These planes do incredibly well on unimproved strips. I highly recommend!

Phrasing!

Efficiency is key

At least you can say you knew about me before I was famous.

I’m really not sure I should be trusted with that earning potential. 😂

It was a piece of cake! I’ll post the takeoff soon.

I’m really sorry about that. I can’t imagine losing my dad at such a young age. Especially with how many aviation memories we have made in the last 6 years. At its core, my channel is really just a complicated oil-stained shrine to the memories created by a dad with his sons. Even the videos that my dad isn’t specifically in, he still plays a role behind the scenes, and none of these adventures would have happened if it wasn’t for him. I get a lot of comments about how valuable these memories are, and it refocuses me on appreciating the present every time. You never know what the future holds.

You should have seen the hay that was outside of the shade zone of the trees. Seed pods taller than me at 6’. Absolute bananas, but at least there were no gopher holes.

It was. lol still cleaning grass stains from that landing.

Home is where the heart is, and the runway is where the wheels touch down. 😂

Great to hear it Dave! You’re welcome, or I’m sorry depending on the day with these old birds. 😂

Thanks for manifesting death for a total stranger. Classy.

@@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot usually people thank just as you did. Always have to look out for one another 😘

Send me and email to [email protected] and I’ll get you my number so we can discuss it. I can answer any questions you might have.

It didn’t take nearly as much as it should have, but that’s because my dad has extensive experience with the early bonanzas. If you have a knowledgeable mechanic and the airplane has been out of the elements, it could cost less than 10 grand to get it airworthy. If it’s in rough shape there really isn’t a ceiling to how much it could cost.

Sorry I missed this comment. This one has the e225-8 and in the 47 model it turns it into an absolute rocket ship. Considering they originally came with 165 hp, 225 is just outrageous.

Tin foil cover for it. Helped a little bit. Still overheated. Current solution is metal heat sink case with a usb powered computer fan blowing on it. I’m about to record so we’ll see if it holds up to 87 degree direct sunlight at 4k 60fps

@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot ooooooh do let me know if it works, i want dash footage badly but my camera just isnt having it

Shoot me an email at [email protected] and I’ll give you my number.

@@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot can do!

I’ve had some trouble accessing my Gmail at the moment so if you send me an email to [email protected] I can get back with you quicker.

@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot rip... i just wrote out a banger email too, time to copy and paste

I never got an email to [email protected]. Just checking to see if you still wanted to talk.

Good advice. She starts up just fine now three years later. Lol

I hope the video was helpful!

Since my last flight preceding this one wasn’t when I was twelve years old…plane.

Well gee wiz that’s just plane logical. 🤦‍♂️😂 You’d think I would be able to piece that one together. Lol

@@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot dude, I would have asked myself the same thing ! Like, how does the lightning get in there with the gear up ???? 🤣😂👊🏼

@@thepacketnarc7634 I guess my round about almost logic was, “obviously the assembly is lighter due to the holes, and lighter is faster, so maybe making the holes makes the plane fast as lightning.”

That is so cool! I’d love to find one serviceable, but I doubt there are any out there.

An accidental incident. 😂

Didn’t come in too short, but too slow is possible. Gopro cameras and a phone camera 1000’ away have a hard time with depth perception, but I was never really aiming short of the runway. My touchdown point was right at the start of the clearing, and after the gust and subsequent throttle goosing, my touchdown spot moved about 50 feet further down the runway. I’ve landed downhill to the north at about 100 mph indicated when I have a pretty significant headwind, but it is not a fun experience. The runway disappears real quick, and the last 500’ is a very steep hill. You don’t want to be going faster than 20 mph trying to stop it’s so steep. All that being said, yeah, I clipped a bush one time, out of the 60-80 times I’ve landed that direction. I would prefer the number to be zero, but it is what it is.

Since the video was made we had 5/6 cylinders off chasing down a rough running engine. We were just certain it had to be a sticking valve. It was the carb…🤦‍♂️ On the bright side we got a good look at the internals and it’s clean as a whistle. Cylinders are chrome so no rust concerns there.

It was supposed to go to BBG, but yes it landed at PLK which is absolutely insane. Puts my short field work to shame.

@@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot I found the NTSB report and read it, passengers complained of the smell of burning rubber upon stopping 🤣🤣🤣

@JimBronson the pilots were fired I believe, and they probably should have been, but man if it didn’t take some impressive piloting to land that plane in such a tiny runway.

Lol it’s an inside joke of sorts. My brother had a friend re-edit my intro using airplane noises I apparently made in the last KZfaq video (De-Mystifying part 1). I had no idea I had made so many airplane noises during the video, but apparently I did. I laughed so hard when they showed me, that I promised I would put it in as my intro in the next video.

We do Vfr only flight, so I get by with bone stock panel with a decent con radio and flight plan go free gps on my phone for navigation. I can go all over the country day or night with that set up. I have no experience with ifr flight, but I imagine it would take a lot of upgrading to make our fleet ifr capable.

​@@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot Ok, thanks. There are things that I would like to have but don't have to have. I would like the instruments and panel to look clean though, I assume that's something that could be done with some elbow grease.

Checking oil cold at least to see some oil on the chain makes sense to me. I may have misheard Lew when he was discussing checking oil, but if I recall correctly he said to only check oil at shutdown.

@@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot the only accurate measure of the level is right after shutting down. Checking cold tells you there is something in the tank and nothing else.

Lol I clean my dads plane all the time. It’s a useless gesture because it gets dirty again literally the next flight. The 2100 hr engine leaks oil like a sieve, we mist MMO throughout the airframe every couple of years for corrosion prevention bad it seeps out all the skin joints, and landing off airport 95% of the time means a pretty good amount of mud and grass get in the gear and interior of the plane. What you’re seeing is clean. You should see what it looks like now.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, getting told you don’t know enough to make an instructional video on the E-series Bonanzas by the guy who wrote the book on the E-series Bonanzas kind of bites, but I didn’t make the video for him. I made it for my viewers who may or may not already know basic info about these birds.

Glad to hear you got her sold! I hope the new owner treats her as well as you have!

@@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot me too. She’s a collector item. I never want to see her have a mishap. SN D-819

D-23 is on sale on TradeAPlane right now, if anyone wants something super vintage. Came from the factory with fabric covered ruddervators and flaps, IIRC.