Mountain Flying in the Colorado Rockies - Denver to Telluride in the Cirrus SR22 Turbo

Hey YouTube! Launching a new channel - Kilo Whiskey Aviation - come join me as I fly from Centennial Airport (KAPA) to Telluride (KTEX) in the Cirrus SR22T. Telluride is the highest commercial airport in North America, and brings with it challenging terrain, high density altitude and a really cool approach on top of a plateau 1000 feet above town.

Would love your comments and feedback as I continue to share my passion of aviation - also, please subscribe to my channel and you will be notified when I release future content.

****DISCLAIMER****
Videos found on the Kilo Whiskey Aviation channel are for purposes of entertainment only and not intended to replace aviation instruction with a Certified Flight Instructor.

[TheRenBaron]

Nice job KW. You've got the cameras perfect. Nice looking Cirrus you and your buddy have there!! Cheers-Ren

[TJFlyingAdventures]

Wow great first video! ... Looking forward to seeing more of your future content!!

[PilotDaveAviation]

Snow tops looked amazing on that approach.... You have mountains, and I have the east coast of Florida to fly.

I was in Denver, July of 2021, on business with my wife, and we enjoyed the food at the Perfect Landing ! If we are ever that way, maybe you can meet us for lunch. Let me know if you are ever in Orlando.

Again, thanks for sharing your video, safe flying ! CYA

[cmejaf]

Nice video! Came over from the COPA post as well. As someone else mentioned, lower music volume and just having the ATC is sufficient. Much better than I’d be able to produce though. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

[tbmguy]

Great video KW!! Nice landing - you made it look easy.

[nottoolatetofly]

Very nice video. Looking forward to more. What I would appreciate is showing your route plan on a sectional if VFR or IFR chart if IFR and a short discussion of why you chose that particular route. This is especially interesting for mountain flights. Another thing that would be great and a big miss with other Youtubers, is showing the flight using something like your Flightaware track and information. It will be interesting and educational for us to see what altitudes you flew, what speeds etc. Mountain flights lend themselves for this particularly well. Having said all this... it is your video and all this might just be too much work...haha.
Again, thanks, keep it coming and good luck. Beautiful plane!!

[skybirdnomad]

at 2:25
me: 😱gonna run off the road 😱
me: oh right its sped up

[coreystoll]

Man I’m jealous! Flying in the mountains is on a completely different level than in Texas!

[dryreed]

I’m coming over here from your COPA FB post. I am a frequenter of aviation vlogs, especially Cirrus with lots of ATC. My most common complaint on vlogs is regarding those that try to be music videos. That is not your audience. I haven’t watched this yet in full, but in what I saw, you did well at including quality comms audio and not dominating the sound experience with your favorite music. Production tools make this so easy and my plea is that you keep that temptation in check. Music tracks easily start to make it feel like a marketing video or very long commercial. My suggestion is that less is more. Only add music so subtly that the viewers focus on the story is enhanced, not detracted. The few cruise segments, for example, come in on the loud side so could still be lightened up, IMO. Or use that space for some narration? This looks like a great start and I’m only saying so much because you might still be early enough in that you are listening to feedback! Im usually watching videos more than a year old. Thanks for sharing and safe flying in that beautiful bird. (I am 4 hrs into my Cirrus transition!)

[micheldelafontaine]

Hi, Kilo Whiskey! Just curious about the Camera behind you and how you secured it (to the oxygen panel?).

[patrickbrunner]

Nice video and love the scenery. I'd like to take some mountain flying training in my SR22. Do you have any CSIP's you'd recommend? I'd be flying in from Minnesota.

[jarodmorris]

To bad the channel seemed to disappear as quickly as it appeared.

[micksimon]

Thanks for the content! I concur with the comments about the music. Understand you had audio problems, would have appreciated at least more narration about the route and altitudes you chose. Watch Niko’s Wings for an example of someone who gets the music balance right. One question, I saw you pull the plane out of the hangar with the oil door still open (I think). Is there a reason for that in your preflight sequence? Keep producing!!

[chuckwright]

Nice video! Fun to watch. I hope you get the audio fixed for future flights. Improvements for next time would be make the video shorter and include a route map so we can see where you are flying. Thanks! Chuck

[jettrink]

Baron Von Rickentoff off your port side...

[scottholder]

Watched you sump fuel but never saw you look at it... Perhaps the speed of the video?

[austinbotter]

Man I need to be rich lol really minimize the amount of traffic I have to deal with on the 70