Cuatro vientos ground... OE-VSO... good morning Eeeh... why did you... no, that's the autopilot disconnect! Oh F*ck! If you want want I can do the comms... In last edition of Friedrichshafen air show I had the opportunity to sit in a Diamond DA62 One of my dream planes... a game changer for me, having up to 7 seats and longer range than my Cirrus SR22 We are talking about an almos 2 million € bird, of course. Then some days ago I got a WhatsApp from Alfonso Martínez, your Diamond man in Spain offering me the option to test flight the amazing Diamond DA50 which seems to share hull with the DA62. By the way, the unit we fly is serial number 2. Technically the second DA50 produced. So let's see if it is a Cirrus ki ller as they claim! This is Madrid Cuatro vientos ATIS information... Juliet. At time 0850 OE-VSO Stand 05 request taxi for a local flight Local flight time of...eeh... how many... how much time? How long? 10 mins? I said 20 About 2 0 minutes we have filed the flight plan 20 minutes? Afirm 2 0 minutes So you are going to perform like a circuit? Negative! It's a local VFR flight ok... cus we have been instructed to come here... 1, 2, 3, 4 This is beautiful I'm sorry but this is... I've sometimes waited for half an hour to take off from here It's also differencial braking a little bit but it's also mechanically connected ... so it's enought... gently You will know... you will feel... Very nice to handle. OK, So the test we are going to do is FADEC B We change to computer B and the test button... I'll press... You'll see it's a test. ECU stands for Engine Control Unit... and it's now running two cycles failing the ECU A, failing ECU B and testing some of its own parameters that's it OK so it's supposed [pretending] to fail that's why it's showing failing... Exactly All right... we are ready for departure. We are done. Wow That was your engine runup The engine makes a big difference here. Yeah. Absolutely. It's very convenient. OE-VSO line up and wait runway 09 line up and wait runway 09, OE-VSO OE-VSO just for confirm the departure will be join south pattern of Cuatro Vientos and the proceed to Whiskey point. That's Afirm, we are gonna join right downwind and the proceed to Whiskey, OE-VSO You know what Whiskey is? Yes Yes it's here I've programmed it. I know I know... my plane? Not yet! I'm just gonna align and I'll give you He said line up and wait, right? Line up and wait and there is traffic there... So parking brake is set You always use the parking [brake] Of course I mean... OE-VSO wind 130 degrees, 4 knots, runway 09 clear for take off Runway 09, clear for take off OE-VSO Your controls My controls So full power in five seconds... ok, let's go... sorry? Hand on the controls yes of course OK, 100%... shall we go? OK, we have 1 2 3 4 5... 7 8 9 10 seconds, let's go. Airspeed alive... 67... [knots] Rotate Here we go... Nice Gear up... gear up... Where is gear... ah, here... Gear up gear up yeah, I see Whiskey point here There's traffic... ok... turn left please... It's coming at us at same altitude... How is that possible? I don't know but it is Probably we are a bit to fast for this circuit Another traffic ahead of us... OK, disregard are ok. This one is behind us already. Yeah, the other one is... se are just faster... It is a too fast plane for this... Oh what a problem! No, there are schools that go about 100 knots... We are too fast... we already reduced to like 60% OK, you can reduce more because we are doing 152 airspeed. So if you want you can reduce the power more. We are too fast... Houston! We are too fast! That's Whiskey, right? That's Whiskey. I'll notify now Where is the volume? What shall I tell? Position Whiskey? No, I can do it? OK, press here... call sign here. Cuatro Vientos, OE-VSO... is leaving through Whiskey Roger. Good flight! Oh great. Buen vuelo... have fun... We are now out Yeah! I got that part, thank you! :-D So what are you going to show me!? Well... The engine looks like a bit rougher... but quieter. Quieter than the Cirrus. But it's a bit rougher probably for the diesel thing...? I don't know why Probably, there are 6 cylinder in V shape... Ah! It's V, it's not eh... Boxer... No it's not a boxer OK, I'll do the stall here, ok? Call flaps... Pumps and lights are just for safety This is the auxiliary fuel pump, right, electric one Yeah, for take off and landing... ok... So I'll pull the power back... for the stall that's because the landing gear is not down. because we are not so slow that's the stall! Look at the wings... it's very very stable! Look out pulling all the way... she buffets a little bit... very light buffetting but no loosing the wing... we are just descending. all we do is descend Yeah... that's it... recovery... full power... breaks the stall. ok And that's it. It's very very stable. I don't want to climb anymore We have 400 more... Yeah... I'll show you the same with landing gear down... What is the speed for landing gear? You can drop it any time, maximum never exceed speed. So that means you can drop the gear at any time you like And you can use it as a wind brake Yeh, you use it as speed brake, yes Really good speed brake. OK, speed checked, flaps, landing... so we have full configuration for landing... and we are at 4000 feet I pull power to idle now that's 60 knots That's stall Look outside... it's very very stable on the wings It's 58 knots now. We are just descending down. We are just descending. That's it. that's all she does... descend on stall. Recovery Power Flaps 1 up Gear up You do gear up and then flaps up First flaps Then at positive rate gear up The once you have about 80 knots you can pull all the flaps up On a normal cruising day or a sight seeing flight you definitely don't need 300 HP which makes it great because then you burn much less fuel What's the capacity of the fuel 49 US gallons 49 per wing? no. total ah it's not much you don't need much because I have... 81. yeas but you don't need much remember your wallet You don't need to strain with the fuel prices... OK, your controls My controls let's descend back down to 3000 feet just so we can go to Sierra point... I'll set you Sierra point... direct, Enter, Enter... 80 knots is good OE-VSO Wind 092 degrees 3 knots, runway 09, clear to land runway 09 clear to land, OE-VSO. Very good. approach speed is good a bit power please yes we are a bit hight now we are on the glide... a bit more speed.... a bit more power... just a tiny bit A bit more power, we are getting to slow OK... Oh yes... Good Now power idle Flare a little... flare... We are down already. it's fine... we already landed. Just put the nose down... It's very different than the Cirrus Much easier I thought I was higher. It was much easier, that's true I didn't know I was... much higher But you saw, without me touching you landed it yourself... It's the first time you land this aircraft... come on... and you did it... No I didn't do it right because I thought I was higher than I was But it still was a good landing... No it wasnt'. Thank you for that... You want to sell me the plane... but you are not being honest :-D You have such a lovely voice on the radio! Thanks you I understand why they want you to be the officla voice on... You sound so cool I'm trying to sound calmed...
