Dodging Thunderstorms In A Single Engine Turboprop | Pilatus PC-12NG

[@billknudson7895]

Thanks for a great ride in an incredible airplane. Your narration was extremely informative. I haven’t flown in 37 years, so the cockpit views really brought back some great memories. Being a private pilot gave me a great excuse to ask my future wife out on a date. The weather wasn’t ideal for an introductory flight, so it was postponed to our second date. That was 38 years ago, so I guess I flew well enough not to scare her off!

[@fishingmedic1]

Another great flight in the PC12, well done Sir!

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Cory!

[@slapshot1343]

I LOVE WX RADAR FOOTAGE! MORE PLEASE!

[@ytugtbk]

Outstanding! Best of its kind. Terrific production values.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks!

[@AMJB100000000]

Great video those cumulus and cumulus nimbus clouds are beautiful…. Sooo much power in them..

[@GrantBaker]

Yeah I love watching them as I fly!

[@davidcaruthers1152]

Great job. Enjoyed the whole trip.

[@johnarnold8519]

Excellent. Very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing. Being able to see and read the PFD, especially during transitions, is always interesting when visible if it fits in to your video.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks John!

[@investmentkid6709]

Smooth landing and radio comms

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks!

[@timjames1274]

Challenging flight! Nice one Grant. Thanks for sharing!

[@thomasjenkins6950]

Punched my PP ticket there (HHI) in the late 80’s. No tower and not very busy back then. Enjoy your channel

[@toddeby1434]

So glad you made it back before dark! My plane was afraid to spend the night alone in the big hanger!

[@GrantBaker]

😂

[@MrMihawes]

Very enjoyable and informative. Thanks for creating these videos! I like the commentary of the actions you are making.

[@RJ1Reed]

WX thank you!!! Always wanting to know another pilots perspective. I can’t get enough WX flying vids.

[@GrantBaker]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@halffull9527]

Awesome stuff, beautiful C.B.'s

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks! It’s always cool to see the clouds building and rolling in a time lapse.

[@imc2cavu]

Great flight and weather footage. Well done.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks!

[@gregoryhill7960]

Thanks Grant for the video ✌

[@flyfreak23]

First time seeing your channel. Love these flight vlogs! Keep it up 🤙

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks for stopping by!

[@larrymayberry2312]

Enjoyed the video Grant. That 500 foot callout caught me off guard. LOL

[@GrantBaker]

It is so loud!

[@Parr4theCourse]

Great flight loved how you filed and took off direct and requested a reroute to MYS after switch off to center with plan B/C as you get closer! Gotta love cookies 🍪!!!!

[@GrantBaker]

They were great, but I think the ones Janis makes are better! 😁

[@Parr4theCourse]

@@GrantBaker Right answer!!🍪😂😅

[@enceladus2263]

Awesome video, subbed. Just got my private certificate and working towards the rest now. Still feels like the impossible dream. I’d love to fly a Pilatus someday.

[@GrantBaker]

Awesome, welcome! You can definitely do it, it’s not impossible! Good luck with the rest of your training!

[@enceladus2263]

@@GrantBaker thank you!!

[@terrytomlinson8772]

Use to fly into HH many years ago - sure looks different

[@StephensonRaceTech]

NICE! looked like a very cool flight.

[@davidd6635]

Always enjoyable to look over the shoulder of a Pro like Capt Grant. Thanks for the ride. It's been Too HOT in Texas to fly....other than flying Over the top.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks David!

[@GeneStuart]

Great video, Grant!

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Gene!

[@classicraceruk1337]

Great video, I enjoyed it and subscribed. That PC 12 is a wonderful machine.

[@GrantBaker]

Yes, I love flying it!

[@jamielwillards2752]

new subscriber thanks for the great videos!

[@GrantBaker]

You’re welcome, thanks for subscribing!

[@clarencewiles963]

Thumbs up 👍. Clouds will move.

[@PluckyUnderdog]

Good stuff, dude. Calm, measured and precise flying, as per usual. PC-12 is now pretty imminent for MSFS, couple of weeks apparently. Should be good! Hope you're keeping well.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Michael, I’m doing well! I saw that Carenado is releasing theirs in a few weeks. Is Simworks also releasing theirs soon?

[@PluckyUnderdog]

@@GrantBaker I think Simworks is towards the end of this year mate. That's the one I really want, but I may get the Carenado one too.

[@nickr5658]

Awesome work. Very well done. Better than steveos videos. You walked it through for us step by step. Very helpful to see how a pro handles each step. Please keep making more awesome videos like this

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Nick!

[@ashgreen1]

Enjoyable trip - thanks!

[@anthonypropst1818]

By the way, you seem to be the only pilot on KZbin that can pick some good music. 😎👍

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks!

[@NathanBallardSaferFlying]

Awesome content, keep it up 👍👍👍

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Nathan!

[@jrvfire3344]

Nice video. Thanks Grant. I hope the cookies were tasty.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks, they sure were!

[@soylentgreenispeople5809]

Well done.

[@karlr6810]

From a former professional pilot to a current one, I think you did a good job explaining your ADM enroute dealing with the weather. Nicely done, thanks for sharing, sir 🤙🤟

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Karl!

[@chrisdaniel1339]

Was FL220 chosen because of more favorable winds aloft vs climbing to the FL300 service ceiling? Were you burning more lbs of fuel at FL220 vs a higher altitude?

[@GrantBaker]

Yes I chose it for winds, and I would have burned less fuel at a higher altitude. But it would have taken longer, been more uncomfortable (higher cabin altitude), and I wouldn’t have been above the weather anyway.

[@VirtualAviationAviator]

Aww shucks! I should have caught a ride with you. Guess I'll have to walk. 🙂

[@BrianSHatch]

With most turboprops maxing out at 30,000 ft, do you have to do much weather-dodging ?? If it had been a jet at 40,000 +, could you have flown over the storms ?? Thanks !

[@GrantBaker]

Yes, I do a fair amount of weather dodging. FL400 would have definitely gotten me over this stuff.

[@jasonkaminsky3058]

Hey Grant, did I see your Pilatus at KFDY a few weeks back?

[@GrantBaker]

Not Findlay, but we were at 1G0 back in June.

[@ronnieandpatriciamackinnon4958]

Thanks for the flight!! Loved it.. What are ur usual approach numbers? Over the threshold,,,vno,vso in say single passenger configuration... Thank you Please, please forget the music!.lol

[@GrantBaker]

I fly approaches at 115-120, usually around 90 over the threshold.

[@ronnieandpatriciamackinnon4958]

@@GrantBaker thank you, keep safe

[@rowanditcham9617]

Great video 👍👍

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks!

[@francoduplooy4407]

Awesome video as always Grant !! That gap in the clouds did close real fast. Beautiful sunset as you passed through the gap. How was your trip to Oshkosh ??

[@GrantBaker]

Yeah I was surprised how fast that closed. Oshkosh was a blast as always! I need to go up for more than just one day some year. Maybe camp under the wing. ⛺️😁

[@francoduplooy4407]

@@GrantBaker Awesome !! Glad you enjoyed it. There is so much things to do and see, that you definitely need more than 1 day to go around everything. Camping under the wing definitely sounds like a plan, as I love to camp as well.

[@bruninhu0802]

A higher altitude would not be a better ride through the weather?

[@GrantBaker]

If I would have been able to get above the weather, then yes. FL300 isn’t enough to get on top of most weather. Even if you can get above the clouds, turbulence can exist for several thousand more feet in clear air.

[@davidd6635]

@@GrantBaker It certainly can, even the smaller tops found with the T210. Great trip again. Good to see you back.

[@SMcda]

great video, I fly a Jetprop so I am curious, when you say "separator is open" on final does that mean you are in bypass? For us, "closed" means we are in bypass so protecting the engine from FOD. Open means full ram air into the intake. For us, open for start, closed for taxi, takeoff and up to 1000agl in vmc. Closed at TOD until shutdown

[@GrantBaker]

Yes, open means the bypass door is open.

[@SMcda]

@@GrantBaker interesting, so you land with the door open offering less FOD perfection. Asking because there is some debate as of late in our community about the old methods not being the best. thx

[@GrantBaker]

Sorry, might have been some confusion using the word bypass. No, having the door open offers more fod protection by allowing heavy objects (ice, birds, rocks, etc) exit the intake instead of making the turn into the engine. There’s a screen over part of the intake going to the engine at this point which also helps those objects make their way out the open door. Some air also escapes obviously, but the engine is derated enough that at low enough density altitudes, there is no power loss for takeoff. There is a power reduction at altitude with the separator door open though. Edit: At high and hot airports, you might need/want to chose to close the door and trade FOD protection for more power. I assume with your engine that you lose power on any takeoff with the separator open (closed as you call it) and that’s the debate in the jet prop community-FOD protection or more power?

[@SMcda]

@@GrantBaker ok, yes now I get it. Yeh, confusing terms. We talk in terms of "ice door on" which means in bypass mode. Same screen, same derated power etc in the Jetprop. "ice door off" for non-fod situations. On does create higher ITT but if OAT is fairly cool not an issue. Appreciate the dialog.

[@brianparker9924]

You made me investigate what an inertial separator is. To bad it couldn't be called something obvious like fod diverter.. inertial separator on while going through clouds correct?

[@GrantBaker]

Yes, on (or open as we call it in the Pilatus) anytime there’s a risk for FOD. If the temp is cold enough for ice in the clouds, open. If it’s warm enough, keep it closed. My guess on the reason it’s called inertial separator is because the inertia of the heavier FOD makes it pass through the open door instead of making the turn into the engine.

[@brianparker9924]

That's what I figured for the name. But I'm guessing that's how they get to add the extra zeros to everything aviation.

[@kimberlywentworth9160]

Nice landing.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Kimberly!

[@marktaylor8263]

Grant good to see you. Great flight from Hilton Head, Weather is a fickle bird. Grant what is the range of your onboard radar? Thanks for the stats and looking forward to your next shared flight. 👍👍👍

[@GrantBaker]

Yes it sure is! The display range can be set out to 300nm, but it isn’t a strong enough radar to be very useful beyond 50nm.

[@skipsteel]

That was Grease on grease nice job.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks!

[@LaMerica94]

What is the red/white mark on the airspeed for at 210 knots? Is that the limit, I thought the cruise speed for these things was over 280

[@GrantBaker]

Yep that’s the limit, commonly called the “barber pole” since it kinda resembles one. The PC12 has two max airspeeds, 240 knots indicated and 0.48 mach. Above 15,200, it switches from the Vmo of 240KIAS to the Mmo of 0.48mach, and the Barber pole will move on the airspeed tape to reflect the max mach. Mmo will be at a lower indicated airspeed as you go higher. You’re right though, the performance charts for max cruise show a predicted true airspeed over 280 if the conditions are right.

[@LaMerica94]

@@GrantBaker thank you very much I really appreciate the information

[@roberto5537]

First time watching, all good the only problem is the loud music in the center, had to Fast forward the music session, keep up the good work

[@colt10mmsecurity68]

Q: You’re in a room with 1,000 strangers. How can you tell who’s a pilot? A: You don’t. He’ll come and tell you.

[@GrantBaker]

😉😉

[@jimdougherty2758]

I understand that the engine torque is not measured directly but is actually an oil pressure reading in the gear reduction which is apparantly proportional to torque. It irks me though that torque is displayed in psi units rather than ft-lbs.😑Beautiful airplane otherwise😄

[@GrantBaker]

Yeah it’s a bit of a quirk.

[@Parr4theCourse]

Yea that’s unique to Pilatus, I think…..

[@richardcox6935]

Great video but please turn down the volume on the background music.

[@TheAlf61]

It would have been great if you had shown us more how you used radar to pick your way through the weather I doubt you only did it visual. Request for next video this one I was disappointed I didn’t see anything.

[@GrantBaker]

Actually, it was mostly visual and using XM far out to plan ahead as I showed. This wasn’t embedded stuff. I did use the onboard radar to verify what I was seeing visually and on the xm though.

[@TheAlf61]

@@GrantBaker That’s the kind of flying I love navigating through that stuff. Maybe too much asking but not the kind of thing you want to go through at 8X. 😅 Next time radar views and more length please.

[@observer1242]

Hey I know nothing about flying so don’t take this as a criticism. I’m just asking. Would it have been OK just fly along the west side of all of that system and burn up a little extra gas?

[@GrantBaker]

Yep that would have been fine to do! That was my plan if there hadn’t been a hole.

[@rockeyroy1]

why not a forward camera ?

[@GrantBaker]

You mean on my face?

[@mrsaskriders]

Great. prefer music not so loud

[@brianparker9924]

So at weather school "A" students become pilots. "C" students become weather forecasters for local news stations where any idiot can look out the window and make more accurate predictions.

[@GrantBaker]

I wouldn’t want to be a forecaster. No matter how good you are, you’re going to be wrong a large percentage of the time!

[@johncollins6023]

The Porter was more reliable.

[@GrantBaker]

We haven’t had any issues with ours.

[@steini6771]

Brylcreem landing -

[@36thstreethero]

Do not ever rely on NEXRAD to give you accurate information for TS tracking. As you can tell from your screen capture of the “gap”, the data was 4-5 minutes old, and you yourself remarked how drastic the “gap” transformed after only 9 minutes. Many pilots have flown into severe turbulence trusting the depiction on NEXRAD instead of using the most accurate tool-the WX radar. The satellite data was 20 minutes old! You couldve been flying into a 50-100nm gap of towering CB’s based off of that depiction and never knew otherwise! The sucker hole in this case was the “gap” you flew into, and then oddly decided to fly nearer to the developed TS as opposed to the moisture to you left just because of the wind direction. When you fly that close to TS, youre going to get hail/ice/turb all without any place to run/turn for relief.

[@GrantBaker]

Yes agreed, relying on NEXRAD for close TS avoidance is a bad idea. This is a good example why. And actually, that time stamp is only when it was updated at the panel, not when the images were actually captured. So in reality, what it showed could have been much older than the 4-5 minutes that it said it was. In this case, I was using NEXRAD farther out than my eyes or onboard radar could be useful. I chose to go through the gap when I got closer based on what I saw visually, which matched with NEXRAD at the time, and chose the right side because what you called moisture on the left was a much larger, more mature storm. The wind would have been carrying any hail from left to right, so going farther right than left was safer here.

[@michaelbeattie8106]

Damn not a grey hair. What's your secret?

[@GrantBaker]

😉

[@UberGeek]

Well done.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks!

[@roberto5537]

First time watching, all good the only problem is the loud music in the center, had to Fast forward the music session, keep up the good work