Vision Jet Trip from Illinois to California (FUEL CONSERVATION, FBO PLANNING, PERFORMANCE) 

Father-son Vision jet time-priceless! Approach speed and picture only slightly faster than SR22. What a spectacular airplane!

The sights from the cabin of the CF90 are unmatched, truly amazing. Some jets much more expensive do not offer those visuals. Great video, thank you for sharing.

Congratulations on the promotion Al! I can only imagine the joy flying the Vision Jet must bring. And to be able to fo it for a living is great! Once again, congrats!

Great video. It’s been 40 odd years since I last flew. Still miss it heaps. Enjoyed your vision and commentary. Thanks for Australia

I Alan hope you and dad are well and enjoying life to the full. What a beautiful day for you. Nice to here you had a brilliant day with dad.i hope you bought him a breakfast. Take care happy days phil. 👍🇬🇧🤘

Very cool finding your channel! Nice to see the walk around! A truly impressive jet! Such a clean looking panel. Just an amazing sunset. Great descriptions too! You seem like a very down to earth guy and that is amazing! Blue skies!

Great job, Al. Your videos are excellent; interesting AND informative. You are obviously intelligent and articulate with great instructor ability. Well done on taking your dad with you. He clearly enjoyed it, especially letting him fly left seat. You’re a good son and a credit to your parents. Your highly interesting focus on operation of the Vision Jet is so good that I could probably fly it even though I’ve never even seen one in person. This makes your videos extra valuable. It’s so absorbing that it’s almost like being there in the cockpit with you. The Garmin glass is excellent, isn’t it? In a couple of more generations, you’ll just climb onboard, strap in, check to see that your flight plan was loaded properly, push the start button and request precision to taxi. Kinda like driving your car. It’s almost like that now. Amazing. When I learned to fly there were no glass cockpits. It was analog instruments and navigation using paper charts and mechanical flight computers. The term “stick and rudder flying” was real. It was great fun but I wouldn’t go back. I know a lot of guys like old stuff but not me. I’ve owned some awesome cars in my life but none of them are even close to my new Denali. Spare me from the old stuff. Anyway, I like the Vision Jet but your videos are better. 😎👍👍

Dads rock!!!!

Appreciate all the details you ad.. it’s all interesting Thanks for posting this

I am a pilot and I watch a number of videos and pretty good ones. I must say that yours are my favourite. Your content is great. We get to see a lot of the flight. I also have flown and love the vision jet. Just a great representation of a great airplane and great content. Thanks and keep it up! Congrats on the move west. I live in Seattle and fly the SR22T on the west coast. Fun stuff.

Al. Congrats on your new assignment As a first time SR22 owner I have enjoyed your videos, especially your pro tips on cleaning and door closing. All the best to you.

Great videos Al! I am a few months late, but congratulations on your new opportunity at Cirrus and business on the west coast! It must have been great to share the recipes with your father too… I like the pause and ten count prior to boarding the plane for departure. It is certainly bad form for a pilot to taxi over wheel chocks, melting an AOA cover or sucking an engine inlet cover through the N1 fan. Best of luck and maybe I’ll see you at the Vision Center.

Great video Al, good luck out west! I’ll never forget my first flight with you in a G6 SR 22, blue skies buddy!

Al, your dad did an amazing job of landing. As I sat in front of my computer monitor at home, I didn't feel a single vibration! As one famous flight instructor taught, "If your passengers can feel it, then you've done something wrong!"

Really enjoyed watching your video, Al. It's been a true privilege to watch you go from the little kid who just wanted to learn to fly, then witness the support of your family to get you educated (including Arkansas!), and now to see you evolve a wonderful career for yourself. Cheers to you Al. You make me smile.

What an exciting new journey for you! Blue skies!

Glad to see you back! The best videos on the web

Big Dan! What a great video, Al. Keep up the great work!

That brings back a memory of my dad and I flying from DeKalb IL to Daytona Beach FL. I needed some cross country time for my commercial and he had time off. Weather wasn't the best when we left so he came along. When we landed he talked to ground and referred to us as United (can't remember the tail #), ground came right back with United # taxi to..... Good times, was back in 89.

Congrats on the new opportunity, Al. Enjoy the west coast.

I enjoyed following you on this journey west. Best wishes for success in 2022.

Nicely done. I was born at the Santa Monica Hospital so it is always good to see people travelling to SM.

Great video Al! That jet is sick :0 Avionics are cutting edge.

You and your dad looked awesome flying right you and pops .

Great video Al. On my descent profile I use pattern altitude and make it 2 miles away from the field. That way if I am cleared for the visual it gives me an altitude that I should be at and helps me configure the airplane.

Great video! Love the SF50!

Not a pilot yet these videos are incredible. And the Vision? Wow. Thanks

there is always a lot to learn from your videos

F70 that’s my neighborhood. Always love watching planes come and go.

Great video!

Thanks for sharing ...

Cool Dad AL and great landing, it didn’t look aligned but it was perfect aligned when landed

Great video.

Just started learning to fly out of griffith. Cool video. I see you ran from the latest snow storm I just dug out of ...smart man LOL

the black color of the jet is beautiful.

Al, here’s a little tip for you on setting up a vertical profile from the flight levels, center will descend you to 11,000 feet MSL before they usually turn you over to a Tracon or a smaller sector, therefore set your VNAV 40 nautical miles short of your destination at 11,000 feet, you’re likely to find from flight level 300 you’re looking at about 110 miles out. Give it a try

I have the ForeFlight basic app even though I’m not a pilot and it was so much fun to see the various airspace divisions - living in Manchester U.K. I’m closer to Liverpool then I am to Barton and I’ve always wanted to hop across the Irish Sea to Dublin to visit family there - one of my neighbours back home in Ireland was an Aer Lingus captain for many years and his son owns a Piper Arrow out of Dublin Weston so he flies with the Connaught Aero Club into Knock Airport in the West of Ireland and they go to the South of France quite frequently, as well as to the Aran Islands off Galway, down to Kerry and up to Sligo and Donegal 🇮🇪☘️🇺🇸❤️

Nice! Beautiful plane! Cool dad! New subscriber!

Congrats Al! Will miss the SR videos but jets are cool too!

You landed just ahead of me at JVY yesterday. When I saw plane while I was refueling I thought I recognized the tail number from this video. Looks good in black.

Hey Al, great videos! Really enjoy how much you go into very fine detail with everything. Have you ever thought about raffling off a chance to fly in a Vision or 22?

Bucket list item is to fly in a vision jet. KC75 should land an SF50 😉 I like your video style here. Very informative and kept my interest and attention the whole time

A black livery looks sooo good on any plane, but especially good on the Vision Jet. P.S.: That landing at Denver was pure Butter.

Thanks for explaining flying so close to the barber pole ! If things go well maybe in a year or two I’ll be getting a demo flight from you

Congrats. I had a turbo cirrus out of DPA and moved it out to KFUL a couple years ago. You will like it out here. Let me know if you come out to Fullerton. I love it in SoCal versus the past 10 years flying around Chicago. fly to KSNA all the time too. I enjoy your videos. Dave

That landing your dad did into centennial i could have litterally put some bread on the runway and your dad would have buttered it perfectly no overrun no mess ❤️ not often you see a landing that perfect (even in smaller jets/GA aircraft)

The camera never stops. Please hold still on a panel so we can see the settings. Also would be nice to see GS on one of the bars on top. Thanks

It would be so cool if they could configure a restroom/head on the plane!!! There is soo much room if they took the back seats out.. either leave just the 2 front that you could move back, or put 2 seats behind the front that recline for sleeping and trading off pilots in the air. I’m always looking at configuration’s on the Cirrus jet2 for cruising around the world.

Just a note on the cowl anti ice: at the airline we have it on when we're in visible moisture/clouds from +10C to -40C. Below that, it's too cold for ice to form and we turn it off. I see you're at -50F in that clip, which is -45C, so not really needed at that point.

Wish I could have met up at KAPA! Great Video!

Very cool trip! How do you find the fuel consumption over-all? The last leg Santa Monica to John Wayne is about 40 miles, that took about 40 gallons?

Al would you consider doing a video on the transition from a 22 to a vision jet? Such as level of difficulty, use an example of most say it’s a difficult level of 2 out of 10. How many flight hours are required before the transition, etc.

Hey great video. Why would you have such a short hop of 400NM to LNK and not go direct to Denver?

Amazing video 😊 create more videos like this 👌🏻😉

Great audio. The lapel mic sounds great👍🏾

You need to show more!!! Take off’s, interior, landings. Get some stabilized camera’s throughput the plane. It’s a Beautiful Jet, I love the color!!!

Awesome as always Al. Are the TOLD cards available to purchase online anywhere?

AL I just started watching your videos today and it was cool to see that you visited my home airport of KLNK. I do have a question: Have you ever flown into KJAC?

theres my flight school! KPWK I see the building! Nice flight. Hope to run into you someday if you're still in the Chicago area!

This is so amazing ! 1. You're able to fly planes with your dad, 2. You're flying a vision jet, 3. What an amazing job ! I ate at that place at Denver centennial, great food. Question on the vision jet: Is there no vref speed on the tape to input to show up? This was amazing video Al!

In the 727 we used to say the barber pole is a target, not a limit 😂

Go for it “Fly Boys”

I suggest you obtain instruction on the use of engine anti ice. Contact the engine manufacturer asap.

Quick tip…that lapel microphone works great if you simply set it inside your headset ear cup…then you can hear ATC audio and your intercoms

Nice video, can you answer these questions :What is the useful load when you travel with 5 adults and 2 kids, range, speed ?. Kind Regards.

Nice content. The only issue I see with these long flights is that you have to land to use the bathroom, lol.

I picked up that I want one 😀

What was your flying tie on this trip?. Nice vid, Lee

These modern jets do everything for you, no fun in that! Do you fly for the airlines or just GA flying?

Al, why did you have to make so many stops? I thought the vision jet had 1200nm range with 2 people?

I know I'm 7 months late but is this your vision jet or someone else anyway great video👍

As usual great video im guessing you have no time as a flight instructor or do you?

Interesting that the jet takes jet a-? In the turboprops I’m in I have to be +. Are the tanks heated?

Just happened to see a vision jet on flight radar flying over the coast Wednesday evening

Al I think when you get some real mountain wave you won’t be so happy being that close to max Mach.

Al Would it be possible to download one of those SF50 take-off and landing cards? Patrick from Albuquerque

I saw a guy start up and try to pull away he forgot to untie the tiedown rope - take that extra minute to do a sanity check ✅

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this jet is amazing its cheap. the operation cost is low. and flying it is fun. and one may enjoy it very much. ill buy it. soon. inshallah.

but i dont know if the safe return feature and the wifi feature is available in arabia. or its just available in the states.

Great video. You left out the most important part. Landing and take off.

Al do they got any hanger spots available in Schaumburg? Thanks!

Adding the takeoffs and landings to your videos would be a plus. I know, they are the most busy for you, but they are the most exciting parts. Get a GoPro or such other camera?

Al: I want one of these jets int time for the weekend. Please send me the DocUsign to my assistant ASAP.

Al. What are you editing your videos with?

No landing and take off in the beginning?

How do you get foreflight alerts on your watch?

isn't Pewaukee ( its former name ) hard to fly in and out of since it is only about 10 miles north of O'hare ?

My dream plane ! Currently in flight school to change careers. I want to fly in one so bad!! I'm currently in St Louis. Is Chicago the closest place to me that has vision jets? Definitely worth the drive for me!

Hi there my friend what are the fuel costs everything you land how much does it very in cost .?????

How can I get a clear photo of that sf50 fuel planning worksheet you had on your knee board ?

i hope they will help me from the situation am in now. and things may change in the near future.

195 is economy cruise at 30k? What is the fuel burn at that speed and height?

Showing a simulator view on the landing in Denver??

Ugh. You didn't include the take off or landing. That's the best part.

where do you get those hoodies?

Could you do an economic cruise video?

Hi, your camera moves are hard to watch visual with eyes. You should do it more smoothly and gentle. Please! 🙏 Awesome Cirrus jet 🛩. The color scheme is outstanding. Great flight ✈️. Thanks 🙏 for taking a long.

how much do u tip the fulers??

i like my vision jet to have the same color as this jet. black color