What date was this flight?

I'm happy to hear that it helped! You're gonna love the Cirrus - such a wonderful plane to fly.

Great to hear and I'm glad you liked it and found it helpful!

I know, it seems like I skipped over that. Actually, with the G6, the landing light is in the wingtip along with the strobes and nav and I did check both sets of lights. Thanks for watching!

@@fartherfasterhigher6157 which is weird cause the SR22 G6 also has the cowling landing light…wonder why that isn’t consistent across the sr g6 line

That's a good point. There is a landing light in lower cowling but not on the 20s. Not sure why that is though.

Thanks so much!

Glad you enjoy it!

@@fartherfasterhigher6157 totally 💯

Awesome, thank you! And yes, it truly is a great plane.

Sounds great! I started flying out of there when I did my training.

For a private pilot w/o an instrument rating? I think the Basic plan is enough. The Pro Plus plan, at an extra $100/yr. does come with some nice additions that would especially benefit you with during flight planning and enroute (profile and hazard view, synthetic vision) I don't think it's necessary if you're just going to be doing some VFR flying. ForeFlight does offer a trial run - I think it's 30 days - if you've never used it before. Try it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for watching!

Yes, I heard about that and listened to the podcast. Exactly what happened here. Thanks for watching and subscribing and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Yes, that's what I did this time around and it came back to bite me. It just taught me to *always* activate the specific leg and still use the approach mode.

Yeah, just regular consumption. The plane is used a lot so it's fairly common to have to add a quart occasionally.

Yeah, Steve-o right? I saw that video. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the compliment! Honestly, I’ve never been consistent in terms of what I do at the moment. Sometimes I keep the full approach in and then activate approach mode and sometimes I’ll activate vectors to final though I’m breaking that habit and won’t be doing that anymore. I was really wondering if there was a specific rule against controllers doing that and have since learned that there isn’t. It seems to just be a thing that happens from time to time.

@@fartherfasterhigher6157 don’t want to beat this one to death but, I read a recent article on this exact scenario. The gist of it is just activate the leg between the IF and FAF and you won’t even need “activate” the approach. If you are interested you can read it here. www.google.com/amp/s/bruceair.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/avoiding-the-vectors-to-final-scramble/amp/. That said I just got my ppl last week so you can take all of my advice with a grain of salt 😂

Yeah, that’s what I meant before but I didn’t say activating a leg on the approach. You can do that if redirected back on the approach but if vectored to the final approach course, activating approach mode gives you vertical guidance which you wouldn’t get off just activating the leg in the FMS. Congrats and welcome to the club! Are you going for your instrument?

@@fartherfasterhigher6157 Thanks! Yes, I plan on it. Already passed the instrument written but I decided that I will take 1 month off and just enjoy my new ppl privileges for a bit :)

That’s good. Enjoy that new privilege before getting back to work on the next rating.

Very!

Glad it was helpful!

You fly them too?

@@fartherfasterhigher6157 I'm not an owner, but a big fan of them!

Glad you think so! And there's so much more that I didn't get to.

Glad to hear it!

I would recommend that for sure. I did both my private and instrument training in the Skyhawk but after 155 hours in one, I was burnt out on it. I knew that for time building, I wanted something with a little more push so I stepped up to the Cirrus and I have no regrets! The SR22 is the real deal but if you're doing short hops or staying locally, the SR20 is fine. Looking forward to seeing your video where you announce that you passed the checkride and you are certified to fly the friendly skies!

@@fartherfasterhigher6157 Thanks fam for the advice! I'm on my grind!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was the MAX and it was my first time using it.

Oh yeah, and this is only a taste. It was not that long ago that this stuff was done using paper charts and a pen!

Awesome, thank you! I've flown into BDR quite a few time while practicing approaches. Where are you based and what do you fly now?

@@fartherfasterhigher6157 I've been out of it for about 20 years. All the great content like yours has me thinking about getting back in. But at BDR, and this was in the early 90s, there used to be a great flying club on the field. They had a bunch of Grumman Tigers and Cheetahs and handful of Money M20's. Definitely old school in a lot of ways (run by a WW2 vet with no end of stories), but very welcoming to a high school kid working on his private.