Thank you so much! I've had some great instructors over the years that have drilled a lot of good habits into me. I was always taught not to blow through your checklists, especially in bigger airplanes. They're there for a reason!
I am not a pilot, but videos like yours helped me feel more comfortable as a passenger, understanding how well trained and professional pilots like you are, as well as all the safety measures and redundancy that make flying so safe. Thank you for sharing.
Small world, and great to know! We do the majority of our maintenance at Textron Greensboro, so I'm over there at least twice a year! They take amazing care of us! Tell your prior trainee we appreciate them!
I really enjoyed watching your professional approach to flying the Citation! Cool, calm and you didn’t rush anything. Airline pilot style! New sub here sir.
Checklists are there for a reason! In the bigger aircraft, you're taught "flows," then come back and back them up with the checklist. The most noticeable flow is the pre-taxi checks where you see me checking generators, autopilot and flight controls, but you still come back and run through the checklists to make sure you didn't miss anything.
Oh wow half way through the video you mentioned Programmer/Database Engineer, I am a semi retired Network Administrator/DBA. Over the years worked with DBASE, SQL, Informix, Oracle, Teradata. So cool that you followed your love of aviation and took it to this level!
I've been going through older comments and I wasn't sure if I replied to this (or maybe there was a second comment of yours). I'm truly blessed that I still get to be involved in Aviation given that I chose the Programmer / DBA route. My main focus is .NET programming (VB / C# / MVC) and SQL Server administrator. I've thoroughly loved this career path, although being able to dip my feet back into aviation has been amazing! Than you for watching!
@@AccidentalAviator I have 15 years with them took early retirement 7 years ago. I was an engineer. System Z, System P, System X, and sometime System I. Programmer / software, hardware/ Networks, SAN, Design and Architecture of customer’s IT infrastructure. Years before I was with Digital (DEC) where I did the same thing
Excellent quality video. This looks like you have been doing it for a while and it’s only the second video on your channel. This is exactly the type of flying. I enjoy watching. It gives some of us looking to fly professionally as a second career a good look into what is required.
I have other videos that I've filmed on phones or single camera. This is my first attempt at 3 cameras and editing them together. I hope to upload more in the near future. Thanks for watching!
Normally checklists are boring, but I've decided to show some of the normal side and try to keep the channel more educational rather than entertainment. Thank you so much for watching!
Well done; not only by the books flying but your clean clean production. Subscribed. I'll be watching for more uploads. I'm out of RDU. RDU content is appreciated :).
Great job, single pilot! I always wanted to try that on the 767 I flew for 18,000 hours; tell the f/o not to touch or do anything 🤪. Solo, but I never tried that.
I just noticed this comment. Try what, single pilot? I'm sure it's probably pretty simple on the larger equipment too! Flying is slowly becoming a video game! I'm glad I learned pre-gps on a traditional six-pack!
Thank you for watching! I realized I didn't reply to everyone's comments and I'm catching up now. I've since added a few more camera angles and a some more editing items. I think I learn something new every time I have to edit a video, and I'm still struggling to get the right ambiance in videos with cameras, but we'll get there!
@@AccidentalAviator you have the best channel. You are knowledgeable and keep a positive spin on situations. We have all done our share of stupid stuff.
Really like your videos. No need for fancy editing / music, just a great ride along with you. Didn't know that you were a computer guy. I've been programming since 1974 (our high school had computer courses back then).
1974? That's amazing that your high school had courses back then! I had the old IBM 8088 in the early 80s, and I'm a self-taught programmer/dba. Lots of hours on the old MS Flight Simulator back then too! I mostly program in vb.net and c#. Some MVC / Javascript stuff too.
@@AccidentalAviator We had the 2nd largest high school in the country (about 5,000 kids), so they had all kinds of neat courses, an indoor Olympic-size pool, etc. I took a 2-year program after high school which was better than all of the colleges and universities had at that time in Massachusetts. When IBM came out with their PC, I told my friend, "Today, the world has changed." I don't think that I was good enough to teach myself like you did. My web developer programs in .NET, C#, MVC. I use older languages and SQL to create our data products that we sell.
I definitely watch Citation Max, Premier 1 Driver, Runway Ryan, Captain Moonbeam and a variety of others. You can learn a lot from how others fly their aircraft!
Being from Greenville, NC. I love the Wilmington area. I had been seriously looking to move to Wilmington but ended up in Hendersonville, NC. Wish I had of ended up in Wilmington. Glad I found your channel.
I personally know the president of Aerocenters FBO. I will definitely forward him this video and timestamp the time where you said they had good service. I'm sure he will be proud to hear it!
@@wayneroyal3137 I had family that used to live in Orange Park, so I've been in and out of Cecil many times. Craig a few times, but have never made it into Herlong.
How long ago were you at Air Wilmington? They were bought out by Modern Aviation a few years ago. We had our Pilatus, then the Jet based there for the longest time! They always took great care of us!
I definitely learned that moving up from pistons to jets is a LOT easier, especially with losing engines. However, things also happen way faster and you can get yourself into trouble quickly.
I appreciate you watching! I think I learn something new editing wise on every flight and I've been slowly trying to integrate newer things in every video.
Nice video and flows. I fly a Mustang and am jealous of the G3000 electronic checklists and the split screen PFD. I've got the G1000 Nxi. Didn't hear speeds so wasn't sure if this is a M2 or 3+ but you make it look easy. Always nice to see how others fly single pilot. Thanks.
I actually got out of aviation (as I went the programming route) from around 1993-2000. Then I took a flight with a friend and realized what I was missing. So, I got back into it and wound up purchasing a plane. I'm glad I did too!
Oh that's neat!!! I started in August of 2022. I owned a company that manufactured products for coal burning power plants for 23 years! It went the way of the Dodo Bird because of the war on coal. I'm now a LST on 3rd shift at Modern (from '92 to '00 I was a USMC F/A-18 PC and Jet Mech - that's how I ended up here). If you are ever around between 2200 and 0600 - come on by - I'd love to meet you in person! Thanks again for your videos! It's really cool to see videos from aircraft leaving ILM and I love all kinds of aviation! @@AccidentalAviator
I completely understand as I usually sleep during the day - LOL! Finger's crossed - hopefully the opportunity will arise. TC and thanks again!@@AccidentalAviator
Very nice! You have the cameras set up well. Great pace and editing! I know the time it takes to record and edit videos of this nature. Keep them coming! Just a reminder to set up time stamps in the description. It really adds to the quality of the video and helps you organize the sections during editing. Looking forward to more CJ3! Blue skies!
Nice and professional video! I’m a Senior A&P Mechanic/Inspector at ILM for Modern Aviation. I’ve seen your CJ3+ many times, she’s a beautiful bird! I have quiet a bit experience on all Citation series jets. If you ever need anything, I’d love to help ya out!
Nice job, great video. Looking forward to more in the future. As a Flight Sim pilot only, I like to duplicate flights that I watch on RU-vid. The Citation is my favorite jet in MSFS.
I grew up using and learning from older versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator! It's an amazing learning tool. The realism now is astounding. I think the Citation they have now is a CJ4, correct? A little faster than the CJ3+ and different avionics.
Me too, and I've been flying it for 4 years! At sea level your accelerate & stop distances are usually in the neighborhood of 2500-2700 feet and you're off the ground in around 1500 feet. That's really good performance for a jet! Your landing distances (on a dry runway) are generally about the same if you want to slam on the brakes!
I am a developer and manager for my company and get to photograph the company events, which I really enjoy. It’s nice when we can use extra talents at work.
When I chose to go into programming as a profession, I never thought I'd ever be flying a jet, but here were are! I agree that the mixing of talents makes work more enjoyable!
Taken off from ILM 24 many times! My club plane is just much slower than yours (I think I may have seen one of them in your opening shot). Great video and nice to see my local airport represented!
I'm an SQL Server DBA and a .NET Programmer (C# / VB). Although I've had jobs over the years with C, C++ and some Java/Javascript! I had a fair amount of UNIX & AIX mainframe work in my younger years, but have forgotten all of that!
The CJ3+ and the M2 have basically the same setup because they both have Garmin 3000 avionics. The others in the CJ line (CJ1/CJ2/CJ3 (non-plus)/CJ4) all have Collins avionics and a few more switches.
I have another one coming in a few weeks. I just have to find the time to do the editing. Yes, I hope to continue sharing my love for aviation both in this and my Arrow once it comes out of annual inspection.
I really appreciate this video. Currently finishing up my ppl with the flying club over at modern. Flying a citation out of ILM seems like the dream job. Any advice?
If it's something you want to do for a living, just keep at it! Most career pilots I know go on to get their instrument, commercial, multi and flight instructor rating, then use the instructor rating to build time! Hopefully I'll see you around the airport!
I would like to. This was kind of a test run to see how to create and edit videos. I've got a few logistics to figure out, and I'd kind of like to find some sort of an aviation niche. There are a lot of great aviation content creators out there, and I'd love to do something a little different.
@@AccidentalAviator look pro pilot pete, he is a part 91 pilot, manages a couple of cessna jets, and high performance twins. makes a bunch of runs between gso ilm and mrh
I just found your channel and subscribed. Really enjoyed the video. I have a question regarding your PFD. On both takeoff and approach, you were perfectly centered on the runway by looking out of the windshield, but the PFD showed the centerline stripes to the left of the airplane. Is this normal? I don't recall ever seeing a difference between actual location and pictured location.
I'm sorry, I thought I replied to this! When I'm landing I never really look at the synthetic vision, but I went back on the video and looked and you're correct, it was a bit off on the synthetic vision. I'm guessing it's just relatively close, but I honestly don't know. I'm about to upload another video where I do a circling approach at Wilmington, and the synthetic vision appears to be right on center line on this one. I'll keep an eye on it on other recordings and query Textron about it. Thanks for watching!
I had 3 cameras running, and the one from the side was plugged into the headset jack. The others were just picking up the ambient noise / engine sounds in the cockpit. So when I edited the video I synced everything up and used the ambient noise as background audio and piped in the audio from the side camera. Before that I tried to do it all with one camera, and that doesn't sound right as there is no noise. It just picks up the headphone conversation.
The fuel burn on your newer engines is so low that I hardly ever single engine taxi. I have started an engine then repositioned on that engine to start the second one (because of winds). There is a checklist for a 2nd engine start after taxi though. I've personally never used it. Thank you for watching!
There seems to me there was a longer than usual delay to take off after given clearance, i notice a cleared to land given and the roll had just started , wake turbulence would not be a issue i assume?
I assume you're asking about the landing as my takeoff clearance at Wilmington had no delay. At Greensboro I wasn't given landing clearance because they wanted to get 2 other planes out before I landed. When they finally did issue clearance, it was a charter plane (Exec Jet) that was cleared for takeoff as I was cleared to land. So, no, wake turbulence would not have been an issue. Thanks for watching!
Great question! Unlike what you see in the movies. Most private jets do not have a way to dump fuel. Whenever I takeoff over landing weight I usually just call it out to remind myself that I "may" have to burn off some fuel before landing. You can always forego this and land over weight and any point, you just risk potentially damaging the aircraft structure. So, there are obviously situations where you'd want to get back on the ground as quick as possible (fire being one of them), however, there are far more "emergency" scenarios that don't warrant you being on the ground immediately, and burning off a few hundred pounds of fuel at low altitude is probably going to happen while you're diagnosing the situation.
@@AccidentalAviator I didn't get started until 19 at a naval flying club in 79. I paid between $18 and $22 for Cessna 150, Cherokee and Warrior. Went to the army to fly helicopters. Toured the G4 when it came into Wright AAF at Ft Stewart, GA. Never did fixed wing, but now every army pilot I know gets a shot at fixed wing.
@@ExtremeRecluse My father was an officer in the Army back in the late 60s and flew hueys, bird-dogs and beavers. When he got out of the Army he went into corporate aviation flying LearJets mostly.
In the newer CJ3s they moved the second battery to the back (instead of the nose) to help with the weight and balance/ballast issues. So, if I'm flying by myself (like over to Greensboro), I generally have to add about 25lbs of ballast in the nose to correct for an aft CG. We generally keep about 30lbs of stuff in the back and another 10lbs in the nose, so moving that up front usually solves the problem.
@@AccidentalAviator speaking of that do you disconnect the batteries when not flying? The company had us do that in the XL even though not required per any checklist.
@@freds5619 Yes we do. As I understand it, there is something on the hot battery bus that will slowly drain the battery (over a few weeks), so disconnecting it alleviates that issue. If I'm on ground power I leave it disconnected too since there is no cockpit indication (other than voltage going down) that the GPU is connected and online. I'm not sure about the older Citation/CJs, but the main battery has a quick-disconnect on it now.
@@AccidentalAviator we had the quick disconnect also. The hellhole door(apu, Deecs, and APU back there) and bag doors were on hot battery bus and the fear was they would be left open.
I’m an ex Piaggio pilot with a valid multi. Let me know if you want a “passenger” to help film. I’d love to buy you another go pro if we can make it happen!
Absolutely not! You can start flying at any age. The only age restriction I'm aware of is mandatory retirement at age 65. If you're just flying for fun, there's no age limit. Call up a local flight school / flying club and ask them to take you on a Discovery Flight!
Sorry, but this is not my airplane and it's privately owned. It's not for Charter. You should try a company like NetJets, Wheels Up, or Plane Sense. Thank you for watching!
I gotta tell you something I'm watching your video and I'm like oh here we go in a little pampered spoiled brat and then had to get an aviation to bolster their ego another ego test but know what a very humble cool pilot you are that your father taught you and your brother how to do this and you have another career and you simply got into this by osmosis not with any kind of psychological quest because of some kind of arrogant mission has so many and I mean so many yeah that's right some of you what a great Person in pilot you are thank you for being a wonderful role model for some of these assholes are so arrogant you aviators have a lot to learn from this man
I appreciate you trudging through to hear my real story! The channel name "Accidental Aviator" is kind of an homage to me not actually being a pilot for a living. I'm just here trying to share the fun in aviation. Hopefully people can learn a little bit about the CJ3+, the Garmin avionics, and just aviation in general! I'm looking to be more educational than entertainment. There are a lot of other aviation RU-vidrs out there doing the same thing, you just have to look for them! Thank you for watching, and if there's anything I can answer or that you'd like to see, please leave me a note and I'll see what I can do!
