Short and Soft Field | Takeoff and Landing in the Beechcraft Debonair

[@mrprutten]

The visibility in that aircraft is phenomenal. Great video Hayley! 🌷

[@jbanfai]

I always love watching your videos... keep 'em coming! you're awesome!

[@davidmangold1838]

I’m so happy that you used flaps 10! It makes all the difference for short, soft field and combination of high DA takeoffs. I would have rotated at 80-85, and climbed at about 100. You need the wing to fly, and not linger in ground effect. Dave, v tail Bonanza owner, having 28,000 hours.

[@dougdornseif]

I think you just named your summer tour for next year: Debi In The Dirt Tour!! I love seeing all the sailplanes on the tarmac!

[@FlywithHayley]

I love it!!

[@esau4734]

❤❤❤

[@petertarantelli]

This has been CFI Hayley - I hope you enjoyed your lesson today! I love when you “switch” to your radio voice, it’s seamless. Thanks for taking me around the pattern 🤗

[@AlphaKilo.Warrior]

Love the scenery, it reminds me of Sedona. Been there twice love AZ

[@jazzyj6122]

Yep,,, you’ve got my vote! You’re a bad a$$! Thank you for sharing! Your awesome!

[@Jcorban08]

Hi! Subscribed 5 minutes ago to your great channel. I know almost nothing about flying airplanes, but have always found it interesting. Cheers!

[@FlyingNDriving]

Where's your trim normally on your debonair when you land? You mentioned "it's a bit heavy" for one of the approaches. A lot of high performance airplanes you land you land with a lot of nose up trim (pa32, m20, pa24, c182, etc) a real good eye opening maneuver is doing a go around in landing trim setup and being ready for the pitch up moment and a surprising amount of fwd yoke pressure... Especially juggling flaps, gear, prop, radios. That's always good practice!

[@robtebay2]

Hi Hayley, You have a great plane and airfield to use. I'm envious! I used to enjoy coming in on finals with full flaps, lots of power, nose up as far as possible, bringing the speed right back. It was a bit noisy with stall warnings but amazing how slow I could approach in a 152.

[@Calebs_Aviation]

Good Morning Hayley! What a beautiful plane! It looks like fun and what a beautiful day! Cheers 🥂 Hayley! I also have to mention it you have to try Flying Eyes sunglasses 😎 they’re the best sunglasses for pilots or just in general that I’ve ever used! -Caleb

[@cq7415]

Love you and your neat plane. Thanks for sharing.

[@chuck_in_socal]

I go light for short fields. I try to get it down to just the fuel I need plus reserve. Not all dirt strips are soft. For short hard dirt strips I like to get my nose gear on the ground pretty quick for steering, and so I'm ready to brake if needed. I don't worry if I have 1200' or more of runway at or below 3000' altitude. It gets trickier from there, needs homework.

[@WarrenKimpel]

another nice video THANKS

[@UberGeek]

Good to go flying, for practice. 😊

[@clarencewiles963]

Thumbs up 👍 thanks for the flight 😊

[@patrickheavirland3599]

Good morning from Minnesota! Fun episode!

[@8008mattingly]

Thanks for sharing always look forward to your videos

[@JabariHunt]

Nice video, I look forward to seeing the soft field landings. The inside of Debbie is immaculate BTW! My new-to-me baby Beech is not bad at all, but I'd love to have the interior redone. A GFC500 is far more practical though! 😆

[@easttexan2933]

what you should be practicing is "go-arounds" from full flap configuration. Full flap approach, flare for landing, execute a go-around. That is where most pilots kill themselves. Any pilot can take off at 70K and climb at 75k. Practice something that will save your life.

[@FlywithHayley]

I have done go arounds in the Debonair- just haven’t filmed it yet. You can very much hurt yourself doing a soft field or short field incorrectly. All of it is important to practice and stay proficient!

[@easttexan2933]

@@FlywithHayley yep. enjoy your channel. One of the better ones. It was such a tragedy to learn of TNFlygirl's accident. Still don't understand how that happened. I also enjoy Stevie Triesenberg and FlywithKay. You three are great on pilot proficiencies.

[@robsteal3887]

Yeah pretty sure she's a CFI and is well aware of how most accidents occur, it's not from go arounds. Also not sure if you meant to say go around procedure FROM full flap configuration. Can't think of any small aircraft take off procedures that tell you to use full flaps for take off or go around, quite the opposite, you have to refer to the planes AFM or POH, usually if you're at 30 degrees and that's full flaps take 10 out after full power. All of these techniques she demonstrated are useful and it's up to the pilot to stay proficient in all aspects. Just because you completed a check ride doesn't mean you never practice this stuff again. Maybe find a good CFI and take some lessons if you want to learn how to fly lol 😅🤣😆

[@pkane5472]

@@easttexan2933 Follow them all as well. All good channels!

[@markweiss4126]

Could you elaborate on "this is where most pilots kill themselves?"

[@odalesaylor]

Enjoy your flying.

[@bernardanderson3758]

Great job

[@harleyryder2796]

Hayley, you handle that Beech like a boss, but why take it off road? That's like taking a vintage corvette 4 wheeling, no bueno. Get a bush plane, Kitfox, Piper Cub or Cessna 185 with bush tires and go off airport exploring. Your Debonair is much to nice to get dirty. Thanks for the practice though, I miss flying😢

[@FlywithHayley]

Thankyou!! Oh eventually I’m sure I will get a bush plane- for now I wanted a cross country traveler and there are too many good dirt strips to land around Nevada to pass up

[@wcarlhepker4806]

Hayley, how would you compare short field and soft field performance of your plane compared to the Diamond aircrafts you ferry from Canada? You have about the most experience of anybody comparing different aircraft and their quirks. If you say that you are not at liberty to give your opinion due to your contract with Diamond, I can respect that, and everybody else should also!!Thank you for sharing this with us!!

[@bernardanderson3758]

Good day Haley my first time here on your channel and the Beechcraft Debonair is a great singer engine high performance aircraft that you have to demonstrate your skills. What airspeed do you cross the number at or before you flare ? Nice approach to landing

[@mikercflyer7383]

Beautiful area to flyer, BTW were you at Oshkosh?

[@garydaniels5495]

How does the wing mounted camera affect aerodynamics?

[@FlywithHayley]

I’m sure it causes a little drag but not enough to notice any differences!

[@garydaniels5495]

One item on my bucket list is to learn to fly. Know any instructors?

[@FlywithHayley]

I am one! There are many more out of High Sierra Pilots where I work 👍🏼

[@nigelappleton2963]

Looks to be a pretty big airfield, is there nowhere on the airfield that you can get off the tarmac to practice soft/off field landings?

[@FlywithHayley]

there is actually a short dirt strip! a little too short for comfort in the Debi- planning to take it out east in the desert soon

[@johnjordan7084]

what is tarmac ??? do you mean the taxi strip, runway or parking ramp ?

[@sirjasonakana]

Can any plane land on a dirt runway or does it need a special dirt/gravel/grass certification

[@FlywithHayley]

most any plane yes! some are better at it than others though

[@fenderstrat2017]

Bose A20s or A30s everyone? In the market for a new headset :)

[@FutureSoldier06]

Trna run drugs for my cartel??