Your storms comment for XNA was funny after our recent weather. We just had 7 tornadoes here in Northwest Arkansas last Sunday. One passed about 2 miles north of XNA and ended up hitting my house, but it was weak enough it did no lasting damage. Great video!
Yeah, I saw all of that. The crazy thing is this video was supposed to post last Friday and I finished my new channel trailer instead, so it got pushed back. Glad you're okay with minimal damage.
First and great flight! Have you heard American Airlines flight close call leading to abort takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington DC?
My videos are intended to be as pure as possible. I want them to be as close to you being in that seat instead of me. And you don't get altitude, speed, or GPS position in the window when you look out, so they don't get added to my videos. Thanks for watching!
Well, it's a bit of a long story so I'll try to shorten it up. I graduated college with two bachelor degrees in 2012. One in Airport Management and the other in Aviation Management. I then spent 6 years working for Envoy Air and American Airlines before getting a job with the City of Joplin, Missouri as an aircraft rescue firefighter and airport operations specialist. The latter being more in my education's wheelhouse. That said, the 6 years I spent with Envoy/American was super fun. I had flight benefits and my wife and I flew all over the place for free. It was "the good old days" before kids and all kinds of other adult stuff haha. Well, during that time at American, in 2015, I started this channel. At the time it wasn't even called Skylite Productions. It was still just my name and I started uploaded takeoff and landing clips just for fun. I love aviation, commercial aviation, and traveling. So, I started recording like 5-15 minute clips and uploading them on here. I almost marked them all private as I really just intended for it to be a logbook of my flying. I honestly didn't think other people would even watch them haha. Well, turns out other did want to watch them. The channel wasn't even monetized back then and I don't think I got my first check from TH-cam for ad revenue payments until 2019. So for 4 solid years, it was literally just something I was doing for myself and for fun. Well, after I left American and got the job with the City of Joplin is when I monetized the channel. See, before then I was flying for free. Which was great on the wallet, but came with some strings attached. It was very clear in the American Airlines non-rev rules that you were not to "profit" in any way from you flight benefits and you were to use them for personal use only. So, that's why I'd never monetized any of my content. Well, once I left America and didn't see myself ever going back since I had really only worked there for the flight benefits, I then monetized the channel. It took TH-cam over a year to then approve the channel. So it was January-ish of 2018 before I was even eligible to earn ad revenues. But the channel was still pretty small then. I mean I don't remember how big it was, but I wasn't even pulling in enough money per month to meet TH-cam's minimum payout amount. In 2019 that changed though. I took American's last MD-80 flight and I also had a flight with a crazy turbulent approach, and another with a mechanical emergency landing. Those three things happening so close together kind of rocketed my channel up and it was then that I got my first check from TH-cam. It was a whole $134. Not much, but hey. I was now 3 years removed from free flight benefits so I'd been pumping a considerable amount of money into the channel those 3 years. I mean, everything you've seen on here since January of 2017 I have paid for out of my own pocket. So I was thrilled to get anything haha. Fast forward to today and the channel has slowly grown every year, and in January of 2022 I left my job at the city to run this channel full time. So, as you can see, it was a long road to get to that point, and it was never something I planned. It all just kind of happened because I had a passion and I was just happy to share it online with others. Now, I'm by no means pulling in tons of money haha. This is all still a carefully budgeted affair every month, but I'm pleasantly surprised with the course everything has taken. I never thought my diplomas would be in a box in my closet and I'd be filming flights all over the world with iPhones, but that's where I am now. So, the TLDR version is that this channel is now the reason why I fly so much. Because it's my full time job, and uploading a new video every day requires a lot of flying haha.
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Always cool to see flights dodging storm clouds, nice! 👍👍
Great job as always 👍✈️
Great work!
I love flying
Love the storms in the background! ❤
Great video
Always enjoy!!!
Glad to hear it my friend!
Your storms comment for XNA was funny after our recent weather. We just had 7 tornadoes here in Northwest Arkansas last Sunday. One passed about 2 miles north of XNA and ended up hitting my house, but it was weak enough it did no lasting damage. Great video!
Yeah, I saw all of that. The crazy thing is this video was supposed to post last Friday and I finished my new channel trailer instead, so it got pushed back. Glad you're okay with minimal damage.
Great video Bryce! How are you doing today?
Thanks my friend. I’m doing fine, thanks for asking!
First and great flight! Have you heard American Airlines flight close call leading to abort takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington DC?
I did hear that, yes.
Second one in 30 days. It seems like the ATC system is crumbling. Hope the holes in the Swiss cheese are not lining up
On that Southwest Airlines Ontario CA flight, were you flying to or from Ontario?
Ontario to Denver.
it would be cool if their wuz an altitude counter durin these flights!!!
My videos are intended to be as pure as possible. I want them to be as close to you being in that seat instead of me. And you don't get altitude, speed, or GPS position in the window when you look out, so they don't get added to my videos. Thanks for watching!
Quick question if you dont mind how are you able to Fly so much?
Well, it's a bit of a long story so I'll try to shorten it up. I graduated college with two bachelor degrees in 2012. One in Airport Management and the other in Aviation Management. I then spent 6 years working for Envoy Air and American Airlines before getting a job with the City of Joplin, Missouri as an aircraft rescue firefighter and airport operations specialist. The latter being more in my education's wheelhouse. That said, the 6 years I spent with Envoy/American was super fun. I had flight benefits and my wife and I flew all over the place for free. It was "the good old days" before kids and all kinds of other adult stuff haha. Well, during that time at American, in 2015, I started this channel. At the time it wasn't even called Skylite Productions. It was still just my name and I started uploaded takeoff and landing clips just for fun. I love aviation, commercial aviation, and traveling. So, I started recording like 5-15 minute clips and uploading them on here. I almost marked them all private as I really just intended for it to be a logbook of my flying. I honestly didn't think other people would even watch them haha. Well, turns out other did want to watch them. The channel wasn't even monetized back then and I don't think I got my first check from TH-cam for ad revenue payments until 2019. So for 4 solid years, it was literally just something I was doing for myself and for fun. Well, after I left American and got the job with the City of Joplin is when I monetized the channel. See, before then I was flying for free. Which was great on the wallet, but came with some strings attached. It was very clear in the American Airlines non-rev rules that you were not to "profit" in any way from you flight benefits and you were to use them for personal use only. So, that's why I'd never monetized any of my content. Well, once I left America and didn't see myself ever going back since I had really only worked there for the flight benefits, I then monetized the channel. It took TH-cam over a year to then approve the channel. So it was January-ish of 2018 before I was even eligible to earn ad revenues. But the channel was still pretty small then. I mean I don't remember how big it was, but I wasn't even pulling in enough money per month to meet TH-cam's minimum payout amount. In 2019 that changed though. I took American's last MD-80 flight and I also had a flight with a crazy turbulent approach, and another with a mechanical emergency landing. Those three things happening so close together kind of rocketed my channel up and it was then that I got my first check from TH-cam. It was a whole $134. Not much, but hey. I was now 3 years removed from free flight benefits so I'd been pumping a considerable amount of money into the channel those 3 years. I mean, everything you've seen on here since January of 2017 I have paid for out of my own pocket. So I was thrilled to get anything haha. Fast forward to today and the channel has slowly grown every year, and in January of 2022 I left my job at the city to run this channel full time. So, as you can see, it was a long road to get to that point, and it was never something I planned. It all just kind of happened because I had a passion and I was just happy to share it online with others. Now, I'm by no means pulling in tons of money haha. This is all still a carefully budgeted affair every month, but I'm pleasantly surprised with the course everything has taken. I never thought my diplomas would be in a box in my closet and I'd be filming flights all over the world with iPhones, but that's where I am now. So, the TLDR version is that this channel is now the reason why I fly so much. Because it's my full time job, and uploading a new video every day requires a lot of flying haha.
I fly Delta airlines out of ted Stevenson Anchorage international Airport