The culmination of my aerobatic training in Extra 300L after Dave’s checkout and Hannah’s introduction to aerobatics, was to fly the complete Sportsman Known Sequence!

If you haven’t seen the other parts in this series, click here to view.

While flying the sequence we were using a beta version of CloudAhoy they were developing to help the US Air Force debrief aerobatic flights.

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Thanks to my Patreon supporters, I was able to focus on editing almost non-stop over the last month and published 8 videos (including the one Patreon exclusive) in the last five weeks. I wouldn’t be able to publish these in such rapid succession without your support – Thank You!

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Our Contest Winner Couldn’t Stop Smiling!  Hannah made WAY more progress than I did in her Flight Training​

This is the fourth of an ongoing multipart series. If you missed the first three, view them here:

Part 1 – Extra 300L Checkout (PIC backseat) to Solo + Aerobatic Training!
Part 2 – Tested by the Extra 300L – 2 pilots prepare for Solo / Competition Aerobatic Flying!
Part 3 – First Solo Extra 300L “..the exact right amount of apprehension?!”
Part 4  – This Flight changed her trajectory as a Pro Pilot! – Extra 300L Training

We join our Flight Chops Experience winner Hannah and visit Luke in Winnipeg, Canada. I’m working toward the Sportsman known Aerobatic Contest Sequence in the Extra 300L, while Dave is working to get his solo checkout, and Hannah is here to have her mind blown as a new PPL with no tail wheel time, yet.

Check out HARV’S AIR and schedule your own Aerobatic training: https://www.harvsair.com​

#TravelManitoba​ – https://www.travelmanitoba.com​  

Thanks to Jacob for the amazing air to air shots, Jacob is the resident photographer for Harv’s Air!

Learn more about how to work with him and his team here: https://www.kampphotography.com/

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First Solo​ in the Extra 300L One Pilot’s Dream becomes Reality!

This is the third of an ongoing multipart series. View the others here:

Part 1 – Extra 300L Checkout (PIC backseat) to Solo + Aerobatic Training!
Part 2 – Tested by the Extra 300L – 2 pilots prepare for Solo / Competition Aerobatic Flying!
Part 3 – First Solo Extra 300L “..the exact right amount of apprehension?!”
Part 4 – This Flight changed her trajectory as a Pro Pilot! – Extra 300L Training

We join our Flight Chops Experience winner Hannah and visit Luke in Winnipeg, Canada. I’m working toward the Sportsman known Aerobatic Contest Sequence in the Extra 300L, while Dave is working to get his solo checkout, and Hannah is here to have her mind blown as a new PPL with no tail wheel time, yet.

Check out HARV’S AIR and schedule your own #Aerobatic​ training: https://www.harvsair.com​

#TravelManitoba​ – https://www.travelmanitoba.com​  

Thanks to Jacob for the amazing air to air shots, Jacob is the resident photographer for Harv’s Air! Learn more about how to work with him and his team here: https://www.kampphotography.com/

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Final Step to Solo Checkout in the Extra 300L + Aerobatic Flying

I’m working toward the 2019 IAC Sportsman Known Contest Sequence in the Extra 300L, while Dave is working to get his solo checkout. Contest winner Hannah is here enjoying Winnipeg while patiently waiting to have her mind blown in the Extra, as a new PPL with no tail wheel time, yet.
(Stick around to the end to see how far she has come since we filmed this!)

This is the second of an ongoing multipart series. View the others here:

Part 1 – Extra 300L Checkout (PIC backseat) to Solo + Aerobatic Training!
Part 2 – Tested by the Extra 300L – 2 pilots prepare for Solo / Competition Aerobatic Flying!
Part 3 – First Solo Extra 300L “..the exact right amount of apprehension?!”
Part 4 – This Flight changed her trajectory as a Pro Pilot! – Extra 300L Training

Check out HARV’S AIR and schedule your own Aerobatic training: https://www.harvsair.com​

#TravelManitoba​ – https://www.travelmanitoba.com​  

Thanks to Jacob for the amazing air to air shots, Jacob is the resident photographer for Harv’s Air!

Learn more about how to work with him and his team here: https://www.kampphotography.com/

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Here’s what went down in mid-May 2019 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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My flight training in 172’s and Archers taught me to maximize the plane’s performance and avoid placing excessive stress on the airframe and engine. In the Extra 300L though, it will over stress YOU first. Truly a remarkable plane, and I loved seeing what it could do!? • #flywithaopa #harvsairinverted #aviatrix #aviatrixlife

A post shared by Han (@hannah.neill) on May 19, 2019 at 5:50pm PDT

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The “FC Experience” concept is one that we’ve done a few times, each one getting increasingly epic. In a nutshell: I’ve lived some uniquely awesome flying experience that I shared in a Flight Chops episode, then a lucky winner gets to relive it… and be in a future episode too.

I don’t know of anyone else doing these sorts of giveaways, and I love so much being able to give these experiences away to viewers.

Back when I started the channel, I was hoping to stay behind the camera at all times — but a good friend wisely told me otherwise. ‘You’ve got to put the “You” in “Youtube”’, he said, which is how my face ended up in the episodes.

Five years later we’ve brought this concept to the next level, where we are literally taking the viewers out of the audience and putting them in front of the camera — putting the actual YOU in YouTube — having you live out these incredible experiences.

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These past few days in Winnipeg were completely jam-packed with one awesome thing after another.

Luke Penner from Harv’s Air Inverted was the mastermind behind it all, and provided tons of training for both Dave Carrick (who you’ve met in many warbird episodes at CH2A) and I.  

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What a blast it’s been to fly with Steve from @flightchops in the Extra. Some super fun content is coming soon! • • • • • #flightchops #travelmanitoba #extra300 #harvsair #harvsairschool #aerobatics

A post shared by Harv’s Air Invǝrted (@harvsairinverted) on May 17, 2019 at 5:47am PDT

Dave’s focus was to solo in the Extra300, while mine was do the back seat (PIC) check out and also get precision aerobatic training to fly the “Sportsman Known Sequence” (and avoid getting the dreaded ‘hard zero’ performance score, which is surprisingly easy to do).

We were lucky enough to get the local tourism board, Travel Manitoba, to join in on the fun.  They graciously provided accommodations, meals and loads of activities for us to do while in Winnipeg — stay tuned for a future episode where we hilariously live out the best Ferris Bueller day.

The weather forecast was shaping up to only provide good flying conditions on Day 1 out of 4, so we crammed roughly 80% of what we wanted to do into that first day. Exhausted by that effort, we didn’t slow down at all when the weather turned out to be great for the rest of our stay.  I figure we got about 3 to 4 episodes out of that trip.

Meanwhile, Hannah was with us the entire time, enjoying every second of it.  The icing on the cake was the aerobatics flight she did with Luke at sunset. She also loved the aerial photography flight done by photographers Jake + Jess from KampPhotography.com. Hannah had not yet experienced a formation flight in tight formation quite like that – these photos pretty much sum it up.

 

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This past Thursday we got to do a super rad shoot. An awesome contest sponsored by @flightchops @harvsairinverted and @travelmanitoba flew @hannah.neill up from Oregon to be part of the filming of a Flight Chops episode, and fly in the Extra 300. We have had the chance to photograph Luke and the extra before, and decided what an amazing opportunity to get some shots over @theforkswinnipeg and downtown Winnipeg. Such an awesome experience! Huge thanks to @chris_unrau for providing and piloting the photo ship, always awesome to fly with you! . . #kampphotography #harvsairinverted #flightschops #exploremb #travelmanitoba #travel #aviation #flight #flying #winnipeg #manitoba #sunset #avgeek #canada #extra300

A post shared by ??????????????? (@kampphotography) on May 18, 2019 at 4:43pm PDT

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Photo by @kampphotography from the most incredible day of my life. I never knew I could love aviation so much. Luke at @harvsairinverted blew me away! And thank you @flightchops for giving me this experience. More photos to come!???? #flywithaopa #travelmanitoba #harvsairinverted #avi_things

A post shared by Han (@hannah.neill) on May 18, 2019 at 5:50pm PDT

All in all, a fantastic few days, and the overall mission was a great success!  

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To date, this is BY FAR the most amazing flight I’ve done!
Proud to be associated with ForeFlight: http://www.foreflight.com/flightchops/

Link to Part 1 :
http://youtu.be/7OJ_LJ3dqnw

Link to FOD related Extra accident:
short version:

http://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/…

If that NTSB link changes, this is the actual report #:
WPR12FA155

Link to Passenger management video
(this expands on Jared’s technique for helping people not barf

http://youtu.be/D5XyRJC6EpA

HUGE thanks to all those that have joined the Patreon campaign, and I’m honoured to announce that ForeFlight is the newest Flight Chops project supporter!

I’m so proud to be working with a company whose product I love. We’ve established a relationship that is mutual in that ForeFlight wants to help create awesome aviation content like you’ve just seen; And you’ll notice there were no iPad’s flying around the cockpit while we were upside down…
I will use ForeFlight in future videos when needed, as I would any other useful tool, regardless of a sponsorship; but I think it is great that the support is not contingent of product use.
Flight Chops will always be an authentic real world flying experience and I’m so thankful for the support coming from Patreon! We’ll continue to avail ourselves of all the resources that come from the generosity of supporters to make this thing grow!

And thanks to Jared at Gauntlet Warbirds for being flexible with his schedule to make this work – it literally took all evening because the traffic and then rain caused serious delays beyond the already slow pace of production.
For more info about amazing rides and awesome training please visit:

http://www.gauntletwarbirds.com/

More Acro Flying on Jared’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/nevervne

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I’m happy to share this visceral experience and the inspiring story of the pilot that I flew with.
Proud to be associated with ForeFlight: http://www.foreflight.com/flightchops/

To date, this is BY FAR the most amazing flight I’ve done!

UPDATE: Part 2 is now LIVE:

HUGE thanks to all those that have joined the Patreon campaign, and I’m honoured to announce that ForeFlight is the newest Flight Chops project supporter!

I’m so proud to be working with a company whose product I love. We’ve established a relationship that is mutual in that ForeFlight wants to help create awesome aviation content like you’ve just seen; And you’ll notice there were no iPad’s flying around the cockpit while we were upside down…
I will use ForeFlight in future videos when needed, as I would any other useful tool, regardless of a sponsorship; but I think it is great that the support is not contingent of product use.
Flight Chops will always be an authentic real world flying experience and I’m so thankful for the support coming from Patreon! We’ll continue to avail ourselves of all the resources that come from the generosity of supporters to make this thing grow!

And thanks to Jared at Gauntlet Warbirds for being flexible with his schedule to make this work – it literally took all evening because the traffic and then rain caused serious delays beyond the already slow pace of production.
For more info about amazing rides and awesome training please visit:

http://www.gauntletwarbirds.com/

More Acro Flying on Jared’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/nevervne

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