Alphabet Challenge Leg 10 KTRM - KKNB
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:41 pm
Pilots,
Ok I gutted out this flight after the Super Bowl and it was a bit fatiguing. http://peaware.pilotedge.net/flight.cfm?id=86889
Lessons Learned:
Gremlins Redux: A Gremlin is just a screwup you haven't figured out yet. I think I have had more dual engine failures in King Airs than any living pilot...I had not one but TWO episodes of dual engine flameout on this flight. I must be screwing up somewhere. Without boring you on details, I never knowingly exceed Torque or ITT or Prop RPM. I did run the engine at or about 98/99%. Apparently it doesn't like this. I also started flying with Autofeather always engaged, and engine anti-ice (contaminated sim fuel??), AND...and I think this is getting warmer - boost pumps ON... I missed this on the checklist before. I think I have been having fuel starvation. Poor systems knowledge. But on the next flight --- I did all the preventatives (ie careful checklist) + only ran at about 90% and had Zero Engine Failures. Should you ever need it best glide in a king air is 125kts..
Ask for Shortcut Maybe You'll get it: Plodding along back towards GCN, I asked ATC, "Hey, I don't really know the ins and outs of the Special Flight Rules over the Canyon, but can I get Direct to DEDKE.? (Please please please)" Sensing the fatigue in my voice he gave it to me even though I was at 11,000. After landing I took time to look up those special rules and looks like I might have to file a NASA form or contact my Congressman (Sam Johnson - great guy, Ex-USAF VN pilot )... I crossed through a No Fly Zone [up to 14500] over the canyon - just a bit East of a VFR transit corridor (darn!).
Questions:
But hey - ATC cleared me! I'll still probably have to NASA form it to be safe...Peter/Tim/Keith - thoughts on this?
Also - is there any way to enter a specific GPS coordinate - like this corridor has in it (but no Names!) in the 430? I don't know how I would even get to these points without a named fix. I bet they do this to be annoying on purpose to discourage you from going there (Tuckup Corridor)...
A basic question I should probably know already but... What should you file for your cruising altitude if you have both N and S headings enroute? The highest? The majority segment altitude? I filed at 11 and will confess I overlooked the 14500 Min Alt on the Northbound leg out of GCN. ATC cleared me at 11000. Should I have filed at 16000 to get over that 14500 minimum on the LAST segment as filed? If you do file high but don't want that high until MUCH later in a long flight how do you communicate that to ATC enroute? " King Air 3298S, no we'd rather climb and maintain 12000 if available for now?"
Too bad it was dark and I didn't get to see the Canyon...
Ok I gutted out this flight after the Super Bowl and it was a bit fatiguing. http://peaware.pilotedge.net/flight.cfm?id=86889
Lessons Learned:
Gremlins Redux: A Gremlin is just a screwup you haven't figured out yet. I think I have had more dual engine failures in King Airs than any living pilot...I had not one but TWO episodes of dual engine flameout on this flight. I must be screwing up somewhere. Without boring you on details, I never knowingly exceed Torque or ITT or Prop RPM. I did run the engine at or about 98/99%. Apparently it doesn't like this. I also started flying with Autofeather always engaged, and engine anti-ice (contaminated sim fuel??), AND...and I think this is getting warmer - boost pumps ON... I missed this on the checklist before. I think I have been having fuel starvation. Poor systems knowledge. But on the next flight --- I did all the preventatives (ie careful checklist) + only ran at about 90% and had Zero Engine Failures. Should you ever need it best glide in a king air is 125kts..
Ask for Shortcut Maybe You'll get it: Plodding along back towards GCN, I asked ATC, "Hey, I don't really know the ins and outs of the Special Flight Rules over the Canyon, but can I get Direct to DEDKE.? (Please please please)" Sensing the fatigue in my voice he gave it to me even though I was at 11,000. After landing I took time to look up those special rules and looks like I might have to file a NASA form or contact my Congressman (Sam Johnson - great guy, Ex-USAF VN pilot )... I crossed through a No Fly Zone [up to 14500] over the canyon - just a bit East of a VFR transit corridor (darn!).
Questions:
But hey - ATC cleared me! I'll still probably have to NASA form it to be safe...Peter/Tim/Keith - thoughts on this?
Also - is there any way to enter a specific GPS coordinate - like this corridor has in it (but no Names!) in the 430? I don't know how I would even get to these points without a named fix. I bet they do this to be annoying on purpose to discourage you from going there (Tuckup Corridor)...
A basic question I should probably know already but... What should you file for your cruising altitude if you have both N and S headings enroute? The highest? The majority segment altitude? I filed at 11 and will confess I overlooked the 14500 Min Alt on the Northbound leg out of GCN. ATC cleared me at 11000. Should I have filed at 16000 to get over that 14500 minimum on the LAST segment as filed? If you do file high but don't want that high until MUCH later in a long flight how do you communicate that to ATC enroute? " King Air 3298S, no we'd rather climb and maintain 12000 if available for now?"
Too bad it was dark and I didn't get to see the Canyon...