Category Archives: Flying

Stories about flying — for pleasure or for hire — and the things I’ve learned.

Snake River Helicopter Flight, Part 1

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Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

Mr Bleu is gone and Wyrking Byrd is taking its place for cherry season. I went with a friend to pick it up on June 1 and we flew it back along the Snake River. I’ve turned that 2 hours of footage into a series of shorter videos. This is the first part.

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May Helicopter Flight with Mr Bleu

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Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

On May 5 — and yes, I know it says May 6 in the video — I took Mr Bleu out for a Flight around the Wenatchee area. Join me for a cockpit POV flight that includes cockpit narration and some radio work.

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Helicopter Cockpit POV Flight: Return from Cherry Drying

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Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

After another deep dive into my raw footage archives, I found this short video I shot after fueling at the airport. It has in-cockpit narration, but there’s no helicopter sound because it was shot with just one camera. I left the airport but instead of flying straight back to base, I made a detour to overfly a friend’s house, so it’s a bit longer than the normal 3-4 minute flight.

Hiller Flight with Cockpit POV

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Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

A while back, I published a video I shot with my iPhone from the inside of a Hiller flown by my friend Mike. Here’s the GoPro footage for part of that flight. Mike is at the controls in the single, centered front seat. I’m sitting in back on the left side, just taking in the view and shooting video with my phone. Sometimes it’s nice to be a passenger.

In this video, we lift off from Mike’s home at a residential airpark in Arizona and head north and west, eventually starting to circle South Mountain. True to form, one of my GoPros died, so the video ends quite unexpectedly, right after Mike makes a profound observation.

The video has angled black borders because I set up the camera on an angle and everything was slanted. Rather than drive you nuts with a crooked view, I adjusted the video to level the horizon. I didn’t crop the image because I wanted to keep the full view of the instrument panel and as much of the area in front of us as I could.

Many thanks again to Mike for taking me on this ride.

Helicopter Nose View: Wenatchee to Hillsboro, full-length with music

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My entire August 2012 helicopter trip from Wenatchee WA to Hillsboro OR as seen from the nose of my helicopter just after dawn, set to music.

From the FlyingMAir YouTube channel, here’s all the video I shot on that great August 2012 flight. It’s the kind of video you’d put on the TV or a monitor when you just want to relax. Enjoy.