(4K) Cape Air INAUGURAL Flight: Manistee to Chicago O'Hare

What an amazing flight! This was my very first time flying on an inaugural flight and it was an absolutely unforgettable experience! Very cool of Cape Air to set up a small party at the check in desk in Manistee as well! Also, shoutout to Captain Andrew for taking the time to show me around the airplane! If you're reading this Andrew, thanks so much for everything! That flight was one of my favorites I've ever taken!
The Tecnam is a game changer as well for smaller commuter aircraft. It has insanely good leg and head room, even for a 6'3 guy like myself. Personal USB ports, cupholders, air vents, under seat storage, etc.. It's no wonder it's such an upgrade for passengers over the old Cessna 402! I cannot wait to get on one of these again, and I hope you all will do the same!
Hope you all enjoy the video!
Flight Information:
MBL-ORD:
KAP1181
Tecnam P2012 Traveller (N255CA)
Age: 1 year
Manistee, Michigan (MBL) to Chicago, Illinois (ORD)
Departure Time: 7:15 AM EDT
Arrival Time: 7:59 AM CDT
Departure Runway: 28
Arrival Runway: 27R
Duration: 1:08
ORD-MBL
KAP1182
Tecnam P2012 Traveller (N255CA)
Age: 1 year
Chicago, Illinois (ORD) to Manistee, Michigan (MBL)
Departure Time: 9:15 AM CDT
Arrival Time: 11:53 AM EDT
Departure Runway: 28R
Arrival Runway: 28
Duration: 1:23
Date: October 1, 2020
Camera: Sony AX53
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[@TrainerAQ]

Cape Air has really gone above and beyond. What an awesome little airline!

[@superskullmaster]

I actually teared up looking at that sun rise. Beautiful.

[@gtr1952]

I have followed the story/process around the design and development of the P2012 between Cape Air and Tecnam from start to delivery. This is the first time I've really seen a 'normal flight' operation! It's a very cool airplane, albeit a 'rare bird' these days. LOL I believe it's the only piston twin with that capacity being produced today, and for sure the only clean sheet design like that in many years!! It looks like it did it's job very well! I can't wait to fly one some day!! 8) Thanks for sharing the video! --gary

[@daviigaming6424]

The plane is a dump , I flew it . It sucks

[@chiefkev]

I'm taking this flight this week. I cannot wait! I love seeing these TECNAM's on the tarmac at KMBL and have wanted to travel on one for a few years now. Outstanding video! Thank you!

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

Great pilot, so many times you see pilots yanking the yoke kinda violently, this pilot doesn't move the yoke that much. Great video.

[@royquitter]

They should have had a couple of firefighters standing outside with Super Soakers to do the "water cannon salute".

[@CairnTerrier69]

What a great video! A ride on an unusual aircraft between a truly off the beaten path community and an airport the size of a fair sized town. Journeys aboard these types of planes on these routes give you an aerial perspective you just don’t get at 35,000 feet aboard a 737.

[@MrFloydSaunders]

An off the beaten path community of less than 7,000 people. Counting the cats and dogs.

[@KresnaAlifRahadian-]

The Tecnam P2012 Traveller is actually my favorite aircraft also the dreams to buy ones. I was 12 years old and want became a pilot when adult and have the Tecnam P2012 Traveller as my private plane🤗☺️😊 Btw greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@twotrackjack2260]

Fantastic video, love these little planes!

[@Princess-lp2qz]

Totally awesome also the music thank you Keep them coming I appreciate all of your videos

[@jamesmeny]

Excellent video! Keep them coming just like this one!

[@DOMINICAAVIATION]

An amazing video man! Nicely done. Really cool experience!

[@mathieugunnpapatie7408]

MAGNIFIQUE

[@ed5649]

7:46 my favorite part of the video is the fact that you were able to record the landing gear retract

[@janefurtwangler494]

Thank you for the wonderful memories. I used to live in Chicago and getting to see Northwestern University in Evanston was fun to see. Seeing the landing back in Manistee brought memories too.😀

[@danielwilliamson]

Love the Video. Great filmwork!

[@wootle]

You bring in the music at JUST the right time, unlike many other videos where the music overwhelms whats being shown. Very nice video, the choice of tune + sunrise footage is quite emotional. Amazing little plane. I can see a future stretched version with turbine engines maybe.

[@WhiteStateWarrior207]

Great shot of that Dreamliner! My favorite plane

[@QuickBurn70]

Now that was a sunrise flight for the ages. Flying had a feature article on the P2012, basically saying it was built for Cape Air, with their needs in mind etc. It was right before certification, and Cape Air had ordered 100 I believe. Nice article.. and nice to see it in action.

[@LeppAviation]

QuickBurn70 Thanks for watching! It absolutely fits their market perfectly, and it’s fantastic to fly on!

[@bobd5740]

Wow, nice video dude. Cape Air brings back some memories for me. I used to fly with them back in the late 80's/early 90's mainly between Hyannis and Boston on their C402s. I live in Chicago now so I always think it's strange whenever I see a Cape Air on finals at KORD! Nice views of Chicago and ORD and I even caught MDW too. Thanks for the video. Bob

[@LeppAviation]

Thanks for watching, Bob!

[@geraldturner9764]

I flew Hyannis to Nantucket for my honeymoon, too fun.

[@TripReportaviation]

Excellent trip report! It's nice to fly on a brand new aircraft, and it's cool that you could see the cockpit actions during the flight.

[@calpal9983]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@smartycummins2500]

4:15 you can see the exhaust in the cowl glowing red! Those EGT’s are hot going through the exhaust pipe to the turbo!

[@TomCook1993]

hopefully it cools down once climb power is reduced and there's more airflow over the cowl.

[@mitchr482]

Black body radiation, if you got turbos, it'll glow.

[@123OGNIAN]

Is this alarming ?

[@twotrackjack2260]

​@@123OGNIANNot at all, simply a function of how it works. The exhaust manifold is designed to operate under these conditions.

[@geraldturner9764]

So, I am a fan of this airplane. Also short hop and small regional airlines. Took Cape Air on my honeymoon. Hyannis to Nantucket. We took off and landed. Thanks so much for the video.

[@HiFlyerr]

Wow, very cool! Manistee is a super awesome little airport, I know they were served by Ultimate Air Shuttle to MDW this summer but I think that was replaced by this route. Great report, would love to take this flight someday myself!

[@CameTo]

Was good to watch. Nice use of lenses. Nice flying over o hare so close, and nice crosswind landing into a shower at the end there. Thx

[@Bluejackets70]

Awesome flight and neat seeing one of the few 1000' freighters on the great lakes from above

[@darrelneese5676]

There’s actually 13 freighters 1000’ or longer. Amazing ships.

[@dandumas373]

Great video of the P2012. Also, cool aerial picture of the the Boeing 727!

[@ELAviation]

Amazing video!

[@samisakson7027]

Seeing those planes coming right next you was 👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@davidharris2519]

a airline i used to work for Great Lakes flew into MBL with 1900s

[@AR-yb4tz]

Cool plane. Huge improvement over the Cessna

[@JelmersAviation]

Really awesome video mate! Liked!

[@UraFlight]

Beautiful and interesting footage

[@MAAtx]

Awesome video! Never heard of the P2012 until Cape Air started flying them. They look nice!

[@utuber2940]

wow those clouds looked beautiful with the sun splashed on them..

[@louissanderson719]

Really cool to see the Tecnam from this perspective. 160 knots true air speed with a bit of a head wind is pretty good

[@rogermorales7920]

Beautiful video, wow

[@AeroTendencias]

Very pretty; well recorded; very interesting !!

[@soflaav8r]

Awesome video!

[@viarnay]

such a good service this little plane does :- D

[@ery9077]

4:12 It's trully STOL feeling Sean😮

[@mauriceevans6546]

Awesome video. I am looking forward to flying to Chicago in my own aircraft next year. Got my light sport certificate in june 2020.

[@moi01887]

OMG that looks like it was fun!

[@JoshuasPHXAviation]

Great Video👍👍

[@anthonygajda469]

Awesome video.

[@CobusDerrenberg]

O WOW, AWESOME VIDEO 😀👏! I'm buying a fleet of these 💪👍

[@davecrupel2817]

The Technams (at least for now) also have Air Conditioning. Lots more creature comforts over the older Cessna 402Cs.

[@ambientcoot8715]

The 402C had an AC Option that some of cape airs fleet had when the bought them second hand, but they ripped them out before they had them enter service.

[@davecrupel2817]

@@ambientcoot8715 Yeah. Mainly to save weight. Those hydraulic-driven compressors were heavy.

[@wilmeaux12]

Nice to see the new planes are being delevered.

[@tnnaroot]

Amazing

[@isaiasmendez2598]

Good work

[@mamulcahy]

Nice flight nice aircraft!

[@henrykhelsner6368]

Awesome flight.You Best -number One Pilot Cape air, inaugural-flight to Chicago I wisch you and Your All team more,more safety flight,s- good luck.!!

[@thatpersonsmusic]

Just booked a flight on the Technam from STL to Marion and Marion to Nashville. Really excited for that flight, I haven’t been on a commercial plane smaller than a CRJ200, this is so tiny in comparison to even that,but it looks really nice and stylish. Very excited!

[@cargopilot747]

Beautiful video, especially of the clouds and the sunrise reflections on the water. At 13:05 nice shot of the 727, doesn't seem to be in service anymore; very few are. I'm guessing you have a 400mm or better lens.

[@lionheart9693]

The views are really awesome here

[@leazer44]

Love the vid! I swore I heard the props going into beta/ reverse range on the first segment but then saw there wasn’t that option on the throttle quadrant. Was I hearing things? Adore this lil plane!👍🏽

[@TRPGpilot]

You dont have beta or reverse on piston engines

[@fjp3305]

Nice video!

[@CalvinMennyweathers]

Top notch footage 👌 and that skyline over the sunrise 🌅 😍 to die for

[@janefurtwangler494]

My Dad used to fly into Manistee from Chicago on North Central Airlines.

[@steini6771]

Just FAB!

[@nicoroz6912]

Very nice little plane! The workload must be huge flying commercial single pilot into O'Hare!

[@Ozgrade3]

Thanks for an absolutely cracking video, easily the best on the internet regarding the P2012. You seem to know what info (instruments etc) pilots would be interested in looking at given this is a new aircraft type. The first with computer controlled engines. yes, Chicago looks rather nice too.

[@LeppAviation]

Thanks for the comment my friend! Being a student pilot myself who trained on the G1000, I was super intrigued by watching the captain using it!

[@TRPGpilot]

@@LeppAviation That explains it. Thanks for filming and uploading.

[@moi01887]

Agree 100%! This video is definitely one for the avgeeks, as well as just being great all around.

[@Danehavenlane]

402 has been around a long time. This should be a great improvement to the service and safety. Good job.

[@official_southy]

Nice!

[@appomattoxross6751]

Cool aircraft. I'm a high wing fan myself.

[@henrykhelsner6368]

Awesome flight to Chicago. Special Greetingsl to All team-pilots Cape Air ,including to CEO Mr. Dan Wolf- I wisch You Mr Wolf-Good Luck and Your wonderful all family pilots,,, more ,more safety flights.

[@AccessAir]

Great video!! Wasn't aware that Cape Air was using single-pilot operations into Chicago.

[@dryan8377]

faa doesn't require it for piston twin. also no type certifications required either.

[@AccessAir]

@@dryan8377 the reason I was surprised by this single-pilot operation into Chicago was that back in 1988 through 1990 I worked for a small part 135 carrier that flew Cessna 402 and then switch to Piper Chieftains and we required two pilots to fly our flights in and out of O'Hare.

[@maaviationtrainselevators8787]

Great Video. I feel like the pilots who fly those kind of planes in the Midwest region are more friendly about filming and use of electronics. A few weeks ago, I flew CapeAir from Boston to Nantucket and the pilot I had was also named Andrew and he was very strict about the electronic rule. He wanted phones shut off completely and not on Airplane mode. And he didn't want cameras being used either. Which meant I couldn't film the flight

[@flightsimhomecockpit6026]

Cool plane. Weird to see something so small mixed in with the jets at ORD.

[@dominicfrigo7397]

I see them at ohare quite a bit go on Mondays and Fridays

[@ianhardie4807]

Excellent video as always! Especially the sunrise and approaching Chicago from the lake. Keep up the great work. Air to air of American 787 was pretty special too! Hope to see you around ORD again soon!

[@LeppAviation]

Thanks a lot Ian!

[@DrRchannel71]

nice share, like

[@mikeklimczak9600]

Cool stuff. I'm thinking about flying from ORD to IWD to go skiing this xmas. The service is operated by Boutique Air which you can book on their website or through United airlines.

[@BlueLineSpeed]

At 4:22 you get a good impression of how hard the Lycoming TEO540c engines are working by the orange glow of the turbocharger!

[@twotrackjack2260]

Kind of, but not really. It's just a function of how turbos work, being spun by hot exhaust gasses. Especially under a constant load for extended amounts of time, it's gonna make some heat.

[@nicholasmohr1619]

Cape Air always flies over my town at about 1000 feet going to MWA

[@joseosorio4682]

Con características más mejoradas con respecto al Britten Norman BN-2 Islander lo hace un avión de pistón más versátil y maniobrable para los vuelos a aeropuertos internacionales. Gran acierto de la aerolínea CAPE en adquirir esos maravillosos aviones de Tecnam P-2012 Traveller. Saludos. 🤗👍

[@itsagiven7675]

I really enjoyed the video. Odd question for the creator though...what was the zen music in it? It sounds great for sleep!

[@davidharris2519]

some of these cities are going for there EAS services with Skywest and 50 seat crjs for instance DEC had Cape Air service to STL and ORD many times a day now skywest has only 2 flts a day both before noon to ORD only UIN had Cape service then went with skywest now back to Cape with service to ORD and STL

[@gatoraviation]

The ship looked like it was the American Integrity or Burns Harbor whatever it is it’s for sure a 1000 footer

[@gypsydiamond4799]

I am flying on cap air this october. Boston ma to Rockland me. Will i enjoy this on such a small plane ?

[@Drofnats]

Wondering how long before these show up in Lebanon NH

[@airfreak75]

I saw a 9K C402 on the ramp while you were boarding at MBL. Is MBL scheduled for mixed ops or is 9K randomly rotating the types?

[@LeppAviation]

airfreak75 Nope! Only reason it was there was because it flew some Cape Air executives to MBL the day before to prepare for the inaugural

[@SR-bh5jd]

If the passenger is of a certain “weight” do they recommend you to the cargo version?

[@neiwtonpereira8807]

Do you have it in the Turboprop version? Or will it be the piston? thanks🇧🇷🇱🇷

[@bobrichardson5905]

I think wheel pants are needed on that aircraft :)

[@CreepyCharlie]

They couldn’t spring for the synthetic vision?

[@georgejdi]

Loved the video, but I was kind of shocked. I knew cape air and the aircrafts but I never realized, they only had one pilot. I am from europe, and I have never seen a commercial flight without 2 pilots as a security protocoll. I mean, what can you do if the only pilot faints or has seizure or stroke?

[@TRPGpilot]

What do you do if your train driver has a stroke? or your bus or coach driver has a stroke?

[@georgejdi]

@@TRPGpilot uhmm? not falling from the sky maybe???

[@rowerwet]

@@georgejdi the train should stop itself in a few minutes, hopefully it hasn't blown through any red signals before that. The bus will crash. 9 passengers and under requires one pilot per regulations. Every pilot gets annual health checks to keep the flying public safe. The lack of a second pilot is not considered a terrible risk

[@ChrisZoomER]

That plane, it's so tiny!

[@kilopapa1449]

Tiny!!!?? That's relative, gomer.

[@ChrisZoomER]

@@kilopapa1449 I know it's relative! Sure the P2012 is bigger than most cars along with many trucks but put that thing next to a jumbo jet like the 777, 747, A380 or even just a smaller jet like the 737, A320, or 757 and you'll see how puny it is compared to those. I'm sorry if my comment bothered you, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

[@kilopapa1449]

@@ChrisZoomER Pointing out stupid comments on KZbin doesn't bother me at all, gomer. It's one of my small contributions to make the world a better place. And it should go without saying that the Tecnam is quite small compared to a goddamn commercial airliner.

[@ChrisZoomER]

@@kilopapa1449 yeah, I can be pretty stupid. What can I say? I have issues...

[@davidharris2519]

so the a/c can be flown single pilot

[@timeckert68]

What if he passes out ? Fucked I guess.

[@marcuswalton2922]

what is the highest C.A. flies?

[@user-kc8qj3io7i]

"За проезд передаём"

[@RegularGuy76]

Cape Fear..... just to take the 421 from PR to USVI....

[@netcalindo1579]

good berdoa keselamatan yang besar perlengkapam sejata ALLAH

[@karlossargeant3872]

Man I hope too fly with Capeair on there New Tecnam P2012 Aircrafts which Capeair will replace there aging fleet the Cessna 402's which carries 6 passengers onboard.

[@rowerwet]

9 passengers, not 6.

[@jorgecadavid1417]

This is a House Airport

[@TonyK3130]

Will these flights go electric?

[@rowerwet]

In reality, probably never. Power to weight ratio for a battery vs any fuel is horrible, and a battery weighs just as much fully discharged as fully charged, meaning an electric aircraft will have a negative power curve.

[@robertfencl4401]

Sounds like a flying lawn mower!

[@ldmax]

It's 1940 again. Unpressurized, piston powered airplane, operating below 10,000 feet. This is the perfect plane for a quick flight from the mainland to an offshore island. Beaver Island, Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, etc. The flight depicted here is over an hour and into a major airline hub. Should be a pressurized twin turboprop on a route like this.

[@jjouney]

The music destroys the video.. I'm not sure why you'd add music to excellent footage - it doesn't need it, it speaks for itself.

[@Michael-kl6qn]

I found the selections to be thoughtful and appropriate

[@frontcentermusician]

Fear masks....Can't believe we got duped.