Contactless Outdoor Recreation. Those three
words are going to be really important in this video today
Contactless Steven we're being pretty contactless right now yeah? What? We're being contactless!
How have you been?
Outdoor well you can't get more outdoor than this. Faster Steven faster!
Recreation recreation which is defined as activity done for enjoyment when one is not working. I do
not consider this to be working i'm certainly hoping i'm going to enjoy it so let's enjoy some
contactless outdoor recreation for the first time in two months. Moorabbin tower Echo Yankee Zulu
ready holding point alpha downwind departure. I didn't quite catch the call sign of the
seriousness from my right cliff okay you can see the takeoff for takeoff on my right
it didn't catch the call sign because i stuffed it up i haven't said it for so long
all right ease the power in everything's coming up on the power air speed's coming alive
my primary flight display the left hand screen has just gone off it's completely black
which is a little bit interesting i can still fly my staff i'm vfr today so i can still fly
my standby instruments i can disconnect the autopilot which is good three four
four click direct to googa because uniform calls alpha bravo it looks like it's on but
it looks like the screen is not like i can see lights i think there's power to the screen
but i think the screen itself has actually got h2013 which is not what i wanted on this flight
hsi pfd1 that's the one i want i'm going to reset the uh
well this was going to be a wonderful flight about flying down the coast and the beauty of
flying and it's so nice to be back in aviation once again and of course something breaks
see what i don't have in this aircraft this is the oldest series i know the new series has got a
button that you can push which pushes basically everything onto the other screen if something
like this does happen so you can get all your airspeed altitude all that information that's
normally on the pfd and your engine information all on one i don't have that i have pfd mfd i
do have the backup instruments down here which is why it's really important to set
the q h set your altimeter and everything yeah on the ground beforehand i'm glad i
didn't remember to do that india is defending flight level 375 let's call it 505 center
i've got i've got all i need down here basically to fly vfr well to fly visual
rules i've got all i need out the front of the window let's be honest you have to go back to
your basic training here i'm no instructor but you go back to power plus attitudes
performance i set power which i can still see my engine instruments here
i hold an attitude and i expect a performance and airspeed now the good thing is i do have an
airspeed indicator still down here so i have that as a backup but really rely just back on those
visual flying skills from your early training if something like this happens oh is the first flight
back why does it have to be the first flight after two months still actually have all the information
i need i've still got all my engine information i've got my map page on there we've got the gps
uh so i'm not going to get lost i've got my communication still so i've got the radios
autopilot though that sinks to heading bugs and navigation information that's on here so i don't
have i don't have autopilot so just hand flying it at the moment but yeah i've got my airspeed
i've got my artificial horizon but i'm i mean it's vfr so i've got a real horizon out the
front there that's what i'm using to fly and uh altimeter so the main difference is i use
this obviously for speeds for landing but i'm going to need to use the airspeed indicator here
to get my speeds right for landing but again set your power set your attitude and you
should get a speed hopefully we can land it in the same way that we always landed just
without all my nice fancy glass information in front of me i never wanted this channel to be
kind of the drama of aviation like oh my god what happened i can't believe this broke and
you know heroic pilot saves the day i never wanted to be there but i do want it to be real so i'll
be totally honest with you on this flight today i just wanted to do a bit of a flight but also
make a video on the new ipad mini 6. i was just going to head down the coast record some bits
about using the ipad mini 6 in the air but you've got to be capable and willing to change your plans
when it comes to aviation i mean when it comes to most things in life to be honest
and this is a good example of that so i just need to ditch those plans
it's perfectly safe i mean the aircraft the engine still turns the aircraft still flies
i can see where i'm going so it's not a bad situation to be honest but
i'm not just going to push on down the coast and stick to what i was going to do because
the aircraft's just come out of its 100 hourly service i will just get this looked at and see
if if we can go on to fly another day but let's take it back to uh the guys at blue demon see what
see what they have to say about it robin tower echo yankee zulu at 1500
all right that's three five i've gotta use this compass because i don't have my hsi on here now
the good thing is i've actually been practicing these last two months of lockdown using the sim
i've been using x-plane and the sim and the torque sim echo yankee zulu model it just keeps you a
bit sharper than if i've just been sitting on my bum playing playstation for the last two months
i've been playing a fair bit of playstation as well i'll be honest
okay power's good airspeed's good
hold it off now hold it off typical you lose half your instruments and you do one of the
better landings that you've done for a while all right let's go see what was wrong steven
um
so steven's just gone to get another screwdriver just to see if we can
so anybody in the comments who's watching this if you're about to type have you turned it off
and on again thanks so pretty we did that was pretty much the first thing that stephen said
tripped the circuit breakers turned it off checked in the back here
the wiring behind the actual screen itself steven we might need to do it to be continued
to be continued
he's shaking his head it's never a good thing when an engineer is shaking his head like that