@@user-nt1zv8ic5m I'm lucky to fly in such a beautiful area. Everything from mountains to desert to coastal Islands and rainforest are only about a two hour flight away.
Great video, have to go there, definitely on my bucket list. As for the landing, we all have those, my “3 landings in one” at ORS during their fly in certainly wasn’t my best. Let’s find a way to do some flying together this summer. 👍👍
This is a very difficult field to land when winds are not optimal. 15 years ago there was a horrible accident there of a low-time pilot trying to land with tail wind over the lake and didn't make it. So your decision to take the rarely used mountain approach may have been the better one. At least if things gone wrong you had better chances to go around. As the NTSB report details, the go-around from lake approach with a tail wind was deadly. I would cautioned anyone without significant experience from going there, especially on days with suboptimal winds and density altitude. www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:17:::NO::AP_BRIEF_RPT_VAR:WPR09FA316
Very nice video. We instructors like the camera between the seats view. Terrain and trees put us off some from techniques that we may be more comfortable with at the home airport. However, full flaps and deceleration to a bit of sink brings throttle into dynamic play for exact glide angle and rate of descent control without the speed up common with the forward slip. The wind is our friend. Yes, with a long runway, a downwind landing up slope works well. But the other way with a good headwind allows an approach with very slow ground speed and long look at the situation where we don't see the runway until late. Good job though.
@@Mtnhiker56 landing long and coming down on all three landing great pretty hard after my float. Hard contact is pretty much what you want to avoid on soft fields. However, luckily, this field was not very soft, even though it was grass.
@@Mtnhiker56 yeah, we chose to depart early in the morning to take advantage of the slightly cooler air and better performance. I didn't want to try it later on, we were around 90°F that weekend.
Great video! A camera between the seats, showing the dashboard and the pilot's view would be fantastic too. It's like we could fly with you. Greetings from Brazil
@@ielside1 I liked that idea, and tried it before, but the camera was in shade and the outside would end up washed out with brightness on sunny days. There's probably ways to solve that, but moving the camera position was my best solution for now.
@@SkywardVentures the grass was sparse, but long. Luckily it hadn't rained for a while and the surface was hard. No real risk of digging in, but I didn't know that when I slammed it down. It just wasn't good technique.
@@leftcoastcorrie Thank you Corrie! It was a challenging day, there were multiple thunderstorms that rolled through and the airshow had to be put on hold twice.
PBY is the most beautiful plane ever made, its been my favorite since I first saw one waddle out to the runway at Geneseo ages ago, even got to fly with a WW2 PBY vet one time.
What a beauty, great footage of this classic warbird. Such a nice type to get to see in action. Hope you're having fun on the island and that you get some great footage this weekend!
@@SimonButler Car engines Yes. Some older aircraft have used ZR1 corvette engines. If you see a Bee with a low wider cowling, then it's a car engine, if not it's the original, possibly a Franklin or Lycoming. Sorry for spelling.
@@SimonButler Story time, goody, goody. Many, many moons ago I was up in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and walking down the Main street when I heard that sound. Right away in my mind ,it sounded like a Seabee engine, sure enough as I looked up a Seabee flew by. The next day I flew to Juneau AK and there was a Seabee parked with other small private aircraft. Seabee memories.
Totally loved it! What a beautiful collection of classic aircraft with the emphasis on taildraggers. I'm sure CFI's will be looking enviously at Concrete for checkrides. Any pilot who can make a good landing in that mechanical turbulence should be granted their license immediately.
When Pilots Make Things Look Easy Like That, It Seems Like Irresistible Fun ... But Attempting That Myself In Real Life Would Be Absolutely Terrifying Every Time.
