Cessna 150 Coast to Coast flight!!! Part 2/3
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2019
- Join me in the venerable Cessna fartcart-ahem-lovable Cessna 150, in my flight from coast to coast! No frills. This was not a vacation with money to be spent exploring. It is lil ol me just trying to get from point A to point B, with all the sights and adventures that came along the way!
I was trained to fly in a Cessna 150 in early 70’s……… In calm air and trimmed out……..you could make it climb or descent by leaning forward or leaning back…….Great trainer
Very nice film to see. All these buttersmooth landings... You have my respect dear young lady! Peter Van Cleemput, Belgium.
Gotta give you a lot of credit young lady. You are a strong woman. I can say young lady cause I’m 86 years old and a retired airline pilot.
I have no idea what her experience level is... but I know a good aviator when I see one and this young lady has the touch. Great series and your flying is admirable. Well done.
Hey thanks!!! I'm a CFI with about 970 hours--but I am a firm believer that hours and being a good pilot don't always correlate. I try my best to make them count, and I'm really blessed to be able to draw on the experience I have had so far.
Amy White I figured as much. Looking at your control inputs in the wind.
@@amywhite375 I am about to start flight training and building a H5 from plans. I am debating getting a 150 as well so my wife can eventually ride with me. I love your 150's paint scheme the white red and gold is my favorite for a 150. I used to use songs like you have here and later they came and claimed the rights to my videos just a FYI. Nice trip in a neat little plane.
That has to be one of the cleanest and nicely painted 150s I've ever seen. It would be great to have a plane like that to just have fun in.
Amy: I came for the video, I came back for your editing and music selections. Excellent travelogue, gorgeous C150. Bravo and best wishes, certainly you will go far. Sign me impressed!!
Dont know if anyone cares but yesterday I hacked my friends Instagram password by using Instablaster.
Great job young lady. I could not stop smiling for the entire ride. I've offered to teach my two daughters how to fly my plane but no takers. Proud of you.
Love it. Just watched the first in the series and thoroughly enjoyed it. Great cross wind landing. Lovely scenery. I like the altimeter that shows 5,500 at the end of the runway. Where I live you can fly at 50' and not hit anything other than a low flying fighter (if you're unlucky). You have a lovely balanced style for your videos - great flying and great music.
That Husky should have gone for the grass 😂 🤣
This is absolutely amazing!
I'm binge watching this. LOVE IT.
Your videos are incredible. Thanks for this. Love your style and your skill as a pilot. I don't know your training or background but you're living the moments I always wished that I could. Really, thank you for sharing this part of your life.
I am really enjoying your videos!! What a great adventure.
That 150 looks like new! Very nice!
Your videos are a joy to watch Amy, Good job and keep them coming!!
Thanks for posting this. Beautiful scenery!
What amazing landscapes. Such a lovely plane. It looks brand new. Thank you for sharing your great videos!
Great video, great music, great flying!
Those mountains are beautiful.
Wonderful sights!!! Great flying!
Your videos are a pleasant surprise, indeed! Love the scenery, the limited narration and that you show the landings in real time. You are obviously a skilled aviatrix and I'm glad you invited us along for the ride. Nice choices in music, too!
What a wonderful experience to witness the beautiful scenery of America from a slow- flying Cessna!!
In 1970 my wife and I flew from Rio Linda (near Sacramento) to Georgetown, Great Exuma, Bahamas and returned in our 150 and had many adventures on the trip, owing mostly to my inexperience. We lived through that somehow and have cherished that experience. N4810X
Awesome music. Gorgeous scenery.
Great job!! Quite an adventure. Great looking C-150. Looking forward to part 3. Greetings from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.Thanks for posting.
These are fantastic thanks.
Amy, Great flight and I enjoyed watching your very well done video. You missed flying over my grass strip by 2 miles as you were leaving Riverton Wyoming. Thanks!
you rock! thank you for the videos
Wow! what a delightful flight to Casper, WY You are an adventurous young lady.Great video filming. I would like to hear more of your thoughts and I loved you being at a reasonably low altitude and seeing the wind farms. Your great and please fly safely.
Very proud of you 👏❤.
Bought my own 150 today. Picking it up in july in northern alberta and bringing it home to nova scotia. 2200 nm trip. I cant wait!
Great videos, that is a beautiful little plane. Someday I will have a PPL.
Just found you on here,,, I am a fan and look forward to catching up on your videos,,,, As a 56 year old adventurer, I am now living vicariously through you and your spirit, when I am not living it up on my end! Keep being you!
No better way to see America and its beautiful landscape. Thank you
flight over the rockies was the best part ...reminds me of home
Amazing views,. Thank you for sharing. I never recorded my trips when I was flying Challengers and Citations into Aspen, CO
Just dropped by this youtubevideos and you nailed me with a good feeling, great views and sound. Thank you! And very nice flying. So cslm and smoth/silky landings. Greeteings from Sweden
Excellent landings
Loved your videos and couldn’t believe when you landed at KRIW Riverton Regional Airport. I have worked there for the past 25 years and manage it for the city of Riverton. Your 150 is one nice looking Cessna. Keep making these great videos and if you are ever flying though again,
stop and say hello.
I've been waticing these aviation videos and it's making me more eager to do my discovery flight! Great video and makes me want to get behind the controls of the 150!
Execelent landings, greetings from Chile
That’s a clean 150. 👍
Something about taking the 152 cross country feels more special than when I rent the 172, can't quite put my finger on it. Although the fact that I got my license in the 152 might have something to do with it! That ending! I'm glad it's a funny story and not one where you were locked in for days!
I admire you Amy…very inspiring. Such a young age and ready…
Great little Cessna! I like your editing style, one has to pay attention or miss things. Great music too, and avoidance of voice overs! just great!
Brilliant pictures
Nice video keep up the good work fly safe
Long ago when I flew around Lexington I was also in a Cessna 159. In and out of Lex, LaGrande, Hermiston, Pendleton. Lex has no facilities and you had to make arrangements ahead of time if you wanted gas. I had a key card and never saw anybody at the airstrip. I had a great time and am enjoying your video
Um, sorry abt the typo. I flew a Cessna 150
Nice marathon trip you made, Amy! Great video editing. My first plane was a '77 C-152, which I really enjoyed! I got my instrument rating in it, and put it on leaseback for a while, but when the engine timed out, I sold it to a guy who had a new engine to put in it. You more or less wear a C-152 - very cozy! My next plane, which I still have, is a 2004 A1-B Husky - an awesome plane! I now have about 1100 hours in it - when I bought it, I only had about 10 hours of tailwheel time! My girlfriend (now wife) and I have flown it from NC to about 1/3 of the states (including coast to coast and to AK and back). It is a tricky plane to learn to fly well - which that pilot in your video at Driggs apparently discovered the hard way!
It is really fantastic to have the freedom to fly all over this beautiful country in which we live!
I liked that you always enter the pattern on a 45
Snake River valley and GTNP ....two of my favorite places
Yep 👍
I lived close to Driggs ID for a few years. Cool to see the Tetons again!
Woohoo. KRIW is my home town. Hope you enjoyed the stop.
Dude, Nailed it in Lexington!!
I have been to Wyoming but I like your videos over the different states
Your Cessna is sooooooo cute;-)))
AWESOME
You sure give that rubber chicken a work out! Haha! Great videos!
Love Vampire Weekend!
Learning to fly now and if I get as confident as you I be happy
You handled the crosswind like a boss. It's a pleasure to watch you fly.
Thanks for noticing! One thing I didn't really mention is how it was blowing like 20 + knots everywhere the entire trip. Lol
@@amywhite375 Here in Farmington, NM (FMN) it feels weird when it doesn't blow 20G25 :)
Even though it was just a “point A to B “ flight , it was a very cool adventure! I love flying the little Fartcart 150’s. Lol
I’m hoping to get a 150 around June!!! Can’t wait!!!
Lots of ground to cover at 90-100MPH. All worthwhile effort to see the country from this birdseye view.
You have some absolute belters of songs for this
I don't know if that's good or bad, haha.
The Extraordinary Landscape, a book published in the 80s, displays aerial photos taken by Will Garnett, flying his unpainted Cessna over the US, making images of our landscape from Maine to Hawaii. Beautiful book.
Another good video. Congtatulations and if possible is to do more...
I grew up in Driggs, Idaho I did.
Thank you for sharing your adventure. I felt like I was in the right seat the whole way. I too use the shit out of trim on landing and in the flare. Drove my CFI crazy. I subscribed. I would like to see more. Thanks again.
I don't normally do the trim on landing, but at CWI I was getting fed up with all my bad landings and wanted to try something different! lol
@@amywhite375 Your landings were great. I 150 can be a hand full in bumpy conditions. It's so light.
Cruising across America at 82 knots, plenty of time to take in the scenery. I am soooo jealous!
The Mighty Cessna 150.
Hey Amy, I just purchased a raffle ticket to enter to win 55U! Can't believe you sold such a beautiful C150 and that it's now a raffle item for a good cause. Hope your enjoying the new "Yellow Bird". Best wishes for 2021.
This video made me decide to get my pilots license. I was undecided until I saw this. Still doing my research, but I think I've made up my mind.
I wish you had picked me up before you left NC!
Thanks!
Hi Amy love your 150 have about 7500 hours in 150& 152
You did a great job dealing with the high terrain in the west. Did you take any mountain flying classes before you left. Good you were there when it was cool. Excellent landings! Fly safe.
No classes per se. Just a solid understanding of what mountains and terrain do to the wind and air, then trying to avoid any nasty situations. I flew a 172 with a friend in WA earlier in the year who talked in detail about where to fly and where not to fly when dealing with wind coming across ridges. Luckily my weather was good aside from headwinds.
LOL One of your best landings was with 18 gusting 26. Duress seems to bring out the best in you.
nice wiev over landscape
I'm excited to one day do something like this. What was the rough cost to complete trip (fuel, lodging and meals). How many days did it take and how many hours did you aim for daily? Thanks for sharing this video, it is truly inspiring!
Oh my gosh! I live across the highway from 9S9! 😮
You were sooo close to Yellowstone! If you do it again, go a bit further north when you're at the Tetons.
Before I made this flight out, I had to make the drive. I spent a whole day in Yellowstone. It was great!
Hy Amy “bird view” White . Nice to see how the Creator see’s.
Awesome videos. Between Riverton and Driggs WY, what altitude were you flying and did you need oxygen? What pass through the mountains did you go?
Thanks for the comment! I was at 11,500. I didn't have Oxygen, but I sure wish I did. I should have at least had one of the little "boost" cans.
Got my PPL at Teton aviation at KDIJ the warbirds Café is awesome if its still there
Yes it is still there :)
Oh my gosh, getting stuck at that airport must have been terrible.
Amy, I am truly impressed! I have so many questions for you, that I possibly could not ask them all at once! First off, the plane. I have flown many 150/152's including Aerobat's, and none of them had both the wing landing light, and the nose cowl light. which model is yours? I find your 150, to be one of the prettiest ever, and I love the panel! I learned to fly 32 years ago, and would be right at home in your bird. Is it IFR certified? Did I see a KX-170B, and a KX-155, with a KMA audio panel with markers, as well as Glideslope/localizer? And, is there an ADF hiding behind your tablet? That is truly a fine "Commuter".
Howdy!! Thank you for the kind words. It is IFR certified, with the KX155 paired with the KI209 and the KX170b paired with the KI208. Correct on the KMA 24 audio panel. It works great. No ADF, thank goodness. The ammeter is back there. I lean over to take a peek at it every 10 minutes (unless I'm flying it from the right seat, which is pretty often.) I JUST installed the Stratus ESGi ADS-B Out, so it's looking pretty spiffy right now. Finally, the light mystery--nice catch on that!! It's SUPER bright and I love it. What happened was some hail damage in 1981 that prompted swapping the wings for that of an older model--and tada. I have all Whelen LEDs for landing lights. Draws almost no amps, and it's SO BRIGHT! I get remarks all the time and it never gets old. I love it. :D
@@amywhite375 Yeah, LED landing lights are really nice and super-handy. I have one in the nose of my Mooney.
8,000 hours of 150 time. A bot deaf, but a great aircraft. Thanks for the fun. CFI A/i
Thanks for sharing. What altitude did you max out at crossing the continental divide near the Tetons? Was that your time at 12.5k?
I went to 11.5k on this trip. The time I went to 12.5k I was just messing around and seeing how high I could climb. Haha.
Nice flying. What level pilot are ya ? What ratings I guess is what I am asking. 👍
Thanks! I was a wee rusty. I'm a commercial instrument pilot, plus CFI. Sitting at around 970 hours after this trip.
3:56: Nice landing on the grass runway at KDIJ due to the paved runway was occupied by an incident.
Clearly it is specifically designated as a grass runway; your video shows the marker cones. I don't see that runway is listed in official publications, though. (I've been to airports where this is the case. There's a parallel grass that's landscaped as such but not on official publications).
But how did you know about it? Did you just see the cone markers? Or did you call on the radio and they pointed you to the grass runway as an alternative?
There was a Cessna 182 (you can see him taxiing by the husky on that first shot) that announced taking off on the grass, and that's when I saw the cones. I was on my way to divert but I LOVE GRASS RUNWAYS so when I saw it I was like, "aw heck yeah."
@@amywhite375 I soloed off the 'NW sod' runway at CLE (Cleveland OH) in a '67 C150 back in '75 when they allowed us small fry to mingle with the heavy iron jet traffic... Sadly, that is long in the past. Small guys got pushed out years ago, and the NW sod is now home to the UPS freight facility.
You handle the wind fine. If you wait for the wind to die down, you never make it anywhere.
Smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@amywhite375 With the 150 being so light I was very impressed with how you handled it on landings and on the ground. You have skills. :)
Amy. I just ran across your cross country. Can you tell me at what altitude you crossed the mountains from Casper (KCPR) to Riverton (KRIW)? Your Cessna 150 is quite a performer! Thanks. Gino
Hi Gino, I crossed at 11,500. 12,500 would have been ideal, but the plane didn't want to go that high that day. Ha!
@@amywhite375 Thank you Amy. I understand...ha ha ha! I just did it in my simulator and at 10,500, in a Cessna 172, the mountains were very close!! Merry Christmas.
hey hey come on now. getting locked in the room needs more story development! lol
In 2 weeks I'll be flying a Tomahawk from FL to CA but I do not have your filming/editing skills. So maybe few little clips I'll be posting. What I record in my brain will be staying with me for the rest of my life.
How did you prepared your route across the states? How did you know where to stop and find fuel or food or hotel? Was it all planned or just land and find out was all along your plan?
I've flown many long distance cross countries. I can plan all I want, (and I do) but 90% of the time, the plan has always changed once I got going. (Usually weather reasons.) So, don't stress it. Fuel is denoted by the tick-marks around an airport on the sectional. Some airports have avgas but no Jet-A and are depicted without tickmarks. A quick glance at the AF/D will tell you. When I end up picking my airports on the fly, there is a system. I usually have a couple of airports picked out as the "end-of-day" goal that are in reasonable distance to reach by end of day and have appropriate facilities. (Hotel/A&P Mechanic on field, etc) I pick my way there one stop at a time. At EVERY STOP, (normally while I'm emptying my bladder) I CHECK THE WEATHER, pick or reconfirm my next airport choice, check its METAR, TAF, AF/D, remarks, comments & notams physical layout, distance, the calculate fuel reserves, and off I go. Takes 5 minutes on Foreflight.
What iPad mount are you using?
RAM glareshield mount.
Can we be totally sure that wasn't Harrison Fords husky?!
What’s the service ceiling on a 150?
The POH says 14,500. I've never been past 12,500, but I'm sure with the right precautions, you could get close.
Wow, I could use it here in Colorado. Something tells me that I wouldn’t fit very comfortably at 6’8”, though!
@@MorganBrown You wouldn't. I'm 6'5" and they tried to stuff me into a C 152 when I took my flight intro (a lot younger and thinner too). I looked like Mr. Incredible driving the family compact car (reference movie 'The Incredibles). Had no roll capability cause the yoke was against my legs. Opted to spend the extra money and went with the Piper Warrior.
Vampire Weekend?
Great videos, but had to mute it around 2:30. That music in headphones, no matter how much I turned it down was killing my ears.
and excuseme your cessna 152 has an autopilot?
It's a 150, and it does not have autopilot.
@@amywhite375 more fun oh yeah