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Welcome to Part 5 of my 16-part cross-country flight series! In this leg, we continue our journey from Gulfport, Mississippi (KGPT) to Lakeland, Florida (KLAL) in the Diamond DA-50RG.

This segment takes us from the LOXLY navigation fix to the PENSI intersection, cruising along the beautiful Gulf Coast. I'll walk you through the navigation, show you the cockpit view, and share what it's like flying this route in the DA-50RG.

Whether you're a student pilot, an aviation enthusiast, or a flight simmer, this series takes you along for the entire journey. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe to follow the rest of the adventure!

**✈️ Flight Details:**
- **Route:** KGPT (Gulfport, MS) to KLAL (Lakeland, FL)
- **Segment:** LOXLY to PENSI
- **Aircraft:** Diamond DA-50RG
- **Series:** Part 5 of 16
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Transcript
00:07all right so I'm gonna prepare be prepared to turn on course manually if we don't hear
00:14there we go there we go that's what I'm talking about we're turning on course the right way main
00:23screen right screen yep that's exactly what it was so there was no malfunction that was a power
00:38error that caused what I did the causes what I did
01:28so uh we're passing lotsley as you can see that so passing lotsley
01:38and what we want to know about Loxley it's um well I did point out mobile area as we pass
01:48it
01:51and you have both marine and air traffic heading into a Gulfport into Gulf Coast
02:10so we gotta be coming up on pensy at the moment so if we were still on flight following we'll
02:15be
02:16calling our Pensacola uh approach we'll be talking to the Pensacola approach
02:24but we're not doing flight following some future flights maybe I'll do that but for now I don't
02:32know as you can see that I'm kind of rusty on the autopilot it's one of those things where you
02:39do
02:39the same get used to doing the same thing and uh it changed up a little bit and voila
03:36it's like you guys are on the right side of the plane so I'm going to do this because it's
03:39a lot of
04:27So I'm looking at my temp, oil temp, it just came in a red.
04:34So what I'm going to do, I'll show you what I mean here, see my oil temp is in the
04:43red.
04:45And here's something else I forgot too, fuel.
04:50Now I'm going to, well my fuel pump, you see there are two things.
04:56One, got to save the engine first.
04:59Cooling temp is in the red, oil temp is approaching red, one is in the red.
05:04So I'm going to just simply turn off or close the cow flap, I mean open the cow flaps.
05:11That's going to take care of that.
05:12You'll see these two temps drop down.
05:19The oil temp and the cooling temp.
05:27And the gearbox temp.
05:29Well the gearbox temp is good, but now fuel.
05:32So you may recall one of my videos, I had a problem with that.
05:40So I'm going to turn on the fuel pump.
05:42So right now, here's the fuel state.
05:48In balance of the tanks.
05:51The engine is drawing, once again, correctly withdrawing fuel from the left tank.
05:57That's how it's supposed to be.
05:59And I'm turning on this fuel pump.
06:06Turning on this fuel transfer pump.
06:12And I got to keep an eye on it.
06:14Here's why.
06:16Because it actually, in the simulator, it's not going to stop.
06:21It's going to keep going.
06:23Let me get this back here in the center.
06:25And get this out of my way.
06:59Got an alert inside the airspace.
07:03We will be talking to someone.
07:06So I'm looking at this fuel.
07:12And keeping our situational awareness.
07:18We are near Penzi.
07:30So if you don't keep an eye on this fuel.
07:33It's going to.
07:36It's going to.
07:42A little transfer on.
07:46And I have a work around if that doesn't work.
07:48Because I did some research.
07:49And I actually created a separate video with the companion wiki guide to go with it.
07:59It explains all the.
08:01What goes on with the fuel.
08:03Issues.
08:11It's some nice views.
08:16That's one of those days.
08:18Except we're.
08:19We're.
08:20Kind of.
08:21Navigating around storms.
08:24Actually.
08:24What's that little light here.
08:25Where we are here now.
08:28Um.
08:32Okay.
08:34Looks like it's clear.
08:37That's that one spot that was there before.
08:40It's kind of hanging out.
08:40That's going to be interesting.
08:43If it's the same height as these clouds.
08:46We're going to go.
08:47Well.
08:48We'll see what happens going on.
08:50The cloud.
08:51Thunder clouds.
08:51Have a.
08:52Um.
08:54Well.
08:55That's an intense one.
08:57I'm interested in just seeing what.
08:59Oh.
08:59What happened there.
09:00It got bright.
09:05Okay.
09:06Let me look around.
09:07Yeah.
09:07Let me show you around.
09:08This is really.
09:09Uh.
09:10Really kind of cool.
09:22That's the left view.
09:24I guess we just hit a spot where the sun peeked through.
09:28And.
09:29That's kind of how it works there.
09:31In Florida you have all these clouds.
09:33Like the one off to our right.
09:41And you hit a spot there where the sun is.
09:45Um.
09:46Sun is shining through.
09:48Trying to figure out what kind of.
09:50What river this is.
09:52This river is.
09:54First time.
09:59See.
10:00Little.
10:04Nothing.
10:06Hell.
10:09No.
10:11No.
10:12No.
10:12No.

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