DA42-VI IFR ESMS to LFPN in IMC, Icing

[@floriansommer8509]

good, enjoyable video! thanks for sharing, looking forward for more. nice lil mini-airliner you got there!

[@aeroengines1]

Excellent videos. You're a nice natural instrument pilot too, jaunty. Great stuff.

[@tonyfdesign]

On approach like that (with the tower) you can say just, "wind check." No tail number, no introduction, no nothing, just "wind check."

[@jaxsmith2218]

Your worthy of a lot more subscribers than you have. Also, nice plane!

Very nice video :-)

[@PotchFlyboy95]

Awesome video! Keep the coming

[@osriris4000]

Vy gives you the lower climbing time (best vz). Vx gives you steepest climb (to use if you have close terrain or obbstacle to clear)

[@mm-zj5qw]

how much did it cost to get a weather radar on board? because i fly da42 TDI 2008 , without the radar, and it's quite hard to determine hail:D could u please tell me. Also , i learned how to fly da42 only because of your videos. Thank you very much. I asked you a few times if u could get me with you into a flight. Thanks.

[@DrCash7]

Hi Jaunty, we like your videos a lot. What is the reason you fly to these places? For fun maybe?

[@chaywoo]

very nice! in my favorite plane!

[@FlyingWildAZ]

ah center lines are over rated anyway ;), nice video, I like the little text boxes

[@davidreitter1390]

Beautiful plane, very nicely equipped. Is that radar simulated from the XM data, or is it an actual on-board radar?

[@jaunty17]

David Reitter On-board, the GSX68. 10" flat antenna, stabilised, X-band. Integrated with the G1000. Nice piece of kit. Antenna sits in the nose cone ("radome").

[@BB992]

Nice video! Allergic to runway centrelines? :p

[@pilothiro]

Nice video

[@Tiltrotor86]

Nice video ! Maybe that was really what you wanted to say, but didn't you mean GROUND speed instead of TRUE speed ?

[@allen764]

If what happens at 5:35 doesn't make you really smile...you may not be a pilot.

[@pplir2000]

Hi, Jaunty,How do you mount the Approach plate control board at the left hand side of the cockpit window?

[@jaunty17]

+pplir2000 Hi! The plate holder is from RAM mount, using a suction cup. I didn't like the arrangement much, though. It was sort of in the way. Now I go all electronic with an iPad Air as the main tool and an older iPad as backup.

[@Peter-zy6vm]

What did you record the audio with? :) Tack!

[@bkrichmd]

This flight right here seems like a hectic flight. What was the weather before you left? If you remember I'm sure it was a while ago.

[@jaunty17]

Brian K Rich MD A deep low south of Stavanger with a cold front and two occluded fronts sweeping through my flight path. Head wnds from F065 and up at 45-50 kts. Icing forecast up to F160 along the entire route. On the ground, tempos 20G30 to 25G40 at Hamburg, Gröningen, Chievres, Brussels, Orly. Toussus' TAF looked slightly kinder. In the event, as you saw, the weather around Paris was rather benign. (I can tell you all this thanks to RocketRoute. Their briefing from that flight is still available for me to look up, something that applies any flight actually executed. I don't know how long they are available, but this flight is from February.)

[@bkrichmd]

jaunty17 Yeah that's just a nasty flight. I'm not a big fan of flying that low and slow as you are not as well. Paris looked very nice though.

[@CheshuntISF]

jaunty17 Great Video, but why you are not climbed above the icing, say FL180 or higher? Headwind?

[@jaunty17]

CheshuntISF I did climb up to 180 (service ceiling for the DA42) just before Amsterdam. Before that, I was unsure if there was clear air up there, and I'd had significant icing at 120 or 140 (I don't remember). But you are right; my original reason for staying at 100 was to try to avoid the headwinds at altitude. As you saw in the vid, however, the winds (unusually) were about the same all the way down to 4000 ft or so.

[@CheshuntISF]

jaunty17 copied, I would choose the headwind against icing ;-). Nice gloves and good Video. Everybody knows is later better :-)

[@bkrichmd]

what would you have done here if you didn't shed the ice?

[@jaunty17]

My "out" on this flight was to get below the ice, which was still possible with the lower MEA's up to EEL. Given the headwind and poor TAS at low altitude, I might have had to divert to Lille or something else along the way to re-fuel. In the worst case, if the ice was down to the MEA after EEL, I would have had to turn around and divert to Roskilde or even back to Malmö. This plane as equipped can handle a lot. but it does have its limits.

[@bassk94]

Must be nice to have auto pilot. Lets see you hand fly it

[@jaunty17]

bassk94 VFR jaunt in the DA42VI

[@bkrichmd]

Bassk94 an AP is a pilot in IMC's best friend. Helps you stay ahead of the plane and get ready for other things.