/no passengers). It could be pilot error a maybe a mechanical error but it is really early to know for sure. I'll be waiting on the NTSB report on this one for sure.
@@310Pilot This was in our local paper yesterday. Interesting when these tragedies occur, and the investigation gets going, there is always some questionable things that come up. www.ocregister.com/2019/02/08/pilot-in-deadly-yorba-linda-crash-twice-disciplined-by-federal-air-safety-board/
I guess it's become a relative thing to me. When I lived in GA and FL, if it was 50 I thought I was freezing. Now, if it's 15-20 with the sun out and no wind I think it's warm. Ha ha....I still hate winter though. Can't wait for spring. Hope you don't freeze to death in DTW. We just flew down to TX and it was below freezing down there as well. Glad the heat is working now.
It would be nice if you had a short talk on the paperwork involved with the removal of the heater. IE weight and balance, heater CB locked and marked, etc.
Excellent point Mike! I missed on this one but will for sure take your advice on future maintenance related things. I did just swap the batteries and failed to mention it on there but next time I will show the paper work and other relevant issues you bring up. Thank you for the suggestion!
Nice quick ride my friend.......noticed a few 310’s there at your field. Question I hear climbing out at blue line...I think I know what that means but could you clarify please...hope you guys are doing well and wish you were here enjoying this temporary 72 degree weather lol
Blue line, Vyse, is best single-engine rate of climb speed. It's marked by a blue radial line on the airspeed indicator. You don't want to be any slower than that on initial climb-out because you probably won't be able to climb fast enough to avoid obstacles if you lose an engine. Also, it's not that far above Vmc, minimum-controllable airspeed. Vmc is the speed below which you won't be able to prevent the aircraft from yawing if you lose an engine while the other one is developing full power.
Jim, John described it pretty well before I could get back to you. Twin pilots have to be extra careful about airspeed in the event you lose an engine there is a lot of asymmetric thrust/drag that you have to overcompensate for or the plane will be uncontrollable. We just got back from TX and were hoping to experience a bit of 70's but a cold front had just gone thru and it was 32F when we landed. Glad we had the heat fixed for that flight!!
@@310Pilot I hope you didn't think I was trying to steal your thunder. As you might have guessed, I was that weird kid in school who was always raising his hand, bouncing in his seat, and saying, "I know! I know! Pick me! Pick me!"
That's the place Billy. Hal (the owner) was great down there. It came back with the new AMOC kit installed and basically transformed it to a new heater that is AD free and works great! We just flew down to TX on the back side of a cold front and used it from start up to short final down there. We had it turned down to 50% and were very warm on the entire trip. :)
That for sure is required heat temps up there Gilles! In 2-3 videos from now I finally have the heat fixed. Jaime and I just flew down to TX and we used the heat the entire way...it was lovely. :)
JD, if you feel comfortable sending me your email address here I can shoot you a message off line. I will delete it from here as soon as I see it. Up to you. TH-cam unfortunately did away with the private message function.
Ha ha...where were you at last summer John! I told myself I was going to fix this darn thing before it got cold again....boy was I wrong! We did just fly to TX on the back side of the cold front and enjoyed using it the whole flight. Finally...heat!! :)
@@310Pilot- Just like me, waiting until January to install my heating system in my new shop, rather than doing it in May, right after the floor was poured, or at any time between then and September, lol. Nope - I just had to wait till January! 😂
Hi Kevin. I was in the Marine Corps Air Wing for ten years during the Vietnam war years. I worked on F-4 Phantoms and A-6 Intruders aircraft. I was AME that worked on conditioning, pressurization, ejection seats and oxygen systems. Is the heating unit in your aircraft mounted in the engine compartment or the cabin area? Thanks again for your video's man! PS I missed the Right Seat on this flight.😎
@@brianmcgee115 I had a good friend in the radar shop,John Danner in 70-71 and In 73. Ithink he wrote the book on the Aug -10 radar. Just chilling out now in Old San Juan Puerto Rico now. Take care man
Gene, thank you for your service! That heater is located in the nose of the aircraft on the co-pilot side. The tip of the nose is the radar then slightly behind that the air goes into the heater and the exhaust for the heater is flush with the bottom of the nose there. It pulls fuel from the right main tank and the heater has it's own fuel pump. Considering its a 100LL combustion gas heater in the nose, I take that super serious. :)
@@310Pilot Thanks Kevin I have never seen one but I will look it up now. Try to stay warn up North. I was raised in Ohio but moved South after the Marine's. I was in the Florida Keys for 12 years. In 89 I jumped on my buddy's dive boat and ended up in St Thomas USVI. I have lived in Old San Juan Puerto Rico since 2006. It's been cold for the last two week's 70 to 73 at night. Take care and thanks again for your video's man.
I have...it was before I started filming the flights. In the 3rd video or so from now (when I get caught up on editing) she controls me again. On the camera this time. :)
Had no idea how an airplane heater worked. Simple but effective. You don't have a lot of options with air cooled engines. I've owned a number of VW''s over the years and never was impressed with the heat in them, even after replacing all the pieces.
Arch Stanton Arch, these combustion heaters are typically only installed on multi engine planes. The single engine planes use hot air from around the exhaust pipe as a source of heat for the cabin.
When it works, it's instant and great. :) I picked the plane back up at -7F and it was warm and toasty. The video will be up soon...I'm a slow editor. Jaime and I just flew to TX and used it the entire way down there...happy to have it replaced!
This might be a stupid question. Do you have one of your landing gear lights out? And if so how do you know all 3 parts of the gear is down? I hope you guys get your heater back quickly. Fly Safe
The light in question was easily visible from my seat but I see what you mean. I will try to adjust that so it doesn't look out from the camera angle. If one of the lights didn't illuminate, then I would replace the faulty one with one of the others to make sure it is green before landing. We did finally get the heater back...I'm a little behind on my video editing....and it is amazing. Jaime and I just flew down to TX and it was warm and toasty. :)
Glad you and Jaime made it to Texas, Kevin. A belated Welcome to Texas. Hope you’ll have some video of that flight (unless you flew commercial. I live in Texas (DFW Metroplex area). We have cold weather (it’s cold outside, as I write this), but NOTHING like what you guys have had up there in the Chicago area. Plus, our cold snaps only last a few days, then it’s back up to 70 degrees. Last week, we had a high one day of 80 degrees, in February. Go figure. But, as we Texans say, “If you don’t like the weather in Texas, just wait a couple of days. It’ll change.” 😂😂. Happy Flying, and Safe Landings.
So... cheaper to fly out to an A&P in Wisconsin to remove the part than have someone at Aurora pull it? Are there any shops at your FBO? Overpriced? Questionable business practices (never happens of course...)?
I'll try to answer best I can giving the public nature in this forum. :) Yes there are FBO's at ARR and I have used them on occasion, I prefer to use Burlington Air Center for several reasons (they did the pre-purchase on the plane as it was in Wisconsin and have done some of my upgrades). Added bonus for me is the head of their recip side was a former 310 owner and really understands them.
@@310Pilot That is a perfectly acceptable (and realistic) reason for playing outside your own sandbox to shop. The marketplace rules! FBOs always have expertise, best price, local amenities, or just experience with your plane type somewhere but finding all that in one convenient location exactly where you are is usually statistically impossible. I don't know an experienced pilot/owner who doesn't go off the reservation for one of those reasons occasionally (or always) just like I did while I had my Piper. On the other hand, I'm sure there are highly competent mechanics at Aurora that charge a fair price for excellent work. And yes, I do apologize for the "stir the pot" nature of my question. I've been in the broadcast news industry for 40 years and tend to be somewhat direct / inflammatory or even contentious in phrasing questions on occasion. Usually not to intentionally irritate but rather in a twisted sense of sarcasm wrought from 4 decades of working alongside pit vipers.
Not sure exactly Brad. I need to tally things up for insurance renewal and I will try to remember to come back and update it. I'm guessing I have about 160-200 in the 310 and 500-600 in Twin Cessna's. They are very capable airplanes...good luck if you decide to move up. I'd suggest joining The Twin Cessna Flyer (owners group) if you get serious about it. They have a great forum with very knowledgeable owners to help answer any questions. Or of course, you are welcome to ask me and I will help as much as I can.
@@310Pilot Thanks.. much appreciated. I want to move up to something...I have about 50 in retrac. Looks like you can buy a nice 310 for the money. I've flown in a few with my instructor. Love the speed.
Hi Kevin, another great flight thanks. Question, how do pilots and aircraft prepare to land on dirty runways, i.e. ice, snow, or water? I have seen this done by many aircraft, but how do you keep from sliding on the asphalt or concrete.
You're welcome...glad you enjoyed it! Pilot's need to review the performance data to make sure they have the appropriate runway lengths and crosswind components to land safely. In my type plane with the long runways at ARR, as long as the braking is not reported as Nil or essentially zero braking ability, then I am okay landing if the runway is open. Airliners use a much more complex system called TALPA (think that's, take off and landing performance assessment). They factor in numerical values derived from friction testing the runway, amount/type of contamination on runway, braking reports from other aircraft, crosswinds, aircraft weights, etc etc to decide if they can land or not. Hope this answers your question/makes sense.
Hum... no air conditioning in the heat of summer OR freezing with no heater? I’m voting for no air conditioning... full disclosure, I’ve never had air conditioning.. so, I don’t know what I’m missing... thanks for another outstanding diversion.
I'm with you Robert! No a/c is easy...just climb a bit to the cool air. No heat in midwestern winters is brutal. I'm a couple weeks behind on editing but we have her back with the new heater now. We just made a trip down to TX on the back side of a cold front and we had the heat on from startup to short final and it was perfectly toasty! Here's to never procrastinating again. :)
I thought at first the female C90 controller (West Satellite, 133.5) might have been your bride, but then I decided it wasn't. Looking back, I don't think I did much winter flying there, because it sure looks hard to find things.
Wasn't her on this one. She does work me on I think the 3rd video from now. I'm a slow editor...that is the hard part for sure for me. They changed the name from West Satellite to Sector 3...not sure why but West Satellite sure is a better description. :) Did you know Randy Ezell? He worked at the TRACON until they split and then stayed tower. The snow around here really makes spotting runways a challenge sometimes...especially when the runways gets that white film on them.
@@310Pilot I didn't know many tower guys. When I got there in March, '73, they'd been split, up/down, since about January. I went upstairs a few times to get some familiarization, and the split had been recent enough that guys in the radar room often went up to fill a shift, but I didn't really know any upstairs people. Now, I did get to know a handful when I was in Traffic Management at the Center in 1988/'89. There was a period of time when three or four of us were detailed to the cab to help coordinate the NY area launches midday. We were under heavy flow restrictions from ZOB and had to mix the ORD departures with overflights we had in the air to give them the needed space. The one guy I remember from those days (but not his name) was a guy who lived down near Clow and commuted in his own plane into ORD for his shifts. But he's another who was probably long gone by the time you got there. There had always been a South Satellite (MDW and CGX, which was gone by the time you started) and a North Satellite (PWK and NBU), so when the TRACon absorbed our West Satellite sector (DPA and ARR) they kept the name. Both Centers I was in always had names for the sectors based on major NavAids (or, in the case of ORD departures, function), but a couple of adjoining facilities sometimes used sector numbers, a practice that grated on me.
@@richardvarner2802 Went back and looked at some previous videos and the light is illuminated about the same from the same camera angle. However, you may be right.
Thanks guys. I just edited the next video and saw where I readjusted it and it looks brighter from the camera perspective now. It always shines nice and bright in my seat. I'm terrified of a gear up landing so I reference frequently while flying. :)
Thanks. I have about 15 training hours from 20 years ago. I was able to retire last year and watching your videos has stirred such a desire to finish my PP license. It’s great to see your boys in the back. My dad was in the USAF for 30 years and incidentally has 6500 hrs as a flight instructor in the T-37. He had a Baron 58p for about 10 years but I was already out of the house starting a career and family. Thank you again for your “inspiration “.
Glad you're enjoying the channel Tim! Hope you're able to get back up soon. Even with a 20 year break, it will be like riding a bike getting back to where you were. Good luck on finishing up your PPL if you decide to go that route. :) Those P-Barron's are nice planes...to bad you didn't get to fly in it more.
I could say this or that about your excellent piloting skills but the simple fact is, I never get tired of looking your beautiful airplane.
Awesome...thank you John!! Over the next few videos you will see her panel morphing a bit. Thinking the end result will be nice. :)
In 1974 on the 4th of July I flew from Elkhart, IN. to Decatur, AL.in a Piper Aztec Twin. We took off right into and through a thunderstorm. The pilot was Mr. Louis Shaum (Shaum Electric ). It was a frightening trip for sure. I thought Mr. Shaum had lost his mind. But he was a steady 70-year-old at the time with some 3000+ hours. It was a memorable flight for sure.
Wow, does sound like a very memorable flight Michael! I try to avoid thunderstorms by a wide berth. :)
Kevin, this may surprise you but I watched this video many times. I like the way you started it, a nice video of your plane before you got in it, what a beauty !! Futuristic looking ( wing tip fuel tanks ) What caught me on this video was flying at 2500 with snow covered terrain, your right, the 310 air speed is awesome, perfect to me. Watching the snow terrain coming from up front only to go by quickly in the right windshield, but it’s not to fast, I look at the right spinner cap, looks neat. Nice banks, engines purring, I can hear those props, then you make a dead center landing, didn’t surprise me, thank you for cheering me up, I look forward to every video, I’ve even gotten attached to your plane, best twin ever made, your instrument panel looks fabulous!!
Awesome...thank you Dennis for the kind words. :) Glad you're enjoying the channel. I agree, the 310 sure is a sexy beast.
Kevin it's never boring. Thank you for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it Gary!
Always enjoy the ride! Beautiful airplane and nice hanger.
Thank you Ron...glad you enjoyed it! :)
Like the short flights just as much as the longer ones. Thanks for taking us all along. Really like the way you talk us through whats happening. Makes it very interesting.
Awesome...thanks for the feedback Tom! I was hoping people don't get too tired of the short hops. We do have a breakfast run coming up, another short heat finally repaired one and then Jaime and I fly down to Texas! Lot's more fun stuff planned for the year. Glad you're enjoying it so far.
Thanks for adding the heater part to the video , I kinda new how they were suppose to work but haven't really got to see one outside the plane.
Glad you liked it James! I figured since I'm probably boring people with the short little flights I could add a little extra. :) We just flew to TX and used the new heater the entire way...it was so nice!
I bet, much better heat than the heat coming off the heat exchanger in my 172. Now winter flights can be more enjoyable for you guys.
Another great video, I really enjoy watching you fly, I believe your handling is very good. Thanks for sharing your flying experiences, many happy landings and always looking forward to the next one.
Thank you Christian! Really means a lot when I get a compliment like that from the pro's. :) We just delivered the plane down to TX for the new Genesys STEC 3100 autopilot and I'm really excited about this upgrade. It will transform us into a mini airliner with all the amazing functions of it. Will be able to turn it on after departure at 200 agl and it will fly every aspect of the flights down to 200 agl on the approach. It has IAS/FPM climb and descents, altitude pre-select, envelope protection, GPSS and more. :)
Enjoy your video's. . . . . Sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I believe you two are ATC's? I too was one a LONG time ago, when Reagan pulled his little firing stunt back in the early 80's. Left that for another career tho. . . At any rate, I wanted to thank you two for working w/o pay recently. I've "been there, done that" during my many years of Federal service. Thanks again and be safe!!
Glad you're enjoying the channel Jeff! Yes, we are both TRACON controllers in Chicago. Sorry about what you guys had to go through back in '81. Here's hoping they reach an agreement and we don't have to go back to the no pay thing again here in a couple days.
Thanks for taking us along on another flight. I'm always impressed with how professional you are in pre flight, during your flight and landing. I'm not a great fan of flying in small planes but you would be someone I would be comfortable flying with. Missed Jaime on the flight but I sure she can't always go with you and not having a heater was probably enough for her to say, I'll go another time. Fly Safe.
Thank you for the nice compliment Dave! I always take every aspect of flying very serious as it can be very dangerous if we don't do that. I sure wish she could go on every flight but sometimes (especially these short maintenance flights) that just can't happen. I have to try my best to work the radios in those cases. :) We do have an upcoming breakfast run to Madison together and then she come with on a flight down to TX. Used the new heater the entire flight. Stay tuned...lot's more fun stuff planned for the year.
This is William thanks for the ride man and was fun every video that you make a comes on my TH-cam and I watch them thanks a lot appreciate the flight
Thank you William...glad you enjoyed it!
If you’ll be around the airport tomorrow I’ll be flying! Weather looks great. Another awesome video
It does look nice Jeffrey! Hope you have fun up there. We are going to swing by there to grab Jaime's car. We flew down to TX yesterday and dropped her off for the autopilot upgrade! We could swing by and say hi if you're still on the ground...just have to remind me where you keep your bird. :)
What autopilot are you moving to?
@@310Pilot
You've got guts!!!!! Love this segment. Thanks.
Thanks as always for the ride Kevin.
You're welcome...glad you enjoyed it!
Nice flight Kevin. Thanks for taking us along. Always enjoy flying with you (so to speak) Looked cold but beautiful in its own right.
Glad you enjoyed it Tim! I'm glad to wrap up these quick little flights and get on to some really cool flights we have planned for the year. We just flew down to TX for our first cross country of the year. Used the heat the entire way!
I’m glad you got the heater back and look forward to the next video. Did you see my comment on your video with the two little ones?
I love the hanger. Cabinets and a little sitting room.
I agree...we lucked out when this one was listed for sale! Right time/right place. :)
Perfect Saturday afternoon interlude. Thank you Sir!
You're welcome...glad you enjoyed it!
Always look forward to your flights.
Awesome...thank you Paul! :)
Perfect time to loose a heater in the winter.Nice flight, thanks for sharing.
Ha ha...thanks Donald! This was self inflicted procrastination. I had planned to have it resolved before it got cold... :)
Superb! Talk us through what you are doing with your hands. Great flight.
Glad you enjoyed it J! Thanks for the feedback!
Glad we're both back at work. Great video again. Stay warm LOL. Semper Fi, Gunny
Glad you enjoyed it Michael and glad to be paid again....hope it lasts! Do they have the academy back up full swing?
I feel for you the heater in my 1996 chevy pickup quit last week, it was 3 degrees this morning. As always had to make a parts run, it was a cold 50 mile ride. Awesome video thanks for the post.
Ouch...3 degrees and no truck heat. I hate grabbing the steering wheel like that! I'm glad to get my heater finally fixed in the plane...hope you got your Chevy's heat fixed as well. :)
Nice to see you flying again. It must have been a cold flight home without a heater. Hopefully, you will get the heater back soon.
Take care and hopefully on 2/15 there will not be another government shutdown. C Yaa!
Always glad to be in the air James! The flight dropping the plane back off for the heater installation (probably the 2nd or 3rd upcoming video) was the coldest I've ever done. I could see my breath with each transmission. Sounds like they may reach a deal to keep the pay checks coming...hopefully. :)
Thanks for showing that heater! I was super curious about that (I like anything mechanical no matter what it's on, or from). Looks like a torpedo heater, only you're not blowing the exhaust into the cockpit, for obvious reasons (that wouldn't be a very productive flight, lol!). I also wondered if pilots used differential thrust to help turn twin-engine aircraft - thanks for clearing that up, too!
Always a great flight - I never care how short, or long it is - just enjoy the virtual flight ... and of course, virtually hanging out with you, Kevin! Glad you're well on your way to having a warm cockpit again - it's going to be sweet when that day arrives! Bet you'll never take cabin heating for granted again, lol! 😉 😁 Have a good one, Kev. We'll see you on the next flight!
Glad you enjoyed it Smitty! I'm mechanically curious as well. We just got back from a cold flight down to TX and the new heater was amazing! I won't take that lightly in the future if I ever have issues with it again. :)
@@310Pilot - SWEET! Glad to hear that! 👍👍
My husband agrees with the differential power of the twin when taxying Its really advantageous. We had a single and it takes braking and steering to make the tight turns. No heat in the plane during winter is very discomforting. Getting it fixed and reinstalled is really great feeling. We don't have that problem any more though. We have a TBM now. We had a piper Seneca before.
Tight turns in singles can result in some hopping as you tap the brake to try to get it to turn tight...much easier in a twin as you mention. We just made a cold flight down to TX and were excited to have the heat fixed for that flight. Warm and toasty. :) You guys for sure don't have that problem anymore....upgraded to my dream single! Hard to beat a TBM...congrats!
@@310Pilot Thank you. Where you live it is much colder and a working heater is a necessity.
Thanks for the ride, Kevin. Aw the joys of aircraft ownership. A zillion bucks to remove, a bizillion bucks to have repaired and another zillion to reinstall.
Ha ha...sounds like you fully understand ownership Rick. :) Glad you enjoyed it!
Another great video Kevin! Thanks!
You're welcome Theo...glad you enjoyed it!
This is great. Haven't just gone up and just flown by myself in forever! I'll have to go up and do this sometime! Thanks for posting and good luck with the heater eh.
Glad you enjoyed it! Good luck on getting up by yourself and boring holes in the sky. :) I did a cloud surfing video where I simply just fly around to play with clouds...that was a lot of fun. :)
Nice ride Kevin. I look forward to the next one.. hopefully with your co-pilot , Jaime, with you.
Thank you Donald! She will be in the next two for sure and many more to follow. :)
Another cool flight, it looked very pretty with the snow :) We have been lucky so far this year to have very little snow, I might regret saying that now ;) Looking forward to your next trip as always :)
Glad you enjoyed it Rab! I do like the view of the pure white snow....for about 5 minutes each winter. :) I'm looking forward to spring now! Jaime and I just flew down to TX and it was below freezing down there....we just can't catch a break from the cold.
@@310Pilot Roll on Spring indeed, my favourite season :)
I am not a pilot, but I love this channel. I've watched every video! I've always wanted to get a license and love flying, but the resources have just never come together to make lessons a possibility. It's on my bucket list however. Question: You had to choose between a left downwind that would take you into 27 or a right downwind into 33. You chose 27 because it gave you a couple minutes more of flight time. Would 33 have been pretty much a straight in landing?
Awesome...glad you're enjoying the channel! Hopefully you'll have the chance to quench your flying thirst one day. :) I could have landed on 33 just as easily but decided to ask for 27 to buy just a little more time as I was trying to burn the same amount of fuel out of each aux tank. I needed one more minute on the right side for them to be even. In the 310, you have to takeoff and land on the main tanks. I figured left downwind to 27 was 3 turns and 33 would have been two turns. Honestly both would have worked out the same. 27 does provide a much shorter taxi to my hangar so that was the deciding factor. :)
Thanks for ride along heater would be a plus the way it looks around there.
We have the heater back and it works awesome! :)
-40C Wind chill up here in YYC. Likely headed your way. Great call on getting that heater up to snuff.
Thanks for the heads up Larry! Sounds brutal. Glad to have it replaced and running good. Wish I would have done it sooner while it was still warm but glad to have it resolved nonetheless. :) I've tested it at -22C and I was perfectly warm with it turned down a bit. I'm thinking it could probably handle -40...now the pilot...not so much. :)
@@310Pilot Brutal today in YYC --- ski lifts not turning at Nakiska or Sunshine, too cold. Lifts running at Lake Louise, but no skiers. ⛷❄⛄
you have a beautiful wife, I do too. watching your videos is like on the bucket list for us. enjoy all your videos, they are great.
Another great video sir. I have a question, on departure you usually say something about blue line, what is that?
Thank you Keith...glad you enjoyed it! Blue line is an actual line on the airspeed indicator that depicts what the best single engine rate of climb speed is. It is very important in the twin world to not drop below that speed if you lose an engine. If an engine is lost and you get too slow, the asymmetric thrust will create an uncontrollable situation. As long as you stay at or above that speed, all is well. Hope that makes sense. :)
Oh Boy
The ride back to get the heater could a cold one!
Take us back when you get it back!
Hey LL! Fancy meeting you here! 👍😎🍻
Oh I get around :) @@SmittySmithsonite
Yes it was!! You could see my breath on every transmission. So glad that is fixed and behind us now. I'm about a month behind on my editing. About the best I can do is one video a week. :)
Damn buddy, you have a really good hold on landing that bird. It’s awesome. I watched the video with my noise canceling headphones and it’s such a great experience with the airplane noise. Felt like i was in the cockpit. It’s a perfect mesh of ambient noise/cockpit audio. I could hear the taxi warnings from the iPad too. :) Nice job!
Thanks Mike! Just wait for it...one is going to sneak up and bite me soon. :) Wow..glad the audio turned out that well. I've never been able to hear the iPad warnings when watching or editing them . I'll have to try some new headphones. I just edited the breakfast flight to Maddison and I used a couple of your pictures in the beginning. I gave you credit by name, that okay?
310 Pilot that’s totally fine with me. :) yeah, in the audio, it’s subtle, but I could definitely hear the iPad audio. It’s a robotic voice calling out runway and taxiway warnings. I dig it
Cool...thanks Mike! My headphones are blue tooth so I can synch my iPad to them and hear it. I've actually left that off lately because sometimes the alerts are at a bad time and I just listen to it faintly from in the plane. I wonder if I have the volume turned all the way up or not...I'll have to check that.
I bet u will be glad get home. Enjoy
Your flight home Kevin hope they fix it fast. Tell Jamie I said hi. Rich
Howdy Rich! Glad to have the heater all fixed and working well. :)
I was in your area earlier this week and had some time to kill so I hung out at your airport for a while. It was solid IFR so there wasn’t much going on. Looks like a neat place!
Sorry we missed you William! I wish TH-cam had an PM function where someone could notify you something like that. If we were around we could have said hi. JA is a really nice FBO and I love our hangar complex on the south east side (sky haven). Nice multi-runway airport with ATC but a nice small town feel. :)
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I’ll be back in the Chicago area again soon, maybe I can catch you at the airport. I’d love to meet and say hi! Love your channel!
I noticed in this video and several others of yours that immediately after you rotate, the plane seems to yaw to the left. Is this indicative of a twin engine plane? Just curious. Love your videos!!!
It's actually more noticeable in a single engine plane but happens in twins without counter rotating props as well. The yawing tendency is caused by "p-factor". Basically the descending blades have more thrust (higher angle of attack) than the ascending blades. The right engines descending blades are farther from the center of the plane causing a slight yaw nose left. You're seeing this because for some reason I was getting a little lazy on the rudder. I think it was my subconscious let off the pedal as I tap the brakes to retract the gear. Glad you're enjoying them Donald!
Nice touch with the camera on the wing. BTW, not in this video, but in a couple you've done a "handclap sync", after the video's been running for a bit. Any particular reason for that?
Glad you liked it Richard! The hand clap (usually edited out) is to make sync'ing the cameras easier during editing. :)
Beautiful aircraft 👍
Thank you George!
I really enjoy your channel because I’m such a wanna be pilot. I’m retired now but when I worked for the Sheriffs Office, I was lucky to supervise our Air support unit for a few years. Our aircraft is a EC-120 Eurocopter which was a lot of fun. I also go out and rent time with a pilot and fly fixed wing every once in awhile. Keep the videos coming 😎
Like! Interesting flight.
Thank you Randy...glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Kevin, did my eyes deceive me or were there only 2 green shown when you lowered the gear? I thought I always remembered 3 green. Keep an eye on that heater. Had a Southwind heater light up in the nose of a king air back in the 70's. Got exciting, thankfully it was on the ground, but still created some anxious moments. Great trip, thanx for the ride. Tell Jaimie hi. God speed.
I really enjoy your videos. One question : Why do you tap the brakes prior to retracting the gear ? I find various answers to this on the web.
Glad you're enjoying them Tyr! The operating handbook for the 310 calls for it prior to retracting the gear. The reasoning behind that (as I understand it) is to stop the rotation of the tires before retracting them as they can expand due to centrifugal forces.
Thanks, Does this mean that it is not necessary when flying fixed gear aircraft ?
Correct. Sometimes on 172 type planes you'll fill a vibration after the wheels lift off and tapping the brakes will stop that.
Sweet landing Kevin!!!
What a great life Kevin! I love listening to those twins power up for take off! I hope you get your heater soon! We woke up to our 1st snow of the season, 3 inches this morning in the PDX area and its been in the 20's for a week but thats about as bad as it gets here!
It sounded like you knew all of the controllers on this flight, and one of them even sounded like Jaime! If I remember correctly don't you both work out of Chicago ATC? Forgive me if thats too personal if a question Kevin! I thought it had been mentioned in previous videos.
Take care!
Don in Oregon
Thank you Don!! Been on a nice streak with the landings lately. :) We just got back from a cold flight down to TX and were excited to have the heater fixed. I had it at 50% and was warm and toasty. Yes, Jaime and I both work at the same facility here and we know everybody here. I think on the next video or two she actually works me back up to have the heater installed. :) Loved my snowboarding trip out to Mt Hood I took several years ago. Really pretty out where you live.
Good glad two hear that good
Luck in your journeys. Next yr
Be doing some traveling make
My over that way.
Thank you Rich! Looking forward to our 2020 travels. :)
thanks for the ride looked cold out their stay safe
Glad you enjoyed it George! In a couple videos you will see we finally got the heater re-installed and are warm and toasty again. :)
Hey Kev... I hope you are doing well. Just wanted to say I really enjoy tagging along on your flights, but as an aspiring pilot I wanted to ask if you might be able to "occasionally" do a little teaching when you're commenting. Maybe you can detail what you are hearing on the radio and convey what that all means, or explain operations of the aircraft in a bit more detail. Not asking for a crash course on being a pilot, but a little context and education would be interesting. Thanks!!
Glad you're enjoying the channel Craig! Congrats on your decision to get your pilot's license. I'm sure you won't be disappointed. :) We are doing well. We just dropped the plane off in TX this past week for a new autopilot and had to airliner it back home...reminded me why I haven't been on an airliner since buying her. Thank you for the suggestion. I will try to add a bit of that into future videos as you mention. :)
Nice 👍 video. By the way, that nuclear plant is Byron.
Glad you thought so Paul! I'd driven by Byron before but didn't realize it was there. Thanks. :)
Thanks for the video, great entertainment as always. Just a quick question , does your 310 have an autopilot? Is just that I always see you always moving the controls.
Glad you enjoyed the video! My 310 DID have the original autopilot in all the videos posted so far and the next few I'm going to post. I delivered it to TX the other day to have the old autopilot removed and install the new STEC 3100. My old one was acting up in the pitch axis and was uncomfortable so I never used it. This new autopilot is going to be a game changer for us. It has a ton of great features and will really transform our plane to a mini airliner. :) I will have lot's of new videos showing all the features of the new autopilot in the near future. :)
@@310Pilot wow, good for you.
Kevin, Another nice job. The weather for fly here has been poor. Between the snow and cold I haven't been able to get any in for a while.
Thank you Mark...glad you enjoyed it! This winter has been bad for a lot of the US...people are going to forget how to fly. :)
Sweet landing. Only way to do it. Smooth as silk.
Thanks Cliff! I'm owning these lately...means a rough one is just waiting to sneak up and bite me. :)
good smooth flight we had snow only lasted 2 days it thawed very quickly
Glad you thought so Anthony! Most of our snow has melted here now but there is suppose to be a bit more coming soon. Can't wait for spring. :)
were lucky mildish early spring time weather here for next 2 weeks at the mo early february is strange but good mate ,hopefully warms up for you in US.
Kevin, I admire your fuel management. I couldn’t figure out what you were doing or why you needed 1 more minute during your pattern back at Aurora. So, you were running off the Aux’s and switched to the mains for landing, got that. Were you actually trying to balance the fuel in the tanks? I find my fuel gauges to be off enough that I am not sure it would be worth the trouble.
Thank you MC! In Twin Cessna's, the main tanks are the tips with 50 gallons per side. I have 31.5 gallon aux tanks in each wing. You have to take off and land on the mains. I use the mains by time (has 1 hr and 5 min in each) and the fuel not used goes back to the mains. So you have to burn at least 90 minutes out of full mains before using the aux's to make room for the returning fuel. I also offset the aux tanks by 5 min just in case you run one dry so they don't sputter at the same time. In this case I needed just another minute to have the same time used out of the aux's. I guess it was more OCD than anything as it wouldn't have mattered if I selected main's 1 minute sooner. :) Hope that makes sense/answers your question.
310 Pilot thats cool. I think I get it. You weren’t reading the fuel level gauges per se. You were justing running you aux tanks on a time schedule👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the short flight, Kevin. I see by the other comments you got your heater and your copilot reinstalled, at least for the TX flight. Moving ahead with the autopilot upgrade, too. Did you have to leave bravo charlie there and come back commercial?
You're welcome Don....glad you liked it. We did leave her down there for a few weeks. She's in really good hands though and will come back like a new bird. Can't wait to fly behind the new STEC 3100 autopilot. :) Unfortunately we did commercial it back and I instantly realized why I haven't been on an airliner since buying her. What a hassle.
Great video Kevin, quick Controller question. I fly out of KSCH. Active is 22. The controller says taxi from FBO via B , A to 22 at Delta. Would you want the read back 22 at Delta or B,A, 22 at Delta. This is a discussion-among the local pilots.
Glad you enjoyed the video Roy! The ATC requirement is that they get a read back from the pilot of the assigned runway. In this case, 22 at Delta. As a controller, I was perfectly happy with the minimum. That being said, if the pilot wanted to read back everything to ensure they got it correct, I would listen to the read back and verify its accuracy.
Man that sure is a nice hangar. Did you do the floor or was it like that when you moved in?
When I moved my plane to the airport when they had just completed new hangars and I painted the floor before any oil got on it. Sadly, after ten years of building the airplane, its not nice looking anymore...
Thank you! Luckily it was like that when we bought it. All we did was get the rug, couches, tables and fridge. I wouldn't have had the patience to tile the entire thing but am glad t it was done and I have several boxes of replacement tiles that are easy enough to replace when needed. Too bad about your floor...the pained ones always look great to start with but as you said, the years can take its toll on them.
what is your job? great vid
ATC. Glad you liked it!
Kevin, thanks for another great video. Does Jaime work with you in the TRACON? Glad your both back to work.
You're welcome Gilbert....glad you enjoyed it! She does. :)
Another great flight thanks Kevin , was it the camera angle or my eyes playing tricks , I couldn't tell if the rh gear down light was on :) ? And a tech question if I may, with the Yaw Damper in a 310 is there a big difference to handling if it is off during cruise (.e.g uncomfortable dutch roll) enough to add to pilot workload ? Cheers from Aussie.
Paul Scotchford, I thought the same thing, when I saw that light. It looked like 2 green, instead of 3 green. My first thought was, “Was he going to land with a right main not all the way down?” But, then I remembered. Kevin is a great and careful pilot, so he either saw the light, or it was just a dim bulb. The camera angle may have made that light look like it wasn’t on, too.
@@richardvarner2802 Indeed, my thoughts too.
I think the bulb is just dim. In the beginning if you look the light appears to be out.
Glad you enjoyed it Paul! I've had a problem with this before. It's the camera angle and the goofy twist to dim that slide things in front of the bulb. From my seat it looked great. I even upgrade the bulbs to bright LED's. I will see if I can fix that.
While a Yaw Damper isn't required for a 310, it sure is nice. The heavy tip tanks can cause a bit of tail wag and the YD really does a good job making it more comfy in the back. It's also nice for me to forget my feet whenever I'm flying until the flare. :)
I kind of figured that’s what it was with the bulb, Kevin. You are too good of a pilot to not recognize that a gear indicator light wasn’t on, and land anyway. I’ll bet it was cold in that cockpit, though. You folks really got a lot of snow on the ground. I can see where it it would be hard to see the runway from 5 miles away, with all that snow around. Glad you made it back to Aurora safely, and didn’t freeze your butt off. Good Luck with getting the heater repaired. Hope you are able to get it done soon. Happy Flying, and, as always, Safe Landings.
Was wondering if this was a flight after the recent polar vortex and it seems it was. I have a friend in Eureka, and it was darn cold down that way. I'm guessing without the heater you remained on the ground that week, right?
Pete, this flight would have been right before that. I'm a little behind and can only edit about 1 video a week. During that cold spell I did drop the plane off for the heater installation and flew it back at -7F and was warm and toasty. :) I'll get those videos up soon.
Kevin, what's the green CRT looking equipment lower center right? Looks like you never use it.
That was my old radar display. I just replaced that and the screen above it with an Avidyne EX500 that will be a MFD and display my radar in digital/color. Excited about that upgrade and the autopilot they are currently working on. :)
Hey man... thanks for all your videos: I really enjoy them. I just happened to be watching this video while getting ready to head into work -- is that your wife on the "Surface Watch" link when we log into the schedule???
Glad you're enjoying the videos Tyler! You have a good eye...that is her. That was back when she worked at TPA. Where do you work? We are heading back in this afternoon.
@@310Pilot haha! I was logging in this morning and had a "wait a minute..." moment. I'm at JAX now, just transferred a few months ago.
I had the same moment when I first saw it. Walked over and pulled it up for her...she thought it was pretty funny they after all those years they decided to put it on there and cedar whenever you log in. Too bad she didn't get to title her own message below...could have been funny. Congrats on JAX...is Aaron still the ATM? If so, we know him very well....great guy and tell him we said hi! He was a controller at C90.
@@310Pilot thanks! And yeah, he's still here... will do! I actually asked him about you guys after I saw your video when you flew down to Florida and did a shout-out to him.
Thanks for sharing another flight! Glad you're getting your heater fixed. (You're getting an autopilot installed soon too, right?) And... From the camera point of view that landing looked like a greaser. Nice!
Glad you enjoyed it Mike! I'm a couple weeks behind on editing but the heater is fixed. We just flew down to TX on the back side of a cold front and we were warm and toasty the whole way. :) We just dropped the plane off to have the Genesys STEC 3100 installed...I'm crazy excited about this one!
Another fun video. With snow on the ground and salt on the runway, it was hard to see. Do you ever ask for runway lights?
Glad you thought so William! It can be really hard to spot the runways around here in the winter. I do occasionally ask for the lights to be stepped up during dusk or at the uncontrolled airports I'll key the pilot controlled lighting sometimes. Seems to have mixed results during the day.
Awesome TWIN Cessna N771BC flights... Would love to follow initial engine start up procedure
Glad you enjoyed it Robert! I will try to add that during a video in the near future. I'm a few weeks behind on editing. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
Kevin, Does the heater run off it's own fuel tank or off the aircraft tanks?
Eric
Eric, it pulls the fuel from the right main tank. At full heat it burns about 1/2 gallon per hour.
Never been all that wild about fuel fired heat in small aircraft.
Hey there Kevin. Just wondering about requesting flight following. While obviously an advantage for the pilots, how does ATC feel about it? Do they prefer aircrafts be ID'd, or is it a hinderance for them to have to track and inform more planes? Thanks! And hope your heater gets fixed soon.
Hey Wally. The answer I guess is, it depends. If they are extremely busy with IFR traffic, they may not be able to provide flight following to all the VFR's as it is workload contingent. That being said, I would prefer to be talking to them so I know what they are doing (altitude and course) so that I can provide a good service to the other aircraft I'm talking to. Also, I'm always happy to provide an extra set of eyes to help them with possible traffic. We just flew a cold flight down to TX and the heater was working amazing. :)
So do you own the hangar, or lease? Sweet setup... only one I’ve seen like it was a guy in Big Bear, Ca. who kept his King Air and a Steerman in it. You could ear off the floor... He used to fly the King Air to Van Nuys every day to his Honda dealership
EAT dammit!
We own it. We really lucked out as it came just like that when we bought it. :) A King Air and Steerman...that guy had a sweet setup!
Interesting heater. Hey, second request. During a future flight would you explain the indexing you use for your mixture levers? Left pulled a bit lean from the right? I noticed a 414 owner who posts videos does much the same. What is that all about?
I'll try to hit on that in an upcoming video. Basically each engine is setup different and has different lengths in cables. It's hard to get them to match perfectly. I will have them setup the fuel flows again during the upcoming annual and see if they can improve on them a little. I do run the same fuel flow to each engine and where the levers end up is just where they end up. :)
Thanks for answering. As I mentioned, another Cessna twin pilot (Jerry W) posting videos from his 414 was doing just about the same orientation with his, so was wondering if it was a Cessna thing... You can observe it in his video titled "Auburn to Byron to Phoenix Arizona March 27 2018". He may have recently sold that 414 (N8134Q) in favor of another better equipped 414. @@310Pilot
Short and sweet! Too bad they can't tweak it for AC for the next Bahamas Trip! LOL $$$$$. Kevin, how much fuel does the heater burn at high heat settings,?
Glad you enjoyed it Kyle! AC would be nice for the Deep South but up at altitude it's always nice and cool. I don't like how much they weigh in our planes. :) The heater uses about .5 gallons per hour at max setting out of the right main tank.
How do you choose your service providers for the avionics updates, annuals, the heater fix and other repairs? Do you have a budget for these kinds of things?
Jeff, really just trail and error on the maintenance shop. I used a couple in the area but Burlington Air Center has been by far the best so I now stick with them for everything. For avionics, I went to Sun n Fun air show where all the major avionics company display their equipment and I was able to play with them all and decide on what I thought was the best.
@@310Pilot "Trail and Error." I love it. The "long and winding road" of finding qualified aircraft service and repair.
You look like a great pilot how many hrs in that 310
Thank you Tim! I have probably about 160-200 hours in her and about 500-600 in Twin Cessna's. :)
How much improvement does your yaw damper provide? I've been pondering one for a while and trying to decide the priority compared to other upgrades. Thanks in advance!
Tough to answer Michael. It for sure locks the tail in and is most noticeable to back seat passengers in rough air. The tip tanks do make for some minor tail wag. It is pretty nice to not have to worry about your feet during the flight. :) I guess it would be something I would add when getting a new autopilot but wouldn't consider adding in itself. Mine is currently getting pulled for the STEC 3100 upgrade with built in yaw damper. If you are considering something like that, I would suggest getting it while everything is pulled apart. What autopilot do you have now and what are you considering for upgrades?
Thanks! I only have the SYS30ALT from S-TEC/Genesys--my '68 C-310N (now based in Colorado) was kind of bare bones when I bought it 4.5 yrs ago and I've been slowly upgrading the panel, etc. I'm considering upgrading to the full SYS30, or adding a Yaw Damper, but probably not both at the same time. Trying to decide if the yaw damper would be more helpful (to passengers) than the full SYS30 to me (the pilot). I have a masters degree in Aero Eng/flight controls which makes the yaw damper kind of geeky appealing to me, but I'm also a retired USAF fighter/test pilot who didn't have to pay for this kind of stuff in my previous life! Now that I have to slap leather, I have to think it through more carefully. :^)
I hear you on the upgrade decisions. It is a methodical decision for me as I don't have an infinite amount of money to throw at the plane either. :) I know STEC has some really good upgrade deals on their 3100 for people with existing STEC's. I would at least price that as it seems to be a good deal...especially if you are considering adding two additional servos to what you have. If you decide against it and really want a yaw damper, I'm not sure if mine is transferable or not but I plan to throw everything they remove on eBay. It was the original Cessna installed Yaw Damper and works great. I'm certain it will go for CHEAP. :)
Thank you for your service Michael!! Were you ever at Eglin in your test days? I was a controller there during my AF time.
Thanks for the reply and thank you for your service! Yes, let me know if you put the YD up for sale. I'll look into that 3100. While I was never stationed at Eglin, I did fly F-15's operationally out of there in 1994 while on a TDY and again periodically in 2005-2006 for test.
One more question Kevin. Do you need to have a person with a A&P license to do the work? Or can you do it yourself? Thanks again.
Gene Pollard
An A&P would need to do the work. Although Kevin could do the work if he was supervised by a licensed mechanic, but the mechanic would still have to sign off the work.
@@aaronboulais4498 Thanks for the info man.
Gene, Aaron nailed it. There are certain things the owner is allowed to do and I do all they allow me to. (i.e. change the oil, change spark plugs, change batteries, etc). In this case the A&P had to pull the heater, amend the weight and balance, cap fuel lines, pull circuit breakers, fill out appropriate paperwork, etc. One day (when I retire) I'm going to get my A&P... I wish I could do more.
@@310Pilot Thanks Kevin. I've had friends that had 172 's and two engine in line push /pull in line engine's. But I never ask them about that. I hope that you get the heater installed soon because we miss your right seat radio operator. Thanks again for your video's.
The timing of this video is perfect timing because I had a quick question. We had a twin Cessna crash upon takeoff not far from where I live last week (you might have heard of it). Anyway the plane had taken off from Fullerton Munic. Airport and had some sort of catastrophic problem as he was climbing and came down into a house and killed the family on the ground, along with himself. When I asked about what might have happened my friend said that twin cessnas like that are prone to a violent shift when climbing at full power if they lose an engine, which could have caused him to lose it. The plane came apart in the air. There is video of it. Just curious if that theory is accurate? Seems to me a good well trained pilot would be able to counter something like that.
I think the weather down there wasn't the greatest either. Could have been a loss of control and then overspeed to have the aircraft break up in flight like that. I don't think a stall spin would have had the necessary forces to cause the plane to fall apart.
@@gorgly123 It was just really weird. Yes, the weather wasn't the best but it wasn't terrible. It almost looked like he collided with something.
I have seen many videos and read some of the news reports about this crash. Very tragic for the pilot and people on the ground. At this point, it would all be speculation as I'm not sure they have enough evidence to explain what happened. I will say that the primary danger from loss of an engine is the first few seconds after takeoff. Not in this planes case it would seem. At the altitude he was at, an engine failure should have been able to be handled easily with a well trained pilot. The 414 does well on one engine especially with such a light loading (single pilot/no passengers). It could be pilot error a maybe a mechanical error but it is really early to know for sure. I'll be waiting on the NTSB report on this one for sure.
@@310Pilot This was in our local paper yesterday. Interesting when these tragedies occur, and the investigation gets going, there is always some questionable things that come up. www.ocregister.com/2019/02/08/pilot-in-deadly-yorba-linda-crash-twice-disciplined-by-federal-air-safety-board/
Damn, looks freezing! You guys don't feel the cold. Going through KDTW next Friday, way too cold.
I guess it's become a relative thing to me. When I lived in GA and FL, if it was 50 I thought I was freezing. Now, if it's 15-20 with the sun out and no wind I think it's warm. Ha ha....I still hate winter though. Can't wait for spring. Hope you don't freeze to death in DTW. We just flew down to TX and it was below freezing down there as well. Glad the heat is working now.
Kevin was that Burlington ,VT ?
That is where we went.
It would be nice if you had a short talk on the paperwork involved with the removal of the heater. IE weight and balance, heater CB locked and marked, etc.
Excellent point Mike! I missed on this one but will for sure take your advice on future maintenance related things. I did just swap the batteries and failed to mention it on there but next time I will show the paper work and other relevant issues you bring up. Thank you for the suggestion!
Nice quick ride my friend.......noticed a few 310’s there at your field. Question I hear climbing out at blue line...I think I know what that means but could you clarify please...hope you guys are doing well and wish you were here enjoying this temporary 72 degree weather lol
Blue line, Vyse, is best single-engine rate of climb speed. It's marked by a blue radial line on the airspeed indicator. You don't want to be any slower than that on initial climb-out because you probably won't be able to climb fast enough to avoid obstacles if you lose an engine.
Also, it's not that far above Vmc, minimum-controllable airspeed. Vmc is the speed below which you won't be able to prevent the aircraft from yawing if you lose an engine while the other one is developing full power.
Jim, John described it pretty well before I could get back to you. Twin pilots have to be extra careful about airspeed in the event you lose an engine there is a lot of asymmetric thrust/drag that you have to overcompensate for or the plane will be uncontrollable.
We just got back from TX and were hoping to experience a bit of 70's but a cold front had just gone thru and it was 32F when we landed. Glad we had the heat fixed for that flight!!
@@310Pilot I hope you didn't think I was trying to steal your thunder. As you might have guessed, I was that weird kid in school who was always raising his hand, bouncing in his seat, and saying, "I know! I know! Pick me! Pick me!"
Kev, where did they ship the unit to for service? Haskins?
That's the place Billy. Hal (the owner) was great down there. It came back with the new AMOC kit installed and basically transformed it to a new heater that is AD free and works great! We just flew down to TX on the back side of a cold front and used it from start up to short final down there. We had it turned down to 50% and were very warm on the entire trip. :)
Wait till it's fixed before coming up here! We've been having -15 to -20 Celsius here for the last two weeks... 😉Take care!
That for sure is required heat temps up there Gilles! In 2-3 videos from now I finally have the heat fixed. Jaime and I just flew down to TX and we used the heat the entire way...it was lovely. :)
Is there a way I can ask you a question privately? Thanks
JD, if you feel comfortable sending me your email address here I can shoot you a message off line. I will delete it from here as soon as I see it. Up to you. TH-cam unfortunately did away with the private message function.
Hey I heard your nickname was Bing. Did that stick?
Never heard that one before...where did that come from?
Did you work at ORD?
I did before switching to the TRACON. Just don't remember that. Where'd you hear it from?
Note to self: Self, get next heater repair in summer.
Ha ha...where were you at last summer John! I told myself I was going to fix this darn thing before it got cold again....boy was I wrong! We did just fly to TX on the back side of the cold front and enjoyed using it the whole flight. Finally...heat!! :)
@@310Pilot- Just like me, waiting until January to install my heating system in my new shop, rather than doing it in May, right after the floor was poured, or at any time between then and September, lol. Nope - I just had to wait till January! 😂
Hi Kevin. I was in the Marine Corps Air Wing for ten years during the Vietnam war years. I worked on F-4 Phantoms and A-6 Intruders aircraft. I was AME that worked on conditioning, pressurization, ejection seats and oxygen systems. Is the heating unit in your aircraft mounted in the engine compartment or the cabin area? Thanks again for your video's man! PS I missed the Right Seat on this flight.😎
Semper Fi Devil Dog! I worked on the F/A-18. avionics and radar
@@brianmcgee115 I had a good friend in the radar shop,John Danner in 70-71 and In 73. Ithink he wrote the book on the Aug -10 radar. Just chilling out now in Old San Juan Puerto Rico now. Take care man
Gene, thank you for your service! That heater is located in the nose of the aircraft on the co-pilot side. The tip of the nose is the radar then slightly behind that the air goes into the heater and the exhaust for the heater is flush with the bottom of the nose there. It pulls fuel from the right main tank and the heater has it's own fuel pump. Considering its a 100LL combustion gas heater in the nose, I take that super serious. :)
Can't remember if I knew that you served as well Brian...thank you for your service! Did you spend much time out at sea?
@@310Pilot Thanks Kevin I have never seen one but I will look it up now. Try to stay warn up North. I was raised in Ohio but moved South after the Marine's. I was in the Florida Keys for 12 years. In 89 I jumped on my buddy's dive boat and ended up in St Thomas USVI. I have lived in Old San Juan Puerto Rico since 2006. It's been cold for the last two week's 70 to 73 at night. Take care and thanks again for your video's man.
So have you ever flown with Jamie as your Controller?
I have...it was before I started filming the flights. In the 3rd video or so from now (when I get caught up on editing) she controls me again. On the camera this time. :)
Had no idea how an airplane heater worked. Simple but effective. You don't have a lot of options with air cooled engines. I've owned a number of VW''s over the years and never was impressed with the heat in them, even after replacing all the pieces.
Arch Stanton
Arch, these combustion heaters are typically only installed on multi engine planes. The single engine planes use hot air from around the exhaust pipe as a source of heat for the cabin.
When it works, it's instant and great. :) I picked the plane back up at -7F and it was warm and toasty. The video will be up soon...I'm a slow editor. Jaime and I just flew to TX and used it the entire way down there...happy to have it replaced!
You've got way more snow than Burlington did... So now, how did you get to Burlington?
Strange...it's usually the other way around. On this day, my buddy drove me up there. My Uber Arrow driver had to work. :)
This might be a stupid question. Do you have one of your landing gear lights out? And if so how do you know all 3 parts of the gear is down? I hope you guys get your heater back quickly. Fly Safe
The light in question was easily visible from my seat but I see what you mean. I will try to adjust that so it doesn't look out from the camera angle. If one of the lights didn't illuminate, then I would replace the faulty one with one of the others to make sure it is green before landing. We did finally get the heater back...I'm a little behind on my video editing....and it is amazing. Jaime and I just flew down to TX and it was warm and toasty. :)
310 Pilot Thanks for the reply. And I know you keep your plane top notch. Can’t wait to see your next flight. Fly safe
Glad you and Jaime made it to Texas, Kevin. A belated Welcome to Texas. Hope you’ll have some video of that flight (unless you flew commercial. I live in Texas (DFW Metroplex area). We have cold weather (it’s cold outside, as I write this), but NOTHING like what you guys have had up there in the Chicago area. Plus, our cold snaps only last a few days, then it’s back up to 70 degrees. Last week, we had a high one day of 80 degrees, in February. Go figure. But, as we Texans say, “If you don’t like the weather in Texas, just wait a couple of days. It’ll change.” 😂😂. Happy Flying, and Safe Landings.
So... cheaper to fly out to an A&P in Wisconsin to remove the part than have someone at Aurora pull it? Are there any shops at your FBO? Overpriced? Questionable business practices (never happens of course...)?
I'll try to answer best I can giving the public nature in this forum. :) Yes there are FBO's at ARR and I have used them on occasion, I prefer to use Burlington Air Center for several reasons (they did the pre-purchase on the plane as it was in Wisconsin and have done some of my upgrades). Added bonus for me is the head of their recip side was a former 310 owner and really understands them.
@@310Pilot That is a perfectly acceptable (and realistic) reason for playing outside your own sandbox to shop. The marketplace rules! FBOs always have expertise, best price, local amenities, or just experience with your plane type somewhere but finding all that in one convenient location exactly where you are is usually statistically impossible. I don't know an experienced pilot/owner who doesn't go off the reservation for one of those reasons occasionally (or always) just like I did while I had my Piper. On the other hand, I'm sure there are highly competent mechanics at Aurora that charge a fair price for excellent work. And yes, I do apologize for the "stir the pot" nature of my question. I've been in the broadcast news industry for 40 years and tend to be somewhat direct / inflammatory or even contentious in phrasing questions on occasion. Usually not to intentionally irritate but rather in a twisted sense of sarcasm wrought from 4 decades of working alongside pit vipers.
How many hrs you have in 310? I'd like to move up to a 310 at some point.
Not sure exactly Brad. I need to tally things up for insurance renewal and I will try to remember to come back and update it. I'm guessing I have about 160-200 in the 310 and 500-600 in Twin Cessna's. They are very capable airplanes...good luck if you decide to move up. I'd suggest joining The Twin Cessna Flyer (owners group) if you get serious about it. They have a great forum with very knowledgeable owners to help answer any questions. Or of course, you are welcome to ask me and I will help as much as I can.
@@310Pilot Thanks.. much appreciated. I want to move up to something...I have about 50 in retrac. Looks like you can buy a nice 310 for the money. I've flown in a few with my instructor. Love the speed.
BRRRR ... that had to be a cold 20 minute flight, Kevin.
It sure was Patrick! We are glad to have the heat back and working again. :)
Hi Kevin, another great flight thanks. Question, how do pilots and aircraft prepare to land on dirty runways, i.e. ice, snow, or water? I have seen this done by many aircraft, but how do you keep from sliding on the asphalt or concrete.
You're welcome...glad you enjoyed it! Pilot's need to review the performance data to make sure they have the appropriate runway lengths and crosswind components to land safely. In my type plane with the long runways at ARR, as long as the braking is not reported as Nil or essentially zero braking ability, then I am okay landing if the runway is open. Airliners use a much more complex system called TALPA (think that's, take off and landing performance assessment). They factor in numerical values derived from friction testing the runway, amount/type of contamination on runway, braking reports from other aircraft, crosswinds, aircraft weights, etc etc to decide if they can land or not. Hope this answers your question/makes sense.
Hum... no air conditioning in the heat of summer OR freezing with no heater? I’m voting for no air conditioning... full disclosure, I’ve never had air conditioning.. so, I don’t know what I’m missing... thanks for another outstanding diversion.
I'm with you Robert! No a/c is easy...just climb a bit to the cool air. No heat in midwestern winters is brutal. I'm a couple weeks behind on editing but we have her back with the new heater now. We just made a trip down to TX on the back side of a cold front and we had the heat on from startup to short final and it was perfectly toasty! Here's to never procrastinating again. :)
I thought at first the female C90 controller (West Satellite, 133.5) might have been your bride, but then I decided it wasn't.
Looking back, I don't think I did much winter flying there, because it sure looks hard to find things.
Wasn't her on this one. She does work me on I think the 3rd video from now. I'm a slow editor...that is the hard part for sure for me. They changed the name from West Satellite to Sector 3...not sure why but West Satellite sure is a better description. :) Did you know Randy Ezell? He worked at the TRACON until they split and then stayed tower.
The snow around here really makes spotting runways a challenge sometimes...especially when the runways gets that white film on them.
@@310Pilot I didn't know many tower guys. When I got there in March, '73, they'd been split, up/down, since about January. I went upstairs a few times to get some familiarization, and the split had been recent enough that guys in the radar room often went up to fill a shift, but I didn't really know any upstairs people.
Now, I did get to know a handful when I was in Traffic Management at the Center in 1988/'89. There was a period of time when three or four of us were detailed to the cab to help coordinate the NY area launches midday. We were under heavy flow restrictions from ZOB and had to mix the ORD departures with overflights we had in the air to give them the needed space.
The one guy I remember from those days (but not his name) was a guy who lived down near Clow and commuted in his own plane into ORD for his shifts. But he's another who was probably long gone by the time you got there.
There had always been a South Satellite (MDW and CGX, which was gone by the time you started) and a North Satellite (PWK and NBU), so when the TRACon absorbed our West Satellite sector (DPA and ARR) they kept the name. Both Centers I was in always had names for the sectors based on major NavAids (or, in the case of ORD departures, function), but a couple of adjoining facilities sometimes used sector numbers, a practice that grated on me.
Looks like right main gear light wasn't illuminated.
I saw and thought the same thing. But, it may have been the angle of the camera, relative to the light bulb.
@@richardvarner2802 Went back and looked at some previous videos and the light is illuminated about the same from the same camera angle. However, you may be right.
It is confirmed that it was lit up but very very dim. Kevin you should consider getting a new light if you are not aware.
Thanks guys. I just edited the next video and saw where I readjusted it and it looks brighter from the camera perspective now. It always shines nice and bright in my seat. I'm terrified of a gear up landing so I reference frequently while flying. :)
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