Cessna 340 KMFE McAllen - MMAN Del Norte Full Flight Blog Style. A first for me

before we get noisy pre-flight is complete no passengers we checked the fuel we tipped it off tip the top or top the tips however you want to call it okay so we will start engines at 1936 okay so master on magnitos fixture x props full throttle as is parking brake except there we go headset there we go [Music] and this one goes here [Music] so let's start with the right one which is the one that has been giving me less trouble recently on this one it's been a while it's like last flew this guy so fish perhaps primer on the right start it on the right across the side the blower is not working i don't know why i guess we'll have to use outside air let's start with the left one crank the left avionics we're good oh crap where's the earplug curious terrain system test okay oh too noisy there we go check change of glasses i'm gonna eat this for a while much better pure remaining 88 we got 100 gallons today information zulu time two three five three zulu wind one two zero at one four visibility one zero sky clear temperature three one dew point one three altimeter two niner eight six ils runway one four in use advise on initial contact at vedas information zulu mcallen tower information zulu time two three five three zulu wind one two zero at one four visibility one zero sky clear temperature three one dew point one three altimeter two niner eight six ils runway one four in use advise on initial contact yeah vedic information zulu mcallen tower information zulu time two three five three zulu wind one two zero at one four visibility one zero sky clear temperature three one dew point one three altimeter two niner eight six ils runway one four in use advise on initial contact at vedas information zulu mcallen tower information zulu time two three five three zulu wind one two zero at one four visibility one zero sky clear temperature three one two point one three altimeter two niner eight six ils runway one four in use advise on initial contact yeah vedas information zulu airport as filed maintain uh 8 000 departure frequency one two four point five squawk two four two one possible to my car for november has filed two 8012 uh five and scott two four two one thanks for wrapping up juliet read back correct advisory taxi with zulu we have sulu ready to taxi material scarborough juliet thanks rob oscar juliet runway one for taxi via runway one eight delta and alpha one eight delta alpha one four let's grab robert juliet clear on the left clear on the right hot in here i'm gonna open this for some reason the blower is not working today even though the breakers in so so normally i do spanish flights and u.s and i just open speak english whenever i need to but today i just felt like it's i'm just gonna go english all the way even comes in mexico so this is pretty much the the most regular flight in northern mexico in monterrey saltillo torreon all of those places and we usually it's mcallen or brownsville that's the two go-to options depending if they want to go to the beach or not personally i prefer brownsville there's uh better things to do and mcallen's kind of like all cramped up all tidy up and stuff but still it's kind of like the old school one eight delta then alpha juliet check this on this trip oh here it is there had another one in the back this checklist is kind of spartan so i use my memory checklist from the 414 days this baby is a 340 with the ram 7 so it's basically a 414 with a thousand uh gross weight less so technically these engines could pull 7 100 pounds so this this this is uh just under 65 this is probably around 63 or 64. i'm not sure of the number of this one uh yet i do know these engines on the 414a they pull up to 7100 so this this guy's got some cojones and lots of them the only issue here it's being a twin you have to be careful with it because uh you lose one plus the tip tanks and you are going for a ride so always stay there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to be flying below blue line except the landings of course but anyway so we're doing the route on the way out it's reynosa victor 13 which takes us close to the border then kamui which is affects about 40 miles to the north west of reynosa and then down to monterey because that's the airway since i'm flying victors on on a piston they don't give us they are not arrivals they are mostly for the jets which we always get on the hawker but not on this one and if i am not mistaken they either give us vectors or they make us check the vr and then do the full approach with vmware old school by the way if you're interested in doing like old school procedures tme arcs procedure turns stuff like that if you want to come back around for another one definitely the place for you at least try it on the sim okay roger execute climb outs and contact by departure uh we'll call departure noir so this one the squawks i know out of this one the tacoma on the right side it works on and off so one flight it does one flight it doesn't uh the blower is not working for some reason and the other part is zippy because if you you can you engage it it starts kind of like trying to overcompensate and you end up dancing thriller kind of like and your damper is not helping so we just i just shut it off and go go it out by hand so nose wheel centered parking brake sip now flight controls one two three four five six clear correct mixture rich pops full throttle idle flaps up gear down pumps on low so we test for our max which is 1800 on the ram continentals remember this is a ram 7. 18 so we cut the left sides both work correct we cut the right side [Applause] correct props on the left side goes down goes up we're good on the right side this one goes up we feel the pop now we check for oil pressures on the left side we drop the old pressure we drop it on the right we drop the old pressure volts amps we're good power it back to a thousand rpm and even though you know it by memory you do the checklist so before takeoff engine run up throttles alternator we already checked vacuum system we don't need one because we got our ae we got our ahars magnetos check propeller check engine instruments throttles fuel quantity we're filling the tubs the tip tip tanks are full which are the mains on this one field selector scout flaps are open trim tap set for takeoff uh synchro phase are off we don't need it uh flight instruments if you're next it likes us requirements julia mccann how are you ready let's we are clear luxury fuel pumps are in low flight controls check ice protection seat belts we are ready knock on the tower actually bravo bravo julian ready for take off one four next round oscar rob julia at michaela tower turn right direct reynosa maintain 8 000 runway one forward clear four take off clear for takeoff one four eight thousand redecorating so it's 46 on my watch so [Applause] 46 strobes all the lights on okay if anything happens below blue line power to idle space to maximum maintain directional control if anything happens after blue line is if we have enough runway we put it down if not positive rate gear up hands on the props we identify and then we feather it because these babies will turn it that's a flight safety procedure you can do the standard procedure if you want to but uh since everything's already full forward that's the way they taught me in flight safety for the 414 so that's the way i do it okay so we're ready now we're starting to get somewhere here we got 25 we got both mercedes green arch we're going to get out of here [Music] okay blue line we can go now positive right we still got enough runway 90 more gear up hands on the pups okay we got a problem here by any chance i feather it i may want to go to this field if this thing doesn't stay up if not to just sit around and land back on one floor so we got the blue mark here up taxi lights and landing lights go back up and i'll let you know in a minute why so we got 400 feet now flaps are up right turn the recording nose [Music] don't touch anything until you get to a thousand feet and i'll explain that in a minute yeah i sure hope this thing is recording properly but there's only one way we'll find out that that'll be in about two hours so something's vibrating here it wasn't vibrating that way in the morning 1000 feet we throw the power back green arc 35 [Music] thank you bravo oscar juliet contact monterey one two four point five have it going twenty four five oscars good night [Music] [Music] oh sorry i said i was going to do this in english but anyway so after takeoff we were cleared so it's kamui now we're going to have to fix it which is procedure arrival get this one charlie load so he goes direct hit this which is the art of arrival which is not usual for the pistons but anyway so i'm sorry about that so we were arguing about could i get her direct kamui he said yes but he said hit this first so okay i'll just go with this i don't mind so after takeoff we got landing gear best angle climb power mixture scuff up and pre-surge station we don't need that much so i'm gonna just leave it like that so we got [Music] 243 let us use this thing for 24 kobit improves check this out we're doing 140 on the climb with almost that's 1500 feet a minute on 135 knots on the 4 4 on the 340. again this thing's got some balls so now i'm going to start leaning it just a bit okay heading put this thing here put it on nav again i'm not using the autopilot it's it's iffy on this thing but i don't mind so we got right now it leveled out we're at the thousand feet a minute almost so you can see it over there there you go [Music] and i'm gonna use this myself six to nine bravo tango contact maintain four one zero clear that extra november 12th okay the reason i normally wait a thousand feet for the props and the power to reduce after takeoff is because about 70 percent i've read this somewhere i don't know all the engine failures occur when you do a power change so once the power is set just let it be if it fails it fails be ready for it then glider's got this great aqp i think it's called where he trains you for scenarios so i was thought that on takeoff roll i'm gonna lose one i'm gonna lose one i'm gonna lose one even though you don't want to lose one but you're ready so if anything happens just be prepared do immediately identify verify and feather [Music] keep your speed up okay okay so winds are a little bit more from the left so i'm correcting so we got 26 29 we're good on the temperatures we're good next frequency is going to be 1975 the usual at monterrey monterrey for those of you who don't know it monterey is the third it's the third most populated city in mexico but it's the second largest by area and it's pretty much the industrial capital about most of the big companies have their their headquarters there and we're about 100 miles from the us a matter of fact macaulay to monterey is 110 miles so we're there's kind of like this fight between regular mexico and the rest of us well i'm from i was i was born there [Music] anyway uh there's this fight because the rest of mexico thinks that we're not mexican enough and the rest and the people are not really think that the rest of mexico is not like productive enough so but that's another story so right now we're looking good green arcs the props this is missing but we are 25 and you can hear them get back on it we got the temperatures good 26 27 we're good temperatures we're good fuel we're good that's the thing with pistons you have to keep an eye out on them constantly i once i started flying turbines it's kind of like just turn it on once it's on you forget about it i mean it's just keep an eye on it but less of the time we do in this one 65 for 8 000. we're still climbing so 14 7 hello four months [Applause] foreign seven thousand for eight thousand oscar probably awesome here's the other thing my i know almost by memory but it was like five years flying 414 lima lima which is what my my old former job i still have uh have a good relationship with them and they call me to pinch it every now and then the pilot flying that is a friend of mine but it's pretty much these planes all the cessna twins even if when they have ram sevens kinda like i know how to treat them so the numbers for that one for this particular on the altitude we're going which is a thousand we're gonna leave it at 29.30 23 and it should be around 18. we're not going to go max temperature i always go rich of peak don't get started with that debate i don't know what the mess is but i just go reach a peak okay 200 feet to go to level so we're doing this no autopilot we're still doing it leveling there we go okay so we let it run just to gain some speed and then so most of the time i fly the hawker actually i've flown it i mean that's the one that feeds pays for my bills but i've got 1200 hours on 414s 340s 421 so i get a lot of calls from people in in the valley and monterrey i know this sound to to fly these types of things and i do it for fun i mean i just love flying i don't care if it's a turbine i do have respects on these on pistons so you got to be careful with them but it's not like okay just go no i mean some flights i don't i don't catch especially the ones that may get in a scheduling conflict but apart from that why not okay so reducing power call flaps go up foreign so i'm hand sinking it not working that's the other way again to san antonio so my home away from home actually no i flew there that's where i studied i went to this flight school called the wright fires but it went belly up just about just before i would took my commercial check right so i had to change schools and i stayed in san antonio i went to sky safety which is like a family run school leslie's awesome by the way shout out to her she helped me out tremendously to finish and lived there for five years got married there so i love san antonio i'll get there eventually once once i get all the experience i need here at mexico just go all right okay so we got 29 we got 23 under 20. somewhere around there i'm gonna the lights on now because i will need them shortly uh still it's still dark enough for the uh for this thing now i'm just gonna hide it then there i think that we're we're dark we're lighting up so we can change shades again so we got 17 29 23 1500 on the on the fuel on the turbos okay we got temperatures we're good pressures we're good so we check it out here so temperature outside is 14 so it esa plus 12. okay 10 000 feet whoa what was that left alternator if it does it again i'll keep an eye on that so 10 000 feet 30 inches with 23. 17 gallons per hour a little bit richer and 60 50 max so we're good almost 200 feet down so back up let's get the 80s from monterrey which is 27.5500 [Applause] no that's not the notebook it's this one [Applause] here let's go back here gonna clean these up this is a trick i learned from my dad he was a pilot as well he flew hawkers flew in the same part 135 company or the equivalent of for 35 years he gave me this tip once when i was in flight school he would help me out he was not cfr but he had the the he just knew how to teach his methods weren't always the the best or well the most understandable at first but once you got it you it clicked and he always said the five rules for flying ifr number one tripping the plane number two trim the plane number three trim the plane number four trim the plane number five and just in case i forgot trim the plane so you can just pretty much leave it like as is even without autopilot and you can do something else and keep an eye on it still but it won't go all over the place so if you have it properly trimmed the plane flies itself and there you go so that's the way i do it that's the way they taught me that's the way whenever i fly with someone especially youngsters i always get calls for low pilots asking me can i pop in and get some experience and i said sure i always do that i always try to help out someone once did to me so what's the name of that movie uh paid forward it's the same thing actually as a funny note one of the kids i did that to was my boss's son i didn't know that i didn't know he was his son well i suspected but i mean it just came natural to me you want to help like the time sure hop in and he my boss rolando he appreciated and among other things is that just one day he called me what would you be interested in in hopping uh coming over to to fly with me and i said yes and it's been what four years now [Music] so what part of growing in aviation remember always ask yourself what am i missing what am i missing so in this case i feel like i missed my cruise checklist power mixture scalp flap [Music] [Music] uh when i was born my dad was an atc guy he was a a controller first alternator out so we lost the alternator okay and it comes back on i have a [Music] back on and back out so yeah i know do we have a breaker okay i'm just going to go without it caving lights go off we don't need those right now and um shot strobe knives landing i must shut the collision in avionics tx anti-collision i'm only pretty much as is there's still enough sunlight so we don't overload the other alternator we are at 40 so no actually what 30 so we're good so to change our descent so we got 5 000. another 10 minutes so i'm gonna turn on the alternator back on if it pops again i'm just going to leave it off there oops 100 feet down so better get back up so we're going to leave [Applause] qnh 29.86 remarks all communications on 118 [Applause] information [Music] [Applause] okay i guess i understood that he wants me to talk in spanish so i will do that okay so the approach form del norte is the old ios 220 so it's already select approach ils docsam load so there we go it's 107 and 14 15 4 for the north view are here okay on v-net 5100 and exam so it's another 10 minutes before we start heading down i guess if i was in the november intel airplane they probably would have talked to me english all the time being a mexican airplane i tried so it's getting a little bit bumpy here but nothing major holding on temperatures we're good alternator hasn't popped again so they may have a loose wire somewhere but i'll just keep an eye on it before we flee tomorrow make sure everything's properly fastened i'm not going to turn on the cockpit lice not yet i'm going to see i'm going to try to push it as much as i can so again i was telling you i was i started in aviation when i was a taller my dad was an atc guy when i was born he was flying a navajo so that plane has a special place in my heart even though i'm flying i actually jump with roberto friend of mine to fly the now i just don't feel comfortable in it the engines are much more whenever you leave them they stay there on the narrow house they are all over the place so i don't like i like automatic uh wastegates on the turbos don't have that so i mean but it is what it is and my goal in aviation actually i got there i mean i just want to fly i don't care if i'm flying a a piston or a jet or whatever as long as i get paid flying so 121 i mean i can do it but i'm a family guy as well so i i'd rather stay at home most of the time so 135 would be okay i'll see what life where life takes me you never know if i stay here if i go back to the states if i go overseas [Music] let me see the master lights on again nothing on the alternator good i'm gonna try to make it see if it stays there see these are nav arrival i'm at eight thousand so i think it's one sixty thousand for it this which is the arrival so again this is mostly designed for for jets so anyway start so it's uh akbar 14 or above cat pro magna curta so it's secret i need to be 6500 which is way down the line so i can just pretty much stay here for another seven minutes starting to get bumpy here big deal another seven minutes so it's pfd clock time start by the way how's mike middleshake doing good it's not for me it's for my wife she loves whataburger milkshakes himself sweaty hands oh so 107. so i'm going to put 207 for the ils there so nothing on the alternator yet so i'm just gonna leave it there hope nothing else happens again on the load i'm right now at uh 25 h so if it pops up it should get to 50. so right now a single alternator should hold the load but if it goes i'm just gonna shut cockpit lights off i don't need them much this thing right not plenty and i got the ipad and the iphone to lighten up the cockpit if that is needed so let's do our briefing for the approach very important approach ils dme320 it's going to be the 21-3 chart from del norte international ilsd ma3 80's 25 27.55 we already have information mike 1975 tower is 18.6 we already set tower 186 elevation 1476. okay ils it's 1070. inbound course 207 duksam 5100 and 900 which should be at 3500 and go to minimums which is 200 feet in case we go missed we just follow the nav and it should take us to clover 11 000 with a teardrop entry of course given it's so high i seriously doubt they give us all the way up to eleven thousand they usually just vectors out of there so our approach is briefed so before we go our descent checklist which should be in about four more minutes so four more minutes so i'm just gonna pfd reset so again temperatures on the fuel flow we're good temperatures on the turbo we're good cylinders seem okay pressures the fuel we're good again i'm doing this without another pilot because this thing is if i put it it starts bubbling and it will go sideways and stuff so it's like you know what i'll just i'll just do it myself by the way i've got singling single pilot ifr it is demanding but for some reason i mean i'm just getting used to it playing with the hawker with rolando it feels much more easier when you have someone else too but i try to keep the same discipline the same routine regardless if it's piston if it's jet if it helps out so always stay ahead of the airplane try to do that they probably teach you that on flight school anyway but i don't care if it's just flying a cessna you're flying a hawker or a falcon or whatever it is always do the things the same way so the transition between aircraft is as seamless as possible okay so we should turn to whoops that descent i lost more altitude than i should have let's get back there there we go and how long to the north it's about 10 minutes so we're getting ready toward the same time so here's the thing with the continentals or at least this is what i do the airplane arrives the airplane is going to arrive at a certain time if it's 10 minutes from now i need to start taking power out of the engines 10 minutes from now i don't care what the plane is doing so you may be on victors you may be on cruise you may be doesn't matter the engines have to start getting powered back so since it's going to be 10 minutes i'm going to start doing it so i need my timer again so clock timer reset b nav another minute so i'm gonna take an inch out of here just one and give it two minutes so it's gonna be a right turn to two nine or eight so two nine or eight three two one now [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] foreign so we're getting vectors now so procedure activate vectors 1070 localizer and we start heading down that's a minute so i'm just going to start so my descent checklist it's fuel selectors main and main okay so get it back here 295 propeller base yourself actually fuel pumps are on wing flaps are desired landing gear pending mixtures adjust propellers approach speed and what's the last one air minimum control speed yeah red line stay away from that so we need to get down now 142 almost close to the minute so it's 295 so i'm just gonna give it another inch an inch one of the advantages of this being pressurized is kind of like a thousand feet per minute down and your ears won't complain at all 227 so you gotta lead at least give it till four whoops that's what happened so 255 i'm gonna give it another inch that's one minute i give it a minute preferably two but at least one minute between power changes so i can get cooling it enough oh so it's uh menu map setup app so it's going to be no it's not here it's aux box level there we go much better how are we doing on the time 335 still not close enough so the alternator is not given any more trouble so it's definitely a loose wire so it's four minutes another inch 10 7 10 7 ready for the ils [Music] heading thousand feet to go 527 so like i said the engine arrives at 10 minutes i will start to remove power attendants what four i'm about to level and i got the power already set for what i need so once i level up the speed should drop enough so we could put flaps and start messing the planet up before landing that's that's the key on these on the continentals again i know some of y'all do fly these things and i'm probably talking out of my rear end but that's the technique i was thought that's the way it works for me so if you use it if it's good for you take it if not well buddy just about to level so i'm gonna level out at four thousand want to start adding props here to slow it down 25 4 000 so now we're below 177 which is our flap speed so flaps one so flaps down trim down and it's the plane shouldn't bobble but on these [Music] i've noticed it's like one daughter flaps it's like two thumbs two thumbs uh forward and it should make it let's just go ahead and be ready to throw full flaps 285 and i got the field inside so 250 3500 cleared for the ils 2-0 so i'm going to add more props slows even further another inch out [Music] about to intercept the localizer one dot so i'm going to slow it down a little bit 35 one dot so as soon as my speed checks i should be this one by the way says landing gear but it's off it's a little bit higher than that but i'm still gonna wait for it so here we go gear down [Music] intercepting [Music] pretty green no red taxi light goes down before landing we already did that so it's mixtures props products gear lights fuel pumps main and main we're good [Music] there we foreign is so we're going to have the crosswind from the right normal in these in this airport winds are always from 11 29 but that's a bfr only runway and it's also lined up too this is a reliever airport the other one is the marianas mike mike yankee but we'll talk about that in a minute let's sterile cockpit focus on what we have to do right now so gas mixtures seat belts seat belts flaps what distance we are two miles yeah why not the weight changed here so i'm just gonna correct it full flaps now one two [Music] keep going now whoa okay so 105 we're good i'm going to give it just a little bit more power [Music] just a bit just to stay a blue above the blue line [Music] [Music] he confused us he calls on short finals like right but situation averted so we land i'm gonna shut these back on cocktails complex flaps so we landed 30 so it's hot in here okay give it a minute to shut it off give it one more minute 30 seconds okay thumbs up so that was it so temperatures let's give it three minutes after landing 30 more seconds temperatures were good count flaps are open flats after landing but that flow fuel pump scout flaps and flats so we're good this one doesn't have a speed brake lima lima does which makes life easier but 30 seconds [Music] magnetos for watching we'll see you next time take care then bye-bye

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Keywords: Aviation, Cessna 340, IFR, Del Norte International, Flying, Cessna, MultiEngine

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Length: 57min 52sec (3472 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 26 2021