Flying Cowboys Utah Flying Adventure - VLOG 

I always thought of bush flying as a necessity in remote places like Alaska, I didn't know that it was a sport or hobby. It's about the coolest thing I've ever seen.

This was one of the best days of my life! To think I almost missed it is crazy to me. So grateful to meet you and the crew. Next time you're here let's get up in the sky!!

Loved the video, the music, and the scenery! Awesome job!

Thanks Trent for the inspiration; Kitfox V4 in the barn being built right now. Can't wait.

Being a former Marine Harrier pilot and currently an Instructor Pilot for a major airline...your videos have have brought back the trill of why I love to fly. Amazing stuff!

I came from Ogden, Utah and went to PA and holy moly I miss the Mountains and canyons. Those drives on the highway into Salt Lake from the deep canyons and it opens up gets me every time.

Amazing scenery.

Okay.... Been watching a few videos, a kitfox is officially on my bucket list now! Trent, great job on the videos man, you are doing awesome!! Keep the vids coming and thanks for your hard work, editing and sharing these experiences with us! You truly motivate me and a lot of others!

Moved to Salt Lake for grad school and never left. It really is gorgeous here. Got my PPL cuz it was a burning itch. Trent, your videos make me feel like I need to see a doctor for this itch. And you know what I like most? You actually interact with your followers. That is truly awesome. ~john

I’ve never been so jealous in my life.

That was GREAT! My two faves in one video! Flite Test and Trent Palmer! I was cheesing even more than Stefan! You could feel his excitement just oozing out! Amazing photo work Trent! Thanks again! The extras with the tools, the ancient drawings and the drone work all helped the coolness of this video!

Crushing it down where I was raised. Nice work on capturing the views. You have inspired me to get back to going for my pilots license. Keep up the great work.

Just wanted to say thank you for sharing all of your epic flying adventures. I've been an A&P mechanic for 12 years and your videos have inspired me to pursue a PPL and build an experimental Kit Plane myself. Slowing reaching my goals. Hope to fly with you one day. Stay real and keep posting your awesome videos!

How do you more than like a video! All of your videos have a fantastic cinema quality but this video was so awesome! From the amazing flying to the small details on the ground what a great video. Such a fun channel!

The closest I can get to do what you do is to watch your video. I spent my life simply surviving not acutally living. Hope all you pilots be safe and live life. I am truly heart broken for Mike losing his Draco. I love this man.

How is this not going viral?! This is literally THE LIFE. Fly, explore, enjoy. I've fallen deep into a bush plane K-hole and I kind of hope I get stuck down here.

Well done my brother! 💯👍🏻👨🏼‍✈️🎥🖊 I’m partially disabled and re-hab on a spine & shoulder injury from work... Your videos are very POSITIVE and affirming and I really appreciate them!

Thank you for this video. I've been a fan of "flight test" for a couple... few, years. The very epitome of freedom is shown to me by your video blog, Trent. I can't show enough appreciation for work like this, well done!

That's incredible. I was in a wilderness group as a teenager. I lived in the Utah desert for 63 day's. I remember hiking up Cedar mountain and walkong across that airstrip. It's fascinating to see you guys actually landing their. Wow. If i recall there was a rock that looked like a huge tower near their.

What a truly amazing video. Nearly every single reason why flying is amazing is in here.

Stefan's enthusiasm is so infectious

Much better than any Casey Neistat video

OMG what an amazing and fantastic life you lead Trent, I am just a humble very old PPL man over here in England and I just wish that I could fly like that in those incredible aircraft - thank you so much for sharing this with us!!

I have No idea why you are only at 9000 subs. You do the stuff dreams are made of. I wish I was rich like you guys. Now I'm too old to start doing this. But thanks to people like you and the internet, at least I get a small taste of it. Even though I know "The Pictures never do it justice."

Thanks for sharing your experience, difficult to watch without smiling with appreciation.

That dude riding with you has great energy

man these guys are just some good people enjoying life having a good time. so refreshing to see! I would love to be a part of this type of community

This is amazing! You guys are truly blessed to have the opportunity to fly,explore and live this lifestyle.

Wow. Hard to imagine any better flying than with a bush plane.

I subscribed just because he is the Peter McKinnon of the sky. Excellent idea, excellent execution.

Awesome videos of awesome flight adventures! The Flite Test guys are great too! Love ‘em! Especially that Alex guy - proud to be his old man!

Yes, thumbs up for Utah!

Found your channel today and can't thank you enough. I was wondering if you had thought about flying Utah's back country. I've been around on the ground but, I know of a lot of places you'd like to see from the air as well. Luckily, you found the right people to show it to you in person. Thanks for sharing.

You are one of my fave RU-vidrs atm and this video was awesome, keep it coming!!

Such an inspiration man. Moved to Alaska two years ago and I’m finally gonna start towards my PPL. Keep up the kickass footage man!

One of the sickest videos I've ever watched on RU-vid man...big screen worthy shit right here. The GA world needs an long form documentary on this scale bro...you have the planes, the equipment, the means....do it. One caveat...if you do I wanna be involved man...throw me a bone dude.

I love when people talk about Utah because it’s my state

Haha i'm actually a Flitetest viewer for a long time, but watched your video first because i found your Channel by watching your awesome try to fly a rc fixed wing from your Kitfox some months or weeks ago ^^. Greetings from Germany btw. 😃👍

Mike has a badass hangar with some badass toys in there

Well that was so special in meeting up with ther Flitest gang,it never ceases to amaze me what beautiful places you discover and to hear that people were dumping rubbish out there and you cleaned it up,very commendable ? was that a Wilga version ? we need to now more about that particular airplane and what engine it is fitted with,lovely video footage thank you Trent for allowing us to share your passion.

I love your videos Trent. You do a fabulous job editing. The drone footage is also fantastic. And I probably like the audio track equally. Your plane has the best paint job too. You have it all dialed in! Amazing!

Yo Dude ... Mr. Palmer ... What an AWESOME video and what an AWESOME group of guys. Can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed watching this video and many of your other flying videos. Looking forward to more. A big THANK YOU to you and the entire crew in this video. THANK YOU ... from the GREAT WHITE NORTH. Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada.

Pure freedom. Lucky guys.

Wow Trent. Blown away. Absolutely amazing flying.

Cool to see the Flitetest guys on here! I got interested in drones in 2014 and build my own from their tutorials. Small world when RU-vid is involved. Great video.

Ultimate man cave and more epic flying. This should be called the jealousy channel. I found this channel through the Flitefest guy and I'm glad to see the collaboration continues. I'm guessing/hoping that Trent and Freedom Fox are going to make an appearance at Flitefest West. Keep the vid's coming Trent.

Wow awesome footage thanks for sharing I'm really enjoying my 4K 70-inch TV now

Wow! I've been pretty much binging this channel, but I can't believe this wasn't one of the first videos to be suggested. That's some great flying!

Uh... I’m so jealous. Can’t wait to fly the 170 around the class C airport... again. Another sick video buddy. Really cool stuff

That dude's smile is infectious

My cousin learned to fly out of Moab, would you believe 40 years ago! They flew all the canyons in Utah! I surprised he is still around!!

What a fabulous channel! Thanks for the beautiful work, makes we want to get into STOL!! Blue Skies!

Saw Cory's cub yesterday at South Valley regional airport. You help inspired me to start flying at age 15!

Next Level Of Cowboys Trip

you guys are so fortunate

Fantastic, what a fun video and highly inspirational!

Hey trent, you put up probably THE best "lifestyle" videos on youtube. hats off. also for just being a normal guy. BUT ! a camera on your dashboard facing forward would be amazing, just to really catch the view that you have, especially when drop in the canyons. anyway, props to you !

My favorite Trent Palmer video!

Thank you for sharing the beautiful landscapes.

Cool beans right there. A trip of a lifetime.

Recently watched Corey on the "Poker Run" which flew this same terrain. Trent, you should join the poker run. Very fun video!

Excellent video like all of your videos. I enjoy this one specially because I live in Utah and fly PPCs with my friends and my goal is to one day have a Kitfox plane. I checked the flying cowboys website and that is a very exclusive group with very high requirements to get in so they will only invite people like you. One of the neatest thing in aviation is the camaraderie, friendship and knowledge transfer from the experts down. That might be why we enjoy your videos so much, we feel all of that in each video that you make, that you almost do it for us. Have a wonderful 2018 and who knows we may meet up in the air one day...

That was by far one of the coolest videos I have seen in a long time. I wish I could be there to experience that!!

Sweet video. This is making me want to fly back out west with my plane and do some exploring. Thanks for posting.

This is my new favorite aviation channel on youtube! Keep it up man, these videos are awesome and the quality is great. Thanks for sharing.

Just awesome, When you are going through gaps it's like you are a raging drone going through gates and diving stuff.

Just recently came across your channel and MAN your content is absolutely epic, love every single video so far, this one might be my favourite. Greetings from an airline colleague over in Latvia, Europe.

Spoke with Rob Rollison at Aerotrek and figured out aircraft setup, Rob just does not have any planes. I mentioned Mark Pringle at West Desert Airpark and Rob suggested to speak with him. Forty five minutes later I was out there. Mark has a Rans S-6 ES with tundra tires he is selling and I'm making the plunge. It is a trike gear plane that can still get into many places. Will train to fly in my own plane. Always put this off because of 52 years with type 1 diabetes but my control is good enough I can do this...and be safe. This will be a dream come true.

Greetings from Oregon....this is by far one of the best video I dream of doing in person myself. From reading books of flying of the 30's and 40's I thought this long lost art was gone due to FAA rules/regulations and such. It wasn't until 30 yrs ago I was mislead and now that youtube is out I can live the dream again to "One day that will be me". I only got 22 hrs in taylorcraft but you guys are top notch. I would LOVE to do this adventure trip!

That was absolutely awesome, best video yet, thanks for sharing!...

This is my favorite RU-vid channel. Love the video quality and love what you guys are doing. I have an Avid Mark IV. I’m getting it ready for some off airport operations this Spring. Would love to see some videos from you Trent on how amateurs can get started videoing their flights with standard equipment. Thanks again

6:37 The Patey twins do some of the most awesome formation flying I"ve ever seen.

You had me smiling the whole time! Welcome to Utah!

You're videos just keep getting better and better, keep it up!

The intro is by far the coolest

I'm sure you get this all of the time and it might be annoying, but I am highly interested in learning how to join the flying cowboys. I'm up here in Nampa and live not too far from Kitfox so needless to say I will be going after one as soon as I get my Sport Pilots License. Thanks Trent Palmer for your videos and look forward to meeting you and the guys some day!

For a couple years at least I've been wrestling with the inherent tradeoffs/contradictions in the list of characteristics I want in the airplane I'm planning to buy. Frankly, ever since I started to solo after the first 20 hours of flight training, most of my flying has been super low and slow over wild, crazy, remote geology... and landing at "impossible" places along ridgelines, short stretches of 4WD/backroads and other crazy places (like emergency strips where they dump forest fire fighters). One of the more memorable and hairy ones was over 11,000 feet not that far from Mount Whitney. Almost all my trips were in Cessna 152s that I rented where I took my flight training at the Monterey airport. I obviously didn't realize there was significant risk of denting up the airplane body (or prop) with flying pebbles, or I might not have been so bold. Frankly, teaching myself to fly/land/takeoff super low and slow... and in insane places subject to unpredictable gusts and such seemed infinitely more risky than flying pebbles. Though eventually I had done so much of this kind of flying that landing in a tiny fraction of the usual stretch of non-runway became totally second nature. Obviously all the above is totally consistent with the *Trent Palmer* and *Flying Cowboys* type of flying in these videos. *BUT* that's not the only kind of flying I'm interested in now that the lightweight (650 pound) carbon fiber pipistrel virus sw 912iS with extreme range tanks can fly 6500km without refueling (because it gets up to 75mpg at economy speed (220kph~240kph) coupled with the extra large fuel tanks in the wings). This means now a dinky little 2-seat private airplane can fly from California to Hawaii... or what I'm more interested in... from Chile across the entire south pacific ocean to NZ and AU and beyond (with 1 or 2 stops along the way to refuel). The key point is, there are stretches of about 4000km without islands with fuel (or people), or in one case, without any land at all. Furthermore, I'm interested in landing on top of all sorts of 17,000 to 21,000 foot altitude mountaintops and ridges in the Atacama Andes (south Peru, north Chile, southeast Bolivia, northern Argentina). The opportunities there are beyond belief, but so far I've only "been there done that" on foot, not in a small airplane. And so, I've been struggling to figure out how to make the pipistrel do everything I want. The default configuration is tailwheel, but I prefer trike for the obvious reasons (even beyond "that's what I know"). But monster wheels and tires are totally insane for flying 4000km "hops" across the pacific, because it wastes massive amounts of fuel for no benefits (on those trips). I'm not sure how much weight to give the warnings Trent gave about carbon fiber bodies... after all the "carbon cub" seems to have become quite popular for bush flying. At least that's the impression I get... perhaps wrongly? *And so I wonder, maybe the wise answer is... TWO AIRPLANES.* Maybe the same kind of Kitfox as Trent, except with 912iS engine... and the pipistrel virus sw with 912iS engine like I described. That way everything I learn about the 912iS engine benefits me on both airplanes, and all the spare parts that I keep around will work on either airplane. Maybe adopting the same instrumentation and other gizmos and accessories for both works too. After all, they're both gonna be classified as *experimental* aircraft, so I guess pretty much "anything goes". I assume. But, to make this work financially, I'd have to share the cost (and ownership) of the Kitfox with at least one other pilot... presumably someone in [southern] Utah or [northern] Arizona or maybe nearby parts of Nevada, Colorado, NewMexico. I'm quite sure the pipistrel will be fine for less than extreme bush flying, cuz it lands and takes-off on a dime like the great bush planes the Flying Cowboys zoom around in. Where it would be problematic is landing where the tires might smack into jagged rocks or remnants of tree stumps and limbs. And, of course, it would need to avoid landing on soft or mushy surfaces like wet sand and such. And so... that's why I'd fly the pipistrel to wherever my partner is, and steal the Kitfox (or whatever) to go raise hell on the riverbeds or ridge-lines or other crazy places. So... is anyone in this neck of the woods interested in creating a 2 or 3 or 4 way partnership on a bush plane? If so, let me know in a reply, or find my email or skype information in one of my other posts under this video (posted about 7 months before this message). I'd also consider a partnership on the pipistrel virus sw 912iS, but that might be a bit more difficult to make work... depending on how often you want to fly, and where you are. While northern Chile or anywhere in the Atacama Andes would work great for a partnership on this pipistrel airplane, anyone elsewhere would need to understand that the airplane will go away for weeks or perhaps even months to far flung places in the southern hemisphere from time to time. Of course, you could come along and share the flying if wild, crazy trips like these appeal to your sense of adventure and "insanity"! :-)

Your intro completely kicks ass!

Best Video yet! I legit live 1 minute away from the Spanish Fork Airport. Wish I could have come seen the freedom fox in action!

Absolutely brilliant flying people, absolutely love the freedom you have

Best video ever, keep the coming. I am seeing the land like never before. Be safe!!!

Wow, so glad Shaun sent me over!! Awesome video, great camera work and some amazing flying.

Wow. This makes me smile every time I watch it. Thanks so much to all the cowboys for posting all the great videos. YeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaww 😎😎😎😎😎

So much freedom, so much autonomy, beautiful landscapes. Awesome! :-D

Faily new subsriber to you Trent, but been a Flite Test subsciriber for years. Good to see you guys link up.

...just awesome Trent 👍🏻👌🏻

Glad I found your channel while looking at drone videos. Awesome footage. Your going to be huge on RU-vid. I'll be able to say I remember when Trent only had 10k subs

Wow the views are beautiful 👍

Superb scenery, just made for flying.

very cool a 5 with sti wings and a cool bush gear !!!!!!!!!

I fly RC's.. and after watching this I'm definitely getting a stol plane.. great vids

I had the chills and goose bumps the whole time. So cool!!!

Holy smokes, I just found some media from my trip to Spanish Forks back in 2012 when I visited Mike Burton with AirGyro. Beautiful out there !

One of the best videos I've seen! I had a smile on my face the entire time. The geek/nerd in me has to give a shout out to the dude sporting a Mass Effect hoodie at 11:08 !

This, quite simply, was an amazing video...Nuf said....

Awesome Video!!!!!!

This was the coolest flight I have ever seen ! You guys rock !

Thank you for making this video. Thank you for re inspiring me. Thank you for sharing aviation in such an amazing light. I’m subscribed and will be following close. Some time ago I stopped Pershing my pilots license because I was turned off by the FAA and it’s regulations as well as the cost. I still go out and take opportunities to ride as often as I can but this has re ignited my fire to become a pilot myself.

Is that truck stop the one in Green River on the west side of town? This is the best video you have published, and I still haven't watched the whole thing! After I hit "comment", I am headed back for more.

Always used to hate the Kit Fox, now I think I’m gonna get one haha! Another great vid