A Trip In the Life of a Corporate Pilot - To Ketchikan, Alaska In a Citation X
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Come along with Mark and me as we fly a trip to Ketchikan, Alaska for work. We had an amazing time hiking, exploring, and documenting the trip. Some great shots in this one!
Awesome!! You’re living the dream! 😊 loved the hikes, drone shots, and amazing scenery.
But i was really moved at the end, seeing you reunite with your family in your messy garage. Real life ❤
Thank you so much! I’m glad that you appreciated all of those details, and thanks for watching it to the end! Oh yeah. Lots of “real life” going on at home. You should see my third car garage! It’s a disaster!
Glad you Are Blessed ! That is Awesome! What A view! I can tell you are Very thankful For Your Opportunities!
Sick video bro! So awesome 👏🏻 😎👍🏻
Wow, now that I have found your channel I'm enjoying going through some of your archive videos :-)
I love the Citation X, especially with that 37° swept wing.
I love watching your videos. It’s great to see fellow Kitfox and Challenger guys (I have a Challenger ll and KF model lV) flying their work airplane!
You sure brought back some fond memories of my boys when they were that age, what a great time!
Keep those videos coming, it’s always fun to watch true aviators at work and play!
Cheers, Doug
Thank you Doug! As you know, flying the jets is a fun and a great way to earn a living, but the real fun is in flying the little airplanes. Thanks for watching the videos! I really appreciate it.
I have flown with so many miserable hotel dwellers over the years. It is great to see a crew out both respecting each other's hobbies and enjoying the time on the road. It is a world of opportunity, don't make a misery of it folks.
Absolutely! I feel like there are a lot of missed opportunities in aviation. We have a unique opportunity in this line of work to be able to do something fun and exciting for work and also have adventures and explore during the time between flights. You are absolutely correct when you emphasize not wasting this opportunity to truly live while we work! 🛩 ❤️
Aviation opens soooooo many doors!! Thanks for sharing!
Dude, you're just out there living your best life. Kudos to you sir.
Haha thank you! It’s a pretty good gig to get to fly to cool places in a fast jet with a good friend of mine. Definitely a good gig!
Thanks for bringing us along. You have an awesome job. I am very happy for you.👍
Another great trip love them views nice work
Hey Another Great Video! Thank you for Sharing! I'm A Daddy Bear! " Behr " Ha! We booked those Plane Tickets To Colorado. She Lives In Leadville! Way up.... Can't wait! End Of August! I haven't Flown In 30 years, sad to say! Oh, We live In upstate N.Y. And Of course, This is the " Dreaming of Flying Guy!" I mean Actually Fling A PLane
I am so very glad that you two were able to come to my hometown and experience our mountains I am only half way through your video but I wanted to mention before I forget that we have a trail that we hike every year,well it's kind of like a trail it's the creek and an hour into it towards the back is a very tall waterfall I'd say over 200 feet high my husband son and I and about 4 or 5 of our other friends go back there every summer for 20 years and it's always so amazing and relaxing the fish don't spawn there so there is no reason a bear would go back there,but to be on the safe side our good friend whom is an officer up at the correctional he carries either a hand gun or a riffle and I feel more safe knowing he has one as with my husband and or son,hopefully some day you'll come back up and go check it out yourselves and wear extra toughs because along the creek is some deeper water areas and you have to climb over to log jams,but if I can do it and I am only 5'1 anyone can,so hope you all do and thank you for the video glad you enjoyed my hometown, Donna
Rough job. Enjoy young man! Awesome video very cool, thanks for sharing!
Thanks again, guys! I have been to Alaska once and it was a magical experience. I was with my folks many years ago and we stayed at the Gustavus Lodge. It was in August but NO MOSQUITOES! We caught salmon and halibut in Icy Strait and the temperature was 80 degrees with sunny skies. The whales were lazily swimming so close to our fishing boat that you could almost reach out and touch them. We saw puffins and bald eagles and grizzlies. Some day I’d like to take my wife there. Our Alaska Air plane landed on a gravel runway. That was different. One day we flew over to Ketchikan on a float plane. That was a bit scary because we barely cleared a mountain top. Or so it seemed!
This was awesome John! Loved the Alaska views, and seeing that beautiful X at work.
Not sure if you knew, but long before we did the overhauls on your 3007Cs a few years back, I was armpit deep in your fuel tanks as an up and coming A&P in Milwaukee before the current owner bought it. Guess that dates me a bit!
The sushi bar is awesome and so is the Alaska Crepe Co., try out our Sweet Mermaids and Berth 4 they have amazing dinners as well and Burger Queen the Seattle's best burger and the tropical,so many great places to eat
Nice family... Nice Model 3 too...
Thanks for the video, nice camera work very relaxing...
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Wow! Amazing - miss all of you guys! Come back to the ranch with the families!
@@johnkluenker your friends in Modoc
(Cindy) be safe and Merry Christmas to all of you! We should have a beautiful spring!
John, I just wanted to say that this was a thoroughly enjoyable video, in every respect. Thanks for sharing so much of your life and adventures. Also, your Citation X is pretty badass. I kinda wish I'd continued my aviation career after watching this.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that feedback and I’m so glad that you enjoyed the video. It takes a lot of time and effort to put these videos together so hearing that you appreciate it makes it all worth it. I definitely have always been a huge fan of the Citation X long before I ever had the opportunity to fly one. I feel very lucky that I get to do this for a living!
Thanks for sharing. Citation X looks magnificent and wonderful to see you and Mark at work. Such a difference from Challenger and Kitfox low and slow. Cherish those hugs John and hope you tested the climbing wall in person!
Ha ha! Thanks Brian! For some reason I’m just now seeing your comment. Glad you appreciate the contrast of the X versus the Kitfox. And yes, I do test out all of my climbing walls before the kids attempt them. 😆 Jackson is a much more capable climber than I am already though!
Nicely done!
Interesting and blessed!!
Being new to this channel, it was clear to me what your destination was (Ketchikan). But it would also be nice to know where you were flying from and returning to.
Agreed! We were departing from Stockton airport in Northern California. I agree that would’ve helped tell the story a little better.
Awesome!
Audio didn't work? Well... for my part...when videoing anything, I always end up wishing I'd kept my mouth shut. So, again, for my part... I'm good ! LOL!!!
💥 The best view is always when you get home to family. 👍
*Keep on Flying*
@@johnkluenker really ? 24/7 with no break from them ?
Bless you.
Love Alaska, would love to fly there.
landed into anchorage before. out of the 100 plus different aiports i have flown into, i would have to put ANC in the top 3 most beautiful approaches
Great video! Flew the X part 91 for a few years and did Ketchikan a lot when the boss had his boat there. Loved flying the X but could not fly a tail dragger to save my life. Thinking about an ultralight someday. Retired now and living in Phoenix. Any suggestions on type of ultralight to cruise the desert in? Thanks. Love you videos. Also great to have a good guy to fly with! Blessed! 😊
I definitely am blessed for sure! I’m so glad that you enjoyed the video. Awesome that you have a bunch of Citation X time. Ketchikan would be an amazing place to frequently visit! The Citation X does really well in the Part 91 world. If you watch some of our other videos, you will see that Mark owns a Challenger 2 ultralight. That might be a really good fit for you. He has his set up for off-airport bush flying. You would probably love it! It’s a very capable little airplane. He has flown many hours in his up in the high deserts of Nevada.
@@johnkluenker Thanks for your reply John. So sad to hear about the Kit Fox. Get her back up! Glad you weren’t hurt. Keep the videos coming!
Thank you! I’m definitely looking forward to getting her flying again. Will keep the videos coming. Thanks for watching!
I remember when you guys were flying a King Air...
@@johnkluenker It was 94-95 ish, I was flying Peter Uberroth to Sac Exec to meet with Pete Wilson then the 2 planes flew to Burbank. The KA took off first and I beat it to Burbank in a Conquest II. Now retired after 26yrs of 91/135.
Wow that goes way back before my time!
@@johnkluenker I Laughed for days after seeing Pete Wilson flying on an Aircraft with the tail number of N1BS !
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i live in ketchikan
Awesome video awesome content. However the nice thing about Airline life vs corporate is that when the economy turns to crap and you have some decent seniority you’re not the first department to get cut like corporate and you likely top out 2 to 3 times that of corporate pay if you hustle it. Not to mention direct contributions and all the free flight benefits. And no 24/7 availability like most corporate job… love the kitfox👍🏻
@@johnkluenker your job is a diamond in the rough. That’s awesome that you found something like that that affords you The lifestyle you want with a lot of time off.
@@johnkluenker I just started watching your channel after that crossing the pacific to Hawaii. After this comment got more info on your background regarding flying the Citation X. Just wondering if you have fully paid of all the expenses to learn to fly to get to the point of flying the Citation X. I saw a YT vlogger only 22years old getting checked off flying a gulfstream twin jet and now working as a corporate pilot like you but I see he is the copilot on that plane ..I guess building time . So does flying as a corporate pilot for 15 years paid of all your flying certifications, having a nice family, house, two cars and your own kitfox plane. Or are you on the take a loan and pay off as you go thru life?
28:28 guess the windshield surface seal coating is in pretty good shape BTW
Очень приятно смотреть. Красивая семья.
I think a 91/135 career is a better bet than a 121 career. The Airline executives has become so adept at "Bait and switch" on pay benefits and quality of life that they caused a pilot shortage, and then rely on changing the qualification rules to band aid the damage they caused. Then when they get the next generation of new pilots in and "hooked" they will pull the rug out from under them like they did to prior generations. The respective managements at their airlines have so many tools at their disposal that they will always offer one "life" and deliver vastly less. Part 91 looks like a much better bet.
Need more kitfox and Challenger ll videos
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Calling out Trent Palmer’s fishing skills, lol
32:02 did ya say "cheguei"? ahahaha
Ok. If this is real, I am in.
Just for your info, any longtime Alaskan who has seen much of Alaska knows Ketchikan is the craphole of Alaska, isn’t,”real Alaska “! Mostly a bunch of Seattle transplants! Plenty of more awesome places to fly around up here! Best thing about sketchikan is your a short floatplane ride away from misty fjords!😳🤪😉
I have been to quite a few other places in Alaska as well, (almost) all of them gorgeous! We were able to still find some beautiful sights on this trip at least!
@@johnkluenker Almost all of them gorgeous??? Try to tell me which one wasn’t gorgeous??? No place even compares to Alaska! Simple! Jealous one!😳🤪🤣
Try my Alaska by floatplane or ski plane! You haven’t flown “ real Alaska “!!!
This is true!
Its silvis not sivlis
Excellent! I want to be your coworker... for real!
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