Well I appreciate that. And you're welcome 😀. There is no "guys" though. It's just me running everything here haha. I do everything on this channel by myself, from planning the flights, traveling, filming, editing, uploading, replying to comments, etc. So, I really do appreciate it when people take the time to watch, comment, subscribe. Because I put a lot of work into these videos, and there's a lot more that goes into it then just getting to fly a lot. So thanks my friend!
All though I don't usually travel at night time I still love night time flights. Also, I love how you put the 4 membership names. If ever choose to become a member, it's definitely going to be this channel.
Thanks my friend. I appreciate you even considering it. Although, just an FYI. Although I have channel memberships enabled in case people want to support the channel that way, it's actually easier for me to get you all of the promised benefits through Patreon. Which have the exact same membership levels. So, just to keep in the back of your head, should you ever decide you want to do that.
I do too. Unfortunately, my camera equipment doesn't haha. Even with today's best cameras, flying at night is still a royal pain. If the camera loses focus once in the air, it's very very difficult to get the focus back. Because it's just simply too dark. That's getting better and better though as technology improves. Hopefully I'll be able to feature more night flights, more frequently, going forward.
@@sla31 You're correct. I am confident that cameras in the near future will be able to capture much sharper pictures in darkness. At the rate technology is going, we will look back at this comment and smile. Thanks once more for the uploads.
Three band new full flights every week here on the SP. And when I say full flight, I mean it, unlike a lot of other channels who cut out portions. Thanks for watching my friend! It's much appreciated!
Great video. Love the quality. Can’t you agree that iPhone has improved so much in camera quality. That’s why I record takeoffs and landings on my iPhone 13 Pro Max just like you.
iPhones have great cameras. I have a 14 Pro now that I don't even use as a phone. It literally stays in a case in my travel back and I only use it to film with.
I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend! As someone who lives near Tulsa (I live near Joplin, Missouri, but Tulsa is the closest bigger city) I often find that Tulsa kind of gets forgotten about. It is one of the 50 most populated cities in US and actually beats cities like New Orleans. It is a proper big city haha. Anyway, thanks for watching my friend!
I am not, no. As much as I would love to do those types of inaugural flights, I just don't have the funding to drop that much on single flights. I upload 156 full flights every year, and I do try to have international long haul represented as frequently as possible, but at $2,500 RT just for there and back... That's a lot of money that I could easily get 20 flights for domestically in the US. So, unfortunately not.
Incredible night video! Appreciate the quality of your video. Taking good video on a plane at night is challenging and very different from day flights. I always have problems trying to eliminate the reflection from the interior cabin light and trying to keep the camera lens in focus. How did you eliminate the reflection during the inflight section? Thank you and great video!
Well it's tough, and sometimes it's just luck haha. You can mitigate some of it, but on the other hand, some of it just depends on the crew. If the crew doesn't turn the lights right over the window off, it's almost impossible to not get the reflection. How it mitigate it though... I have a matte black case on my camera, I wear all black including black long sleeves and black gloves, and I try to get a seat where the window doesn't go into the row behind me. And to explain that last one a bit. Sometimes you get a window and it's clearly in your row, but like 1/3rd of it kind of goes past your seat back and slightly goes into the row behind you. If the window does that, you'll see reflections from everything the row behind you is doing. If the window stays in your row, at least then, you can kind of try to block the reflections by holding the camera as close to the window as possible. It's tough though... There's a reason why I don't post many night flights. They're just such a pain to film and film well.
SP -Appreciate the feed back and tips. Never thought about the window / seat placement and how the light can impact that. I will certainly consider seat number now. Looking forward to flying again to try your recommendations to improve my videos. Take is easy and happy flying!
I know we've talked about this before, but in case anyone else reads this. You might be surprised by Tulsa. As one of the larger cities on Route 66, it has a lot of great American history to see. That and the oil industries past presence in Tulsa gives the city a very unique feel from a lot of other big cities I've been to. Tulsa's downtown has a very interesting skyline, with most of the skyscrapers being art deco type styling from the 1930's. It's really cool to just walk around downtown and look at the really ornate buildings.
@@sla31 One day, I 'll make it there. The mainframe computers for the Sabre Computer Reservation System that travel agents use are in Tulsa. My mom and grandparents lived in Tulsa for a while way back when, but I haven't been there at all. The only "oil city" that I've been to is Calgary, AB. We have some deco style buildings in Seattle, but the city that REALLY has a lot of that is New York. And they have a whole bunch of other style buildings too.
In your opinion who do you think provides the overall best experience for passengers right now. United, American or Southwest? I didn't include Delta, Jetblue or Alaska because I feel they are in the higher teirs, though if you don't agree, please feel free to compare them too?
Well, this is an interesting question. Of course, pretty much everyone is going to have a different opinion on this, but here's mine. Currently, I think United is the best US carrier in terms of their product and network. Their Polaris business class is excellent, and they have a great network. There's a reason why in the last two years I switched my highest airline status from American's Platinum Pro, to United's Gold. Because United is just great right now. Which I'm actually loving. As a kid, when United still had their famous battleship livery, I flew on United more than any other airline and for years after that, Untied really struggled. With 9/11 and bankruptcy, even though the UA/CO merger things were just never great. But in the last few years, they've really turned the ship around and I never dread flights on United now. I keep low level stats on basically everyone these days, but I try to have higher status on at least one airlines and United is my go to now. On the other end of the spectrum, is American. American, I believe, is at rock bottom right now. And it's not that I don't like American. I worked for American Airlines for 6 years right after I graduated college. I don't anymore, and in case anyone else is reading this, I don't work for any of the airlines now. But, I held a very close brand loyalty towards American for many years, even when they were clearly declining, because I worked for them in the past. But, they're just not good now haha. There's no way to hid it. For many years, primarily the Doug Parker years, American was like a ship without a compass. And their left hand never seemed to know what their right hand was doing. For example, they introduced the only true domestic first class when they introduced the A321T. This was also when they had true international first class on their 773's. But at the same time they were removing IFE and cramming 3 more rows of seats on their 738's and A321's..... So which is it? Are they trying to be "the premier" US airline? Or are they trying to compete for the same passengers that normally fly Spirit? You can't be both and expect people to like you. Anyway, I feel like American's product is still the absolute worst in the US when looking at the legacy style airlines. I mean, you're basically getting a Spirit or Allegiant seat, with a cookie and water haha. So there's my top and bottom. I love Southwest, as is probably evident based on how much I fly them. But you can't really compare them to Untied or Delta because they just don't offer the same type of product or network. They're in my top 3 though, which is United, Alaska, and Southwest right now.
@Skylite Productions Awesome take with some very good points. I also worked for American...albeit envoy throwing bags while I was in college part 1 lol. (Didn't finish the first time). I also flew United back in the days of the battleship Grey, Channel 9 seatback entertainment (do they still have that?) and actual silverware in coach. Continental def was not good for the original "Tulip" we loved. I have not experienced the new United but have heard great things from the fleet and cabin upgrades to better airport customer experiences. Hopefully now the Delta deal is done, UALs pilots will be rewarded appropriately...same for Southwest. Anyways I had United at the bottom of the top because well the last time I flew them (2012ish) that's where they were. Removing the in seat entertainment was a terrible move and I'm so happy they're back tracking on that. I forgot about Polaris though....honestly I've never experienced it that's why hahahaha. I grew up in Aurora outside of Denver. So it's great to hear from a passenger whose opinion I really respect say the airline to which I had an opportunity to tour their training center and plane spot at Stapleton, say they are back to number 1! Funny enough, I now live outside Atlanta.....so it's kind of confusing when I say the "hometown airline"...am I talking about United or Delta....Sometimes I don't even know LOL Lastly, have you ever noticed Southwest's 737-800s/Max 8s seem to have a little more legroom compared to the others' economy sections? I'm 5'7" and I remember flying on Americans then newly ordered A319 with the big winglets back when they still had seatback IFE. My knees had about an inch from touching the back of the seat in front of me. Exactly to your point about them!
As someone who lived in Houston before I moved the Joplin Missouri area I still miss the much shorter winters from time to time. And I've lived near Joplin now for 26 years.
@Skylite Productions I grew up in Houston in the 90s and moved to Tulsa in 2001 and have lived around Grand Lake for the last few years so i fly the IAH-TUL route a few times a year so i appreciate your multiple videos of IAH-TUL
Well, I actually don't fly every week. I fly roughly 8-10 days each month. But when I do fly, I'm flying with no other purpose than to get footage for the channel. So, I often take 3 or 4 segments each day. Sometimes even 5, and my record is 6 in one day. That's how I get enough footage to post every day, without having to fly every day, or even every week. Case in point, I haven't flown at all in 7 days, and I won't fly again for another 4 days. But, then I fly 3 days and another 4 days before March ends. For a total of 20 flights the next two weeks.
No, most of the time it doesn't. Sometimes though, yes. It depends haha. How's that for a non answer. This is my full time job now. Or at least, I'm attempting to make it that. But, since I started to do this full time, I've lost money more months than I made any. That's why I have over 50 Patreons and channel members. If I was consistently making enough to cover all my expenses without asking for my viewers to help support the channel, I would. TH-cam ad revenues is an ever changing and tricky thing to predict. So, there are some months where I'e made enough to cover all of my flying expenses, and I'm trying to make that the norm. But, as of this moment, I'm going to lose money again in the first quarter of 2023. Regardless, the TH-cam ad revenues do help A LOT either way.
@@Electro520 well, that's what I was saying. Even with Patreon and channel members, I still don't make a profit every month. In fact, I've lost money more months than I've made money since I started doing this full time, but I planned for that. So the answer is, sometimes.
No I hadn't seen that. I'll have to look it up. I haven't been staying up to date on current events a lot recently. I've been pretty busy getting the channel ready for busy end of the month. Flying wise that is. I have 20 flights in the last 10ish days of March.
They did do a service, I just didn't partake haha. Sometimes, I don't when it's a short flight. On this one, since it was at night, I was more focused on keeping my camera focused than stopping to get a snack and drink. If you lose the camera focus on a night flight, it's very difficult to get it back.
@Skylite Productions i thought I heard the lead attendant say they weren't doing a service it caught my attention I fly IAH-TUL round-trip a lot going into the continental days when they used 737 classics and md80s and they suspended service outside of Covid when it was really turbulent
@@darrenjohnson4420 That's also possible. There was some weather in the area that night. In that case you probably did. I often don't remember what announcements were made as I have my nose cancelling headphones on and I'm watching whatever I've downloaded that week with my free hand haha. They typically do a service on the IAH-TUL flight though as it's plenty long enough to have one. In this case I'd say you probably did hear it correctly though.
@Skylite Productions one IAH-TUL flight i did after Christmas a few years ago on the Embraer 175 that was really turbulent one of the roughest flights I've been on they announced before boarding there was no service because of the weather, i flew LGW-IAH in the 90s on 747-200 during a tropical storm and even that was smoother than that flight
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I can't thank you guys enough for uploading FULL flight videos 😀 not too many channels do that
Well I appreciate that. And you're welcome 😀. There is no "guys" though. It's just me running everything here haha. I do everything on this channel by myself, from planning the flights, traveling, filming, editing, uploading, replying to comments, etc. So, I really do appreciate it when people take the time to watch, comment, subscribe. Because I put a lot of work into these videos, and there's a lot more that goes into it then just getting to fly a lot. So thanks my friend!
All though I don't usually travel at night time I still love night time flights. Also, I love how you put the 4 membership names. If ever choose to become a member, it's definitely going to be this channel.
Thanks my friend. I appreciate you even considering it. Although, just an FYI. Although I have channel memberships enabled in case people want to support the channel that way, it's actually easier for me to get you all of the promised benefits through Patreon. Which have the exact same membership levels. So, just to keep in the back of your head, should you ever decide you want to do that.
Love the a320 cruising sound! Great video
Thanks for night time views of my home town on takeoff.
My pleasure my friend! As always, thanks for watching! I've got a really really cool flights from IAH posting next week!
Another top notch video. For some reason I just love flying when it's nighttime.
I do too. Unfortunately, my camera equipment doesn't haha. Even with today's best cameras, flying at night is still a royal pain. If the camera loses focus once in the air, it's very very difficult to get the focus back. Because it's just simply too dark. That's getting better and better though as technology improves. Hopefully I'll be able to feature more night flights, more frequently, going forward.
@@sla31 You're correct. I am confident that cameras in the near future will be able to capture much sharper pictures in darkness. At the rate technology is going, we will look back at this comment and smile. Thanks once more for the uploads.
Beautiful takeoff, I've noticed the Air New Zealand 789 taxing while you were taking off.
I love this… taxiing and take off, the whole enchilada!! Thank you for sharing!❤️❤️ I was born into flying.
Three band new full flights every week here on the SP. And when I say full flight, I mean it, unlike a lot of other channels who cut out portions. Thanks for watching my friend! It's much appreciated!
l like your travel channel which makes me excited and envious🤩
I'm glad you enjoy it my friend! Thanks for watching!
Great video. Love the quality. Can’t you agree that iPhone has improved so much in camera quality. That’s why I record takeoffs and landings on my iPhone 13 Pro Max just like you.
iPhones have great cameras. I have a 14 Pro now that I don't even use as a phone. It literally stays in a case in my travel back and I only use it to film with.
that's a steep turn right after takeoff!
Beautiful left turn heading. That 320Bus sure has the power.
Didn't realize how big of a city Tulsa is until I saw it all lit up on this video.....very enjoyable video....well done.
I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend! As someone who lives near Tulsa (I live near Joplin, Missouri, but Tulsa is the closest bigger city) I often find that Tulsa kind of gets forgotten about. It is one of the 50 most populated cities in US and actually beats cities like New Orleans. It is a proper big city haha. Anyway, thanks for watching my friend!
Will you be doing Delta’s inaugural flight from ATL-TLV a week from Sunday? That will be a great video?
I am not, no. As much as I would love to do those types of inaugural flights, I just don't have the funding to drop that much on single flights. I upload 156 full flights every year, and I do try to have international long haul represented as frequently as possible, but at $2,500 RT just for there and back... That's a lot of money that I could easily get 20 flights for domestically in the US. So, unfortunately not.
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Incredible night video! Appreciate the quality of your video. Taking good video on a plane at night is challenging and very different from day flights. I always have problems trying to eliminate the reflection from the interior cabin light and trying to keep the camera lens in focus. How did you eliminate the reflection during the inflight section? Thank you and great video!
Well it's tough, and sometimes it's just luck haha. You can mitigate some of it, but on the other hand, some of it just depends on the crew. If the crew doesn't turn the lights right over the window off, it's almost impossible to not get the reflection. How it mitigate it though... I have a matte black case on my camera, I wear all black including black long sleeves and black gloves, and I try to get a seat where the window doesn't go into the row behind me. And to explain that last one a bit. Sometimes you get a window and it's clearly in your row, but like 1/3rd of it kind of goes past your seat back and slightly goes into the row behind you. If the window does that, you'll see reflections from everything the row behind you is doing. If the window stays in your row, at least then, you can kind of try to block the reflections by holding the camera as close to the window as possible. It's tough though... There's a reason why I don't post many night flights. They're just such a pain to film and film well.
SP -Appreciate the feed back and tips. Never thought about the window / seat placement and how the light can impact that. I will certainly consider seat number now. Looking forward to flying again to try your recommendations to improve my videos. Take is easy and happy flying!
Wow... good night views. I had to go thru IAH going down to Belize. But I've never been to Tulsa, or Oklahoma for that matter.
I know we've talked about this before, but in case anyone else reads this. You might be surprised by Tulsa. As one of the larger cities on Route 66, it has a lot of great American history to see. That and the oil industries past presence in Tulsa gives the city a very unique feel from a lot of other big cities I've been to. Tulsa's downtown has a very interesting skyline, with most of the skyscrapers being art deco type styling from the 1930's. It's really cool to just walk around downtown and look at the really ornate buildings.
@@sla31 One day, I 'll make it there. The mainframe computers for the Sabre Computer Reservation System that travel agents use are in Tulsa. My mom and grandparents lived in Tulsa for a while way back when, but I haven't been there at all.
The only "oil city" that I've been to is Calgary, AB.
We have some deco style buildings in Seattle, but the city that REALLY has a lot of that is New York. And they have a whole bunch of other style buildings too.
In your opinion who do you think provides the overall best experience for passengers right now. United, American or Southwest? I didn't include Delta, Jetblue or Alaska because I feel they are in the higher teirs, though if you don't agree, please feel free to compare them too?
Well, this is an interesting question. Of course, pretty much everyone is going to have a different opinion on this, but here's mine.
Currently, I think United is the best US carrier in terms of their product and network. Their Polaris business class is excellent, and they have a great network. There's a reason why in the last two years I switched my highest airline status from American's Platinum Pro, to United's Gold. Because United is just great right now. Which I'm actually loving. As a kid, when United still had their famous battleship livery, I flew on United more than any other airline and for years after that, Untied really struggled. With 9/11 and bankruptcy, even though the UA/CO merger things were just never great. But in the last few years, they've really turned the ship around and I never dread flights on United now. I keep low level stats on basically everyone these days, but I try to have higher status on at least one airlines and United is my go to now.
On the other end of the spectrum, is American. American, I believe, is at rock bottom right now. And it's not that I don't like American. I worked for American Airlines for 6 years right after I graduated college. I don't anymore, and in case anyone else is reading this, I don't work for any of the airlines now. But, I held a very close brand loyalty towards American for many years, even when they were clearly declining, because I worked for them in the past. But, they're just not good now haha. There's no way to hid it. For many years, primarily the Doug Parker years, American was like a ship without a compass. And their left hand never seemed to know what their right hand was doing. For example, they introduced the only true domestic first class when they introduced the A321T. This was also when they had true international first class on their 773's. But at the same time they were removing IFE and cramming 3 more rows of seats on their 738's and A321's..... So which is it? Are they trying to be "the premier" US airline? Or are they trying to compete for the same passengers that normally fly Spirit? You can't be both and expect people to like you. Anyway, I feel like American's product is still the absolute worst in the US when looking at the legacy style airlines. I mean, you're basically getting a Spirit or Allegiant seat, with a cookie and water haha.
So there's my top and bottom. I love Southwest, as is probably evident based on how much I fly them. But you can't really compare them to Untied or Delta because they just don't offer the same type of product or network. They're in my top 3 though, which is United, Alaska, and Southwest right now.
@Skylite Productions Awesome take with some very good points. I also worked for American...albeit envoy throwing bags while I was in college part 1 lol. (Didn't finish the first time). I also flew United back in the days of the battleship Grey, Channel 9 seatback entertainment (do they still have that?) and actual silverware in coach. Continental def was not good for the original "Tulip" we loved. I have not experienced the new United but have heard great things from the fleet and cabin upgrades to better airport customer experiences. Hopefully now the Delta deal is done, UALs pilots will be rewarded appropriately...same for Southwest. Anyways I had United at the bottom of the top because well the last time I flew them (2012ish) that's where they were. Removing the in seat entertainment was a terrible move and I'm so happy they're back tracking on that. I forgot about Polaris though....honestly I've never experienced it that's why hahahaha.
I grew up in Aurora outside of Denver. So it's great to hear from a passenger whose opinion I really respect say the airline to which I had an opportunity to tour their training center and plane spot at Stapleton, say they are back to number 1! Funny enough, I now live outside Atlanta.....so it's kind of confusing when I say the "hometown airline"...am I talking about United or Delta....Sometimes I don't even know LOL
Lastly, have you ever noticed Southwest's 737-800s/Max 8s seem to have a little more legroom compared to the others' economy sections? I'm 5'7" and I remember flying on Americans then newly ordered A319 with the big winglets back when they still had seatback IFE. My knees had about an inch from touching the back of the seat in front of me. Exactly to your point about them!
I did this flight on an A320 at the end of January, it was almost 70 in Houston and upper 20s in Tulsa
As someone who lived in Houston before I moved the Joplin Missouri area I still miss the much shorter winters from time to time. And I've lived near Joplin now for 26 years.
@Skylite Productions I grew up in Houston in the 90s and moved to Tulsa in 2001 and have lived around Grand Lake for the last few years so i fly the IAH-TUL route a few times a year so i appreciate your multiple videos of IAH-TUL
How many times do you fly each week?
Well, I actually don't fly every week. I fly roughly 8-10 days each month. But when I do fly, I'm flying with no other purpose than to get footage for the channel. So, I often take 3 or 4 segments each day. Sometimes even 5, and my record is 6 in one day. That's how I get enough footage to post every day, without having to fly every day, or even every week. Case in point, I haven't flown at all in 7 days, and I won't fly again for another 4 days. But, then I fly 3 days and another 4 days before March ends. For a total of 20 flights the next two weeks.
We can see the ground just fine cause of the 💡 💡
Looks like space.
Does TH-cam really pay enough to cover the cost of all this flying?
No, most of the time it doesn't. Sometimes though, yes. It depends haha. How's that for a non answer. This is my full time job now. Or at least, I'm attempting to make it that. But, since I started to do this full time, I've lost money more months than I made any. That's why I have over 50 Patreons and channel members. If I was consistently making enough to cover all my expenses without asking for my viewers to help support the channel, I would. TH-cam ad revenues is an ever changing and tricky thing to predict. So, there are some months where I'e made enough to cover all of my flying expenses, and I'm trying to make that the norm. But, as of this moment, I'm going to lose money again in the first quarter of 2023. Regardless, the TH-cam ad revenues do help A LOT either way.
@@sla31 but with patron and all that you make enough?
@@Electro520 well, that's what I was saying. Even with Patreon and channel members, I still don't make a profit every month. In fact, I've lost money more months than I've made money since I started doing this full time, but I planned for that. So the answer is, sometimes.
17:59 - Wow talk about a bank angle 😅
Great fly! Have you heard the drone was struck by a Russian jet fighter that was shown in the video in the news?
No I hadn't seen that. I'll have to look it up. I haven't been staying up to date on current events a lot recently. I've been pretty busy getting the channel ready for busy end of the month. Flying wise that is. I have 20 flights in the last 10ish days of March.
No inflight service, when I took this flight both ways they did a drinks service, hell i was able to get a bottle of bourbon
They did do a service, I just didn't partake haha. Sometimes, I don't when it's a short flight. On this one, since it was at night, I was more focused on keeping my camera focused than stopping to get a snack and drink. If you lose the camera focus on a night flight, it's very difficult to get it back.
@Skylite Productions i thought I heard the lead attendant say they weren't doing a service it caught my attention
I fly IAH-TUL round-trip a lot going into the continental days when they used 737 classics and md80s and they suspended service outside of Covid when it was really turbulent
@@darrenjohnson4420 That's also possible. There was some weather in the area that night. In that case you probably did. I often don't remember what announcements were made as I have my nose cancelling headphones on and I'm watching whatever I've downloaded that week with my free hand haha. They typically do a service on the IAH-TUL flight though as it's plenty long enough to have one. In this case I'd say you probably did hear it correctly though.
@Skylite Productions one IAH-TUL flight i did after Christmas a few years ago on the Embraer 175 that was really turbulent one of the roughest flights I've been on they announced before boarding there was no service because of the weather, i flew LGW-IAH in the 90s on 747-200 during a tropical storm and even that was smoother than that flight
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@@sla31 i'm feeling sick. I don't feel so good.
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