I decided to pull the trigger and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
As I have the company CJ4 and can’t fly 2 planes at once, I have to hire someone to ferry it back to Toronto for me but that will give me time to get the home cockpit setup for it (thanks to @Crunchmeister71 and the boys at simstrumentation.com for building the instruments).
We have some downtime before we start our Airbus training to fly for Mainline. And what better way to spend it than flying the family around on some much needed vacations in the 414!
The 414 was ferried from Alaska to our home GA base in CYKZ where it has been undergoing an overhaul. With the work and subsequent inspections completed, it was ready to pull out of the hangar for its maiden voyage.
As per protocol (luck, or lack there of) this maiden voyage was like every other one for me, in the dark. Because, what better way to learn a plane then when struggling to see?
But none the less we made it out and up safely and before we knew it we were on final into CYTS to meet the family.
A few days were spent visiting and then it was time to start making our way back North. As we were getting ready to depart, @RedBaronYYC flew a charter in on the CJ4.
Haven’t had a chance to fly the 414, or GA in general since getting into the A320. Okay, not so much haven’t had a chance, just been having way too much fun in the airliner.
This past Easter I had family coming into town so wasn’t going to be able to do any long distance flights so figured I’d hop on the sim, and take the 414 out of the hangar in Toronto and fly home to CYTS for Easter.
Preflight was routine as were the runups and takeoff, but partway through the first leg the right engine started to act up, and eventually quit. ATC (VATSIM) were notified of the issues, and after a couple failed restart attempts we shut it down and got diverted to the Chapleau (CYLD).
