Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

Join me for the fourth part of my cross-country flight from my summer base in Malaga, WA to McMinnville, OR. In this video, I make an attempt to cross a dinky little mountain — really a hill! — that separates me from my destination. That takes me from my precautionary landing site in Woodland, WA over Scappoose, OR and almost all the way to Portland before turning around and returning to Scappoose. There’s a lot of footage that includes the Columbia River. Although the weather isn’t horrible, the ceilings are low — too low for me to get anywhere. I had three cameras rigged up for this video, but only used footage from two of them. Audio is from direct connection to the intercom so you can hear me narrate the flight and make radio calls, plus dialed down volume of the helicopter’s engine/rotor noise.

You can see all of the videos for this flight here:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/pgKDciGP4eA
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 (this video)
Part 5: https://youtu.be/eghRyzhPigg

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.