Great video, I was taught on light twins and we never used flaps on takeoff in case you have power issues after take off. Apart from that everything looked good. Love the Skymaster.
Skymaster is a different beast than a conventional twin and he did it correctly (POH calls for 0-1/3 flaps on normal t/o and you'll greatly extend your roll if you don't use flaps). It doesn't have the standard issues in a conventional twin (no VMC) so the additional drag from 1/3 flaps isn't a big deal. The only issue is that you need to keep in mind is that drag increases while the gear cycles so you need to wait a bit longer before retracting the gear.
Please keep posting flight departures thoughts and procedure's for the skymaster it is on my shortlist and want to learn all i can about everything involved with owning and flying this airplane. Thanks for the video.
Oh wow I looked at buying this airplane in 2019. drove up to the hangar it was taken apart in. Unfortunately he wanted too much money for an airplane we would have to continue to disassemble and truck out of there. glad to see its back together! If your still missing the early logbooks, my dad knows where they are!
I remember when I was young when I getting my license I had quite a few hour in the Skymaster non pressurized 67 model the I flew did have all electronic goodie’s. Back then you were a big sh!t on the field if you even had a gps. Good video nice plane.
Dan. If you have foreflight I spent WAY too long doing a virtual one. (I have an NA one, but the check lists look almost identical with the exception of the set pressurization). DM me if you want me to send you the foreflight file.
Yes I still own it and fly when I can. Unfortunately between work and weather I don’t get to fly as much as I’d like but I continue to hope I’ll get more time in the future. This continues to be a good plane for me. It is easy to fly, I like the pressurization, it is mostly fast enough. It is not cheap to operate but it isn’t as expensive as the bigger and faster twins.
I’ve been flying and enjoying it but haven’t made any videos flying. I’ve tried but wasn’t happy with the camera or audio. I’ll work out the technical details and start making some videos; hopefully soon.
Great video, I was taught on light twins and we never used flaps on takeoff in case you have power issues after take off. Apart from that everything looked good. Love the Skymaster.
Skymaster is a different beast than a conventional twin and he did it correctly (POH calls for 0-1/3 flaps on normal t/o and you'll greatly extend your roll if you don't use flaps). It doesn't have the standard issues in a conventional twin (no VMC) so the additional drag from 1/3 flaps isn't a big deal. The only issue is that you need to keep in mind is that drag increases while the gear cycles so you need to wait a bit longer before retracting the gear.
Great video. Would love to see more with various cruise configs, fuel burn and power settings and just overall flights.
Thanks, yes I do plan to make more videos with flights
Please keep posting flight departures thoughts and procedure's for the skymaster it is on my shortlist and want to learn all i can about everything involved with owning and flying this airplane. Thanks for the video.
Oh wow I looked at buying this airplane in 2019. drove up to the hangar it was taken apart in. Unfortunately he wanted too much money for an airplane we would have to continue to disassemble and truck out of there. glad to see its back together! If your still missing the early logbooks, my dad knows where they are!
Yeah it took a fair amount of work and $ to get it back together. It did fly out of there eventually.
@@dr.dansgarage did you get all the logbooks back to new? They exist, the old owner just never tracked them down
@@logannoess9983 I have logs back to new; but there are a couple gaps.
I remember when I was young when I getting my license I had quite a few hour in the Skymaster non pressurized 67 model the I flew did have all electronic goodie’s. Back then you were a big sh!t on the field if you even had a gps. Good video nice plane.
Ok so you have a samurai and a skymaster?!? Living my dream or pretty close to it!!
Haha must be a manic mechanical thing..love the old Suzuki's
Dan. If you have foreflight I spent WAY too long doing a virtual one. (I have an NA one, but the check lists look almost identical with the exception of the set pressurization). DM me if you want me to send you the foreflight file.
So what’s the status on your 337 now. Do you still have it and do you fly it? If so, how do you like the 337 ownership?
Yes I still own it and fly when I can. Unfortunately between work and weather I don’t get to fly as much as I’d like but I continue to hope I’ll get more time in the future. This continues to be a good plane for me. It is easy to fly, I like the pressurization, it is mostly fast enough. It is not cheap to operate but it isn’t as expensive as the bigger and faster twins.
If you ever want to sell it, please do let me know!
Any more updates coming on this Skymaster?
I’ve been flying and enjoying it but haven’t made any videos flying. I’ve tried but wasn’t happy with the camera or audio. I’ll work out the technical details and start making some videos; hopefully soon.
Why did you lean the engines?
It’s mostly to reduce plug fouling. The field elevation is about 4000’ and Mike Busch says we should lean while idling and on the ground.
@@dr.dansgarage got you.
What kind prop
Looks like mt
Yes, MT composite