FLYING THROUGH LINES of THUNDERSTORMS, in the CESSNA CITATION XL 

I love the cover photo with the happy "WE SURVIVED!" statement 😂 it's typical pilot humor. Thunderstorms are no joke, but getting around them alive is indeed lots of fun.

Great video! Ya'll are like the "Bob Ross" of aviation! Love listening to you guys... very calm, professional, and easy to understand!

Feels like I was sitt8ng in a seat in the cockpit.

Just catching up, great video, great to see and hear you again.

Woohoo! Thanks! Have been rewatching 2 year old vids and today was a great surprise

One of your best, Captain! Stunning views of the clouds we mere non-pilots don't often get chance to see, so thank you!

This is great stuff as always. Love watching you guys work through a somewhat tricky departure.

10/10 skill avoiding storms! Fun to watch! Landings were smooth too

Thanks for your video! Boy, your onboard color radar is truly a Godsend. One of the watershed events in my life was a flight my girlfriend and I took from KDTW to KLGA via KPIT. This was in the late '70's aboard a DC-9-31. The plane was equipped with onboard Bendix monochrome radar. The flight crew was advised that there was a storm front approaching KPIT. The onboard radar couldn't help with the severity of the storm. The Captain flew us headlong into the 'willies.' Those of us (the geese) beg to disagree about the severity of the storm. The turbulence was so bad that the flight attendants were gulping down cups of water. Even then, some of them couldn't keep it down. (Before that, I had *never* seen a flight attendant need a bag.) Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, a massive lightening bolt struck the port wing leading edge just outside my window(!) The *boom* resounded throughout the plane. The geese were flipping-out. What an ugly nightmare! After we safely landed in Pittsburgh (Praise-be the Angels and the Saints) the Captain appeared at the front to address the passengers. He was a dead-ringer for 'Daddy Warbucks' from the Broadway Play 'Annie,' replete with the 'chrome dome.' The first thing the Captain announced at the top of his voice was "Well! Wasn't that fun!!!" The thought crossed my mind that there is 104 of us and one of him. If he is lucky, he might live to see tomorrow. That horrific experience took me more than 10 years and literally hundreds of flights to overcome. Had Captain Warbucks chosen discretion as the better part of valor and chosen to fly the pattern and allow the storm front to pass, things would have definitely been different in my life - as well as the lives of the other 103 other passengers. Captains please take note!

Wonderful video in-and-out. Love how you navigate through those build-ups.

Great video Captain!! Awesome looking cloud formations.I was particularly interested in the navigation around the storms and the reasoning behind your decision.

Thank you for the wonderful flight! Until next Capt.

Great study in cloud formations!⛈

amazing stuff, what a couple of legends

What a great lesson in weather flying Jim! Cheers from CYYB.

Nice flight Capt. Jim. You probably don't remember, but I told you that I bought a Cessna 340A back in 2019. I sold the plane back in February of this year. I currently have a signed purchase agreement for a Cessna 550 Citation II. As long as it passed the pre-purchase inspection next month, I'll be the owner of a Citation very soon. Your videos got me interested in the plane, so now I'll actually have one. Thanks for giving me the motivation!

I watch all the pilot channels and this video was one of the most interesting. Real weather avoidance.

Great video, Captain. Thank you.

Thank you Captain for the ride along and great views

I agree with many others. I like the video, especially at the 8:37 mark. I like the sharpness and encompassing of so many things. Keep posting.

Looking so nice. Thank you for sharing.

Wow busy flight with weather and ATC.

Professionalism at it's best. 👍

Fascinating! Thanks for the video.

Beautiful buildups...great flight.

fantastic video one of the best

Thx for the fun ride.

That looks like fun

Great video Captain

Great day at work, nice job. Also, good on the female controller that notified the freq there are two aircraft similar call signs if I heard her correctly, keeps people sharp and safe.

Excellent video!

Jim, I always enjoy your content, but this was one of your finest! I get a chuckle out of the closed captions - yaw damper translates to "y'all damn" in captioning. Safe travels, Captain.

Great vids! We are based out of kbpk and hit a few of these airports as well.

Tilt and range and sensitive fingers. Great video. Watch out for the overhangs.

Very nice work and video footage.

Welcome (back?) to Spring in the coastal southeast. May be wrong but it looked like one of our typical sea breeze fronts in and out of Destin. Been there, done that many times. Thanks for the vicarious ride!

Thanks, Captain! You had your hands Full LOL

Cool video!

Ah, any signs of "six turning, and four burning," up there? It reminded me of another majestic climb out and flight. Thanks, again.

Beauty

Destin is a familiar airport, I see our citstion on the ramp lol

I've enjoyed your vids for quite a while now, each is a new adventure. My question is, while I didn't hear any military base issues or comms, do the bases play a role in adjusting for weather? You've obviously got Eglin AFB (which also hosts Okaloosa Municiple airport too) along with traffic from Hurlburt field and to some extent Tyndell AFB. Up north near Crestview you have Duke field which is a large C130 training area too. Any of those play a role in deviating for the weather in this vid? Thanks in advance, sir!!

The last time I saw Spirit airport it was completely submerged during the flood of 1993! I was supposed to fly into spirit the morning of my wedding, but a levy broke and the airport went under water, so I had to drive like a crazy person to make it to my wedding in St. Charles. The airport flooded so fast they were parking jets anywhere they could find a dry spot, including on a highway overpass.

We fly through this stuff all the time... no surprise folks! Wait did we just lose our tail assembly!

Who's the new FO Captain. How cruisy are his radio calls! He's just like you on the radio. Calm and using shortcuts in the readbacks as you know what you're doing! And those clouds. Whewy!

I like that we can see the angle of attack indicator when you’re landing. Looks like you’re landing pretty far above stall speed.

First time watching your channel. Great content! Are you CMA pilots? I got my pilots license while going to Westminster in Fulton and flew in and out of COU often, then I moved to Columbia in 1996 and lives there for 7 years. I really enjoyed flying around central Missouri, KFTT - COU - JEF! We probably passed each other on the way to CMA's coffee pot in the pilot's lounge.

Thanks as always for posting this. What's the small device that's mounted just forward of the compass on pilot's side of the center windshield pillar?

I live in Destin and work at Eglin!

Looks like you two are having fun flying through the thunderstorms. Do you ever wish you had a P3 Orion? That way you can fly directly through the stuff and not have to worry too much. Safe flying, my friend.

You’ll can see hail at altitude typically. Look for the anvil of a thunderstorm, and look for an almost see thru grey streak of clouds extending below the main anvil, that’s the hail typically.

Have a 172 rented from Elite 6/7-6/10 going to be flying KSUS-Destin for a couple days of sun.

I was just in Destin!

Capt Moonbeam, you fly the XL/S on a fairly regular basis. What is your general impression of the aircraft in terms of performance and value for money? I'd like to propose you having a few sessions on your channel to tell your fans more about the aircraft you fly on a regular basis, and have flown in the past, and what your experience has been in terms of their performance, reliability, and what it is like to pilot each model, as well as annual type rating checks / refresher sessions you need to do, etc. That would be awesome!! Thank you!!

That's what I like about cessna xl, fuel capacity and jet engine trust power it burns a little more but it adds more takeoff power and climbing rate. the honda jet is a beauty when we talk about fuel efficiency and fussalage space for luggage. but the Cessna take the lead in take off power hey they been in the game of aviation for quite some time so its nothing out of the ordinary that they deliver the best out there in midsize jets, do Embraer says the opposite.

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Clouds? We don’t need no stinkin clouds!

Was the FO the owner? Seeing a HondaJet flight would be cool, if you get the opportunity to get typed or as FO...

Flight level 410 and still needing to deviate! Tis the season for picking the way through TStorms

Center cleared everything to the high 30,s . Do they clear into the low 40,s .

Hi Capt I've got a question, what's your airline/company? I was just wondering.

These are the flights where you earn your keep

@captainmoonbeam. I know I am going to ask you an opinionated question but here goes. Can you please tell me why they sell more challenger 300/350 vs the g280?

Is your right seater a professional pilot?

I know a lady living in Destin. Small world

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get out!!

Can we get some zoomed in video of the radar in future videos!? Love radar porn!

Rapidly changing camera views off the out the front runway on final view is a sin.

Why do these grandads have the mic just about in there mouths.

It's hilarious haw almost ALL "pilots" change their voices on the radio. Sounds ridiculous.

I feel real real bad for all those rich people flying around in their private jets having to deal with this weather s**t. It just ain't right and somebody needs to damn well do something about it and I mean RIGHT NOW!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Looks like single pilot, the right seater didn't look very knowledgeable.

for the love of god please stop saying with you. I love your videos but that has to stop!! otherwise keep it up!!!

Conflicting, confusing, verbals and instruction not matching visual….. “We made it “. Sketchy