BACK TO WORK! Flying the TBM850

Currently we're all in quarantine and we're doing social distancing due to the pandemic. Well today my friend Valerie and I, we need to keep these airplanes exercised and stay current so we're going to fly the TBM 850 and the Baron in formation flight. Here we go. I'd like to welcome everybody on board today. It's going to be a really fun flight here, me and Captain Val over there. We're going to do a formation flight down the beach, go down by Ocean Reef, then come back up into Opelika and shoot an ILS. If you guys do like these videos, smash that thumbs up button and subscribe to the channel. If you want to see more of these videos, ring that little bell and that'll also notify you when I upload a video. We're not going to hold too tight of a formation today. It's going to be a pretty loose formation. You know, we're not Sean D. Tucker, so we're not trying to press anybody today. Just going to enjoy this flight together. Opelika Tower, Baron 1879L, November 1, flight at 2, 90L, ready for departure. Baron 1879L, flight Opelika Tower, say VFR direction of flight. We're going to head south VFR over the coastline. November 1879L, eastbound departure is approved, runway 9L clear for takeoff. 9L clear for takeoff, Baron 1879L, fly with you. All right, so we got our takeoff clearance here, so we've already pre-briefed this whole deal. She's going to take the right side of the runway, I'll be taking the left. Captain Val, this should be fun. I'll be taking the left side, that's re-briefed, and you'll be taking the right. November 1879L, runway 9L, clear to low approach. 9L, clear to low approach, Baron 1879L, fly with you. Nice wide runway for all this to be taking place. Coast Guard 2318, turn left when able, contact ground when off. We're going to have a right crosswind on this takeoff. Just running it up, getting those turbos going, and here we go. Takeoff power is set. I can actually feel her awake. Well, I'll tell you, I think the turbocharged Baron is outperforming us here. That's embarrassing for TVM. We'll go gear up, selected, and we'll tap the brakes. I'm actually going to go a little bit higher than her path to stay out of her wake turbulence. I'm going to go flaps up, god damn, we're on. We're getting quite a bit of wake turbulence off of her Baron with the turbocharged engines there. We'll pull up to the left of her here, that's where we're going to hold our position. There we go, nice and smooth. Really hazy day out here today. Climbing 1,000 and then I'll go back at 500. Sounds good. Baron 1879L, frequency change approved, exiting my airspace. Frequency change approved, Baron 1879L, good night. Beautiful view out there. We'll pull up a little bit here so we can get a good shot of her off the right wing. There we go, I'm right after your left wing there, Val. Beautiful view of Miami out there. Hazy but still nice. Beautiful, nice job. So as you guys know, we're currently in the pandemic. Everybody's self-quarantining. Now's a better time than ever to get up and do a little formation flying, remaining our six feet apart socially. Right turn, right turn. Airplanes need to be exercised, so that's what we're doing today. Getting these airplanes up and running and we're going to do some approaches. Descending 500, 500. Roger. Good to stay current as a professional pilot and also keep the airplane running correctly. We're going to go right down to beach here. Look at the right wing, you can see, beautiful. Look at out in front there, those are all the cruise ships that are currently not allowed to come into port. That's such a sad fact that everybody's stuck out there. Lowering down. Roger. I can count one, two, three, four, five, six, and a freighter is all out there. We'll get to the pass here. We've got somebody straight ahead of us. Six miles, same altitude. There we are, 500 feet. Off the right wing, that is all the Aventure area. Coming up on South Beach here soon. Wow, all those cruise ships. Going down to 150, 1-5-0. 150, thanks. I think that turbocharged Baron outperformed us on that takeoff. I don't know, she did get a little bit of a jump on us, but still. The right coming up here, this is South Beach, but there should be nobody on the beach as nobody's allowed to be out. This is South Beach right here. Cruise ship, that's sick, huh? Yeah, a lot of cruise ships. There we are, side-by-side with Captain Val. You can see the lights all of South Beach right down there. It's an eerie view to look out there and see nobody on the beach for the most part. 10 degrees to the right. 10 right. There is the cruise ship leaving the port, and actually there's one back further in there which is going out. I didn't even think they were allowed to come in and out, but I guess they are. We'll go back to 2,000 as planned. Okay, going to climb 2,000 at this time. 2,000. And that's the Key Biscayne Park down here, and we should see the lighthouse. 1,000 for 2,000. Hazy night out there. If you look out the front, there's really no even horizon out over the ocean there. I hate to say, but I think we're going to have to make a U-turn to get the sunset on the left. Okay, let's do a U-turn then. We'll do a right U-turn. Right U-turn. Let's do it right now. All right, so we're going to start our U-turn now. Go back to Opa-locka. There's Captain Val. Going up to 2,000 feet, and we'll drop it back down to 500 feet once we get back a little bit farther northbound. Nothing better than being up in the sky with your friends. Going back down to 500. Roger. We'll get the ATIS real quick into Opa-locka. Opa-lock tower for Mission India, time 2253 for the weather. Wind of 170 at 140. Yeah, just getting the ATIS. Do you want to go take the lead, or do you want me to? Okay, I'll take the lead and then keep going. Roger, once we get a beam, Opa-locka, I'll give you a send-off and enjoy your night. Sounds good. We're going back down to 500 feet. There's that other cruise ship that is on its way out to sea. I don't know why they're coming and going. I thought they were stuck. Oh, wait, they are obviously coming and going. Maybe they came in and dropped some passengers off, and now they're on their way back out. 700 for 500. Roger, I'm doing 160. So that's government cut again that we're passing by. All right, Captain Val, it was fun flying around with you. I'm going to be cutting off here to Opa-locka. Enjoy your flight back to your home. Thank you. Same here. It was fun. Talk to you later. Have a good night. Opa-locka tower, good evening, number 851 Tango Bravo. Air California Opa-locka tower, say again? Good evening, that's 851 Tango Bravo, TBM 850. We're 10 to the east-southeast, squawking 1200. We have information India. I'd like to do a practice ILS approach. Number 851 Tango Bravo, Opa-locka tower, ident? Here's your ident, 851 Tango Bravo. Number 851 Tango Bravo, roger, continue northwestbound, and I'll give you a code in a second. Roger, continue northwestbound, 851 Tango Bravo. All right, so there's Val out in front of us. She's going to be going up north along the shoreline. We're going to go northwest here behind her, climb to 1,000 feet. Clear class Bravo airspace. Number 851 Tango Bravo, say type of aircraft? TBM 8, 851 Tango Bravo. Roger. Opa-locka tower, Coast Guard 2318, holding short runway 12. We are ready for takeoff. Request the lights be secured on 12, if able. Coast Guard 2318, Opa-locka tower, standby. Level out here at 1,000 feet. Go into heading mode, altitude, autopilot on. It's actually fun sometimes to pull that autopilot off and have a little fun hand-flying it. Number 851 Tango Bravo, squawk 0165. 0165, 851 Tango Bravo. Number 851 Tango Bravo, for now, enter a right downwind, runway niner right. Right downwind for niner right, 851 Tango Bravo. The airport's right out in front of us. She handed us just to do a right downwind for niner right. November 851 Tango Bravo, maintain air above 1,500, continue northwestbound. Air above 1,500, we'll continue now northwestbound, 851 Tango Bravo. 1,500 set up. We'll VS that up. We'll go northwestbound, 300 heading. Add some power in here, as we're going to be doing our climb. A little bit to the left here. Main clear of North Paris airspace. Traffic, traffic. That's traffic right over here off our left. Number 851 Tango Bravo, contact departure 119.45 for the ILS. 119.45, 851 Tango Bravo, thanks. Miami, good evening. Number 851 Tango Bravo, 1,500, 290 heading. Number 851 Tango Bravo, Miami departure, contact maintain at 2,000, say your request. 2,000 like the practice for the ILS, 9 left, 851 Tango Bravo. Understood, heading 280, 1 Tango Bravo. 310 on the heading, 1 Tango Bravo. American 38 heavy, traffic's no factor, contact your center 132.4, good evening. 310, put 2,000 set up. 310.4, American 38 heavy, good night. I'll VS that up. Now we'll get set up for the ILS approach, select approach, ILS 9 left. We'll do radar vectors, and we're going to activate that. Now we're going to come over here, and we got our localizer set to zero. 93 heading, also spec'd up. Come down here to the airport tab, go to the procedures, approach tab, ILS 9 left. And there we go, we got all our information there. We'll brief the approach. You can see the little airplane there blinking on the diagram. Number 1 Tango Bravo, fly heading of 260. 260, 1 Tango Bravo. 260 set up with the heading bug, or heading modes. Airplane is turning to a 260 heading. There's the remnants of the sunset that we had tonight. So we're going to intercept the glide slope at 1,600. And we can go on right on down to 258 feet. We're at altimeter, we'll put 250 up in there, so we'll get our chime at the appropriate altitude. Stay right there. If you guys think this looks fun, you maybe want to do it for a living, make sure to check out MZeroA.com, linked in the description below. Runs an online ground school. They'll guide you along getting your ratings. Also has a book, The Private Pilot Blueprint. It's a free book that he wrote to guide you along. All you gotta do is pay for shipping and handling with that. It's all linked in the description below. I also have the approach all set up with the course and all the frequency over there. On your side over there, you can follow along. Now we're in like a modified left downwind leg of the approach. Number 1 Tango Bravo, fly heading 180. 180, 1 Tango Bravo. 1-8-0 set up for the heading bug here. 120, 1,600 till established on the localizer, cleared ILS 9L approach, number 851 Tango Bravo. Now we're going to PS that down to 1,600 on a 120 heading. Since we're cleared for the approach, we will arm the approach up here. Approach is now armed. You're going to start to see the localizer come in, line up with this. Now that means that's going to be where we're lined up in the localizer. Then we'll see the glide slope come on in and when it gets one dot above, we'll go gear down. Number 1 Tango Bravo, turn another 10 degrees to the right to join. Looks like the winds are pretty strong to us out there. 10 right, 1 Tango Bravo. Yeah, we got a 30 knot wind pushing us off the localizer. He noticed that. That's a good controller right there. Now we're on a 130 heading to intercept the localizer. Approach mode is still armed. All right, there you go. You can see the localizer is now coming in. The approach is now captured. So now the approach is captured. The airplane is turning and we'll also square the heading bug up to our final approach course. Now the approach has been captured. 1.9 from SASBO. So we are within our speed of the first notch flaps. We'll select it. Select it and now we'll also make sure it indicates. And indicating. Now you're going to see here comes the glide slope in. So we're going to bring the power back to about 20, 25. One dot above here. Right in there. We'll put the gear down. So gear selected down. And now it's also indicating. Over to tower. 851 Tango Bravo. Thanks for helping. Opa-locka tower. Good evening. Over 851 Tango Bravo on the ILS. Nine left. November 851 Tango Bravo. Opa-locka tower. Runway nine left. Cleared low approach. Roger. We'll be doing a full stop and a ramp on this one. 851 Tango Bravo. November 851 Tango Bravo. Runway nine left. Clear to land. Nine left. Thank you. 851 Tango Bravo. All right. So there we go. We are clear to land. The airplane is doing a pretty good job. Right on a little bit left of the localizer. Do that wind width correcting. We're right on the glide slope. Going right on down to 258 feet. Yeah, we're crabbing. Now it's an 18 knot direct crosswind. Pretty quick here. We're going to get a 500 foot call out, which will be 500 feet to the ground. And like I said, we can put right on down to 258 feet on this approach. And we'll disconnect the autopilot. And we'll hand fly the rest of the way in. 500. There's our 500 feet to the ground. And power for Coast Guard 2318. Heading up 100 foot to minimum. This is how low we can go, guys. I will find out for you. Stand by. To donate. Thanks. And there's our chime. Oops. Sorry for all the headphone guys out there believing I was loud in my ears, too. Disconnect the autopilot. We'll continue to hand fly it in. I dipped a little bit below the glide slope on that. I think when the autopilot was on, we hit a little bit of a wind gust. But it looked good. We're going to come back to flight idle. Go into the flare. Kick off the crab with the rudder. Oh, wow. There you go. Nice touchdown. I'm sorry about that. Everything else, go back into reverse. And we'll start to look for a taxiway here. It's sometimes hard to find the taxiways when you're getting off the runway. But if you look for the yellow line, just follow that in. It'll guide you right onto the taxiway. Thank you very much for looking into that. Thank you. Welcome to Opa-locka, Miami, Florida, guys. Welcome. Welcome back to Opa-locka, Miami, Florida, should I say. 851 Tango Bravo, contact ground. Contact the ground. Thanks for your help, 851 Tango Bravo. Pass the hold short bars. We'll clean the plane up. Coast Guard 2318, we're going to be testing out some switches in here. See what we can do for you. And we'll go to ground. Opa-locka ground, 851 Tango Bravo. Cleared 9 left on Foxtrot. Need to go to the signature. 851 Tango Bravo, taxi ramp via November, November 6. November, November 6 into the ramp. Thanks, 851 Tango Bravo. All right, so we'll get everything squared up here and back to normal. Yeah, that was a really fun flight tonight. Getting back on the airplane after being out of it for a little bit of period of time there. Due to this, what's going on in the world. I do truly hope wherever you guys are at, you're staying safe. And hopefully everything will get back to normal sometime soon. I don't see any marshallers, but we'll just pull it up front center here. Anyway, I hope you guys are all doing well. And thanks for riding along. Take care of you, your friends, and your family. We'll talk to you again someday soon.