It's Your Plane - Newsletter September 14, 2007 Edition

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Michelle Soon to Fly the Carenado C182Q

Now here's an aircraft that's really worth flying!

When I first crawled into the cockpit of this plane, my immediate reaction was... "Wow!"

C172 vs. the C182
This beautiful Carenado design is based upon the 1978 Cessna 182Q Skylane. The most significant improvements of the C182Q over previous models were a bonded wing with integral fuel tanks. However, the BIG difference between the C172 and the new C182 is the more powerful engine; usually a 6-cylinder O-540, as compared to the 4 cylinder O-320 and/or O-360 in the 172. In addition, the constant speed propeller affords considerably greater performance.

This plane really stands on its tail.

If you enjoy flying GA aircraft, you'll love this plane. The quality of this aircraft is way beyond that of the default stuff in FS2004 and FSX. And, wait until you hear the engine on this plane... it's awesome!

Michelle Wanted To Fly This Aircraft!
Michelle loves GA flying as well and she was really anxious to co-pilot this plane. Despite the fact that interfacing Michelle with this aircraft was a bit of a challenge, it was well worth the effort.

Flying By The Book!
Carenado has provided comprehensive checklists for the C182Q. So, we took these checklists and gave them to Michelle. She made a few minor changes and is now ready to walk you step-by-step through the process from ramp-to-ramp.

It's My Plane - It's Your Plane!
When we fly a GA aircraft, we don't really want an auto-pilot... what's the sense? Unless of course, we're on a long flight and we'd like to be relieved of the task of maintaining the airspeed, altitude, heading, etc. Well, that's where Michelle can really help out!

Airspeed 110

Climb and maintain eight thousand five hundred

Turn left heading zero eight zero

Want to fly GPS for a while so that you can grab a coffee?

Set the Nav GPS on GPS

Set Nav VOR ON

Of course you can do all of the normal stuff...

Set the rate of climb to five hundred

Flaps up

Flaps 10

Marker Ident ON

Bring up the GSP

Kill the Radio Stack

etc.

Then there are those specific Carenado C182Q commands, like:

Display the IFR Panel

Display the Normal Panel

Display the VFR Panel

It's Never Boring When Michelle is Along for the Trip!
Along the way Michelle will be telling you what she sees out of the right side of the aircraft, what you just flew over, what's coming up, and what you should be able to see from your side of the plane.

Oh Yeah... Try This!
Ask of Michelle, "Get me a martini please", and tell us how she responds!

I hope you find this information helpful.

Wishing you safe landings,
Robert Cezar
Your IYP Developer.

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