How long did this TINY AEROPLANE take to get over 2 MILES HIGH?
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- Flying to FL110 or 11,000ft in a tiny little plane is fun, it's about as high as you can go without oxygen, you're up in the low flight levels where the airliners live.
In this flight from Fenland Airfield in Lincolnshire, we see how long it takes to climb from sea level all the way to FL110 and while we're up there I'll have a little airliner style snack.
This flight shows you just how well performing the little SportCruiser is.
COME AND SAY 'HELLO', I'LL BE A GUEST SPEAKER TALKING ALL THINGS SPORT AND STRIP FLYING AT THE PRIVATE FLYER FEST SHOW AT WYCOMBE AIRPARK (EGTB) ON FIDAY 17TH AND SATURDAY 18TH MAY 2024. IF YOU USE THIS CODE - PF24505 - WHEN PRE-BOOKING TICKETS YOU CAN GET THEM FOR JUST £5 EACH (SAVING £10).
IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON FLYING IN, YOU CAN SAVE 50% ON THE USUAL LANDING FEE IF YOU BOOK VIA THE WEBSITE BELOW:
www.privateflyershow.com/uk/
My name is Terry Kent and I am a General Aviation PPL private pilot operating out of Andrewsfield EGSL about 25 miles to the north east of London in the UK. Short Field is my channel focused on the lighter side of General Aviation including flight and airfield reviews, equipment unboxing and review plus all things private pilot related. I use various cameras to record my videos including GoPro and Insta 360 and stills and edit them in Adobe Premiere Pro, I am an animator as well and often use animations to describe situations more clearly I use Blender and Adobe After Effects for these. I always attempt to post my videos in the highest possible quality, normally 4k.
I fly a 2011 Pipersport two seat single engine aircraft that is also known as the PS28 or SportCruiser in the USA (America) it is known under the FAA as an LSA or Light Sport Aircraft and can be flown on a very basic license. In the UK it is a Part 21 airplane which requires a full licence but it's generally cheap to run, affordable maintenance and great value for money. It cruises at 100 to 105 knots and has superb short take off and landing or STOL capabilities. I visit farm strips, back country and short airfields, some of them dangerous and I try not to crash :-), as well as international airports and try to learn something new every time I fly.
#ppl #generalaviation #pilotlife
I fly VFR and IFR as well as visual and instrument approaches.
While my videos may offer insights for pilots, it's essential to note that they are purely for entertainment. I am not a certified instructor, and viewers should not apply anything showcased in the videos to real-world aviation. Additionally, the status of airfields featured in my videos may have changed since filming, so it's crucial to refer to the latest information for accurate details in your region.
If you enjoyed the content, please consider giving it a 'thumbs up' and leaving a comment. I value your feedback and appreciate hearing what aspects you enjoyed or disliked. Feel free to share the video with others who might find it interesting, and if you haven't already, consider subscribing and enabling notifications to stay updated on future uploads.
If you are interested, I have hundreds of hours of light aircraft video content which is available to purchase as stock footage, please contact me via my email address in the ABOUT section of my channel for more information.
If you like my content you could buy me a coffee but no worries if you don't want too, I'm just chuffed that you are even interested in my videos, and if you ever see me at any airfields please come over and say 'Hi' and I'll probably buy you a coffee.
www.buymeacoffee.com/shortfield
I absolutely love these videos. I've watched every single one. They are thoroughly enjoyable, keep up the great work 👍
Thank you very much! That's such an awesome comment really appreciate this very kind comment sir.
What a superb performer your aircraft is. That is how small aircraft should perform.
Many, many years ago we struggled to get a PA28 much above 1,800’ AGL after 20 minutes flying out of Yulara, near Ayers Rock. It was rather warm on the ground at 44ºC. Fortunately it was also highly convective and thermals were easy to spot on the surface by the presence of Willy-willies. It took just over five minutes to climb at idle power to 10,000’ warming the engine as we climbed.
Bloody fantastic! Thanks Terry! Leo.
Found your videos a few months ago and as a result I am now a confirmed fan of VFR on top! Love your content and your obvious enthusiasm. Keep ‘em coming. Liked, subscribed etc etc…
Oh wow so appreciated, hope I get to keep your sub sir. Thank you
Excellent Terry,
Would I open a fizzy drink at any height in the confined space of a 3axis microlight? Not a chance. With my luck, I would be showered.☔
that would have made an interesting video. In theory the can pressure differential isn't that much different to sea level but.... nah I wouldn't open it.
:-)
Another excellent video
Thank you, is that Ash?
@@ShortField Yes it's me.
Nice one Terry. Many moons ago (1975) my instructor made me climb to 14,000 and we did some spinning on the way down! 😊
Oh wow! That wouldn't be allowed today Tim.
Yes, but that was a long long time ago! 😊
I approve of exploding crisps.
:-)
I can only get to Fl100 as I don't have a transponder fitted to my aircraft. My little PeaBee managed FL100 with only 25 hp, but that took about 30 minutes. Great video Terry.
FL100 in your PeaBee that's amazing and very cold although your record flight on a paramotor is still way more awesome than this.
@@ShortField no crisps on my high flight 😜.
We all have done it at least once, well I think most pilots I know have. In the Kub I was very careful not to over cool the engine.
Good point Algy engine did get pretty cool considering it worked so hard to drag me up there.
@@ShortField It is for the engine a bit like running a race then plunging into an ice bath if you are not careful but I know you would monitor your temps on the way down.
Nice video as always. Great view. Higher than I been. 9500 is the max I have done.
Transition altitude in Australia is FL100 and supplemental oxygen is required at FL125
Cool, thanks Glenn, I think the UK has some of the lowest flight levels, probably due to benign terrain and airspace management.
Thats a fun exercise - my ears pop above 5000' 😀😀
The views looked like a fun session in the flight sim, however Id be 'in' a Baron, King Air, or Lear 45, as a minimum 😀😀😀👍💜
You do feel pretty insignificant at that height.
Great video as always Terry 😊
By any chance have you flown down to Rochester airport? It’s a nice little grass runway that has a hive of activity. I’m currently learning to fly fixed wing microlights there 😊
Splendid, Terry.
The spectacular views from 11K easily rival those of the simulator.
Not so the for flight fare however! I can just walk into the kitchen! Hahaha.
Very many thanks.
Phil.
Many thanks Phil :-)
There is something special about Fenland. Great GA community
Agree
Highly recommend the ice cream at Fenland! It was one of my stops on my qualifying cross country.
Next time Colin.
What a briliant flight! Well done for reaching new heights, Terry, and producing another great video. It must have been a great feeling! 👌🏻👍🏻
Many thanks Kev, awesome as always sir.
Ha! I can relate to the crisps bursting! Happens quite often. Always a little disconcerting. Better than it being a yoghurt. That’s less fun.
That's so funny, I honestly thought something was wrong :-) Happy I didn't open the mini Coke now.
@@ShortField aah, there’s a technique for that too! It needs to be very still before you open it and then it needs to be quickly opened, you have to commit. Ideally away from the instruments!
I learnt a long time ago not to fill the coffee Thermos to the top if you aim to go up to altitude. A built of altitude makes navigation much easier.
We get that when we go skiing above 2500 metres.
Quite good performance in that little machine! :)
I know it amazes me.
I live just down the road in Rayne, but fly from Stapleford. The first time a few years ago that a packet of crisps went bang on a flight certainly took me by surprise. We were not sure what the bang was for sure until landing when we found the crisps spread around the rear seats!
That's so funny, really took me by surprise as well.
Nice to see you at Fenland Terry, my home airfield, lovely place and yes hard to find!! Shame the restaurant wasn't open. Great video on Flight levels & performance. Love your animations!!
Nice one thank you so much, I love Fenland no PPR.
Thanks for this great video!!! My highest flight level was FL90 with my Sport Cruiser but with 2 Persons in the cockpit, during the flight from LHFM to LIPV. It was a great feeling too!
That is awesome, think it would have taken a lot longer 2 up!
Never considered that flight levels could start so low! Either way great video as always. Always learn something 😊
Thanks for your support Sarah. Yes I think the UK has some of the lowest flight levels, probably due to benign terrain and airspace management.
I didn't know your aircraft was pressurised.
:-)
First visit to North Weald today, heard you on the frequency and waved at you when you were taxing in via disused. Happy to see your CZ
Awesome, thank you! So sorry I missed you what aircraft were you in, was it an RV?
Nice landing for being blinded by the sun! That high altitude temp of -11c is a tad nippy - would be interesting in my open cockpit flexwing! 🤣
That would be cool, no that would be freezing Mike! :-)
nice! always learn something new with your videos.
Thank you.
Awesome as always!
Thank you! Cheers!
The Toppist Terry's been yet! 👍 Temps were ok at those revs for that long? Cool enough OAT will have helped. Thanks for the blue sky fix, cheers.
All good, I think :-) Thank you
I've been looking forward to this one!
Cheers Scott you just wanted to see me do the Coke :-)
@@ShortField anything for a good trip ;)
I think the highest I’ve been on a deliberate climb to altitude is 7800’ in my first flexwing, also over East Anglia. It felt very surreal sitting there all exposed, a bit of fibreglass over a small metal base bar. Didn’t enjoy it that much! Funny when I’ve been over the channel at 6500’ it didn’t feel wrong at all
Thanks Geoffrey for your always insightful and supportive comments sir. I know what you mean about channel crossings.
That looked great fun!!! I really want to give that a go now 😄
Go for it Geoff, word of advice, don't open a can of Coke up there :-)
@@ShortField 😂👍🏼 Wilco!
Loving the videos mate.
Cheers Governor :-)
Excellent video Terry 👍🏻
Thanks Lee👍
What was your TAS up there Terry? Your lucky you did not open that can!!!!!!
TAS was around 80 knots I think?
Great flight! Just… Celsius, no centigrade 😊
Thanks! 😃 I'm old that's why I said that but I should stick to the inventors name Anders Celsius.
Terry how did you find the oil temp and oil pressure of the ROTAX 912? Depending on OAT, I sometimes have overheating issues on mine. Thanks and keep up the good work
Hi Alessio, mine were fine if anything ours runs pretty cool. -14oC helped and I had the cabin heater on from 6,000ft.
I guessed 13 minutes but if it's a non turbo engine I forgot to factor that in. Careful about going above 10000 without oxygen. It starts the hypoxia clock. Men might handle it a bit but baron pilots' girlfriend she completely lost it at 12000. Do you have a pulsox meter? Good to check
13 minutes would have required almost 1,000fpm all the way, it can't do that but I was more than happy with the time. I did a video about hypoxia it is amazing how you blood ox goes down rapidly above 8,000ft.
I guess you didn't open the can, which, considering the depressurised crisps, was a good choice. Your video got me to revise how many feet are in a mile, which turns out to be 5260 for some reason.
6080 in a nautical mile 😁
Nope Coke stayed closed :-) I was surprised as well that 11,000ft is over 2 miles.
First comment terry, love your vids! keep it up!
Legend!
Thank you for another great video, Terry. Curious what your fuel burn was at FL110? Jay in CYYJ
Hi Jay, 18 lph in the cruise but 25 lph climbing up there.
@@ShortField Awesome. Not above 8,500' in my Sting S4 but burn almost identical.
I thought it was class A (ifr only) above 10,000ft? Still a student!
No sir in the UK Class A is usually reserved for Airways.
You didn't mention what you were squawking or when you changed frequency- it would be useful to know
Good vid 👍
What is safer, an almost blind landing or a down windlanding with high visability?
Cheers
Depends on the tail wind I’d imagine and what other traffic is doing
I should have landed the other way the wind was marginal in both directions but I needed a pee and didn't want to go all the way around the pattern :-)
I haven't ventured up to 10,000 ft although the book says ceiling as above that. I imagine the last couple of thousand feet would be excruciating, climb is pretty crap at 5000ft.
Here's the thing though. I read somewhere that the service ceiling is where the climb rate is reduced by a specific amount. Not sure what the figures are. But thats not as high as it will go, the max height is perhaps where either where it won't climb or the stall speed and VNE meet. Supposing you have a service ceiling of 10,000 at standard atmosphere, are there any dangerous handling characteristics that develop at that limit? If you took it to its extreme and dropped the sports cruiser from 100,000ft baloon it would probably never recover to flight, may even go supersonic before flutter or wings detach or it just tumbles so violently than it gets torn apart like Bum Gardener nearly did.
Interesting, yes above 8,000ft climb rate dropped to about 600fpm but it stayed that way all the way upto FL110.
@@ShortField Thats all I get at sea level so I'd need a night rating to get to 10,000. Yours is FADEC I guess, but I would have no choice but to lean to climb. I think there's a small gain from lower temperatures but the plane gets screwed over with altitude, the wings don't work, the propeller has less bite and can't burn as much fuel and then when you need the loo its a long way to go. For those in the states, they often fly around terrain that is 6000ft - 10000ft so density calculations are much more important to them, but thats offset by then not bothering with aircraft that are less than 160HP. I have 108hp but only at an RPM my engine cannot reach so I calculated we get about 89hp on take off I wanted to call it 90 but I'd already rounded up a few times. The cruise prop means I get about 106Kt cruise where as 125hp variants of my aircraft cruise at 95Kt and somehow use the same fuel - I don't really get that. Many a theory banded about in clubhouses - all perfectly normal.
No oxygen? I thought at that altitude, it would start being necessary.
No it was for a very short time and it's not mandated.
Did you drink the Coke? Great video. I’ll have to do that in GOOPY some time. 👍🏻
Thanks Vince, I took G-OOPY to FL120 she performed perfectly.
Question: if I’m climbing and transition is 6,000ft. What happens if I change to 29.92 and it shows 5,000 feet? Can it do that?
The lowest usable transition level would be FL70
As long as you were committed to the time and expense to 11,000'... why not try a long glide at best glide speed! Maybe you did.
That's a great idea for next time, thank you Tom.
How long up there before you need oxygen?
for non-commercial in the UK, after 30 mins above FL100, all the time above FL130
@@greg6126 For the sake of completeness, it’s time above a pressure altitude of 10000’, not FL100. As Terry mentioned in the context of controlled airspace, with a low QNH, if you’re on 1013, you’re higher than you think you are.
We want to know your TAS and fuel burn up there!
I think it was 80 knots TAS and 18 lph.
So now that you are on the ground could you reflect on feelings ? Was that cheerfulness possible onset of hypoxia. Or it was still somewhat normal for your personality ?
Dirk you maybe correct, I was just happy with the time it took.
How much does this hobby cost you a month?