DA20 ferry flight Day 1: factory pickup, filing the eAPIS, and crossing the Canadian border 

For us newbies who have not started PPL yet, thanks for all the pre-flight checklist and landing checklist stuff. I really like to learn vicariously how the "flow" of flying a plane works. I am going to take all that to my PPL journey I hope to start next year. Love the videos. Keep'em coming!

DeHavilland Mosquito was built in the very same factory there in London Ontario Canada during WW2.

Love how nonchalant you are! Great flying!!

From factory to customer that is interesting job 😊

I love your video! Your video brought back the memory of me ferrying a Diamond Katana from California to Ontario Canada, that was over 20 years ago. Excellent video Hayley!

Great video, nice flying Hayley ! Keep the videos coming !

Shout out from London ON. 🙌🇨🇦 😊

Great video Haley. We use Port Huron airport during our summer visits to Michigan from Orlando. Fred A. was my flight instructor when we both lived in Michigan. When you see him, tell him I said Hello!

Haley, Well done. You made a wise choice. Purdue University. I live in Indy. Hoosier native. Glad you got an awesome place too stay. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the trip. Safe travels.

Glad you started making new videos. I enjoyed this. Keep it up!❤

Love the video, I start my ppl in January and I cant wait to get going , fly safe with love from Liverpool UK

Just discovered the channel. Good luck and from one pilot to another..........ENJOY!

Fun to watch. Thanks Hayley.

I enjoyed the video. I remember watching your first solo flight at Watsonville.

Wonderful Vid Hayley! As someone else said, you have a really likeable and easy style - cool, calm and collected!

Just found your channel. You seem soo calm and relaxed. Have subscribed. Stay safe.Mick🇬🇧

Beautiful flight and very informative. And to top it all off you got free lunch! Sounds like a pretty good gig.🐶

London is just one control zone away from my home base; occasionally drop in there to pick up a passenger that I'm taking for a ride in my RV9. I toured the Diamond plant in the mid 90s when composite production aircraft was quite the novelty in Canada. Subbed and will enjoy watching.

Good morning from Minnesota USA. Nice video.

Looks like a nice slick plane! 👍👍

Very nice video :) looking forward for more videos :)

Great job!!

Great video. Just discovered your channel. You have a new subscriber in Scotland.

Good story telling with setting the seen before and after. I got to do more of that in mine.

I love your content, and I miss some of your old videos that you took down. The Niaraga one was pretty cool. Safe flying!

RU-vid just sent me your first video. This would be my first ferry flight video I have watched. I would love to go through the adventure with you on RU-vid. Looking forward to your adventure videos. --Alex

Hi Hayley...Love your gentle disposition. You make me want to fly the DA20 more❤. Next flight tomorrow in MFS2020. YA, SIM only lol😅

Wow! I've seen a lot of pilots, you are just calm and cool throughout anything! Great job, you fly very responsibly and safe! I guess you landed at the Spirit of St Louis airport instead of Lambert. I live in St Louis, that's a nice airport. Happy Flying :)

Hope you enjoyed your time in Ontario! Watching from Niagara Falls 🇨🇦

Great video!

Awesome video!

I enjoyed watching you on this part of your flight, I have some time in a DA20 flying in VNC Venice Florida .... good job

Great video. First I’ve watched and as others have said, you have a really calm and cool manner that is great to watch. I was thinking - you’d make a fantastic instructor. Then I check out your bio and see you already are :)

Love the video Hayley! ◡̈

Pro tip - keep your clothes for the next day on the hard surfaces usually by the TV, that way if you have a bed bug issue, you won’t be taking those guys home with you.

Hello from Phoenix Arizona! I love the diamond star it’s one of my favorite airplanes. I probably have about 200 hours in that plane and I really like the new DA 50 that are a serious SR 22 or a Cessna Corvallis, which is the old Columbia 400. They are awesome nice airplanes, unfortunately I can’t get a medical right now so I’m thinking about getting a new PC because I’m a Mac person and getting Microsoft flight simulator and buying some Garman G 1000 instruments for my home which are the Sim stuff that you can have at home that looks like the real thing. Thanks for sharing the video with us.

Very cool! It's been ages since I flew in and out of KLAF.

great views; scenery and pilot! :) Nice to be along for the ride (rental car, hotel, etc.) E travel!

Purdue is in Lafayette, Indiana, not Fayetteville. 😊 You practically flew over my house about halfway between Ann Arbor and Lafayette. Great video! New subscriber, looking forward to seeing more ferry flights.

I love how bs free your vod is.

Nice video. No night flying for me either(when I was flying years ago). Color vision or lack thereof…take me flyin! 2L0/AEX😊

It’s a good idea to tighten lap belt so that shoulder harnesses don’t pull lap belt up over your stomach or ribs. If you have an engine failure right after takeoff and make a emergency landing with a quick stop, you won’t like all those G forces focused on your stomach and lower ribs. 5 point belts are better.

Nice vid. You may want to dial the audio in level down on your audio recorder, as it was clipping/distorting about half the time. That’s why it is buzzing the whole time.

Lol when ya was landing at purdue i could see my parents house! Hope everyone here treated ya good!

Nice job!! Thank you for sharing. And yes, Chipotle is the best. LOL. Safe travels. :)

Fun to watch. You need to produce more videos. I saw on one of your videos that you were flying near Lake Tahoe. Do you live in Texas or California? Thanks for sharing.

would be cool to see different angles while you fly! ex. forward facing/wing/instrument panel

Great video! I was going to ask how you get back home after delivering the aircraft, but I suppose that will be in Part 2

That was definitely a preview of a remake of Hitchcock's - The Birds. Good luck with the rest of the flight!

Great video Hayley! The DA-20 is a cool aircraft, looks very comfortable too. I’ll bet the cockpit can get pretty hot in the sun though. Does it come standard with A/C? Free crew car, yes please! The hotel “room” in Perdue was amazing, like a really nice apartment! Looking forward to Part 2 🤗

I didn't know Diamond was even making new DA-20s. Hand flying long distances is a lot of work. I've seen a few pics here there that the current version of the DA-20 has an option for an autopilot (S-Tec?). Both the DA-20 and DA-40 are super nice flying machines, and fairly speedy too. If I recall, the DA-20 can get upwards of 130 knots max cruise.

What a great gig! Glad this made my algorithm. Do they happen to need any more ferry pilots? 🙏🏻

Goed gedaan!

Hello nice Video cool 😊

Cool Video. I got my private pilot in a DA-20 and did my intermediate/XC time in one as well. Nice little airplane and the center stick was very intuitive. Currently flying pipeline in W. TX. How do you like ferrying planes? I actually worked at Meacham Airport for several years and believe I met Travis, seemed like a nice guy. Thanks for the video.

If Diamond makes a DA20 retract, I'm there for it.

Ive just started following your channel. Its a great incite into your area of aviation. Love the videos - keep them up!! Is there any chance you could show a map of where you will fly at the start of your trips - Im not from the USA so I sort of guess or look at google maps when you say where you are going. thanks

G O A L S ! ! !

Port Heron=Port Huron Great video!

Great aircraft. I transitioned from Cessna to Diamond DA20 very quickly. The control stick was easy; visibility really good, performance on climbout notable; and really low fuel flow. Of course, having to turn on fuel pump was new and controllable prop. I'm thinking the type you were flying didn't have that (controllable prop), right?

Would love to know how to get a ferry pilot job! Looks like a lot of fun!

I live close to St. Louis! I want to fly😁🎉

Just discovered your channel Do you do ferry flights full time? If so what's your schedule like? Do you love what you do? I live in the GTA Just curious, where did you do your flight training I'm considering genesis flight school in stayner- they use D40's, Do you think it's better to learn in them or the more common cessna 172 I may even consider doing training in Florida. Warmer, bit better pay and bit more job opportunities

How long was this trip/how many stops ?

I want to fly my SR22 to Montreal but just saw the requirement for a top and lower ADS-B antenna…. Does your diamond have a mod for that?

I really liked your video, and how relaxed and beautiful you're up there... next time can you put a camera from the back so we can see the cockpit? :)

You speak of not flying after dark. Is that your personal choice or a company policy with Premiere?

Should have more cameras so we can all see the instruments and front view. Nice lady

how do they send the tech records etc vs you take them

I see the owners manual behind you but what is in the box???

You need to look up an old horror movie, called the birds and try to watch it. It will scare you out of your mind ha ha.

Departure 028 at CYXU ? Forefligth gave me 027 … si it correct ?

are you still IFR? i noticed you use VFR for long distance from canada to texas.. how impossible?

You should get a plane with icing on it would be good for you

Just subscribed and if you would please keep the music out of the cockpit. Like you explanations while flying along, very informative. Look foreword to more videos. Thanks for posting

Hayley, Just curious does this DA20 have a autopilot?

Is there a break in period for Rotax? If so, what are the rpm constraints? Thx

i should hire you to ferry my 180 cessna and my 421 cessna to germany. this summer. i will however be watching you asi fly above you in my challenger lol serious i need to hire someone who i can trust.

VFR - Very Fun Route I got kicked out of two clubs for that joke.

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Which airport did you land at?

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$150 room with kitchen is good price where you at.

Can you do a video inflating an airplane life jacket?

Please get a stabilized camera for future non headache videos

lol! not being ugly, at 12:56 you look fantastic!

Sooo sad that you had to have a room to yourself 😁

The music is way too loud and distracting. Really killed the video.

Too much editing...