Another excellent video even when equipment is uncooperative. Such a nice trip and having your wife along to enjoy a “bucket list” adventure is priceless. Nice flight and wonderful place to visit - now to put that on my list as well. -
Ah man ya beat me to it…. We plan on making go that trip ourselves later this year!!! Ya need to upgrade to DJI cameras 😜🤪 Sorry…I make the best Fudge !!!
Awwww man I'm jealous! Mackinac is on my bucket list. Two summers ago we flew from Boca Raton (where I'm based) up to Charleston SC and from there worked our way Westward, taking our time, stopping and visiting friends and family along the way. Our 'goals' were to land at bucket list Sonoma AZ, and then on to Catalina. We made the landing in Sonoma (spectacular!) We spent three extra days in San Diego than we had initiall planned while waiting on VFR at Catalina. Never happened. The weather there was low IFR the whole week and so eventually we gave up and headed back to Florida. We had planned this summer on flying up to Mackinac but weather/wife changed our plans. Maybe next summer. I really enjoy your videos so thanks for taking the time to film, edit, and post. Also tell your *girlfriend that the kiss at 50:00 was super sweet too and made my wife say "Aaaaaaaaaah how sweet". See ya' in the pattern! Joe-
Thanks for the nice comment Joe, the weather around Mackinac Island can be difficult to say the least,we got a lucky break so I took advantage of it. I did helicopter training into Boca Raton for my night missions, most of my training was out of Lantana,but that was about 20 years ago.
Sometimes I will let the autopilot fly the approach down pretty low,only so I can verify not only if it is working correctly,but to keep myself familiar with the power settings. I think being proficient at both ways is good. Thank you for watching my videos.
