Helpful ideas for having a smooth hand in a brand new Cirrus Aircraft SR!

awesome i just got my plane back in the hangar after a great morning of flying it's little sunday the last day of the thanksgiving day weekend and uh it was beautiful out you know for it being in chicago it's about 45 degrees nice and mild low wind got to take it so anyway on this particular flight this morning i ended up realizing there's three things that make for a good smooth finesse easy touch on the airplane and these are just little things that you kind of stumble on and you don't even think about them but i want to bring them to attention so that hopefully you find it helpful to you and makes you handle your airplane with just a little bit more finesse and touch and as always thank you so much for the comments it's really fun interacting with everyone i try to read everyone and respond to it in some form or another it's super cool it's very meaningful to me it's helping the channel grow and developing this great little community we have here so please like and subscribe if you haven't already if you found this valuable and share it with others if if somebody's new to flying or serious themselves so let's get in the plane and check this out let's go so i'm sitting inside of the airplane right now and the first thing has to do with the throttle nine times out of ten i find people when i say hey just crack the throttle open when you when you want a taxi they grab the throttle like this and then they then they then they give it a little bump forward and what ends up happening is that instead of just giving a hundred or 200 rpms of of throttle or air or movement you end up with 500 and that's too much and sometimes if a line guys and standing in front of you they get scared and they jump out of the way so here's my little tip on how to properly fine tune and get precise throttle movement um to break ground taxi and just really those this 200 300 rpm range here that's that could be super helpful all right let's check it out so here's the actual power lever so i think i may have said that this is the throttle and it's actually not when you combine throttle and kind of rpm and you blend them together in one movement here so we don't have a blue rpm or engine prop lever in the cirrus we have it all combined into one movement and that's how we get the power lever and what i was talking about is that if i'm sitting flying with somebody they'll normally grab the controls just like this if it's their first time in the airplane say hey just crack the throt the power lever open just a little bit so that way you can um start to taxi or break ground or whatnot what they'll end up doing sometimes if the throttle is new uh or it hasn't been lubricated in a while you'll end up cracking it and it goes it goes it's a pretty big jump like this there's also a few detents in here you can feel like here's one right here and i kind of like get on the back side of the detents just it's sort of a clunky um it's sort of a a an interesting area to navigate and get fine-tuned adjustments so i tell people to change the way that they they use their hands so instead of grabbing the throttle like this to get fine fine tune adjustments i'll actually tell them to do this so here's my movement i'll take my middle finger and i'll put in this channel here so it can go up and down and then on the back side of the throttle i'll use my thumb and i'm pushing forward with my middle finger and on the thumb i counteract that and you can really get this really nice sense of movement especially if you take your finger pads right here and rest them right here like that you get this really nice movement where you can go and really fine tune your rpms 100 200 300 rpms for taxiing maneuvering on the ramp line guys uh if you end up kind of jumping like that that's 500 rpms almost just like that that that little movement and they'll get nervous they'll jump out of the way so this really makes you look like a pro when moving maneuvering and taxing the airplane plus your passengers if you're flying with them they're like okay time to break ground just got a little bit of of throttle movement here nice easy control it's awesome let me know what you think about this technique if you've got another one just let me know i think it's uh it's important and i i really feel like people uh learn from each other on this channel in the comments so please do that oh this is another one that i kind of use while i'm up up in cruise sometimes i'll people will put their hand right here if it's time to move the power back they'll kind of pull it back like this with their hands sliding and very often or very few cases is there an opportunity where the hand is like sitting here with a death grip and moving the throttle just like this so anyway share your thoughts so there's a second tip that i have that takes a little bit of elegance and gracefulness when you're inside the cockpit and when you get this finesse down it's fantastic and they're super easy to use but sometimes it's difficult to use these headset straps one-handed you know most of the time people will kind of like reach over the shoulder and try to grab these it's even difficult for me to do this especially even while filming it but it's hard this is kind of an awkward angle so the best way that i've learned how to do this single-handed is through this i'll be in the seat here sitting like this and i'll actually like kind of lean over to the side and i'll try my best to get my shoulder above the armrest that way i can access this access the headset strap nice and easily i'll end up pulling this open grab the headset and actually pull it and move it through and now i can turn back and put this on you know people will i've seen people where they say i don't want to use this anymore because i'll just put my headset on the on the on the on the dashboard and really close to the windscreen bad idea the windscreen can scratch people it can put things up on top you don't want to do that so in order to put this back appropriately what you can do single-handedly once again put your hand over top of the armrest and then i'll push this pin this up against with my thumb against the the shoulder pad of the chair and then i'll kind of fish around here for the strap which i've got right here i'll pull the strap out let the let the headset actually fall down and then just uh fish around and use the magnet and now that is nice and secure you know so sometimes it's hard and awkward to grab it with one hand and reach over your shoulder i've seen people where they actually like cross you know the pilots uh headsets that's here and the passenger sets here it's a little bit easier to grab you know across like that but i think if you can if if your shoulder is good enough and your flexibility is good enough doing this one-handed with the shoulder over the arm rest is kind of yields the best results and i think it'll make you look like a pro and not really strain while people are inside the airplane so once again let me know what you think if you got another technique leave a comment below on that it's you know there's no uh right way to skin a cat here so it would be fun to fun to hear what you guys do so here's uh finesse tip number three and it deals with the yoke and if it's your first time flying a cirrus or getting into an airplane what a lot of people actually the number one question that i end up getting at oshkosh when standing and talking to everyone is like it's not about the parachute it's honestly about how easy it does it take to get used to a side stick like this they've always flown with a traditional yoke in the front but the side stick here is fantastic it's super comfortable it opens up all this space here in the cockpit funny story i was actually ferrying a cirrus sr22 turbo back in 2013 from duluth minnesota to santiago chile and i had this picture off to dig it up of me listening to the allman brothers band over the caribbean sea and making a peanut butter and jelly here so i had my knee board open and i made a peanut butter and jelly which was uh which was pretty cool and i was like man this is nice the side stick is over here out of the way but it's actually a safety feature which i'll talk about more in another video but this finesse point here is that we actually want to hold our yoke just very lightly so this is on take off what i tell people flying a cirrus for the first time is that you don't want your forearm on the armrest here it's super comfortable you don't want to move it back and forth if you're moving your forearm on the armrest that's way too much you're going to just do small little wrist movements here with your with your wrist versus kind of big movements using your forearm so on take off the proper procedure i tell people is just lightly grip the yoke just like this and what ends up happening is that you've got this nice little gap between your palm and the yoke so see that little gap between my my palm and my my in the yoke and what happens when we actually are taking off and we're going down the runway what you want to do instead of pulling back like this and your forearm moves across all you want to do is just squeeze your palm together just like that just like that and what that does you squeeze and you hold it and you let the airplane do all the work for you and you actually legitimately rotate and you kind of relieve the pressure and start pushing forward just like that with your palm so you can stay see the horizon the nose doesn't flare up on you and uh and all so let me see if i can get a different angle of that you can see just that little grip here and when we get to the appropriate rotation speed all you got to do literally just that much squeeze and hold that together let the plane do all the work for you and that way you're guiding it and the plane will do exactly what it's told when it's ready to it's fantastic so there it is the three kind of finesse tips on how to operate and smoothly use the cirrus first is the throttle control kind of using your middle and your thumb your middle finger and your thumb to be able to really jockey the throttle to help break ground not scare line people and be smooth with passengers i think you'll really like that so number two is all about being able to get your arm over the armrest so that you can get the headset straps and loops it's fantastic you know those are once you kind of maneuver it and the muscle memory sets in it's just a great way to manage your headsets in the airplane and number three what ends up happening with the yoke the squeeze and hold method super important let the airplane do the work for you you're going to feel phenomenal and fantastic so anyway thanks so much for watching really appreciate comments and like and subscribe it's really fun to see where the channel is going and honestly i'm learning a lot from you guys you know all everyone has different techniques and the situations work differently and different hangers and all that so fantastic but anyway thanks so much take care and be well you

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Length: 11min 17sec (677 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 01 2020