+roper I tried my best, If you have more feel free to ask here or shoot me a message.

+Dakoda Neilson Did Mr. R ever take the wheel, er, controls?

Celestion321 Both Mr. R and The Roman did take the yoke. Both did very well with me talking them though with limited or no experience flying an airplane.

+Dakoda Neilson I have a question. What is the cooldown period between these checks? Is it every single time, or just every time the plane would have a chance to break? Or is there an abridged version for subsequent flights?

Sam Stoner I believe you do this every time you go flying

+InvictvsNox Cessna and Chevy shirt

+mcinkyt Oh, you mean the company that hid an ignition failure that killed people and endangered other people on the road? The company that had to be bailed out by the government so they can withstand their decent amount of sales?

+TheFutureEVH We'll pretend Dorf wasn't bailed out a few years earlier and produced not only the Pinto but the transmission that popped out of Park when you slammed the door, AND the ignition that decided all on it's own to burn your car down at 3am INSIDE your garage

Cessna pilots drive Fords around here. And other cars. Surprisingly, there's no correlation between what somebody flies and drives, really.

+swSephy | Sim Racing Perhaps, like James May, you like procedures. :)

IstasPumaNevada Actually, I could watch James May do preflight checklists and other procedures all day. I love when he explains stuff and would get slightly annoyed when Jeremy would interrupt him, lol.

+swSephy | Sim Racing Heh, yeah, just having done a few flights trying to get my ticket, it makes me wonder how in the actual fuck Southwest is able to go through it's checklists while loading and unloading passengers, fuel, cargo and commissary for a far more complex aircraft, in just 20 minutes. Makes me wonder why airline pilots make less than I do, and I drive a beat up '98 Impreza (but unlike the one reviewed by Regular Cars, mine's a stick).

***** Hmm?

yeah, i'm the same way. i watch squirrel doing flight sims and sometimes skip the flight and just watch the preflight and postflight parts.

Yup, you'd be correct.

Corey Ballard

and now you finished

@@nickde6339 I fucking wish man, I'm almost done at least but it's taken far too long.

@@StrikeWyvern get that commercial buddy

@@flyerboy2594 That's the goal. 90 hours and counting...

+Geardos Dakoda didn't seem to appreciate Roman's dildo joke.

+NoBrakes23 I laughed on the inside, when preflighting the airplane I tend to be focused on airplane related stuff and less on what other people are saying. I wanted to do the review because I love RCR, the humor, the whit, its up my alley but as the pilot, I have to be the serous boring one who is putting safety first before anything else.

+Dakoda Neilson Fair enough. I've worked in Aviation, so I hear ya.

I would pay good money to see a Regular Piper Cub review.

+Tiberius Hrafn-Úlfur RegularPlaneReviews reviews a Cessna 172 the Honda Accord of airplanes! that would be the shit

+vector6977 1974 PA-28... Willing to bet half to 1/4 of the value of the plane is in avionics...

+masterchiefgtx Well, the Aspen 1000 is about 7,000 and a GNS 430 is about 4,000 and the autopilot is about 5,000. I would say for a fully functioning 74 archer II your looking around 30,000. But with the Avionics the plane is now worth about 60,000.

Dakoda Neilson You could fly in a bad ass plane or drive around in a brand new Dodge Hellcat. Decisions, decisions.

laderhozin Well with airplane I can go 100+ miles an hour safely all the time. It has 180 HP that I can use all the time. The dodge has 600+ that can be used some times.

@@laderhozin Both…😂

lol exactly

Gotta add it to the weight and balance..make sure the CG is okay. Unnecessary! SMH!

TwistedKestrel paint job looked quite beat up, but the airplane is In great shape. those GA aircraft will beat a Tacoma by a landslide.

Nothing wrong with that plane, I'd fly it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA you are so funny, and so original! No one has ever made such a joke before, let me congratulate you on being the first! YOu clever, clever person you. *farts in your general direction*

Shafer Amos The legality of that varies state to state, for example it’s illegal in Florida to do that. Nothing wrong with pouring it back in, but you should use a filter to be safe. The fuel he poured back in looked contaminated by water to me, but it may have just been the video. Most the places I know of have a container to pour the fuel that’s drained so all the contaminates and water are filtered

+baker2niner I am a Commercial Pilot working on CFI, however, I am comfortable from both seats.

+Dakoda Neilson he's a champ!

+Dakoda Neilson How did you get started? I'm pretty interested in flying someday.

+RegularCars an Aeronca Champ? :p

+Dakoda Neilson when you're checking something that seems relatively benign to me, like the antennas, and they're 'good', what were you checking for?

Yes you can. Lots of radios have a monitor function for the standby frequency and you could only transmit on one at a time anyways.

+Bartonovich52 These are almost certainly half-duplex, this article explains it nicely en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_(telecommunications)

+Joshua Clarke The reason is 1.) Redundancy 2.) Makes switching and storing frequencies easier 3.) LISTEN to more than 1 at once although, yes, you can only transmit on one at a time.

+Gwen Walcott Not all airplanes are 14/12. The C172SP's that I fly are the 28/24 like he stated.

+lolz larkin When I worked at a car dealer as a porter, one of the used cars we got in that I had to clean out had a transparent visor like this clipped on to the existing visor. I took it and put it in my car! Not sure where these are sold but it is definitely one of the coolest things I've ever put in my car! And it blocks out just enough sunlight to make an otherwise very dangerous road condition extremely manageable. Maybe Amazon sells them?

It's like sun glasses for your windshield. Whats not to like? Sure I've seen it on a previous RCR vid, but not sure if it was stock or aftermarket.

lolz larkin Definitely aftermarket, in a car anyways, I haven't heard of a car coming with that stock... which I honestly don't know why... at least in the luxury division you'd think!

Pretty sure it was quite an old car. Not the one I was thinking of, but google found this one www.secondchancegarage.com/public/1935-dodge-du-coupe.cfm

Ah you know what, good call, I could definitely see something from this era coming with it stock. Cars at that time had the option for lots of dainty add-ons that were actually quite useful, like the steering knob lol

+FireRisinWithin Lets just say I have enough. Well this about as regular as you can get, I am interested in the fact you bring up the RV-4. The RV series are great planes and ones that are close to my heart. The RV-4 you can build realistically for about 100,000, which in the aviation world, to have a zero time aircraft with good instruments for the price is AMAZING. The RV-4 is not a starter airplane and I would suggest doing your certificate in Piper, Cessna, Diamond, or similar. Once you have about 100 to 150 hours that is when a plane like the RV-4 is with in your reach (insurance wise). The RV-4 is an aerobatic airplane that has good cross country performance and can be set up to fly in instrument conditions. The cost of owning a experimental airplane is cheaper then that of a certified airplane. You can own and fly a plane yearly for the same price it cost to have a Mustang or Corvette.

amazing. I always though that flying was an unaffordable hobby. I definitely might consider it once I have a good job and my student loans payed off

+Flying'N'Driving Thanks!

+Thierry Van Tillo Depending on what you get, operating cost on the Archer is about 155 an hour and insurance is about the same on a regular car.

Dakoda Neilson i see... slightly more than what i was expecting but nothing I can't handle. Prices also differ greatly, i've seen them as cheap as 15k and as expensive as 35. All depends on age and options i suppose. Oh well, it'll be a while before I actually have the license so i have plenty time to investigate my options. thanks for your input :)

If you are looking to by an airplane I would say 30 is about as low as I would go. The reasoning is 30 is when you start to see some real gems. Something with reasonable hours, IFR certified and something that will carry 3 people and fuel for a few 100 miles.

I agree with your sentiment, For around 30k you should be able to find something that's had at least a couple of upgrades and has been maintained well (or is simply not as old as cheaper ones). It'll be a couple more years before I'm going to seriously look into it but, assuming my financial situation stays as-is, I should be able to get myself something in the 35-40k range.

+modlincraig I know it is not good practice, however, on the old pipers the primer handle is a little tricky when starting from the right seat. The airplane now has the primer push-switch because someone broke the primer handle.

+Dakoda Neilson oh yea I didn't think about the fact that the primer is on the other side. Good point

+Dakoda Neilson It's literally an inch away from the throttle. That minuscule distance is much better than an engine fire

+Cry Whit A good whiff of tetraethyl-lead.

pinkdispatcher oh is that different than gasoline for cars?

+Cry Whit Quite different. AVGAS ("Aviation Gasoline") contains a lot of lead: between 0.45 and 0.56 g/L for the most widespread 100LL ("low lead"). It has a performance number ("Octane") of 100 for lean and 130 for rich mixture. There were higher-grade fuels, which are still used in very small quantities for warbirds and races with a performance number up to 145. So far, despite some 20 years of research, no single unleaded drop-in replacement fuel suitable for all engines unmodified has been developed. So aviation has in many countries (including the US and most of Europe) a special exemption from an otherwise blanket ban of leaded fuels.

pinkdispatcher thanks for the knowledge. Please excuse my ignorance on the subject but when it is burned, where does the lead go?

+Cry Whit Well, this is embarassing. Out the exhaust pipe. Yes, it's bad for ... basically everything and everybody except the manufacturers of tetraethyl-lead, which is the compound in which the lead is mixed into the fuel. Which is why nobody is really happy with the situation (except ... you know), and the search for an unleaded replacement has been going on for a long time. There are now some candidate fuels for replacing the leaded AVGAS (www.bonanza.org/9-news/1016-faa-selects-fuels-for-100ll-replacement-testing?noredirect=true), but it's going to take a while. There are already some lower-grade replacement fuels (such as Total AVGAS UL91), and some aircraft are certified to operate on automotive fuel, but ... piston-driven airplanes are still basically the only source of lead in the environment, and will probably be for years to come.

It's an Axxess+ key. I've used one before, but not on an aircraft.