WOW!! 59 YEARS IN California it's a thrill to see Tulare lake grow and the intelligent thought that went into how to break the levees and Shepherd the water to where it would do the least damage. BLANCOLIRIO RULES!! What good fortune I discovered you, since I am in the Oroville dam floodplain... You've really made exploring the California aqueduct system iJoy for me this year
I used to work in flood-irrigated alfalfa. Those growers had the elevation and tilt of their fields laser cut nearly to the accuracy of a billiard table.
Actually they said that the area has a large amount of clay so the water is evaporating not refilling the water table. Crazy yeah all that water is going to make clouds and go somewhere else.
Another really interesting, informative and fascinating report JB, thanks for the update. And as for the "Take her home Kellen, 3 hours to the north, we'd better get some gas somewhere first".... well, that's another 3 hours towards Kellen's commercial time and tail dragger insurance, you're a good man Juan.
My home airport 92CA is just slightly (1 1/2 mi) to the northwest of the lake boundary. Over my lifetime (74 years) I've seen water in the lake several times, and each time it filled there have been "issues" related to the man made & natural boundaries. In 1982-3 I had an RLK-1 Breezy that I used to "survey" the lake on a daily basis. It would have been fun except for the fact that we (my family's farm) were trying to keep dry!
Excellent footage and explanations! Thank you for this! I'm constantly in amazement that Tulare Lake is back, at least for now. It's great to see it from the air!
Good update. It's wild to see the return of this lake - I learned to swim in the Tule River up in the foothills. During heavy floods you could hear boulders tumbling downriver from half a mile away. Needless to say this is not when I was getting my swimming lessons.
My first tailwheel landing was in a Beech 18S way back in 1964. The boss didn’t realise I was the one who had no previous experience, being a trike pp learner. The wheeled landing ended up as a 3 pointer because that was my standard bounce recovery muscle memory. He was shocked but we walked away ok.
Great video, thanks for the update. It looked earlier this year as it would flood. They got it right and got a good harvest. The young fella is doing great, good luck Kellen with your future endeavors.
Thanks for the great video, you explain every thing so we can understand the way the water gets moved. All the news media does is ramble on and on and never explains anything keep up these great videos.
Those maters look good and the soil probably received a good dose of minerals and micronutrients from the floodwaters. Plenty of irrigation water nearby for dry times ahead.
Tulare lake has a message. Take something from Mother Nature, and she'll take it back. Maybe not right away, but eventually her property will be reclaimed.
It's amazing that the pumping and counter-flooding arrangements were in place before the melt. Now that water can be harvested and the properties are also saved. That was some seriously good planning.
Great update on the Tulare Lake. I think there is still a lot of snow in some of the southern Sierra Nevada, but maybe only the highest peaks that don’t have a big volume of snow water equivalent.
fantastic that you give so much time to Kellen to get in the hours increased someday there will be a payoff when he flies the big buses, take you on holiday somewhere for nothing hehe i worked in an aviation museum for a bit, i met a guy who told me, years ago when he was a kid, his father brought him to this museum, he sat in a cockpit and his love of aviation was born, he then went onto college to do engineering, got a job in aviation as an engineer, and suddenly found himself wanting to trade to become a pilot, he got his training in, flies big jets, his wife oddly enough was a trolley dolly, not odd at all, they have kids now and he brought them down, so i showed them the best options i had, sit in the Harrier jump jet a GR3 and then the F-4M Phantom, i think that did the trick, kids were happy, mum and dad happy and the dream goes on - that gave me quite a moment of pride, i hope those kids will return one day with theirs
No offense to anyone but it would be nice to have this body of water stick around from now on, maybe just not at the current size. The benefits for the entire region from recharging ground aquifers to attracting fauna and flora are immense.
Juan, thank you again for another interesting video of the great Tulare lake farmland. Only in America to see such great farmland. I have driven thru it a couple of times and I am most impressed by what I have seen. The year that I was there, the farm manager gave me a copy of the tomato crops that were being planted in various fields and it amounted to 26, 000, ( twenty six thousand ) acres. It was a very impressive acreage of just one crop. Cotton was another major crop. John Deere and Caterpillar Challenger are the two brands of tractors that they use.
Awesome report, being a life long Californian I've seen this a number of times. The pattern I've seen was back in the late 60s, early 70s, I hope we have many more winters with rain so the ground water can replenish. Farmers are heros in this valley and too many times these low life politicians try and put them down and put a target on their backs to divert attention from their bad policies. God bless you Juan and may you always have blue skies.👍❤️🇺🇸
Boswell are scumbags who have far too much political power. Hope is not a plan; changing the water rights and fees would be the beginning of an excellent solution. In short, everything you express here is based on ignorance or willful stupidity. Cheers, Alan Tomlinson
Yes I lived in southern California in the 50ies lake Tulare was the best crawdad fishing in the state. and Huntington Beach is the best place to get Pismo clams, go out at a very low tide start walking up to your neck keep on going until you reach the sand bar and the water is below your knees and there is ware you will fin them.
My congratulations for Pete. Yesterday was Saint Peters and Saint Paul's Day. Any 🍰 cakes, 🧁 cupcakes or whatsoever to 🎉 celebrate? You're still on time!
I use an external digital recorder plugged into my Lightspeed and have been happy with the quality. Wish I could get my snowmobile helmet mike was as good. The cable is a pain, but I don't have enough faith in the Bluetooth yet.
Another excellent, informative video, Juan! Many thanks! (On this same general topic of CA flood control/water mgt., and if you haven't read it yet, track down last Sunday's NYT Magazine article entitled "The Trillion Gallon Question". Insightful and troubling, suffice it to say.)
Great Vlog content! Very interesting topics. I wonder if anyone has documented the monetary losses from the flooding... or if they keep track of it? Buildings, crops etc?
I flew to the lake with my paramotor from Corcoran a few days ago and was told by the crop duster pilots that the depth was a few feet up to about 15 feet in depth.
How deep is the lake at the deepest point at this point in time? It seems to be very shallow but covers a lot of ground. Thanks from another taildragger pilot!
It's thrilling to learn you are also a CFI, taking on the role to properly train and equip with knowledge the next generation of pilots who will fill your shoes when you step down someday. Military trained pilots such as yourself are my favorite especially for ATP. In commercial airliners, I feel more comfortable if I know the pilot at the controls has military pilot training and experience. We both know that civilians can make good commercial airline pilots but military trained pilots have an edge and the kind of experience that civilians will never have or gain. I am curious about one thing though, I know this is a hour building training flight for Kellen but this is also an observation flight for you. So who paid for the fuel for six hours of flight time? It's ironic that my CFI at North Las Vegas airport was also a full time military pilot out of Nellis. I had to terminate my training due to my being prone to spatial disorientation and experiencing total blackout behind the controls. I can't fly anymore so now when I want to go up in helicopters and GA aircraft, I rent the aircraft with fully licensed pilot. I instruct them that if I blackout, do not take evasive action, just stay in the air and give me time to recover then I'm okay. My dream back then was to become ATP, I would've been good at it if not for this issue.
The annual crops under the water are already lost, they may bank the water at this point even after they could have drained it down to the ocean. Water on both sides is probably compromising those levees unless they are piled rock.
Thank you for this channel. I look here first when major breaking news happens. Any connections in the Washington State area, Pacific NW? I would like to get information first hand rather than broadcast news.
Juan, you got yourself a chauffeur while Calum builds his hours! Great deal all around!!
Made me stoked and I aint never touched a yoke that wadnt yellow xD
WOW!! 59 YEARS IN California it's a thrill to see Tulare lake grow and the intelligent thought that went into how to break the levees and Shepherd the water to where it would do the least damage. BLANCOLIRIO RULES!! What good fortune I discovered you, since I am in the Oroville dam floodplain... You've really made exploring the California aqueduct system iJoy for me this year
I used to work in flood-irrigated alfalfa. Those growers had the elevation and tilt of their fields laser cut nearly to the accuracy of a billiard table.
good for the water table
Actually they said that the area has a large amount of clay so the water is evaporating not refilling the water table. Crazy yeah all that water is going to make clouds and go somewhere else.
@@Yakomoe california needs lots n lots of water
Spectacular. Thanks for the update.
I’m proud of you Juan , you got Kellen at the helm while you photograph and narrate an interesting subject on the ground !
Sitting in the back, being chauffeured. What a life! Audio sounded fine.
Another really interesting, informative and fascinating report JB, thanks for the update.
And as for the "Take her home Kellen, 3 hours to the north, we'd better get some gas somewhere first".... well, that's another 3 hours towards Kellen's commercial time and tail dragger insurance, you're a good man Juan.
Another fine water report. Thank you Juan and Kellen.
My home airport 92CA is just slightly (1 1/2 mi) to the northwest of the lake boundary. Over my lifetime (74 years) I've seen water in the lake several times, and each time it filled there have been "issues" related to the man made & natural boundaries. In 1982-3 I had an RLK-1 Breezy that I used to "survey" the lake on a daily basis. It would have been fun except for the fact that we (my family's farm) were trying to keep dry!
Thanks for the knowledge. Great perspective and analysis. You make things interesting that I have never paid much attention to before.
Excellent Coverage!
Very nice give back to the flying community!
Great video Juan and Kellen. Best line ever, “3 hours to the north… better find somewhere to get some gas”. 😎
Absolutely brilliant brother Juan
Thanks you so much, Juan -- you make everything so clear. And thank you to Kellen for being your pilot.
Excellent footage and explanations! Thank you for this! I'm constantly in amazement that Tulare Lake is back, at least for now. It's great to see it from the air!
Thanks for the cool update.
Thorough information as usual. Thanks, Juan. Cheers from Liz and Ginger (pic left) in West Gippsland, Australia, where the rain just keeps on falling.
Beautiful day to go flying✈️
Good update. It's wild to see the return of this lake - I learned to swim in the Tule River up in the foothills. During heavy floods you could hear boulders tumbling downriver from half a mile away. Needless to say this is not when I was getting my swimming lessons.
Thank you for the update. Appreciate how you explain everything for us non agricultural people.
My first tailwheel landing was in a Beech 18S way back in 1964. The boss didn’t realise I was the one who had no previous experience, being a trike pp learner. The wheeled landing ended up as a 3 pointer because that was my standard bounce recovery muscle memory. He was shocked but we walked away ok.
I clicked the like button (and of course subscribed) to help you pay for the gas for that 6 hour flight. 3 Hours each way. 👍
Thank You so much for all this update. I follow you all the time you put something up on this site.
Great video, thanks for the update. It looked earlier this year as it would flood. They got it right and got a good harvest. The young fella is doing great, good luck Kellen with your future endeavors.
Thanks for the great video, you explain every thing so we can understand the way the water gets moved. All the news media does is ramble on and on and never explains anything keep up these great videos.
California's Gold did a video near here where the water district had pumped the water down into the near empty aquafers .. It makes a lot of sense
Those maters look good and the soil probably received a good dose of minerals and micronutrients from the floodwaters. Plenty of irrigation water nearby for dry times ahead.
Thanks for the update!
Shows how much food USA produces. Flying over giant fields of tomatoes as long as eye can see.
You say tomato and I say tomato.
The radio commentary sounds 100% authentic. 😎
Thanks Juan. Looks like Kellen is making a great chauffeur!
Thanks for the update. Great job with Calum!
Well done Juan, appreciate the update!
Than you Juan and Kellen for the lake tour...crazy how much water is in that lake...
What fun for you two 😂 Congrats Calum!
Great info and cool to see it from the air, I was there Tuesday looks huge from the ground!
I was wondering how long it takes you to get down there. Three hours, thanks for taking the time to bring us this excellent report.
Great to see the South West finally getting some water.
Good luck, Kellen. Great you have solid goals.
Tulare lake has a message. Take something from Mother Nature, and she'll take it back. Maybe not right away, but eventually her property will be reclaimed.
Great shirt Juan!!! And as always an great update on the situation.
microphone setup sounds fine to me. 👍
Thanks for the yellow bird to get to do what she was meant to do
It's amazing that the pumping and counter-flooding arrangements were in place before the melt. Now that water can be harvested and the properties are also saved. That was some seriously good planning.
This is California, the 5th or 6th biggest country in the world. This is not Texas or Florida…
Thanks Juan, appreciate all the info and updates 👍👍
Nice job Calum 🤗👍🏾
Great update on the Tulare Lake. I think there is still a lot of snow in some of the southern Sierra Nevada, but maybe only the highest peaks that don’t have a big volume of snow water equivalent.
fantastic that you give so much time to Kellen to get in the hours increased
someday there will be a payoff when he flies the big buses, take you on holiday somewhere for nothing hehe
i worked in an aviation museum for a bit, i met a guy who told me, years ago when he was a kid, his father brought him to this museum, he sat in a cockpit and his love of aviation was born, he then went onto college to do engineering, got a job in aviation as an engineer, and suddenly found himself wanting to trade to become a pilot, he got his training in, flies big jets, his wife oddly enough was a trolley dolly, not odd at all, they have kids now and he brought them down, so i showed them the best options i had, sit in the Harrier jump jet a GR3 and then the F-4M Phantom, i think that did the trick, kids were happy, mum and dad happy and the dream goes on - that gave me quite a moment of pride, i hope those kids will return one day with theirs
Thanks for the update
Great update, Thanks Juan & Kellen
Love the updates!
Thank you for all of the information 😊
"Dicey Tomato Gamble"... I see what you did there 😂🍅
No offense to anyone but it would be nice to have this body of water stick around from now on, maybe just not at the current size. The benefits for the entire region from recharging ground aquifers to attracting fauna and flora are immense.
Juan, thank you again for another interesting video of the great Tulare lake farmland.
Only in America to see such great farmland.
I have driven thru it a couple of times and I am most impressed by what I have seen.
The year that I was there, the farm manager gave me a copy of the tomato crops that were being planted in various fields and it amounted to 26, 000, ( twenty six thousand ) acres.
It was a very impressive acreage of just one crop. Cotton was another major crop.
John Deere and Caterpillar Challenger are the two brands of tractors that they use.
Great report.
👍👍👍👊😎
Thanks! Nice update.
Great update Juan 👍🏻
Thanks.
Awesome report, being a life long Californian I've seen this a number of times. The pattern I've seen was back in the late 60s, early 70s, I hope we have many more winters with rain so the ground water can replenish. Farmers are heros in this valley and too many times these low life politicians try and put them down and put a target on their backs to divert attention from their bad policies. God bless you Juan and may you always have blue skies.👍❤️🇺🇸
Boswell are scumbags who have far too much political power. Hope is not a plan; changing the water rights and fees would be the beginning of an excellent solution. In short, everything you express here is based on ignorance or willful stupidity.
Cheers,
Alan Tomlinson
Got your chauffeur working. Nice
I flew from KAPV to KFLG yesterday, I was surprised at the amount of smoke in the air at 12,000 ft
NICE AND THANKS. NICE TO BE CHAUFFEURED FOR A CHANGE I BET.
Not that it matters...What great views!
That’s so awesome! God is good
Yes I lived in southern California in the 50ies lake Tulare was the best crawdad fishing in the state. and Huntington Beach is the best place to get Pismo clams, go out at a very low tide start walking up to your neck keep on going until you reach the sand bar and the water is below your knees and there is ware you will fin them.
Great family event.
My congratulations for Pete. Yesterday was Saint Peters and Saint Paul's Day.
Any 🍰 cakes, 🧁 cupcakes or whatsoever to 🎉 celebrate? You're still on time!
I use an external digital recorder plugged into my Lightspeed and have been happy with the quality. Wish I could get my snowmobile helmet mike was as good. The cable is a pain, but I don't have enough faith in the Bluetooth yet.
Cheap tomato soup in the near future.
Nice tour of the lakes.
Content.....Amazing!
Great work, Thomas
Now do a couple of barrel rolls Kellen. 😄
Interesting video, I had no idea that the tomato farms were that large.
Juan
Thanks for the info on The T lake. 😅.
Areas that don't have a local eye in the sky are really missing out! From Yolo Co.
Another excellent, informative video, Juan! Many thanks!
(On this same general topic of CA flood control/water mgt., and if you haven't read it yet, track down last Sunday's NYT Magazine article entitled "The Trillion Gallon Question". Insightful and troubling, suffice it to say.)
Its Chinatown, Jack.
@@robertslugg8361 What???
oops, Jake Wow, almost 50 years since I first saw it.
Great Vlog content! Very interesting topics. I wonder if anyone has documented the monetary losses from the flooding... or if they keep track of it? Buildings, crops etc?
Juan shows us the tomato fields of California. 😎
"Dicey tomato gamble"
......take my Like and get outta here, Browne.
How is flying time calculated. Is from the time the airplane starts and stops? Or from the time it leaves the ground to when it lands?
great video. Shows mother nature always wins in the long run when she wants to. Man just gets short success.
The water is going to the ocean Juan. Follow the north fork of the kings river to where it meets the San Joaquin.
No.
When you going to stop at the Nut Tree Airport? We'll come over and say Hello.
I would love to see the lake borders on a map. Also interested in how deep the lake is.
I flew to the lake with my paramotor from Corcoran a few days ago and was told by the crop duster pilots that the depth was a few feet up to about 15 feet in depth.
Well that was cool
Juan, do we know how many acre feet may actually make it into deep aquifer recharge from this?
Excellent briefing! Will you be at Airventure this year?
Planning on it...
Any idea on depths of the lake?
Thanks Juan!
2-15'
How deep is the lake at the deepest point at this point in time? It seems to be very shallow but covers a lot of ground. Thanks from another taildragger pilot!
2-15'
@@blancolirio Thanks Juan! Keep your content comin'. We all appreciate it for sure!
Can they do groundwater replenishment faster on Tulare lake instead of waiting 2 years
Gotta percolate...
somewhere under that water is supposedly the route for the infamous bullet train.
It's thrilling to learn you are also a CFI, taking on the role to properly train and equip with knowledge the next generation of pilots who will fill your shoes when you step down someday. Military trained pilots such as yourself are my favorite especially for ATP. In commercial airliners, I feel more comfortable if I know the pilot at the controls has military pilot training and experience. We both know that civilians can make good commercial airline pilots but military trained pilots have an edge and the kind of experience that civilians will never have or gain. I am curious about one thing though, I know this is a hour building training flight for Kellen but this is also an observation flight for you. So who paid for the fuel for six hours of flight time? It's ironic that my CFI at North Las Vegas airport was also a full time military pilot out of Nellis. I had to terminate my training due to my being prone to spatial disorientation and experiencing total blackout behind the controls. I can't fly anymore so now when I want to go up in helicopters and GA aircraft, I rent the aircraft with fully licensed pilot. I instruct them that if I blackout, do not take evasive action, just stay in the air and give me time to recover then I'm okay. My dream back then was to become ATP, I would've been good at it if not for this issue.
Get yourself a tomato sandwich for this one have a great weekend
The annual crops under the water are already lost, they may bank the water at this point even after they could have drained it down to the ocean. Water on both sides is probably compromising those levees unless they are piled rock.
Up your game @lightspeed
The 'Mighty' is so SHINY 😃😊🙂😀
This is not the Mighty Luscombe, which is green, if I recall correctly.
@@lizj5740 oh. i thought it was this one. oh well. still VERY shiny! :D
@@Palmit_ Juan has three airplanes now: the Cessna 310, aka Harvey; the Aviat Husky (the bright, shiny yellow one); and the Mighty Luscombe.
Thank you for this channel. I look here first when major breaking news happens. Any connections in the Washington State area, Pacific NW? I would like to get information first hand rather than broadcast news.