Meet Kevin's First Flight | Pilot Debrief - Cirrus SR-20 Parachute Plane

hey everyone me Kevin here this is so

exciting I got invited out to fly on a

cirrus this is one of those planes with

a parachute it's an

SR20 and this is going to be my first

time in a serus this is only my second

time ever in a small plane uh the first

time I ever did it I was freaking out

super nervous and I'll tell you it's

just it's transparent okay just just

between you and me here

when I read the FAA pilot handbook I

made it all the way to about page 40 or

so and it had all these um you know

people who shouldn't be a pilot things

and and then it made me throw the book

away and say that's it this is not for

me I'm never going to fly I'm just the

wrong person you know I maybe I'm too

spontaneous or as some might say

careless uh you know uh don't like

directions or rules or whatever and then

I realized you

know that was more of a me problem than

than an aviation problem and being a

data 7 I think it's

important to be able to fix things that

you suck at and acknowledge that you

suck at something and then really work

on fixing it and then maybe going the

extra mile to make sure you're actually

perfecting what you suck at uh to sort

of overcompensate for your oopsies but

anyway um here I am this is the start of

that and uh so uh shout out to all-in

Aviation here Lone Mountain aircraft

sales as well and of course Cirrus this

is really exciting but we are going to

go up mck is going to hang out with us

you you ready McKay oh yeah let's do it

he's still in the I'm afraid of

turbulence phas but I'm really excited

because uh we're going to be sitting in

this and uh take a look at what the

inside looks like and I'll show you the

plane a little bit and let's this puppy

out there I don't even know how to mount

GoPros on this stuff but I got a couple

fuction cups and we stuck them in so

we'll see how it goes you're about to

see me fly but before I begin I have to

give an unsolicited shout out to the

pilot debrief if it weren't for their

Channel giving me the confidence that if

I train I listen I learn I follow the

rules the law and checklists I Would by

no means be putting myself into to the

cockpit so thank you to the pilot D

brief on YouTube seriously unsolicited

shout out here but if it weren't for you

I would not be doing this so thank you

hey everybody who are you and where are

you from all right so my name is Chris

way he live here in Las Vegas work for

all in aviation I'm doing a second

career I'm a certified play instructor

so we're going to get Kevin flying here

let's go do it that's awesome thank you

and what is this in front of us okay so

this thing right there this is the

parachute that gets deployed should we

need to uh come down safely have some

kind of engine failure any problem

that's going to bring it safety to the

ground it's bigger it's almost as big as

the hanger the entire plane floats down

right it's not like we wear parachutes

on our back the parachute brings the

whole plane down wow that is a

huge wow absolutely amazing and that

must be the pre-shoot right there that

is so cool that all that compresses into

that look at this this is so cool and I

guess this gets like rocket propelled

out that's it parachute repack packed

into that Holy Smokes that's really cool

and I have to say I've never seen a gas

truck this size this is what call Bowser

a little Bowser right so if we need to

you know fuel them up full we will bring

the fuel truck around from the airport

but this way we just have you know 50

gallons where we can you know top it off

essentially so what are we about to do

so we're about to do I believe this is

called the pre-flight

checklist checklists are very important

in aviation honestly you can apply

checklist to your life too just did I do

everything in the morning did I get my

car checked out for the day did I clean

it at night I pick up my clothing and I

I find having little checklists just

throughout life really useful so

Aviation really teaches that right did

Pro pizza now left fuselage right so

we're going left ins side check the

circuit breakers make sure those all

good so now we're on antenna and Wing

fuselodge fairing exactly so here this

is the fuse lash this is the wing this

is the the fairing between the two so's

looking for any cracks and separation

that kind of stuff scuffs are okay okay

so we're just checking for the fuselage

forward and then got the epage backwards

you saw this a little earlier this is

where the parachutes packed okay so it's

in that little black bag that you saw

earlier inside the plane what happens is

a rocket motor fires it pierces the skin

of the airplane shoots the parachute out

like a like a big loud firecracker pop

essentially and then there's kind of rip

cords if you will that go up to the nose

of the plane and towards down this

direction and then the whole plane

floats W down that so yeah there's no

latch here it just blows it out yeah it

goes right through the skin so it's

little right there make sure there no

cracks okay so now we're checking for a

couple things here there's a

counterweight that needs to be here see

this little see this little paint that's

on these bolts here oh yeah like on

roller coasters yeah

yeah yeah um but yeah so you can tell if

they've been turned right if the paint

doesn't align then we know they've

worked themselves loose loose I see okay

they pins so right here this is the main

tank and we're going to drain it up

pretty much to fill this cup so that 100

low lead should be bluish color ah okay

so jet fuel is going to be a different

color jet fuel like kosene is going to

be like a straw or clear color oh

interesting so if you have a jet and

it's blue don't fly exactly or if you

have this one and it's clear

okay yeah usually it smell the kerosene

right it smells like uh it's diesel

essentially right see a little orange

Square yeah that will turn like a

brownish yeah yeah so in this plane it's

more common CU people tend to ride the

brakes while we're taxing around so it's

you hear me say don't ride the brakes

okay and since the wheel pants they can

build up heat in extreme cases and cause

fire cool you guys ready what's your uh

oh so our elevation right now is 25 4 60

correct okay all right good we're

stabilized there okay so let's go ahead

and uh check the rest of those what's

your minimum Deploy on the

parachute um as far as altitude yeah 600

ft above the ground so I need to be

three plus yeah exactly so 3100 ft is

what we say

Okay oil pressure you meent we already

checked that oil is temperature yep

breakes are working all right so you're

can you're steering so bottom the pedal

with your foot so push left with your

left foot on the brake yep cuz of the

differential brakes exactly and now I'm

going to get ready to go right and as

you go faster you can do it just with

the rudder with it not without the

brakes oh oh oh right I could just use

my Rudder right now probably huh yeah

you need enough air flow over it for it

to work so if you finally like pushing

it or not turning then you have to come

up and tap the brake okay and that's

what you just did exactly okay do you

want to do it or you want me to do it I

want you to I just didn't want to run to

the curb no thank you yeah yeah I

appreciate that okay I'm going to hit

break here a little just to turn or

should I be ruding at this point uh yeah

just I want you get a feel for it yeah

that's so I will I'll keep you I'll

intervene if we're in any danger but

otherwise I'm going to let you kind of

figure it out turn we do taxi wavs

Runway 32 kilo I'm not talking to the

pits he's about your 1:00 and a mile at

4700 ft indicated appears he's turning

toward little nice citation wow

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basically want to verify the correct

oneway 35 left

checks your controls all right my

controls if you want to keep your hand

on to feel what I'm doing you're more

than welcome all right so put my heels

on the floor going to 1 1,002 2 1,000 3

1,000 full power take look at my engine

gauges here make sure everything's in

the green looking good rway make sure

your air speeds alive it's going up feel

a good

acceleration

77 is the takeoff yeah let's see

actually just about 72 here at our

weight so we're rotate now just kind of

gentle back pressure we come off the

ground all right now this map here is

going to tell tell us what terrains

higher than us so we're going to kind of

go up this Little Valley and we'll climb

up here about 96 knots or so sorry for

the turbulence oh good it's Vegas yeah

you guys get a lot of that out here it's

usually not bad this time of year okay

all right you want to play yeah all

right your controls okay my controls

okay so we're just going to kind of keep

this heading you see the lowest part of

that mountain over there what heading uh

168 so we're going to go about 150 but

just don't focus on this just focus on

the eyes outside okay we're going to

pitch back a little bit to climb a

little faster and you want me to pull

back or you doing that no you can do it

you're fine I'm going to pull back a

little just gentle it's like it's like

pressure soft yeah very good all right

keep your hand on the

power I've got uh 800 900 verticals good

before we keep going I just want to say

thank you for bearing with me over the

past few years it's been a lot of

adapting and really growing more

importantly growing as a person an

entrepreneur and really as somebody that

recognizes where they aren't the best

they can be or where they're making

mistakes and then we change and so thank

you for being on that Journey with me

I'm really happy to be able to take this

flight here and I can't wait to show you

the flight this is a magical feeling uh

I do want to just shout out Paul's

Training Center over Al of the Henderson

Airport this is a beautiful facility

beautiful flight simulator beautiful

educational classrooms and they're

remodeling it already looks remodeled

and and they're remodeling more shout

out to all-in Aviation Allin Aviation

and Henderson for hooking up this flight

seriously thank you uh and Lone Mountain

aircraft sales team y'all help me buy my

Phenom

300E one day

maybe I could sit in one of those side

seat oh now I'm down to 500 veral

speed you want to be about your air

speed what you want to focus on so 100

knots is fine

here so just like a boat you know as you

go over the water and waves that's we're

going through a fluid so that's why

we're bouncing around a little bit it

should smooth out pretty good for us

what do I want my vertical rate to climb

to be no I was focus on air speed and to

the vertical rate so where this Y is 96

knot so could be the best climb rate

okay and you want me to stay at about 96

yeah so if I'm over I can pull back a

little yeah and you again you're fine

you don't at this stage you're close

enough anytime we talk about numbers

like percentages we're like it's is

right so like 96 is this is awesome okay

we're at 4500 now so we're going to

level up for a second down forward y

pull the power back just a wee bit power

back about A4 inch yeah good perfect

we're just going to apply we don't want

to go higher than 4600 until we can get

into the airace so I'm going to nose

down just Aidy it's very sensitive yeah

and if you feel like you're having to

push your hand forward and hold it there

then that's when you use that trim so I

hear my controls for a second yeah your

control okay so if I let go and the

planes want to turn to the

right I will give it a left trim and

then I'll let go and then see now it's F

straight we're still climbing a little

bit so I'm going to push it forward a

little bit and if I have to hold it

forward to push one or two clicks to

trim nose down and okay so you okay

click one or two forward got it okay so

now we're about -200 that's perfect now

one maybe one click

back I can really control it with trim

now yeah you almost fly it with your

thumb okay but you really need to fly it

and then use the trim to relieve the

pressure so let's kind of go kind of

over that way just a little bit where

the lowest part of the mountain is they

kind of like biasing up a little but I

want to stay at that 55 yeah I got you

with all these rocks man yeah it makes

people nervous but we got the parachute

got an experienced pilot next to you so

you're good thank you that is very cool

so that's the Huber Dam that's hu Dam

that's it why why do I feel like it's

supposed to be bigger I think when

you're closer to it not uh few thousand

feet above it we're about 4,000 ft above

the ground right now that's a good

point okay uh and you do you want me to

bank more yeah so just kind of like um

yeah do sort of the Steep turn like you

did around it so going to pass it and

then just turn around it so when you

turning you should your wing should be

kind of pointing at it okay here we go

there you go yeah cool just like that

wow so it's kind of keep it where you

can see it right in front of your wing

if it starts to go behind your wing

turns deeper

ah nice okay 200 I'm going to pull back

in yeah

good oh that is amazing so you're just

allowed to float around here yeah I

guess I figure the dam is robust enough

a little plane like this would barely

cause a scratch of the D so keep turning

I'm assuming oh we're going to be going

into the sun

eh do have a visor if you need it and

got your shades on so you already got

your pilot glasses too that's

good it should still be information golf

climbing again so I'm going to trim down

one now we're clear of

traffic uh triming up

my max speed in this uh

yep nowhere near it got it okay

good down

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well McKay how was uh me Kevin flying

did we survived Kevin flights let's go

let's go well I have to say that was

absolutely incredible that is a

different feeling holy

smokes amazing that that just changes

your perspective of everything including

checklists but also just the world and

life that is amazing and it's got a

parachute okay Chris how was

it I don't know I think you might be a

natural pilot oh stop you said you have

never done anything before but yeah you

were flying perfect really nice thank

you yeah absolutely well it's because of

your training well thank you very much

so you ready to get going heck yeah full

board this is so cool thank you

um right to the plane plane to

plane

awesome what a cool world we live

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in dude those parachute planes are sick

that what in one of those parachute

planes oh you did dude have you ever

seen someone deploy it

twice gness book Thank you pleasure all

right what's your review what's your

verdict M how do you feel I want to hear

everything so cool

feelings little nervous at first nervous

at first okay and then I was like you

know what I'm going to die I'm going to

die with Kevin I'm not going to let him

die alone so we sent it had a great

instructor with us and I'm excited to

see what the future hold future pilot