A cockpit POV video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.
Join me for the first 20 or so minutes of my flight from my summer base in Malaga, WA to McMinnville, OR. In this flight, I take off, climb alongside Jumpoff Ridge, cross the ridge toward the Colockum and Mission Ridge, then continue on to the Kittitas Valley west of Ellensburg. Along the way, you’ll see basalt columns, high desert grasslands, forests, farmland, wind generators, and even Mount Rainier, off in the distance. I had three cameras rigged up for this video and I switch from cockpit cam to nose cam with occasional inset views of me looking at the camera. Audio is from direction connection to the intercom so you can hear me talk and make radio calls plus dialed down volume of the helicopter’s engine/rotor noise.
I should mention here that “cross-country” in the world of aviation is any long flight. For airplanes, it’s 50 miles or more; for helicopters, it’s 25 miles or more. This is only part of a 178 nautical mile trip.
You can see all of the videos for this flight here:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/pgKDciGP4eA (this video)
Part 2: https://youtu.be/CmupuFDXa4Q
Part 3: https://youtu.be/vyveMEm_MhQ
Pups in a Helicopter: https://youtu.be/eEVq9sRlJK8
Part 4: https://youtu.be/3KXR_D3SliA
Part 5: https://youtu.be/eghRyzhPigg