Camping out on the Island with Ultralights 

Living the dream! Flying to a camping site, any camping site, makes for a great time. Even if the weather gets bad, you are having an adventure worth remembering. Cheers from Winnipeg.

Yall living a lot of folks dreams. Thanks for the video.

You returned to comp on the island on the St. John River down behind the home where I grew up. It made me a little homesick for Carleton County. Thanks for the video.

Well how cool is this for a camping trip! 🤙🏻

Please do more camping on islands with the ultralight! It's super inspiring!

I love your editing on the 360 camera. That takes a lot of time and effort. Much appreciated!

You guys are living my childhood dreams right now!😊

Best camera angle and position I've ever seen in flight videos!

I actually enjoy the wind noise. Quiet flying is relaxing.

Come down to Australia we’ll show you real island 🏝 camping 🏕 great to see you all having a fantastic time...✌️

mmatt, I am just in awe of the joy, the freedom, the fun you are having flying in ur ultralight spectrum beaver aircraft in such beautiful country. I would luv to experience it. I can't afford it.

Cool shot of the nose wheel/rudder control on final landing at the end.

Very nice camera work ! Thanks for the ride.

I think Matt is a very experienced camper. I need to go back and get something, so while I'm gone set up camp. Edit: THANK YOU for not adding mid-roll ads.

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Great videography, Matt. Thanks.

Superb video many thanks for sharing with us all,lovely country for aviating.

Beautiful shots!

Yes sir! Still fly in camping indeed. Great channel!

Wow. I found this video at 1AM. But it's like tapping into my dreams.

Amazing flight footage. Looks like you had a great trip. Thanks for sharing this. :)

Amazing video. Looks like great fun.

Well that makes me wanna go drag my airplane out and head to sand bars. Thanks I know what I'm doing this weekend.

Good call on the bannock, and it looked good. Outstanding job on filming & editing, Matt. I can't count the many fishing/camping trips where I'd forgotten the bug dope, lol.

I appreciate your taking tome in editing to switch back and forth between planes. Good start to video.

This makes me happy just watching!

I like the structure of the yellow glider more than the blue one - the tail wheel instead of the front ...🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲😋😋😋

Awesome Guys, funn and enjoying,👍

Awesome! Looks really fun! I want to do that!!! Really cool!!

That was enjoyable watching....thanks

Good job and well done.

thanks for posting info about the gliders in the description! that made my search simpler

looks like a lot of fun, thx for sharing

Excellent video! Awesome!

That's what it all about. Thanks for posting.

Lots of fun! Nice video!

Good fun fellas! You might be experienced pilots, but campers... Practice makes perfect!

Great footage! Keep it coming 👍😁

ate watching you guys fly makes me wish I was 30 years younger I would be during that in a heart beat keep it up hint maybe some more places to see

Loved every min of that Matt just wish we could do that sort of fly camping over here in the UK!

this was really really awesome. Great landings and take off.s

Fantastic Video!!!

Sweet plane MMatt! This looks like too damn much fun!

great fun thanks guys

Great video

Felt like I was right there with you. Great one.

With our ultralight planes all around the world, we all dream of the same thing..land on an island and make a fire camp

One of my favorites

Great fun. Just love the extra flight to get bug spray.

Great video I enjoyed it

I used to live on the E. coast of Central Florida. Photographing in the evening required bug spray! Like my camera gear, I never left home without it!

Buen video !!! Me encantaría vivir esa experiencia

Cool video! I have been flying the rivers around here looking for a spot to land like this. Spending a lot of time on google Earth, then follow up with recon flights in the Aerolite.

Awesome camera angle from every side on flight ....

Cool adventure. Bug spray always good to have. Maybe need to save up for some real food next time. LOL Thanks guys!!

The camerawork is amazing!! I could probably afford the plane, but not the cameras! LOL Great video!!

Very cool!

Great Video Matt !! I have been waiting for it and was not dissapointed buddy , ok maybe a little. no Vicki and her Beaver :o) Down River Tim (Oak Point Area)

this is the best camping... trip !!

The flying Dorks for sure! 🍀👍🍺🍺🍺

Success !! 👍

cold weather camping=no bugs=no bug spray

Saludos desde Buenos Aires . 👍👍👍👍👍😷

think I would have set up house on the landing strip. I think it may be less bugs than in the tall grass. Rocks can be raked out of the way for a 6x2 lay down spot. LOL

irmão esse lugar é magnifico. é um sonho de qualquer piloto de ultraleve, voçê é um um cara previlegiado . boms vôos

man ultralights are awesome

Nice

Boy scout cooking motto...when it's smokin it's cookin...when it's black it's done

Missing Vicky with her Beaver!

I cant believe you guys didnt invite me! I mean I like Canadians😳

As long as there are brown bears you shouldn't have any casualties XD lol

yeah, this vid earned a like... way too cool.

Greaaaat :O)

Just gone say looked like you had plenty of runway left when you took off with Curtis from the island.

As always, I'm impressed with your flying skills. Are there any dams upriver of the island where flood control releases of water are made, which might reduce your takeoff distances and/or flood your planes?

100FT margin of error is terrible if you have an emergency. When things go great, it's fantastic though. Just keep that in mind for future flamping trips. Just get a can of bug spray and sun screen and keep it on the plane with your first aid kit.

Un sueño....💓💓

A poor story of three campers, (an almost true story): They flew there with two microlite aircraft, they flew back to get another camper they could not take the first time. They did remember bug spray, however, the bugs didn't care and ate them half to death. During the night the rain came on, one of them panicled and went to his microlite, but wandered into some quick sand, his dieing calls were heard by the others, but he had sunk out of sight by the time the others got there. They went back to their tents thinking "More beer for us" and they went to sleep in a half drunken state. They woke to the sound of heavy rain, then it dawned on them that they had better get off the island before the river rose and the gravel bank runway was under water. As the packed up their tents they heard a roar of water, the river was rising very quickly, they left their tents in an attempt to reach their microlite aircraft and take off before it was to late and there was no beach left. They got to the edge of the island just in time to see the microlite aircraft hit by a wall of rising water and with a crunching, crashing noise the water swallowed up the microlites, smashed them against the side of the island and swallowed them up and carried them downstream to oblivion! The two remaining campers realising they were is great danger walked away from the bank to find a high spot, but there was none, just the odd small tree. However one tree stood higher than the others, so they ran to it as the waters rose above the bank of the island and started to swallow the land they were standing on. They climbed the tree as high as they could, helping each other as they climbed. Still the water rose and rose until the island was all but gone. A house owner noticed that the river was rising, he had been woken by the heavy rain, he looked out to see the island was almost under water, then he remembered he had seen two microlites land there last night making a lot of noise. He looked for traces of them, but through the semi-darkness he saw nothing. As he stared out through the now morning light, the light of day just breaking the horizon, he saw a dark shape where the island was, it was sticking up above the water. He knew from past times the river had risen so high that there was one tree that was the last to go under the water. Just than he thought he saw something moving out in the water. He stared into the ever increasing light of the morning. He could make out a shape out in the water, but it didn't look like the tree. He grabbed his binoculars and looked across the very high water that was now so high it was coming down in waves. As he picked out the tree he spotted two people, drenched and hanging on for dear life to the tree which was bending under under the pressure of the water trying to push it over and downstream. He ram and picked up his mobile phone and dialled for help. Just then there was a cracking noise and a splash as the tree gave up its fight to stay upright. it bent over and sunk below the water taking with it the two people that was clinging to it branches for a last chance at life. But it was not to be and as it took the two people below the waves the old man heard one shout "Oh F***". As they drowned in the water, the bald eagle that had been watching them came in the hope that they left something to eat rubbed its wings together at the thought of the feast of the two peoples bones tonight when they were washed up downstream, cold, lifeless, but above all, yummy! Never again was there a noise in the skies above the river. But wait, here comes a woman flying a microlite and a bright yellow microlight. As they come into land at a nearby Burger kink the pilot of the Bright Yellow microlite was heard to say "Oh, Vicky, I need a pee!" FIN.

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A little mosquito repellent and lots of hahaha smoke. 😆🙄👍👍👍👍

This is freakin awesome. Norhwest Canada? Is that guy serious with the FUBU shirt?

Nice to see your trip, landing and camping at the Island, greetings from Puerto Rico,USA. Where is Woodstock, Canada?

What is that the Jurassic Park Island.⛺️ I never seen Fern so big 🌿

This is my first video of yours, so the accidental backlighting made you more mysterious and interesting.

Beavers have such great visibility. Did the Bannock biscuits taste like chicken?

Been seeing a lot of ultralights lately. Back country flying and camping always seemed far too expensive and out of reach. Somehow I'd never considered doing it with an ultralight, but it makes perfect sense. I still can't immediately afford $20,000 for a plane, but it's sure as hell a lot more achievable than $200k to $500k for a proper bush plane.

always love your videos. I see by your flight back that you got off the ground pretty well with your passenger. you look like a 175 lb guy and your passenger maybe 200. how do you think that thing would handle with just me at 6'1 280lbs? I like how you can land on the islands like that... it is what id like to do.

Did you have to research land ownership of that island prior to using it for landing and/or camping?

I’ve camped on a lot of islands and have found camping on the gravel points of the islands have almost no bugs at all. FYI

Hey Matt! Thanks for providing such awesome flight videos. I recently bought a Beaver 550 on floats, and I've installed two wing tanks to provide for extended range. Can you please recommend some sort of inexpensive flight navigation system I can use for extended flights in British Columbia?

Looks like a lot of fun, just a thought but why not put the camping bag in the yellow aircraft backseat, then the two blokes go off in the Beaver?

Have I missed something? Did you say where this is located? Well done video. No elevator music as your flying. Just the drone of the motor, communication & flying.

Hey what the model of your ultralight?

Hello guys a great greeting from Buenos Aires. One question those fuel tanks of how many liters they are and what autonomy they reach. 👍👍👍👍😷

Can you land on water saltwater fly low island land can ?

Great vidoe. An absolutely fun way to have an adventure. I have a question though. Why couldn't you have put the camping stuff in the yellow plane and Curtis in your plane with you?

Next time, go a day before with a weed wackier. Cool island. Got any other ultralight pilots in the area ?

Where did you buy those wing tanks? and installation?

what kind of plane does Mitch own?? is it an ultralight? nice videos btw. :)

serious question, it just rained near you, are you not worried about the river rising and leaving you with a smaller runway or possibly washing your planes away?