Thanks @leilanurena! I really love flying the X. It's an awesome plane. 48,000' and Mach 0.87 on the way from Napa to Centennial CO yesterday :)

@jetboy1891 it shows. What more could anyone ask for? 👌

When I first started flying the X six years ago, I looked everywhere for tutorials on the Honeywell Primus 2000 FMS and couldn't find anything (frustrating!). After I had been flying the X about a year or so I thought "hey, I can fix that!" So that's how these videos came about. I now direct all my new co-pilots to these videos (and it saves me a lot of instruction time with them). :)

Yeah, but my instagram is not just "airplane centric". Not really similar content as above. I hope to have a new video on in a few days that is both the view outside during a landing approach, and a view inside showing the control movement required and instrument panel. Stay tuned!

Thanks Ellis! Looking forward to flying together again :)

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Cool! That’s exactly why I did these videos. When I first started preparing for my initial in the X, I looked all over for videos on the FMS, and generally how to navigate around the cockpit airplane and what was out there at the time was pretty thin. So after I had been flying the airplane for a year or two I thought “I can fix that problem!“. Thx for the feedback

@@jetboy1891 you definitely fixed it! You’re still the only one with clear and direct videos. They’re great man. I’m an SiC in the Falcon 2000 at flight safety Teterboro…the transition into this plane is almost backwards because I’m going from the EAZy point and click avionics to a scratchpad FMC. This is helping a lot

@@RyOnDrums cool 😎 - the good news about learning these older scratchpad FMS’s is that the logic/architecture on these is common to so very many FMSs. You will feel right at home with many different airplanes that are set up the same/similar to this one. Fly fast!

There is a split switch under your left thumb on the control yoke. Push both switches forward with your thumb for nose down, and back for nose up. Normally you takeoff with the STAB trim about -6.0 degrees which is nose up trim (there is a range based on your Center of Gravity). The same split switch is also on the co-pilot yoke under his right thumb. There is a back up emergency trim if there is a problem with the primary trim.

@@jetboy1891 Oh, ok, thanks. I was wondering if you have to figure the setting, like on a 737. You just kind of ballpark it in the CX?

@@Plydrms yep, their is a chart that you use to set the stab trim. It varies from -8.0 at 15% MAC CG to -3.5% at 35% MAC CG for flaps 15 deg takeoff (another line for flaps 5 deg takeoff).

@@jetboy1891 Thanks, thought it might be in the FMS on the real plane.

In the eyes of jetboy, you are now type rated on the X! Next lesson: actually flying the thing...

@@jetboy1891 I am looking forward to it💪😂

After a 14 hour long day, I can promise you shutting the airplane down and heading to the hotel and a beer is a welcome event ;-)

Thanks! When I first got typed in the X I was looking for videos on how to operate the FMS's, and could find very little and was disappointed. After I'd been flying the airplane a year or two I realized "I can fix that!"

Let me see if I can incorporate the normals checklist in my next video

Right behind the co-pilot's seat (within arm's reach) - this pilot can't go far without coffee... ;-)

I once built a box for my 3 year old son from an old desktop computer that was just full of buttons, switches, lights, and knobs to twist - for exactly the same reason you list ;-)

I think Cessna is trying to weed out Range Rover drivers apparently :)

If ALL the glass displays fail you have three instruments that are completely mechanical that you can fly the airplane with. If you look starting at the 6:25 time mark in the video you will see the three next to the back up engine instrument (that has N1, ITT, and N2). The three back up instruments are a combined airspeed/altimeter, attitude indicator, and directional gyro. (Once I was in the simulator and we were way ahead of the syllabus and I did several approaches with only those three back-up mechanical instruments with all of the glass "failed" - just for fun ;) ). Also, if any of the glass displays fails you can push the data it displays to another glass display. Know that a fundamental design philosophy with aircraft design is "redundancy, redundancy, redundancy..." Good question!

Will do! I used to go into YIP a lot when I was flying freight Lear 24's - a lot less these days....

@@jetboy1891 oh wow you must’ve had a blast with the Learjet 24s, always wanted to go in oneB

With this much knowledge you can get just about to the scene of the accident ;-)

Thanks!

For a big ticket STC like that I'd recommend contacting each aircraft owner/operator directly (I think there were 314 of the "legacy" Citation X's built from '96 - 2012). The ones I fly are not currently interested in changing out the FMS's.

@@jetboy1891 hi Jetboy, on the next video, would you include the takeoff briefing, if your company allows it. super cool. are you running the 7.1 software build on the FMS? Leila

@@leilanurena Good idea! The takeoff briefing, and I've also been asked about going through some "Normal" Checklists (start, taxi, before takeoff, etc.). Nope, that plane is running the old software unfortunately. Hoping to get some newer plane and software video soon :)

You can just see the cabin pressurization and bleed air controls just in front of the APU panel at about the 1:10 mark on the video (but there is only a couple seconds of it)

There are definitely some bragging rights that come with this airplane - most of which I'm still in awe of. And yes, it's cool when you get some pilots or ATC that give you that fun interaction ("you can have whatever altitude you want - I don't have anyone near you, tonight or this year": when I asked a controller if I could have a block altitude from 47,000' to 51,000') ;)

Thanks!

Two answers: 1) Yes, once you shut everything down the system "dumps" everything you loaded and you have to start over from scratch if you power back up. For the Primus 2 it doesn't store anything and is completely wiped out when you shut down. 2) This airplane is designed to fly high (and fast). I spend 90% of my trips between 43,000' and 47,000' quite comfortably. It's not uncommon for me to end up at 49,000'. And two weeks ago I took it to 51,000' (I was quite light with no passengers at the end of a trip having burned off most fuel, and most importantly the temperature was ISA -12 degrees, so like -69 deg celsius). That whole thing about "losing control at altitude" is mostly pilot BS/old wives tales. But, kind of like taking a Ford F-150 pick-up truck up to 170 MPH, if you were able to get an old Jetstar dash 8 to 45,000' you would surely be asking for trouble with control (you can imagine it would be incredibly difficult to get either of those machines to those speeds/altitudes) btw - most airliners spend almost all of their time in the mid 30's (like 37,000'). (They are not Citation X's.)

@@jetboy1891 that must suck do you have to enter all of that data again it’s too bad they don’t have aircraft to where you could use like a USB drive plug it in and it has all the flight parameters already programmed into it and just transferred into the aircraft computer it would be so easier to do it that way

It's because the switches/buttons are grouped by their function outside of "starting". Other than the "start" and "disconnect" 3 buttons the other switches have other functions. Your question is a good one however. And airplanes have become significantly more "logical" over the past few decades, and continue to become more automated. For instance, the start sequence in this airplane is simply "start button", and then "fuel lever out of idle cut-off". In jets of old, you would manually control the starter (on AND off), fuel, ignition, and boost pump. We're getting better - just slowly.

I would imagine that the flight deck of a Cirrus Vision Jet or other single-pilot certified jets is a tad more friendly nowadays?

Plain old kerosene. You could pretty much put anything that burns through that engine and it would work. In days of old (before Jet fuel was commonplace) there were provisions for burning other fuels. The main concern was the lack of lubricity for other fuels (kerosene is pretty "oily" and lubricates a lot of components before it is "burned" in the engine).

They must have modeled it after the real thing!

Yep! But The reason the engines are/look ginormous is because they are really high bypass ratio engines (5:1) so that front fan is especially big. That coupled with the fuselage being a little bit smaller diameter than other airplanes of the same weight make the engines look especially big! 13,000 pounds of thrust at takeoff on a 36,000 pound airplane. Still, that airplane kicks ass, and I love flying it 🙂 Check out the video of the airplane taking off from APA

@@jetboy1891 thank you so much for incredibly interesting and informative information! I truly appreciate and acknowledge your enthusiasm and passion for aviation, esp in educating your fans! Will def check that vid out!😊

Thanks! Half the time that's you in that cockpit :)

Yes! Thanks for the encouragement. I have several already videoed. I've not published them yet since I feel like they need a little editing (some are too long). But with your encouragement let me get some of those posted. Thanks!

Just added a takeoff and landing video from the cockpit (actually, to that same CMH airport you referenced). Let me know if this is what you had in mind. I plan to do more of these if well received - they just take a little time to set up, record, and edit.

Nope, you didn't miss anything. The pressurization is pretty much automatic. The PACs (Pressurization and Air Conditioning) stay on all the time (they sequence off during start automatically), and the field elevation is already set correctly from when you landed (and often doesn't change much unless you are flying to high altitude airports). Good question/catch though!

You might be a little biased since you were in the cockpit with me 😉 (still, it was lots of fun...)

If it would be helpful to post specific pictures or FMS sequences let me know and I can (I've also posted a handful of FMS sequences on my channel)

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