Well my car has an auto parking function 😂

You are too lazy to do the research. Everything is just fine in your little world.

In 1968, this plane took me to the Central Highlands from Saigon.

As you've illustrated - every time I decide to crash land somewhere, there's always lawyers kids playing there!

Hi : thank you for the video

GA engines are ancient but everyone is too scared to put a modern engine in. Modern truck engines will run 8-10 years and 1 million miles between overhaul lol.

Absolutely brilliant 👏....i have liked ,subscribed and followed....Great video pal 👍 keep up the great work 👍 👏

pull back on the stick !

We just cause it to flood the whole place out it's got nothing to do with us we just get paid 😮😮😮😮😮😮

DOES THIS ENGINE COME WITH AN (INTERCOOLER) & (WASTE GATE) ?

"Less" for "fewer" again... The English language in the age of Skynet and Trump... Gadfrey!

Outstanding video, sir. Thank you so much, very comprehensive.

Altitude Density

In the mountains you can have suddenly changing winds over cliffs, mountainsides etc. Not so here on that wide plain. Your plane needs to have margin to handle such changing winds. Your plane needs margin to handle unforeseen things. Neither he had, so don't try it in the first place.

Greetings. Is it possible to download the video in full? I would need it for educational reasons. Thank you.

What happened to Paul B.? He’s the reason I subscribed to the channel! His no nonsense, practical and straightforward approach to his work is a talent rarely found these days…. Miss you Paul!!

Ok did anyone see that thing that flew parallel to it towards the end of the video? Kinda went too fast for me to see what the hell it is cuz I know it ain’t no drone lol unless that was a chopper 🤷🏿‍♂️ to me it looked like a white round thing when the plane was doing the low fly over at around 5:01 its on the left side of the screen

The skill it would take to make sure you didnt catch one engine in the water before the other is masterful. People say he simulated it several times before doing it in real life because he wanted to be a hero. Idiots

This was 7 years think about how much more advanced this model is now in 2024

If Mike Patey gets hold of one of these it will end up with a 1200shp 8-bladed turboprop on the front :D

No discussion of the useful load and payload vs range. Such an important aspect of a plane that is ignored. Also, for this money, the Cirrus jet seems like a much better value.

Did you know the very first pilot trained as a Pilot in the US Army was killed in a plane crash while flying as a passenger. The pilot survived the crash though he was injured. When it was shown the cause of death was head trauma and other than that the officer probably would have survived the crash. The army then changed the rules requiring all aircrews to wear helmets. The name of the fellow killed was Lt Thomas Selfridge. This was the first fatal airplane crash, it was the first airplane crash that was carefully investigated, and it was the first accident to spark a change to regulations that govern aviation.

I had a friend growing up who had some burn scars he got curtesy of a clueless pilot trying to fly an F-86. The pilot had been told not to over rotate on take off but he did it anyway. The jet fighter never left the the ground, over shot the runway, smashed through the airport fence, crossed a busy street, crossed a parking lot, and smashed into an ice cream parlor killing and injuring many people, mostly children, but he survived. Doing what you have been told not to do is bad for aviation.

Старому дураку за штурвалом было уже все равно

So is there a version of the video without the constant yapping?

Back around 2018, I converted over to an Air Wolf wet vacuum pump system. From my conversation with sales down there, they just weren't making them any longer. Not surprising considering the ascendancy of all electric digital systems. I love that wet vacuum pump. I understand that these engines, like my lycoming O-360, were originally certified with wet pumps, and sometime in the mid 1970's the dry pumps came along. Since they were originally certified with wet, airworthyness continuity is a slam dunk. I expect the wet pump to out live me. SC

great camerawork, not

Single engine aircraft? Nope.

" the envelope of Prudence "...? You should copyright that phrase. 🇬🇧 .👍 How about " the corridor of Uncertainty.. "..? ??? . First rate , no BS appraisal of circumstances by the way..

I recognized the air strip immediately from the thumb nail. I lived there full time for 3.5 years. I first landed there in 1982. Everyone jumped in their own cars(locals) and took off. I stood there like an idiot with my passport in my hand. It was about 11AM and NO customs or immigration were around. In fact, NOBODY was there. Not a soul. I lugged my large bag to the top of the ridge and hitch hiked in to town (Gustavia) which was actually quite close. I put 75% down payment on a sailboat and moved aboard. By 1985, a full airport facility was built on the other side of the landing strip. Car rentals etc. I MISS the quaint 1982 St Barts. Oh, well. I sure was glad to experience it. The island was AMAZING until 1985 when extreme rapid construction and growth killed its charm. About 25 of us ex-pats left there in 1985. I moved to St Maarten Dutch West Indies, and then Tortola in the BVI

Late to this party, but dang I miss Paul!!

“The only constant in life is change.” After one of the most prosperous periods in US history, bolstered by $1.7 TRILLION of pandemic handouts, wouldn’t one expect the prosperity to ebb?

“A bubble of ATPs coming.” Hmmm.

Is no one going to talk about his Hitler mustache...

240 mph at 23,000 feet is pretty fast. Very cool!

You had two failures - failure to unlock and failure to box controls. Also normally the tail would have been raised on start of take off roll. . Boxing the controls is most likely the last thing he did every time before a cat shot. '

Messing with mother nature is a BAD idea. STOP IT!!!

The 550 also needs to run rich when new and breaking in or when any one cylinder is replaced and gets broken in, so running lean of peak is not always possible.

Cirrus, grounded by lack of parachute repacks ($28k). Parachute needed due to bad spin characteristics.

Frozen wasteland? Damn southern wimp. There are so many good things about the Toronto area and this guy disparages it.

Maybe these old air cooled designs are obsolete. I have only seen 2 videos referring to engine failures on the Diamond DA-40NG which is water cooled, turbocharged and burns Jet-A. The Diamond design also places fuel between two wing spars, has replaceable crush blocks under seats to save your spine and cockpit/passengers get a 26G rated safety shell. Diamond is getting it right while Textron and Piper give us your Grandfather's airplanes. Why is that?

...used'ta work for Sikorsky in WPB, FL..looks like the facilities there...

At 4:30 he says that number of ATPs has gone from 100k to 300k over a ten year period. The FAA Airmen Stats (google: Faa airmen stats) has the number of ATPs at 153k in 2014 up to 174k in 2023. Where is this guy getting his data? Are the FAA stats wrong for some reason?

In my opinion... trained monkeys jacking around with mixture, trained monkeys NOT jacking around with the mixture, high horsepower/air cooled, disconnected from the motor so you can't hear when something "isn't right". Add in substandard inspection and maintenance by old rich dudes that have never had a drop of oil or dirt under their manicured fingernails and I bet you have the answer.

Lol

You can't fool the people who watch the sky. There are all types of chemicals and substances that are raining down on the population which are detrimental to the health of all living things being spewed from these planes. That is why people get sick and the food, water and air is so contaminated. This is done on purpose and for NO beneficial reason. We are being sprayed like bugs. That is also how they disseminate aerosolized bioweapons to make us all sick with stuff like "the flu and covid." We don't need geoengineering/chemtrails and neither does the planet. So STOP IT! Because it will kill you too fools (HAARP, NOA &DOD).

Was there any changes in the HIMS medical process. There are many pilots and controllers being grounded for a very few pilots that were mentally unstable intentionally crashing their planes. Just because someone may have at one point in the past was placed on a medicine for depression but has been off of it for many years should not cause them to give up flying. Private pilots in general can’t afford the costs of going through the process. Commercially it is also contributing to staffing shortages.

It's not supercharged. The supercharger is only a scavenging pump. The turbo might supply a little excess air, which is good but you CANNOT supercharge a port valve engine! But marketing and most pilots don't know that, so keep calling it super/turbocharged. Not knocking the engine; two stroke Diesels are the way to go. But the management of this decades long saga has been a joke.

Not to be cynical but what is the price now - $100? 150k?

How it communicates with an atc?