I completely agree, and I just got my instrument rating back in December. Now if only the icing conditions here in Toronto would ease up so I could exercise it!
Wow, you are tenacious! Quite an accomplishment for a VFR pilot. Well done! Incidentally, I flew across the Blue Ridge mountains myself out of North Myrtle Beach, SC on a day trip to Knoxville downtown. Loved the flight and airport as well.
Thanks. LOL, not sure if it was tenacity or stupidity. We've been thinking about flying down to the Blue Ridge mountains, and to South Carolina for a few days, any recommendations on where to land/park?
A very interesting trip that brought back memories! In 1977 I had just bought an AA-1 Yankee, and determined to fly from Rockcliffe (Ottawa) to Florida to visit my brother over Christmas and New Years. The trip down was interrupted by a big dump of snow in Syracuse, but after the weather cleared, it was fairly smooth sailing to Florida. I decoded to bop over to Nassau between Christmas and New Years, coming back to attend the Orange Bowl. The trip home took me through Knoxville, then Kentucky and Ohio to St Catherines, where the winter weather grounded me again, this time with the flu. I bussed to Toronto, stayed over with friends and bussed again to Ottawa. Three weeks later a friend flew me to St Catherines to pick up my plane and return to Rockcliffe. Though it's a long time ago, the adventure remains fresh in my memory. Thanks for your video. Fly lots and fly safe!
Wow, thanks for sharing that story, Hamilton. That sounds like quite the adventure, and it really does illustrate the point we hear over and over early on in our flying careers: be ready to scrub and drive or fly home commercial at any time!
Great video series - a few challenges that you had to overcome! Glad it all worked out safely, and it was no doubt a great learning experience. Thanks so much for sharing!
You're an awesome pilot and a great role model for those of us thinking of getting our pilot's license. You kept calm and kept going despite how terrible you must have been feeling. Thank you for sharing your experiences, which I know will help many.
Thank you Roxana, that’s very kind of you. If you’re thinking of Geri g your license, you should absolutely do it! There’s nothing quite like the feeling of flying. 😀
Hey, you did a nice job on this series.including all aspects of the rip and vacation was like getting to go along. It looked like a great vacation as well as a confidence building adventure. I would like to see a breakdown of your expenses. From up state NY with a vintage 172, it would be good to know about how much it would cost Agaon, Nice job on the series.
Don’t know how you did it all. The first three days of me being sick, doubt I could have done all that flying. I would have holed up in a hotel, loaded with advil. Thanks for filming 👍🏻
Great video series! Flying to the Caribbean is #1 on my bucket list. I’m a new low time pilot myself and looking to get my IFR rating later this year. Watching your videos confirmed it would be a much needed rating to avoid unexpected delays. Thanks for sharing your awesome trip!
Thanks, Jay! I think that's a good decision, to get your IFR before flying to the Bahamas - my trip would have been a lot easier if I'd gotten my instrument rating first. Beyond the delays, coming back from Exuma to Florida meant having to fly lower than I wanted at the start and toward the end of the flight over water, which wouldn't have been necessary if I could just fly through the clouds. Good luck with it!
Fun trip! It didn't look bumpy at all for you. My Lord it gets so nasty here in Florida in the Summer, slamming all around until I'm in North GA or Alabama. I usually stop in Albany, GA for gas and a break as almost halfway to Illinois where my dad lives. Do more of these flights if you can, possibly out to BC or something by the mountains. Now that would be very interesting to watch!
Yeah it wasn’t bad at all in terms of bumps, considering I left Florida in the middle of the afternoon. The trip down there was a bit bumpy but coming back was great. I’d love to do a trip out west to Vancouver or even just Calgary. And I’d absolutely love to come down and do a trip across the western US too. I think I’d want to do a mountain flying course first though. Living in Toronto, I get zero experience with anything taller than about 2,000 feet. The appalachians were by far the tallest things I’ve had to deal with, so I’d need some training before tackling real mountains.
Welcome home and congratulations on completing this epic journey. It must have been very satisfying after all the planning that went into it. Take care and looking forward to your next adventure.
Thanks, Reale! I've got a bunch of footage backlogged and am deciding whether to make more shorter trip/fly-in videos, or videos about my IFR training. What do you think?
Really enjoyed this series! Very well done. The voice overs were great as well. I'm hoping to do the Bahamas trip at the end of this month and would love to pick your brain if you don't mind. If you don't mind, I can list my questions and send it to you via e-mail. It's going to be my first time and I'm a little nervous about procedures. Thanks again for sharing this adventure with us!
Hi Manuel, thanks for the message and the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Happy to help. You can email me at the address on the About page of my TH-cam channel (in case TH-cam strips it out of this message; it's info@wingsoverto.com).
Yeah, apparently any work done on an aircraft outside of Canada needs to be declared and the duties paid. If you just order parts and have them shipped across the border, that’s taken care of in shipping. But taking a plane down there and having work done is more difficult to track, so they have this process in place to work with an import broker.
Partly I think it’s to make sure you pay the duties, and partly I think it’s also to make sure you’re not having unapproved parts put in/work done on a certified aircraft.
@@WingsOverTO dang. I really needed to see how you handled that failure while also coming back into the US. It would be a good learning opportunity for us. Maybe use the footage and dub some new audio over it when needed? Either way, thanks for responding.
@@nhosk It wasn't really a failure, I still had radio and transponder and all electrics available for the flight, I just had a slightly weak output from my alternator and had to manage the power draw so as not to drain the battery. If it had been a total failure, I wouldn't have been able to fly back at all and would have had to wait in the Bahamas for someone to fly out there with a new alternator. Thankfully that wasn't the case! But it did slowly drain the battery enough that as I dropped my flaps for the landing at Fort Pierce, my radio actually died for a couple of seconds before coming back. Did something like that happen to you?
@@WingsOverTO I’ve had an alternator failure in Florida once. But I was interested in your situation. Thanks for answering me. And btw I didn’t see any email listed on your about page. Nor anyway to contact you on your blog. But you have resolved my inquiry. Again, thanks for your time and keep flying.
Finished the series. Amazing. That WAS an adventure. Thanks for all the info. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Instruments is a must on those cross country flights,great outcome with the repairs
I completely agree, and I just got my instrument rating back in December. Now if only the icing conditions here in Toronto would ease up so I could exercise it!
Cannot wait to get to the bahamas. Glad they allow light sport pilots to fly. Great video series
Wow, you are tenacious! Quite an accomplishment for a VFR pilot. Well done! Incidentally, I flew across the Blue Ridge mountains myself out of North Myrtle Beach, SC on a day trip to Knoxville downtown. Loved the flight and airport as well.
Thanks. LOL, not sure if it was tenacity or stupidity. We've been thinking about flying down to the Blue Ridge mountains, and to South Carolina for a few days, any recommendations on where to land/park?
tks for the ride
A very interesting trip that brought back memories! In 1977 I had just bought an AA-1 Yankee, and determined to fly from Rockcliffe (Ottawa) to Florida to visit my brother over Christmas and New Years. The trip down was interrupted by a big dump of snow in Syracuse, but after the weather cleared, it was fairly smooth sailing to Florida. I decoded to bop over to Nassau between Christmas and New Years, coming back to attend the Orange Bowl. The trip home took me through Knoxville, then Kentucky and Ohio to St Catherines, where the winter weather grounded me again, this time with the flu. I bussed to Toronto, stayed over with friends and bussed again to Ottawa. Three weeks later a friend flew me to St Catherines to pick up my plane and return to Rockcliffe. Though it's a long time ago, the adventure remains fresh in my memory. Thanks for your video. Fly lots and fly safe!
Wow, thanks for sharing that story, Hamilton. That sounds like quite the adventure, and it really does illustrate the point we hear over and over early on in our flying careers: be ready to scrub and drive or fly home commercial at any time!
Great video series - a few challenges that you had to overcome! Glad it all worked out safely, and it was no doubt a great learning experience. Thanks so much for sharing!
Loved the series.
Thanks!
You're an awesome pilot and a great role model for those of us thinking of getting our pilot's license. You kept calm and kept going despite how terrible you must have been feeling. Thank you for sharing your experiences, which I know will help many.
Thank you Roxana, that’s very kind of you. If you’re thinking of Geri g your license, you should absolutely do it! There’s nothing quite like the feeling of flying. 😀
Great series - Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Hey, you did a nice job on this series.including all aspects of the rip and vacation was like getting to go along. It looked like a great vacation as well as a confidence building adventure. I would like to see a breakdown of your expenses. From up state NY with a vintage 172, it would be good to know about how much it would cost Agaon, Nice job on the series.
Amazing to see your adventure as I take plunge towards starting my PPL journey & eventually buy my own Cessna, :)
Oh nice, good luck with the PPL! Thanks for watching.
Don’t know how you did it all. The first three days of me being sick, doubt I could have done all that flying. I would have holed up in a hotel, loaded with advil. Thanks for filming 👍🏻
Thanks Julio, glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, it was NOT a fun flight home…
Great video series! Flying to the Caribbean is #1 on my bucket list. I’m a new low time pilot myself and looking to get my IFR rating later this year. Watching your videos confirmed it would be a much needed rating to avoid unexpected delays. Thanks for sharing your awesome trip!
Thanks, Jay! I think that's a good decision, to get your IFR before flying to the Bahamas - my trip would have been a lot easier if I'd gotten my instrument rating first. Beyond the delays, coming back from Exuma to Florida meant having to fly lower than I wanted at the start and toward the end of the flight over water, which wouldn't have been necessary if I could just fly through the clouds. Good luck with it!
Hey I fly out of CYOO. I’d enjoy meeting you sometime.
That would be great. Email me at wingsoverto at gmail dot com and we can coordinate.
Awesome series. I was hoping to learn the paperwork/process involved to making this type of flight. Any suggestions?
Congrats on the achievement!! It is a big deal......great series.....David
Thanks, David, I appreciate that. Now let's get up for a flight together before your new plane arrives and you leave me in the dust! :)
Fun trip! It didn't look bumpy at all for you. My Lord it gets so nasty here in Florida in the Summer, slamming all around until I'm in North GA or Alabama. I usually stop in Albany, GA for gas and a break as almost halfway to Illinois where my dad lives. Do more of these flights if you can, possibly out to BC or something by the mountains. Now that would be very interesting to watch!
Yeah it wasn’t bad at all in terms of bumps, considering I left Florida in the middle of the afternoon. The trip down there was a bit bumpy but coming back was great.
I’d love to do a trip out west to Vancouver or even just Calgary. And I’d absolutely love to come down and do a trip across the western US too. I think I’d want to do a mountain flying course first though. Living in Toronto, I get zero experience with anything taller than about 2,000 feet. The appalachians were by far the tallest things I’ve had to deal with, so I’d need some training before tackling real mountains.
Welcome home and congratulations on completing this epic journey. It must have been very satisfying after all the planning that went into it. Take care and looking forward to your next adventure.
Thanks, Reale! I've got a bunch of footage backlogged and am deciding whether to make more shorter trip/fly-in videos, or videos about my IFR training. What do you think?
@@WingsOverTO I think a series on your IFR journey would be unique and very interesting as I have not seen anything like that on You Tube .
Not to steer you away from my videos 😀 but check out @FlightChops.
Really enjoyed this series! Very well done. The voice overs were great as well. I'm hoping to do the Bahamas trip at the end of this month and would love to pick your brain if you don't mind. If you don't mind, I can list my questions and send it to you via e-mail. It's going to be my first time and I'm a little nervous about procedures. Thanks again for sharing this adventure with us!
Hi Manuel, thanks for the message and the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Happy to help. You can email me at the address on the About page of my TH-cam channel (in case TH-cam strips it out of this message; it's info@wingsoverto.com).
Interesting that canadian customs was required for the alternator replacement in florida
Yeah, apparently any work done on an aircraft outside of Canada needs to be declared and the duties paid. If you just order parts and have them shipped across the border, that’s taken care of in shipping. But taking a plane down there and having work done is more difficult to track, so they have this process in place to work with an import broker.
Partly I think it’s to make sure you pay the duties, and partly I think it’s also to make sure you’re not having unapproved parts put in/work done on a certified aircraft.
Where did episode 7 go? I don’t see it.
The way I worded some things in that video made it seem like I knew I had a specific issue before taking off, and I thought it best to take it down.
@@WingsOverTO dang. I really needed to see how you handled that failure while also coming back into the US. It would be a good learning opportunity for us. Maybe use the footage and dub some new audio over it when needed? Either way, thanks for responding.
@@nhosk Send me an email from my About page.
@@nhosk It wasn't really a failure, I still had radio and transponder and all electrics available for the flight, I just had a slightly weak output from my alternator and had to manage the power draw so as not to drain the battery. If it had been a total failure, I wouldn't have been able to fly back at all and would have had to wait in the Bahamas for someone to fly out there with a new alternator. Thankfully that wasn't the case! But it did slowly drain the battery enough that as I dropped my flaps for the landing at Fort Pierce, my radio actually died for a couple of seconds before coming back.
Did something like that happen to you?
@@WingsOverTO I’ve had an alternator failure in Florida once. But I was interested in your situation. Thanks for answering me. And btw I didn’t see any email listed on your about page. Nor anyway to contact you on your blog. But you have resolved my inquiry. Again, thanks for your time and keep flying.
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