Citation X Preparation & Startup – X-Plane 12

[Music] thank you hello my name is Jan and I'd like to show you how to start up the Citation 10 it explained 12. normally I fly bigger airplanes to bear with me but I'll try to show you as well as I can now with a big cockpit like this it's important that you know how to look around of course holding down the right Mouse button and using the mouse wheel everyone knows about that another feature is enabling us to remove the yolks so that we can see the switches a little better and another nice one is setting quick views you can use it with a control and numpad keys to save them and just click on the numpad keys to evoke them and that enables you to move back and forth in the cockpit even in the cabin and even in outside views if you choose so real quick you can save up to 10 quick views and if you use the mouse then to move from one of those quick views and click the quick view again it snaps you back naturally but clicking it another time moves you back to the view you had with the mouse and that's really convenient you want to check the weight and balance before we get going and if you click on restore default down on the bottom left there you can see that the plane is set to the maximum Landing weight just about 30 000 pounds with a nice center of gravity this is a fairly good setup for everyday flights but of course you can customize that I want to fill it up with passengers a little more and cruise fine and we don't need that much fuel today we're going from Torino and Northern Italy to Augsburg and Southern Germany 5 000 pounds there's plenty that takes us over three hours and this estimate here by lamina research is very conservative so the plane will go a lot further and a lot longer when used economically now let's get going hold on to your hats we'll start with a passenger oxygen switch putting it to Auto so that the masks can deploy on automatically will turn on the emergency exit lights they have their own little battery and they will always light up when there's no electricity and oh there's already a first passenger took his seat back there and yes the exit light is working as it should now that there's no power in the aircraft we'll make sure that those cabin lot or the instrument lights are at the 12 o'clock position it's important because if they're at a minimum that you cannot see some of the enunciators we'll turn on the left hand and right-hand generators we'll make sure that the fuel boost pumps are in the normal position ignition and also fardix switches are in their normal position and next thing we'll be turning on the standby power we cage the standby Horizon it's easy now that it's not spinning and as we turn it on you can see here the Woodpecker the vibrator that's vibrating the altimeter to make it indicate more smoothly and also you can see the flag there on the standby Horizon it will now it just moves out of the way as it spins up to RPM we turn on the windshield heat you can always operate it on the ground it makes the windshields nice and flexible Landing light goes to recognition strength seat belts to passenger safety and that makes Austin buckle up the pressurization all switches down the engine blade switches you can turn to low pressure that is sufficient for flights up to 41 000 feet I think and here's another light switch that you want to set to the 12 o'clock position to avoid problems with enunciators and there's one more here to the very right side it should be down in the normal position especially with a card closed like that not quite sure why it's set up like this but sometimes it happens they get stuck even though the card is closed time to get DC power going battery One battery two and also the avionics and the engine indicating and crew alerting system and it's starting to do its job it's alerting you with flashing messages and some Chimes you can silence those by clicking the master warning and caution buttons all these warnings are normal for the stage of the cockpit preparation and now that we have DC power we want to make sure that the parking brake is sufficiently pressurized it stores and traps the hydraulic pressure but right now there is none so it might have bled out overnight so we'll turn on the auxiliary a-pump see that the pressure is rising now we will recycle the brakes set it again and now we can rest assured that it's nice and tight and the plane will move we can turn off the pump again before it depletes our battery and talking about depletion of battery we want to get some cell power supply going and you can use the GPU but we'll use our Apu it's also cold in the cabin journal the master switch hit the test button check the enunciators to see if the switch is down the lights are down then you cannot see them so make sure that's at 12 o'clock and then you can see this enunciated skull hit the if you start a toggle switch hold it up until it starts running and then you can let it go it will go through its cycle here you can see that the starters energize just have to wait until it ramps up to 100 percent and the ready to load light comes on then we will switch on the generator check generator load that's fine and then we will turn on the bleed valve to get pneumatic power into the Elite duct which enables us to turn on the right pack and use the temperature selector here in the middle to show the temperature in the cabin show the selected temperature and also show the supplied temperature and that should heat up those 15 degrees fairly quick so our important passenger is more comfortable he's used to warm weather in South Carolina okay now the immediate concerns are taken care of we have electrical power we have air condition going we can start working on the ffs now this is going to be a little complex I'll show you the bare minimum needed first to get going clear enough data out of date and use position image to initialize the position GPS one is fine that is accurate enough and we'll go back to the flight plan the origin is already filled out you type in the destination or an airport as close as possible to the destination you're going to and fill that in now for a flight plan we want to have origin destination and also a point in the middle now edma is not the point in the middle that's still in magenta so we need to add at least the runway now when you do the step I just make sure that you copy edma do not type edma again copy it of the right side so we'll pick the runway 36 now we can go to activate now you see we have a yellow magenta and green that's what we want to see that's the minimum Flight Plan you need you can go to the performance in it step through the pages and on the fifth page you can copy the indicated value from the fuel enter it here and you see the gross weight on the bottom right gets filled out clear the unable Cruiser which we haven't even added one and now go to Performance takeoff step through the four pages that it offers with various information and on the fourth page you confirm the takeoff left setting or change it to whatever you want and once that is done you go to the second takeoff Data Page and here are the V speeds that we wanted and they also display on the speed tape there but of course we want to add a little more so now we'll pick the departures Runway 36 offers The Silo 5i for our base E6 mic transition and you can preview that or even review the flight plan here but we actually want to add some arrival info before we activate it so here we go again to the nut button arrival and for airport edma we pick a Runway we pick an approach approach transition maybe the Vita transition doesn't really matter and we choose not to pick a star look at the flight plan and of course you'll see the discontinuity between the departure and arrival and we'll just close it going directly from our visa to Vita and have a contiguous flight plan this way activate it and you can see here are the points but uh very narrow turns yet because there's no performance data in it you can see the dashed lines that means the FMS does not know which altitude and speed you'll be at because we have not entered uh Cruise attitude so we'll do that on the performance in it fourth of five pages and now you see those turns gets a little wider because the plane knows that will be at a certain speed Edge lightbox support zero two these are calculated small font Big Font is database which is already encoded in bsid and that you have to adhere to okay this concludes setting up the FMS and will continue by checking various The Warning Systems first we'll make sure that here on the left side of the throttles those four lights are out the flight control shut off lights and we'll focus our attention on the test panel here there are various tests on there that you can invoke by turning this mob and I'll show you what they do and start with the enunciators and some beeps lots of Lights check that all the bulbs are working and of course the ground proximity warning system goes through its self-test wind shear next the test will be angle of attack and uh if there's still hydraulic pressure you will see that the slats deploy there might be some residual pressure even though there's none indicated but look at what happens stick Shaker sounds and you can see that the slats deploy and once you're happy with that test you can go to the overspeed test then the next one will be the windshield heat system the next one would be the flap over speed test then there's a cross reversal test fire warning test finally the landing gear horn and last but not least the smoke detection test and turn it back to off and we'll want to retract those slats Again by turning on the hydraulic power again you see they retract because the lever is still at flaps slats up and once that is done you can use disable the hydraulic pump again now we want to focus our attention on the top part of the panel there but before we do that let's look at the voice recorder down here you would normally test it it's not possible here in this plane but make sure that the odd dampers on the mark trim system is on and then next thing is we want to set the stabilizer trim for takeoff a good value for setting that for Flex 15 is -6 see it's at minus 6.4 so we'll 22-6 that's for a center of gravity plus minus two units for extreme positions of the center of gravity and use four minus four or a flaps five takeoffs so just a little less stabilizer needed for those and again plus minus two you can set up the communication and navigation radials this is a pretty much uh conventional use of the choose which field you want to change by clicking the line select key then turning this knob to change the value and then use the transfer applied select key to actually transfer it and again the transponder not a big thing also the transponder mode you can change here and the t-cast display range and of course the vertical range above below or normal once you have set this up you want to check your electronic HSI down there you want to set the course the heading back and of course the altitude that you will the autopilot will need to fly the plane and it's cumbersome to look down at the knobs that you need to turn them and then look up at the value again back and forth so what I do is I map some joystick buttons look at the altitude I use for joystick buttons to move it up and down and that's much more convenient than always trying to find a view where you can both manipulate these knobs down here and also check what they do on your display it's almost impossible it's very economical in the real plane because you just drop your hand and twist but uh you're on a 2d screen it's difficult to do so you need to come to grips with that okay now the navigation is taken care of our passenger seems to be comfortable let's get going we'll uh close the door ah nice and quiet better huh yeah yeah okay I know you're in a hurry we'll uh get startup clearance from tolino ground and once that is done we will start the engines and before we do that like in any aircraft you need to turn on the anti-collision light just the middle position of the switch is enough top position would be with Strokes don't do that until you get close to the runway and the fartic will help us switching turning on the engines the last step before we actually get to that is Journey the way Center Wing transfer switches to normal there's no fuel in there but that's procedure so we'll do that and we'll also silence the yellow warning there in the middle okay if you look at the throttles you can see your thrust levers you can see that the two white lines the first one is Idle the second one is cut off and this is exactly what they do you want to move them from cut off to idle as you run them and you can grab them on the very left side and very right side to just move them individually and to see you can move them between cut off and idle and the Heart where throttle will just move them between uh you know maximum power and idle but not into cutoff you need the mouse to actually do that important when you shut down the aircraft and starting the engine is easy we just make sure that we have enough start pressure by using the engine synoptic and checking the pressure there and making sure that the Apu has the single or the engine is a single attention of the Apu would turn off the packs to take that load off and just click the right hand button there to start the right hand engine first as soon as the M2 is above 10 you can just move the thrust them to idle and the fatic will really do the rest of course you need to watch the parameters you need to make sure that N2 is rising that the ITT is rising as fuel gets injected and that and one is rising you don't want to have a hot start you don't want to have a hung start and you don't want to have a wet start and this product does not do for you you need to avoid to take up with any of these parameters is getting out of limits and for the other engine I'm going to move it a little closer you can so you can see a little better what's going on with the values I'm going to use my joystick throttle to move the thrust lever to idle right now and you see scn2 reaches 30 percent you can look at the fuel flow so that's zero it will start injecting fuel and it starts burning you can see the ITT go up this means that we have light up no Head Start that's good and you can see that the N1 is also increasing no hung start so we can continue the engine start and let it progress normally okay two good engine starts we want to check the hydraulic pressure over 3000 on both sides good quantity as well that's fine we'll go back to the engine display we want to check the leads uh air make sure that the valves work and that's why we turn off the Apu bleed air you can see we still have 36 PSI will turn off the right height right side engine bleed drops to zero we open the cross the isolation valve now the left side is providing pressure we'll turn off the left side make sure it goes to zero turn it on again close the isolation valve again and enable the right side bleed again and then turn back or turn the Apu blade back on that's what's recommended during initial climbot so you have some restart capability the Apu can help you powering the airplane in case anything goes wrong okay engines are running and that's fine foreign [Music]

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Length: 18min 22sec (1102 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 14 2022