Big Trip in a Bonanza
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- In the summer of 2015, my daughter and I went on a two-week, 3,300 mile trip in the Bonanza that took us to Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, San Francisco, San Diego and a few other places. Come along and see the highlights of this vacation trip.
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Watched the lot and didn't waste a second. A very nice trip indeed.
Thank you!
I like how you mentioned CarTalk. I believe time is NEVER wasted when watching your videos!
I still listen to car talk these days. I know they are all re-runs, but I never get tired of it...
- Martin
Great video and that is something your daughter will never forget. Thank you for taking the time to make such a great video.
Thanks, Josh!
In a word: Perfect! In a few words: Professional (meticulous preparation, airmanship, narration, filming & editing), inspirational, and mesmerizing. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm looking forward to watching your other videos.
One of the best videos I have seen in very long time, the very reason I love aviation was shown in better way that I could ever explain.
Thank you for the kind words - happy to hear you liked it.
I re-watch the video every now and then; would love to fly back to the west coast again soon and explore some other places there.
- Martin
Sure wish life had not got in my way of my flying career. Now I live you and your gray videos. Wish I had a friend like you that I could share my IFR re-certification with. Your videos are awesome and detail you put into is top notch!. Thanks for sharing your trip with your daughter.
To this day, that flight to the west coast remains my favorite trip I've taken in the Bonanza.
- Martin
An excellent video about a trip many of us only dream of...
Thanks, Steven. The trip isn't as hard as it may seem at first. The hardest part is making the decision to go in the first place; the rest more or less falls into place. And no more expensive than a dozen or so breakfast runs.
Nicely done. I felt so relaxed watching. Nice memories with daughter. Ga flying love it
Nice memories indeed!
- Martin
Absolutely fantastic trip. Best way to waste a perfectly good hour and make it better. I am here in SFO land, working on my instrument rating, watching my daughter grow up just like you. She is half the age of your daughter and I hope to take her on such an awesome trip some time. You just reaffirmed a bucket list item for me. Thanks! Fly safe.
Thanks for the kind words, and good luck on the instrument rating!
Excellent video project. Much of the route my wife and I duplicated last year on our H-D motorcycle (e.g. Rapid City, Yellowstone, and Garden City). Beautiful scenery.
There is so much beautiful scenery on this trip, we could have easily spent a lot more time.
OMG. it´s so amazing to see your videos!!! Thanks!
This one - the Big Trip in a Bonanza - remains my favorite video to date of all the ones I've posted, probably because it brings back such great memories.
- Martin
Excellent videos Martin- the San Francisco one was my favorite before I watched this one!! They always make me want to get back into fixed wing flying. I look forward to your next video. Car Talk is one of my favorite shows as well!!
+Donald Hughes Thank you for the kind words, Don.
great video, what a great dad to share a trip like that !
Thanks, Bill. It was a wonderful trip, and the video makes a nice memory for me.
Not lot of mainstream aviation TH-cam channels create content like you, very unique and lots of hard work goes into that and we appreciate , that shows GA is not dying anytime soon. That's what freedom is all about, going anywhere VFR or IFR and enjoining company with fellow aviators while spending time with family
My thoughts exactly, spyhunter112 - I hope to make other large trips in the future (and more videos, of course), and return to the west coast before too long. So many nice memories...
Martin, If possible any tips on mountain flying and supplemental oxygen would be appreciated on your next trip out west. That was the best hour I have spent all year, thank you so much for your wonderful video's.
Steve, thank you for the kind words. Regarding mountain flying, I'm afraid I am far from an expert - all I can do is plan my route such that I don't NEED to be an expert. I'll keep the oxygen in mind for a future video, though - thanks for the suggestion.
Watched you video practicing a couple 9 ILS approaches, a then this trip. Watching a dad and his little girl experience the trip was great. Nice...thx!
Of all the trips I've taken in the Bonanza, this one remains my favorite to date!
- Martin
Excellent video and a great choice of music! Your videos illustrate the very reason I chose to become a pilot, to go places and see the sites. Albeit, in a Bonanza.
Glad you liked it. This was one of my favorite airplane trips ever!
- Martin
Martin, I'm falling in love with your videos.
Without a doubt this one is now one of my favorites videos or definitely makes the top3!
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thank you, Eybar23. That's nice to hear. It was a wonderful trip; I'm hoping to make it back to the west coast in the Bonanza soon.
Pleasure flying with you.....
Thanks, Rudy.
Magnificent, Martin. I envy you, my fly-brother. Cheers
Thank you, Chuck.
I'm hoping I can fly back to the west coast soon - maybe yet this fall - and make some new adventures!
- Martin
Magnificent video - and an even more magnificent and special trip, I'm sure!
Yes, it was very special. Many nice memories from this trip!
Thanks for this excellent and interesting "waste of time", to quote your final words :-) great scenery and sharing of your flight strategies !
You are very welcome Christian.
Best regards, Martin
I never post on these sites, but I'm making an exception today. You upload the best aviation videos on the web. The music you choose, your commentary and your excellent video are amazing. And, you're not asking for money like so many others! Thank you, Martin, for putting so much effort into these excellent videos. You've made me want to get my instrument rating and purchase a BO.
Thank you for the encouraging feedback, Mark. Go get your instrument rating - it will make you a better pilot, whether you'll end up flying in the clouds much or not. And flying in the clouds can be so much fun, as you can probably tell from some of my other videos. Bonanza or not - you can travel far in almost any airplane, and it's a great way to see a the country.
Hey Martin - I currently fly a CH-2T, Alarus CH-2000. I bought it in Torrance, CA, and flew it to Orlando, FL. I've owned two Grumman Tigers and one PA28R-200, but never a BO. I think that will be my next plane. Lots of them available at great prices! First, I'll get my instrument in the Alarus, it's an instrument platform at 6 GPH.
Mark what is a BO ?
I am really enjoying your videos. I am a new student just about to take my first flight. Your videos are inspiring. Thank you for making them.
Thank you, Ramona. I hope you enjoy your flight training and your journey to becoming a pilot - a journey which never really ends, for the learning lasts forever.
Best regards, Martin
I wouldn't call that wasting an hour. More like living vicariously through your video(s), seeing awesome things I can't do at the moment ;)
Thank you - glad you liked it!
What an excellent video, thanks for sharing! My daughter is only about to turn three y.o. so I hope I have time to get into position where I can start learning and eventually flying to enjoy similar moments with mine like you did in this vid. And I do miss the tappet brothers on the radio... great vid, thanks!
Don't wait to long before you go on that trip with your daughter. You blink a couple of times, and they turn into young adults who do their own things. Have fun!
- Martin
Really great video! Loved the views over the mountains.
Thanks! Yes, the mountains looked spectacular!
Wow Martin. Thanks for sharing. You are an inspiration to me. Now I want to take a trip around the northeast! Keep flying.
Go take that trip, Robin. It'll be fun!
- Martin
Amazing trip and good editing and well planned good job 👍🏾
+turki waleed Thank you - glad you enjoyed it.
I enjoyed every Minute of your trip. Fantastic. It's also one dream of mine to fly over the US and do a roundtrip as yours. Look forward to seing more of them. Cheers from Switzerland.
Thank you, Tolga. I hope you can make that kind of flight yourself one day!
Just got around to watching this video. Very well done! Love your content, Martin.
Thank you, Charlie. This west coast trip remains one of my all-time favorite flights in the Bonanza.
- Martin
another great video! looks like you and your daughter had a great trip!
This looks like a great trip, and a really well made video!
Beautiful, excellently done, thanks.
Amazing trip Martin. What a great Father/Daughter trip. Really appreciate the work you put into these videos
No wasted time there at all Martin! Great video!
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing your trip.
What a great lifestyle you have! I grew up in the Midwest - Milwaukee - and learned to fly at West Bend at age 17. I tried to see on your hangar map whether you had ever landed there, but it moved too fast. So many nice FBOs for private flying in the US! Thanks for great videos - have enjoyed five or six of them now and looking forward to indulging in more.
Hello John, thanks for the nice comment. Yes, I really like flying (and living) in the Midwest, that is when it's not cold and snowy. Summers are beautiful here, and you'll find me outside, never complaining about heat and humidity.
I've flown into Timmerman in Milwaukee, but not West Band.
Now I'll get back to work on more videos for you and everyone to (hopefully) enjoy! :-)
Regards, Martin
Great trip and great video. Having your daughter along must have made it extra special.
The entire video was incredible. The footage was beautiful, the story was special, and the commentary was perfect. Watched the whole thing and loved it. You do a wonderful job. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the kind words. I really enjoy making the flying videos, but this one about my big trip out west sticks out - it's the longest video I've made, it took by far the longest to make, and it's probably the one video on my channel that even non-pilots can enjoy. It brings back nice memories from our trip, and I hope that one day my daughter will stumble upon it and enjoy it.
That's a really awesome trip, thanks u so much for letting us to ride along this wonderful flight with u!
Martin,
A wonderful trip! One you will never forget I reckon.
ATB,
Martin
Excellent video. I enjoyed watching this.
Thank you, Jason. I like to come back to this video every now and then, because it brings back so many nice memories for me.
Regards, Martin
I am so glad I found your channel Martin! Great cinematography and commentary! I live in DSM and starting my PPL in the summer. Cheers and Safe Landings!
+Hassan Deer Thank you, Hassan, and good luck for your pilot training. Will you fly out of DSM, or Ankeny, or somewhere else?
***** Alot of people have recommended me the flying club at KDSM and I hear the instructors are awesome so more then likely I will be flying out of there :)
***** But I am still looking around for the best place that is affordable and I don't have to change CFIs too often
Not sure what to admire first and most, your flying, the views or your video editing... - awesome job! Congrats! One of the best TH-cam videos I ever watched.
This was such a nice trip, both the flying and spending time with my little girl. I'm trying to figure out when I can make another trip to the west coast.
Great video of a fantastic trip!
good video martin and to be able to spend time with your daughter priceless
This is a great video for what looked like a great trip. As always, your production was good. Showing and discussing the various potential routes was a neat addition for this sort of cross country. I appreciate your channel for the variety of types of video.
Omg mother nature sure is beautiful great little ducumentary of your trip!!!!
Great trip, Martin. I enjoyed it. You hit a lot of old memories for me, including SF and Cedar Rapids...Thanks.
I'm finishing up my instrument and find your videos very beneficial to watch 👍
Thanks, Dave, and good luck for finishing your instrument rating!
Awesome flight and a great video! thx for sharing!
What a great video! Your love of flying and of time spent with your daughter is very evident. Way cool man!
Thanks, Mark!
Excellent video Martin!
Brought back memories of a portion of the drive home from IRCHA. Badlands, Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Devils Tower, Yellowstone. I would love to do that via air sometime. thanks for sharing
Thanks for putting together this video, Martin. What great luck you had with the weather, too! This video is a great example of why we need to promote GA awareness in the general public and pass the flying bug to new people - it's an amazing privilege to fly and this shows you making the absolute most of it. Looking forward to more videos from you in the future. Cheers!
Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Was surprised to see the site of my old PPG Aerospace manufacturing plant at the corner of the 134 and I-5 in Glendale, CA at 26:01-26:06 on the right hand side of the plane.
Earned my commercial in Iowa in the '70;s, now live in Erie, CO
Martin
great trip
memories of lifetime
you will cherish it forever
I am planning to do one with my daughter soon.
Starting from West heading east
Thanks for bringing us along
fun trip
good luck
watched till the and, also subscribed as well. looking forward in seeing more memories. great video. well authored
Thank you very much for the video. I enjoy you video very much. Please keep up the good work.
Nice footage and monologue.I added BDS tip tanks to my normally aspirated A36 several years ago to allow nonstop trips from Memphis to Key West & Santa Fe, and found the extra 30 gal.fuel to be an outstanding safety factor (equal to having XM weather radar) when planning imc trips.
breathtaking!
Very nice flight and narrative. Well produced. I've got a lot of Bonanza time, not recently, but still, I can relate. Enjoyed the flight.
you are a great father! that was an awesome film thank you for creating it, it was very fun to watch =]
Great Video Martin! Thanks for sharing! I'm training for my Instrument Rating and my son is almost 13, we enjoy flying together too!
Good luck for getting your instrument rating, Elio!
I loved this video!! Thank you for sharing it with us. I hope your daughter looks back and sees how lucky she is..... Happy Landings
Thanks, Bill!
Excellent production. Love the channel.
Thank you, TheTexasPsyclone. Of all the video's I've made, this is one my of favorite ones. Brings back so many nice memories!
Maaaaan i am floored! Bravo!
Thanks, muzikman183.
A great video that I can tell took a lot of work to edit - beautiful work. And a great primer for my trip to the AOPA Bellingham WA fly-in in August. Thanks!
Oh that was a beautiful trip , I learn alot from you. Thank you !
Thanks for the kind words, Camping Trucker. Glad to hear you liked it.
Very nice trip and flying experience!! Congratulations and thanks for sharing! ;)
Great trip! Thanks for the video (s)
Hi Don, this remains one of my all-time favorite videos I've made. Such nice memories of this fun trip. I hope to be able to return to the west coast in the Bonanza sometime soon.
- Martin
Great video. Love the editing and route overlays. Inspires me to do similar with my boy. What a great trip.
+SR22TPilot Thank you. Go for it with your boys if you have the time; it's not hard and it'll create great memories for them and for you!
Awesome! Inspiring for someone who one day wants to own an airplane to do trips just like this. Thanks!
Go for it, Stephen!
Wonderful! I hope to do something similar with my family some day.
Very inspirational. Thanks and great video!
Thank you!
Brilliant !
I appreciate that you offered this video without all of the comm chatter ... and an option. Don't get me wrong, I like to hear ATC com chatter ... but as a travelogue, not so much. Keep up the great work . Thanks
This video was awesome! I live just 60 miles southeast of Garden City Kansas, so was neat to see you fly in there!
Chuck, I don't know anything about the city of Garden City, but the airport is really nice. I have been back there a couple of times since then, again on the way to or from the Southwest. I really like the Italian restaurant on the field.
Not wasted, but enjoyed! Really like your methodical way and organisation. Enjoyed the views esp those through the Rockies.
Thank you, Simon. Yes, the views in the mountains were phenomenal. I wish I could go back there more often.
You are very good making videos, and this one was very very interesting. I really enjoyed this video and this wasn't a waste of time, no sir. Greetings from madrid, Spain.
Gracias y feliz año nuevo.
This probably remains my all-time favorite of the videos I've posted on TH-cam. Great memories of a wonderful trip with my daughter, who already seems much older than she was when we went on this big trip.
Regards, Martin
Amazing video! Looking to get my PPL and hope to do something like this with my kids one day!
Awesome I like the way you make VDO
Great video as always!
Thank you, Dave!
Very inspiring video, thank you.
Thanks. Of all the trips I took in the Bonanza, this probably is my favorite one to date.
- Martin
Martin, thanks for the nice video. I really liked you chart and planning thoughts as we are thinking about a similar trip this summer. I have an RV6 and do a bit of instruction with exec1 at Ankeny. I would enjoy talking with you about some of your travels. Jim D.
+RVJimD Jim, take a look at beechtalk.com (pilots of any brands are welcome there), and the "neverending MidWest fly-in" thread in the TripTalk area. We have a group of people from Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and other places that get together for breakfast runs and similar events. Join the group at some of those fly-ins, and we can chat a bit. Or come to the Mason City airport BBQ, every third Thursday of the month.
Thank you for the effort you put into to record, edit and narrate these wonderful resources. If you want to get a pin for Northern Colorado in your chart I’d be happy to buy you lunch!!
Thanks, Michael. I'd love to head out west again, but I am not sure when I'll get around to it.
Regards, Martin
Martin awesome vlog. I wouldn't call it wasting time . I thoroughly enjoyed it . The scenery was beautiful . So glad your daughter chose to go to the San Diego Zoo . I've never been to it but I've heard it's one of the best Zoo's in the world. To bad you didn't go to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Probably best you didn't try to go swimming in the ocean. I've heard the water stays cold all year round . If you ever fly down to the west coast of Florida near me there is a small airport called Hidden Lake Airport in Port Richey. People have hangers there behind their houses .
Yes, we could have used a lot more time in most of the places we visited. We were rushed, but at least I was able to give my daughter a first impression of a lot of beautiful places. I'm sure she will pick some to come back to later in her life to explore more.
Wonderful trip. Glad I stopped in, and subscribed.
+Craneman Thanks, Craneman!
+Martin Pauly Subscribed as well! Great video!
thanks for the ride!!!!...keep safe pg
LOL 4:13 - Oh my god that's funny! Great video. Thanks!
Yeah, teenagers... ;-)
Great video. I'm online with Beechtalk as well. I just recently inquired about a good route to the closest ski area from KADS (Addision). I'm not that experienced flying in the mountains and two things I always want to avoid high winds with turbulence and the mountain itself. I like how you showed your alternate route. The V routes really seemed to help you here.
+Brian K Rich MD Brian, I think you have the right idea with avoiding high winds and the highest elevations. The latter is easily controlled by choosing your route. The former requires flexibility in your schedule (or luck); I can see how one could get into trouble easily through schedule pressures.
It's too bad you didn't take a short jaunt north where I live in Sun Valley Idaho (KSUN), it also it a very beautiful place nestled in the mountains and home to a world class ski resort! You do such a great job with the video and narration. They are very informative and entertaining. I am a new pilot and soon will be flying a Cessna 182Q in which I am excited to fly. I also plan on getting my instrument. I for sure want to take trips all over our beautiful country in the future!
Roger, you live in a beautiful part of this country! I wish I lived a little closer so that I could visit more often, but realistically it takes a week for me to fly out there, fly back, and have at least as much time on the ground at my destination as travel time.
Thanks for the ride
You are welcome, Robert - thanks for coming along.
That was not waste of time for me!!! LOL Thnak
awesome stuff!!!!!! :)
what a great video. it Is inspiring. I think you have nailed it as far as teenagers are concerned. Cheers from downunder in Australia.
Thank you, John! I take it teenager habits is a universal thing... ;-)
Martin it was the same 3 times over for the wife and I They were all the same but different if you know what I mean. I believe families are universal. Cheers and 73's to you and yours buddy and keep flying that Bonanza.
Hey Martin, I'm a recent subscriber after I came across your videos! This one in particular is an amazing trip which I would love to do with my son one day, such amazing flying, views and time spent together! I'm a student pilot and planning to get the commercial license in the near future! Thanks for a great video and all the rest and Safe and Blue skies!!
+djvectrex It was a very special trip. Fingers are crossed that you get to to do that with your son. How old is he, and how far along are you in your pilot training?
Best of luck for getting your license!
- Martin
+Martin Pauly Special indeed and the views and the reality of being in the middle of that vastness and being able to take it all in at altitude, yet we are still so small to nature! Flying is a beautiful feeling! Thank you, he's 2 months away :) so still have a-ways to go! I'm currently at 27hrs and getting ready for the 1st solo xc soon, loving every moment of it! Can't wait to get the first certificate!!
Rapid City is where I learned to fly.
Beautiful trip thank you so much. Very professionally done. I cant help but wonder what was the total fuel burn on a trip like that?
Hi Donald. For a flight like this, I need about 50 gallons of fuel.
Regards, Martin
Great trip. Trying to catch up to all of your videos. By the I own a Turbo Arrow and it does make a difference in high density altitudes.
I bet the turbo helps a lot. If I was flying in the western US on a regular basis, I sure would want one.
- Martin