VFR Flight KSLE to KPDX | Radio Procedures | A2A Comanche 250
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- VFR flight where we navigate VISUALLY from McNary Field to Portland in Oregon. McNary is a Class Delta airport and Portland is a Class Charlie so we'll go over all the radio procedures as well.
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I've been dimming for a little while now, and I wish I had found these videos sooner, very informative, very clear, extremely helpful. Thanks for your time and information.
Thanks! I knew there was a need for these types of videos and I've been wanting to make them for a while.
Great video!..Thanks for your explanation on the weather reports and forehands...I wish we had such easy access to free charts and weather resources here in Europe like you have in the US.
+Martijn Kurver yea we've got it pretty good as a flight simmer in the US. All the free resources.
I loved this video, a lot of interesting info. Thanx!
Hi SIM CFI. Your videos are very good. Thank you.
Thanks very much!
I think my brain is fried. A lot of info., but good stuff as usual. Thanks!
yea lots of info. Don't forget, you can get more info or more detail from the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge. Feel free to ask any questions as you think of them.
As usual your videos are very educational. BTW, I have had really good luck with the A2A aircraft, when a plug is fouled, leaning out at full throttle and setting the aircraft timer for 1 minute. When the 1 minute is up, mixture rich and check the mag drop again, and it is fine about 98% of the time.
Having 'subbed' some time ago, I've repeatedly watched your 'CFI Tutorials.. Outstanding information and 'procedure'... !
Please explain victor airways sometime. Thanks.
+Jim H. That will be more with IFR, but what you need to know as a VFR pilot is that they're routes that go from one VOR to another. I think the next video I'll do will explain radio aids to navigation (so VORs and NDBs) and how they apply to VFR pilots. That should be the final stepping stone into the IFR lessons. (click read more)
So as a VFR pilot, find a VOR on the sectional (for example, HQM, just type that into the search bar at the top left of Skyvector) you'll see two blue lines going out to the east, and two blue lines going out to the south. If you wanted to fly south to the Astoria VOR (AST) (which is located at the Astoria Airport), you can fly a magnetic heading of 148 degrees. You'll see that 148 degrees marked at the beginning of the victor airway going south from the HQM VOR. That victor airway is designated V27.
+SIM CFI What I'm thinking of is, are there corridors through control areas where a vfr pilot could go without clearance and guidance from ATC. For example, non-controlled corridors through the congested, controlled Los Angeles area? I had thought that such corridors were called Victor Airways, but it sounds like "Victor Airways" is a more general term. It would be nice if you could cover this in one of your videos.
Ah ok. Those are usually VFR Corridors or Special Flight Rules areas. San Diego has a VFR Corridor. Use Skyvector and look at the San Diego area and then choose the San Diego FLY (chart) in the top right. Then in the bottom left of the chart in magenta it shows the instructions for the VFR Corridor. No coordination with ATC is required with a VFR corridor.
However, if you look at the Los Angeles area, you'll see the FLY chart directs you to the TAC chart for details on the Special Flight Rules area. On the left side of the Los Angeles TAC, you'll see different boxes for the different routes through the LA Bravo airspace. ATC coordination is required with those routes.
I subbed and have to say, from a plethora of videos this has to be one of the more detailed yet smooth and pleasing to watch.
Every step of aviation has numerous layers of information critical to a good flight. I'm a simmer and am trying to get all these layers into my mental envelope so as to be calm and collected when flying.
To know all the steps and feel it naturally belong to my thought pattern and procedures is a must for me before i ever even think about starting a real Pilots Course.
It´s a challenge for sure and every time somebody like yourself brings more layers to the game it makes me feel that there is more juice to be squeezed out of the fruit. and making that flight smoothy taste good... requires every last drop.
There's so much to learn in aviation, you'll never run out of juice to squeeze, both real world and simming.
I subbed great vid
hi. what scenery package are you using and how can i get it? Thanks. Nice video
+Maxito Fontaine it's ORBX Pacific Northwest. Here is the website (it's currently down as of this post): fullterrain.com/ That's the main page, scroll down until you get to the "ftx terrain regions" and go for the one that says NA Pacific Northwest. The regions are the best bang for your buck I think because you get a large coverage area, very detailed, for not too much money, and it's usually not too bad on frame rates.
Appreciate your response i will look into it.
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+Maxito Fontaine Yup you should know all the basics for VFR communication procedures after this video :)
Watching this makes me wish I had P3D. I am thinking very seriously about making the switch. What are your thoughts? People have also told me to just wait and see what happens with new developments supposedly in the works that will come out soon.
I have an i5 6600 and a GTX 970 but I cannot really tap into it with FSX SE. I just don't want to jump from one to another bleeding money along the way.
The coms advice and manifold/prop management here is very useful - thanks for sharing.
The next big thing from P3D will be version 4, which will most likely be 64 bit. With that said, none of our current addons will work with it, and we'll have to see if we'll have to repay for all the new v4 installers, if they'll even make them. P3D v3 is really great and worth the upgrade. We've had v3 for a while now, but it's anyone's guess as to when v4 will drop. I can't really make a recommendation either way to wait or just get v3 now. Tough call.
But you feel strongly that P3D is definitely a step up from FSX?
Very much so.
Simming*
Mate what speed mods did you put on the comanche? Do you suggest flap gap seals if I'm operating out of a short field (at least for the comanche)? Thanks
I don't think I use any speed mods on my Comanche. But I think they could be helpful in a short field environment. If they make the plane faster then I would think you'd be able to take off and climb faster as well (not much but it's something). And you can still use flaps when using gap seals so I don't see why not. I haven't tested short field with speed mods but like I said, I don't see how they could hurt.
+SIM CFI yes I know, but I know for Cessnas, gap seals ruin the lift created by the "spill", hence affecting short field performance
+Howard “Howardflyer” Lau Oh ok I think I know what you're saying. I need to look into this a bit more, but it might be better to not use them.
+SIM CFI but on piper forums I heard it reduces stall speed by a few knots, and increase short field performance. My next video should be a test flight with speed mods
+Howard “Howardflyer” Lau I'll look forward to watching that.