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- *1500 statute miles because that sounds more impressive. In actuality, this was 1300+ nautical miles. The entire trip took 2 days and 15 hours of flying. Of course a lot gets cut out such as preflight, runups, etc. Flying safely is always my first priority; videoing comes second, so there are a few missed shots I would have liked to have gotten. Compared to the C150, the Champ seems a lot less comfortable and a lot more tiring over long distances. On the leg between Mineral County and Ephrata I got no handheld footage because it was so rough going, and by the very last leg? Ya girl was TIRED! Haha. I sure would love to have a Champ of my own! I think it will always be my favorite "fun" airplane to fly. I hope you enjoy this video!
Wonderful video!!! We fly a 1947 Champ over @low_lead and know exactly what you mean about no-bounce gear. We joke that you get to land twice on them. They can feel really squishy wheel landing in gusts. Mashing them on to load them up quickly seems best in stiff winds.
Yep! There is the touch down, then the second settle. 😂 They are wonderful to land even still.
@@amywhite375 They are just so fun. Ours is an L-16A with the original military no bounce oleos - those have a crazy amount of travel. I'm so tempted to replace them with bungee gear but committed to keeping this original. Have you ever seen the original no bounce test video? 😂th-cam.com/video/xfmjtlvK9_s/w-d-xo.html
Good as they are, I removed the no bounce for ski use. They caused the skis to sit at bad angles, nose in and on a angle unless you use limiter straps to basically prevent the oleo from hitting full length. Conventional gear is better if you use skis and wheels. But the no bounce are good for that drop onto wheels.
@@SyphenHouse Agreed for ski use. Also they are hard on soft tires as the track width changes under load. Fun video of loading them up on grass in ours: th-cam.com/video/PZ_1jmpElfM/w-d-xo.html
I'm an older pilot that watches a million flying videos. This is the first video I've seen of yours and it kind of got to me. There is something so unpretentious about your attitude. The video is very well put together - it tells a complete story. And I didn't even hate the music. This whole video is just so refreshing and impressive. You've really got a knack for this. Subscribing and looking forward to more! Going to check out your other videos.
I’m an older non-pilot but a 70 year old Air Force brat I agree with @gawebm great video. 👍
Glad you like it!! I have several similar ones on my channel you may enjoy if you like this sort of thing. Thank you! :)
I agree with those nerds Amy, hahaha, because I am one too. Great job, thanks for bringing us along ❤
@gawebm I highly recommend going back and watching all her videos in order. We have a true artisan pilot here, and that (pardon the reverse pun) down-to-earth quality permeates all her work.
Great work here! Thanks for sharing! New subscriber and can’t wait to watch more of your videos!
People make a big deal out of getting a tailwheel endorsement nowadays. When I solo'd a Champ Citabria on my 16th birthday in 1968, I thought tailwheels were the only way to go. Landings and takeoffs felt so natural. I have to thank my instructor for imparting great stick and rudder skills back then. Great video! Thanks for taking us along. Nothing like flying a high-wing Champ! Mandan, SD? ha ha, my mom grew up on a farm near there.
I loved your trek across the country in your 152. I wish more people did adventure videos like yours. It shows the fun and excitement of the unknown and what GA aviation should be. Another great video!!!
Thank you very much!
"somebody put the nosewheel on the wrong end" - sir, this an aircraft, not a shopping cart.
Nose wheels are for grannies. 😂
I wasn't even sure how to reply. 🤣
simple reply is " real pilots have the 3rd wheel in the back". Welcome back to the PNW.@@amywhite375
Great video! Good job, Lil' Lady! Thank you so much for sharing! I love the Champ and have flown at least three of them and a few of its newer cousins. A lot of fun, to be sure!
Another great video Amy, thanks!
Good to see you back.
Thank you for bringing us with you. Loved being back up in a Champ. Beautiful little airplane while not the fastest it was a joy to watch you flying and it reminded me of my learning to fly years ago in SoFla. I was enthralled to see your map. In my day we used a folded chart and marked waypoints.
Love it! That's what aviation is all about. I love my 1948 Champ!
Fantastic scenery and what an adventure! Thanks for videoing and sharing with us.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've watched this video a couple of times now. I sure am glad you posted again, I really like your videos. It's good content & I think they are very well photographed. My favorite is still the flight when you bought Woodstock & flew back to WA. Thanks again for putting up another video.
Thanks for another awesome glimpse of your adventures, Amy! Loved it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just bumped into this video which was absolutely magical! Thank you for doing it Amy
Thank you for making the effort to share this trip with us. I really enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video! And I love adventures like this!!
Thank you. :) Me too!
Always loved the Aeronca Champ. My Dad owned one in the early/mid 60's. N3651E. 1947 Champion he bought from the Pendleton Flying Club near San Diego, CA. We did a lot of flying in that plane. He kept it at Cable Airport. Good memories just like you'll look back on this flight some day. Wishing you a happy flight and gentle skies.
I love hearing all the Champ memories! They are really something special.
My father in law restores old birds like this
Enjoyed the flying. Thanks!
Thank you!
I am really appreciating your videos. I show them to students before ground school class starts to remind them of why we fly!
Hello Amy. Another great video and adventure. Thank you for taking us along. I always look forward to your videos.
Thanks! Glad you liked it. :)
Great flight.
Lovely! Great editing and music! Always great little tunes! Thanks!
Thank you too!
Amy, that was a great vid. Awesome scenery, great content, good editing, great route planning, awesome piloting, and I just love your little Champ! Great job young lady! I’m impressed! 😎🇺🇸
A fantastic adventure, thanks for taking us along and seeing your travels makes me regret not finishing flying lessons 25 years ago!
It's never too late to start back up! Thanks for watching. :)
Glad to see you back making videos. You do an awesome job filling my need for aviation when the weather won’t let me fly.
Glad I can help!
OMG, Amy, you posted a nostalgia bomb! In the late-80's, just after college graduation, I barnstormed my Champ all around North America for a long summer. I met great folks, learned a ton about flying, and had a blast sleeping under the wing in some fantastic places. At one point, pushing against a headwind in Wyoming at full throttle, I recall cruising at 50 feet beside the highway, sharing a laugh with a trucker as he passed me. I've flown a lot of airplanes since then, but the Champ was in many ways the most fun! Thanks for posting.
Great riding along on this beautiful flight! Thank you for sharing. Great music choice too
So great to see another post from you! Great video!🎉
Thank you!
Thanks for the adventure Love your music.
Thanks. This a the first time trying out licensed music instead of pulling copyrighted songs off my personal playlist. I tried to keep it close to the same vibe!
Beautiful scenery, great editing! Thanks for sharing 🍁❤️🛩️
I appreciate that!
Enjoyed the flight, thanks. Appreciated that you subtitles the airports. Fly safe.
No problem! Sorry about the typo at Glendive. Must have been distracted when typing that one out!
Beautiful flight, great video and commentary, got my tail wheel training in a champ and bought a luscombe. Love the champs and old low and slow airplanes. Stay safe
Nice to see you posting again Amy. I love your music selections. The ring looks awesome. Hope to see you again soon.
Thank you! I do love my ring. :)
Great to see you back doing a video. 👍
It was a little overdue I agree!
Hi Amy,
I have been following you for 3 years now. I'm a huge fan of your video's. You're a great stick and rudder pilot. I remember several video's ago that you said you did not like being on camera. Hang in there, you have a great speaking voice and are good on camera. I like the tunes and the editing. Please don't wait so long between postings.
Jack
Thanks Jack! The everyday grind makes it hard to do regular videos, but airline life supposedly gets better with seniority. I'm already seeing positive changes, such as being able to make this video! I appreciate you following along.
Great video! A trip like that would be amazing!!
Thank you!
Love to watch you fly, very smart and professional, and I love the champ , and all tail wheel planes,
Looked like an epic adventure
A much needed one!
This video was so awesome!! Thank you for taking the time to film and edit your trip to share with us! Hoping I can have even half the level of gusty crosswind landing skills you have someday!
Thank you Stevie!! I’m really glad I took the time to sit down and edit it. It’s not perfect, but I am seeing a lot of people enjoying it and sharing their champ stories and it really warms my heart!!!
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HI AMY. I'm an 81 YO guy that went for my 1st ride in a piper tri pacer when I was about 10 years old in 1952. The pilot owner was a very close friend if my Dads and took me up to fly over our house in Forest Grove, Oregon. After that flight I always wanted to fly a plane by myself. At 44 Yrs old I started taking lessons and got my private pilots license at 45. I flew mostly out of Paine Field in Everett Washington and also out of Gig Harbor WA when I lived there for about 3years. I really enjoyed this excellent video of you great adventure in your champ. I'll be checking some of your others as well. Thank you for sharing this!
What a beautiful little Champ! Great video Amy.
My gosh, it was gorgeous. I miss it! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for posting this vid. I learned to fly in a '46 Champ. Gotta love that plane. Those 3 point landings were phenomenal.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
Good job and good for you!
Well done !! Just love it!! My dream!!
I would do it again in a heartbeat. :)
Very nice. Great camera work and nice music too! I once did a cross country in my Chief from Quebec City to Stephenville, NL. It was a trip of a lifetime and your video helps to bring back these memories! Thanks for sharing your adventures.
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing Amy.
Thanks for watching!
My uncle had an Aeronca many years ago. We lived in different states, so I only got to fly with him a few times. Great memories. Great video!
They are special airplanes for sure!
Thank you Amy beautiful video as always, hope you share more of your adventures soon.😎
Thank you! I’ll definitely try.
Love your videos Amy. Been following your channel since you left the east coast. Keep them coming. Dave
Thank you!
I’ve traversed your route about 5 times after my family moved to Tacoma from St. Paul, by car/motor home and flown it by airliner a few times. Amy you got the best view of the great planes by small airplane. Thanks for the views.
Well edited! Music is great too. Thanks for the ride!
Those Champs are such a beautiful airplane no matter what other airplane is on the ramp my eyes just focus in on the Champ.
Thanks for the ride, Amy.
You bet! Thanks for watching!
First ride was in a champ at 4 years old, 73 now and still crazy about airplanes. Love the old Champ. Qwned a Stinson for 20+ years. I had a hangar at ANE and lived about 1 mile from there. Great video Amy. Such a relaxed personality you have.
Your edits are always such a joy. 😁
What a fantastic video. I know other have mentioned but I can’t help but agree, that this video captures the true spirit of general aviation. The adventure and the people of this wonderful community. Thank you, from a fellow SkyWesty!
So glad you enjoyed it!! It was a MUCH needed reminder of some enjoyable low and slow stick and rudder flying.
Thank you for creating and sharing this video. Really well done (and awesome planning and flying)! It's the first of your videos that I've watched, and I look forward to watching the rest. I trained and soloed in a Citabria (but didn't earn a license) and both of my instructors owned Champs. It was great fun flying vicariously with you. Thanks again!
I forgot to say: I loved you giving a little boop on her spinner : )
Welcome back Amy
Thanks for a most interesting flight! Being an old (now 84) guy who learned to fly in a J3 Cub this rekindled many memories! Stay safe!
Bob
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm so happy to see another video from you! I've been following you since your cross country in the 150. I really enjoyed this one as I have a few hours in a Champ myself.
So glad you liked it!
Great video and nice flying!
Thanks!
Way back when, My first airplane I purchased was a 7AC champ. Thanks for the Vedic. Brought back many many fond memories. She is a beautiful one. ENJOY. GUY
Another great video, Amy! Your views of traveling cross country are inspiring me to get back to work on my experimental project. I want to do trips like that too! Blue skies!
Inspiring more to fly is all I could ever hope for. Good luck with it!
love your Champ. beautiful airplane
Thanks a lot! I wish it was mine!
Cool and simple..an unadorned sweetness to the little Aeronca Champion..she's a timeless beauty..what a bird!
I always thought the Champ had timeless lines!
Thanks for posting
Love your storytelling and style. Your cross country skills must be amazing. Keep enjoying life!
Thank you! It’s pretty simple with today’s technology. I just watch fuel and watch weather like a hawk! I try to keep myself engaged by checking points outside with those in the map and always keeping track of where I am in case I lost GPS signal. The hardest part about this Champ was not having a Directional Gyro for accuracy and situational awareness, rather only a magnetic compass!
OMG what a fun video. Very nicely done. Old champs are not much on bells and whistles, but at least you had a starter!!
Watched this video with my 5YO granddaughter in prepping her for her first flight in my own Champ 7AC. She was intrigued the entire time. Well done! Thanks for sharing.
Hope she loves her first plane ride!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank You.. It was a great trip. I felt like I was in the back seat. I learned to fly in 1972 in a 1946 Champ. It was only 60 hp with no starter. You made my day, again thank you.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome! I used to fly a RC quarter scale one of these. Love this plane.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos Amy. Please make more.
I'll certainly try!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! Fly safe!
Thanks, you too!
Lovely aircraft.. happy landings!
Thanks!
“You might not have noticed, but someone put the nose wheel on the wrong end.” Thus the moniker Conventional Landing Gear! There nothing like aviation cross countries in a slow GA aircraft in the United States of America!! Lovely lovely video.
Love it!
Thank you.
Shalom!
That is one good looking Champ!!! What an awesome video as well.
Thank you very much! She was a beaut!
Champ is the all time cutest little thing ever! I took mt PPL in one. Loved it.
They are the best!
The first video I watched of yours you were going west in your 150… I grew up literally across the street from KANE… so it was fun to watch the departure scenes “fly” by… great images and thanks for taking us along.
That's cool! Tis a small world for sure. Thanks for following along!
Oh my, now that's what adventure's are made of. Wishing you fair winds and blue skies.♥️♥️🛩️
Thank you!
Thxs fer the beautiful vid. I grew up in Brooklyn Park, airport bummed Crystal and Anoka. Joined the USAF, spent 36 yrs as inspector at Boeing. Great T.G. flying and good stick! I love champs. Long flight in head winds. Happy landings and take care.
That’s awesome. Thanks for watching! Happy landings to you too.
"Low" and slow across the country. Great memories, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Sweet! I remember the 150 days……
You are keeping it old school!
And that is cool! 👍🇺🇸
Oh yeah! Nothing better.
Incredible!!! Great ferry flight. I’m recovering my Citabria right now and am really jonesing for some low and slow tailwheel flying. This gives me a little goose to get it ready before Oshkosh and take off enough time to make the trip in it from Seattle. Beautiful little champ and great landings!
Thank you! Best of luck with the Citabria. :)
I used to deliver Citabrias, Champs, and even a Jodel BB in the late 60's and early 70's. I was 19 when I did my first. Needless to say that was a very special time for me. Amy, you took me back and it feels soo good.Thank you! What a gorgeous Champ!
Thanks for sharing! I love delivering airplanes. Especially when it takes me somewhere new.
some nice landings there, thanks for sharing
Nice flying young lady! I love long cross country trips in small airplanes.
My Wife and I flew our 1978 172 from south Florida to Phoenix, AZ and back. Long trips are always a great adventure.
Great video. I enjoyed it.
They are the absolute best! I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)
I owned an old 7DC champ with a sick warn out cont 85 back early 70's. It was a pile of junk, rotten fabric, needed restoration, but we flew that thing all over the place, so low at times we could read the road signs. Your video brought back a lot of fond memories of that airplane. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed! Hard to beat a Champ for having fun.
This is awesome! What a marathon flight you did here. I began my flight training and did my first 40 hours in an Aeronca Champ operating mostly from grass fields. It might be a little bit slow, but it really gives you that sense of freedom and feeling of truly operating a machine by hand.
That’s a great way to describe it. So much fun!!!
Nice video - Thx! Ahh, the freedom of a cross country in a vintage airplane - the sights, the sounds - it sure beats driving a car...Nice work
It's hard to beat! Thanks for watching!
Fun to watch. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoyed the video great adventure
Glad we all agree you are awesome. IG and here. Great work. Very jealous of your journey.
Wow, what an awesome trip. I'm looking forward to passing my nav here in Queensland Australia and flying my little A22 Foxbat down to my mum's hometown in New South Wales and suprising her. Your trip was inspiring. Thank you.
Have fun and best of luck!
excellent video. I love the Aeronca Champ. I learned to fly in one of those, greetings from Argentina!
Great video Amy! I need to venture out of state with 150 and you are an inspiration for me to get out there and make it happen.
Thanx Amy... It was delight to ride w/ you... envy inducing as it was!
I once, in the mid 1970s, was about to go to work for the Billings Newspaper as a photographer. I think at one point all of the photographers at that paper were pilots. One of them has several Coffee Table Books of Aerial pix... Larry Mayer I think was his name.
I ended up going to a paper in the NC mountains, and I learned to fly while there. Just retired 3 months ago from Flight Instructing. Happy Landings.
Such a cool story! Thank you for sharing it!
Excellent video ,thank you😊
Thank you!
I took my first flying lesson in a ‘46 7AC at a small field in Boardman, Ohio. The first landing was very challenging but I got it down. I switched over to a Piper Colt. Got my PPL in a Cessna 152. I went off to college at Mount Union in Alliance where I discovered the Aeronca’s were built in Alliance I still like to see them and your video is a great memory refresher. Really nice job editing and including your landings. You have mastered the tail wheel. Bravo!
Excellent video