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@2005TJSOCAL Күн бұрын
Very nice. I do wonder how the glide length compares. Thanks for the video.
@frenches1995 8 күн бұрын
Hey I wanted to ask you something since you are a swiss pilot. I'm from Zürich but unfortunately I'm deaf on one ear. Is it still possible to pass the health check if I want to become the private pilots license? Or is it impossible?
@EBangtson1 10 күн бұрын
Sadly…the support (updates and general market) still make the Cirrus the best option for the lottery win. That said…this is a beautiful machine but missing the mark on the most viable sales arena.
@francescograffigna5665 12 күн бұрын
NOT HAPPY Poor GPS antenna receiver - it looses signal all the time - not worth the purchase - it is so bad that my iPad GPS antenna is better -
@chadspinalbosd007 14 күн бұрын
Going with the Ipad Air
@bzipoli 17 күн бұрын
the cabin does look pretty big
@uweminkus 19 күн бұрын
Excellent Video. The impression of BR23 TURBO I totally share. I started to fly this plane since three month. Awesome. Small comment: many traffic (dogs, bicycles) on apron....
@GavinKohAquascaping 22 күн бұрын
Just discovered your channel and currently gathering lots of info on the Bristell. Hello from Canada!
@jsloan5216 26 күн бұрын
controller has a 2023 DA50 RG at 1.1 million USD
@alanendurace 28 күн бұрын
Hi Simon, im new to aviation, what do you think of the pipistrel panthera? apparently it can sell already for $600-700k new and can fly much cheaper per hour. Why Pilatus doesn't do any smaller jets like that could compete with cirrus? Looking forward to your new videos!
@heminpunadiya7509 29 күн бұрын
Tacnam has major issue specially in Hot country countries. Coolant leakage is major issue. Results in over all engine failure.
@NiggiMoos Ай бұрын
Thank you Simon, very informative! Good preparation for the upcoming GV 😎
@Subgunman Ай бұрын
No ballistic chute with that price???
@brokenATM Ай бұрын
Man you speak great English.
@MGMidget73 Ай бұрын
Unfortunately like the SR22 it's owned by a communist Chinese company. That is a deal killer for me. China is NOT our friend.
@ciprianihh2695 Ай бұрын
Very informative! Thank you!
@LuisMartins-w2o 2 ай бұрын
Hello Swiss pilot, I am Luis from Spain; A330 captain. How can I get in touch with you? Best regards.
@simonpilot 2 ай бұрын
I just got the Sentry Plus for my ForeFlight App which I use for both business flights (Global Express) and private flights in the UK & USA. This video helped enormously on the operation of Sentry Plus thank you.
@darinlastonphd655 2 ай бұрын
Awesome Content, fun and imformative channel
@minnesnowtan9970 2 ай бұрын
Cirrus needs chute repacked every ten years, costing nearly $30k USD in mid 2024. I prefer to avoid the Cirrus circus and just go Diamond. DA50 is superior overall but I would like it to fly faster. The DA42 is pretty fast, (190 kts) a twin with similar burn to a single but with cheaper Jet fuel. The engine will never have cold shock because it is liquid cooled and the turbo is great for mountain flying. Diamond pushing their own engine development puts them far ahead of others.
@SwissFlightInsight 2 ай бұрын
Can it be done also with VAC or App charts of Skyguide ?
@karstenz6634 2 ай бұрын
Hast Du das Sentry Plus mal mit dem SkyEcho 2 vergleichen können?
@ASWISSPILOT 2 ай бұрын
Hi! Leider nicht, hab den SkyEcho 2 noch nie verwendet…
@yooo7774 2 ай бұрын
That’s interesting, because bristell classic drops right wing while on stall , so not very safe for a student pilot. I am currently a student pilot on NG5 though ))
@BlueSideUp 2 ай бұрын
How far has SkyDeamon come since then. Of course you get glide rings, cloud forecast in the crossection, Avidyne IFD connection for FPL transfer, traffic and more. I can't speak about Foreflight, because of their Apple only policy. Apple won't get a single cent from me for any product.
@acanuck1679 2 ай бұрын
I just noticed this review today (1st of July 2024). Pips are amazing aircraft, but I'm still skeptical WRT the current state of battery technology. In my view, the energy density of the batteries needs to double before the Velis (or its successor) could be considered viable as a training aircraft (and triple the current energy density for cross-country trips). Thank you for taking us all for a ride.
@jeremyguillory8304 3 ай бұрын
How is it that a $1 million plane has to option air conditioning? Buyer: “I’ll pass on the AC option…gotta save a few $$$$”
@StephenReynolds_MasterMind 3 ай бұрын
Why just certified?
@rocketman3158 3 ай бұрын
Honda jet is better!
@MrTomcat320 3 ай бұрын
Excellent vid filmed in a great area of Switzerland ! Very comprehensive, thnxs a lot !
@loicfreville 3 ай бұрын
Thank you ! What is provider of the very nice looking chart that is displayed on foreflight at 11:52 ?
@LaurentBARDET-x8j 3 ай бұрын
It is a very Nice Aircraft, but his max range of just 800nm is far too short. The da62 and 42 have over 1200nm
@brcosmin 4 ай бұрын
thanks for helping me save a bit of money
@apennameandthata2017 4 ай бұрын
Most versatile at unrecoverable spins, with the horizontal stabiliser shielding the rudder. Genius.
@clintonwashabaugh1387 4 ай бұрын
Jesus, why do you smack your damn lips?
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
If i am informed correctly Velis electro batteries are switched after 700 cycles, once batteries grow a little bigger this will be most likely raised at least to 1000 cycles, as there would be room of reducing DOD for normal traffic pattern situations and therefore extending lifespan. Newer battery technologies will be able to extend number of cycles.
@crono331 4 ай бұрын
" once batteries grow a little bigger" if batteries grow bigger you will need to install remote controls as the payload will be the battery
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
@@crono331 No you clown, as energy density increases weight will not change.
@enayetchowdhury105 4 ай бұрын
Garmin auto land and parachute would be awesome.
@eAviation-Switzerland 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing what was presented in AERO, so that I did not have to go there! I fly electric only, and also did my PPL training with the Pipistrel Velis Electro for around 30% of the training hours. Love it, and love watching any progress in that industry, even if it's a baby step. Still waiting for the eFlyer 4 (electric 4-seater, still in development), which should be able to handle a 450km distance. That's from Grenchen/Switzerland to Marseille/France, which would be an impressive distance. Keep the channel up, and looking forward to more content focused on electric!
@crono331 4 ай бұрын
"Still waiting for the eFlyer 4 " keep waiting, my friend my two seater has 6+ hours endurance plus reserves at 130kts; the velis electro has 51 minutes endurance with no reserves. it would be like me taking off with less than 10 liters of fuel. not happening.
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
@@crono331 The same stupid dumb argument as with EVs... lots of morons stating "my car can go 1000km without any stop at the gas station and thats why i could never ever have an EV" Some people just don't get it. It's not a contest who can cover some huge distance that nobody really needs, it's the task to build a sustainable aircraft that can be charged by cheap and clean power from hydro, wind or solar, that requires very little maintenance, makes less noise and does not need engine oil and vast amounts of maintenance. The Velis electro is, despite it's early design and battery limitations, a great airplane that is very good for flight training, in a few years such a plane will have double range, which makes it very interesting for more flight schools and many private owners that just want a plane for cheap flying without all that dreaded and expensive engine maintenance, ans as batteries improve steadily we will see electric planes with 500km range within the next years, which would be what 99% of clubs and flight schools need. And the most important fact, electric planes, as EVs, save 70% energy compared to their combustion engine counterparts.
@bwalker4194 4 ай бұрын
What happens on that flight if the occupants get cold and have to take energy from the battery to stay warm? Or forecasted winds are stronger than expected and you have to land at an airport without charging facilities? Not happening.
@bwalker4194 4 ай бұрын
@@chriswilliams8607 If you actually think we will get there without majority nuclear energy, you have truly been hoodwinked.
@crono331 4 ай бұрын
@@chriswilliams8607 It is clear you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Legal minimum reserves for VFR flight is 30 minutes above the fuel required to reach destination. The Velis Electro has total 50 minutes endurance, so you can go nowhere beyond 20 minutes distance assumed you have a recharging station at destination and you can wait 3 hours for the recharge; plus there are many other limitations you clearly ignore. And that endurance is the maximum obtainable by managing the throttle. Basically, the same bogus numbers we see declared for EV. Just for comparison, the Velis Club has 100lt fuel tank, that at economy cruise gives an endurance of `360 minutes plus 30 minutes reserve. The Velis Electro therefore is completely useless except for circuits, and not many of them. Maybe 2, depending on airports. And prey someone does not foul the runway you departed from. "The Velis electro is, despite it's early design and battery limitations, a great airplane" What "early design"? What "battery limitations"? The Velis is based on the various Pipistrel airframes which exists since decades, and batteries are state of the art. Electric airplanes are BS. They have zero applications. "as batteries improve steadily " You really are clueless.
@geraldcharbonier6313 4 ай бұрын
WARNING ! Never touch the Trim
@DanFrederiksen 4 ай бұрын
I have some experience from the early days of the electric car revolution. Just converting an existing plane will have limitation and there hasn't been much progress in battery capacity in the last 12 years, maybe 20% at most. What you can do is make a 'flying battery', a plane designed specifically for it. Where the battery mass is maybe 60% or more and a wing that is efficient with high load. It doesn't have to be a 1 or 2 seater or small but it will naturally benefit from some good aerodynamics like a glider. Going into thin air might also help significantly if batteries can reach up there so some light pressurization. Because electric drive is agile you can also depart from the piston prop form factor and make 2 jet like rear motors. Because electric can benefit from thin air and it can be potent, you could imagine a plane that very aggressively climbs and goes 500+km/h in thin air and glides the last part of the trip. A range of 500km is far from unrealistic so if you imagine jet like performance it's suddenly a very capable configuration. Always rethink from scratch. Never do as the past. The first cars looked like horsedrawn carriages just without the horse because of status quo thinking while an intelligent design would have an aerodynamic body. And interesting thought is that it could have looked much like a Tesla today. In principle. It's interesting to realize how big steps were readily possible but weren't taken.
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
Sorry but this is complete nonsense. Battery technology has improved a lot, capacity has more than doubled within the last 10 years, energy density will continue to grow to at least 1 kWh per kg, maybe more, some research suggests that 1,5 kWh per kg would be possible, even with 1kWh per kg electric planes would have a range above 500km. Once you look at one of the newer aircrafts like diamond or pipistrel (both of them pioneers in electrification) you will see that there is very little potential for further aerodynamic improvements, as those planes are already high end design and have much better specs that old classic aircrafts like a 172 or something like that. There is no magic new aircraft design, and electrification does not need much changes, even with todays battery technology performance of tradition converted planes to electric would be a huge improvement for flight training and short trips, which would cover 90% of usual club or flightschool planes.
@crono331 4 ай бұрын
@@chriswilliams8607 "capacity has more than doubled within the last 10 years" ah ah. maybe "capacity" but not energy density. get a basic physics lesson before spouting nonsense. "even with 1kWh per kg electric planes would have a range above 500km." that would still be something like a quarter of the energy density of gasoline at 30% efficiency. my airplane has a range of 1400km with standard tank and could double that with a ferry tank.
@danfrederiksen1607 4 ай бұрын
@@chriswilliams8607 peak density in 2012 was around 240-250Wh/kg and it's close to 300 now. You are simply wrong. The price has dropped a lot though, maybe 3x. 1kWh/kg might be theoretically possible but who is talking about that as a realistic product on any timeline? You are also wrong about a dedicated battery plane design.
@bwalker4194 4 ай бұрын
Complete nonsense. As a 30 yr air traffic controller, I can guarantee you that your climb/descent profile will never happen in the real world. 300 miles is untenable and thin air up high is VERY cold meaning more power taken from propulsion to heat the cabin. Don’t even get me started on the energy needed to pressurize the cabin. EVs are useful as ground transportation for moderate to warm climates and short trips. Period.
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
@@danfrederiksen1607 serial production of high end batteries is more than 500Wh per kg now, 700 coming pretty soon, i know what i am talking about :-) price has gone down 90% from 2014 And no, i am not wrong about plane design, that will be a factor for passenger planes, but for small 2 or 4 seaters actual designs of aircrafts like dimona dr40 or similiar is pretty perfect and easy to electrify, and thats exactly what they are doing right now.
@bwalker4194 5 ай бұрын
Whenever I see the terms "electric" and "aviation" together, I know the presenter has no clue as to what he or she is talking about.
@flyingferrari1612 4 ай бұрын
Whenever I read such comments it is immediately clear that he/she is not aware about actual developments in battery technology and therefore not competent.
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
Velis Electro certified and flying for years now and used regularely for flight training and short sightseeing flights, and it is clear for many years now, that electric aviation will be a huge topic in the very near future. As you obvioulsy completely missed this it is better to stop from spewing more self-embarrassing comments as you just did.
@bwalker4194 4 ай бұрын
@@chriswilliams8607 I missed nothing. The Electro was designed in 2016 when the EVangelists shouted from every rooftop that every vehicle should be battery powered. Pipistrel took the bait and created a heavy, low-range POS that nobody wants today. Battery energy density AND SAFETY are many generations away from scaling up to real-world applications with this plane being the ultra-micro-niche exception. Now that we see the bottom having dropped out of the automotive world EVs values, one can only imagine the fun of shelling out $220,000+ for an aircraft that will be worth less than half of that a year later, if it is even sellable at all. And the really fun part begins at 7000 feet when the battery decides to go into thermal runaway and you can’t step outside and run away. Yes, that definitely sounds like the future of aviation to me.
@eAviation-Switzerland 4 ай бұрын
@@bwalker4194 You seem disappointed by the EVangelists who promised what they could not hold. But I'm wondering why you're following the developments in the industry? Do you hope you'll be proven wrong? Or you hope you'd be proven right? Or you're just interested in general about that topic? Just curious...
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
@@bwalker4194 Another clown that has no clue whats going on, as EVs are steadily taking over the world and electric planes are regularely used by more and more flightschools. As we know from EVs risk of fire is about 20 to 50 times smaller then with ICE cars and the same will be the case in airplanes, but you obviously fall for the usual nonsense fakenews talking about "all these EV fires". You must be strong now, they are 99% fake, and no, there is no thermal runaway when reaching 7000 feet. If you would be a little bit more into the topic you would realize that almost every aircraft company in the world is doing research for electric airplanes or is already working on one, and we will see lots of them in the coming years. Batteries are improving in energy density, cycle life and safety at a striking pace, and the electric planes that now fly 45 to 60 minutes will triple their flighttime within a few years. Current energy densitiy of serial batteries was 250 Wh per kg a few years ago, is now at or above 500 Wh and will reach 1kW per kg within 10 years, 1,5kWh per kg could be possible.
@blanegwenn4187 5 ай бұрын
'promosm' 🙃
@SunStar2111 5 ай бұрын
To provide a small insight from the drone industry into the current state of battery technology. The batteries are theoretically designed for 400 charging cycles. For commercial orders, we fly up to 200 cycles. After that, the batteries are only used for training and educational flights. Under no circumstances would they be used for BVLOS flights, for example. I doubt whether the batteries used in the aircraft are that much better. I take a very critical view of the constant announcements about the miracle batteries of the future. In fact, progress is being made in very manageable steps.
@crono331 4 ай бұрын
at a 2-3% improvement/year will take a while before batteries improve the 500% required to make electric airplanes viable at least for recreational flight plus there is this www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-ikarus-c42-fb80-bravo-g-cicf
@maxerle1092 5 ай бұрын
Love this channel and the presenter
@WingC3 5 ай бұрын
Man did he dodge that question about cycle counts.
@wildewille20 5 ай бұрын
I love europeans.
@crono331 5 ай бұрын
No its not
@chriswilliams8607 4 ай бұрын
BS, off course it is, that is clear for years now, you are clueless. Velis Electro certified and flying for years now and used regularely for flight training and short sightseeing flights.
@crono331 4 ай бұрын
@@chriswilliams8607 we have a Velis Electro in our airfield. Renting it costs 5 usd less than the conventional version, but it is down every second day because of technical problems, and because of ridicolous endurance it is used very seldom and only for circuits and a little more. It is useless get familiar with physics, my friend. until they invent the kg that weights a pound, electric airplanes will never happen. one must be mad to spend close to a quarter million to buy an airplane than can hardly venture out of the airfield circuit.
@crono331 4 ай бұрын
@@chriswilliams8607 We have a Velis Electro in our local school. It is by far the least used airplane, and basically almost nobody uses it even for training as it costs the same as the Velis Club but is heavier, slower, ridicolous range and costs the same per hour.
@hazemalmoosa58 5 ай бұрын
Hello Which one is a much recommended plane between p92 or p2008?
@mhcarvalho3370 5 ай бұрын
Foi muito legal conhecer a realidade dessa grande aeronave, que uso no X-Plane 12. Legal também ver o acionamento, retirou muitas dúvidas. Obrigado, saúde e paz!
@Gotcha6666 5 ай бұрын
I was just ouside and heard unfamiliar sound so I looked up and there was small plane crossing the sky. Just by curiosity I opened Flightradar and found out it was a Robin DR40. Never heard of it. And that's how I ended up here.... Great video! Best wishes from Pilsen, Czech republic!🇨🇿🍻🇨🇭
@ronaldhesse4992 5 ай бұрын
is it LOAN? or LOAV?