Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.
Hop on board with me for a quick tour of the cherry orchards I was responsible for drying this past season. This video continues where I left off with my tour of the Colockum Fire damage (https://youtu.be/HT4jT_CG0yU), on what might be my last scenic flight of the season. I start at Jumpoff Ridge and continue over Stemilt Hill, Wenatchee Heights, and Squilchuck Canyon. Then I take a detour past the east side of Saddle Rock before descending down over downtown Wenatchee. Finally, I head up Stemilt Creek past a few more orchards and from there into Malaga for landing.
I had two cameras rigged up for this video and I switch from cockpit cam to nose cam for most of this flight. Audio is from direct connection to the intercom so you can hear me narrate the flight and make radio calls. You can also hear helicopter engine/rotor sound and rushing wind from the nosecam camera enroute.
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Interesting video, thanks.
It seems very dry up in those cooler highlands on the east slopes of the hills around Wenatchee. I noticed lots of ponds and mini-lakes which I guess are used to water the cherry trees? Are those lakes fed by snow melt and rain, or is the water pumped up from the Columbia River?
It’s desert out here so it does tend to dry up in the summer time. The ponds are for irrigation, cooling (for apple trees on really hot days), and (in the winter) frost control. The water is either pumped up from the Columbia or is snow melt from the winter stored until needed — depends on where the pond is.