INTO THE NIGHT! - Single Pilot IFR Flight

today we will wait for the sun to set and fly the TBM 850 from st. Pete Clearwater in Miami Florida here we go okay welcome everyone aboard this could be a fun

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we'll take off right at sunset here in st. Pete and heading to Miami start the TBM, the clear outer starter motor is waiting for the engine to rise and stabilize there, it is watching the ITT for hot start, for hanging stars, its two most common functions in the cycle of starting in a turboprop. as a good start, okay and we'll go to hell, it's our information uniform two to five three in the observation when 3 to 0 at 1 3 visibility 1-0 clear sky temperature two nine dew point to one senator to nine or eight six visual approach track three six and use there is a brief car model check on the nice 121.9 ER and for this initial contact you have uniformed information, okay, first step done, we have the ADA snow, we go to the ground and collect our ifr authorization from Piedra good evening, there is no rush if I do not sing a Bravo or sign the unifier's dilemma if I want a cobra it is not a big piece of land, complete route authorization there to fill the palaka airport the radar vectors chevy intersection from here in alpha Bravo echo echo direct Roxanne this Romeo x-ray x-ray alpha november

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six arrival fly course q70 climb maintain 1600 wait one seven thousand one zero minutes after departure frequency one one eight 2400 5-0 good to have opa radar vectors -locka to B Roxanne shake six two seven zero on course 1600 in the partial queue wait one seven thousand ten minutes after 1880 departure frequency squad zero zero five zero one RF want a way come for one thing grow a couple right, okay , we arrive, we arrive at our authorization, we have everything ready up on the

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plane on the computer the plane and now we will call our taxi thank you land in rate for a singer Bravo on his signature the uniform a taxi November if I want tango brother only three sticks at the six intersections exit exit taxi alpha 2 round 3 six at the intersection of office six okay if everyone take a breath here we go Miami Florida opa-locka here we go we used to sign FBO here in st.

Pete, okay, so this is the alpha intersection right here in front of us now, if I turn right to our right, you'll see alpha six, that's where we're going to take it off from. Oh, I've got the wings, make sure our The flight controls are clear and correct and we'll go to the tower frequency now that we're getting here to office six. You can see out there on the left. Thanks tower. Good

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. Another tango track. Bravo. Hold card three. six on alpha six you're finally going to get out of here now you find a thing away 350 in the opposite direction to pick up the cliff or take off for just three six six on up six nothing if I want a brother, everything's fine, we'll cross the entire coast here it's clear on the left and the end there on the right is clear for flights, telling me we're coming in around six past three, we have seven thousand four hundred feet left lined up here, instead you can see all the black marks of all the tires a touchdown here okay here we go, let's use the power up here and the takeoff power is set, the temperature pressures will be fine on the green.

I'm pushing hard with my right leg here to keep us on the center line that all planes want. we go to the left, we set the takeoff power and there is a rotation speed and we will increase the speed, there is up and we indicate one thing, a Bravo, each heading is parked a little, we have a good one, two sevens, you are on the heading or exit one thing a brother come today I will go to raise the fins you have a damper towards the exit frequency portrait good

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585 a tango Bravo 505 to 1600 try up to two seven zero three five one thing abroad with Tampa exit I lost your skin is to want a brother, okay, let's roll out that course two seven zero here, you can see, wow, the sun is setting over the Gulf of Mexico, beautiful, one deck up to contact what st. beat shot in short terrible decision the controls won't take a row well we put the auto

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on it will capture at 1600 feet and I have the heady bug as you can see set to two seven zero or headache mode there we have captured . 1600 we're just semi selection all tango Bravo upload keep 1 2010 1 2001 brother Tanger okay, so let's put a free selector 2002, we don't know anything about that, let's put that PS 3,000 feet per minute together here we're going to I'll go into the modes 850.

I'm going to pull the power a little less than one hundred percent, laughs, whatever goes up and over the door. I'm also going to turn off the inertial separator. I will use our torque above one hundred percent, but I have to be careful if 7. -3 nights, you can over-tighten the engine, they also had to be careful, you could overheat the engine or overheat it too, so a privateer and left a girl row left one six zero a tango brother no one six zero installed a five our fear depends on anyone I put it one two seven point four last turn beautiful view of 1534 shopping you have to be my favorite time to fly planes 334 raise the sun is setting at night although the air speed is bleeding one four zero or knots I'm going to press the is button.

The plane will continue to maintain that speed for the rest of the customer, but look below to see the flight on the iPad. This is our route. You can get closer and you'll see our plane right there. a navigation route trace of where we've been, Danielle, so you can see your glide advisor and if you scroll up, that's the route we have, we'll go to seven thousand feet and we'll join jingle six coming to Miami. South Florida area, it's our altitude alert for one thousand nine forty-two figures ago after responding to a mm and we're leveling off and I'm pushing here on the left side of the rudder, pushing it up. to the left, every time you level off you'll want to push it to the left, if you're climbing you'll push the rudder trim to the right to keep the airplane in coordinated flight and a little indicator to show me where the trim is that it's just right. down here in the center console one thing up a fight in one five zero contact Miami Center one three two point three five thirty-two thirty five one five you're leading it for one thing right, even combining every five a tango Bravo a mm in a 1085 a tango problem I'm focused on keeping a seven thousand Fort Myers at number two nine eight five two nine eight five two one seven thousand eight five a Tanger brother, okay, so we have a 7,000 set one hour with two preselectors, we will set it up and again we will climb at three thousand feet per minute.

Flying at night is a lot of fun having 58 clear and direct marinas, the part of the cost that most

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s experience primarily during the day. the U at night unless you like a climate car 3101 I like to fly at night generally the air is a little softer yes, it's not that hot with the sign, but you guys like it, the guys like it well for a day or at night better even the comments below yes I liked that you both get better views during the day we are going to go up in about 2,600 feet of minutes but the only thing is to do it right now or just watch the airspeed because I'm in vs mother dinner.

Boucher's plane could stop, do you find it? It seems like if I paid attention to that friend, you're awfully sure you might be getting halfway there, no so come back to I, yeah, we're out through my papal, no, we shouldn't have to worry about the air to install it. If everything works like a note more than 85 a very direct Bravo tango Roxanne Roxanne a tank brother then we move it down with the cursor to Roxanne direct enter enter and we enter navigation mode. I'll rethink it and we're basically a drunken ox. I don't know who put that one five zero there's not much change of direction there fixed some The sun is just above the lower bar towards the horizon 75 50 60 and we're in caps to feed clear direct I'm Joe 17,000 feet once again using a better trip here.

I reach the adjustment to the left while we are leveling off. Now we'll just let the plane go out and gain momentum with airspeed and then set our freeze. power yes, this is my favorite time to fly right at this time of day. I forget to do this because the job is a very rewarding career in my opinion. I could never imagine going back to a different type of career that I'm not in. fly airplanes you are thinking about becoming a pilot maybe get a job like this or something else you know 10 feet my friend Jason Schaffer and one like m0 a communication is not like a ground school I will link it in the description we will basically build I help you guide you to save time and money and get your qualifications.

I'll link it to the description below, so where all Mike Baba 17,000 feet is not one 1,000 where the speed is basically as high as it will be now. We will configure your cruising power. I'm going to reduce the torque a little bit because as we decrease the propeller rpm, the torque will increase, so I'm going to pull the battery one seven like the propeller rpm, although here is a 1981 valve with the metal stronger blue here under the center console, I pull it back and also the torque is coming a little bit, so I pulled it back before he said so don't even over-tighten the engine and now we can move forward. good for the can 88 almost to the red line go too crazy really good now you can see we are almost set to max torque for this flight now we are ready to go solo Shawn 759 degrees Celsius on the inner edge ITT easily around the 70% of a cup and the oil temperatures and pressures look good.

I'll get the ATIS Now that we have x-ray information, we know we're going to want the thread. We have 4 9 left, we will go to the airport tab, we are on the approach page there. it's the iron, we've got nine touches left on that and there's our approach plate, so we'll be able to set everything up, kind of cure, okay, they're both really favorite VFR, be Fez, join that sunset there holding VFR Nanako. Thanks, we have a girl you want to impress and you are dating her, now is the time to raise her at this time of day, nothing more romantic than taking your girlfriend or your wife out for a good bagel, you said flight tonight.

You are free, I have them for you, so I hope you feel romantic. It's like I have a quick little Instagram story here five five one Mike alpha with it shows you guys who follow me on Instagram our situation to make a little story. Here five, five, one could help the fruit maintain VFR. Know that you guys are not sparkling on Instagram. I'm sure I'll go there. Well, the story is sent to Instagram. Okay, yeah, if you go there, the description ruins all my different social networks. media, so I'm on it, follow between flights and seal behind the scenes what I'm doing, well, here we are on rocks and planes that are going to turn into a with people in downtown Miami right here, find me on Twitter, country, oh, good view. by main entrance 5, which would be Fort Myers, a lot of people don't fill up at night in the flying community, everyone usually just does daytime flights and movies.

Better, you know, I like to get to you up here. From time to time I have a strong suspicion that they will want to put us in more than jingle has six thousand someone in the V Nav here the bright six thousand in jingle with the descent profile fifteen hundred feet per minute we would like to descend in six minutes and 28 seconds we will see if that happens some of the different challenges when flying at night is especially when there are thunderstorms to detour there is no mood in the sky it can be very difficult to see exactly where all the storms are you are in I mean your next read is a Onboard roof weather radar, but it could be a challenge trying to figure your way through storms.

Mike normally when you collect honey you will see all the lightning in a different storm but you know you have to stay. away from that area, that's a good telltale sign of where to stay away if you don't have weather radar on board or the next correct memory five a Fingal brava that will keep a 1-1 11,000 my nails in the 39 are 85 to 95 It would be less of 1000 and if I want to take a brother, that's fine, so I'll generate additional dissension here, a 1000 build that I've been damaging vs. we have 85 for 11 or FINE video fight, but yes, now that we start down it will also. set a pressurization for field elevation when we land, pressurization at the right time and as we now begin the climb, I'm going to back off.

Our Vita actually has a profile, so it's starting to ring right when we're supposed to get off. I'm going to remove thepower because since we just shipped the purple one, we don't want to get close and shake it, we can turn off the panel lights here if we want with these knobs down here Miami, good evening, I usually like it. I dim the lights a lot when I'm at cruising altitude or zero director Barry I don't look out the windows way below my neck the driver I could see this well enough to monitor everything but then when I go down and I actually see you I know, maybe time making an approach or landing.

I like to keep the lights a little brighter. Virtually contactless, mining is just a cruising altitude. I wouldn't want to have a sound like that blaring because it ruins your night vision, so I'd spin if I were a hero. even like a contracted mine on that good density, it's going to bring the rest of this board back up and we can also adjust each little screen here how bright we wanted to bring it down a little bit and it's nice to fly right now. because let's just say it automatically goes into dark mode, like during the day, this screen would now be all white that you know it's going to be dark, you're going to a play, which is pretty useful.

Received the approach, all preparations were reported for the thread, only 9 left or left in opa-locka, as you can see up front, we are reaching the Florida Everglades. and there's not much down there, so at night it's basically pitch black. IFR rating would definitely be highly recommended because you won't have a good clear to climb. You don't know if it could be a clear night ppm or a bad one. Time, shame, record, Junetta keeps 6,000 J plus six thousand eight five, a tango brother. Okay, so there's a crossing restriction that we had in Bagram. We'll put six thousand and the rlq preselector, we only have to go down 1,300 feet per minute right now, so I'll set it up and yeah, 1,300 feet, okay, I'll put it through 10,000 feet 35 I turned on the lander lights on the way you'll see PBM AF I want that kind of abandoned approach 133 points 77033 studio, so a Bravo tango every night you and me, you know, if it were Bravo tango, send a six over jingle beret five one thing I brought my reproach good nights, I hope the night leave information Yankees trying to block the module, get Yankee and we would like to put the request for the iron air on the right only nine black please go find Yankee.

I blocked our information Yankee two three four eight civil conservation wind temperature to learn a little more seven eighths to the right this is our we never never left approach landing departure runway find shot out loud and a right, what you remember we won't want do are all the sources, notices for the airmen like my mayoral projects, but the eyeliners and the right in every crime control mission, thank you very much, foreigners, okay, ladies, now you have a Yankee mission every hour. The airport will launch a new animation with twenty one three zero one trees there at the head of a tango Bravo, okay one three zero Teddy bug and we go to edit mode now that we are directing the tasks, we can load the focus.

I'm very dim Gothica procedure in the bunker D instigated you're right here we go we have the focus everyone put the happening you appear JD wherever you go baby I brought the power back a little because they see some Hegwood clouds, yeah at night it's a little more difficult this is where the different capsules are launched, be careful, it can be a little bumpy here and the floor you pass through these clouds is less violent, there will be a number one gang of thieves that keeps four thousand that keep fourth that that's what tango beretta there are those clouds Warner Journal of me what do you see we're going in and out of that night it's really cool when you have the lights of the Atlantic in how you see how fast the clouds go by it's cool So let's go down four thousand .

They put us at 1500 feet per minute. Hey, everyone can see the airplane strobe lights bouncing around tango class. Bravo has to get my mare closer one to eight point six twenty-six. one thing in a row like sports or I'm going to turn and I said friend my word 1900 Miami there's no rush well a tango Bravo 5300 signal four thousand one three zero heading with Yankee a serious crime Bravo mommy is approaching from maintenance mm mm I like it Do a request for the RNAV to go up, it's okay if I want a brother to come back, I don't appreciate that, it's never okay, so set mm and also put the inertial separator below 100 or knots, that's the limitation to lower that switch. for my left knee think about the real thing in 30 seconds eating it you will see the light on and now we are basically avoiding many more rebounds in the intake.

I have enough number for 9. Are you six still sailing through these clouds? we'll get out of them here shortly there's our national separator master caution just letting you know it's on we're good we just got out of those clouds you're starting to see the lights in front of us in South Florida it's up to you before. You get to the lights in South Florida, it's just a black pass over the Everglades, you're covered in a lot of alligators and pythons down there in that darkness, everyone tango Bravo, proceed straight to O'Kane, okay, what a tango brother, yes, we had a The problem here occurred here at the mill the night.

Um, I'm sure Mac thought it was a departure radar contact, it was climbing and holding 4000 right, so we went to a direct intervention to accept every five and we can intercept the glide path at 1600. We got up to the end. down and 203 58 this plane is where the lpv is approved so we'll put our propeller forward again here and set it up for approach, we'll turn it back to 2000, we push it forward and now we're up at 2000, not the propeller, our Pam ice blue. are down here, just the bumps we had, we are going through a little cloud cover that will end on November 23rd.

I'm going to get beat up. The two will meet at Banyan's pilot store in Fort Lauderdale Executive. I'm giving away lots of prizes free food free drinks be sure to go with steve-o at Kineo chill and register to go to the event hope to see you everything is free finger defender Baba hold 1700 traffic at 12 o'clock six mile mark 1607 westbound at 2500 ready you said you wanted it to go down 1600 and we're looking for traffic if I want to bring originally I said 1000 fingers ever crossed okay NAT 1650 on a Voronoi a zero question a litter purchase Roger is going to cross Ok net 1600 yeah we're good clear for the RNAV, night approach left, correct our navigation, now let's all Kanger Bravo budget 1600 over okie and we are cleared for iron, we have nine left at a time in the chamber since the Lima contract is approaching one, it is good. so we want to make sure we're all in order there 1600 okay we're going to be clear for the approach so with the long arm get one thing over the traverse to increase your speed 1 7 0 and contact the tower one three four point six 71 7 is here in the speed and in the tower, I know if I want a GoPro every night, we receive all kinds of thanks here today, the only opa-locka tower, another refi, a tango, Bravo on the art and we have left nine, okay, five, a tango, Bravo, watch. mine tower on o to the left clear clear line nine to the left I already fueled a tango Bravo, okay, so they took the power off, go back to that seven zeros on the speed bill, down here, the approach plate, you'll see yourself there, we are. some little flashing airplane lights, let's go straight, okay, that's a cool little feature, okay, we'll put the armrest up here and get ready to go to work.

We are now almost up to our proper speed of 170 knots and are turning. The final approach course here actually has the runway out there and it says if you guys can see it out there, but all the lights out there are uh it's pretty complicated sometimes it's special if you've never been to this area so we're four. miles, so ASBO and there we're going to intercept a glide path, so you see here, there's our approach heading and there's our glide path, when that comes and I get a point up, that's where I'm going to lower the March.

Set the first flap notch that I have selected, there is a speed limitation of 178 knots, but that first flap notch indicates that it is okay, so now you will see that here comes the glide path down when you get to this point above. here's like where you have to be one point up is where I'll downshift, by doing that they'll be right at the right speed and all where you want when the gears go down the glide path, so downshift. You'll see down here the red light flashing, which knew all the engines were running, and three green ones down here, so now you'll see that we're going to start descending the glide path, although the plane will be right here to show the glide. way and we're a little abandoned but you're the approach course, no one has the right autopilot for that.

I got the power pole back now we're going to get to about 110 knots at this approach speed, your plane is doing a very good job, it's staying right on the glide path and we're right on the approach heading, that line is all aligned and I'm worried about one hundred and ten knots. I'll put the power down to about 25%, we can go down to 258 feet and we'll let the autopilot fly all the way down and I'll disengage it there and we'll pant fly it the rest of the way illuminating this whole runway and everything is, all the LED lights give a nice sharpness.

Look 500, that's 500 feet off the ground, call and we're about 200 feet from the minimum, so we could still be in the clouds looking for that clue, but as you can see in front of us, this is pretty crazy. It shows you how low you can go and right there that's our decision altitude and we see the runway environment, so we'll continue landing. Yeah, look, that lighting is not so beautiful and we're going to start removing the power late. I know, and there we are, the center line goes back to beta and we'll take it down: Charlie Intersection, welcome to Miami, Florida, number one guys, think about turning right on Charlie Contact, first round, good night, Charlie, get on the ground, enjoy your Once, bro, when you're trying to go out late at night, you always have this yellow line that you're going to follow and they're going to help you guide the work there.

You can start seeing it right there if you just follow that. We will guide it directly to the appropriate area so that it does not enter the grass and we will keep our center line straight to be our entire coast. Pross, all that contact ground, good night. Larry, if I want Tango Bravo to be clear at night, I left Charlie. to the signature finish our tango Bravo opa-locka land I can take it around the popper jump on the ramp if I want bro okay I hope you enjoyed that flight if you did please hit the thumbs up button subscribe to the channel It's always fun to have you with me here sign here on the right okay guys we'll talk to you on Sunday soon