Super Cross Country - Cirrus SR22: Boca Raton, FL to Toledo, OH - Dodging Storms
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Watch this 950 nautical mile flight from Boca Raton, FL KBCT to Toledo, OH KTOL through Greenville, SC.
An IFR flight in all VFR weather, however, the summer thunderstorms were all around.
Look for weather avoidance tactics. Send your comments and questions.
Music by Niko's Wings
Smooth landing in Toledo! Didn't even see the camera move!
Wow, that was a Steveo1Kinevo landing! Thank-you for posting!
Fancy BobbyBob ha. Pure luck and smooth air helps. Thanks for watching!
Niko, hello from West Tennessee! I recently subscribed to your videos and found you stopped at kmkl (jackson tennessee). back when I was flying I did my 3 tower touch and goes there. I really enjoy your videos and learn from them. thank you for producing them. I hope to be able to get back into flying some day. Thanks and safe travels.
Hey Niko, just discovered your channel a couple weeks ago. Working my way backwards and checking all your videos out. I really enjoy and this one was great because you landed in my backyard. :) I actually live 25 minutes away from Toledo Express but it was so cool to know you were close and yet it was 2 years ago. Anyway, keep up the great videos and safe flying.
Love this video. Really shows the trust you need to have in your mechanic.
Thanks for all your effort making these videos. You make flying look so easy and fun that I find myself wanting to get my pilots license even though I don't have a need for one. Its definitely on my bucket list. Thanks for the inspiration.
Double Nickle you should get your pilots license. One of the most fulfilling and thrilling experiences one may have!
Sir! Thank you so much for your videos. It's truly entertaining and informative. Please keep them coming.
Nice flying! Working on my commercial at 1G0 just south of KTOL. Cool to see you up in my neck of the woods.
Good job Niko. I really enjoy your videos. Very encouraging.
Niko...great as usual..I will have to get real greek olive oil :) My reading is really progressing and you are a virtuoso flier and teacher....thx for all the hard work and effort.
acsolares2 you bet :-)
I learn so much watching videos. I will have to say I enjoy yours the most ..
Thank you for taking the time to do these
Marlyn Hunt that's the whole point, sharing the experience! Thanks for watching!
Just passed my IFR check ride yesterday and Im going to be doing a bunch of long cross country solo pilot IFR trips for my commercial time building. I love watching your videos because they really help me out with the ATC calls.
Congrats on passing!!
Thanks! It was a bit nerve wracking but ultimately I had no troubles. Watching Niko's IFR check ride vid helped too.
Alexa Ayala congrats! Now go out and use that rating...
Great video as always Niko!
Nice flight Niko.
Great video,beautiful edited
Thanks for posting, love flying with you.
You sound like somebody who can teach. I would like to see you do some instructional videos. Filing IFR. Instrrument panel functions, radio communications. Various stages of your flights take-off, climb , enroute, descent and navigation. You would really make a lot of instrument training students very happy.
Good ideas...
Informative, Entertaining and Excellent Quality Video! Thank you.
Nice work
Hey, good work
Nice video Niko. however I do need to point out a Major flaw in the advise you are giving other pilots who look to you and watching you videos. Going through IFR training myself in the Cirrus SR22 as soon as I heard this tip I was about to throw out everything I have learned from you up to this point.
Italian dressing is way better than Greek dressing !!
1662porsche you got me there buddy. Italians are brothers!!!
You basically flew right over my house when you went direct to Sugar Loaf (SUG)
Donaldson Center! Right next to my home airport, Greenville Downtown (KGMU). Stop in next time!
Thank you for excellent editing and for capturing the ATC dialogue. You were very decisive on course deviation and gave us a good narrative. It amazed me that you were speaking of hot Florida weather and ultimately used the FIKI system on this trip. What year is your SR 22? How did you determine your altitude deviations? What is the best source en route to determine various altitude temps?
Todd Bravo Fox P'Pool it's a 2006. For altitudes it's a decision based on winds aloft, turbulence, clouds, temps. If you know your temps at a certain altitude you'll know what it will be higher or lower based on standard lapse rates. Thanks for watching!
next time you come up to toledo, hit me up! toledo is my hometown.
Love the channel. I hope some day to get my pilots license. keep the vids coming.
Hi Niko ,
Always a pleasure to watch your videos ! Don't you think it is safer to carry some oxygen ? I see you are flying long sectors and due to fatigue and stress hypoxia is never far away..
Waiting for your next flight ..
Mali Faiz very true point and I'm looking to get the oxygen system installed. It's time...
Hey Niko! Great video as always.
You mentioned during your flight that you don't have full confidence in the plane's autopilot system. Is that something you would consider upgrading, or would you just continue to live with it since you know the quirks of this plane?
Always look forward to your videos. You make it look so easy, and your explanations are concise and understandable. Keep your videos coming - you're my favorite UA-cam flying channel! 👍
Omar Alvarado it's too expensive to change it so I will just live with it. Plus I have ADS-B upgrade coming this month so that kills my budget.
Thanks for watching!
I miss the old intro music Niko
I know money is tight & everything, poor thing. LOL You should consider adding a second cut away camera of vista shots. GoPro Session maybe ?
Hey Niko! I love your video's and hope more will come soon! I am wondering how you record your audio with you phone, Do you just plug the 3.5mm mic adapter in your phone and hit record?
Hey Niko, somehow I missed this video. Watched it this morning and really enjoyed your planing and input of your flight plan in the gps to Toledo. When you mentioned how you didn't like putting in all the individual codes, it struck me to ask what your thoughts were on the new Perspective system with the bluetooth connectivity to mobile devices? I've seen they allow direct communication between Perspective and Foreflight eliminating the need for manual input.
I didn’t know that the perspective system talks to foreflight, if it does it would be awesome. I have not used the new perspective system though but I want to try it out one of these days.
Like your videos Niko.. I learned a lot from watching them.. I am planning to start filght school for PPL. Which flight school would you recommend in Florida?
Oh there are so many. I would go to AOPA's site and look for the best schools on their list. Good luck!!!
Niko, Love the Videos, question- how do you wire your audio for the videos, I see some guys using a mic underneath the bose with side tone pickup. Do you wire direct somehow ?
Agree love that old music ! ha
thanks for the Vids always learning and watching !
Thanks for watching! I record audio using my iPhone with a wire I purchased on sporty's. it's a pain to marry the video with the audio for production but this way I have both the ambient sound of the aircraft recorded on the GoPro and cockpit audio as well.
Gia sou Niko kalimera sou euxaristoume gia alli mia orea peripetia me to aeroplano sou eprepe na stamatisis edw sto Charleston sc na se filoksenisoume sto spiti mas, Elpizo kamia mera na to kaneis, Eine kiriaki edw 6:30 ora to proi 3/12 meno sto Charleston ,sc kai se kana dio ores etimazomaste gia New york city,(driving up) they expecting a snow storm there tomorrow night, Elpizoume na min eine etsei opos lene, tha minoume merikes meres ekei se sigeneis telos panton xarikame pou eixes safe flight tc until next time :)
pavlos Spyropoulos γεια σου φίλε μου Παύλο. Όταν έρθω πάνω στο Charleston, θα σου πω να βρεθούμε. Καλά να περάσετε στην ΝΥ και προσοχή τα χιόνια...
Euxaristo Nikola nai nai na vrethoume molis simera gurisame piso ola kala thx!
Nice to see you flying again. About that auto pilot is the company aware of the problem ?
do they have a fix for it.
Michael Stern company? You mean the manufacturer? It's just an analog auto-pilot and that's how they behave
Niko's Wings Niko: I have never owned an airplane with an autopilot, and as you know, it is an incredible workload to stay at altitude and on course during long cross countries flying by yourself. From what we see on the videos, the STEC 55 seems to do a pretty good job.
It does...
Just wanted to correct you on one item, Italian Olive Oil is the best, but since my wife is Greek, I will overlook it this time, Niko...
Robert Passarelli ha, my Italian brother, this time you may be a bit wrong but it's ok I'll give it to you. There is definitely an abundance of very good Italian olive oils... cheers!!!
Niko's Wings watching one of your videos as we speak.
Is there an upgrade available for your autopilot? I think you have had some improved avionics already but anything new? Fly on my friend. Mel
The only upgrade would be a replacement with another one. Thinking about adding a 2nd IFD440 but it’s $12K - ouch...
So did you succeed in sorting out your hotel reservation? :)
- Magánpilóta - Private Pilot - Nagy Zoltán I did. I did get my money back.
Consider GSPA for lower fuel price!
Hey Niko,
It's me, your political buddy. lol. Checking out your videos now.
I'm thinking about getting a Cirrus SR22 soon, and that's what led me to your great channel. Question.. How is it flying with that side stick controller? That's the one thing that's kept me from buying a Cirrus. That seems so awkward to use left hand only control, single joystick, that's already tilted at an unusual angle, not a straight stick flyer.
I haven't flown one yet.. I just really like all the features on that plane. Would you recommend one again if you had to buy all over ? Would you prefer a different style controller? How's the feeling of the side stick? I see you muscling that thing a bit more than usual on landing. I love the capability of the Cirrus, but they had to go put that side cockpit penis sticking out of the front dashboard and I just can't get use to the way it looks. I'd be grabbing for center column out of habit, or, traditional yoke. I just don't know how you handle using that .. I need to fly one I guess. Nobody around here owns one, so very difficult to try and fly it without knowing someone with a Cirrus local.
Poppa Bear hey buddy, she flies like a dream, fast, powerful, super responsive, great utility.
I had the same thoughts as you before I flew one. I could not swallow the side yoke idea.
When I have it a chance I was instantly hooked. It felt extremely natural to me. But I also had about 300 hours in Diamonds DA40 so I was used to the stick idea.
Yet, the side yoke (not a side stick) rolls like a stick but pitched like a yoke.
The way it's angled it is perfectly ergonomically designed.
Go try it or when you are down in So. FL let's go fly. Feel free to reach out to me here and we will exchange numbers.
I was in Boca Raton not too long ago. I worked with your local airport commission, and I was actually in, on and around the tower there. I flew into Boca and stayed a couple nights there and really liked Boca. Nice city. I ate at some place the first night, that was like an Irish pub.. Flannigans maybe? I forget now..
Anyways, I put in the entire system around your airport there, for sound monitoring... lear jets were causing too much noise, so I put in a wireless system I designed, to scatter sound level monitoring microphones around the airport. Had a lot of people in Boca complaining about the air traffic noise.
I also got to meet Jeff Gordon from NASCAR there in your local airport when he was jumping on his plane.
Wife and I will be moving from California to North Carolina soon... I was just thinking about it, when you flew into Donaldson to refuel and stretch your legs, that you likely flew over my future home and business during this video. haha.
I have a nice fishing boat. Looking forward to getting off this coast, and getting out there to NC. I'll definitely be closer at that point, and may be worth it to hook up at some time. Do you like fishing? I'm really looking forward to the bluefin and yellowfin tuna fishing there on the east coast.
I've been driven off this coast due to radically failing politics, and one of my businesses I manufacture firearms parts.. Imagine this type of business on the west coast... not good. Look forward to checking out more of your videos when I get time my friend. Take care and hopefully talk soon.
Not sure what you do for a living, but I'm an electronic engineer, specializing in RF design. I've developed and hold patents to some pretty cool stuff in the geek arena. αντιο σας for now!
Poppa Bear that sounds quite amazing! Yes, the west coast is gorgeous but too expensive and it's getting worst. I do go fishing sometimes, it's fun, but for me it's all about the time spent with friends on the boat. The fishing is secondary.
I go up to NC quite a bit, when you move let me know.
I will bud. Won't be long. My mom took off today to find them a place to live, likely in Tennessee... We are going to be making the move afterwards, to New Bern, or south.. somewhere around that area.
I will let you know. I'm excited, yet scared, leaving everything I have known my entire life behind and making a new start on the east coast. I look forward to it however. This west coast truly sucks. California has been destroyed politically.
@Nikos Wings - what do you do for business? I live in Delray Beach but use to live in Toledo. Small world...
Own a very small software business. Airplane is a great business tool. You live down the street then...
Yes - down the street - right off the Ave. Software...nice. I came down in '06 to join the founder of Citrix. We started an airline called DayJet that utilized the Eclipse 500. I was in and out of BCT all the time on those. Then we started another software co. Contact me if you want to network. It's a small software world too! dccflorida@gmail.com Cheers, Damian
What do you do for a living??
Watch this part: ua-cam.com/video/hHCg8oVjbAU/v-deo.htmlm51s
Like so many others, I just wish you guys would not put an underscore of music on your videos. Flying videos are entertaining and informative about flying, being a DJ is a completely different video.