Big congrats our latest winner! WHAT IS “THE FLIGHT CHOPS EXPERIENCE”? This new concept gives away once-in-a-lifetime experiences that you’ve seen in a Flight Chops episode! The idea is: Live the episode you’ve seen! A Pilot / host invites you to recreate what Steve has done You are a guest in their plane Up for…
OshKosh never disappoints. It’s truly my favorite aviation event of the year, and like many thousands of fellow pilots and flying enthusiasts, I look forward to it yearlong. If you’re new around here and not familiar with this event, I highly suggest you check it out here. SCHEDULE Here’s where I’ll be this year; please come…
I’ve never been more nervous about a Flight Vlog! Big thanks to Gold Seal for inviting us to produce this one! Check them out at Online Ground School Related episodes: AirVenture Fisk approach with the U.S. Coast Guard! Onboard for Tight Formation aerobatics with the AeroShelll team! Flying formation in P-51 Mustangs!…
A valiant effort to Launch nearly 100 Planes, but the ThunderStorms beat us! Link to Part one of this series: Previous Fisk Arrival episode with the U.S. Coast Guard: Playlist covering my Chipmunk training culminating in tight formation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… _____ Rodney’s Cessnas to Osh ’16 Debrief notes: We identified the following shortcomings/failures. 1. We…
It was amazing to see this many planes preparing to fly together! Previous Fisk Arrival episode with the U.S. Coast Guard: Some insights from Larry regarding Ditching: take a look at this article by well known survival expert Doug Ritter. In it he also references some research done by another well-known aviation writer named Paul Bertorelli…
OshKosh never disappoints. It’s truly my favorite aviation event of the year, and like many thousands of fellow pilots and flying enthusiasts, I look forward to it yearlong. If you’re new around here and not familiar with this event, I highly suggest you check it out here. SCHEDULE Here’s where I’ll be this…
Truly cool pilots stay humble! I really appreciate Ken taking me for this flight, and being humble enough to share even the less-than-perfect aspects. This was obviously an epic experience, but my biggest takeaway was that no matter how far you get in the elite corners of aviation, staying humble and continuing to…
An honour retracing steps of WWII veterans as I explored every nook and cranny of this plane! A post shared by @flightchops on Mar 8, 2017 at 10:23am PST Collaborator Links: If you’d like to learn more about the organization that operates “Fifi”, please check the link here: http://commemorativeairforce.org/ This was the “Fifi”…
As a new Tail wheel pilot aspiring to fly warbirds, this was a priceless experience! A fairly awesome close look an amazing aerobatic team – This was filmed during the night airshow at EAA – The Spirit of Aviation EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2016 – I missed the ForeFlight party to rig the cameras on the…
AirVenture was insane this year! My crew and I had managed to get in with the Cessna mass arrival on Saturday which had marginal Wx. Then Sunday morning was foggy, and then ~36 hours worth of arrivals all came Sunday afternoon when the Wx was good. We filmed the insanity of the Sunday arrivals…
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