Single Pilot Phenom 300E to Panama

[00:00:17]Welcome back to 77 Tango. We are back in Fort Lauderdale and getting ready to depart and head over to Panama. So, I'm going to start with uh turning batteries on.

[00:00:37]And let's go to get ready. We'll get our GPU on electrical. Over here, we'll get our checklist.

[00:00:47]>> Oral warning. Okay.

[00:00:48]>> And over here, I'll put a status. Go back here. System test. We'll get traffic test.

[00:00:55]>> Traffic. System test passed.

[00:00:58]>> Great. While we do that, I'm going to come over here and I'm going to connect to uh CPDLC.

[00:01:08]We need that. We need a minute right there. That's good. And flight plan. So, let's push the flight plan.

[00:01:16]There it is. I'll push it to the panel.

[00:01:18]We have a notification.

[00:01:21]Great. Runway looks good. Takeoff looks good. And we'll push that. And we'll get our flaps up to 10.4.

[00:01:31]Departure time. We're going to take 1810.

[00:01:37]>> Message a TC.

[00:01:40]>> Mayor Fundy. Then it's filed. So we're going to get 4,000.

[00:01:46]We'll get 410 400.

[00:01:51]Just a little bit after that. Oops.

[00:01:56]And let's get a squawk of two. Oops.

[00:01:58]2226.

[00:02:00]We'll turn it on. And we got that. So, and we'll accept initialization. And then we'll come right back over here and we're going to go through our checklist.

[00:02:09]Uh, this is just good to go through it and make sure everything has been completed.

[00:02:16]All right, we got our turn on the mic and we could hear that flow. So, that's good. test panel.

[00:02:26]Okay, that's fire. This is smoke. And we've got annunciators. That looks good.

[00:02:32]So, that's clear. Test panel's good.

[00:02:34]Fastened seat belts. We have nobody, but we're going to leave them on anyway.

[00:02:37]Emergency lights are on. Fuel quantity's been checked. Oxygen pressure is good at 1760. Parking brake is set. And at this point, we can finish getting ready for our start.

[00:02:47]You see the wind's blowing pretty good.

[00:02:51]All right. So, we're going to start engine number two.

[00:02:59]Ignition B. There's N2.

[00:03:03]>> Traffic. Traffic.

[00:03:06]>> N1.

[00:03:21]Descend. Descend.

[00:03:25]Increase. Descent. Increase. Descent.

[00:03:27]>> All right. So, we're going to fix this.

[00:03:34]All right. We got a good start with engine number two. Let's go to engine number one.

[00:03:37]>> Pause. System test. Okay.

[00:03:41]>> And we'll hold it over two seconds. One, two. There's a shed bus.

[00:03:47]and two ignition itts fuel flow.

[00:03:53]>> Traffic traffic.

[00:04:04]>> Oh, this guy's the best.

[00:04:08]>> All right, so we got two good starts.

[00:04:09]We'll go back to air conditioning.

[00:04:14]>> We'll turn off GPU.

[00:04:16]There it is.

[00:04:18]>> Pushing the electric emer button. We see those go white.

[00:04:22]>> Got good batteries. And we'll go off.

[00:04:25]>> And we'll check our stall.

[00:04:30]>> Stall. Stall.

[00:04:33]>> Stall. Stall.

[00:04:36]>> Stall. Stall.

[00:04:38]>> Control unit. Takeoff data is looking good. We've got speeds. Speed selector knob is FMS. Transponder is set. TCAST has been set. Altimeters are checked three times. Flight controls flaps are set to one. External lights are good.

[00:05:02]And let's uh get our taxi clearance.

[00:05:07]Uh ground 77 tango at shelter requesting 10 right.

[00:05:12]November 77 tango ground. Hold short of limma.

[00:05:15]>> Hold short of lima 77 tango.

[00:05:17]>> All right, so let's give him the okay.

[00:05:22]>> American 1877, follow the ground. Runway 1 Z left tax via Charlie.

[00:05:26]>> Runway 10 left tax. American 1877.

[00:05:29]>> Gemini 611 pull ground. Runway one right taxi via Quebec Juliet.

[00:05:34]One right Quebec Juliet. Gemini 611.

[00:05:38]Southwest 216 short. Bravo taxi m.

[00:05:45]>> All right, looking good.

[00:05:48]>> Southwest 216. Standby.

[00:05:54]>> November 77 tango run right taxi via Lima Hotel 4 Juliet. Lima Hotel 4 Juliet uh 77 tango.

[00:06:07]>> Great. Looking good.

[00:06:11]Southwest 11 96 follow ground behind Delta run one to left taxi tango two bravo hold short of bravo 9 two bravo hold short bravo 9 behind delta for 10 miles southwest 20 96 526 slight delay for some intra spacing with traffic off the north >> all right no worries 526 >> all right so here we come and as always we have a takeoff briefing uh we're going to be taking off 10, right? Any problem before V1, we're going to have board. That means throttles are going idle. Full brakes will keep directional control. Anything after V1, we're going to take it up in the air. And that means once we have a positive brake, gears going to go up. Uh, and we're going to pitch for V2 all the way up to 1500. At 1500, we'll pitch for FS. Then we'll clean up flaps and we will uh continue on to uh run some checklist, decide what we're going to do, and potentially come back. We've got enough. Uh we could we could dump some fuel if we need to.

[00:07:15]>> 7 tango. Contact tower one two 0.2.

[00:07:17]>> Two 0.2 61.

[00:07:21]>> Tower speed up. 77 tango 10 right holding short. Ready quick departure.

[00:07:25]>> November 77 tango flight caution turbine departure air 320 runway 1 Z right clear for takeoff. RF Calypso.

[00:07:32]>> RF Cypso one zero right clear for takeoff. 77 takeoff. All right. So we're going to be off before him. So, I don't think that's going to be a problem. Cast messages are good. Laps are set for one.

[00:07:48]And here we go. Throttle's advancing.

[00:07:53]Set for takeoff. ATR's alive.

[00:07:58]Air speed alive right land one positive rate gear's going up and let's keep climbing >> land at 14 >> 400 ft flight Double change, yaw damper, clean up flaps, and we'll pull back to concl.

[00:08:47]You want me over to departure?

[00:08:48]>> 77 tango. Contact Miami departure. Good day.

[00:08:51]>> Over to departure. Great day. 77 tango.

[00:08:53]Big five. Three for four. Tri 5 0 5 Miami departure. Uh, roger. Climb and maintain 7,000 7,000 5:00 >> departure up 77 tango 3,000 for 4,000 77 departure. Radar contact 5,000 >> 5,000 77 tango 3645. Contact Miami center 135.17 for 1645.

[00:09:20]>> All right, that was pretty easy. We have landing gear up. Flaps are up.

[00:09:25]Thrust is good. Auto throttle we're not using yet. Speed selector knob we're not using. And the auto damper is on. 4,000 for 5,000. 1,000 to go.

[00:09:36]>> Number 77 tango. Turn right. Heading 180.

[00:09:39]>> Right 180. 77 tango.

[00:09:42]There's 180.

[00:09:45]And we'll go heading back 66 heavy. Contact center 135.1.

[00:09:52]This is great because we get to do a nice bank and we get to climb spot to pull a little bit of G's 5 0 5 traffic 11:00 7 miles turning southbound climbing out of 7,500 feet on looking >> 0 L alpha contact Miami center 132 1.45 45.

[00:10:21]>> All right. So, he's climbing >> 1,800 ft below and climbing. I think we have no problem. We're climbing at almost 4,000 ft per minute. But we've got to pay attention.

[00:10:32]Make sure that we're not going to have a conflict.

[00:10:35]>> 5 maintain 9,000.

[00:10:39]>> 684 negative contact.

[00:10:41]>> Right. We have seat belts are off.

[00:10:43]External lights are as required through 11,000.

[00:10:46]>> Let's get the radar going from now.

[00:10:52]Number 77 tango turn right direct to Austy >> right direct oy 77 tango there it is direct oy and let's switch over to nav 2000 >> 204 Miami departure radar contact clim 77 tango contact departure 125.5 >> 25.5 77 tango Fix right 505 climb maintain 16,000 cleared direct Miami departure off 77 tango 13.5 climbing 1 16000 7 tangle approach >> all right so what we got to do now is get that radar tuned in >> departure good afternoon tango 1 climbing 2000 ner 15 climb to 16000 and turn right heading 13 77 tango 77 tango contact center on 132.2 >> 32.2 2 77 7 tango >> Miami feed on 77 tango leveling 16,000 looking for higher >> number 77 tango Miami center after Alve and maintain level 3 niner zero >> after oy after a maintain 3 n0 77 tango >> all right so we're going to throw on autopilot for a minute >> 397 contact center 124.55 >> after avoc there it is so I'm going to hit here we'll hit remove waypoints we're going to remove multiple so it's Austie to Albec 7253.

[00:12:31]>> So after OI, it's Alvc.

[00:12:33]That looks like it works just fine.

[00:12:35]>> Stand by 723.

[00:12:38]>> Good. 3 9 flight level change. We've got our FMS head.

[00:12:48]Roger.

[00:12:50]>> Roger.

[00:12:51]>> Our air speed's good. We are windshields on and after climb after takeoff and climb checklist is complete. Next is going to be descent.

[00:13:03]>> Miami American 2131 flight level 350.

[00:13:07]>> I'll tell you it's weird going back to flying single pilot. The last two and a half, three weeks I've been flying as a crew and uh it's interesting that um you know now I'm going back to calling everything and doing everything. Uh, I thought I'd actually really dislike flying as a crew, but I I enjoyed it more than I thought.

[00:13:27]>> It was nice to be able to communicate and work through problems and uh share some of the responsibilities. It just relieves some of that stress. I don't mind this. I like this. I do. But I'm looking forward to some uh crew flying.

[00:13:41]>> Well, we've been watching this for a little bit.

[00:13:44]>> This is where we're headed. Uh it's been clear. This hasn't been moving in our direction, in the direction of the airport. Um, but we just got to keep our eye on it.

[00:13:58]>> There's a few places we can divert.

[00:14:00]Obviously, we wouldn't want to divert uh further into it. So, we probably divert somewhere into Panama. There's a airport uh right around here called Rio. So, we can get into there if we need to.

[00:14:15]Um >> and if we really need to, we can also go all the way to the other side of Panama.

[00:14:20]It's an area called David >> and that would work really well for me as well.

[00:14:25]>> 723 is looking 30 miles northwest.

[00:14:34]Uh 224 maintain 8,000.

[00:14:40]>> Well, everything's looking pretty good.

[00:14:42]We are up to 30,000.

[00:14:45]Means I'm a serious uh >> So at this point I'm going to uh turn off the cameras and I'm going to enjoy this view.

[00:14:53]>> We have the keys just off the left wing and it's just a beautiful beautiful view.

[00:14:59]>> So stick around and uh we'll be back with you on the descent.

[00:15:08]>> Hey, welcome back to the cockpit.

[00:15:11]We're currently uh about to break 33,000 on the way down at the Panama.

[00:15:17]>> Uh it was a mostly smooth flight. A little bit of bumps here and there.

[00:15:20]Nothing too worrisome.

[00:15:24]>> Uh they gave us a very late descent, so we're descending about 2500 ft per minute.

[00:15:30]Weather in Panama is 3204 knots.

[00:15:35]We have our approach runway 01 set up.

[00:15:44]And we're ready to come on home.

[00:15:47]28,000 ft.

[00:15:49]And I'm looking at this weather. It looks like it'll be uh clear as we get back into the airport. As expected, we're headed direct to Boga and they'll give us radar vectors once we get in the area to come back around. They'll probably give us a a late visual like they usually do.

[00:16:09]direct.

[00:16:16]>> We'll get seat belts back on even though we don't have anybody here.

[00:16:20]>> And next is the approach checklist.

[00:16:25]>> I haven't been home in 3 weeks. I can't wait to get back there.

[00:16:34]I'm looking forward to seeing the beautiful view over Panama. Coming in on that approach, please tango 77 tango.

[00:16:45]>> November 77 tango contact approach 121 decimal 2. Good day.

[00:16:50]>> 21.2 77 tango.

[00:16:56]>> November 77 tango 17,000 descending 15,000. November 77 tango Panama approach. Roger. Altimeter 2 niner 71.

[00:17:06]Flying heading 180. Descent to 8,000.

[00:17:09]Just verify if you're familiar with airport.

[00:17:11]>> 2 niner 70 and uh down to 8,000. I am familiar with Hillbert 77.

[00:17:18]>> Okay. The altimeter 2 niner 74.

[00:17:20]>> 2 niner 74 down to 8,000. 7.

[00:17:29]And she gave me a heading of 180. We've got that. 2 n 74. Let's set it. There we go. All right. At this point, she gave us heading. We're going to activate vectors to final.

[00:17:46]>> Let's get down to 250 knots. That's where we need to be, below 10,000 ft.

[00:17:52]Here we are coming up on 250 knots before 10,000.

[00:17:59]>> 7 tango heading 185 descent to 5,000.

[00:18:03]November 77 tango >> heading 185 down to 5,000. take off 5,000 set now.

[00:18:26]All right, external lights are good.

[00:18:29]Passengers, we have them. Cross feed is off. Windshields, it is quite warm. I'll turn off the windshields before landing. We'll have your damper off. Landing gear will be down and locked.

[00:18:41]Flaps will be set and air.

[00:18:46]>> What we'll do is we'll just get our fuel synced again and reload the landing data.

[00:18:55]>> Reload the weight. The weather, we know what it is. It's 320 at four is what she said.

[00:19:05]Okay. All that looks good. We'll be landing flaps three.

[00:19:15]What a beautiful view. I love coming down through here.

[00:19:21]>> 7 niner 3.

[00:19:24]>> All right. 6000 for 5,000.

[00:19:26]Uh, can you take a heading two 0 nervous navigation to scarlet maintain at or below 3000 >> maintain or below 3000 and all navigation to maintain.

[00:19:50]>> November 77 tango descent to 4,000.

[00:19:54]4,000 setting.

[00:19:56]>> All right, 4,000 is set and we'll go down 1500 ft per minute.

[00:20:14]Here they have me headed straight for the airport. Then they do they put me really close parallel basically a very close downwind. Then they turn me in after the final. It seems like she gave this thought from all the way back there when she gave me a heading of 185. And this is already a much better setup than usual. So so far kuda to her.

[00:20:43]November 77 tango standby for lower traffic 11:00 7 miles southwestbound diamond 2000 climbing to 3,000 continue uh present heading >> great present heading staying 4,000 77 tango good situational awareness >> I like her we have a nice view of the canal and the locks right here that's the Flores locks All right, I see the airplane. It's definitely dry.

[00:21:27]All right, this guy is 1,000 ft below climb now. He's descending. Interesting. Okay, >> all right. All right, I see niner radar service terminated. Contact Panama radio 126 decimal niner.

[00:21:54]>> Well, we're doing 180 knots. So, >> we're well below penetration speed.

[00:22:01]>> 77 tango. Descent to 3000.

[00:22:05]>> 3000 77 tango. Let's get down quick. See what we could do about this weather.

[00:22:15]Just under us is Pacific, which is another airport.

[00:22:19]>> It's a little farther to get to from my house, especially cuz you have to cross the bridge of the Americas. Uh, but it's a longer runway, so a lot of people use that as an alternate.

[00:22:30]November 77 tango, turn left, heading 120. What's down the heading?

[00:22:37]>> 1 12 0. 1 2 0 77 tango.

[00:22:41]There we go.

[00:22:43]>> November 77 tango. Descent to 2000. Turn the heading 0 niner zero 77 tango.

[00:23:05]November 77 tango, turn left heading 050. Report when you have hel in sight.

[00:23:11]050 hit in sight. 77 tango.

[00:23:14]>> November 77 tango. Roger. There's a helicopter crossing over the station with uh Jella. Clear. Visual approach runway uh 01. Contact tower 118 decimal 3. Good day. Thank you.

[00:23:25]>> Clear for the visual. Over to tower 77 tango.

[00:23:31]Tower phenom 77 tango 01 train approach runway 0 one the wind 3102 and Q&A 2 niner 74. Caution B report >> 2 niner 74. We'll report to 77.

[00:23:46]>> All right. So we missed the glide path because they turned us in so late and at this point we've got to dive for it if we're going to make it.

[00:24:02]autopilot.

[00:24:07]>> So, I'm using the gear to slow us down tango runway 03 1.

[00:24:17]>> All right. Clear land tempo >> 500 >> 500 ft and we are now stable. 500T per minute. Three green no red.

[00:24:40]Wow, those birds are close.

[00:24:45]Foreign speech. Foreign speech.

[00:25:08]Number 77 tango 10 06 make 180 backtrack approved and vacate on Charlie taxi way.

[00:25:33]All right, a 180 backtrack is approved and vacate on Charlie 77.

[00:26:04]Charlie decimal 77 tango happy day sir fire Charlie 12.7 77 tango thanks for your help >> ground phenom 77 tango charlie marking 9 fox tango taxi toar liner fox golf delta alpha 4 Gold Delta Alpha and we'll report when established. 77 Tango.

[00:26:36]>> Well, welcome to Panama. It's been a few weeks since I've been here. It feels great to be back home.

[00:26:44]Uh, that approach made me work more than I would have liked.

[00:26:52]Flaps are up. Lights are good.

[00:27:05]Oh, there's the other female.

[00:27:30]Got an L39 in the hanger. That's cool to see.

[00:27:38]All right, here we are. Go. Engine's off right away.

[00:27:43]Windshields are off. Emergency parking brake is fine. ABSP probes.

[00:27:48]Wing stab. Start stop is good. Okay, fasten seat belts are going to go off and high if refreshment. Great.

[00:27:57]Emergency lights. Getting all the lights now.

[00:28:01]And get some test lock in. Well, thanks for riding along with me. I've got a couple more flights before the new plane comes. So, don't forget to subscribe and like and uh stick around for more.