Jon from fly8MA.com.
Today we're in a DA-42 and we're going to go through our startup checklist and departure
checklist, as well as our normal takeoff procedures.
So, we've got our pre-flight check completed, our bag and tote-bar secure, ox pumps are
off, fuel sectors are on, safeties are in place, power levels are idle, parking brake
is set, alternate air is closed, fuel pumps are off, our manual gear extension handle
is pushed, gear selector is down, avionics master is off, electric master is off, engine
masters are both off, pitot heat is turned off, alternate static is closed (check that
right underneath here), and the alternators are both turned on, motor switches are set
to auto for our ECUs, all light switches are off, emergency switch is off and guarded,
ELT is armed, and circuit breakers are all checked in over here, flap selector is up.
The electric master we'll go ahead and turn on.
We can hear our gear pumps cycling, just recharging the fresh air in the system just to hold our
landing gear down.
Rudder pedals are adjusted, flight controls we'll check here.
All good.
Trims set for takeoff.
Gear warning lights and fire detector test-- and we're looking for the annunciators up
there-- all good.
We'll go ahead and enter there.
We'll skip our de-icing since we're down in Florida, it's pretty hot, we won't be using
that today.
Flaps full travel, we're going to check are all the way down and all the way up.
Our flaps are all the way down and we're going to bring our flaps all the way up.
Coming up on the left and coming up on the right.
Control stick, we're going to go full aft and hold it back, power levers are going to
max, then we're going to feel the trim limiter push us forward, we're going to go power levels
idle, and feel the control stick coming back.
Kind of a neat system there-- it limits you the idea that you won't be able to go into
a trim stall on takeoff if you've been using a lot of nose-up trim to come in and land
it's actually limit the travel of the elevator on takeoff.
Alright, passengers-- we don't have any today to instruct.
Seatbelts are fastened, the rear door is closed and latched, front canopy, we're going to
go ahead and leave it here for now, and we'll close it when we start up.
G1000 is powered up and acknowledged, MFD-- we're checking our fuel quantity and temperature.
We're all good there.
Total time in service is noted already, start key is inserted, power levels are idle, and
ACL strobe, we're going to turn that on.
Engine start procedure right down here.
Engine master we're going to turn on, we're going to start with the left engine first,
check in annunciators for the left engine-- all looks good.
No glow indication, we're clear to start.
Clear left.
And that simple, the left engine started up.
We're going to do the same exact thing now for the right engine before we check our oil
pressure.
All good.
Oil temperature all good.
And checking all our voltage-- all good.
We'll go ahead and turn our right engine master on.
Check for annunciators, all those are good.
We'll go ahead and start the right.
Clear to right.
And we're checking oil pressure's up, temperatures are looking good, and we're going to turn
on the alternators.
All set.
Canopy is closed and latched with little fancy sun shades stowed.
RPM is 710, fuel pumps are off, fuel selectors we're going to go ahead and put into crossfeed,
check if that crossfeed works.
Pitot heat on, and we're going to look for the annunciators, annunciators go off and
we're looking for an annunciator to come on to let us know that, we'll have a stall heat
fail.
It's limited to 50% when we're on the ground.
We'll turn those back off.
Avionics master can turn on, we'll plug in our headset.
And we'll set up our FMS.
Alright, FMS is set up.
Autopilot test, we're going to go ahead and test that.
We're going to put it in heading mode, watch the stick move, we're good.
And we'll go ahead and put in altitude mode, the speed goes up.
Autopilot's working.
And we'll disconnect the autopilot.
Floodlights-- don't need them.
Position lights-- don't need them.
Fuel sector's first, we're going to put that on.
And then we'll set our altimeters to field elevation here, we don't actually have an
altimeter setting for this airport since our AWASis down.
Transponder mode is set, engine temperatures are looking good, the parking brake will release,
and we'll go ahead and use only 50%.
Make sure all the engine temperatures come up for taxi.
There's a few things to do before take off and we'll do that when we're out there.
It takes a good amount of power to get rolling, and once she's rolling, she'll roll fast.
Before takeoff checklist: parking brake we're going to set, seat belts are fastened, seats
adjusted, backrest is upright, the rear door is closed and latched, front canopy is closed
and latched, front baggage doors are closed and latched.
Door warning light is off.
That's okay we're going to take off with it off.
Electric elevator trim is checked and set to takeoff position.
Fuel selectors are checked and on, rudder trim is neutral as required, and flaps are
up.
Flight controls we'll check one more time-- nothing has fallen during taxi on our flight
controls.
All good.
Power levers are idle.
50% should do it over there.
And we'll go ahead and check our motor switches.
Those running on "A." And ECU test, we're going to go ahead and take care of that now
just by pressing and holding these two buttons here.
Nobody is behind us.
ECU test all looks good, no annunciators.
Pitot heat is off, ice protection not required, transponder is set, fuel pumps we'll turn
on, and landing light we'll turn on since we're about to enter the runway.
All our frequencies are set up here.
All good.
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