Turbo Commander - Overhead Break
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2021
- A quick video covering an overhead break to runway 12 at KSAD, Safford, Arizona. Not a typical civilian traffic pattern maneuver, only try this if you wish you were a military pilot or you were a military pilot at some point in your life and think that you still are in your RV-8 or Bonanza. I am neither so I did this at a non-towered airport with no traffic to spare frustration and cringe-worthiness from the control tower and fellow pilots who unfortunately have to put up with this nonsense on a daily basis in the Phoenix metro area. September 2021.
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Brings back a lot of memories of my first flying job, hauling cancelled checks at night in an AC690! It was 1979 and I was 19 when I started at a part 135 in BOS, we flew from BOS at 9pm, down to EWR loaded up more checks there, then out to DET, met up with 8 Shrike Commanders there at 1am, and did the sort.
When the checks were all sorted by city we loaded up the NYC checks in the cabin, put the BOS checks in the baggage compartment, and took off for EWR about 2:30:am, arrived there about 2hrs later, unloaded the NYC checks, then flew up to BOS arriving around 6am, unloaded the BOS checks, got in my Chevy Vega and drove up to Hampton, NH, took a shower, got back in the Vega and drove 17 miles to college at UNH in Durham, sat in class trying to stay awake from 8am until noon, drove back to Hampton, got in bed at 1pm, slept until 6pm, get up, eat, make a thermos full of coffee, drive back to Logan (BOS) tug the airplane (N9166N) out of the Butler Aviation hanger and load up the BOS checks, and fly to EWR….
I did that job 4 nights a week Monday night through Friday morning, for 4 years. No vacation, no sick leave, and it paid $150/week, which worked out to about $6/hr! On the weekends I was on call to fly copilot in their Lear 23, that thing was a rocket ship!
When I quit that job to join the NH Air National Guard I had over 4,000 hrs in N9166N, most of it at night. We never once canceled for bad weather, we just flew through it, snow, fog,mTRW’s in the Ohio Valley, we were young, dumb and full of cum! When I got to Air Force pilot training in Del Rio, TX, June of 1983, age 23, I had 4,500 hrs and my ATP. My first “Instructor” in the T37 had 220hrs, day VFR in West Texas! I blew his mind with the stories I would tell him of some of the crap we flew through every night. We both ended up flying for Delta, but I got there in 1985, he didn’t get there until 1989 I think.
I really miss flying the Turbo Commander though, you never forget your first love! For 4 years at age 19-23 I spent more time in N9166N than I did in my bed or anywhere else!
Enjoyed reading your story.
@@ac2-rm141 Thanks.
Cool vid Tim. Glad to see you're having fun.
Hi Neil! Thanks. What are you flying now?
@@FlyingWildAZ Working on an instrument rating. Lot of Sim time. Otherwise a Tampico TB-9, and a 182RG. I was surprised to see you in the Turbo Commander. Last I saw you were flying Honda Jets?
The desert is so green. Amazing! Good job.
Yes we have had biblical monsoon season this year. We went from 95% severe drought three months ago to 10% today.
Fantastic video. In the mid 80’s my late father used to work for the British Airports Authority (BAA) and they used one of these to check landing lights at Heathrow/Gatwick/Edinburgh and so on. He would go as P2. I remember him telling me of a failure of the cockpit lighting and having to use a torch. I think the plane was registered as G-BXYZ or G-OBAA ? before the number transferred to their KingAir. Now long gone. Edit - almost forgot, the nose had a special fairing in it that housed a Hasselblad camera.
Very cool story, thanks for sharing!
Half expected you to call the ball.
All I needed was a full faced helmet. Goose was talking to me.
Nice flight
Fantastic airplane!
Yes, Ted and Rockwell knew what they were doing when they made this bird.
Awesome
Excellent Tim..as always will try in MFS2020
Al, all these updates keep breaking my MSFS :( Have you had any issues?
@@FlyingWildAZ Hi Tim I wrote to Sim Flight Pro re my problems with these updates, so was not sure if you were winding me up?. Took my son 7 hours remotely to get it working and the Community Folder. I dread them as they throw my sim. I fly in a group most days with guys from all round the World in Discord..Some also have issues with the last update...("The Ultimate Server for flight simming". is the group ) We have a professional 737 pilot in the group feel free to join us... Your medivac video is one of my favourite professional videos that I watch a lot.. My .sim is still dropping out the Navigation, the Garmins don't work now on the Cessnas plus Caravan, and my Logitech drivers in flight are unreliable. I just wish they would sort the bugs before more World updates. Keep your great videos coming as I like to follow through on the sim.
@@alwatt9367 Thanks you Al, appreciate your comments.! I only have MSFS on my crew house computer which just has Honeycomb hardware, my main sim at home, the full cockpit set up with a fair amount of 737 panels remains firmly entrenched in X-Plane 11 mainly because of the amount of hardware configured and because MSFS is not ready for prime time. Have you seen my home sim set up?
@@FlyingWildAZ no but will have a look for it.. I must of missed that video. I had ordered a Honeycomb yoke pre paid but it never came so after 7 failed deliveries ..six months wait..bought a Logitech Yoke from a friend.
Because it's FUN!
LOL!
Let me know if you guys need another pilot. Job looks interesting and I have time in the twin commander.
Just the other day, I saw a Cessna coming in really high. I thought that he was just flying through, but then the plane started circling in the approach, lost a bunch of altitude, and then landed with a very short final. I'm guessing he was just practicing, and it was pretty impressive. It was kind of like your flight, but it was a lot more confined, and he never was over the airport prior to landing. I think that I've seen C130's doing something similar to this? Must be some kind of combat approach?
Yes it is military maneuver, I always laugh when I see civilian aircraft request it so this was kind of a of a joke.
@@FlyingWildAZ Our airport is a small non towered airport. I wonder how he would address traffic? Just call a short final and start spiraling in?
Dude, arc you back in AZ flying air ambulance? Last I recall you took a job flying a Premier or something
Let’s see some backward parking
on the pad using reverse thrust.
It’s pretty cool….
Did you decide to leave your previous employer?
Yes, they were absolutely awful. Morally and ethically bankrupt. Despite this I was very happy for the experience (good and bad), the type rating, being a jet captain, and flying a jet solo. Someday I am gonna make a video about the event in Long Beach that finally caused me to part ways with the company.
@@FlyingWildAZ Ok thanks for the reply.
Why did you elect to fly right traffic?
More TC videos please!
Okay you got it!