Piper Malibu - Calgary to Vancouver IFR westbound
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- A routine trip from to the west coast from Calgary. Complete POV trip with big headwinds, cockpit tour, rough air, PEE bottle, and homemade ATC approach to VMC landing. 24 mins, 1080P, 60fps
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I was blessed to fly an 86 with the 550 Viking power plant with a 4 bladed M&T prop for many years. We had the G500 coupled to an Avidyne 540 and Garmin 430. One piece pilot side heated windscreen. Aux heater popped the breaker a couple times. One turbo issue, but other than bird strikes (big bucks) it was my favorite AC. Most important item in the cockpit…..the pee bottle. Thanks for the great video.
Love your videos, and I have really enjoyed learning the capabilities of the Malibu. What a great plane. Please keep posting your videos.
Enjoyed this, thanks for sharing! Great to get a sense of the Malibu's capabilities.
Great video, thanks for the effort.
Thanks for the reply Martin miss your Malibu flights.
More videos please. Great learning tool. Very entertaining as well. ☁️☁️🛬🛬
Great IFR video. There are a lot of “Woo look at the clouds” videos out there, but listening to the ATC chatter, being peppered with little bits of wisdom & seeing some live decision-making are all interesting & enjoyable. Thanks
Thanks Gary, glad you like them. I make the vids primarily for myself or at least what I would want to watch. The Malibu is a wonderful ship, I enjoy showing what it can do, sharing SOP’s from my day job and ideas for engaging keen non-pilot passengers...in my case my wife. Stay tuned for more, I have film from several further trips in the can, just have to get thru the edit process.
Hey Martin! I really enjoyed the video. Haven't flown in several years, but been traveling down memory lane watching videos like this. Terrifically done!
This (and my other) vids were made for me to watch when my own flying becomes limited to “memory lane” ...hopefully a long time from now, which is why they’re mostly POV, really glad you enjoyed it in the meantime, thanks for watching :-)
this is amazing! I am a student at the Calgary flying club and I think ive seen your Malibu before. This is so great because im so used to flying vfr in the Cessna but seeing how great IFR is just soaring over the clouds is amazing to me! I would love to fly with you sometime in the future!
Love your radio skills. 👍🏻
John, glad you like the channel. One does get more comfortable with ATC and the mic after thirty five years of flying IFR and listening to and learning from others. The FAR’s (CAR’s in Canada) are quite prescriptive about language and phraseology but mercifully there is a small amount of latitude left within which you can develop a style of your own :-)
I really enjoy watching the video, I wish I could fly IFR - maybe one day. Keep up the good work. P.S. I like the peep bottle (LOL)
better than a water bottle. Nice video
Love your commentary, you are a true professional and would love to fly with you anytime. Subscribed!
SuperRook, glad you liked the vid. You probably don’t need to see the the bottle in action ;-)
thanks for answering that question i have asked a few bloggers about this but no response .i was wondering about having to pee
Great video.
I wish I could do the same thing
I have used many a Travel John bag on my flights, worth more than their weight in gold when you need them :) Just make sure you only have good friends/family on the flight with you.
Great video as always but please don't cut so much of the video. It is enjoyable to have a longer video and experience the flight. Not seeing the landing was a shock. thanks for sharing! I enjoy your piloting and seeing the capable Malibu in action. Thank you!
bcordoba555
Glad you enjoy my vids, thanks for watching! Yes I did cut this one a bit short, wheels down, vid over! In a 2:15hr flight I try to select 20-25min that I think most viewers will find interesting....maybe should have had more landing and less pee bottle in this one :-) Thanks for the feedback, I’ll keep in mind for next one... or maybe there’s more interest in a 35min vid than I am thinking?
Very good video and good explination... Edmonton, Alberta
So, honest question. If you're solo in the plane and you need to use the 'range extender' do you just drop your pants right there in the seat or carefully go to the back and speed pee and hope the AP doesn't pick that moment to pack it in?
Dave, If you loosen your seatbelt (a lot but still keeping it on) you can get your pants loosened and zipper down to pee without leaving your seat. I keep a box of tissues handy for clean up as the process is not quite as “drip free” as the conventional male “stand up” way. I would NEVER leave the pilot seat whether flying solo or with passenger(s), with or without the AP. It’s not as tricky as you might imagine as the Malibu is usually on top of cloud in smooth air (as the video shows). My wife is the only female that has used the range-extender and yes, she goes back to the cabin to use it!
How are you able to get the audit so perfectly clear with no background noise? Its awesome!
Mark, GoPros have a wired audio input. I use a cable that taps into the headset’s mic and phone jacks and then branches off to provide the camera with direct wired input of anything spoken or heard over the headset, but at the expense of any ambient cabin noise. This results in the very clear audio you hear but unfortunately the signal has not even the slightest bit of background noise that is normal in flight. The Malibu is quiet…but not that quiet! To make the video a little more realistic one could add a low volume engine sound track over top as many others do.
What is that thing on your windshield is that a heater of some sort?
SuperRook, yes it’s a heater. Called a “de-ice plate” it’s purpose is to keep a portion of the windshield clear of ice so that you can see well enough to land after descending through an icing layer. Later models of the Malibu heated the entire windshield rather than just the small bit you see on my ship. Much more expensive but nicer to look through the 99.9% of the time when it’s not in use.
What brand is your "Range Extender"? Looks like a much better device than what I have been using. Thanks for the great video!
Dean, sadly don’t know. I bought it many years ago in Oshkosh at the “Fly Market” It’s simple, functional, easily cleaned and fairly spill proof.
Nice video. EHHH. My last twin (since sold) had a potty seat with a curtain to provide privacy. (Picture a 4 seat club seating arrangement with the rear forward facing seat having the potty). I had ladies ask where is the potty, when we lifted the lower part of the seat to show the potty, they'd always say....no thanks, I'll hold it. LOL.
Looking to purchase a 1984 Malibu with hot plate anything you recommend to look for?
Al, if looking for any PA46 the best thing you could do is join the owners group MMOPA. The fee is $250/year, I think they have a free trial period. Their website is a vast library of help of every type from buying to selling to maintaining, to training and insurance. See MMOPA.com. I joined about a year before buying my ship 10years ago and learned a ton before buying and continued to learn ever since. The best $250 bucks you’ll ever spend.
Moving out to Calgary next year. Thinking of picking up a lightly used M350. What sort of hangar fees are there for something of this size out there?
If you’re thinking CYBW I would guess not less than $700/mo and maybe up to $1200/mo depending on heat, amenities, dedicated front row space vs having to shuffle planes in a large communal hangar. Likely cheaper at outlying airports like High River or Olds-Didsbury and of course much more expensive at CYYC.
Thanks for posting! Enjoyed your entire video. What is price of 100LL fuel (I'm from Houston, Texas) from your home airport?
Buck, right now 100LL avgas is about $CDN 1.75 per litre in our part of the world. At current exchange rates that’s about $US5.15/US gal. We just came back from a trip to Palm Springs and back and paid between $US3.90-$US4.95 along the way. If gas is going to be expensive you might as well be burning it in the most efficient ship out there, the Malibu!
Thanks for quick reply! Keep up the great work.
How well does the cabin heater work at that altitude and OAT? Looks like it needs help.
Ictpilot, the 310HP engine in a Malibu works hard to meet all of the demands on it! It’s turbo has to provide a 20”+ boost in manifold pressure to feed the engine at 20,000’, pressurize the cabin to 5.2psi AND provide cabin heat from a heat exchanger off the exhaust system. Bottom line is that on a sunny day, with outside air temp at 20,000’ about -25C the cabin heat will just about keep up....if you are on the sunny side of the cabin (as I am in this vid). If you are on the shady side of the cabin, if it’s dark, if you are in descent with the throttle pulled back or if outside air temp is much below normal then you’ll want to have a light jacket on. Piper did make an optional auxiliary electric heater but our ship is not fitted with it. For 95% of our flying heat is not a factor...but once in a while a light jacket or blankets in the back helped. Any piston powered single that flies in the flight levels will have this issue.
martinjmerritt Thx. Time to upgrade to a Meridian! 😁😁😁 Also looking at a Cirrus SR22T, wonder how well their heater works. At least it doesn't have to do pressure.
Your videos are excellent! It would be nice to have them more often. Every trip has something to offer us. You mentioned switching fuel tanks every 10 gals. Thanks for the tip. You later mentioned it was 1:30 to the start of your descent. This was based on a fix at the other end where you normally start your descent?
Richard Friesen
Flying in the flight levels requires some thinking ahead. At 1000’ per minute (a pretty good descent rate in a Malibu) descent to sea level from 20,000’ will require 20 min over which time the ship will cover 60-70 miles! Modern GPS navigators like the the Garmin 530W or GTN650/750 help with the math. They allow us to enter a waypoint, an altitude we want to be at that waypoint and what descent rate we want. The navigator then tells us when to start down to hit our waypoint at the desired altitude at the desired descent rate. In the case of this trip we know (from experience) that ATC will want us at 10-12,000’ at waypoint HARAS so our top-of-descent point is calculated by our Garmin GNS530W to hit that point at that altitude. We set this up shortly after reaching our cruise altitude so fairly early in the flight we know how long before we will be asking ATC for descent clearance.
Thanks for the reply. The planned descent point is a good tip. I usually have an idea in my head of when and where I want to descent but all to often I leave it up to ATC or get busy with other things which then can lead to a crammed descent which leads to high airspeed, a rougher than needed ride if descending through clouds etc.
Do you usually descend at 1000' per minute in the Malibu?
Richard, it depends. If I can determine that the ride downhill will be smooth then, yes 1000fpm is a good number. If the weather is either forecast to be turbulent in the descent or if ATC advise others are getting a rough ride or if their are PIREPS to that effect then we have to slow down. When you slow down the fpm required to hit your target drops too. Descending on either either side of the Rockies turbulence is common, sometimes requiring descent rates of 600-700fpm to keep airspeeds in the green.
Agreed. When I first read it, it just sounded like 1000fpm was the standard for you.
are you going to make anymore videos?
Al, yes it has been a while. I do have raw vid for one more Malibu trip that remains unedited and will publish it at some point. The vid is of the last trip we took to Wyoming, Kansas and California before selling the Malibu in August :-( Building a plane has been on my bucket list for a long time and I should be starting on a Rans S20 by Christmas. I also fly a turbine twin as retirement job and expect I'll want to make a vid or two from it so my IFR vids are not over yet but editing has to compete with all sorts of other stuff...including soon, building :-) Thanks very much for your interest.
Hi Martin. Too bad you sold your Malibu; I own one of these magnificent machines (N4375R) and enjoyed your informative vids. I have used the built-in pilot relief tube on many occasions so that I could equal the range of the aircraft (lol). I have the long-range tanks which are good for more than 9 hours of flying. I can’t imagine ever selling it (unless I buy a Pilatus PC-12!). It’s such a capable aircraft.
I endorse your effort to build your own airplane. I built (and still own and fly) a Velocity (N767SD). Great experience but it takes a lot of your focused attention (in my case 3.5 years of building).
Martin you are a great pilot! Just a reminder when you say the numbers: e.g. it is not twenty two point fifty three but two two point five three.