I'm from Washington state. I know where this is lol, it's between Brewster and Okanogan. Y'all do any flying around the mountains around Omak? That would be a pretty sick video as well.
Well I'll definitely agree with you there. I got a ride in an Air Force Huey when I was younger and it was an instant addiction. Never want to do anything else since then
It's amazing these things are still flying and with their radial engines, too. My dad flew the Bell 47 and it's variants, and the S55/S58 after getting recalled into the Marines for the Korean war. Then he flew for a living with an outfit called Rotor-Aids out of Louisiana and Ventura, CA from 1955-64 and flew the Sikorsky Sky-crane when they were running electrical lines over the CA ridge route near Santa Clarita, CA. I never got to fly in the S58, but I did get to fly in the Bell 47G Ranger in Ventura when I was about 11. I also got to fly with my dad when I was 12 in a Bell Jet Ranger in 1974. Thanks for the video. I miss my dad.
Completed my PPL-H in 1995 with intention of doing CPL after that, of course realisation that I was basically unemployable after a CPL and would require spending even thousands more dollars just to get a foot in the door ended the dreams since I was already working three jobs just to pay for the PPL and Turbine rating. Flying helicopters sounds all very good, but reality was a huge waste of money, should of invested the money in property and my life today wouldn't be so miserable. That's my pilot experience.
Looks like Brewster, Wa. It’s cool to see some familiar terrain in your videos. I use to deliver freight to them. Bring them some parts. Awesome videos man.
Honestly it's been long enough that I can't remember the full reasoning but it is to check for roughness. I had one flight where the engine sucked the diode out of one of the spark plugs. So the mag check let me know right right away that we needed to look into it.
In any piston-powered aircraft, it's routine to do a mag check prior to shutdown. That way, if anything has changed between takeoff and landing, you'll find out about it sooner rather than later. Never a good thing to get the "Launch!" order and find out that there's a maintenance issue that could have been detected earlier. Customers hate that.
I've watched all your videos now and, honestly, I shocked that there isn't more cockpit standardization. I just assumed that there was some law or FAA requirement or something that mandated instrument positions and so on.
@@sinfulldoubt neat, those are some old birds! I was curious because the first vid I saw was for the tuna boat, and just assumed that was over near Japan not really thinking about it. So was that also off the pacNW, or are you taking contacts around the world lol? Keep posting, it's interesting to see these types of jobs I'd never heard of
