Light Rain & Icing. Wilmington to Greensboro North Carolina in the CJ3+ Thanks for 3000 Subs! 

I appreciate that! I'm hoping to start working on them this weekend.

I appreciate that. I try to find something to teach/talk about on every flight. I'd really like to talk about systems too, but it's tough to do without permission to use diagrams. I'm trying to work on that!

Interesting. I'll have to look it up and take a peek at it!

I've already cut a few things out of other videos that I didn't feel were quite right. I appreciate the kind comments. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

It's finally starting to feel a little bit like fall on the east coast too. Temperatures here are in the 60's in the morning and mid 80's in the afternoon. I really enjoy this weather and hope it stays! It's great to hear from you again! The CJ3+ is an awesome airplane. So much is simplified and it really makes things easy on a 1 or 2 person crew!

@@AccidentalAviator I can remember how a busy cockpit is. Nice to have the help. Nice Garmin suite. That would have been wonderful in my old flying days. I would so love that invaluable tool. You know your war around the CJ3. Yes, it IS a nice bird. I will put in an order for a nice early fall but you know how that goes. Could be back ordered, ha ha. We are closely watching the northeast for the storm a brewin' there. New England area especially. Big blow possible. Fly safe.

I've been into New Bern in our old Pilatus a few times. Never in the CJ though. I appreciate the kind words and love that you're enjoying the videos!

I was wondering if someone would catch that. I think she called them 2 times before that and once after... I just happened to edit one of the calls out.

You don't lose them so much when you have a flight director, and at the very least we have to hand fly a lot of stuff during recurrent training. You definitely lose your scan on a traditional six-pack. I don't know whether that's from not doing it every day, or from mainly flying newer aircraft with the amazing avionics!

Glad you're enjoying the videos!

Much appreciated! I'm currently over in Europe with the Citation, so I'll have some great videos coming soon!

Thank you so much!

Hopefully that's coming soon!

Much appreciated! I'm trying to keep it as informational as possible and just about the flying! Thank you for watching!

Thank you for watching! I have another one coming out in a few days!

I appreciate the kind words! It's taken a while for me to be happy with how the cameras are done! Each flight I seem to tweak a little bit, and I've been very happy with the last few. I appreciate you watching! If you have any questions please let me know and I'll try to answer them!

That's awesome! I'm over there (at least) every six months doing our cycles of maintenance. I was just there at the beginning of this month and recorded that one but haven't had time to edit it up yet. Thanks (to you and your brother) for keeping us safe!

Unfortunately this isn't my plane to be able to make modifications like that too, and the temperatures at altitude can be as low as -60, so that's impractical. I've thought about using one in the cockpit though. We'll see.

I love that it helps the flight simmers too! I know the GTCs pretty well, so if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer any questions!

That's kind of interesting. Most of the "systems" in the back are (mostly) hidden. A/C and Heating you just have ducts. Oxygen is hidden behind panels, and the potty in the CJ3+ has it's own seat/compartment, and it's only serviceable by removing a container. Maybe I can make a short video showing that stuff. Thanks for the idea!

Thank you for your service! I definitely had some great instructors through the years. I really should get off my butt and get mine! I appreciate you watching.

Welcome aboard! I appreciate your time watching! Let me know if I can answer anything for you!

You mean the part where I slip a Benjamin to a line guy? lol. We kinda have a rule on the plane that says "you use it, you clean it." We also carry pee bags on the plane. Those get used the most :-)

@@AccidentalAviator I’m all about the piddle packs. My record flight is 9.1 hours 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@brianthomas9254 Geez. That's insane!

Unfortunately I'm at the mercy of there actually being weather :-) When it's too bad, we generally don't fly, and we've had strange patterns of weather over the last year. It's either been really nice o really bad. Nothing in between. The only one I really have up with some weather is HOU -> ILM if you haven't seen that one. I'll certainly be bringing the cameras with me if there is any kind of bad weather or places that I'll be shooting approaches.

Thank you!

I want to visit your beautiful city!

I appreciate the comments! It's obviously important to stay in front of the plane. That was the biggest difference between flying the CJ3 and the Pilatus. The speed at which things happen.

Yes. It's about 50-50 whether that will be active or not. I should probably just file direct RAEFO when I go over.

I've had so much going on I've barely had any time to do anything. So no, I haven't started your book. I'm about to finish up my plane soon, so I'll have more time and I'm definitely looking forward to reading it. I have a 1981 Turbo Arrow as my personal plane. I got my instrument in this plane back in 2004, and I'm forever thankful that I did it with a 6-pack!

Pretty close! Just over the boarder a bit.

Yay! Thank you so much for watching!

I appreciate that! I didn't really know what to think when I started doing this, but it's been a lot of fun making the videos and corresponding with everyone!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

Hopefully coming soon!

I appreciate the comments and thank you for watching them!

I'm generally there in January and July, so maybe we can make something work in January. Here's an interesting tidbit about the "leaking bleed air valve." It's been something we've been chasing on and off for the better part of 2 years now. While I was in Greensboro, one of the mechanics said he's seen that humming produced from the rain doors (which I don't use), and our copilot rain door was actually open a bit so they adjusted it. It seemed to make the humming a little bit better. However, when I was editing this video up last weekend, I caught (on the windshield camera) that when the humming is going on, the copilot windshield bleed air scoop was actually vibrating. You can see it on the video. I'm about to edit up a video and send it over to them. Hopefully we can get it fixed. It only happens at low(er) altitudes at high(er) speeds. So, 20,000 feet and 270kts was causing it. When we're up higher it goes away.

@@AccidentalAviator good info., I’ll keep that in mind if I ever see that.

VFR at the airport at least, but obviously on an IFR flight plan. :-)

Glad to hear it! Thank you for watching!

My brother owns and I occasionally get to fly in Cardinal N34685. It's a great plane! Sooner or later I'll make a video with him and I in it.

I appreciate that! Thank you so much for watching!

I'm trying! More to come soon!

Glad you enjoyed!

Hopefully I get to shoot a few approaches at different places as we move into the winter months.

Thank you! I appreciate you watching!

Thank you!

Thank you! I appreciate that!

Glad you like them! Thank you for watching!

Glad you like them! I appreciate you watching!

I appreciate you watching!

My dad was part or one of the top participators at the quiet Birdman which I imagine you may know a little bit about I don't know check them out but it's a lot of the old folks pilots and I got a simulator I like flying around in Florida cuz there's a lot of airport I'm based out of KTTS right now on my simulator there at Cape Canaveral to flyovers over that incredible place you can see where they rolled out the space shuttle and all that but the runway is massive because that's where they landed the shuttle back in the days

I've never been to Seattle and would love to get out there!

I grew up in South Florida and have probably landed at 90% of the airports south of Jacksonville. I've done a low pass over KTTS in a 182 (pre 9-11) and that was incredibly cool! I have not heard of the quiet Birdman, but I'll have to look it up! Thanks for watching the videos!

I appreciate that. It's an easy plane to fly and land.

He's one of the pilots I really enjoy watching. He hasn't made one in about 8 months. I'm not sure if he stopped or not, but I wish he'd make some more!

I'm in the process of creating some that will have planning, walkaround, initialization and startup in various videos. They should be out in the next few months.

Thank you!

I'm not sure how much of my "story" you know, but I'm a computer programmer by trade. If you asked me if I'd be flying jets 20 or 30 years ago I would have laughed. I chose computers over aviation long ago! I am blessed that I get to do this! I fly both single and dual pilot. Textron and the CJ3+ make it very easy to fly single pilot. I absolutely love it!

@@AccidentalAviator I bet you have 1 hellava flight sim setup.

@@Patrick42567 Actually I don't have one at all. When I was younger and not flying a lot I used to be into simulators a lot. We also used to have a pretty good desktop simulator that allowed us to us it for instrument currency, but the company that made it went out of business and we eventually sold it. So, nothing at the moment!

That's a good question. I think you're asking me if the avionics can notify me if I'm picking up icing. In the CJ3, the answer is no. I think the HondaJet has something that detects icing and automatically turns on the system. In the CJ3+ if it's 10 degrees and below Flight Safety teaches "turn everything on," but in practice everyone I've talked to turns on the Engine Heats first (which heats the leading edge of the pylons and the temperature probes), then if you see visible icing on the windshield or wings you turn everything on. At night there are red LEDs that shine on the windshield to help you detect ice buildup, and you have a wing light on the pilots side. Hopefully that answered your question!

@@AccidentalAviator i guess I meant the synoptics display pages for systems like ice protection, fuel, hydraulics, etc. Although for ice that display is for the system itself and wouldn’t show ice accumulation directly. Do u ever look at those pages? I’m thinking they are available on the cj3+

@@gregdildine99I don't believe they are available in the CJ3+.

You'd have to tell me where in the video you may have caught that! I do edit out a lot of the flight, so it might be possible for that to have happened and I didn't catch it!

... Maybe Wilmintonian? haha

I thing Burlington was closed for a bit while they were paving the runway? I don't recall Greensboro ever being closed. It's a pretty big airport.

When the plane first gets off the ground, the wheels are spinning at the speed of rotation (around 110mph in this aircraft, and 80mph in small piston aircraft.) The reason for tapping the brakes would be to stop the wheels from spinning/vibrating. However, in the Citation I believe there's a system to prevent the brakes from being pushed while the aircraft is in the air. It's to prevent you from landing with the brakes on. Also, there's no way to stop the nose from spinning.

My feet! There are pedals down there that both control the nosewheel on the ground, and the rudder while you're in the air.

I got it / replied.

I appreciate that! As always, thank you for watching!