Flying to RV Camp at the Gorge for a Concert Weekend (Gorge Trip Part 2) 

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Man, the things we put our families through so we can keep our flying dreams alive!! I hope I don't put mine off GA flying..... it's such an adventure as the PIC, but it's often a bunch of waiting around and uncertainty for the kids and their mama. I wouldn't change it for anything though. Great video!

Another exciting adventure. Keep up the great content! Cheers from AOPA’s Air Safety Institute!

At the doorstep of a dream come true and hearing your kids say “wow”, the joy was plastered on your face and so evident in your traffic calls. 2,500 miles away I can’t help but smile with you. That was awesome.

20:18 You rock my man! Amazing pilot, father and husband. Your wife seems very happy to be reliving this with you and your daughters now that they're older. What an amazing core memory for everyone. Plus who doesn't like The Gorge?! It's beautiful.

Another great video sir. We appreciate your in-depth descriptions and analyses of your decision making. Glad your family enjoys what you love to do. Lucky man!

Wow, you made me cry, the way you treat your family and your major courage to be able to take on this trek. Your an Awesome 👨‍👩‍👧 👪 👨 Dad.

Thanks for taking us along. The girls seem to sincerely appreciate it all, too. Lucky dude.

Super video! Glad to see you guys had so much fun! Flying to an event like this makes it so much fun! Thanks for sharing!

Woohoo! Love that for you guys! Finally someone cool who flys to Washington :) and an improv fan, awesome. As an improv funk pianist this trip is exactly why I'm finishing my PPL after giving up for 13 years.

Thank you for allowing your subscribers to come along on this trip.

Awesome trip, What a memory for you all!

Awesome getaway with the family, kudos!

Super special trip. Really nice family. Thanks for sharing!

You inspire me to become a pilot when I grow up Thank you.

You had a fun time. Thanks.

A great watch and lovely family moment. Good decision making skills!

Truly inspiring! Best wishes from Sweden!

Thanks! You taught me something with that first landing. I didn’t know what that pilot was planning to do. I just knew it was the opposite runway. Filing that in my memory.

Thank you for your videos, your passion for flying always makes them great to watch. And helpful too- last week I had my first sick passenger and I recalled much of the what you learned with your wife and kids sometimes feeling ill - thank you for that!!’ Oh and I must say your wife is a saint for all the stuff you put her through!!! Keep those vids coming!!!!

Living the GA dream! Thank you for sharing with us.

I got goosebumps, feeling your excitement mate! Great job

"Took a hit of that" made me giggle 😎

Absolutely lovely content! So happy for you :) congrats safe skies always.

Keep these videos coming. Love following your adventures.

22:30 Might be better than the first one!!! BUTTER

Great videos. If you haven't been down to SoCal for a walkthrough, let me know! You can record some radar screen as well (Wolficorn did a great video too.) We welcome the public and look forward to answering questions and clarifying procedures. 👍🛩️

Another great video! No better feeling as a pilot than the realization the long held dream is now happening just as you pictured it would, nicely done 👍

This is pretty awesome. I was struck by the final song.

Awesome, beautiful, hopeful and inspiring.

Great video, love seeing dreams being fulfilled!

I really enjoy your videos. Please keep them coming.

13:25 good time to just NOPE it out of that traffic. love following this series, love flying in the gorge! might do it this weekend if the weather is poor.

Great series!

Awesome weather website suggestions. I perused them and will be adding them to my flight planning toolbox.

I enjoy your videos! I fly a Cessna 172 in the Bay Area and enjoy seeing a fellow pilot promoting California! Safe flying! Keep up the good work. You are a talented pilot and content creator.

Oh man the sky beef! Butter landing at Red Bluff though, bet that was nice after that stressful approach

Man! Your videos are awesome and so very relatable! From flying with my kids (they are a little younger than yours) to my wife’s feeling not so comfortable flying anything but straight and level (had to do a couple 360, to wait for jumpers and she had exactly the same face). I am also starting to relate about finding cool things to do with my kids as they get older and we realize they will leave home… lastly, I love my SCFM sweatshirt! Definitely my favorite flying sweatshirt in cool weather!

I've flown to one concert so far. It's a cool way to arrive and hope I can fly to many more.

Great family time.

You 100% had the right away for the practice approach traffic. Take a look at AC-90-66B 10.6

Fantastic video (and also a DMB fan)!

Nice video. Thank you. I thought the song selection at the end with your older going off to college was great.

Your videos are awesome! Seeing you fly with your family makes me look forward to flying with my family on trips when we eventually get a plane of our own! I rent right now and am working on my IFR! Thanks for the great content!

Huge Dave fan here. What a fun way to incorporate your love of flying and music. Very cool!

Really nice video. Thanks!

I got such a laugh out of Vader showing up! 😂 Congratulations on making the trip. Looks like it was a great time.

Daughter looks kinda like Don. . . 💛🙏🏽

Glad you could make it up here to the Gorge! I'm from Spokane, my nephew lives in Wenatchee. I sim fly in MSFS and fly over Pangborn Memorial all the time. As you came in to Pangborn when you first showed it, if you had looked off to the left in the far distance is Maria Langer's place. She's a helicopter pilot who has a cherry drying business and the youtube channel FlyingMair. Just sharing. Love your channel. Long time subscriber and been on your many adventures. Anyway, again, so glad you could make it up to my neck of the woods.

Awesome video! I saw DMB a few years ago here in Munich, Germany. Unfortunately the sound was really bad, so I could not even hear Stefan's bass. Would love to see and hear them at the Gorge!!!

Well done! You tell a great story 👏

Another great video. Beautiful family.

i wuld be heated at that redbluff traffic lol...bravo for the composure

I’ve done/am doing my flight training out of CWU and KELN, so it’s so cool seeing familiar airports! Hope you enjoyed Wenatchee :)

Youre good parents, well done! I learned the real sense of fear when I became a parent!

So cool! 100% want to fly out to the Gorge for DMB after I get my IR!! Who would’ve guessed there’s a YTer who loves aviation and DMB?!!

I’ve had the same thing happen to me at KRBL. My suggestion is go a bit further to KRDD they have a tower and better services.

Randomly stumbled onto this video - I think it recommended it to me because I live at KEAT! We've been lucky so far with fires and smoke here this year so far. Come in the fall, get some apples and see Leavenworth! Also, the museum here in Wenatchee has some great exhibits about Clyde Pangborn!

What an awesome trip! Like you two, my wife and I are diehard DMB fans (though we’ve been waaaay less successful at getting our kids interested). And I love to fly while my dear wife… tolerates it. Last Gorge trip was 2011 and you’ve just given me a new dream! Hard to imagine a better combo than flying to a Dave show! (It’ll be SPAC for us this year, but Southwest will be doing the flying.) Thanks for the super high quality videos!

What are the odds? I found this video in my feed today and I'm going to be seeing Dave Matthews Band in just a few hours.

Recently did this trip from Bakersfield in our Cherokee 180. Beautiful! Flew up the river to Lewiston Idaho

So cool! Carter Beauford is one of my favorite open handed drummer. I d have for sure appreciated this trip too 🥰 I really like your pragmatic way of considering the risks, the best options in case of emergencies...etc to plan ypur route up to the North. Great aviator skills prooving your huge experience with flying! Take care guys. Do you apply any kind of filter on top of your videos? It s always more yellowish compared to other videos I usually look at. I like also the fact that you double check the restricted area being cold. I d have assumed that the area was cold under ATC but better to double check!

Saw a great DMB show in Houston a month ago or so. Looked into going to the Gorge, but can’t figure out how to line up an RV. Any suggestions? Oh yeah, I also love your videos - you do a great job of describing how you make decisions on the fly (sorry, couldn’t help it) and I find that flexibility is such an important part of flying! Keep up the good work!

Loved this series, I go to Dave every year and KEAT is my home airport too. If you eer come back up this way and need any help with logistics or need an airbnb near KEAt, I got you covered free of charge!

DMB was my forest concert - 1994. Also, I spotted that it’s the new Delta Sky Club where you did your NordVPN ad. I was just there two weeks ago - event has a few phone calls in that booth!

What a wonderful video. So glad you guys made it. Four hours is a challenging leg!

This reminds me of my family, we used to listen to Pink Floyd and Genesis because of our parents. Going to concerts was a big deal for us. I was approx. 10y when we were to Genesis and about 12 years old when we last saw Pink Floyd.

Glad to watch the 2nd half of your trip to the northwest. It looked like you all had a fun time at The Gorge. Wenatchee is my "home territory". My dad watched Clyde Pangborn crash land in Wenatchee after being the 1st to cross the Pacific. POI; Pangborn was born just up the river past Lake Chelan (Bridgeport). Next time you get to the northwest - fly 30 miles north of Wentchee and you will be in the "Switzerland of America" Lake Chelan area (glacier cut through the North Cascades Wilderness Area and a very popular playground for the area. And of course, a visit to the northwest should include the San Juan Islands. I have flown the southern Cal to Washington route no less than 160 times. I need not tell you that you made the correct decision staying inland on the way north - even though the smoke was a threat. The odds of better weather east of the Cascades during spring and summer would probably be in the high 90 percent. I can't tell you how many times I have seen clear skies 5 miles from the coastline only to see the summer fog never lift on the coastline. Red Bluff is my normal fuel stop when heading south - occasionally will stop in Montague - depending on fuel needs or Ashland. Flying these kind of cross country flights is what flying "is all about" in my book. They are challenging, extremely satisfying and just fun, especially when done in the safe hands like yourself!

WOW!! What an awesome video. Being a pilot myself and a huge DMB fan, flying to the Gorge to see DMB would be awesome with my family. Loved the footage and the challenges of your flight and the clips of the Concert......No Carter and Stefan??? What?? I'm sure Dave, Tim, Jeff, Rashawn and Arthur and their fill ins didn't miss a beat......wait, okay, without Carter and Stefan...maybe a beat or two were missed, but no doubt it must have been an awesome series of concerts.......Cheers!! Eric from Dallas, Texas.

Been a long time since I've been to the gorge amphitheatre

First saw DMB at the Georgia Theater in Athens, GA thirty years ago (can't believe it as I'm writing it) before they were big. We were looking at them as well as another band who was popular up the road at U. South Carolina called Hootie and the Blowfish 😄to play our big spring fraternity party. Instead, everyone thought cover bands were the way to go and we didn't book either of them. 🙄 Looks like it was a great trip!

Nice video. Makes me want to go fly over that area. Crazy thing is I live less than 3 hours from there and yet have never been to the Gorge.

Fantastic video Eric. We like to fly to concerts too. Just saw Paul McCartney a couple of weeks ago..it was awesome. Going to see Steely Dan in August.

"Tell me we won't grow up too fast" with the kids in the background got me tearing up.

G A at it’s best 👏🙏🏻🤗

👍☑️ Best story yet, tks so much.

Neither choice is wrong, but I'm curious why you picked Wenatchee to fly into versus Ellensburg? Just happen to be where the RV was located?

You can say that the people doing the low approach were doing a touch and go without the touch and just the go.

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The pilot conducting the practice approach to RWY33 did not need to conduct the missed approach and turnout over the runway. Once he knew you were landing RWY15, he could have broken the approach off anytime after he passed the FAF and it still would have counted. See FAA InFO 15012, fn6 - "During simulated instrument flight in an aircraft, it may be necessary to deviate from the final approach segment for safety reasons (e.g., in order to avoid traffic or other hazards). In these cases, the pilot may still log the IAP, provided the aircraft has passed the final approach fix (FAF)." Enjoyed the video.

Love the videos. Not DMB 🤣

Was this before you went with the O2

G,day from Sydney Australia. That was a good film and my takeaways; are * Firstly, very wise having the supplemental oxygen. * Flying to smoke atmospheric conditions....? I think both humans and combustion engines are better with clean air. Albeit no PIREPS or FBO reports. Looking forward to seeing more flying and the plane looks great. 🌏🇦🇺

I'm not a Dave Matthews fan, I primarily listen to the Great American Songbook, so a lot of stuff from a long time ago. However, your trip seems to have been aweseome. I want to comment on something else. Most flying channels don't cover other than the pilot, usually. Kevin and Jaime did a little bit on 310 Pilot, but seeing your youngest getting sick, and then your wife feeling it after the 360 around the Gorge I think are important parts of the video, because that is what happens with non-pilots in the airplane. You don't usually see that on the airlines since it's pressurized, usually straight and level, air conditioned, climate controlled bus ride. General aviation is different. I'm also glad to see that you got your Mountain High O2 system, especially if you're going to be using 1BW for long distance travel. Is that a Turbo Six, or just a standard, normally aspirated engine? You keep this up, you're going to need to find a Malibu! LOL Thanks for sharing this video.

I tried that boost oxygen - didn't make my oxygen saturation levels move at all

Quick question, why is oxygen needed? Non flyer hear, want to fly a king air in the future

cool, I had a crazy idea to make an RV out of the Soviet AN-2 aircraft, and travel on it

It's good that the wife got her PPL.

I noticed you had an SPO2 monitor, the pulse oximeter will not be able to differentiate between oxygen and carbon monoxide therefore is not accurate if your are trying to monitor oxygen levels in a smoke cloud. Simply, you could be hypoxic but show high levels with the spo2 because it is picking up carbon monoxide.

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I don’t think I’ve seen a video where one of the kiddos doesn’t get sick lol

DMB deep cuts only.

Is that the think from shark tank. Did he include pilots using it on his sales pitch cause that makes a lot of sense. Even more so than athletes.

cool. i'm from Wenatchee, in the industry as well, looking to get my PPL in the next 6 months. would love to connect in LA. any good projects you're wanting to work on in the future? will try to connect sometime. always looking to meet new people. :)

24:13 :)

Did I see Poppins toss her cookies on the landing? 🤢🤮

That's the great thing about Dave, it seems he's always got a few amazing guests to come on and jam. I LOVE when Robert Randolph plays with them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tenPRs-MUXA.html Around 5:20 is just awesome

I’m trying to wrap my head around this. So your going to watch the same band play the same show 3 nights in a row? Isn’t that like going to see the same move 3 nights in a row or thereabouts?

The plane that was doing the practice IFR approach should not have taken priority over you, in my opinion, you were in front closer to landing, they should have let you come in first especially at an uncontrolled airport. IFR does not take priority over VFR, at least in Canada and certainly not when on a practice approach. They created increased risk for you and them in this situation.

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