Flying to the Rocky Mountains in a Beechcraft King Air

in this video we're gonna fly something a little more powerful than a Cessna Skyhawk and it just so happens to be my all-time favorite twin-engine aircraft the Beechcraft King Air 200 my name's Josh flowers my dad got me into flying and I've been making videos ever since I was a kid I combine the two into a YouTube channel where I share my experiences as an aviator both good and bad we're all learning with each day we live and it's important for pilots to stay humble and always learn while enjoying their adventures along the way and that's what this channel aims to show this is mr. aviation 101 Justin here is a professional pilot who flies multiple types of airplanes in his career he knows I'm always looking for new experiences and he offered me the opportunity to fly with him on part 91 flights in a King Air 200 given the fact that this flight was operated under part 91 and this is a single pilot aircraft meaning a second pilot is technically not required that means I'm technically a passenger but I've been awarded the responsibility of reading the checklist and operating the radios I always preach about how important crew resource management is or in other words the act of utilizing other members of your crew to help safely complete a task flying with Justin in the King Air has only further solidified the importance of that concept to me I believe one of the best ways to learn is by observing others and Justin with his loads of experience sets the professionalism bar high while keeping a very likeable personality in the cockpit which makes him a fantastic role model for any pilot we begin this video at Drake Field in Fayetteville Arkansas where we're getting ready to depart IFR to Angel Fire New Mexico I've already received our ifr clearance before we climbed into the airplane via my handheld radio and we've just fired up the turbine engines we were assigned the Razorback 1 departure procedure out of Drake field so I've pulled up the procedure on for flight on my iPad and were briefing the departure before we call ground control to begin taxiing to the runway okay before we get moving here we'll look at this Razorback one takeoff runway one-six climbing right turn to one eight zero events one lady in there expect radar vectors to final or file that sign at route 1118 5,000 feet or lower signed altitude expect clearance filed altitude bomb the law all right and that lost cops procedures nice how much to avenge their proportion I mean they both of them a third of my oversee correct bar the proceed on course all right good what's the score code one six one one all right we're ready all right we're up on ground and let me pull up the airport diagram [Music] and trick ground sucking air 1 5 1 2 Romeo Romeo the FBO risen taxi high bar yeah one by one Romeo Romeo Drake ground runway one-six nice to be a brothel case to the tower frequency want to be a brothel going to tower once I wonder America and one side of Romeo and thought one Romeo Romeo you said you had November yes sir sorry we got November 1 5 1 from here right ok Russian all right we can do the taxi out checklist actually checklist kappa temps fans fair set ice evades extended extended auto feather or annual feather so exterior lights on electric trim checked and set like controls they are free correct multimeter 3 0 to 0 set cross-check 0 to 0 height instruments they are checked heading an altitude pre-select I got one a zero and 5,000 alright flight director this set vacuum into Matic we're good over here cabin sign fasten seatbelt so on gene has 400 radios there so what's departure frequency arch frequency is 1 to 6.6 we got it in on it number 2 load meters inverter other checked and that's the air to push the test that's here one five one Romeo Romeo Drake town runway one-six wind calm you are clear for takeoff takeoff runway one six one five one four of your room you up sir checked and set nightcap pressure switch let's press haven't pressure controller spit rudder boost so that's it rudder boosters on break the ice our court engine instruments or checked lead air on we're briefing north takeoff Razorback part sir we've already gone over emergency procedures okay we're gonna do the takeoff checklist auto ignition or it's just any ice it fights on five-o transponder Oh tops flaps so Carrie likes kris grenada don't ever 3-0 on that's heater panel here takeoff time 1852 and just to confirm it was a right turn to 180 0 climbing right turn to 180 0 then right all right takeoff checklist complete cuff power senators please live 80 cross-check BT you want rotate [Music] I was it ready gear up lights off y'all their pond [Music] here one five one Romeo Romeo got a traceback departure one 26.6 will touch they have shaved left 26 6 you have a good day sir 1 5 1 rub here I am calm to you Razorback departure King air 1 5 1 o Romeo Romeo departed runway one-six climbing 30,000 units here 1 5 1 Romeo Romeo raised back to portray our contact 1 maintain 1 5 15 pounds and turn right on 4th right off course up to 1 5 15,000 won 5-1 rum your meal for 5,000 set right and that's a 2/4 breathes out the read-back 5000 off course I've checklist complete thank you [Music] good man looking real good indeed yeah we'll definitely have a headwind going out here yeah I think it was more of trying to find the best altitude by the least amount of headwind I find were at least painful [Music] I go down here to the weather page for this is the way into to 100 [Music] too bad it's faintly a crosswind the whole way luckily I've just up a little bit further north yeah Oh actually I've jumped down quite a bit that's that's pretty far at South Dakota yeah that's that that do 26 very staid ears and maintain 3,000 airports PO Box one ammo all right charge a deer three thousand to twenty six days back rich guys fifty three four tents for tantric ten thousand Juliet good afternoon that was fifty three fourteen Razorback brooch good afternoon all right brick run code and the main thing this stuff actually think the shot right there is way better than it would have been up here oh yeah yeah much better angle one Romeo Romeo contact men centre of one to six point one today one to six point one one five one Romeo Romeo get a [Music] that the center king here what five wonder rubbing Romeo climbing to one zero thousand for what five now once I won Romeo Romeo climbing say 43 through my level two three zero one five one Romeo Romeo alright have to play up to three sir two three zero set zero the torch dying off so increased power still plenty of room on the ITT's spoke [Music] all right a 10,000 foot checklist lights they are we got the beacon of the strobe on an anti ice that's how ice is on have a pressure monitor they are pressurizing so solutely good half-baked I think oh come on about 1/8 oh all right dismissed check they are all green they're low one golf lima this Willie one 35.4 once we go through 22 21,000 feet and the torte dies off I like to go in and bring it back the props back to 1800 rpm makes it quieter and it brings up your torque so it doesn't give you any more power necessarily but it just makes a quieter yeah nice five-bladed props are really quiet and in it something like with the curvature of them or the way they kind of sweep away from their relative direction and like helps with the noise or something that is like I smell talking about or when these props were really sleek and they have some of this fly planed improv Center like a 50 through that day where they climb maintain flight level 180 James come on Pam Tyler will see some of those on fire - yeah looks like I don't know anything about a woman but one two five one Romeo Romeo contact came the city center one three three nine or two one three three point at nine or two four four five one Romeo Romeo November 45 soluti you see centers KC Center key here one five one or rough yo Romeo passing flight level Cheers [Music] here one time alone Romeo Romeo came to center where if I find outfit I weigh her side flight level two three zero what five locker room service okay you're one five one o Romeo Romeo upon the name paint bow to a zero they take flight level two eight zero one five one zero eight zero second your one Romeo or me I'm gonna have any no not fair dinkum fire yet last Monday they had four inches okay if you know when the ski slopes open etcetera I don't this is the first winter I'm gonna be flying there quite a bit and I'm not sure okay can see that our good afternoon Edition eight to seven joules there is with the 1970 climb of two three zero or currently on a what's don't know when it starts snowing a lot of their think he's gonna get laid here it came to hit or higher about few minutes turgid and already would have been yeah yeah so they got they got four inches it's possible like to go put her a fracture land if we could win they said it was burnt off by one or two o'clock in the afternoon now it gets really cold down there at night but nothing the trick you know whenever you get up there here altitude it will try air temperature changes so much right it'll get down to 17 degrees at night then I'll get up to bed high 50s turn the day ya know real quick [Music] our at 47 minutes our kind of a soup here but your cameras last that long yeah these are five hour batteries oh nice I think this one lasts about four hours there 1700 yeah they used to only be able to last like an hour and a half and I've got fed up with it and spent like five hundred dollars on ten five our batteries bought a ton of them so I wouldn't have to worry about power anymore each one can hold like 13 hours of footage oh man that's crazy I got tired of run it out but I can only the best batteries are the best SD cards right yeah pretty much the best of the best all around because I got tired of like flying the Llano I record the trip there but I want to record the trip back to it and I can because all the batteries died the cards filled up not anymore but anymore believe this thing has over 7,000 hours on it no I was looking at the Hobbs meter down here earlier it's like right airplanes have been really well kept what year did you say it was a 91 anyone nope she'd had said virtually everything changed out in the last five years paint paint tell number props engines avionics interior interior lighting exterior lighting works and basically the metal is about it that's been here for seven thousand hours yeah brand new boots oh yeah new boots it's got the race back upgrades race back leading edges of the engine intake [Music] I'll still show it opal small two three and that's crazy although I can't see these three pretty impressive and it's it's an aftermarket company that I think it's wasabi power that made all the batteries that I use it didn't paint me to say that I was about to say are you advertising baby to say that they had just released the battery for this one which is the new GoPro and they sent me that one for free I told them I said you know what do y'all have as far as extended batteries for the new one because they have them for these old ones but that one I needed something tonight well here we just made this one and it's still kind of being tried so here give it a try what's that new GoPro and the Hero 5 it's a 5 it's a 5 the vibes came out was there a simple now Oh No maybe I had a four yeah I got a four I guess I think the fours look like these polar black yeah it looks like this yeah yeah yeah these are threes all of these I got I bought one for like 500 bucks like a year and a half ago or something ok yeah or 2 years ago that just can't it just come out I guess it was the four balaiah this is the hero 5 black and the reason I wanted a hero 5 is because it does 4k so all of these are 1080p this is 4k so that way if you're like doing something over here on the PFD and I want to zoom into it I can and it still looks like HD there v81 contactees Denver's mentor 1 3 3 4 like if I want to bring up anything on the panel I can zoom it right back camera while I'm editing makes it much much nicer two three four zero four zero two Kansas City Center South $15.99 contact can city center one three three point two after three Southwest 15 I'm in agony fan and those onion sirs virgin spicy they're potent smell open yeah holy Shh number one five one Romeo Romeo contact Albuquerque Center 127.85 127.85 one five one rugby room you're getting yeah good afternoon Albuquerque senator King here one five one or le I rub me on level two eight zero finger one five one Romeo Romeo a good friend [Music] back in the soup out [Music] November Niner Studebaker radar contact 10 miles southeast North County Airport Thursday Bravo with you dealt airport a spouse I maintain final two five zero and your best breakthrough flight level 180 field trip okay position checks a cleared to Brownwood ice five two five zero been trained through one 8:09 tier Victor every seven sevens for golf whiskey contact Albuquerque Center on one three three point eight thirty two point eight stuff support off with you today [Music] you want to go directiy soon or did you want to kind of see what the winds are gonna do now we'll go ahead do the approach winds are only eight and I'm not eight knots [Music] and they shipped it over to two eight zero so it's pretty much direct Crossman [Music] go Peter go ahead and request that yeah so give it to us so probably would tell us wait but next frequency but LTV says Albuquerque Center King here one five one Romeo Romeo Chris is I want five water up here remember requesting direct get D which is the initial approach fix for the aren't have once out in angel bar [Music] do you feel that for me yes yes sir that's golf echo kilo tango echo never won 5-1 Romeo Romeo clear direct the exactly the right to an angel fire defender maintain five level one eight zero setup maintain flight level 180 0 direct kick G direct Angel Fire 1 500 American and can we get polish discretion down to one 800 November 1 Romeo Romeo affirmative then that pilots discretion maintain five one eight zero how discretion 1 800 King here one five one [Music] we're one Romeo Romeo are you expecting the iron as you just ran away one seven paper Romeo Romeo right [Music] [Music] [Music] number one five one Romeo Romeo just in Polish possession maintain one five thousand see the phone altimeter three zero zero seven three zero zero seven PD down to one five one five one will be revealed looking here what five one Romeo Romeo vacating to 805 one Romeo Romeo ready for descent checklist okay haven't pressure this set haven't signed on Heights on beer f96 aunty ice on approach briefed we're doing the art half one seven directly now brought can't slow far through one eight oh alright displacer winds are out of the West ten knots but not Elena what seven Albuquerque thinner money do for Lima is 38.2 and will cancel I apart this time we have worked on inside another one peacefully my Roger no chances are between you and erect own inflation Vipers the speed radar service terminated squad via positive changes Roger that do for Lima will be a next time that was it [Music] number one five one Romeo Romeo cross deck the outer above one 5039 a thief if another one seven approach a surefire cross-check the outer above one 5000 cleared Arnav 11780 fire one five one Romero Albuquerque Center King here ar-15 wasn't a real be over of yet likes goin campin laugh ar-15 one Romeo Romeo notes I've observed between you and Angel Fire of installation by ofarts these radar service somebody's blog via fires participant agrees there's going to be a far freakish it proved King here I want 5 1 o Romeo Romeo good day alright we are VFR and such calm why thousands of temperatures one of an associate two points -6 altimeter 3:01 density altitude on 2000 don't angel fire automated weather of the vacant food zero five three circles alright altimeter three zero one minor set cross-check be zero one Niner auto feather cutter feathers are anti ice on seatbelts looks good alright checklist complete oh wait for the gears of the before landing checklist leather observation 2:03 flu weather wind two seven zero at 1/3 is a northeast one euro clear below 1 mm temperature one seven seven two points minus six altimeter 3 0 1 9 s remarks density altitude one zero thousand two hundred all right went to 70 at one three almost right down the direct Crossman yeah right down the perpendicular I'd down the perpendicular that's a nice try to say [Music] hm fire trafficking air one five one a Romeo Romeo approximately 2-0 miles to the north the field for at 1 2007 hundred going to be a straight-in runway 1 7 . Angel Fire [Music] [Music] they're certainly each of our trafficking here 1/5 1 Romeo Romeo approximately 1 5 miles to the north of field about / . probably a 1 7 . major fire [Music] [Music] [Music] Angelfire trafficking here 1 5 1 Romeo Romeo about 8 miles to the field inbound . mi-17 hey Jamar I'll have about a seven and a half mile final here so waiting on about four to five miles for the gear sounds good before landing checklist landing gear now three great no red lights on radar off ante ice on an extended ice road adjacent pressurization it's looking good for landing checklist complete angel fire traffic king air one five one Romeo Romeo two mile final runway once instead of . h bar both of y'all down yeah three green clearly no traffic just got a crosswind 500 but they're tough it's like a textbook cross one after landing time stop record engine anti-ice Janene honest is off for extended I mean Auto Commission's off go feather off another inti ice it's all off lights off apps sure up transponder off radar Oh elevator truth is reset lead air valves off pressurization differential o40 have a lights off after lighting check was a quick age of fire trafficking here one five one Romeo Romeo clear I've run away one seven Angel Fire [Music] [Music] - Justin this is just another day in the office but to me it's a way different experience than what I'm accustomed to from listening to twin turbine engines instead of a single piston engine looking at a glass panel instead of analog gauges accepting a climb instruction into the flight levels and coming over the runway threshold about 40 knots faster than what I'm used to I could have edited this video down further to be shorter but I didn't feel it was necessary I learned a ton on this flight and there were so many things that I could narrow in on and talk about for minutes at a time but this time around I wanted to let you experience this flight as we did and hopefully I was successful with that as always thanks for watching until next time stay happy stay healthy stay current and stay proficient we'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Aviation101

Views: 355,184

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Keywords: flying, cessna, n80991, n151rr, beechcraft, beech, craft, king, air, 200, aviation, coporate, part, 91, private, flight, turbine, turboprop

Id: Q5aF7X0o5aA

Length: 32min 56sec (1976 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 29 2017