Welcome to Moorabbin Airport.
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How to depart an uncontrolled aerodrome when you can't get air traffic control from the
ground.
Tango Delta Sierra thanks identified.
And Cirrus lean assist.
And now look at the fuel flow, look at the difference so we're only burning 8.2 gallons
per hour.
Shepparton traffic, Tango Delta Sierra an IFR Cirrus is taxying for runway 18 and we'll
be departing to Moorabbin, Shepparton.
Shepparton CTAF.
Fuel flow is good, up we go.
Ah that's better I forgot to put the noise cancelling on on my headphones, I thought
that was loud.
I love you BOSE.
800 so flaps away, CAPS is available, fuel pump off, landing light off, left turn.
Melbourne Centre, Tango Delta Sierra IFR for Moorabbin, one POB, airborne at Shepparton,
standby for departure.
Tango Delta Sierra centre g'day, squawk 3722 no reported IFR traffic.
3722 Tango Delta Sierra.
Shepparton Traffic, Tango Delta Sierra departing overhead passing 2700 climbing 7000 tracking
via LACEY to Moorabbin, Shepparton.
Tango Delta Sierra departed Shepparton time 00, we're tracking 165 passing 3500 climbing
7000 estimate LACEY 34.
Tango Delta Sierra thanks identified, and the area QNH 1030.
1030 Tango Delta Sierra.
I wanted to show you one of the things we can do in the Cirrus which is leaning the
mixture as you do in any aircraft but what we're able to do here in the Cirrus because
of the way the fuel injection system works we can actually lean the mixture lean of peak.
It's called lean assist, so what we do is we activate the lean assist and you see up
here it says looking for first peak.
So what we're going to do is we're going to start leaning the mixture down.
We're going to lean the mixture back, and as we're leaning the mixture we'll see those
temperatures increasing, and keeping an eye on the fuel flow which is actually reducing
here now.
And we keep leaning back until we see the cylinder temperatures peaking and it will
show us that because they'll turn blue in colour.
So just waiting for that first peak, there we go.
So cylinder one has peaked first then cylinder four, cylinder three, three more to go.
There's six.
Who will it be, two or five, five next so two is the slowest, there we go last peak
detected.
And now we keep leaning it at this point, normally you'd actually enrich the mixture
at this point, but in the Cirrus we actually keep leaning and it will tell us when we get
best economy.
And there we go.
Best economy.
And now look at the fuel flow, look at the difference so we're only burning 8.2 gallons
per hour at 60% power on the engine so it's a very efficient way to fly now.
And what we can do then is go up here to normalise, that will reset the monitoring and then we
can watch then if there's any trends in those temperatures if they go up or down we'll just
keep an eye on that for the next few minutes.
Otherwise we're nicely leaned out and we can enjoy the ride.
Tango Delta Sierra radio check.
Tango Delta Sierra.
Tango Delta Sierra thanks just checking the radio thanks for that.
No worries, coming in fives, Tango Delta Sierra.
That was nice of him, it's all very quiet on this leg so I think he's checking his radio
quality with me, just the quality of the signal and a little bit also hopefully I'm sure he
is he's just checking in making sure we're ok and trucking along.
If anyone from Air Traffic Control is watching this I should really say thank you.
You guys look after us so much up here.
Especially us low time IFR pilots who are fairly new to this game just knowing that
there's a supportive voice at the other end of the line is makes all the difference so
yeah thank you for everything that all of you do for us pilots.
Tango Delta Sierra contact Melbourne Approach 132.0 g'day.
132.0 Tango Delta Sierra thanks for your help.
Melbourne Centre Tango Delta Sierra maintaining 7000.
Tango Delta Sierra Melbourne Approach you're cleared to Moorabbin via LACEY COLDS planned
route maintain 7000.
Cleared Moorabbin via LACEY planned route maintain 7000 Tango Delta Sierra.
So now we have our clearance through class C, and we'll get our instructions to descend
from Melbourne Centre just once we get past this terrain so he can radar vector us down
probably I think it's going to be to 4000 and then we'll be visual descent from that
point.
Still waiting for the fuel truck.
Think it's coming.