Was hoping for a Memorial Day Flight vlog upload! Thanks for all your hard work in making these and thank you for your service! ONE ZERO THREE FOREVER!!!🇺🇸
I think you did a great job of video. I just found your channel, liking it so far. Please take this the way it is intended, just an idea or suggestion: I fly a naturally aspirated Piper Arrow with a Lycoming engine, if I left it rich the way you had the red knob my plugs would fowl and I would have brown exhaust marks on my cowl, followed by a no start the next day. If it was -20 outside I do fly a little richer and it looked like you are still in the depths of winter in the video. Just trying to save you headache and cash.
I really appreciate that comment and your attentiveness to notice. Having flown turbines for the last 26 years I’m definitely learning this as I go and appreciate your feedback. Welcome to the channel, new video coming out in a few hours (14:00 PST)
@@JollyRogerAviation I leaned all of this building a 1,200HP Chevy 6.0 liter in my sleeper truck. I have fowled out way too many plugs. I have found controlling the Arrows engine easy compared to fighting with a computer to add or subtract fuel. I also taxi the Arrow lean. I recently learned this, an engine running on peak or lean of peak does not produce CO gas. In Aviation it is called ADI anti detonation injection, water alcohol, used to cool intake charge and cool exhaust. Was used with turbo-jets to add thrust during takeoff and keep aft bearings and N1 from melting, also made black smoke for dramatic takeoffs. Think B52’s. In a piston engine it will keep the combustion chambers spotless, knock lead off, de-carbon the engine, I have it on my truck. Only use it during boost. The FAA will not approve a standby alternator for me, no way could I get water injection but you being EXPERIMENTAL you could do ADI. My truck gets over 300HP just from blue windshield washer juice. Just a thought, it was widely used during WWII but fell out of favor to intercoolers, I use both but my truck is at max power for 10-15 seconds at a time so 5 gallons lasts several months. Your flights are amazing. I get to look down on corn, wheat, soy beans, hay or the slums of the city. I look forward to the video later tonight.
@@DWBurns ahhhh sounds like the “boost juice” we used on our twin turbo jetsprint boat. I’ve asked around when I fly with GA pilots at my airline about leaning while taxiing and nobody is doing it. Doesn’t make it right or wrong but I do think it’s a good idea. We lean our current NA, mechanical injected boat out at idle on the trailer with a simple valve, then open it before we back off the trailer. Jollyroger907 is our boat racing channel.
Trying to figure that out. With most races being 2-day events now, I’m pretty sure I’ll be flying it to Ontario at least! Will probably hop over and buzz PA too at some point
Perfect Timing! I get to enjoy this before going to bed. Amazing views. I can't imagine how much better it would be in person! My only regret now is not becoming a pilot! At the end when you said "Let's get back to Arlington'" I snapped to it as I live in a 55 and over Golf Community called Arlington Ridge here in Central Florida. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
It’s not too late CLC!! Living in Florida puts you right in the heart of the best flight training environment in the world! We only get one go around so if it’s something you want to do- Go after it! Lots of older adults get into the game- you can too!
@@markberman8958 Thanks for the encouraging words. I know it's never to late, but I have some financial goals, mainly paying off my home so that I have an inheritance to leave for him, before I take on any other major financial endeavors. I'm pretty sure that it won't be cheap and certainly flying, even in a rented plane isn't. One day, Good Lord Willing. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
Beautiful scenery and plane. Just think, if you held the stick in the other hand, you could pretend it was a cyclic and then you'd know what real real flying is😜. Great video though.
Cool stuff, originally saw your jet boat team through cleetus’ channel. Cool to see other stuff that people do, especially aviation. Love the Lancair, keep ‘em coming 👍🏻🤘🏻
Cool to see the riding areas from the air. I have been to all those places many times and maybe one near Darrington that you missed... or maybe left out on purpose. Siegelson/Finney/Cumberland is mostly trails with just small play areas. It is great for family rides, break in rides, and first ride of the season with all the roads to put miles on and blow off the summer cobwebs.
I enjoyed your Flights in the mountains but hopeful you find your way to doing some slow flight configuration to have more time to view the trails and share the fly-over detail as you figure out a constant power for your Video and audio equipment. 😊
My friend texted me as soon as I took off with a screenshot of flightaware and said…shouldn’t you be working? 🤣🤣🤣. He has it setup to get alerts when I’m flying!
You should try and contact Glen's Hangar - Canucks Unlimited, here on YT. He has done a few videos on headsets and cameras he uses uses in cockpit. Maybe he can give you some advice on in-flight video recording.
Looks like a blast to fly that thing! I was surprised by how fast the approach speeds are. Much faster than the Cessna and SuperCubs I’m used to. How’s the glide with no power ? I’m guessing the wings aren’t real high lift as fast as that thing is.
I guess it’s all relative really. It’s definitely not a super cub. It’s designed for high speed, long-range, efficient cruise and it does that very well. Best glide is 135 at about a 3:1 ratio. I haven’t fully explored that yet. I will say we did some practice approaches and pulling the prop back made a huge difference in how it glides!
@@JollyRogerAviation sounds like a lot of fun. I would definitely enjoy all that speed especially at higher elevations. Hope it’s a great year for your aviation and jet boat channel. Really enjoying both !
@@JollyRogerAviation there is when I’m there. But in years past there has been a fly-in the first week of June. Hopefully it will resume this year. Time will tell.
There’s a bunch of different airspace classifications. Class A is above 18,000’ and you HAVE to be in an IFR (instrument flight rules) flight plan…ie….you can’t just fly around wherever you want. Below 18,000 you can fly VFR (visual flight rules) ie wherever you want…with some restrictions around airports who are classified D, C or B. D being dinky, B being BIG ie LAX, JFK, SEA etc. you HAVE to have a clearance to fly into a Class B airspace, even if you’re VFR and even if you’re below 18,000’. Hope that makes sense lol
That makes sense. So as long as you stay in certain airspace and below a certain alt you are free to move around. So fun to see you banking around. Keep up the content!
Wow it is light that you can easily pull it out of the hangar and onto the (taxiway? airpark tarmac? Im unsure what to call he paved area in front of the hangar). You get to be your own tow vehicle I guess it is true what they say after all. You dont choose tug life,tug life chooses you
I'm not a pilot but you make that aircraft look easy to fly, most of the time you are just using finger tips on the stick. Of course decades of flying experience probably helps.
Cool video. Always enjoy seeing a clean Lancair, and even better with the Cascades footage. Sound was way imbalanced; your talking was super quiet, and then the music was way up.
love the videos, but can we modulate the volume a little throughout, your intro clip about an inverted ridge whatever was a significantly lower volume than when you cut to the music intro, same in the jetboat videos, the music cuts are significantly louder
Ughhh yeah I totally heard that too…after it was uploaded 🤦♂️. I’ll need a little time to figure out the best volume levels on my editing app for the music, phone microphone and aircraft comms. It will get better, I promise!
Music was fine, my only suggestion is to try to make all the sounds the same level, your audio was so quiet, then when the music pops in its SO LOUD I have to rush to turn down the volume, then when you talk again its so quiet I have to rush to turn the volume backup. Other wise, good stuff.
Awesome feedback John, thank you very much. I’m working on it and will get that sorted out. Last video I did, I had the music at 34% and the audio at 200% so I’m trying to get that sorted.
@@JollyRogerAviation My brother and some friends ride sleds at Baker, so some of those tracks are theirs. haha. Keep em coming! Im up at 38W, if you ever need some takeoff and landing vids, or quality ground to air pics! Or right seat ballast. haha! Havent been able to fly for years, hope to get back up sometime, so Im living through your vids!
@@JohnVHRC I just flew over Lynden 2 days ago checking it out, it really sits in a neighborhood doesn’t it? I’d actually love that! I’ve been trying to figure out how to get some good ground - air shots! Eric.usjsa@gmail.com maybe we can coordinate sometime!
You playing with fire with a Lancair Legacy flying low in the mountains, Just not smart if you ask me, This is not a super cub. if you have any issues you are going down fast hitting down at 100knots and it's going to happen fast. I get every once in a while, having some fun like this. But this is a high, fast cross-country machine. Now if you were in a stol plane more power to you. It is not my bizz what you do with your plane, this is just advice. I know for sure, knock on wood if you ever have an issue down low you odd are incredibly small you make it out. IMHO this is not the plane for fast low mountain flying. They come down very fast and hard if that engine is not running. On top of that you flying like this with less than 100 hours in the plane, that is just a guess but if I"m right that is not enough time for me to trust the engine. again JHMO This is a very good flying machine not a lot of crashes that I know of, however, it is a brick in the sky if that engine dies and great engines die all the time, Just not worth your life to get some good video. This is cub flying without landing IMHO
I’ve thought about your comment for a few days. I think there’s some risk to any flying we do. Crossing the cascades is a bit sketchy and it’s going to result in a crash landing no matter how high you are as there’s sections with literally no landing areas. Stevens Pass doesn’t exactly offer good options lol. I’ve flown lawn darts my whole career, most with two engines, some with 1 (T-34C & T-45A). I always try to have an out, a plan, but sometimes those options aren’t exactly good. I do respect your post and your opinion and it has forced me to think about the type of flying I will do in the future and what risks I’m willing to accept. Cheers & thanks for the thought-provoking comment.
Pretty cool how much ground you cover! music was way too loud between your voice over though
I just watched it on TV and yes the music was crazy loud 🤦♂️. I need to sort out the volume levels so they’re all even!!!
It's the same with the boat page.
Was hoping for a Memorial Day Flight vlog upload! Thanks for all your hard work in making these and thank you for your service! ONE ZERO THREE FOREVER!!!🇺🇸
Sorry Mark, I honestly haven’t been flying it much at all due to our boat race season prep. Hope to take it up again soon!
Great scenery! Cool discussion about the hornet… just make sure you know what’s on the other side of the ridge line before you roll and pull…
Lol for sure!
Awesome... looking forward to future experiments with more camera views.
Thanks, me too! I have a lot to work on with the audio!
I think you did a great job of video. I just found your channel, liking it so far.
Please take this the way it is intended, just an idea or suggestion:
I fly a naturally aspirated Piper Arrow with a Lycoming engine, if I left it rich the way you had the red knob my plugs would fowl and I would have brown exhaust marks on my cowl, followed by a no start the next day. If it was -20 outside I do fly a little richer and it looked like you are still in the depths of winter in the video. Just trying to save you headache and cash.
I really appreciate that comment and your attentiveness to notice. Having flown turbines for the last 26 years I’m definitely learning this as I go and appreciate your feedback. Welcome to the channel, new video coming out in a few hours (14:00 PST)
@@JollyRogerAviation
I leaned all of this building a 1,200HP Chevy 6.0 liter in my sleeper truck. I have fowled out way too many plugs. I have found controlling the Arrows engine easy compared to fighting with a computer to add or subtract fuel. I also taxi the Arrow lean. I recently learned this, an engine running on peak or lean of peak does not produce CO gas.
In Aviation it is called ADI anti detonation injection, water alcohol, used to cool intake charge and cool exhaust. Was used with turbo-jets to add thrust during takeoff and keep aft bearings and N1 from melting, also made black smoke for dramatic takeoffs. Think B52’s. In a piston engine it will keep the combustion chambers spotless, knock lead off, de-carbon the engine, I have it on my truck. Only use it during boost. The FAA will not approve a standby alternator for me, no way could I get water injection but you being EXPERIMENTAL you could do ADI. My truck gets over 300HP just from blue windshield washer juice. Just a thought, it was widely used during WWII but fell out of favor to intercoolers, I use both but my truck is at max power for 10-15 seconds at a time so 5 gallons lasts several months.
Your flights are amazing. I get to look down on corn, wheat, soy beans, hay or the slums of the city. I look forward to the video later tonight.
@@DWBurns ahhhh sounds like the “boost juice” we used on our twin turbo jetsprint boat. I’ve asked around when I fly with GA pilots at my airline about leaning while taxiing and nobody is doing it. Doesn’t make it right or wrong but I do think it’s a good idea. We lean our current NA, mechanical injected boat out at idle on the trailer with a simple valve, then open it before we back off the trailer. Jollyroger907 is our boat racing channel.
You need to do a video flying over Deming & Skagit sprint car tracks. The jetsprint tracks would be cool too.
Trying to figure that out. With most races being 2-day events now, I’m pretty sure I’ll be flying it to Ontario at least! Will probably hop over and buzz PA too at some point
Perfect Timing! I get to enjoy this before going to bed. Amazing views. I can't imagine how much better it would be in person! My only regret now is not becoming a pilot! At the end when you said "Let's get back to Arlington'" I snapped to it as I live in a 55 and over Golf Community called Arlington Ridge here in Central Florida. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
Hope you enjoy the scenery!
@@JollyRogerAviation For Sure!
It’s not too late CLC!! Living in Florida puts you right in the heart of the best flight training environment in the world! We only get one go around so if it’s something you want to do- Go after it! Lots of older adults get into the game- you can too!
@@markberman8958 Thanks for the encouraging words. I know it's never to late, but I have some financial goals, mainly paying off my home so that I have an inheritance to leave for him, before I take on any other major financial endeavors. I'm pretty sure that it won't be cheap and certainly flying, even in a rented plane isn't. One day, Good Lord Willing. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
@@markberman8958 "Him" being my son.
Beautiful scenery and plane. Just think, if you held the stick in the other hand, you could pretend it was a cyclic and then you'd know what real real flying is😜. Great video though.
I actually don’t feel natural with the stick in my left hand. F-18 we fly with right hand and throttles with the left!
@@JollyRogerAviation well it looked like you were having a great time anyway 👍
Enjoyed your video, thanks for the content. Sometime would enjoy preflight and Post flight checks and maintenance. Great job, thanks.
Thank you! Will add that to the list.
That's so cool.
🤟✌️👍
Livin the life! Thanks for sharing!
I try to live every day like it’s my last. Time is the most priceless commodity we have, get out and do!!!
Cool stuff, originally saw your jet boat team through cleetus’ channel. Cool to see other stuff that people do, especially aviation. Love the Lancair, keep ‘em coming 👍🏻🤘🏻
Thank you Kyle! Glad you found us and followed over to this channel too! Definitely more content coming with both.
Very cool video, so neat to see you in GA/Experimental world, The Lancair would be a great machine for Sport Class at the Reno Air Races...
Believe me…I’m considering that 😉
Awesome to see some of your world up there. Thanks for sharing.
It really is beautiful!
What a Beautiful trip.
Beautiful terrain around here for sure!
Cool to see the riding areas from the air. I have been to all those places many times and maybe one near Darrington that you missed... or maybe left out on purpose. Siegelson/Finney/Cumberland is mostly trails with just small play areas. It is great for family rides, break in rides, and first ride of the season with all the roads to put miles on and blow off the summer cobwebs.
I’ll look it up!
@@JollyRogerAviation Pretty sure that is the area you were flying over at the beginning. White Chuck mountain is the one you should check out😉
Awesome plane!! Good luck on the new channel!!
Thanks David. We’ll see how it goes
What a cool plane
Thing is sooooo fun
You gotta go up the Rogue river up through Hellsgate, here in Oregon. Lots of jetboats
Sounds awesome
That beast seem so slippery that it like driving a car that you accidentally speed in lol.
That’s a really good way to put it! My GFs BMW is like that because it’s so quiet & smooth you look down and you’re doing 90 🤣
I enjoyed your Flights in the mountains but hopeful you find your way to doing some slow flight configuration to have more time to view the trails and share the fly-over detail as you figure out a constant power for your Video and audio equipment. 😊
Looking for snowmobiling areas 🤣
Ideal I watch flight track on Flight radar too :)
My friend texted me as soon as I took off with a screenshot of flightaware and said…shouldn’t you be working? 🤣🤣🤣. He has it setup to get alerts when I’m flying!
That thing is an animal!
It really is! It’s all engine lol
South side of Mt Baker was our snowmobiling area.
There’s 3 main options in that mountain! All have unique riding.
You should try and contact Glen's Hangar - Canucks Unlimited, here on YT. He has done a few videos on headsets and cameras he uses uses in cockpit. Maybe he can give you some advice on in-flight video recording.
Appreciate the info!
Looks like a blast to fly that thing! I was surprised by how fast the approach speeds are. Much faster than the Cessna and SuperCubs I’m used to. How’s the glide with no power ? I’m guessing the wings aren’t real high lift as fast as that thing is.
I guess it’s all relative really. It’s definitely not a super cub. It’s designed for high speed, long-range, efficient cruise and it does that very well. Best glide is 135 at about a 3:1 ratio. I haven’t fully explored that yet. I will say we did some practice approaches and pulling the prop back made a huge difference in how it glides!
@@JollyRogerAviation sounds like a lot of fun. I would definitely enjoy all that speed especially at higher elevations. Hope it’s a great year for your aviation and jet boat channel. Really enjoying both !
I think I know a pilot that should take a good mountain flying course! 😉
I also want my float & tailwheel endorsement!
Stop by S10 this summer for a hotdog, a coke, and some A/C in the hangar. 😃
Is there food right on the field?
@@JollyRogerAviation there is when I’m there. But in years past there has been a fly-in the first week of June. Hopefully it will resume this year. Time will tell.
Below a certain altitude you can fly anywhere?
I followed 310Pilot but they were probably higher and had to request course changes.
There’s a bunch of different airspace classifications. Class A is above 18,000’ and you HAVE to be in an IFR (instrument flight rules) flight plan…ie….you can’t just fly around wherever you want. Below 18,000 you can fly VFR (visual flight rules) ie wherever you want…with some restrictions around airports who are classified D, C or B. D being dinky, B being BIG ie LAX, JFK, SEA etc. you HAVE to have a clearance to fly into a Class B airspace, even if you’re VFR and even if you’re below 18,000’. Hope that makes sense lol
That makes sense.
So as long as you stay in certain airspace and below a certain alt you are free to move around. So fun to see you banking around.
Keep up the content!
Wow it is light that you can easily pull it out of the hangar and onto the (taxiway? airpark tarmac? Im unsure what to call he paved area in front of the hangar). You get to be your own tow vehicle I guess it is true what they say after all. You dont choose tug life,tug life chooses you
1500 lbs empty, 2200 MGW
Great video and comments... Just learning my Legacy. You might lower the Music level compared to the mic.
I messed that up for sure. Hopefully this last video I just uploaded was better. How long have you had your legacy?
Intro music is waaay loud on a few of your videos 😬 Nice clear videos and that engine sounds like an F-in beast.
Thank you for the feedback. I’m really struggling with volume on the editing side. I’ll keep sorting it out though thanks 👍✌️🤟
I'm not a pilot but you make that aircraft look easy to fly, most of the time you are just using finger tips on the stick. Of course decades of flying experience probably helps.
Great observation, you literally fly with your fingertips! Once trimmed, this plane is extremely stable and stays where you put it…I live that!
Cool video. Always enjoy seeing a clean Lancair, and even better with the Cascades footage. Sound was way imbalanced; your talking was super quiet, and then the music was way up.
I appreciate the feedback!
love the videos, but can we modulate the volume a little throughout, your intro clip about an inverted ridge whatever was a significantly lower volume than when you cut to the music intro, same in the jetboat videos, the music cuts are significantly louder
Ughhh yeah I totally heard that too…after it was uploaded 🤦♂️. I’ll need a little time to figure out the best volume levels on my editing app for the music, phone microphone and aircraft comms. It will get better, I promise!
Music was fine, my only suggestion is to try to make all the sounds the same level, your audio was so quiet, then when the music pops in its SO LOUD I have to rush to turn down the volume, then when you talk again its so quiet I have to rush to turn the volume backup. Other wise, good stuff.
Awesome feedback John, thank you very much. I’m working on it and will get that sorted out. Last video I did, I had the music at 34% and the audio at 200% so I’m trying to get that sorted.
@@JollyRogerAviation My brother and some friends ride sleds at Baker, so some of those tracks are theirs. haha. Keep em coming! Im up at 38W, if you ever need some takeoff and landing vids, or quality ground to air pics! Or right seat ballast. haha! Havent been able to fly for years, hope to get back up sometime, so Im living through your vids!
@@JohnVHRC I just flew over Lynden 2 days ago checking it out, it really sits in a neighborhood doesn’t it? I’d actually love that! I’ve been trying to figure out how to get some good ground - air shots! Eric.usjsa@gmail.com maybe we can coordinate sometime!
@@JollyRogerAviation Oh yes, the houses are too close to the runway, unique place! Ill email ya and see what we can figure out sometime! Thanks!
Time to race Jimmy's world's Cameron? Think so
There ya go… Navy vs Air Force 🤣
Need to record the landing at regular speed… see how you do. lol.
They’re getting better, still haven’t greased one yet. I feel like the gear is pretty stiff. I’ll get there sooner later
You playing with fire with a Lancair Legacy flying low in the mountains, Just not smart if you ask me, This is not a super cub. if you have any issues you are going down fast hitting down at 100knots and it's going to happen fast. I get every once in a while, having some fun like this. But this is a high, fast cross-country machine. Now if you were in a stol plane more power to you. It is not my bizz what you do with your plane, this is just advice. I know for sure, knock on wood if you ever have an issue down low you odd are incredibly small you make it out. IMHO this is not the plane for fast low mountain flying. They come down very fast and hard if that engine is not running. On top of that you flying like this with less than 100 hours in the plane, that is just a guess but if I"m right that is not enough time for me to trust the engine. again JHMO This is a very good flying machine not a lot of crashes that I know of, however, it is a brick in the sky if that engine dies and great engines die all the time, Just not worth your life to get some good video. This is cub flying without landing IMHO
I’ve thought about your comment for a few days. I think there’s some risk to any flying we do. Crossing the cascades is a bit sketchy and it’s going to result in a crash landing no matter how high you are as there’s sections with literally no landing areas. Stevens Pass doesn’t exactly offer good options lol. I’ve flown lawn darts my whole career, most with two engines, some with 1 (T-34C & T-45A). I always try to have an out, a plan, but sometimes those options aren’t exactly good. I do respect your post and your opinion and it has forced me to think about the type of flying I will do in the future and what risks I’m willing to accept. Cheers & thanks for the thought-provoking comment.
Unsolicited advice.