Latest Trip in the Beech 18 

I'm about to sell mine. Bought something even cooler that I'll start videoing with soon.

Any day flying her is a pretty awesome day.

@@nizexlizzy I can only imagine how true that is. Looking forward to seeing some of the folks at the Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland, Florida in two weeks. However, i wish you would be here..... Going to spend some time with the Cessna 195 club.... They love you and your plane, of course

@@Gregs_World We will be there Wed morning - Friday morning.

@@nizexlizzy I will be there on Thursday and maybe other days as I live in Clearwater, just an hour west of there. I'm a pediatrician who is taking a couple of days off and bring some friends with me. I look forward to meeting you and shaking your hand and thanking you in person.

I'd love to but it would be hard to do given the fact that most headsets filter out outside noise. Maybe I can turn on my phone just for the noise and add that in on the next one. Will see what I can do.

Normally you only add things like that for it sitting in really cold weather. They are designed to keep the oil above freezing up to a point but would never warm the oil to 90degrees. So even in summer you have to wait for it to warm up. The primary reason is there is a ton in there and it moves through the engine really fast. So if it is too thick it will literally crush your oil filter making it useless.

They are called gust locks and there are all different types. The lineman isn’t the person that is supposed to remove them though as that is purely the pilots job to insure they are not attached. They keep the wind from blowing the controls back and forth which over time will cause damage to the control attachments.

@@nizexlizzy Thanks for your quick reply. I truly appreciate it. Are these gust locks/blocks actually placed on the outside in the Model 18? I always thought they were placed in the cockpit/yoke so the pilot would be the one to remove them..?

@@hp2456 There are actually 2 types. The ones that go inside the airplane are ok for quick stops and sometimes people even use the seat belt to hold the yoke in place so the controls don't get blown around. However, they are not good in the long run because the controls are still getting blown and the cables, pulleys, bell cranks and other parts of the system end up taking the load in order to prevent the controls from moving. Over time I've seen it actually break off rivots and even bolts holding things together because of the years of tiny movements in the system. Placing external gust locks on the plane removes all such forces and provides a much more secure way to hold things in place. However, if you don't remove them you're the one being held in place which is never good once air born. If you watch in my videos where I show the run up and takeoff you'll see me move the control stick back and forth multiple times. This is a sure fire way to discover your dipshit move of getting in the plane without doing your external jobs first. :-) Hope that helps... P.S. As mentioned before, this is always 100% the job of the pilot to verify the plane is ready to fly. Anyone blaming a lineman isn't being honest.

@@nizexlizzy once again, thank you for your quick reply and information. The article actually says the lineman came to the deceased's father and asked for forgiveness for his mistake of not removing the "blocks" from the wings. But yes, you are correct, the pilot should have checked as it is his responsibility. I appreciate your insight. Thank you!

It is a 2 piece glass and it makes the visibility awesome.

@@nizexlizzy Thank you for the response! It's been 30 years since I was twisting wrenches on Twin Beeches, great to see such a beautiful example still being used.

Would be happy to try to answer but honestly don't understand what you're asking. Content? Parts are still in stock but not from warehouse. There is a huge surplus of parts due to the shear number of 18's that were built. If you meant to say cost per year then it is hard to answer. If you don't fly the airplane then it will be very affordable. If you fly a lot then it costs more. So the short answer is, it depends. :-) If you include gas into the equation then you're looking at 50gph (high but safer estimate given climbs and take offs. ). Annuals totally depend on where you take it or do it yourself. Taking it to a high end shop you're looking at 10k minimum. Then you have to add in how much breaks between annuals and that all depends on how much time and money you spend to get it into shape to begin the year.

thanks @@nizexlizzy what motor is worth? What is the load capacity?

@@DraGon-cg6ge A rebuilt motor runs around 40k and full of fuel my plane has around 2000lbs of payload.

@@nizexlizzy rebuilt one motor? 40k

Technically there is no official overhaul time on the engine but you risk things falling apart eventually. 1600 hours seems to be the best time to start looking at doing it. The problem is you have many bearings, bushings and fittings that just can't last forever. As an example, I had an engine on my 310Q that had gone over TBO and was still running just fine. But we decided to pull it apart and rebuild it a few months back. When we did though we discovered the cam shaft was literally useless as it was worn too badly and the case itself was trash because the cam shaft doesn't have bushings where it sits in the case and it had worn things beyond repair. So will it run longer? Absolutely. Do you want to risk it running longer? Probably not.

thanks mister @@nizexlizzy it does not swing on landing?

@@DraGon-cg6ge swing?

how is he in flight? landing, start

@@nizexlizzy swing, seesaw, teeterboard, teeter-totter, flip-flap translate.google excuse me

No one that knows anything at all about the airplane or the engines. ;-)