17:50 “Well the gear came down” Her expression, priceless.

Jamie’s face when you said the landing gear works was priceless.

Dual vac pump failures in twins is common. Vac pumps seldom make TBO. If they are both old and have hundreds of hours, they are on borrowed time. If the engines are running, the pumps are working full time keeping the boots (wings and tail) down and operating gyros. If one fails, the other must take up the entire vac load and it will often fail in a few minutes. Best plan is vac pump OH every 4 to 500 hrs. The new glass horizons, or a back-up electric gyro, make it less of an emergency. I see you got your left CHT repaired. Keep up the great flights.

And another enjoyable trip while I sip my coffee after night shift .... good job you two !!!

Love the story about how 310Pilot got started. So basically your wife sent you to the hardware store but you didn't get past the toy store. Love it! (I have done the same.) LOL

Scary. Before the electronics it could have been a real problem. You looked concerned, but we're always in control and confident. Good job.

At least you weren't over the Bermuda triangle when this happened

Wow, that would certainly be a big-time coincidence having 2 independent pumps fail one after the other. As a auto mechanic, my first thought would be some common link, like that valve you mentioned ... or maybe something behind the dash, since that has all been moved around recently. Curious to know if it was actually both pumps! You'd better play the lottery if it was! 😉 I watched a KZfaq video a couple years back of someone who lost their pump in IMC - that was a BAD situation! I don't recall how that story ended, but it was INTENSE. Lots of people don't make it out of that. Great you have all that redundancy, and weren't in IMC at the time! Perfect timing for the upgrades! Man, what I wouldn't give to have 82° up here right now. I can't even get my house that warm if I tried! 😂 Beautiful shots flying past those smaller clouds, and a great flight as always! Thanks, Kevin & Jamie! 👍🍻

Hey guys, nice flight,interested to see what happened to v/pump, looking forward to the rest of the trip, GO DAWGS! Especially tomorrow

Kevin: we had dual vaccum pump faillure.... Jamie: casually looking outside enjoying the view

Loved Jaime's look when you said "the gear came down!" LOL

"Well the gear came down". Her expression = I sure as hell hope they came down

Watched a few flight channels before but I haven’t seen any quite like y’all’s . Keep up the great work!👍🏼

Never flown in a small plane..! But you two are so REAL LIFE. Barron pilot is ok, but you two make this channel so entertaining!! Please keep up the great video work.

Jaime, keep your hand to yourself. This is a family show! lol😊

The SEC is well represented in this episode. GEAUX TIGERS!! (LSU) Will probably see your Dawgs in the SEC championship.

Yep-your Cessna does'nt suck! Really enjoy your Flights- from an old Crew-chief here!

I would have pisssed my pants wake up from a nap to hear shits failing 😱 and hes so calm lol

Kevin, Just like old home week for me. I am a displaced Southerner! Grew Up in Montgomery then moved to Birmingham. Still have fond memories of my childhood. Auburn University has a great aviation program. Go “Tigers”! I roll with the “Tide” but my Dad was a diehard “Tiger” fan”! Y’all have a great time in Alabama!

I've learned that when ever I sleep in anything moving, especially a small plane, I try to figure out a way to loosely connect a seat (or atleast a shoulder) belt around my person. While it hasn't paid off in a plane, it most certainly did while sound asleep in the 3rd row seat of an Expedition. It prevented a minor fender bender from being major injuries as I woke up in midair above the second row seat, after a small 2dr Honda pulled out in front of us...

Kevin dude .. its always exciting flying with you guys ... Love your vids man ... you are living my dream thanks for bringing us all along

Fun to watch even though I spend half of my life at flight level 400 but I got to tell you that seeing you taxi off of the taxi lines drives me nuts. When I started my professional flying career I had a 20000 hour Captain tell me “son the center of that yellow line is reserved for Captains and potential Captain’s”

Well done Kevin. Glad you have the new panel to back up your back up 6 pack. You mastered the mysterious failure with ease. Stay warn and take care of Lady J. Thanks for sharing

"Jolted violently awake". And "that's the new made up phrase". She's great! And Kevin, there was absolutely nothing wrong with that landing.

The only time that I had both vacuum pumps fail, I was IFR and on a IFR clearance headed to Nome Alaska from the north. When I broke out of the weather I saw that if I canceled IFR, I could get below the overcast and scud run into Nome by getting over the water of Norton Sound and just have water below me instead of mountains below me. Nome was 500' overcast and 5 miles visibility. It worked out well...I just had to wait my turn for the special ATC clearance into Nome. I came in under a special VFR clearance with 3 other aircraft at the same time which was a common occurrence when the weather was low. I was flying a Piper Navajo and came in with the other pilots who were all flying Cessna 207's...a work horse of an airplane back then in Alaska (the 1990's) and still is a work horse in Alaska today.

In our 1959 Brand new Cessna 182B, we had a generator failure, with 30 hrs on the airframe & engine. This was on takeoff, when the panel light came on, my dad radioed the tower to go around & land. He did not declare an emergency, but almost blew a gasket himself. There were no parts, as the generator broke a brush on takeoff, a call to the factory got quick action, as we were in Chanute Kansas. With newer pilots relying on glass panels, the old school pilots feel old. Steam gauges are still the best IMHO. Kevin calmly described the problem, while Jamie returned to the right seat, without being asked. They could have had another failure at any time, but continued to the destination. Good job to you both, for handling what easily could have become an in air emergency, at any time.

Glad it wasn't more serious, but that is strange, 2 independent system to go like that. Know you told me it wasn't in the new systems, but those old ones are the ones that many of us learned to fly with, and anytime they are compromised it keeps you on your toes. Hope they had the facilities there to help you w/it, have been there, but a long time ago. Pretty area.

Jamie's face about the gear coming down... classic!

Kevin, Really nice video. Good observation of your wing surfaces to notice the boots and then the vacuum pumps. I would fly with you any day. Also, I just read your interview with The Cessna Flyer Association. To be compared with Sky King (which I religiously watched as a child) is what I consider to be an honor. Keep up the great work and look forward to your next adventure.

War Eagle. AU '91. Love your videos!!!! Going to be a great game tomorrow.

Jamie going old school - kriss kross. "weather and NOTAMS" is the new hotness.

Jamie: "Warm it up Chris." Crickets Unacceptable!

Auburn....you go South till ya smell it and West till ya step in it! Go Dawgs y’all. Glad you got to make the trip and did so safely!

I was eagerly waiting for the explanation as to the purpose of vacuum pumps (at the edge of my seat like "oh sh#t").

Nice job... “ Gear is down always a good thing “ now fix the vacuum pumps and good to go

Reminds me back n 70's of Island hopping in Hawaii with a 9-pass. Cessna. Allot of scary moments between the island ocean channels and mountains up & down wind draft.

While watching this, I can't believe why flat earthers still believe the earth ain't "spinning" fast as hell. Just take a look at the airplane, the thing is flying fast as hell but if you look at the horizon or the ground, it looks like the airplane isn't moving at all. I can't stop watching your videos. Keep them coming :)

Happy to see that your new avionics saved you from having a serious problem with the pump failure. Very strange, eh? Stay safe!

Liked Jaime's expression when Kevin said 'at least the gear's down'... :^)

Jamie: "I don't like it when things are mysteriously failing". Grabs her purse... lol

My Mother used to say "wear clean underwear when you are going somewhere" Oh well never mind. Great flight. Cool heads always prevail. Thanks again.

On my 4th flight newly minted PPL, I’m with my friend and we land at a small place in NJ and as I am taxiing back I look at my Vaccuum in my 172S, and it’s reading zero. I do a high speed taxi down the runway and the Vaccuum barely gets anything. 1 of 2 pumps sheared, luckily under VFR I didn’t need the attitude or DG, still scary. Called flight school I rented from Chief Mechanic said as long as I’m comfortable I can fly it back and obviously they will repair it, so flew back no DG no Attitude that was reliable. Pretty scary but it’s interesting how we pilots are trained and programmed so much to immediately identify and resolve issues. Glad you had the glass to keep going!

Here it is 2021. The 2nd of jan. 0504 am and I found these videos. Your entrance music just seems peaceful. And watching your videos just really awesome...thank you thank you. I'm going to watch these now.. God bless you guys and fly safe...

This Pilot is a highly skilled man and his wife is very intelligent in aviation also, I learn a lot from watching as I am a Student Commercial pilot licence. Kind regards from Australia. I'm a new loyal subscriber. Thanks for the Video's, I'm going to watch them all. :)

Well you had some inflight entertainment with those pumps. She has great radio skill.

Well you infected your plane in Cow Town Auburn! Can’t wait to see what caused the dual? You’re in the Catbirds Seat to the Championship now and I’ll be in the viewing section. Congratulations! It was a rough weekend for the Tide with Tua going down for the season and two more key players. My MSU wife and daughter were happy they accomplished something in their loss (harsh). Looking forward to the next installment. Roll Tide and keep’em coming.

"if you say so" nice reply!

Outstanding as usual. Entertaining and informative! Very interesting to watch! Thanks!

Jaime dont need no stinking mirror!..great video..tks!👍🏻👍🏻

Hope you can get the issues fixed and without any problems. Thanks for another great video.

"It's doneskis" I loved it

I use to be called when a sign was out, got there and it had four lamps that were dead not one. So sometimes if something has a backup you don't know there is a problem till both are finally dead...

How bout them DAWGS dude? They made me freaking nervous that final 10 minutes! Nothing better than college football Saturdays 😃 GO DAWGS

Fantastic scenery as usual but don't like things failing while flying. Hope you can get it repaired before you continue on the trip. Fly safe.

Thanks for having me along!

The Bulldogs played well today so you have to be happy about that !! You flew right over me in Huntsville.

Great video guys !!!!! It's sure nice to see you all calm & collected. It's only an emergency if you let it be. And now I have to wait for your next one.....................

Upon stepping from the plane you should have yelled ROLL TIDE!

Nice Ride Kevin & Jamie...Thanks ';-)

Thanks for the heart flutter Kevin! When you first called "undercarriage", I couldn't see the gear down lights... Then you started extending flaps... still no lights! Oh my... OK... he put the gear down. Whew... DRAMA! Glad to see you had a safe flight! =]

Hope the AUO folks were able to help you with your vacuum pumps. I'll stay tuned for the rest of the story. We hope to have a fully operational ATC tower for the airport in a few years to help sequence the traffic. Their pilot training program is growing by leaps and bounds and game day traffic can really make things exciting.

First thing I thought of was a connection failure for a dual loss. Just by the odds if it you'd have to think about the rework of the dash as the culprit. Happy it wasn't anything more substancial.

I had the same thing but I was in not only IFR weather but in icing in cloud and snowstorm and 300/1 at Wilkes-Barre airport.

Enjoyed your flight. Sky King was my hero so C-310s always get my attention. Now the "INSTRUCTOR GENE" kicks in. You declared yourself "clear of 36" not only before you crossed the dashed line but before you even completed the turn onto A1. Shameonya. I still gave the video a like though. Beautiful aircraft. Happy landings.

We have to ask if the pilots have the "automated weather" and "notams from flight service". Even if they respond in the affirmative, we have to read them notams concerning runways. You run just a few aircraft into snowplows and everyone gets all uptight.

Panel looks nice with all the new screens and gauges.

Definitely need to come down to South Padre. Happy to show you all around!

I enjoy your videos. I might be picking up my "new" T310Q by the end of January. War Eagle!

Great video once again, I'm glad the failure didn't affect anything crucial and you landed safe and well :) Looking forward to the next instalment!

What a riot you guys are. Who needs vacum pumps, Kevin is all nonchalant about things but at 17:53 Jamies look at you was priceless! In her head she was saying" G**damn landing gear and undercarriage better be ok"! I dont think her eyes could have rolled any harder. Not sure if you noticed it in edit the process or not. Thanks for another video.

Get that girl a My Pillow travel edition.

I dont care if its just the seat belt alert, if I see a red light come on, Im landing

We used to take our 350i in there all the time. Get's crazy with all of the flight training that is conducted there.

Wow we live in Opelika the town that connects to Auburn. Neat seeing you land here

You guys are really fun to watch. Keep those videos coming!

Gotta have something go wrong every now and again just to keep it interesting.

In the middle 1970's, our 7 member flying club had Mattituck in Long Island overhaul the Lycoming IO 320s at about 2200 hours on our PA 30 Twin Commanche. We were all commercial and instrument rated and I was an airline pilot. It was based at Belmar on the NJ shore. The first trip after overhaul was taken by two of my partners from there to Norfolk in night soft IFR conditions. Both vacuum pumps failed. We had an electric turn co-ordinator which was a turn and bank that looked like an attitude indicator and they successfully completed the flighty. Mattituck, a highly respected shop had not replaced the hoses and when they re-installed them tiny pieces of rubber were loosened and soon failed the graphite vane dry vacuum pumps. Mattituck sheepishly replaced all the pumps and hoses. Ironically, we had operated a PA 24 Commanche before and we had added a ventury in parallel with that vacuum pump with a check valve and 337 form. A few years after that mod my partners called and said that pump had failed also but it wasn't apparent until after they landed and the suction went to zero. Those graphite vane dry pumps were a disaster. They could fail at any time. Your 310 is fancier than the L 1011s I flew but they did autoland.

Nice flight Jamie & Kevin. I really like your camera view of the new panel...it looks really clear, clean, and neat. I will look forward in what happen to those vacuum pumps that quit working at the same time, it must of been a system failure somewhere that cause both to malfunction at the same time. Well I imagine you know what happened by now. Don :-)

I dont have the balls to fly and i have been up for a ride twice on scenic flights in mackinaw city MI. I love your videos sir u are my hero

In other news, both Sun Visors are fine! 😂🤣😂 #visorlyfe

Thanks for splainin use of vacuum.

So, y’all joined the mile high club 😂😂

Watching this today was made even better after the game last night, Go Dawgs indeed!!!

Every video is better than the previous, keep them coming.

Bizarre double failure, oh the joys of aircraft ownership. Great video.

The 73 "Q" I flew on a cancelled check run between MSP and MDW with multiple stops every nite back in the 80's, had a dual failure in IMC. it's kinda scary when you see your attitude indicator start rolling over... One finds herself flying Needle, Ball and HSI giggle. Fortunately it happened under my final leg about 30 minutes short of getting back. Sometime along that A/C's life somebody replaced the original WET PUMPS with dry pumps during an overhaul or reman (cheaper) and the dry pumps fail just like that bang - bang... I have had just about one of everything crap out at one time or another in Cessna Twins. Eventually you'll have your bird completely solid. You seem to spend the $ where needed. Enjoy your channel.

I'm hoping to know what happenend to the pumps, that is strange. Glad it was not a major problem. Cheers, Rik Spector

Minutes 6:00-9:30 are gold. That’s exactly how the conversation would have went if it my lady and I in that situation. Hahahah

Kevin, once on a VFR flight in my Baron, I, too, experienced a dual vacuum pump failure in a 30-minute flight segment. Fortunately VFR. Taught me dual pumps are not as redundant as seemed before. Good lesson learned. Would have been harsh maybe if it’d been IFR at the time ... You’re an admirably disciplined pilot in ever;thing you do. We’re all a bit more cautious about announcing “clear of the runway” these days ... until we have our tail feathers across the hold short line exiting, don’t you think?

Jamie: .....What girl

I too have never heard of a dual vacuum pump failure. Nice video!

Awesome sim, wish I had one for the man cave. Well Microsoft FS 2020 should be out soon, it’ll have to do. BTW, love the colors in your home. We have the same taste. Can’t wait to see the bird with its new feathers. Stay well.....

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Glad it wasn't anything too 'serious'. Always smart to have redundancy just in case.

Be interesting to see what they find if you can have the pumps opened up. That has got to be a very weird deal.

Thank you, guys. Another great video. Please let us know what caused the failure if you can

Ha ha, Jamie is like, yeah OK, yawn... Ho hum, quit freaking babe, it's OK!...grin

Great video guys. Tomorrow is the big day, Dawgs Vs Tigers, the oldest football rivalry in the South. Hope the kind folks at Auburn treated you guys well. BIG GAME for both the Dawgs and the Tigers. WAR EAGLE!!!

Go Dawgs, them Ms.State Dog's we only have to deal with the Crimson tide Saturday 👍👌🇺🇸

Love watching all of your videos! Very weird with the vacuum pumps. Goooo Dawgs!

Go gators. Lol. Thanks for sharing sir. Enjoyed.