C182 Garmin G3X - FL100 Blackpool To Perranporth 

This C182 is absolutely stunning with a beautiful set of avionics. Garmin upgrades are always an absolute must and something any credible group shares should always be looking into for their aircraft where appropriate. Being able to do such detailed approach briefing along with the tools available on SkyDemon is very impressive and vital for good situational awareness. I'm glad to hear you're doing well Ben with lots of commercial flying alongside your GA flying. Hours must really be racking up now!

As a former 172/182 pilot - now 82 - 550 P1 hours - this brought back lots of wonderful memories - living near Land’s End and familiar with both airports. Just a thought - would have liked to have seen the pre-flight checks & engine run-ups in the video - purely from the point of nostalgia- not a criticism - Loved the video !

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Hi Ben always great to see your videos 🎉well done paul in Kent

I can see that you have 10000 feet set for wpt LUFTU and 4000' for PLYMO. none for the other wpt's. Is it for situational awareness for you, or do you use vertical navigation (missed that part in the video). I normally don't have much luck using the Vnav feature of the GFC500. Nice video, especially the parts where you include you considerations, use of avionics, ATC etc. great stuff.

Another great video Ben, really enjoyed it. Lovely aircraft too!

Lovely aeroplane Ben, cracking video too✌️😊👍 Is Birkdale Sands nearby? Is that still active?🤔🤔

Great to see you back Ben! Great video and what a lovely Cessna 182. Cool flight 😀👍

So great to see you back in more conventional GA Ben! Gerat video, commentary and insight, as always.

Very good Ben. I'd fly with you. Haha! Classic Plane Old Ben is back!!

Great video and I like the commentary and insights. Could tell me what kneeboard you use? It seems to combine a clipboard as well as it holds the iPad mini? I did not like the kneeboards for the iPad mini so far especially how they hold the ipad and yours looks quite different than the ones I have seen. Keep up the great work. Greets from good old Germany

Class vid yet again!

Excellent airmanship and very polished Ben but you should be wearing a life jacket especially given the height your flying at ,having said that why are you flying so low ?

Enjoyed that Ben, nice to see you back on the GA adventures. I was just at Hawarden the other day doing an aerial shoot: twin commander and two strikemasters all in formation with an A330. Great fun. Recognise the Hawarden Radar controller!

If the cloud base was low, would you then have had to file an ifr flight plan for this route? Or could you just fly this route with ifr rules?

Great video and what a lovely plane with state of the art instrument deck. Perenport looks like a cracking airfield. Keep the GA videos coming Ben - very inspiring! Thank you.

After a long day at work, you come home and Ben is flying an awesome C182!! I didn’t even kiss the wife… 😂 Great video Ben, lovely aircraft!!

Awesome video as always, Ben. Out of curiosity - what kneeboard is that featured in this clip? Keep them coming!

Hey! ive been watching your channel a while and i recently started training for my ppl at blackpool. Ive seen this plane many times would love to fly it someday, i also fly out of hangar 3 on a pa28 registered G-BFNI. Blackpool is a great airport for training.

Great video Ben, and also good to see you flying again. That plane has some amazing equipment! Good to see it all being used so effectively too. Hope to see you post again soon 👌👍 👏👏👏

interesting video, ref route why not direct to Perranporth? btw, I am based at Ince.

Oh! Lovely! What a nice flight! Thanks for sharing!

Excellent video Ben, hope you are still enjoying life as a paid pilot!

Excellent video Ben! Nice to see you flying GA again.

Interesting stuff. As someone who flies a very similar C182 I was a bit surprised by your fuel settings though. At one point I saw 15 gallons per hour in the cruise at FL100 (for a TAS of 146 knots) which seems incredibly high - not to mention incredibly expensive! By comparison we fly the same engine at approx 10.2 gph at FL100 for about 133 knots TAS (depending on conditions of the day). And we could probably comfortably lean even further from peak. So Ben I'm curious, why do you fly so rich of peak? You've got the engine data monitor there to lean, so it's not a big job. It's an awful waste of fuel for not much speed gain, plus it dirties up the engine and spews out more exhaust. At today's AVGAS rates you could be saving £40 plus per hour easily (that's eighty quid on this one trip), while only taking a few minutes longer to get to your destination. Isn't that a win-win situation?

I spent 4 years based at RAF St Mawgan, now Newquay Airport, the correct pronunciation of St Austell is “Snozal”. If you pronounce it St AustEll the locals will know you as an “Emmit” or a “Grockle” aka a tourist! By the way, another great vid.

Does the G3X allow QFE? It's not allowed on the GI275. Apologies, I'm a pedant on this since as a pilot community we have started to put a reliance on this equipment in GA but are not always reading the manuals and system limitations.

Good to see you back Ben, I always enjoy the videos

Slightly odd G3X 10'' panel placement, I would place it in the centre above the yoke.

Some sick kit in that plane, nice flight Ben!

Awesome to see the G3X in action, nice one Ben!

out of random, is it your own aircraft

Great video. Just a question of interest, when you flew to fl100 did you have to fly ifr as you flew through clouds? And if so did you have to file a flight plan to do so? Was it classed an ifr flight? Thanks in advance