A long video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

Hope into the cockpit with me for my first cherry drying flight of the 2020 season!

Some of you folks said you wanted to see a long video so I’m delivering this one. 53 minutes of me flying from orchard to orchard and flying low and slow over cherry trees, talking about what I’m doing along the way. You’ll learn how cherry drying works, why I fly higher over rainier cherries, what the Deadman’s Curve is, why I fly sideways sometimes, how I can dry more efficiently, and why/how you should help small businesses in your community. And more stuff that I can’t remember. Hell, even I could only watch the whole thing once.

I feel as if I should hand out a trophy to folks that make it to the end of this one, but YOU ASKED FOR IT and you got it. Enjoy!

One more thing: Yes, I do take a phone call on this flight and have some trouble getting audio to work properly. Please note that I climbed away from the trees and circled far from any obstacles or other traffic until I resolved the problem and identified the orchard blocks I needed to dry. So please don’t lecture me about distracted flying. I know the pitfalls of distracted flying better than anyone you know — trust me on this — and you really can’t know what was going on unless you were in the cockpit with me. You weren’t.