Very kind for you to spend the time on these videos. As a 182 driver, I’m not likely to get these experiences, but I feel like I keep more current just by watching and following along with you great flying habits.
My God Jerry...how much do you spend yearly flying the 421.... I guess safety has it's price ! I appreciate all you do for us with these videos and for the dogs. Thanks for posting. Even though I'm not an IFR rated pilot, I love watching the proceedures and the fact that you are so regimented in your execution of same. If more pilots waatched your videos we'd have many fewer planes falling out of the sky. Thanks again, Ron
I agree Jerry does add some value to GA. However I question some of his go/no-go decisions. It may be appropriate for him to review the 5 hazardous pilot attitudes. I do not want to hear about him on Blanco Lirio, Pilot Debrief, or Dan Gryder’s Probable Cause.
Can pick up a lot of ice under the fuselage and around the elevators, staying on autopilot the entire descent and approach. I see a lot of recommendations to go manual and check controls periodically, if there’s ice. Careful!
Jerry, your videos can never be too long...just great thanks for the ride. 3SJ my favorite plane for IFR flights.....❤ Please do a video of your angel flight..!!
Thanks for the ride along Jerry. Boy that icing ain’t nothing to play around with. So how’s it feel to be riding a little higher at 21000 feet? I liked you little Star Wars rendition you played at the end. Nice ending to a lcy ride. Thanks again
Jerry, really enjoy your videos! In all your free time, would love to hear your comments on a video on ROP vs LOP in general and on the 421C. I know opinions vary. Also status on the new bird?!?
Enjoyed seeing the ice and what you did to get rid of it. I know its not what we want but nice that you can shed it off. Thanks for sharing with us Jerry ;)
I remember my first encounter with ice shortly after I got my instrument rating while flying from Boston to Utica, NY. I picked up about 1/2" of rime ice in my Cherokee 180 during the ILS approach to minimums. Needless to say, my pucker factor reading was high but I did make it. I steer clear of icing conditions but the sight of a little rime ice doesn't scare me like my first encounter did. I've learned over the years that if you don't experience a little fear on occasion while flying, you aren't paying attention. Thank you Jerry for the wonderful videos. Watching and listening to you fly and using my X-Plane flight simulator helps keep me sharp for my next instrument flight.
Great Video showing icing ! Fortunately I’ve never had icing in my little Cherokee. Nice to have a FIKI airplane ! Icing scares the hell out of me. Just curious why your G600 is showing about 2 degree nose up when you’re straight and level ?
At 19:40 you point to your glass and mention you can tell you’ve got parasitic drag. What on your glass gives you the indication? You mentioned your TAS had dropped but were you just referencing what it was prior to the ice forming? Was that the indication? Thanks Aaron ps I think I answered my own question!
Thanks Jerry. Nice to see how you handled the icing. Always enjoy your videos. I have a 340 non FIKI. Not supposed to be in icing. But what if it happens anyway. Watching you address it, especially in CA icing, was appreciated.
@Air Wagner Well, Jerry, I must say that this video is one of the most exciting G.A. flying videos that I've seen in quite a while! You handled the icing issue with casual (wait for the eye-rolling groaner of a pun) _coolness_ and aplomb. I really enjoyed watching you handle things like a pro. Love ya maaan! 😃
I noticed at the 12:00 minute mark you were at 14,000 and only had a 21Kt headwind and you were below the ice. Why not stay there below the ice? Seems to me it would’ve saved you time And more importantly been safer out of the ice. I iced up my 340 at FL 180 last spring and had what I think was a tail stall with a severe pitch up attitude! I don’t mess with ICE! Stay safe.
was hoping for 9 KIAS head wind as forecast and above the weather which neither happened, other than the parasitic drag the Ice was not an issue on this FIKI plane and I know I had warmer air above the MVA
was hoping for 9 KIAS head wind as forecast and above the weather which neither happened, other than the parasitic drag the Ice was not an issue on this FIKI plane and I know I had warmer air above the MVA if I had to go lower
Very interesting how the non de-iced surfaces cause parasitic drag that you can detect with your knowledge of the combination of power settings and airspeed
You sort of marble-mouth it now and then. “Taxi IFR, port porth Yankee?!” WTF? I listened at least 15 times, never understood that part. It took three times to figure out “all important checklist,” assuming that is what you said. And checklists are important, it’s not good to throw sarcastic shade on them. Might want to listen to some of them PIREPs, since they’re sharing!
talking to Ground, I'll go slow for you 1, taxi IFR means I ready to taxi and I am flying out IFR not VFR 2. I am at the Port a Ports ( those are an area of Hangars in Oakland) 3. Yankee means I have ATIS information "Y" 4. The Checklist is "All Important" and should be emphasized 5. I listen to Pireps all the time THANKS FOR RIDING ALONG !
