13,000+ hour pilot/flight instructor Rich Manor flies and reviews a variety of different General Aviation Aircraft - piston, turboprop, jet, taildraggers and more operating out of Long Beach, CA. Rich has been flying for 30+ years, and has flown over 80 different types of aircraft.
Forget about modern internet armchair pilots, they will cry and nag for any reason and if you don't give them a reason - they will find one. Society is getting dumber and you need to have it in BIG LETTERS - this is an edit of a video, we use checklists, etc. It's a psychological thing of a modern reality: HA! I found it, I saved the world, I am better, smarter etc. I pity them
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Love that color scheme. Definitely wouldn't be hard to spot your own plane on the ramp! One Cirrus tip to anybody watching: the seat belt is meant to be worn with the buckle down at your hips (low & tight, as they say). In most of the shots in this video, it's way too loose and would be dangerous in an accident because you'd "submarine" out from under it. Also, the air bags won't work properly if the belt isn't tightened to pull the shoulder straps down into position. Happy flying!
Seems like a great performing and high quality twin. Not known for carrying too big of loads, and I don't think I would want to lose an engine on takeoff @ gross takeoff #. Earlier Dukes had 1,200 hrs TBO, with later models I believe pegged @ 1,600 hrs TBO. I sure would not mind operating a Duke or Aerostar 601P with jetprops.
Man, when I started flying, the KLN-94 was state of the art. I remember the Millennium edition Cessnas all had that and the KMD-550 MFD. Coming from a 1978 172 into an ME was like getting into an Airbus A320! Hard to believe Garmin changed the whole avionics game in the last 20 years!
The complexity of these modern avionics ,airspace and approach types was really well shown here. Theres a lot going on double checking the correct integration etc...
I flew in one of these back in the late 70s. I have taken flights in just enough of the great general aviation aircraft to remember them distinctly. I was with Buddy Cannon who sold planes for Atlantic Aero. I never had any doubt about the piloting abilities of Mr. Cannon. Last time I saw him he got angry with me. Far as the aircraft it is one of the greatest of Cessnas. I certainly remember it as a great ride in a great plane and was glad I helped him wash it. I was one of the best linemen at Atlantic Aero or Business AirCenter or Page AvJet. Turned out that the people that had it out for me were coke heads stealing fuel they sold to a fuel oil business to finance their habit. They'd put it in with the sump fuel to cover themselves. Meantime I was demoted and moved over to Piedmont Airlines where I was fired for talking about my ambition to make a nation of airports. Maybe it had something to do with the reports I got in the causeway between gates one day at work when I was told my wife a Goldie Hawn type blonde was having an affair with Louis Loewes a very handsome Jamaican guy. I was going through a terrible divorce. She worked for USAir that was buying Piedmont. I ought have sued USAir and then sued my wife for support since in Aviation I was destroyed. As an outsider then my goal of creating an airport nation was set back far. I went to driving a cab for a year and then showing my movies in a disco called Club Zero, appropriately. Then I went to NYC and drove a lighting and grip truck becoming a Key grip or Gaffer and eventually DP. I hated and still hate Piedmont Airlines. They were liars to me, as well as believing lies said about me. They had the money to have had it the other way around but were weak in their heads so USair bought them. Anyway far as Cessnas go the 421 is a great airplane. Between the Citation and the 421 it would be a hard decision. I loved the Cessna 340 as well. For its looks, but gee whiz it sure was short on carrying capacity. Beautiful shape though. The plane I got to fly the most was a Piper Tomahawk. I really did prefer sitting on the wing as opposed to hanging under it. I don't know if the Tomahawk could take the abuse meted out to a Cessna 152. I refused to stall a Tomahawk before it became known as a killer because it was hard to pull out of a spin that could follow the stall. Oh Man I miss flying and wish my father had helped me learn piloting when I asked him to at 13.
I used to fly medivacs and charter flights for 8 years on 421c's and b's. Great memories, but ours sure weren't decked out like that one! I fly B787 dreamliners now and that 421 is more equipped than the 787!
Beautiful. I use to fly many years ago. Got my PPL in 1965. Have about 700 hours. My last flight as PIC was in 1988. I have time in the 182 but I don't remember the power settings on climb out or the sequence of changing settings. Would you be so kind as to tell me how you do it on T/O and cruise? Thanks Rich. Enjoy your flights so much.
You rarely tell us the price. Van Bortel does that same crap. “Call for price”. It’s the typical sales crap, just like Van Bartels. Tell us the asking price so we don’t have to waste our time or yours. We know the scam. It’s just cheesy
I disagree with “rarely.” We have posted sales prices on almost all of the aircraft we sell. I have also tried to give a sales price on aircraft we feature on the videos as well. The only time I don’t is when we do the video before we have priced the airplane, but I always point to a website where you can find the price.
500K - wow! I’m glad I got out of aviation in the 80’s…fun fact- I was paying $40.00 an hour for an instructor and a 152. Can’t believe the prices of airplanes today…
I got my ppl in a Cessna 152 ( N6198P ) at Lowerlake high school ( Lake County, Northern California ) as a high school senior, class of 1985. About 3 months later after my HS graduation and after graduation from USMC boot camp..MCRD SAN DIEGO..platoon #1121..🇺🇸🇺🇸..I finally got my drivers license..after I just turned 18 and with my pay as a USMC bootcamp recruit and earning the title as a United States Marine…I bought a one owner pimp’n 1972 Ford Courier pickup truck and learned to drive it and managed to earn my drivers license in it……still have my Lil 72 Courier today as a daily drive. I keep it next to my planes hanger. Sooo, I earned my Pilots license in highschool but no drivers license considering my mom and I were way too poor to have a car. I washed …ALOT…of dishes to pay for my PPL …….at a cost of $368 wet..( no bullshit )…the high school owned Cessna 152 with fuel was $10 per hour…I put 36.8 hours on the planes Hobb’s meter to earn my license here at KUKI …Ukiah Municipal, March 14th, 1985. My high school private pilots instructor was also my drafting, auto shop, aviation class instructor who is still alive today..he’s 77 years old now..John Weigand…we still fly together today…I keep a close eye on him as he still lives close by in Clearlake, Northern California…Lake County…The high school kept the plane at the old Pierce field airport in Clearlake..only about 2 miles away from the Lowerlake high school and has since been closed. It look’s like a disturbing NTSB report indicate’s a pilot and passenger killed themselves and totally ruined the plane …N6198P..by flying it on a foggy coastal day and hitting the coastal Redwood Groves…???… The love of general aviation has been a lifelong gift and blessing to me and family up here in Ukiah ..( KUKI )…We are the proud owners of a 1976 Cessna 182Q with literally a new, zero time 3 blade controllable pitch Hartzell prop and hand rebuilt ..” Tim’s Aircraft Engines “…Long Beach, Calif..IO-540 Lycoming …rated up 300 HP with Gami injectors…an absolute 4 passenger missle that’s lands like a truck and typical… a lil nose heavy. Bryan Maxwell. USMC. Class of 1985 ( Retired )…🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Love the videos. My dad was a pilot and owned various aircraft. His last was a pressurized 210 Turbo. Unfortunately he passed in 1999, but I’m sure he would have eventually upgraded to a light jet. I always wondered what could have been. Such great memories flying with him.
To get a IFR /com license don't forget, you have to have a private already, Just having a private already put that person in the highly screened group among the population, way under one %. In US all licenses is around 600,000+ pilots among 330 million+ population. In Canada is about 1/10 th the number. There is little stopping someone with lots of money to fly a 747 with just a multi and type rating in theory, with no IFR the jet will have to stay below 18000 ft VFR and grub fuel and insurance will want a fully rated pilot next to you if they even will insure you, maybe a small country with less regulations, you can do more. You cannot cross oceans without IFR. The newer 747, if you are really forced, can be flown with a single pilot , the pilot will be very busy at time, and you need another person on the ground to disconnect stuff and pull chocks etc. A jump from a 172 to a Kodiak is not as big of a jump, turbines have more systems but is actually easier to fly in some respects, especial with the fool proof FADEC. Without, it get dicy for you can damage the engine easily. The bigger jump were in the 1930s when students went from Jennies to Havards (AT6) and then Mustangs, or B17? The AT6 have a reputation of being a devil to fly correctly, a Mustang is literally twice the speed and no one else to help you. No tri gear then, but nowadays the insurance make a big deal about it, you simply have to be on the ball longer with a tail wheel. But then , the gov. effectively insure you in the military. In Europe, because they failed to promote private aviation, airlines have to train their own pilots, they (Germans) are letting kids with as few as 250 hours taking right seat in something like an Airbus 319 or a 737, at first with a trainer at the jump seat. The PC12 is a different category plane than the Kodiak 100, it is closer to the 900. If I am current on the 172 and have time to read the Kodiak manual, There is a very good chance I will do well flying the Kodiak or Caravan. After all, part of the compromise in top speed were traded for better handling in these 2 planes, the PC12 went in another direction, so the stall characteristics are not as tame. A more reasonable jump would be to go from 172 to a 206 or Piper equivalent first. That is what I do, because I likely have less money than you.
