Nice vox

Thanks Shawn. I’ll be at KARR today if u want to visit the 340

I agree..I watched the last 2 videos and was saddened by the feeling that I was looking at a dying channel. Your personal Business should be kept private but you owe it to your subs to update if the channel has plans to continue or if it will die a slow death.

I agree 100%, we the subscribers keep you going and should be told some sort of an update.

Definitely after that announcement it was as if that was it but it’s still going on, very strange

I don't see how they would owe anyone an update, any more than we would need to divulge our personal business, dreams, ambitions to them. They've made a great contribution to aviation and shared their lives with us, leave it alone.

Brian Baskerville..no one has asked them to divulge anything other than what the future of the channel might be. What gives you the need to tell anyone to "leave it alone". I enjoyed their videos and would like to see more..especially those that aren't months old.

Nice catch.

He’s not still in the air, aircraft and hanger sold some time ago.

@@ljavtech1479 As of right now running the tail number through Flight Aware it's still registered to him.

Noticed the same, why do you think he didn't center the plane in the runway?

Word is, the plane sold in late December. I don't think anybody knows anything else beyond that.

As a Flight, only the Flight leader communicates, that way there is no confusion. But, notice that Kevin, in all his communications, said 'Flight' or 'Flight of two' to make sure the ground controllers were aware. His friend Ryan didn't hear the initial call of "Flight', although Kevin used it, and commented on the Primary target close in.

He posted on a pilot forum that they are just slammed at work due to personnel shortages and they don’t have time for flying regularly anymore. He didn’t want the plane to just sit so they decided to sell. He may make some vids with his friends 340 occasionally but didn’t seem to have any plans beyond that

Not when avgas is quickly approaching 10$ gallon, what’s the point. Then the Gami 100UL is even more. Ugh no thanks.

@@tropicthndr completely agree the price of fuel is outrageous. However, after missing the last two years, I am determined to fit it in to the budget. If fuel costs continue to rise, and there is little reason to hope that it won't, this may be the last year. (Of course, I hope not)

He said on a pilot forum they no longer have the time for regular flying due to an increasingly crazy work schedule. He didn’t want the plane to sit so they decided to sell. He said he may buy another plane after he retires but no plans now outside of flying his friends 340 occasionally according to his post

I'm not a pilot, but I think in this case, the other aircraft squawks 'standby', which as I understand is 'passive', or squawking 'nothing'. This is why ATC mentioned "I have a 'primary' on your tail". I think this means ATC could see the second aircraft that's not squawking a code, as a primary radar return only, no ads-b or other identifier. The only reason ATC could see this second aircraft was 'old school' radar returns (hence "primary" terminology). This is expected in a multi ship flight as you commonly don't have multiple codes when you're planning on maintaining vfr 'formation'. Kevin then mentioned that he checked on as "N771BC flight", but that it might have been blocked. The "flight" suffix lets ATC know that the aircraft with that code and that callsign is expected to have multiple other 'contacts' that won't be squawking discreet codes, but might show up on primary radar anyway. Again, not a pilot, but that's how I understand that it works.

Not giving it away, word is, it was sold in late December. No official word from Kevin to confirm, other than him posting it was sold on a pilot forum

123.45 is very popular

As popular as it is, 123.45 is actually a frequency assigned to Boeing test flights by the fcc. If you use that frequency, expect a call from the feds

@@robertmcmurry3509 feds must be pretty busy enforcing that one, always hear a lot of chatter.

@@robertmcmurry3509 Never heard that one before. We use it all over the PNW and to my knowledge, nobody has been called by the Feds.

That is an air to air freq when on the HF.

The 340 is pressurized. It wasn't the smallest of the Cessna twins to be pressurized, that honor goes the P337, the 'push-pull' thing with an engine out front and one in the back. However, the 340 and 340A were the smallest of the 'standard design' twins that Cessna made. Six seats, airstair door and TSIO-520 engines. The earlier 340s had a pressurization differential of 3.8, which the 340As had a differential of 4.2. That allowed for a cabin pressure of 8,000' at 18,000 or 20,000' dependng on the model. As you climbed higher after that, the cabin altitude would also climb.

This video is from last summer, and word is, the plane is already sold (late December)

I figured lol.