There's several frequencies, some defined overflight routes, lots of no-fly zones, and lots of rules in an attempt to keep the metal separated and the tree-huggers and their critters happy.
And make sure you're not transmitting it all on guard like I hear about every other flight.
Yes, it is a GMA340. I saw the PA button, just wasn't sure if I needed to hold the PTT button down. I'll have to try it and see if the cabin speakers are hooked up.
I've accidentally scared myself with the PA feature with mine.. I never figured out that the PTT was involved, though! Now I have a new toy at my disposal.
All I got out of your post is that you need to start a 310 club to avoid the hassles
Took advantage of a beautiful day to introduce my family to the ChickenHawk Express and to get more practice in the terminal area.
^^^ 220 indicated. That's cute.
I only joke because I'm insanely jealous! Gorgeous airplane, and gorgeous family.
I work for my wife and five kids.For second job, as Ted said, I'm a 39 year old chicken farmer.
I'm part owner of and work as the COO for a group of companies that produce eggs for retail and industrial purposes. Collectively we are the second or third largest such company in the US and produce about 10% of the national egg supply.
While I have certainly shoveled **** and carried pails of feed in my career, I don't personally do much of that any more. My main task these days is to find great people, give them a vision, and get the hell out of the way.
We are a business run by a group of families and certainly didn't start out this big. We've kind of specialized in finding troubled and inefficient operations and turning them around.
We have operations in several states and customers across the nation which is what was/is driving my travel schedule. I did several years on the airlines earning status one painful segment at a time. Many years doing over 150 segments and it was killing me. About two years ago it dawned on me that I did in fact have a pilots certificate and perhaps it was time to put it to better use. If I was going to get myself from place to place on demand I figured I needed a FIKI twin with a pretty good set of situational awareness tools and some good training. Ted talked me into a 310 16 months and 300+ hours ago. It has been awesome.
It's only sometimes warranted.
New Years Day this year, I was flying right seat in a friend's 340. We're in cruise, monitoring guard and listening to country on SiriusXM. Someone transmits on 121.5 "Anyone got any New Years resolutions?" in about 0.00001 seconds I hit the "Com 2 Mic" button on the PS8000 audio panel, PTT and respond "Not talking on guard."
The 4 of us in the plane were laughing, at least.
Yup
It's not too bad, props are at 1800 max for cruise and some folks run them as low as 1600. I don't use headsets in the back of mine unless someone wants to listen to music, but no complaints, even the dogs like it!
AI shows you in a descent...cheater
Congrats!!!
I started calling the 310 the ChickenHawk when I bought it and the Conquest naturally became the ChickenHawk Express.James, that is a great looking airplane. Have you named it yet? May I suggest "Speed Bird 1"...
