Flight Vlog: A Long Way South | Pilatus PC-12NG

[@janhandley4322]

Watch your videos nearly everyday. I am an older pilot low time, your videos help me immensely in being a better pilot regarding professionalism. Thanks and keep up the videos!

[@antonvons8559]

I do enjoy your video logs, this one especially for the gleaming Carribean sea and beautiful clouds. Thank you.

[@diernosaj]

Key West is my fav. Got married on the beach down there.

[@garyblanchard104]

Great video!

[@bagels377]

I'm excited for this one!

[@UTarcher72]

You're human. I stumble on the radios from time to time. It feels like a stage fright thing for me like its open mic night. Great video! Love that PC-12.

[@GrantBaker]

I don’t have the stage fright feeling any more, but I remember that feeling very well! For me, I think I was close to 1,000hrs before that completely went away. Now I just have days where my mouth forgets how to form words. 😂

[@steveh1130]

Great video. Enjoyed that camera position for final

[@GrantBaker]

Thank you Steve! You got lucky, I wouldn’t have chosen it if the other cameras hadn’t stopped recording. 😁

[@Pilot.Lindsay]

Love Key West. Another Great Video. Thanks for Sharing.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks JP!

[@fishingmedic1]

That was awesome sir, keep up the good work!

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Cory!

[@winnlux]

Thanks for the hard work putting these videos together. I am learning from you and appreciate it! Watching from Luxembourg.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Thierry!

[@chrissvoboda7394]

Nice flight. Love single-pilot PC 12 action!

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Chris, me too!

[@easternairlines727]

Thanks. Love your videos!!!!

[@JeepBigE]

Stunning blue water down in Key West.😮

[@GrantBaker]

Yes it is!

[@benakay]

Bravo, Grant! I would personally rank this video as your best work, so far. Loved the camera work - inside and outside. Loved the Avionics camera angle. Loved how you talked through your flight planning and comms, notwithstanding the stumbling with ATC (lol). Great job and thanks for sharing. Quick question...min 2:33 - the frame shows three balls (two blue and one white) resting on the dash, just under the grab handle. Can you please explain what those are and what their function is? Thanks and look forward to other videos.

[@GrantBaker]

Thank you sir, I appreciate the feedback! Those little balls are supposed to be for helping to set your seat position so you get the same sight picture out front every time. I don’t use it since I’m the only one flying the plane, but operators with a lot of different sized pilots might find it useful.

[@benakay]

@@GrantBaker One last follow up question: min 3:00 - on the PFD was the message 'LX Fail' (information at you 7:00 o'clock on the PFD). This was during startup. Kindly explain what that is?. Is it weather related (I see strike rate).

[@GrantBaker]

@@benakay yep that’s the lightning strike detection. It’s always failed on startup and the system brings it online automatically.

[@Weasel1970]

Beautiful flight, looks like a blast!

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Charles!

[@russelldanson7572]

I like the over the shoulder camera viewpoint.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Russell, glad you like it!

[@DigiMorphouZ]

Another outstanding vid!!!!!! Thanks!!!

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Diesel!

[@mjcarlisle]

You got a great job, the pc12 looks super fun to fly ;)

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks, I completely agree!

[@marktaylor8263]

LOVE KEY WEST... Grant great flight and video footage. We are ALL slaves to battery lvl & data storage, lol. Your video quality is 👍👍👍. Would be nice to see complete landing and being marshalled to parking and total nautical miles and total lbs fuel used, thank you. Fantastic predeparture tutorial. I am so pleased with your channel, professionalism as a pilot and effort put into these videos.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Mark! I really appreciate the feedback you’ve been giving me! It’s hard to know what people want to see sometimes. 🙂

[@larrymayberry2312]

The added miles for spacing messed with the cameras didn't it? Another great video and greaser of a landing Grant. What is the cabin noise level? I Have never gotten to ride in a PC 12. Thanks and stay safe.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Larry! Yeah that delay was just a bit too much. It’s a pretty quiet cabin. Passengers have to talk a bit loud to have a conversation, but it’s not too bad.

[@larrymayberry2312]

@@GrantBaker Thank you Sir. You ever fly to the Houston area?

[@GrantBaker]

I’ve only done one trip there for this company and that was a couple years ago.

[@larrymayberry2312]

@@GrantBaker thanks

[@fredcanavan3864]

Give the controller a little time to correct a bad read back. I try to get people to do that. Good job.

[@willnorth5934]

Great channel, thanks! 😊

[@Airplaneparker]

Nice PC-12 grant! My dad flies a King Air 90 with the XP-135 A motors!

[@GrantBaker]

That’s awesome! The PT6 family is such a great family of motors!

[@Airplaneparker]

@@GrantBaker no kidding! We were coming back from Texas and over Vegas we saw 277TAS!

[@Airplaneparker]

What’s the fast you’ve guys gone TAS wise?

[@GrantBaker]

Hmm I can’t remember 100%, but I *think* I remember seeing 280 one time, which is book max. It hasn’t been uncommon for me to see around 275 at optimal altitudes if it’s cold.

[@Airplaneparker]

@@GrantBaker that’s good! We hit 277 over Vegas one day and I was shocked! Our king Air cruises around 260-270ish

[@faizanhaq5230]

Love the videos, I would love to see more out of the front windshield instead of off the wing.

[@scootermason2746]

On the Inertial Separator does Open mean Bypass?

[@GrantBaker]

Yep, it’s a door that opens to allow debris like ice, birds, etc to go out the back instead of making the turn into the engine.

[@caca121112]

i love this plane! there is no competitor.

[@stan1951ful]

Excellent

[@anthonypropst1818]

Question: I don't know if it is KZbin, Aircraft Audio, Pilot, ATC or my computer (which I admit is O L D), but, it is not just this channel...but is seems to me as I am listing, all 3s sound like trees. What's up with that? Just asking because I do not know. May be my brain lol

[@GrantBaker]

Haha good catch! Technically we are supposed to say tree for three, fife for five, and niner for nine. In practice, most pilots and ATC do say niner, some say tree, and very few say fife. So what you’re hearing could very well be trees. 😁

[@mj01011980]

great video and such a nice plane; it could be good to have a view a bit zoomed on the screen so that we could see the view outside and the screens ( just a suggestion)

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Anthony! Being able to see both is more an issue of the brightness difference between the cockpit and outside. I may revisit it though and see if there’s some tweaking I could do to make it so we can see both well enough. I would also love to be able to see both outside and inside from that shot!

[@antonvons8559]

Maybe filters would help, like polaride to level the light

[@AaronGrijalva]

What is the push test you mentioned?

[@GrantBaker]

Stick pusher test. It’s a test of the pusher/shaker system that helps prevent aerodynamic stalls.

[@ram64man]

i noticed that by 12.46 climing over 10,000 you hadn't check your auto pressures settings to see if it was correctly pressurizing. im not in the game any more and only a hobbest who had to retire due to medical just at 50 hours, but have been reading a lot about pressure incidents recently, where users are over reliant on auto setting, nothing is inflatable

[@GrantBaker]

Yes, pressurization issues and resulting hypoxia is a big deal that you have to be careful of!

[@gerardhaubert8210]

Is there an available 110 v outlet in the cabin?

[@GrantBaker]

Yep, there’s both 110 and USB outlets in the cabin.

[@pauloestevam3462]

Nice videos! I Started flying PC-12 week a go, and i am learning a lot with the videos. Cheers from Brazil.

[@GrantBaker]

Thanks Paulo!

[@bernardanderson3758]

I’m in

[@easternairlines727]

What shirt are you wearing?

[@GrantBaker]

It’s a NikeGolf dri-fit. Great shirts!

[@gerardhaubert8210]

How / where can Ifind a flight a simulator for a PC12 NGX?

[@GrantBaker]

If you’re talking about one to get training in, SimCom has one in Scottsdale AZ. If you’re talking about a airplane for Microsoft Flight Sim, I don’t think there is one available yet.

[@anthonypropst1818]

Blame it on ATC. Cam battery, Cam Full. If ATC had given you a straight-in approach, well, it would have not happened. LOL

[@GrantBaker]

Haha true! Although I wouldn’t have gotten to see those nice views!

[@videopokernetwork6824]

Verbalence: When the brain is faster than the tongue. As to cause slurred or stuttered broadcast of otherwise normal, everyday, easy for even a four year old to speak, words.

[@GrantBaker]

Haha I like that!

[@soylentgreenispeople5809]

Navy approach is always terrible. Like to route people almost to Cuba before the turns. Terrible.

[@GrantBaker]

At least it was scenic!