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JetCamVideo: Exterior Preflight

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Bone

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You just can't get the full impact of an exterior preflight in flight sim. The noise, heat/cold, the contortions needed to look in the nooks&crannies...


 
Nothing dirtier than a main gear well. Oil, grease, brake dust, splattered rubber...

Charter outfit I used to work for had a Challenger 604. The CRJ-900 shares a lot of parts with the 604.

Just be glad you don't have to wax the belly like I had to do on the 604. That's a big enough airplane to do that too. I'm glad I won't be there when the new Global Express gets delivered...

Have't done much with the 900. Other than marshal them on the ramp when the new delivery birds came through Customs into the US (KBTV is the closest airport of entry to the plant in Montreal) Had a couple of 700's in the hangar for repairs. wish I still had the still pics of us doing gear swings on a Mesaba CRJ-200 on the ramp in front of the hangar.


Brian
 
Another great video,Bone....

Another insight into the working life of an airline pilot than the general public normally doesn't get to see. :)
I was expecting a more hands on approach to the preflight,though...ie yanking out of the flaps and ailerons etc....is the preflight a visual only check on airliners?
One more question, one I've forgotten to ask before, do you fly "your" aircraft in Flight Sim too? :d
 
Brian Gladden:

BTV is beautifull, I love going there, making the approach over Lake Champlain. All of our planes had to come through BTV first. We do layovers there with the scheduled passenger service, some trips have a 30 hour layover there. Nice.

txnetcop:

Oops!


Kilo Delta:

The 200 preflight is done with the flaps down, but that's because they have some "issues", and other than that, airliners leave the flaps up for the preflight. It's not like in GA where the flaps are down, you're opening up engine cowls, checking oil and hydraulics, sumping tanks, turning on all the lights, ect. The reason why is that those things (and many more) are done once a day by maintenence techs...it's called a "daily check". We have an 8.5x11x2 inch aluminum (aluminium to Brits) flip open "can" with maintenence and discrepancy logs that we have to check. Whenever something breaks that's where we write it up, and we can look back over the history of what has broken on that plane. We have to review the wright-ups and corresponding maintenence sign-offs to make sure it's all good. That's also where we check to make sure the "daily check" has been performed.

And no, I don't fly my plane in FS. I've taken the FSX CRJ-700 out for a spin a time or two, but it's so far from being accurate so I don't bother with it.
 
Wonderful videos Bone. What are you using to record the video with, a head cam or one of those new sun glasses cams?

Keep them coming, always a treat. :jump:

Caz
 
Another great video Bone and as a repainter I found it particularly interesting as you can see just which parts get dirty and where the dirt lines flow on the wings/fuselage. Not that I am ever likely to repaint one as I never paint or fly tubes.

I just wish I could get a walk-around video like that for the aircraft I do fly/paint!
 
These are great videos, Bone. Keep 'em, coming! Interesting comment about the smells and sounds you can't get from FS. As a maintainer I got to see and small a lot of that stuff, but on navy jets, some years ago (A-7s and FA-18s.) One of the things we avionics techs routinely did was align the INS before the pilot walked out to the plane, since that took ten minutes or so (in the A-7E anyway), and it was a ten minutes in which there was nothing to do except monitor the alignment. It was during those times that I would put my hands on the stick and throttles, look out through the HUD, and imagine what it must be like to be zooming through the clouds with that sort of view. Good stuff! Those CRJ-900s sure are shiny and new looking! What are those "soup cans" sticking out forward of each main mount, between the wheels?
 
PRB said:
These are great videos, Bone. Keep 'em, coming! Interesting comment about the smells and sounds you can't get from FS. As a maintainer I got to see and small a lot of that stuff, but on navy jets, some years ago (A-7s and FA-18s.) One of the things we avionics techs routinely did was align the INS before the pilot walked out to the plane, since that took ten minutes or so (in the A-7E anyway), and it was a ten minutes in which there was nothing to do except monitor the alignment. It was during those times that I would put my hands on the stick and throttles, look out through the HUD, and imagine what it must be like to be zooming through the clouds with that sort of view. Good stuff! Those CRJ-900s sure are shiny and new looking! What are those "soup cans" sticking out forward of each main mount, between the wheels?
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Good eye, PRB. Those are shimmy dampeners. The 700 and 900 tend to have alot of harmonic shimmy during take-off and landing. They help, but don't entirely do the trick.
 
Bjoern said:
Any difference between the 900NG and 900 apart from the cabin (windows)?





Portover.


And I don't know what you guys have against the default CRJ. It's by far the least bug ridden of the default airliners.
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A. No difference, it's just marketing slang.

B. OK, if you like it, but there's just too much missing for me to take it seriously. If a person doesn't know the difference, then it's a great little model.
 
Brian Gladden:

BTV is beautifull, I love going there, making the approach over Lake Champlain. All of our planes had to come through BTV first. We do layovers there with the scheduled passenger service, some trips have a 30 hour layover there. Nice.
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Next time you have one of those 30 hour layovers planned. Let me know. The first barley soda is on me.
 
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