I used to do inspections on small Beeches in the 80's. It never ceases to amaze me how good an old well maintained airplane never shows its age...almost like stepping back in time.
Congratulations on the Bonanza. I flew one of those in 1961 to satisfy the "complex aircraft" requirement to get my commercial. Dad had a 1958 Skylane back then... a fun and practical family airplane. I miss those days. The Bonanza will be a fine family airplane for you. You'll need a helicopter next in your airplane stable. Happy Landings!
Good ol' airplane (Airworthiness Date 1956-02-03). My brother had flown many of those in his many years of flying. He also flew for Slick Airways and I believe when with them he flew "Connies". I remember him taking us up in one of these planes way back in the 1960's. As always, love your videos.
Juan, Thank You for taking us along. I used to work as a Flight Medic on a Twin Beech Bonanza Air Ambulance in SoCal. , but I don't fly any more, I've walked away from two air crashes - one Fixed Wing & one Rotary - so I'm not going to tempt Fate.
I learned something again watchin' ya Juan! I've watched the Air Guard C-130's doing big circular approaches to the airport here in Reno for years. I always marvel at the steep bank angles they use here a lot. I just told myself that is a "combat approach". Now I understand more of why, thanks!!
Juan, Your explanation of a military approach reminded me of how we went into hot LZs in a huey, nearly 50 years ago. Right over the LZ, reduce power (lower collective), pull back to 60 knots, then turn into a tight 60 degree bank. Usually a couple of rotations and we were doing a cyclic flare in the last 270 degrees of turn. Just a touch of collective at the end for a smooth landing or enough to hover. The main point was, if we had lost the engine during the approach, we were still going to land in the LZ. I love watching your approaches. Constant adjustment, keeping the aircraft where you want it to be.
Thank you so much for not using a billion cut jumps like some other channels. It's nice just to hear somebody talk in normal Cadence with a pause plus love the content thanks a lot
That brought back memories! I used to fly Bonanzas (more correctly; Debonaires) ... took my CFI checkride in one (no throw-over yoke and no passenger side brakes). That was a C-33 model. I love how they fly! And I love watching your flying videos!
Lots of comments on audio. I could hear everything you were saying...just had to turn it up a little. Last time I checked, you were doing this on your own time for free. 🙊 I appreciate you taking me up for a ride "virtually". Always enjoyable to have a birds eye view. Felt like I was a parrot on your shoulder, Captain.
indylovelace He’s aware and has acquired sound equipment for better sound recording but for some reason he lapsed back to camera mike-only for this project.
Bruce, you may have missed my point. People like to sit in their lazy boy and bitch about how much the video sucks because of sound quality, lighting camera stability and the list goes. One comment stated "worst video he's made". Juan can't make a reply like this because he loses 5,000 subscribers, but one of his fans can. In the mean while, the vast majority of viewers haven't gotten up out of their chair and produced a single video or original content in their life. So instead of judging. I'd recommend they say...hey Juan, sound quality was a little difficult to hear and leave it at that instead of throwing in all the judgmental "you need to do better" comments. A polite suggestion to a very intelligent person will get the job done. Hope that clarifies where I was coming from.
indylovelace Yes, and I’ve been doing professional video and audio production since 1980 and when I was young and dumb I owned and flew my own airplane in 1963 and I earned my instrument and commercial ratings so I identify with Juan, both as a pilot and a videographer. He knows who I am and he has thanked me for my constructive criticism and advice for improving his recordings. Please read the other comments and threads about the sound on this file and some that have Juan’s replies. We are subscribers and we want him to continue to succeed and I and I suspect others share his videos so that his views and subscribers increase.
Juan you have such a great way of putting things across! Whether talking bikes or flying planes, I can listen to you all day. Would give my eye teeth to fly with you in that beautiful Bonnie. Stay safe and looking forward to your next Max 8 & 9 update.
That brought back some memories. I did my complex endorsement in a BE33 Debonair. Beautiful aircraft to fly. Fast, solid and capable of some impressive short field work too.
Juan, what a nostalgia trip watching your video! Our lives seem so similar: I flew light aircraft through college, then the T-38 as an IP at Webb AFB, then rebuilt a 1947 Bonanza (ser num 62) following a gear up landing flying it for 21 years, then got on with Delta for a 30.5 year career ending up on the B767-400. No wonder I watch all your videos! Thanks again for your fine work!
GREAT video! Can tell you've been flying a long time - smooth landing, even in the winds! Also, the first time I've ever seen an AV gas pump nozzle, & fueling. :) I was watching another RU-vidr that flies a small jet - he landed at Logan out here in Boston, and paid $8.05 per gallon for jet fuel! Cost him $2,600!!! Then all the fees Massport charges for parking pushed it up well over $3,500 if I remember right. WOW!! Thanks for sharing!
Brilliant video Juan, thank you for sharing. Brings back memories of flying the "Turbo Banana" in the 70's when my father flew. Love the view from the cockpit.
Another great video, and a wonderful airplane... thanks for taking us along for the ride. And handling the bumps so well... I hope to do as well one day!..
Love your flying stuff Juan. This was great... nice Beechcraft. I guess Avgas only choice. On board voice sound was a bit muted... voice over would have been better I think.
Nice flying and landing. Busy cockpit work for you! Perhaps you can figure out a way to plug comms directly into camera mic input to get around high ambient noise?
Great video as always. Just saw a Bonanza fly over the house the other day - strange to think that's $100 an hour right there :). Been listening to two great eBooks - Lords Of The Sky by Dan Hampton (history of fighter pilots and aviation) and The Aviators by Winston Groom (about Rickenbacker, Doolittle, and Lindbergh). They really do make me wish I had pursued a pilots license years ago. Thanks for taking us flying!
Great Video Juan. I liked the dialog hanging onto the wing at the beginning. Everybody has an Uncle Joe story and mine is that my Doctor in Simi Valley, Dr. Elias Khoury, bought the farm in one of these. Had to find another Dr which was a real chore as he was a gem as well as a local character wearing tie-dye pants and rode a motor scooter around town. Interesting that as a pilot I never came across your explanation of the pattern approach modes used by the Military as opposed to the rest of us flying normal 45º entry patterns. Thanks for the info. Regards.
We lost an old family friend in the early 60s in one of these... Engine failure, easy glide to a farmers field, except for one very tall fence post that caught the pilot side wing root just before touch-down.. instantly rotated the plane thrusting him into the dash.. His wife survived with a broken spine, son in the back only a broken leg, I was a young at the time, and his death, the first pilot I knew to die flying. Be safe Juan..
Very nice! I posted a link on the A2A forum. A2A makes really nice flight sim aircraft, one of which is the V35B Bonanza. I always thought that the P-51 Mustang is the "Cadillac of the Skies." Thank you very much for posting.
Spent many hours maintaining a club’s Bonaza back in Detroit Metro back in the eighties. Loved the Bonaza. We worked for free flight time, just payed for fuel. Sad to give it up when Delta pulled Maintenance in the nineties.
Thanks for taking us along ! My boss back in the late seventies had one of those along with a Mooney M20F Executive , I think . I seem to remember some pilots got into trouble with the V tail ? I do not remember what the problem was . Only small plane I spent much time in was a Cessna 172 my buddy used to rent from the Boeing Flight Club around 1980 . If I remember we could rent it for 12 hours for $99 , including fuel ! I was always amazed at how a pilot could know what radio frequencies were needed depending on where you were . The Puget Sound area has several airports and military sites . My favorite runway was Friday Harbor on San Juan Island . You landed up hill and took off downhill . It was also the narrowest paved runway we ever landed on . Look forward to whatever your next video will be , thanks for your effort .
Wikipedia: In the mid-1980s, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the Beechcraft Bonanza due to safety concerns. While the Bonanza met the initial certification requirements, it had a history of fatal mid-air breakups during extreme stress, at a rate exceeding the accepted norm. The type was deemed airworthy and restrictions removed after Beechcraft issued a structural modification as an Airworthiness Directive.
My dad had a Cessna 180 (tail-dragger) for quite a while. He sold that and bought a used Cessna 310. As a non-pilot, I thought the 310 was sexy, but I liked the high wing of the 182 because I could see more scenery... :-)
Thank you for this video Juan the Cadillac of the sky for sure! As far as gas goes I bet you would spend more on gas in the same year GM Cadillac on this round trip.Taking the heat running ac as well almost 3 hour 1 way trip.Comparing the 2 apples to apples I would think I'd take the sky route every time!
Thanks for the explanation of a military landing pattern. I've seen the circle pattern in books but until you explained it didn't understand what it was for.
Good old Doctor Killer ! Flown many a hour in one back in the day . Went to Oshkosh in 74 in it for the EAA fly in . (N 3215 C) and it's still flying down in Fla, .
Those Bonanzas are kinda choppy even on good days. Back in the 60's and 70's I lived about 300 yard walk through the woods from a small airport in Bellevue Washington. I spent a lot of time over there talking to the pilots and sometimes got rides from them. Been in a few Bonanzas. Lots of rides in Piper cubs too, in fact they made me get out and ush a few times. (wink)
If i lived out there Juan, i'd go flying with you all the time.I find it fascinating as far as what needs to be done while flying etc. And the sites are great from the sky. Rob
Your videos are always so great! Love your stuff on Oroville. My wife is a private pilot, and her whole family flies. You should check out Fort Peck Montana
Thanks for the tour, Juan. Great video, not so much for the audio.... If you ever want to make a cross country trip to Utah, I would pay your gas to take me on a ride up over the Uintas!
years ago when I was getting my PPL my instructor told me the story of a guy that wanted some avgas. Pulled his pick up to the pumps and had a plastic fuel can sitting on a plastic bed liner. it ended badly and since then Ive always filled cans sitting on the ground.
Good stuff Juan, thanks. I think my first ride in a private plane was in a Beeccraft, I was about 7, so I'm not sure. So, do you like the low wings better than the high wings, Dyer told me the low wings were a bit faster...he used to have a Mooney (?), said it was the 'hot rod" of small prop job planes. I always liked the high wings...I like looking down, more that out...better for photography, I think. Thanks again, good stuff.
Those tankers look like old Navy S-2 or C-2 aircraft. Had the nickname of COD's. Great machines for hauling stuff like mail onto and off aircraft carriers.
There are 20 Trackers at Nowra ,NSW, Australia- S2-Gs, still with their ASW gear fitted. They haven't flown since 1987 or so when the RAN stopped fixed wing flying. I was in the squadron next to them flying A4s and Macchi s (MB326). You would think the government would have the S2Gs converted for fire fighting , but apparently it is more cost effective to hire Skycranes and Canadian fire fighting aircraft!As for the Beechcraft- the turn and bank gyro seems to have a damping issue- it is banging the stops pretty hard. And while they fly well and are comfortable, part of that high cost of ownership is because they are terrible to work on in terms of that dash- there is no way to easily work on the back of it . The only way in is by going under the dash and reaching up around all the wiring, bowden cables, pitot static plumbing and control yoke. Give me the Cessna 172 any day to work on- no Cadillac but far easier to work on. I am a bit surprised that you guys haven't fitted something like a garmin 430 in place of those radios though.
I'm assuming you guys down under replaced their duties with P3's and maybe even now with P8's. Good thing as I suspect you have a threat from North Korea just like all other civilized countries these days.
awesome videos all around juan, where's the motorcycle videos :) i cant blame you for flying though i just got to take the stick for the first time a couple weeks ago, a kitfox and an rv7, loved it! im hooked time to start lessons :)
At 75 knots or 115 you still can get a greaser in a bonanza. Try coming in hot and high in a Mooney Enjoyed your discussion of obi and DME, but was looking for the ADF. If I remember the older bonanzas sometimes had many fuel tanks. Thanks for sharing.
