https://youtube.com/watch?v=sjifp5oi6dE%3Flist%3DPLJOPFT88qcBC3PCH-ML1C3IxhKXx8kTOI
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Ride along as I take a friend up for her first flight in a small airplane on a very calm evening.
Unfortunately we hit wake turbulence on final approach, so the flight does not go perfectly. But she is a good sport and forgives me 🙂
I should have planned a steeper approach to a point further down the runway to clear the wake of the Dash-8 ahead of me (and there was also prop blast from one that take’s off just before I land), but I was not thinking and just flew a normal approach, as I was concerned about how she was doing as she remained clearly anxious for the whole flight despite how crazy calm the air was.
(She later told me the calm air and my smooth flying was part of the problem as she didn’t feel anything was supporting the plane and thought we’d fall out of the sky at any minute 🙂
UPDATE: I have finally cut an other video out of this footage as MJ is finally launching her channel.
Check out the more detailed video of us “attempting” to beat her fear of flying at this link:
http://youtu.be/vHwZNmYwYRA
UPDATE2: I recently shared a SEVERE wake encounter from a friend’s footage that makes this one seem like nuthin’!
And PLEASE also have a look at MJ’s channel, and tell her you’d like to see more of her flying with me!
(she has assured me that she is finally going to start making videos – as you can see, she’s great on camera!)
http://www.youtube.com/user/DamourLife
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