Piper PA-34-200T Seneca II C-FWOA is seen on the approach and landing at CZNL in Nelson, British Columbia. It has been a long time since I have seen one of these nice general aviation twin-engine piston aircraft.
I remember these well from the early Seventies !! Flew in one a few times from Bristol Airport...Still preferred the PA-23 Aztec though...lol...Steve.-:)
Flys a bit better with a case of oil in the back. With just you and an instructor up front I found it always came in rather flat in the flair. Have to use both hands to pull that yoke back and keep the nose up.
Very nice, I'm glad I caught you and your great looking Seneca! I'll post another video I got of it from Monday soon, I should get it up this Friday morning.
Actually it looks to be a Seneca III due to it's one piece windshield so that also mean 220 HP per engine at 2800 RPM and then after take off back to 200 HP at 2600 RPM
its a seneca 2 with the lo presti speed mods which are the cowls and wing tips and there is a STC for a single piece windscreen for both the seneca 1 and 2
Great footage! However, from a pilot technique standpoint, I still don't understand why there are so many pilots who are reaching for the flaps as soon as they touchdown. They are still at high speed, and maybe even a bit squirrelly due to wind gusts, and they go head's down -- or at least at a weird angle -- to reach down and fiddle with the flaps, which probably shaves 100 feet off the landing distance and runs the risk of grabbing the gear by mistake. If you're not trying to extract every inch out of your runway -- and they clearly aren't here -- then it seems like a very unnecessary risk, in my opinion.
Good point about there being a possible distraction however, in this plane the flaps lever is in between the two front seats on the floor. The gear level is on the panel. There is no way to mistaken the two here. Also it's a split second decision. He's adding that extra weight on the main gears to slow the plane down to make sure he stops short of the end of the runway. I trained in a Piper Tomahawk which has the flap lever in the exact same spot. It became so natural to me when I did landings and touch and goes where that flap lever was that I didn't even have to look down for it.
