Sun 'n Fun 2021 Tecnam Shows the Traveler

[@Erick.Aviation]

Great video, I live on the Cape and get to see the P2012's frequently. Awesome plane.

[@bruschi8148]

Cape Air had a lot of input in this aircraft..They are replacing all of their cessna 402s with these..Beautiful aircraft

[@bobjohn2000]

But no more front seat :(

[@abhishekdev258]

@@bobjohn2000 why?

[@bobjohn2000]

@@abhishekdev258 I believe that pax can no longer sit in the front next to the pilot

[@abhishekdev258]

@@bobjohn2000 I understood that you meant that but why can't passengers sit next to the pilot?It is also single pilot certified.

[@PatrickJWenzel]

That engine is something I'd like to know much more about!

[@PatrickJWenzel]

@Vince Edward Hahaha you must have been dropped as a baby you poor thing

[@bikersoncall]

@Vince Edward :facepalm:

[@8literbeater]

It's just an electronically controlled Lycoming TIO-540, hence TEO-540. Not exactly an antimatter engine. It's nice to see certified aviation is finally catching up with early '70s automotive technology. It will even run on unleaded gas!

[@bikersoncall]

@Vince Edward Why?

[@bikersoncall]

@Vince Edward hA HA, ok , here's a happier one.. 😃

[@turdferguson2839]

I'd love to see the interior designed for business and personal use, with tables and nicer materials. Looks like a great option for businesses or individuals who wanna carry more than 6 people.

[@griam7641]

Paul, good video, but please show more of the airplane while the salesmen is talking.

[@KutWrite]

Especially the cockpit and panel!

[@MrPagnu]

Actually he’s Tecnam’s owner son

[@charlesrussell1764]

Having quite a few hours on the little brother Echo, this aircraft should be a beauty. The engines are finally joining the 21st Century.

[@sugershakify]

Modern high wing Navajo. Cool

[@jeffreysmith6910]

One of my favorite airplanes I’m following right now. A real beauty and I bet it’ll replace many airplanes and find new markets as well.

[@Heatherder]

Agreed. Its like a modern aero commander

[@Agwings1960]

It really is nice to see a new cabin class piston twin coming to the market, but coming from somebody who maintained a fleet of Piper Navajo Chieftains in Alaska for 13 years, I don't see very good single engine performance coming from this machine, it just doesn't have the numbers for it, that being said, I personally saw 7 Navajo's loose engines in flight, all of them were in a loaded configuration with passengers and mail, and all but one aircraft made it back safe on the remaining power, but a couple of the pilots did say that even with full power on the remaining engine, they were still coming down.

[@skyking6989]

Piston twins are a death trap!!

[@Heatherder]

@@skyking6989 i dont see how they are inherently more dangerous than piston singles. Even if level flight isnt possible engine out. Extended engine failure range is not going to hurt anyone

[@skyking6989]

@@Heatherder Becuse piston twins are designed to be flow on both engines. Piston twins are so underpowered that they NEED both engines and if you loose one engine your gonna stall and fall outta the sky like a brick.

[@pistonburner6448]

@@skyking6989 Well, that's just not true. No airplane stalls and falls out of the sky like a brick even if they lose all their engines.

[@skyking6989]

@@pistonburner6448 I shouldn't have said like a brick but trust me I'd be in a turboprop twin over a piston twin any day. You lose an engine in a piston twin your coming down they just don't have the engine out power like a turboprop twin

[@michaelmcenaney6939]

Great see air shows in 2021

[@ORMA1]

Great Tecnam!! Electronic injection, finally!!

[@TRPGpilot]

If only new Cessnas came with this.

[@skyking6989]

Alright man just entered the 1960s!! Seriously why are so many GA engines so outdated. Like it's 2021 gotta be better than this

[@ORMA1]

@@skyking6989I have the same question.....

[@skyking6989]

@@ORMA1 I hear it from the old heads oh it's reliability blah blah truth is innovation is expensive and Lycoming and other engine guys don't wanna pony up the R+D $$$

[@skyking6989]

@@ORMA1 Also Lycoming has a nice little gig going for them it's called TBO. So Lycoming gets you in the front and they stab ya in the back with a $15k+ overhaul

[@CCitis]

There’s a market for that sized piston... lots of carriers use old clapped out Navajos and the like. This fills that niche. I can’t think of a modern piston like this for commuters to use?

[@FlyingNDriving]

That new Cessna skycourier will prob compete with this

[@peteranderson037]

@@FlyingNDriving Not at all. The SkyCourier carries 19 passengers while the P2012 carries only 9. This is more of a competitor to the Caravan. Turboprop singles have certain advantages over piston twins, but they also have some disadvantages especially with certain maintenance costs.

[@dinguslopper]

@@FlyingNDriving Worth noting though it's a twin-turboprop plane that costs twice as much. This thing's got piston engines. Very much a different class of airplane

[@Chris_at_Home]

@@FlyingNDriving I don’t think so. First off a turbine power airplane is probably going to cost twice as much. This really is more like the Navajos which have been used in Alaska for years as a mainstay from much of the village air transportation. Th problem is I don’t think any of these bush airlines can afford something like this.

[@wayneschenk5512]

Very well built.

[@michaelmcenaney6939]

Great see air show in 2021

[@Ichibuns]

People are upset about an airplane that obviously wasn't designed for them.

[@stevenk6638]

Like 2 see climb rate with gross using this engine !

[@TrainerAQ]

Perfect plane for Cape Air!

[@Ozgrade3]

What engine ships are certified to overhaul the TEO engine?

[@musoseven8218]

Nice aircraft I've seen the Rotax version up close a few times and overhead, I really like them. There was a time though when the UK led the way in such things, so myopic in our part, our govts part.

[@thewheelieguy]

This is very much the same size and capacity as the Britten-Norman Islander, but 60 (!) years on. Still a pair of Lycoming 6-cylinder motors.

[@yavoz.]

I'm really hoping you will do an interview with the bd4c

[@KutWrite]

What's with the girl in the buffalo costume in the lower left at the very end?

[@captainfantastic6840]

Am I seeing that it isn't retractable gear or am I not looking hard enough?

[@captainfantastic6840]

@KZbin needs a Snickers I have just never seen a fixed wing twin that modern before.

[@thewheelieguy]

Not missing anything, this is fixed gear, like an Islander or Twin Otter. Better for weight and maintenance and safety. On a short run you're spending so much time in climb and descent/landing pattern the extra speed would not apply much or the time.

[@tigerskys6810]

Some good info there. It’ll be interesting to hear from Cape Air after they’ve been running them for a while. Shame so many armchair critics in the comments though. This was a static display. Suggest they get in touch with Tecnam and organize a test flight. We look forward to the presentation.

[@raisedahell5165]

Somebody needs to make a Xplane 11 rendition of this plane. I would fly it all day long!

[@coreyhutchonson1368]

I thought the tecnam twins really sucked at single engine climb performance and had issues with certification/

[@philconey11]

It's a medium twin. All it needs is a 2.4% climb gradient. It was certified to climb 300fpm at max gross weight at around 5,000' Density altitude. It'll be fine.

[@alexpinto4118]

Deslike porque não mostrou o interior do Avião.

[@19ij]

Twin engine AN-2

[@demezon6572]

Exactly. And far less capable to boot.

[@21sanooj]

TKS, eww. Why not boots?

[@davedebz]

Possibly because TKS is anti-icing and boots are de-icing? Works for the Hawker jet series.

[@123coolx]

He looks like Gandhi

[@FlyingNDriving]

VELOCITY brought a turbine and not alot of vtwin videos. Also ask about the crash

[@ThePinkPanth3r]

The one that crashed on flight to get some kind of service? The one that had the gear emergency on Vas Aviation?

[@jmwintenn]

i tried searching for velocity's turbine, but i couldnt find it. would you mind sharing where you saw it, would love to see/read about it.

[@ThePinkPanth3r]

@@jmwintenn kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZfYe42BlrCAqqs Just in the comments they said the guy had eventually crashed flying it or something

[@jmwintenn]

@@ThePinkPanth3r I thank you for the response, however, I was inquiring about Flying N Driving saying velocity was showing a turbine version of one of their aircraft. unfortunate about the pilots though.

[@jmwintenn]

@Flying 'N'Driving where did you see this turbine velocity?

[@williamfowler709]

stop hogging the camera you do not need to be in the picture please film the aircraft no one needs to see the commentators

[@janalblas7314]

Next time Giovanni, please remove your sunglasses when you talk to the reporter, or anyone else for that matter...

[@jspafford]

Whoah. Sound issues. Video issues. I’d take this video down and perhaps retry tomorrow. It’s like a middle school tv production class from 1995.

[@philconey11]

It's really not a big deal. Nobody really cares but you.

[@bjs2022]

Yes, Paul may have failed to make and play a test recording (in video production that’s like a preflight inspection plus a run-up) to listen for defective audio. Maybe it was a level setting error or an impedance mismatch. Another good practice when the English-second-language talker has an accent is to add open captions. And, yes, without fill lighting, Paul missed the opportunity to put him in the shade under the high wing (even sitting if there isn’t enough head room) and that would made for nice, uniform soft lighting plus the presenter could have removed his off-putting dark glasses. Pilots never stop learning about flying and they should extend that to other activities, too.

[@bjs2022]

@@philconey11 No, bad sound makes good video look bad (and, combined with not-the-best video it makes the audio sound worse). Paul usually makes good recordings and the world is perceived as differences.

[@philconey11]

@@bjs2022 it's really not a big deal.

[@bjs2022]

@@philconey11 Wrong. Constructive criticism is valuable and I care.

[@skyking6989]

Just another rehash of the same old song and dance with general aviation. 1940s technology on air cooled engines to be put in an airframe that nobody can afford. I love General Avation but it's a sorry state of affairs

[@robbydooo]

second!

[@wilbertonoriega8204]

To much talk and no action on flying the aircraft.

[@imkindofabigdeal4308]

Well...it's a static display with a sales guy.

[@Ichibuns]

@@imkindofabigdeal4308 definitely. 300 fpm is more than enough, running on a single engine.

[@tstanley01]

First!

[@BLAMBERRY]

Same boring design. Canards and blended wing bodies are the future, this is the same old expensive junk.

[@a.b.6233]

It's of conventional design to keep costs down, blended wing bodies as you suggest would increase the development costs.

[@TRPGpilot]

You have been reading too many issues of 'Popular Mechanic' lol

[@BLAMBERRY]

Canards are for the most part blended wing-bodies, and they are very docile, great climbers, and very mild stallers. Conventional dseign is expensive with too many parts. We used to be able to fly at the speed of sound... did you forget?1 only the ideology in aviation moves forward, everything else goes backwards.

[@TRPGpilot]

@@BLAMBERRY True, what do you think the issue is though why those designs are not more widely utilised?

[@BLAMBERRY]

@@TRPGpilot fear of change.a blended wing could be a single part number or maybe several part numbers. A modern heavy aircraft wing has hubdreds of part numbers from bots to skins and moving assemblies...fear pf change is what keeps us from progressing.

[@Tadrjbs]

Can't stand Paul's face up in camera, turns me right off. Stick to the subject....THE AIRPLANE!

[@ad2181]

Italian flash but there is always something missing until its discovered and its too late.

[@lynnkramer1211]

That is just prejudiced. What do you justify this knee jerker comment on?

[@a.b.6233]

For example? Your brain and your spelling.