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Helicopter Flight: Nick Over the Rocks, Part 7

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The final installment of my series of geology videos with Nick Zentner on YouTube.

COME FLY WITH ME as I finish up my hour+ flight with Central Washington University geology professor and star of “Nick on the Rocks” (and “Nick at Home”) Nick Zentner on a helicopter tour of the Columbia River Valley downriver from Wenatchee, WA. This is the seventh part of our second flight together and we start just downriver from Wanapum Dam and head upriver, making our way back to Wenatchee. Along the way, we make a detour up Rock Island Creek and over Badger Mountain before landing at the airport. The nosecam footage is stunning and Nick points out many geological features along the way. This is the last (and longest) part of a multi-part series.

Note: In parts of this video, you’ll hear Nick and I talking about unreliable video cameras. That’s because of the camera failure I had on my first flight with Nick, which you can see for yourself in Part 2.

Places mentioned in this video:

  • Wanapum Dam and Lake
  • Sunrise Highway
  • Frenchman’s Coulee
  • Gorge Amphitheater
  • Mouth of Lower Moses Coulee
  • Rock Island Dam
  • Rock Island Creek
  • Badger Mountain
  • Pangborn Bar

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Helicopter Flight: Nick Over the Rocks, Part 6

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Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

COME FLY WITH ME as I take Central Washington University geology professor and star of “Nick on the Rocks” (and “Nick at Home”) Nick Zentner on a helicopter tour of the Columbia River Valley downriver from Wenatchee, WA. This is the sixth part of our second flight together and we start just upriver from Vantage, WA and head south along the river over Wanapum Dam, along the north face of Saddle Mountain, over the Walluke slope, and then through the Gap in the mountain just north of Mattawa. The nosecam footage is stunning and Nick points out many geological features along the way. This is part 6 of a multi-part series.

Note: In Parts, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and beyond of this video, you’ll hear Nick and I talking about unreliable video cameras. That’s because of the camera failure I had on my first flight with Nick, which you can see for yourself in Part 2.

Places mentioned in this video:

  • Vantage
  • Saddle Mountain
  • Walluke Slope

If you like this video please GIVE IT A THUMBS UP and SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. I’m trying hard to build my channel and I need views and subscribers to get my videos suggested on YouTube’s pages.

Helicopter Flight Up the Yakima River

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A scenic flight video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

Hop into the cockpit with me for a scenic flight up the Yakima River Canyon between Yakima and Ellensburg, WA!

This is the first half of my May 23 flight from Yakima to my summer base of operations in Malaga. I start at the ground at Yakima Airport, get clearance from the tower controller to depart, and take off, with a glimpse of Mt. Adams and Mt. Rainier in the distance. I fly over Yakima, through the gap in the hills there, and then to the mouth of the Yakima River Canyon. I follow the canyon’s twists and turns, chatting along the way, until I emerge in the Kittitas Valley southeast of Ellensburg.

I’ll release the other half of this flight sometime this summer.

A quick note here: if you noticed that the opening credit have a new look, it’s because I created this video with new video editing software: Filmora Pro. I needed software that could edit 360° videos and Filmora can. I’ll be switching to it as my primary video editing package over the next few months. It takes time to learn these things, so I’ll be fine-tuning along the way.

First Cherry Drying Flight of 2020

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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.

Helicopter Flight Over Wenatchee, WA

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A cockpit POV video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

Join me for my first flight of the year — a brief tour of Wenatchee, WA. This is a cockpit POV video with an inset looking back into the helicopter. Includes cockpit audio and the sound of the helicopter running.

About Me and the Helicopter

  • I have been flying for about 20 years. My nearly 4,000 hours of flight time is in Robinson R44, Robinson R22, and Bell 206L (Long Ranger) helicopters.
  • The helicopter is a 2005 Robinson R44 Raven II — the same one that appears in the photo at the beginning of the video. You can learn more about them here: https://robinsonheli.com/r44-specifications/ I own this helicopter. It is the third helicopter I’ve owned since 2000.
  • My helicopter has ADS-B Out and is picked up by radar facilities. You can see my track for recent flights on Flightradar24: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n7534D This is a great site for tracking any almost any flight, including the airlines.

About the Video

I try to drop cockpit POV videos on Sunday mornings and “extras” with more info about owning and operating a helicopter midweek. (Some channel members get early access to some of these videos.) I also host occasional livestreams with Q&A chats. Subscribe and turn on the notification bell so you don’t miss anything new! And tell your friends. I’m trying hard to deliver good videos and grow my subscriber base.

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