Nice ride from Wenatchee. So that’s where the Gorge in George is. I’ve been thru Vantage to Spokane a couple hundred times, and south from Vantage thru Mattawa. I new The Gorge was off to the left there when on I90, but never new what it looked like, so thanks for the tour. I don’t like crowds either. Nice upload. Watch out for those A10’s.
you're really starting to find your natural voice narrating naturally all of these things around you the you've probably taken for granted for years. hard to do. love it.
Summer of 2017 I would do one run a week to Seattle and we would load apples in Yakima to Nogales AZ these apples would be going to Mexico D.F. Beautiful up there! Thanks for the posts, God Bless.
Really cool Maria. I've never been backstage at the Gorge before lol. We're getting that smoke down here in the Tri-Cities as well, ugh! Keep the awesome videos coming.
This episode has been extra enjoyable for me because of the route that you flew. In 2004 I moved to Wenatchee after having spent one year in Vantage WA. During that year I did alot of exploring of the area's north and south of Vantage. Frenchman Coulee was my favorite of discoveries and was as far to the north that I had been. Here in Wenatchee, I have never been south beyond your town of Malaga. As yourself, I too am an explorer who has been all over the world. Today you assisted my Wanderlust to know the area between Malaga and the Gorge Amphitheater. Today ends a 14-year long need to know what that stretch of the Columbia River looks like. Thank you very much. I will be re-running this video a few times today.
Beautiful video thanks for taking us along! .. but not just drug overdoses ~ i'm sure there are lots of us golden oldies who may run into any range of issues so i'm thankful (and maybe a smidge more likely to attend) they have a Med Evac helicopter on location...there's a Dylan and Willie and Billy Strings concert this summer there will be lots of gray hair at that event they may need an extra chopper
The Sandbar across from the gorge I have always known as party beach. How original huh? On the opposite side is a natural cave that I can get my Sea-Doo all the way in. It gets kind of loud in there. I wonder if that Chinook was involved with Stevens pass, they have been pouring concrete and last week they set new lift towers.
Most folks I know call it boobie beach. Apparently, there's some toplessness. It has a real name, though. I think it begins with an S and might be a Native American name.
Love the video! I just found you and will be watching all the videos you have! I am from East Wenatchee, and currently a USMC Ch-53E pilot. Glad to see another helicopter pilot in the area!
I love watching your flight videos! Thank you so much for sharing. I'm thinking of taking lessons here in the UK because you make it look so easy. Hopefully you can sort the issue with the cameras soon.
Thanks for the tour of the gorge, I wondered what it looked like as many of my friends have been there. I don’t like big crowds either so I doubt I’ll ever go there. Thanks.
How about two geologists? - Nick Zenter at Central Washington, who does the "Nick on the Rocks" series for PBS stations, and Bruce Bjornstad, who specializes in the ice age floods. Each of them has his own RU-vid channel.
I like the audio intro, is that new? Good stereo sound is immersive, nice work. Great video, love that you call it a nice "little" Chinook :D Hope to see that tour.
@@FlyingMAir I got curious when you didnt cut the video lol. I absolutely love flying helicopters in virtual reality. the feeling of lifting vertical is amazing! When I'm I'm not doing that, I'm watching your videos. :)
Love your channel, ran in to it a few months ago, slowly catching up to the new content. But what a lovely looking area, I could spent hours with you in that helicopter just to admire nature doing its thing! So glad I found your channel! The festival area you flown over and landed at in this video, used to be a set for one of the Ajunabeats music festivals. They also have a RU-vid channel at which you could check out their previous visits (in case you'd like to know). From what I've read/seen is that the place is quite famous for its view and the panoramic view over the river and valley, I've never been there myself as I'm from Holland. Our little country is mostly flat, haha, so seeing this is quite interesting.
I've watched a professor Zentner's video show for a long time about the geology of washington state. It's very interesting stuff and he talks alot about the many many ice age floods as the ice sheets starting melting at the end of each iceage. Interesting stuff.
Another interesting video, for me anyway. Is it possible to let go of the steering, or must you always be actively steering? When your travelling forward at speed, does feel like your pitched forward?
The cyclic is extremely sensitive. If you let go of it -- at least on the helicopters I've flown -- it will want to crash. So yes, it's a good idea to hold on. :-) And yes, at high speeds -- especially with a lot of weight up front (like two people) -- the helicopter does seem as if it's angled forward. But not enough to be a distraction. At least not at this point for me.
2:33 "Sorry about the repeats" I think I've watched Jerry W make the same flight in his twin Cessna in California from San Francisco to Auburn over 100 times.
I was unsure where Wenachee was, so I checked on Google Maps. Now I know it is in the state of Washington along the Colombia river. All the landmarks I saw in the video, I could find on the map.
how well vented is the cabin...i think you mentioned air-con at one time...sorry its a engineering thing...thinking venting the IPAD right where is sits.
Nothing you say or go is boring. Yes we' see many structures and geographical features a number of times but they appear like old friends and we know the area better for it.. Your narration is simple, honest and enjoyable without the usual north American "Yahoo Woohoo" type of delivery and clear.. The event you flew up to was fascinating to see the immense amount of trailers, vehicles and houses on that plateau, but you're quite right and justified to say about the mess the place is in afterwards, when all gone home, same problem everywhere in the world..
Thanks very much. It's funny, but the RU-vid slogan for creators is "keep it real." How many creators do? I do my best and I appreciate getting positive feedback about my hype-free delivery.
Great video, as always! :-) Just a little trivia. It wouldn't surprise me if you know this already, Maria, but surprisingly few are aware of that theatres like Gorge Amphitheater is actually not an amphitheater, it's a Greek theater. Most people think of an amphitheater as a half circle with the stage in the middle. This is a very common misconception. An amphitheatre is two theatres put together so it's shaped as an oval round theatre were the stage is the whole area in the middle and the audience is sitting or standing around the stage. Colosseum in Rome is a classic amphitheater and "amphitheatron" - "amfi" and "theathron" literally means "theatre on both sides". www.historyonthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Colosseum_Rome.jpg This is an old Greek theater in the city Taormina on Sicily, Italia: media4.allnumis.com/74/taormina-the-greek-theatre_74_28807429543eeb66aL.jpg Imagine this theater without the stage and add another Greek theater, turn it around 180 degrees and join them where the stage was. Then you will have a shape that exactly like an amphitheater. Sorry for the off-topic, but this is what you learn when you have lived more than 15 years together with a partner with a master in classical history. ;-)
You've got to get Nick Zentner from CWU to be your expert passenger for the geology tour. Nobody knows WA geology better, and he's such a personable guy.
Essential equipment for long cross country flights: Insulated lunch box with food, ice and an empty one gallon Ziplock bag. When the iPad starts to get too hot, well, you can figure out what to do if you have the cooler box. We use a soft-sided, small one. We also use a backup iPad with ForeFlight so one is in the cooler while the other one is in-use.
That's an excellent idea. What I really need to do is get a WHITE rag in there; it'll reflect more of the sun's heat. The cockpit doesn't get super hot in this helicopter because of the air conditioning, but anything that's dark colored in the sun will get cooked.
I don't think the victims/patients want them. I sure didn't when they sent one for me; I would have refused to get on. Those flights cost a fortune! But in remote areas, helicopters can get you to help quickly. It's a 20 minute drive from the Gorge to the closest hospital and a 90-minute drive from the Gorge to a big hospital. When life hangs in the balance, I guess they think it's worth it.
FlyingMAir - That is the same situation way, way up here in the north eastern part of Maine. Put your finger just across the Canadian border line on a map and drag it an inch or so west back across the US border and that’s my home turf. It can take 15 all the way up to 180 minutes for an ambulance to transport a patient from where they were picked up to the closest rural hospital when you are in the most remote parts of the area up here. The closest level 1 trauma and cardiac care hospital is 180 miles or more by ground and the closest burn center is 305 miles. So as you know Air transport, although SOOOOO expensive (You survive the first heart attack just to have another when the bill arrives) is an indispensable service to have this far north. 2.5 hours in an ambulance or 40 minutes by fixed wing and 55 minutes by helicopter to get to that level 1 hospital can mean living or dying. I spent 9 years flying the sickest and most injured patients out of here as a Critical Care Flight Paramedic and loved every minute of it. Although I know not all services can do it, I was lucky enough to work for a service that never asked for one dime from the patient. We were reimbursed what the insurance paid and that covered our costs. If someone wasn’t able to afford or didn’t qualify for insurance their trip was written off, because no one should have to worry about how they are going to pay for something that had it not been available to them would have possibly meant their death. Most of all, without the men and women whom spent hours upon hours becoming the best pilots they could be to then selflessly put their lives in an inherently more dangerous situation than a regular 9-5 job to help save a total strangers life takes some nerves of steel and a special person... You would make a kick butt medivac pilot! Just thought I’d throw that out there 😁
