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.
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.
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.
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.
Another cockpit POV video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.
Here’s an intro flight given to an airplane pilot in a Schweizer 300CB helicopter by one of Canyon State Aero’s CFIs, Trevor, back in January 2020. (Regular viewers of this channel might remember Trevor as the CFI I practiced autorotations with in another one of my videos.)
In this video, they lift off from Mesa’s Falcon Field Airport (FFZ) and head out to the practice area east of there. Trevor does a standard intro flight — the kind they’d do for potential new students — before returning to the airport. This video includes cockpit chatter as well as all radio communications between takeoff and landing.
Since recording this video, Canyon State Aero was sold; I’m not sure whether its new owners are still operating a flight school. This was shot prior to Covid lockdowns.
To get this video content, I had to split the cost of the demo flight with the student, who was an employee of Canyon State. Many, many thanks to channel members and Patreon patrons. It’s your membership dollars that made this flight and video possible. I hope they enjoy their ad-free, 2K version of this video.