Headwinds and Ice - Flying Home from the Beech Bash 

Your flight videos are some of the best I"ve seen. Thanks.

Thank you Martin for sharing. Really impressive the icing conditions and the technic to minimize!!! Safe flight

Great flight. Thanks

Love your videos Martin. Thx

Martin, your videos are not only entertaining but instructional as well. I have recommended your channel to several pilots working on their instrument ratings to see how you plan flights, file those plans, pick up clearances and interact with ATC in general. Well done.

Very cool to see an actual real-world IFR/icing concern flight. Excellent content! 🙌

Thanks for the video. Good lesson on radio comes today. Thanks, Martin.

Hi Martin! I’m a retired US Navy Flight Surgeon and now retired physician living in Wisconsin. I still own and fly my 1963 P-35 Bonanza, (N75DJ) that I have owned since 1990! I keep it in California at KMRY .. my identical twin brother lives there and I go out there every 2 months for 2-3 weeks and fly every day!! I’m a current CFII and also Commercial pilot. I’ve taught ground school before, even onboard the USS Independence (CV-62) an aircraft carrier. I think you missed an opportunity on this flight to discuss using supplemental Oxygen via nasal cannula.. you were flying at altitudes where, although technically legal per FAR really isn’t the best practice. I really love your videos and your professional approach to flying. This is just my medical Flight Surgeon Self suggesting best practice. I will fly at 10000 max during the day then above that I use supplemental Oxygen via nasal cannula. Keep up the great videos!!

Great video and you did great showing the care and thought you put into the flight. As you always do this really showed and you explained the reasons. I hope people can appreciate. I am with you as for a little out of the way to be on the warmer side, little extra never hurt. Also your right, we work on learning to be on instruments and then we go zig zagging around. Great job and thanks for sharing.

like that camera shot from the gimbal, good stuff

I was in KCID last January fixing a 757. I am a Lead Tech for a major Airline. It was snowing and freezing cold.

as a long- time subscriber..thanks again Martin..for sharing all your skills..your techniques.. your expertise..your newly- updated instument panel..and all of your always interesting and instructive flights..and please..keep em coming..

I can't get enough of that panel. Its beautiful!

Thanks Martin for another great IFR video. I appreciate how you show us how you manage the different situations encountered whether it be weather or otherwise. Again thanks. Don/NE Ohio 🙂

Always enjoy your videos, thank you.

Excellent, excellent video Martin. A terrific look into a real time single engine IFR flight in weather. IMHO the ATC FOLKS were friendly, helpful and very cooperative with your requests, Kudos to ATC. What really makes this a standout video is the focus on the applicable instrument camera views as the flight unfolds. That had to have taken a lot of editing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wow that avionics and panel upgrade is something else, well done!

Great recap of your flight. Your high tech instruments are really paying off in safety and time management. Well done.

Very nicely done Martin! Nice variety of weather and conditions in general. Always a pleasure to ride along. Thanks.

M…maybe one of your best yet. Tks for doing what you do, we know how much time you put into these productions

Very enjoyable video on your trip home. Great presentation in Madisonville!

As a IFR pilot in training this video was really great to watch as you navigated with ATC to avoid the clouds and weather. I use FF as well but have never seen how you bring up weather at the various airports enroute. Have to find that setting! Thanks Martin!

I use a JPI930 love it. Look at one place and all the info is there

That was definitely an interesting flight and as always you handled it like a professional. I wish I could have made it down to the Beach Bash this year but I just couldn't. Hopefully I can make it happen next year. As always thanks for taking the time to bring us along Martin! 👍😁

You had it worse than we did leaving beech bash. Same scenario but we were heading southwest where we tried 10.5 but had to climb above 12 to get out of icing. Makes for a slow trip with 40+ kts headwind only to end the day with wind shear trying to land. But it was worth it for a fun weekend. Will be back next year. Great video btw, shows a different side of IFR with the several deviations you needed.

I pick my videos based on length. 1/2 hr = good workout. Sticking with yours based on content. Love these flights.

Just another excellent video. I'm not a pilot but was easily able to follow you through the entire flight: capturing your decision making along the way as you explained the changing weather factors. Your videos are inspirational. Thanks for producing them!

Great video, thanks so much!!

Great IFR and decision making video. Keep them coming Thank you Martin

Great video & flight Martin, thank you for taking us along.

Great video, Thanks Martin!

Another excellent video!

Just watched Headwinds and Ice video. Awesome! Felt like I was with you.

Great job with the block altitudes

Just a pleasure flying with a consummate professional! I hope other aviators learn from your discipline and develop the skills needed to keep them safe and in control. Staying ahead of the flight is crucial…👍

from FL 100 I take oxygen, then I feel fresher!

Excellent video Martin! It's been a while since I watched a video from you. Your panel is very impressive!

As always great video and decision making - helps to have a healthy amount of fuel on board to deviate and still make it to destination.

This was really helpful as I review and consider my recent cross countries MD to NE.

I appreciate that your sunglasses make it possible for me to see you at the same time as I can look out the windshield 😎😎

I always enjoy your videos and always learn from them. I had an icing situation also when going home from The Beech Bash. I left Madisonville and stopped in Bowling Green to visit the Corvette Museum. When leaving Bowling Green, I climbed to 9000 to have clearance over the Smoky Mountains. At 9000 the temperature was 25F. At one point, I was picking up ice and had to lower to get out of it. Later I was able to climb back to 9000 with no further problems with ice.

Vielen Dank für das schöne Video! Gruss aus Basel.

Enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. I have read about how to request block altitudes but this is the first time I’ve actually seen it done in real life. Shane

G, day Martin from Sydney Australia. Nice to see you flying 70TB and altering course and altitude avoiding those cumulus clouds. Great filming of the panel instruments, really giving good diagnostic scanning of the planes engine and position. Take care 🌏🇭🇲

As others have commented, I was waiting for you to put on oxygen. Just recently ran into my first time of what I think was hypoxia symptoms . It was just the beginning of sun set at 9k and I started feeling tingly in my hands and feet with a bit of sweating and feeling really anxious for no reason. I don’t know what my symptoms are since I’ve never done it in a chamber but it was the worst feeling ever. Being a new commercial pilot but only at just 300tt, I can see why people in is this group have higher fatal rates. We think we got it all figured out until we don’t and most times it’s too late. Also can’t agree enough about staying out of clouds once you’re ifr.

07:30 20.60" would be quite the altimeter setting indeed! Thanks for the video(s), Martin. watching your no-fuss instrument flying was definitely an inspiration when I was getting my rating.

Hello again, Martin! Always look forward to your videos. Isn't it funny? We spend a lot of money and effort, to get ourselves and aircraft instrument rated. Then most of the winter, we have to stay out of the clouds to avoid icing. And then in the summer we have to avoid thunderstorms.... I did my IPC a while back and got current again, in case I had to fly back to CR for some reason. But, most of the winter, I'd have to stay out of the clouds anyway! Hope to see you at Oshkosh in a few weeks! Rick in Tucson.

As always i enjoyed the flight ,every time we see or learn something new thanks alot Captain.

Great video, great landing. Thank you, for sharing. Always, very enjoyable. If I may suggest, Martin, you might perhaps consider getting your plane turbo normalized. ! Wish you safe flying as always.

Interesting video had more icing than it seemed like it was going tto be, A *big thanks to the controllers for being so cooperative* on the block altitudes & deviation approvals; in all honesty thought there might be more pushback on that, but they were great even suggesting going north toward the end to shorten things up a bit !!

I love your videos man!

Interessanter Rückflug! Du warst schon auf Alpenüberflughöhe. 😃 Wetter und Flug sehr souverän gemeistert. 👍🏼 Die Videoeinblendungen der Instrumenten sind wie immer sehr gelungen. Man fühlt sich wie ein Co-Pilot an Bord. Weiter so! P.S. Unser Ausflug folgt auch bald, kommt im übernächsten Video. 😎 - LG Frans

I’m curious to branch out in the agency and see how different facilities issue IFR clearances to aircraft already airborne. I noticed you were cleared (in the initial clearance with Evansville Appch) back to CID via “as filed.” This is fine as we all know but for someone already airborne from the departure airport, I was always trained to say, “cleared to… via present position direct,” as “cleared as filed” in the air technically means one shall return to the departure airport from their present position and then proceed on their filed route. Hope Beech Bash was a good time! -Jason

Excellent Martin. Once again: informative and interesting, and as always, a nicely done video.

That too, is my experience. Ezy Pzy on the XWD landing, but MAN, the taxi is a royal bear and a half!!! ((and I have a castering nose wheel to boot))

As a TR182 pilot, I can attest that a turbo normalized engine is worth the cost for the extra options it gives you. I'm curious at the lack of oxygen use?

Enjoyed the video Martin....just curious about your decision regarding no oxygen at 12>14K on that portion of flight.

Great flight Martin. A pleasure to see how you managed the flight. Nice job. I would probably land with just 10-15 degrees of flaps to lessen the effects of a cross wind (although it wasn't much) since you had plenty of runway. Good stuff 👍

! ! ! 70TB IS A HECK OF A PLANE ! ! ! However, If I Were You With All These Clouds n’ Ice in The Sky, I’d Rather Be on The Ground Shooting The Breeze, Perhaps The Clouds ! 😁👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

You need Go Pros on your wings to give you more definition :-)

I enjoy these videos. Is tha Bonanza pressurized? Or you're using a small nasal cannula for O2?

As always, good stuff, and thank-you for not diving into the Submarine XXXXX.

There you go Martin. I still say you need the jet. If you had that beach premiere, you would’ve just busted through 25,000 and flown over the top of all that stuff. OK, here is my question that I always wonder about. Disclaimer: I am totally ignorant. For every 100 hours in the clouds and I mean really in the clouds what percentage of that is flown by hand versus auto pilot that includes climb out, cruise, and approach phases???

As always a great video. I really like seeing how you use your Aspen displays. I would love to see you try to use the weather and other displays on the MFD to see how you would do it. I tend to just use GP to get weather and airport info but on a recent flight the GP radial menus didn’t work on my iPad. Also at 20:20 of the video you show some GP maps that also have surface weather front depictions. How do you get that on the GP moving map in flight or is that a post processing addition? Thanks again.

Enjoyed the video, Martin. I usually try to get above cloud too, in this case did you consider flying under the cloud?

Hi Martin. Incredible video, as always. Question, did you move away from ForeFlight? Looks like you have different EFB. Thanks for great work. Armen.

This was so interesting to watch. I'm guessing that on flights such as this one is when your recent avionics upgrade really pay dividends. I'm curious...I think 14000 is the highest I've seen you take 70TB...what is her ceiling?

Is that Foreflight or Garmin pilot you are using?

Great video, Martin! Which EFB are you using?

Why no O2?

What headset are you using?

Martin, are you not required to use Oxygen above 12000 Ft?

hi, i m fun of your channel, i have a question : 14000 feet without oxygen, is it dangerous

All those upgrades you seem to be able to do maybe it’s time to invest in some deicing or anti ice equipment. I’m sure somebody makes a system for your Bonanza. By the way, I’m at about 600 hours total time and I have an opportunity to get checked out in a Dutchess, since I have no Beech time. if I join the Bonanza club and learn about the systems before I get checked out. Problem is with insurance. I don’t know what the minimum time will be required. It rents for $180 per hour dry. I think it burns 14-15 gallons an hour making it $270 an hour plus instructor. I am really don’t have $2000 just to be able to solo in a Beechcraft Dutchess. Wish they were cheaper again.

You mentioned cooler weather, when was the flight?

You seem not to have squawked VFR on your departure. ??

I thought you needed oxygen to fly a Bonanza at 14,000.

Oh no I hit the like button it took the likes to 666!