Alright we are at the airfield, it's about six in the morning. So I'm going to fuel the plane,
pre-flight the plane, and then triple check the weather. And if all goes well I'll get going.
And if I do end up get going? Getting going? Getting gone? Um anyway, then it will be my last
ever flight in the Rotax 582 powered Bushbaby. Rhino park traffic, India Juliet Charlie rolling
runway two-seven, left turn out for the circuit, departing northbound towards Warmbaths airfield.
Let's go. RPM, is good.
Stick forward
I've got about 50 or 55 liters of fuel, it's about three hours worth. So if I need to divert, I can.
Special Rules East, India Juliet Charlie is a Bushbaby
One mile east of Rayton, 6,000 feet, routing northbound to Warmbaths airfield, India Juliet Charlie
Cruising at 70 miles per hour indicated
True airspeed 78. Ground speed 62, so I've got a bit of headwind.
So I suppose I need to tell you why this is my final flight in this Bushbaby,
like the title of the video says. Well a couple of viewers have already guessed it,
but we are actually upgrading the engine to something a little bit more powerful.
Now we're not doing it to build a monster Bushplane.
We're just doing it to have a little bit more power and have a little bit more freedom
for what we can do with the aircraft, because with the current engine it is underpowered.
and when you load two people into it, it really suffers. It doesn't climb that well,
and in the summer, anything later than nine in the morning you can't really fly two people up,
the density altitude where we fly is just too high, and you have to rev the engine really really
high to just get enough power and we don't want to do that, we like treating the engine
very well, which we do.
And for our mission we want to fly two-up a lot of the time. We want to
put a lot of luggage in the back, go fly somewhere, camp, stay over, go to fly-ins
and sometimes that means flying in the middle of the day when it's hot
and we need a little bit more power to do that
So I realized I haven't told you what engine we're going to put in,
and that is on purpose. I will do a video for that purpose specifically,
but all I can tell you is it's going to have more power.
Something I neglected to mention is the reason why I'm flying the Bushbaby to Warmbaths is to
take it to Benchmark Aviation who is going to do the new engine installation and setup for us.
Pretoria GF2, India Juliet Charlie is a Bushbaby, eight miles north of the Cullinan dam,
six thousand feet, routing northbound to Warmbaths, India Juliet Charlie.
Looks like we might just need to descend a bit, I've got a cloud bank to my left, to the west, more or less my level.
It's not a big bank, it's fairly minor, but I don't want to fly through it. Luckily I'm
about a thousand two hundred, three hundred feet above ground level. So I can descend a little bit if I need to.
I might miss the cloud bank completely.
Ok it looks like I'm going to miss that cloud bank. I don't know if you can see it on this camera.
It's about two miles from me.
So it looks like I will be having a welcoming committee,
um another plane is going to come meet me up in the air and escort me on to Warmbaths airfield.
Warmbaths traffic, Foxtrot Papa Victor airborne runway zero-three now turning out right into the south of Warmbaths
India Juliet Charlie how far are you from Warmbaths?
Standby
India Juliet Charlie to Foxtrot Papa Victor I am one three nautical miles out from Warmbaths
Okay India Juliet Charlie we are crossing the November One now 4,500 feet
uhm what's your QNH?
QNH one zero two two , 5,500 feet
Okay here in Warmbaths it's one zero two zero
Copy that
Whoohoo!
Okay so they are in very close formation with me, I doubt that you'll be able to see it on the camera
They're on my left hand side
Okay now you'll be able to see them
On my 3 o'clock
On the wingcam
They're saying they can smell my two-stroke
That is so funny
Whoa!
Warmbaths traffic, Fox Papa Victor and one other now turning left base for final approach, runway inspection on two-one
Okay turning left base
Okay
Okay so I've arrived at Warmbaths safely, um it wasn't that bad of a flight, the clouds wasn't
much of a problem. So yeah like I said that was obviously my last flight in the Bushbaby
as it is now. Uh my dad has just gone up to have his last flight in the Bushbaby
with this engine and yeah then it's going to be out of action until
uh the new engine is in. So do watch out for that new video. Make sure you're subscribed
Turn your notifications on so that you can know when that video
gets published and um yeah see you in the next one.