Thanks for your nice video Matt. With all that equipment, you make cross country, look easy. I had a 1948 V tail Bonanza for some years, and just loved that airplane! I also had a Stearman( actually two of them, but not the same time) for twenty years. I also was into a Republic SeaBee for about three years and have a few hundred hours in it, but never got a sea plane rating. The Bonanza was just basic equipment and not as elaborate as you have. I bought it soon after I got my license in 1964, and had it until 1978, when I sold it for a down payment on a house. (Should have kept the Bonanza). I had to quit flying about 1983, when it got too expensive, and I had small kids to feed. I cried when we had to sell the Stearman! Thanks again for reminding me of the good old days! At 81, that's all I have is good memories!
Hey Matt, thanks for another great video. And a big THANKS for mentioning the need for calf exercises on a long flight. Blood clots are common, not just in folks with a clotting disorder or older people, but in anyone who sits for a long period of time. The risk is heightened with dehydration, something that is almost inevitable in GA aircraft simply because emptying the bladder is a bit of a hassle. And, despite female urinals being available, female pilots and passengers are at even greater risk than their male counterparts...it's just such a PITA to pee in flight! Further, some types of oral contraceptives increase the risk of blood clots. The calf exercises and ankle pumps are essential for all, and many long-distance fliers might also consider popping an aspirin before a long flight. This can add extra protection from blood clots, provided, of course, that aspirin isn't contraindicated by a person's medical history and/or other meds...consult your practitioner. As a critical care/emergency nurse, I frequently see patients expressing surprise that they've been diagnosed with clots, which can travel to the lungs and be life-threatening. They're surprisingly common, so thanks again for the public service message, and for another entertaining and informative video.
I love you videos. I love aviation but with my eye problems makes it impossible so I have to live vicariously through all the awesome pilots who share the cockpit with us. I love how you show everything and awesome scenery. I so wish I could fly but not in this lifetime lol. Thank you very very much.
Got the same issue, I feel your pain. Make friends in a flying club, if you can. You might not be able to get a license, but I'm sure there is someone who'd like to split fuel costs and take you up.
Treat yourself and get down to the local flight school. Explain your limitations and I'm sure a CFI will gladly take you out and let you fly. NO need for a license to do that. Enjoy the thrill!!!!
I'm actually really in the habit of saying soda, having lived on the east coast for most of the last 5 years, but I figured I was in the Midwest, I was gonna say it the Midwestern way haha
Oh, y'all are probably talking about what Southerners call Coke. All soft drinks are Coke. "What kind of Coke do you want, Dr Pepper, Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew?" ;-)
Great clips! Your videos bring back memories. My father was a private pilot. He flew me all over the US in his 61 Piper Camanche 250 for 18 Winter, Spring and Summer breaks and various random trips up in down the eastern seaboard, Florida, Gulf Coast and Texas as a kid. Some notable trips, did Oshkosh back in the 70s (78-80) a few times. We buzzed the Statue of Liberty in 82. Went low level through the Grand Canyon in 84. My dad loved flying, never stopped doing it until the day he died. Keep it up, both flying and making the videos! As you know it opens up the world to you (and us viewers) and allows you the freedom too never stop exploring.
Nice to hear you use "pop" as opposed to "soda". I'm from the Chicago area and grew up with it being pop. Nice to hear people still using the term. I also had a pop explode on me like that when it slipped from my hand while going into the fridge. It went off like one of those spinner fireworks. I had pop literally from floor to ceiling. Including a cartoon style person shaped image of my on the fridge door when it stopped. Years later I still find an occasional drop someplace in the kitchen. As for the snack box...yeah, that definitely looks like a nice mom that's trying to hook her daughter a good husband! LOL
Used to have an A36 like yours. Last and best of 4 planes. Pittsburgh to SW Missouri to visit family. Tip tanks. Great ride. Sold it to buy lot for retirement home on Eastern Shore of Maryland. Your videos ALMOST puts me back in the cockpit again. Thanks! Well done and keep em coming.
Hangar 9 sounds a lot like Sundance where I fly out of. If you are ever flying in Oklahoma and needing cheap quality gas and a great FBO, check out KHSD in Oklahoma. We have two range rovers as courtesy cars.
Hey Matt, I absolutely love your videos. It's hard to find good quality aviation videos on RU-vid. I haven't seen a video of yours that I don't like yet! They're all really good. Keep up that good work.
Cory Robin lol yeah Matt needs to get a Carbon Cub or at least a kitfox like trents. Cannot wait to get my Kit fox and come fly with y’all out at High Sierra.
On a return trip from Oshkosh, we left Green Bay in a Duke and got a clearance direct to Norwood (KOWD) at FL 250, had a chance to get up and stretch out in back. Clear weather and a nice tailwind. A very memorable trip.
@@sparta3d229 Our Duke had the factory turbocharged Lycomings with 380hp each side, best performance was between 21,000 to 23,000 ft. where the we had a below 10,000 cabin altitude. At 25,000 the cabin altitude alert light would come on, meaning you had to keep an eye on the cabin altitude. I believe the turboprop conversion came out after it was sold.
@@johnstephenson2891 I was thinking istwould be so cool to have RAF bases here in the US because I like the RAF. No one fought off the Germans like the RAF. Technologically the RAF was far ahead of the USAAF. Strategically more sound in terms of the bombing campaign. We were very nieve.
@@BlackWarriorLures Many, many years ago I was a radar tech in the RAF! Not during WW2 but a little during VN and other places! AND I am a proud VETERAN!!
Hi. I flew my 1962 Bonanza non stop Houston to Guatamala city. About 7 hours. Had a big jar and a raft. All went well did it 3 times. Everyone asked why not hug the coast and add 2 stops for customs and 3 hours. I was very happy to see the fishing boats after5 hours off the coast of Progresso Mx
Man, you're amazing to wear a shoulder strap for seven hours. Most all pilots shed it on initial climb out. You average 170 knots/ 196 mph over the ground for the flight. You are a very lucky man to have the use/ own an A36 Bonanza.
Excellent episode as always Matt! Looking forward to the Traverse City VLOG. If it's anything like the Mackinac Island ep. I'm sure it will be great! Thanks for sharing and being the GA ambassador that you are.
That is funny Matt that you showed us that empty water bottle and then hit pause. I was just going to ask you about that seven hour flight and exactly just that. Guess my question got answered.
They sale these bags that are full of diaper pellets. Turns to a solid gel and kills the smell. They are a few bucks a piece. More than three hours and I need to walk around and get a cold DDP, so I never have used one. But something like this solo going on a long cross country, they would be awesome. www.sportys.com/pilotshop/travel-john-pack-of-18.html
Life raft (and life jacket, hard to swim in cold water) between the seats, within gliding distance of land the whole way over Lake Michigan, out of gliding range for about 12 minutes over Lake Huron, so very minimal increase in risk. Weather to the north made going around impractical/at least the same increase in risk.
Wolficorn And those lakes never give up their dead, as the song goes. I had a buddy go missing in 1993 over Lake Michigan in a 182. All they ever found was his seat. I was thinking about him a while back and was looking at the old news stories. I was surprised at how many never get found. On a lighter note...
@@mattguthmiller I know you have plenty more over-water experience and prep than I do. Like you, having my own plane helps me have a much better idea of the health and overall quirks of a particular aircraft. I guess being at 11k, the out-of-glide time period was relatively short. Either way, thanks for posting and stay safe!
That peninsula in Wisconsin is actually Door County. It's very pretty up there. When you're at Oshkosh next year you should try to get up there if you can. Cave Point County Park is pretty cool!
How do you buy your own personal Cessna in US? Where do you store it? How much does Cessna cost? Is it legal to just fly across the country wherever you want (within airlines and avoiding restricted space of course)? Which airports/airfields are you allowed to use a GA pilot? How much do you pay for fuel and how/where do you buy it?
You can get a loan (like a car loan) or save up and buy many different kinds of airplanes. A cheap Cessna (like a 150) can be as little as $15,000 or so (even less). Anybody with the money can buy one. A brand new Cessna (or similar plane) can be anywhere from $500,000 to almost $1,000,000. Obviously, you can spend a lot more for a jet. You store the plane at an airport. You usually either rent a tie down spot (cheaper, maybe $75 per month) or a hanger (more expensive). That can be a T-hanger or a larger one. A hanger might be a couple hundred dollars per month. Depends on the hangar size. In the U.S., you can fly all over the country. There are certain places you can't fly and those are marked on aviation charts. There are vast areas where anyone can fly, though. If you go to www.skyvector.com, you can see areas labelled "Restricted." Those are about the only places you can't fly. In the U.S., you can land at almost any airport. There are literally thousands of airports where any pilot can land. The majority are uncontrolled (no tower or controllers) and some are controlled. You can land at either one. You can buy fuel at most airports in the country. In many airports, it's self serve. You just pull up to the pump, like when you fill up your car at a gas station. Just put in your credit card, and fill up your plane. In some places, an FBO (small company at the airport that provides various services) drives a truck out to your plane and fills up your tanks for you. Prices vary, but somewhere around $5 or $6 per gallon is typical. Sometimes, it's more, sometimes less. You can usually find prices online and so might decide where you want to land based on fuel prices.
Your reserve is more than my diamonds tank capacity of 25 gal. Longest I've gone is 4hrs from Moncton to Montreal with a strong headwind and I only had about 50 min of fuel left. Also, you're lucky to be able to fly at 11k w/o oxygen, in Canada you need oxygen above 10k if you're up for more than 30 min.
I have a summer cottage on a lake a little more than an hour from Trenton, Ontario. That's where the Canadian Airforce is located, it's a big military and coast guard base there. I have C-130's fly over my lake a few times per summer at an altitude of like 300 feet.
There's tons of little airports and towns you should check out. IE Bancroft, Ontario airport (CNW3). The airport is owned by the flying club but open to the general public (it also has a restaurant). The Town of Bancroft is the mineral capital of the world and has tons of mom and pop shops to check out.
The funny colors near lake Michigan look like an inversion to me. (you were looking over your shoulder when you said "funny colors", I was looking ahead in the line-of-flight). Inversions are hard-to-see if you are much above or below them, but when they are at your level, you see them.
Cool video, and truly excellently-equipped Bonanza you've got. Doing IFR work, what kind of system do you use to write down your vectors, heading assignments, clearances, etc? I didn't see any paper.
I want to see you move the yoke to the other side... also I would spend my whole flight monitoring my flight and equipment. The one time I spent too much time reviewing charts, my autopilot took me 40 miles off course over central Kansas. Brief moment of panic trying to figure out where I was.and why. That was pre-glass cockpits, but technology in not infallible.
Much better snacks than what you'd get flying commercial. And we gotta get you flying around Michigan's U.P.. If you go to Marquette, you can land at an old Strategic Air Command base! They still have the old "Christmas Tree" and "Mole Hole" there.
Is your cell service still active during the flight? How do you use the bathroom on a long-hour flight? How do you keep warm in high altitudes? I am new to aviation.
Hey, this is new subscriber in Hong Kong. There's the first time I am watching your video, It's really exciting on the sky with that beautiful view. It's very unlucky that the people in Hong Kong is hard to have that aviation experience. Hope one day I can have a RPL to operate the plane... very enjoy watching your video.^^
10:55.. I saw what you were doing! ;-) next time, keep a Gatorade bottle or Arizona ice tea.. something with a bigger neck! Those little bottles with the small cap, you have to sharp shoot it in, and you hit a bump, well, it’ll be like that pop can!
keep up the good work. Did you know that you don't have to press the "1" to enter the frequencies e.g 123.34 can be entered "23.45" Least it works like that on others.
Great pilot and strong plane, 11000 ft above the ground is very high, according to this little plane, but the plane was so smooth, even landing was so smooth.
Can you please make a video on how to set up your cameras on board and which case, cables and adapters you need to also have the radio and mic get picked up with the engine noise being canceled out? I’m struggling to find the right equipment needed to make all this work. And where do plug all that in? My li-ion batteries in my action cameras don’t last longer than 2 when constantly filming. Don’t wanna run out of power while flying either. An instructional video on that would be great! Thanks
Hey Matt, have u ever heard of Bay View? It's across the bay from Traverse City. I grew up there in the summers and I might continue my flight training in Traverse City next summer. I am currently training at KBNA though because Nashville is my home town. If you read this thank you for reading of course and I love following your aviation journey!
Need a closeup camera focused on those gorgeous Garmin glass touchscreen avionics, you lucky guy. Nice! To fill idle time in flight, discuss their features for folks not familiar.
So many safetysallys were triggered when Matt flew a single engine over Lake Michigan. After all EVERYONE knows you have to have a twin to fly over ANY open water.
@@mrben5267 yes, I'm well aware of that. Perhaps you didn't notice the sarcasm dripping off the comment like ice cream out of a cone on a 120 degree Phoenix summer day.
Great video as always Matt. How much greater is your range with the tip tanks than one without? 1200 miles is really impressive. That kind of flying could really help with my business. Was considering a Mooney, but this makes me want an A36.
Is that dashboard of your airplane custom? I was looking at them online and most looked like they were like little gauges all over rather than a couple big screens
Hi Matt, just a doubt because my English is not so good, why do you change from LOP to RPO after 8:30 at movie? What your preference and your opnion about LOP, do you think that bellow 65% of power is not prejudicial of engine? Regards and have a good flights...
The FAA has been known to take certificate action against people who make flying videos. I'd be careful about showing the yoke swung over to the right seat while you are sitting on the left side. Technically, nobody is at the controls. Just FYI.
Curious why you would wear an exposure suit to cross the Atlantic but not Lake Michigan in winter. Even if you got your life jacket out in a ditch, you’re only going to live about 15 minutes in that cold water. Just a thought.
Matt - sucha cool video and amazing versatility with the Bonanza. I think my longest XC was may 5 hours but not enough range for non-stop. Could I ask - for night flights, do you have a favorite flashlight for preflight and emergency cockpit lighting?
Great video Matt...just need to correct the length of your flight parameters...we fly Sydney - Perth (Australia) -1770 nautical miles straight across the country but the bladder and the fuel tank scream loudest...Cheers Ian
