DA42 Approach and Landing to Wick, Scotland
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2013
- This landing at Wick, Scotland was at the end of a 6 hour, 23 minute non-stop flight from the Diamond Aircraft factory in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Aircraft was a brand new Diamond DA42-VI diesel propeller twin on a ferry trip from Austria to Canada, with the ultimate destination being the US.
Aircraft is operating under temporary Austrian registry of OE-UDK "Oscar Echo Uniform Delta Kilo" heard in the audio exchanges with ATC.
The video begins with the aircraft descending on approach out over the North Sea heading northwest towards Wick. Despite the aircraft being on an IFR flight plan, approach control assigned a transponder code of 7000 and cut the aircraft loose while still in the clouds, The aircraft was then instructed to "blind call" the Wick airport -- what most pilots in the US call CTAF (Common Traffic Advisory Service).
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Too much talking during the approach. What about sterile cockpit?
Very nice
Very nice. English with an Austrian accent is somehow hilarious. :)
Also, what was that bundle of wires and black box installed under the right side of the panel by the co-pilots knees?
We had a temporary installation of 12V inverter and HF radio needed for later legs to Greenland and Canada.
Interesting. Thanks for including the ATC and intercom. So, was that an IFR (Y) flight? When I plan that route IFR, it looks like almost 7 hours. Even at 10.5 gph, you'd need ferry tanks to have 45 min reserve left on landing (never mind alternate and contingency). It sounded like you landed with over an hour of fuel left.
IFR flight. We did not use ferry tanks -- was about a 6.5 hour flight from Wiener Neustadt, Austria to Wick, Scotland. Power was set to about 60% burning a bit more than 10 gph. Plane holds 76 gal total, so we had one hour reserve after landing.
I could not understand a word of what your copilot was saying. Really really thick accent
What was your total fuel burn per hour?
About 10.5 gallons per hour (total both engines) or about 5 gallons/hour per engine.
uberanalyst Thats pretty amazing, what was ur TAS and IAS
about 180 kt tas. look at the g1000
Lol Wick, bet they were disappointed