Absolutely awesome video Matt! I have never seen anything this exciting in my life. I would give anything to be there sharing the experience with you guys. Matt, your pilot skills never cease to amaze me. When I think I have seen everything, you show me something new! The formation flying with the Mustang and the photo op. were sensational. The bed n' breakfast is the icing on the cake!
The Caravan at 13:54, N865MA, is now in Hawaii shuttling people from PHNL to PHMK. I work with that plane daily! Cool to see it pop up on your channel. Keep up the awesome vids!
My family and I stopped to visit that air museum near the Grand Canyon in 2002 during a family vacation. My son was about 5 years old and he sat in that very cockpit demo with the snake logo you guys were playing around with. Brought back a lot of memories... Fast forward to present day and now both he and I own a 77 Grumman Tiger that we fly together here in Colorado and he is an instrument rated pilot, soon to get his commercial. Thanks for the memories!
Great video! Sedona is one of my favorite places, and the airport is spectacular. West Sedona used to be called “Grasshopper Valley” when John Wayne discovered it, and decided to start shooting his films there. Hot air ballooning out of the NW canyons is epic!
Love your videos. This one brought back memories of when I used to fly formation with some of my old flying buddies. I have not flown since selling my plane back in 2007. Now I just live through videos like this. Thank you for giving me something SO much better than TV.
Spectacular flying and views. I saw your post on Instagram and somehow missed this flight/post. Gorgeous views. I saw the Grand Canyon from the ground and this is even better. Someday I hope to be able to fly.
Another great video, great flying, great scenery, love the bonanza brings back memories when I used to fly them. Grounded now due to heart issue, so love tagging along on your flights
Just recently found a love for aviation at 47 years old. Helped set up and run air shows a our local airport. Getting to talk to the pilots and check there aircraft out. You Vids are great. Have filed for my student pilot license and getting ready to flight train with a local cfi. Keep up the great videos and safe flying!
I am so stoked to make my pilot license one day. And always when watching your videos I am even more hyped for the first time sitting on the pilot's seat. :D Thank you so much for your incredible work!!!
So I’m catching up having recently discovered your channel, so forgive the late comment. I am absolutely certain that the images from this flight will be precious to you 50 years from now. To borrow your term, the memories that those images will trigger will indeed be “epic.” Perhaps Owen said it best, you have to use your eyes to really see it, film just can’t do it. Thanks for sharing the experience.
Bedrock has been that exact same way since I was about 5 yrs old ... and that's a good 4 decades ago. Seems like it really is rock and will never go away.
Great video Matt. Formation sequence and imagery is really incredible. Sidenote, I'm an AZ native and have never heard of Bedrock City and now I am pretty sure I know why.
When you are in the Southwest again......check out 1G4, Grand Canyon West...overnight at the ranch....alot of fun...favorite part of Grand Canyon. then, head west and try a stay in Death Vally....Feb-March or Late Oct-Nov. Will blow your mind. but you will have to rent a very expensive jeep to get around( only option). Scenery is so worth it......and so much to see.
what a wonderful video and what is the name of the airport that had the Flintstones and your clothes. The formation flying with the Grand Canyon was the best . Sedona is wonderful been there 3 times and just love the people and the food. thanks
I got yelled at by airport ops in SEZ when I was doing some low photo flying over the Sedona valley due to a noise sensitive area that I wasn’t aware of (lots of hippies live there who want the airport taken down). Didn’t care though, a beautiful place like Sedona needs to be enjoyed from the sky. Great video Matt. You are by far the best aviation vlogger on TH-cam as far as content and production quality goes. Keep it up!
GA is so much more fun than airline, I wish there was a way to make an equal amount of money flying GA, otherwise it’s quite an expensive hobby to have. Anyhow- awesome video as always Matt, thank you for sharing and greetings from Latvia.
Sedona is truly one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. New drinking game idea: everyone has to take a shot every time Matt says the word “epic.”
Thanks for sharing another super video. Wondering why the switch from Lightspeed headset to Bose. Seems that the LS Tango headset was a good fit for your missions. Keep ‘em coming!
Not a lot of margin on that high-density altitude takeoff at around 12:00! Why not perform a short-field takeoff procedure and pre-lean the mixture to best performance?
At Telluride he said his fuel pump is altitude compensated. Didn't watch till 12 minutes yet but Telluride sure looked like very little climb. Anyway i guess he has a very good feel for the plane but i agree as a viewer it sometimes seems a little close to the margin but that's his decision and to be honest i'm no expert. The DC3 takeoffs on flightchops also seemed quite slow takeoffs. I think we are just used to quite high power airplanes and you can make due with less margin.
The Bonanza has quite a lot of power. I'm wondering if he just is so used to having great performance he didn't bother doing the calculation (I'm not saying he didn't do it. I wasn't there). If he had done the calculation (which maybe he did), I'd be fine with the takeoff he made because there weren't any real obstacles out there on the departure end. But had I seen the performance charts were telling me I wasn't going to have 50 feet AGL by the end of the runway, I would have been performing a short-field takeoff technique and might be pretty nervous if the winds created a potential for down drafts in a low-climb-rate takeoff. He wasted 10 feet or so at the beginning of the runway (not a huge deal, but... it'll count that 1 day when a downdraft hits and you clip a tree-top). I thought during the takeoff at ~11:30 he said "I'll lean the mixture out a little" as he was rolling? I'm not knowledgeable about how an "altitude compensated fuel pump" works or what the procedures are for that. I wonder if that means he never leans the mixture? Or only in certain situations?
After going around the world with the long range tank i think he knows how to get the last bit of power out of the plane if he needs it. Anyway maybe he'll answer i would be curious :)
I never said he didn't know how to get the last bit of power out of the plane. I'm saying it's possible he didn't consider this particular high-density altitude takeoff to be a takeoff that required a short-field takeoff technique. Complacency is a thing. He has a ton of experience, agreed. Complacency can kill people with 20,000 hours. As he rolled onto the runway at 11:30 he said "we've got 4000 feet. It's high density altitude, but we should have plenty of room here" (paraphrasing). This made me think he didn't specifically do a takeoff distance calculation and was relying on his past experience with his plane (which we all do that. No one runs the numbers when you're taking off in a C172 at sea level from a 8000 foot long runway). But a 4000 foot runway in high density altitude does make me want to double check my gut feeling with the POH numbers.
There's a few reasons it was as close as it was (mostly, unanticipated tailwind) and also why it wasn't as close as it looks (speed). The computed takeoff roll for our weight and density altitude with no wind was exactly 2,000 feet (I got really lucky and said "maybe 2000 feet" on the way in), with 3,670 feet to clear 50' (and 832 fpm after that -- 441 ft/NM). The wind appeared to be blowing almost directly across the runway at probably 5-12 knots (judging from the windsock), so we chose runway 19, which is 4,200 feet long. I find that in the Bonanza, full power before brake release makes a relatively small difference in takeoff distance, and I was actually trying to get a better feel for how quickly I could add the throttle (normally I try to just be gentle) in preparation for some short-soft-field stuff later on in the trip, so I elected not to hold the brakes while we went to full power. I even held the nose wheel off just a little as it got light to protect it from the uneven pavement while preventing any shimmy. My engine has an altitude compensating fuel pump, which essentially means there's a little aneroid (barometer) that controls how much fuel goes to the engine, compensating for pressure altitude and thus not requiring you to lean in the climb (or enrichen in a constant power descent). So in theory you don't need to lean for takeoff because the pump is already doing that for you, but in practice they tend to be set a little rich (you can always get less fuel if you want, but you can't get more) and also can't account for density (only pressure), so I lean it to a target EGT of about 1400 on the hottest EGT while keeping in mind a rough idea of the recommended fuel flow -- so here I leaned it on the roll by about 1 gph to eek out every last bit of power. In reality though we ended up with about a 5 knot tailwind for the takeoff roll (which brings the required roll to 2,250 feet and 4,150 feet to clear a 50' obstacle). Since there weren't any obstacles above even ground effect, we continued the takeoff roll. We ended up with a 2,780 foot roll and had 40' and 5 knots above book speed at the end of the runway. I'd rather be fast than 15' feet higher in those conditions anyway, but between the altitude and the tailwind, we were doing 86 knots over the ground when we rotated, so that last 1400 feet of runway (and climb to 40 feet) went by in about 9 seconds. So we probably could have saved 400 feet with full power before brake release, a little more nose down trim (and not holding the nose off), and getting the gear up just a little faster (it doesn't really look that way in the video, but to be perfectly honest I remember asking myself why I didn't pull the gear up just a second or two sooner). But that wouldn't have made it look much different because we still would have eaten up the remaining runway in about 11 seconds instead of 9 seconds and had about 40 feet of clearance at the end instead of 30 (above 10' tall bushes that probably weren't even 10'). Something to think about for next time for sure, but you can see why it didn't seem to make much difference and why either way we had "plenty of room" (half the runway to get in the air, the other half and a dozen miles of flat desert to get out of ground effect).
HighFlyer actually the planes fly more during the spring and summer than in the winter. The B-17, B-25, and C-47 are all going to Oshkosh next week. I’m going to see them there
They used to have Douglas MacArthur's Super Constellation there. They also used to have a nice little car museum, are they not there anymore? This is on the main highway to the South entrance to the Grand Canyon National Park, so not exactly in the middle of nowhere.
Heading to SoCal, may I suggest Big Bear (L35); Riverside Flabob (RIR), Home to the Flying Circus because of the early aviation replicas built and flown there; Chino (CNO) Home to the Planes of Fame Museum and Yanks Air Museum ...and Catalina Island/Avalon (AVX)
It was an epic video. If you ever in Boise go to the Warhawk Air museum and visit the Kitfox factory and the Nampa airport has a nice coffee shop over looking the runway.
I noticed you leaned while you were rolling there Matt; I know in one of Rod Machado's videos he stated that for a constant speed prop you do not lean the engine like you would if you were flying a Fixed Ptich, (do not use the EGT as a reference). Instead, you use the Manifold Pressure as a reference to validate max takeoff power. Is this correct, and if so, could you please explain best practice for leaning when departing High elevation airports please. Thanks!
Hope you got a chance to try the $100 burger at Mesa Grill while you were there. Sedona is local for me, and I've flown in to SEZ several times. I used to be a firefighter/paramedic with the Sedona Fire District, years ago. Great film! I'm glad to have hiked the same trails you've shown... It is really beautiful there.
Matt - been following your stuff - planning a trip to mountain west 3-4 weeks in NA cirrus. Would appreciate you fav loop - eg sedona, moab, Jackson, Yellowstone, glacier, couer d’alene. !? Your recommendations please?
Stop by KAZO for the Air Zoo. You can park right on the ramp and walk right into one of the museum buildings. It's an amazing aviation & space museum with a restoration shop on site too. They're restoring a F4F that crashed in Lake Michigan during World War II currently.
Who's going to Oshkosh? Come say hi at the ForeFlight booth Tuesday at 12pm -- and RSVP for a chance to win one of my new Bonanza Bro tshirts: goo.gl/7n466y Also doing a social media panel Thursday at 4pm, but that'll be a little more hectic: goo.gl/HGJ9rM And I just launched some cool new merch: teespring.com/stores/mattguthmiller
Awesome flight as always guys and glad you enjoyed my playground where I fly. SEZ is one of my favorites and usually fly there from DVT several times a year. Are you coming to OSH? If so any plans for a meetup? I would love to get you on our podcast for a quick interview. In The Pattern Podcast if you want to check it out. Cheers, Chris
Nice scenery! Looks like an amazing place to fly around.
Thanks buddy, yeah it was some of the most fun I’ve had in a while
Absolutely awesome video Matt! I have never seen anything this exciting in my life. I would give anything to be there sharing the experience with you guys. Matt, your pilot skills never cease to amaze me. When I think I have seen everything, you show me something new! The formation flying with the Mustang and the photo op. were sensational. The bed n' breakfast is the icing on the cake!
Absolutely spectacular! The formation flying and the scenery are amazing! Thank you for your efforts to promote aviation.
I'm always excited when I get a notification for a new video of yours
The Caravan at 13:54, N865MA, is now in Hawaii shuttling people from PHNL to PHMK. I work with that plane daily! Cool to see it pop up on your channel. Keep up the awesome vids!
My family and I stopped to visit that air museum near the Grand Canyon in 2002 during a family vacation. My son was about 5 years old and he sat in that very cockpit demo with the snake logo you guys were playing around with. Brought back a lot of memories... Fast forward to present day and now both he and I own a 77 Grumman Tiger that we fly together here in Colorado and he is an instrument rated pilot, soon to get his commercial. Thanks for the memories!
I swear your videos always inspire me to fly more and fly with mates. You're a gun Matt!
I love flying into Sedona, beautiful country out there! Love that little airport as well, one of my favorites.
That scenery is amazing! The view is a part of why I’m working on my license.
Great video! Sedona is one of my favorite places, and the airport is spectacular. West Sedona used to be called “Grasshopper Valley” when John Wayne discovered it, and decided to start shooting his films there. Hot air ballooning out of the NW canyons is epic!
Love your videos. This one brought back memories of when I used to fly formation with some of my old flying buddies. I have not flown since selling my plane back in 2007. Now I just live through videos like this. Thank you for giving me something SO much better than TV.
15:19 is the cargo door removed for better pictures? I would've thought that opening a door that large has to effect aerodynamics.
Spectacular flying and views. I saw your post on Instagram and somehow missed this flight/post. Gorgeous views. I saw the Grand Canyon from the ground and this is even better. Someday I hope to be able to fly.
Awesome scenery and flying Matt!
Beautiful...simply beautiful. Love your flying and videos!
I went to Bedrock City about 35 years ago and there was no one there then either.
Matt having another daily dig at JP and how awful the cessna 210 is. 4:33
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Another great video, great flying, great scenery, love the bonanza brings back memories when I used to fly them. Grounded now due to heart issue, so love tagging along on your flights
Amazing. One of your best videos.
Love the desert and your film style
Your most underrated video, perfect cinematography
Just recently found a love for aviation at 47 years old. Helped set up and run air shows a our local airport. Getting to talk to the pilots and check there aircraft out. You Vids are great. Have filed for my student pilot license and getting ready to flight train with a local cfi. Keep up the great videos and safe flying!
Imagine how awesome these views would be if you were in the Cessna and no wings in the way;). Another great video, thanks.
Thanks so much for filming, editing and sharing this with us!
C'on man that was sick.... Daring.. Adventurous ..
Great Job to you all..
Great vid man, you're improving vid by vid!
The output of this flight was awesome. I love the cinematic editing. Thx. Best regards from Switzerland
I am so stoked to make my pilot license one day. And always when watching your videos I am even more hyped for the first time sitting on the pilot's seat. :D Thank you so much for your incredible work!!!
Another GREAT video, Matt! Always SO interesting! Thanks!
So I’m catching up having recently discovered your channel, so forgive the late comment. I am absolutely certain that the images from this flight will be precious to you 50 years from now. To borrow your term, the memories that those images will trigger will indeed be “epic.”
Perhaps Owen said it best, you have to use your eyes to really see it, film just can’t do it.
Thanks for sharing the experience.
You guys sure know how to have fun.... Loved it!
Greetings from South Africa!
Another Great Film Matt...Thanks !!
Bedrock has been that exact same way since I was about 5 yrs old ... and that's a good 4 decades ago. Seems like it really is rock and will never go away.
Awesome video as always but this one was super good, not to mention the incredible editing that went into this with all those camera's
Excellent flying Matt
That intro was killer!
Hope we can fly again soon!
Absolutely!
The Flintstones lol. You captured it perfectly. I’ve run into lots of places like that in my travels across the United States. Most are empty.
Great video Matt. Formation sequence and imagery is really incredible. Sidenote, I'm an AZ native and have never heard of Bedrock City and now I am pretty sure I know why.
17:06 Sick AF, well done.
OMG these are some cool shots !
Great video, really enjoyed it. Thanks!
When you are in the Southwest again......check out 1G4, Grand Canyon West...overnight at the ranch....alot of fun...favorite part of Grand Canyon. then, head west and try a stay in Death Vally....Feb-March or Late Oct-Nov. Will blow your mind. but you will have to rent a very expensive jeep to get around( only option). Scenery is so worth it......and so much to see.
I just did my first formation flight the other day and it was so hard to keep that distance. Nice vid
At that density altitude and airspeed that jet had to be chugging it down !
Awesome, awesome! All I can say, go Bonanza!
what a wonderful video and what is the name of the airport that had the Flintstones and your clothes. The formation flying with the Grand Canyon was the best . Sedona is wonderful been there 3 times and just love the people and the food. thanks
Fantastic!
Glad I started watching you a year or so back. Got me to get off my fat arse and actually start learning to get my ppl.
I got yelled at by airport ops in SEZ when I was doing some low photo flying over the Sedona valley due to a noise sensitive area that I wasn’t aware of (lots of hippies live there who want the airport taken down). Didn’t care though, a beautiful place like Sedona needs to be enjoyed from the sky. Great video Matt. You are by far the best aviation vlogger on TH-cam as far as content and production quality goes. Keep it up!
Awesome content, keep it coming!!
Excellent video! Subscribed.
GA is so much more fun than airline, I wish there was a way to make an equal amount of money flying GA, otherwise it’s quite an expensive hobby to have. Anyhow- awesome video as always Matt, thank you for sharing and greetings from Latvia.
Sedona is truly one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
New drinking game idea: everyone has to take a shot every time Matt says the word “epic.”
Thanks for sharing another super video. Wondering why the switch from Lightspeed headset to Bose. Seems that the LS Tango headset was a good fit for your missions. Keep ‘em coming!
I was there last summer. Awesome area of the world.
Love your work Mathew, when you come to Australia let me know, do you have anything posted on your world trip ?
Matt I am an old man so I usually do not use your terms but this video is “EPIC”!! Great job young man and your work is appreciated!!
I've been to Bedrock City twice, on the way to the Grand Canyon.
Excellent, excellent video. Thank you
Arizona is awesome. Wish you could do the White Mountains maybe sometime in the future.
Ahhhh Lake Powell, the 8th wonder of the world!
Not a lot of margin on that high-density altitude takeoff at around 12:00! Why not perform a short-field takeoff procedure and pre-lean the mixture to best performance?
At Telluride he said his fuel pump is altitude compensated. Didn't watch till 12 minutes yet but Telluride sure looked like very little climb. Anyway i guess he has a very good feel for the plane but i agree as a viewer it sometimes seems a little close to the margin but that's his decision and to be honest i'm no expert.
The DC3 takeoffs on flightchops also seemed quite slow takeoffs. I think we are just used to quite high power airplanes and you can make due with less margin.
The Bonanza has quite a lot of power. I'm wondering if he just is so used to having great performance he didn't bother doing the calculation (I'm not saying he didn't do it. I wasn't there). If he had done the calculation (which maybe he did), I'd be fine with the takeoff he made because there weren't any real obstacles out there on the departure end. But had I seen the performance charts were telling me I wasn't going to have 50 feet AGL by the end of the runway, I would have been performing a short-field takeoff technique and might be pretty nervous if the winds created a potential for down drafts in a low-climb-rate takeoff. He wasted 10 feet or so at the beginning of the runway (not a huge deal, but... it'll count that 1 day when a downdraft hits and you clip a tree-top).
I thought during the takeoff at ~11:30 he said "I'll lean the mixture out a little" as he was rolling? I'm not knowledgeable about how an "altitude compensated fuel pump" works or what the procedures are for that. I wonder if that means he never leans the mixture? Or only in certain situations?
After going around the world with the long range tank i think he knows how to get the last bit of power out of the plane if he needs it. Anyway maybe he'll answer i would be curious :)
I never said he didn't know how to get the last bit of power out of the plane. I'm saying it's possible he didn't consider this particular high-density altitude takeoff to be a takeoff that required a short-field takeoff technique. Complacency is a thing. He has a ton of experience, agreed. Complacency can kill people with 20,000 hours. As he rolled onto the runway at 11:30 he said "we've got 4000 feet. It's high density altitude, but we should have plenty of room here" (paraphrasing). This made me think he didn't specifically do a takeoff distance calculation and was relying on his past experience with his plane (which we all do that. No one runs the numbers when you're taking off in a C172 at sea level from a 8000 foot long runway). But a 4000 foot runway in high density altitude does make me want to double check my gut feeling with the POH numbers.
There's a few reasons it was as close as it was (mostly, unanticipated tailwind) and also why it wasn't as close as it looks (speed).
The computed takeoff roll for our weight and density altitude with no wind was exactly 2,000 feet (I got really lucky and said "maybe 2000 feet" on the way in), with 3,670 feet to clear 50' (and 832 fpm after that -- 441 ft/NM). The wind appeared to be blowing almost directly across the runway at probably 5-12 knots (judging from the windsock), so we chose runway 19, which is 4,200 feet long.
I find that in the Bonanza, full power before brake release makes a relatively small difference in takeoff distance, and I was actually trying to get a better feel for how quickly I could add the throttle (normally I try to just be gentle) in preparation for some short-soft-field stuff later on in the trip, so I elected not to hold the brakes while we went to full power. I even held the nose wheel off just a little as it got light to protect it from the uneven pavement while preventing any shimmy.
My engine has an altitude compensating fuel pump, which essentially means there's a little aneroid (barometer) that controls how much fuel goes to the engine, compensating for pressure altitude and thus not requiring you to lean in the climb (or enrichen in a constant power descent). So in theory you don't need to lean for takeoff because the pump is already doing that for you, but in practice they tend to be set a little rich (you can always get less fuel if you want, but you can't get more) and also can't account for density (only pressure), so I lean it to a target EGT of about 1400 on the hottest EGT while keeping in mind a rough idea of the recommended fuel flow -- so here I leaned it on the roll by about 1 gph to eek out every last bit of power.
In reality though we ended up with about a 5 knot tailwind for the takeoff roll (which brings the required roll to 2,250 feet and 4,150 feet to clear a 50' obstacle). Since there weren't any obstacles above even ground effect, we continued the takeoff roll. We ended up with a 2,780 foot roll and had 40' and 5 knots above book speed at the end of the runway. I'd rather be fast than 15' feet higher in those conditions anyway, but between the altitude and the tailwind, we were doing 86 knots over the ground when we rotated, so that last 1400 feet of runway (and climb to 40 feet) went by in about 9 seconds.
So we probably could have saved 400 feet with full power before brake release, a little more nose down trim (and not holding the nose off), and getting the gear up just a little faster (it doesn't really look that way in the video, but to be perfectly honest I remember asking myself why I didn't pull the gear up just a second or two sooner). But that wouldn't have made it look much different because we still would have eaten up the remaining runway in about 11 seconds instead of 9 seconds and had about 40 feet of clearance at the end instead of 30 (above 10' tall bushes that probably weren't even 10'). Something to think about for next time for sure, but you can see why it didn't seem to make much difference and why either way we had "plenty of room" (half the runway to get in the air, the other half and a dozen miles of flat desert to get out of ground effect).
I believe the word is "EPIC". :) Seriously though, Thanks for sharing this video. Brings back good memories!
Yabbadabbadoooooo !
Freekin EPIC air to air!
Ridiculous. Amazing editing and shots. Very professionally done.
Even closer to my little corner of the world. SEZ is one of my favorite approaches. It's also where I almost crashed day after my checkride
Just out of curiosity, why do you drop the gear so far out? I’ve always done it on about a midfield downwind.
WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!
You should come to Mesa Arizona and visit the CAF at Falcon Field
Been there. It's nice.
Better to visit in the winter. Then the planes are probably not out on tour.
Also, in the summer the temperature here is 1,000,000 degrees during the day. At night it's only 750,000 though.
HighFlyer actually the planes fly more during the spring and summer than in the winter. The B-17, B-25, and C-47 are all going to Oshkosh next week. I’m going to see them there
Matt McNeil it is hot here in the summer. It regularly gets to 115 here
They used to have Douglas MacArthur's Super Constellation there. They also used to have a nice little car museum, are they not there anymore? This is on the main highway to the South entrance to the Grand Canyon National Park, so not exactly in the middle of nowhere.
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@Matt Guthmiller did you add footstep sounds in post at the Flintstones place?
I had to watch twice!
EPIC!!!!!!
Heading to SoCal, may I suggest Big Bear (L35); Riverside Flabob (RIR), Home to the Flying Circus because of the early aviation replicas built and flown there; Chino (CNO) Home to the Planes of Fame Museum and Yanks Air Museum ...and Catalina Island/Avalon (AVX)
Totally awesome vid. Beautiful landscape. What brand of clothes were you wearing? Links would be nice.
HAHAHAHA 8 years ago when I was traveling with my parents, our pop up camper trailer broke down in Bedrock. Had pretty much the same experience.
It was an epic video. If you ever in Boise go to the Warhawk Air museum and visit the Kitfox factory and the Nampa airport has
a nice coffee shop over looking the runway.
I noticed you leaned while you were rolling there Matt; I know in one of Rod Machado's videos he stated that for a constant speed prop you do not lean the engine like you would if you were flying a Fixed Ptich, (do not use the EGT as a reference). Instead, you use the Manifold Pressure as a reference to validate max takeoff power. Is this correct, and if so, could you please explain best practice for leaning when departing High elevation airports please. Thanks!
The most beautiful place I have ever been.
Hope you got a chance to try the $100 burger at Mesa Grill while you were there. Sedona is local for me, and I've flown in to SEZ several times. I used to be a firefighter/paramedic with the Sedona Fire District, years ago. Great film! I'm glad to have hiked the same trails you've shown... It is really beautiful there.
Jeff Swiggers wow. I flew up to the Mesa Grill at SEZ from RYN for a $100 hamburger in late 2007. Memories!
Haha love the 210 joke "haha shut up"
Bedrock City needs a horror movie shot there. :D Great video.
Matt - been following your stuff - planning a trip to mountain west 3-4 weeks in NA cirrus. Would appreciate you fav loop - eg sedona, moab, Jackson, Yellowstone, glacier, couer d’alene. !? Your recommendations please?
Yep. Pretty epic.
Stop by KAZO for the Air Zoo. You can park right on the ramp and walk right into one of the museum buildings. It's an amazing aviation & space museum with a restoration shop on site too. They're restoring a F4F that crashed in Lake Michigan during World War II currently.
I landed for the first time at Sedona and landed on my first cross country at page
Great Video
Cool video! That's not really in the middle of nowhere, it's right along the only road to the south rim of the Grand Canyon National Park.
smoothtimb ........... which is in the middle of nowhere!
Who's going to Oshkosh? Come say hi at the ForeFlight booth Tuesday at 12pm -- and RSVP for a chance to win one of my new Bonanza Bro tshirts: goo.gl/7n466y
Also doing a social media panel Thursday at 4pm, but that'll be a little more hectic: goo.gl/HGJ9rM
And I just launched some cool new merch: teespring.com/stores/mattguthmiller
Great video! Any chance you could share some of the photos?
instagram.com/mattguthmiller -- new photos every day (couple of these are already there / were posted back when we shot this, more on the way)
Matt Guthmiller splendid! Look forward to seeing the rest!
Epic!
Now e need you to get you in a formation flight with a P-51 Mustang!
Great video as usual, love the flintstones thing, that is so cool..maybe cut down on the word "epic" a bit..:)
I wanna be able to do something like this in the future...
Awesome flight as always guys and glad you enjoyed my playground where I fly. SEZ is one of my favorites and usually fly there from DVT several times a year. Are you coming to OSH? If so any plans for a meetup? I would love to get you on our podcast for a quick interview. In The Pattern Podcast if you want to check it out.
Cheers,
Chris
Have you guys been to DM?
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What navigation app do you use?