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If I had the cash for an airplane I would LOVE to do this. Surprised you didn't mention the Landseaire PBY Catalina RV conversion they made back in the day.

That first C182 has a pre existing fuel/mag problem.

Where’s the Beer Fridge Kerry? 🍺 🍻

Cot is cooler in the summer !

LED & aaa batteries ! That will work - cool .

in the pre-jump briefing... was there any dialogue about being careful/mindful of handles?

Anti ice on props..nice bird

This is awesome! I remember watching a show when I was younger where a couple turned a small cargo plane into a flying RV and remember thinking it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen!

Hello Kerry. Great idea, but you’re obviously bored. You’re probably missing half a dozen grandchildren between the ages of four and six. You know, the little warriors of the invisible battle. And let them into your hangar to play and also give them markers. After their visits you would no longer be bored. I read your book with your autograph, I really liked. I’m watching all your videos, please make a detailed video if you had to fly Cessna310R from Wisconsin to Poland. How would you fly, how to calculate the fuel, landing points, risck management and other details. I would very much like to listen to your professional opinion. Thank you.

I never saw a pilot (i have pilots in my family and friends) consistently ignore protocol for communicating with ATC the way she did. She was intent on using gadgets to tell her how and where to fly instead of using instruments, headings and assistance from ATC. So sad.

Only two things fall out of the sky. Birdshit and fools.

Is a swamp cooler safe for your avionics?

I always thought (finances permitting) a surplus Navy S-3 would be an awesome RV plane. They have so much room!

One of the coolest planes on TH-cam. The RV setup looks pretty amazing too.

i did that with my shrike, i fly it all over the place this time of year, and my 2015 bell 407 fly it to the back woods in canada and north washington, all setup incinerator toilet back seats are comfy, i was up in the back woods lasst week on a remote lake, stayed 3 days, the new new shower wipes also are great for camping,

The last thing to be done is refrigerator for cold beer!

Awesome! Great job with the Sky RV conversion! Can't wait to see it at KOSH!

Sweet ride.......But do any Karens complain when you fly into "their Airport?" (Noise??) Used to jump out of a QA, was fun but bloody NOISY

The pilots version of glamping.

2mins05secs - Not sure if you are trying to talk about the incident with a C208 from Nagambie Victoria AUSTRALIA. They were on jump run at *14000 feet, jumper had a premature opening that took basically the entire tail off. Everyone got out and the Pilot had issues with the stresses pinning the sliding door down and only just got out in time. I have seen the video and saw the impact area when I went there a few months later. In Australia at least the sliding doors are now clipped on opening so they cannot close or jam should the same thing occur. 10,000 skydives here, pretty average number these days especially if you do it for a living. 1) Lost more friends flying GA aircraft in NON SKYDIVING accidents. 2) DRIVING to the airport is still more dangerous!!!!

@kerry "I don't have a helicopter license, yet....." Are you coming over to 'The Dark Side'? 😂

Nice excaliber

Pretty sweet. Great idea.

I like it... A pretty fast camper you got there!

I would suggest a rain hood and screen door for the door that way it can remain open at night.

We agree on one thing. Don't stall. After that, don't stall. I know surface level aerobatic pilots who have been killed turning back. Further, Idle power is not the same as an engine failure. Lots of people have been killed while training for this maneuver. Just because people get killed doing low level maneuvering, should we teach low level maneuvering to private pilots? Pick a spot ahead of the wings, into the wind and fly it to the ground. I am a surface level aerobatic pilot, CFI and DPE.

Love it! We aren’t heading to OSH this year but I can’t wait to see your video with your setup on the field.

well i don't know how to say this, but i think you revived the sky RV trend back from the death and i have nothing else but to thank you. And side note, spaceballs is my favorite mel brooks movie. I hope that when i get my recreational pilots license, i can do something like this, just i need to save enough money.

Another cool idea was a Helio Courier on floats with an outboard motor mounted on a transom and 2 chairs mounted on the floats. Just fly in fish from the plane and fly back to the base camp.

Thats a pretty sweet Queen Air ride!

That is so awesome! I've camped in a 182 pilot seat that fully reclined and it was great. I still have a dream of converting a Cessna Caravan into a RV and travel around the US. Flying and camping there is not much better than that. Safe travels!

You're not the first to think like this! I always wanted a PBY Catalina and converted it into an RV. But the thought of those 2 big radials sucking lots of gas! But damn it would be fun to have!

You’ll be more comfortable than some. How far from Osh are you?

This brought to mind a night I spent in my 172 one stormy night at Osh circa 1984. My tent was worthless in the blowing rain and I retreated to the front left seat which was the only seat in the 172 that had any reasonable recline capability. A long night!

👍✅ Love it Kerry🤣👏

Man this is awesome - always wanted to do this with my 340A!

Wonderful! I have a powerchair in which I went to Basel in Switzerland in December 2023 [from Cambridge, UK], as a Patient Fellow at the Motor Neuron Disease Association International Symposium. When on trains and in hotels, I sleep in that, with my trusty breathing machine [bipap or nippy], but it doesn't have the same kudos as a Queen Air RV!

"meat bombs" 🤣🤣🤣

Sorry, I cannot make it past the garbage music in the beginning. I may come back to this channel later.

What possesses people to risk their lives jumping from a perfectly good aircraft? I used to live up the road from a small town airport that had a skydiving company stationed there. Over the years, so many thrill seekers were killed jumping from planes, and a lot of these folks were not weekend warriors. They were seasoned jumpers whose luck just ran out. One particularly tragic example was a young couple who met as jumpers, and were engaged to be married, only to die together when their parachutes became entangled on the way down. I've often thought that the mindset of someone who takes unreasonable chances is that some qualified person designed and tested something, therefore it must be safe to use. Not really.

It is a dangerous business!

BULLSHIT

OLD SCHOOL ,DOMESTIC is always a good time. Keeps ya sharp. Good Vid.

I love epoxy floors! I learned a long time ago to NOT do the flake. It hides small parts that get dropped. Light gray, no flake is perfect!

Who ever gave her a license should be locked up in jail. THIS PRE MADONNA was more interested in her makeup than flying. The father was a putz for flying with his idiot daughter. She is entirely at fault. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

All good points. I would just add one: do not pull on the yoke in any turn of any bank angle so that you stay at 1 g regardless of bank angle. Remember the most important thing: don't stall. Wolfgang keeps asking us, "what does the airplane want to do." It cannot stall itself, a pilot pulling on the yoke is required. Use the dynamic neutral stability already built into the airplane. Use Wolfgang's "Law of the roller coaster." Use the potential energy of the little bit of altitude you have. Watch the crop duster. How can he make a thousand steep turns per day and not stall? Reprogram muscle memory. Does your son have to climb in the turn to crosswind? Would the airplane crash if he held no back pressure in the turn? He already has it trimmed for climb. The airplane will return to Vy, not dive at the ground. Crosswind to downwind? Downwind to base? Base to final? Why are we teaching stall as normal muscle memory? What is so precious about exact altitude?

I always enjoyed using a Chadwick and a strobe light to balance props, we always did it at night time when it's cool outside and the results were always noticeable

So I learned a trick, a long time ago, when I dropped anything on the hangar floor. Take a flashlight with good batteries, and hold it just above to floor, aimed slightly down from parallel to the floor. Anything caught in the beam will not only be illuminated, but casts one hell of a shadow; works every time. I owned a '66 -88 presurized Queen Air. Had IGSO-540s. Great ride, but did it ever suck up the fuel. Had a Cessna 401 at the same time; far better fuel efficiency and speed. Guess which one I flew the most ? One other thing, don't rely on the mags being off, or the "P" leads to be unbroken. When you move a prop to reposition it, rotate it backwards. Got that one from my primary instructor in 1966; a WW2 TBM pilot. Your QueenAir looks like it's been reengined; what's under the cowlings ?

Need a T tail for this reason alone.

Hey Kerry, that totally sucks! I see you are heading to Minnesota for the avionics at Anoka, do you need a ride home? I was planning on heading over to Baldwin anyway. Good video, I am glad we were helicopter mechanics for the Army when we were 19 years old, it all comes back now that we have our own Army aircraft. When you come over, I will show you my 1946 " L-3G Grasshopper", my new army plane! See ya soon buddy!