Living the dream! Flying to a camping site, any camping site, makes for a great time. Even if the weather gets bad, you are having an adventure worth remembering. Cheers from Winnipeg.
You returned to comp on the island on the St. John River down behind the home where I grew up. It made me a little homesick for Carleton County. Thanks for the video.
I get the home sick thing. I grew up in Grand falls. Now in southwestern Ontario. I sure do miss the landscape out there, not so much the bugs, or amount of snow. Another 20-ish years to wait, but I hope to retire out that way somewhere. At least spend my summers there. I need to re-explore New Brunswick like I did in my twenties.
I think Matt is a very experienced camper. I need to go back and get something, so while I'm gone set up camp. Edit: THANK YOU for not adding mid-roll ads.
I intentionally de-select non-skippable ads and mid-roll ads. They are simply too annoying and I like my viewers way too much to subject them to that. :-)
think I would have set up house on the landing strip. I think it may be less bugs than in the tall grass. Rocks can be raked out of the way for a 6x2 lay down spot. LOL
Good call on the bannock, and it looked good. Outstanding job on filming & editing, Matt. I can't count the many fishing/camping trips where I'd forgotten the bug dope, lol.
Cool video! I have been flying the rivers around here looking for a spot to land like this. Spending a lot of time on google Earth, then follow up with recon flights in the Aerolite.
@@flyingkub I am a backpacker, I love getting to very remote places, and I know you can fly over places I would hate to try walking, or cutting a path through. Once you leave the road with a wheels or shoes, you kinda slow down some. I like that. I like setting up camp at the end of the day and hearing the critters checking me out.
@@John-gp9qf You could still do that but go to a place that other would struggle to get to. I am not so much a backpacker but love caneoing to remote places and then walk to explore the area and look at the animals around, I can't see why you couldn't do the same with an aircraft (except here in the UK, we are restricted to wild areas we can camp in).
Great Video Matt !! I have been waiting for it and was not dissapointed buddy , ok maybe a little. no Vicki and her Beaver :o) Down River Tim (Oak Point Area)
As always, I'm impressed with your flying skills. Are there any dams upriver of the island where flood control releases of water are made, which might reduce your takeoff distances and/or flood your planes?
During the spring melt this would definitely be an issue but during the summer there is never an excess of water so there is no danger of being flooded out.
100FT margin of error is terrible if you have an emergency. When things go great, it's fantastic though. Just keep that in mind for future flamping trips. Just get a can of bug spray and sun screen and keep it on the plane with your first aid kit.
Hey Matt! Thanks for providing such awesome flight videos. I recently bought a Beaver 550 on floats, and I've installed two wing tanks to provide for extended range. Can you please recommend some sort of inexpensive flight navigation system I can use for extended flights in British Columbia?
Been seeing a lot of ultralights lately. Back country flying and camping always seemed far too expensive and out of reach. Somehow I'd never considered doing it with an ultralight, but it makes perfect sense. I still can't immediately afford $20,000 for a plane, but it's sure as hell a lot more achievable than $200k to $500k for a proper bush plane.
Have I missed something? Did you say where this is located? Well done video. No elevator music as your flying. Just the drone of the motor, communication & flying.
@@mmatt Thanks for the reply. I believe you have MANY areas to camp up there. Again, about as good as the video could've been done. I mildly criticized another video today for having music. Take care.
@@rodneyjordan6745 I think music is fine in flying videos if it's done correctly. But if it's not needed, I don't think there's any sense in having it just for the sake of it.
A poor story of three campers, (an almost true story): They flew there with two microlite aircraft, they flew back to get another camper they could not take the first time. They did remember bug spray, however, the bugs didn't care and ate them half to death. During the night the rain came on, one of them panicled and went to his microlite, but wandered into some quick sand, his dieing calls were heard by the others, but he had sunk out of sight by the time the others got there. They went back to their tents thinking "More beer for us" and they went to sleep in a half drunken state. They woke to the sound of heavy rain, then it dawned on them that they had better get off the island before the river rose and the gravel bank runway was under water. As the packed up their tents they heard a roar of water, the river was rising very quickly, they left their tents in an attempt to reach their microlite aircraft and take off before it was to late and there was no beach left. They got to the edge of the island just in time to see the microlite aircraft hit by a wall of rising water and with a crunching, crashing noise the water swallowed up the microlites, smashed them against the side of the island and swallowed them up and carried them downstream to oblivion! The two remaining campers realising they were is great danger walked away from the bank to find a high spot, but there was none, just the odd small tree. However one tree stood higher than the others, so they ran to it as the waters rose above the bank of the island and started to swallow the land they were standing on. They climbed the tree as high as they could, helping each other as they climbed. Still the water rose and rose until the island was all but gone. A house owner noticed that the river was rising, he had been woken by the heavy rain, he looked out to see the island was almost under water, then he remembered he had seen two microlites land there last night making a lot of noise. He looked for traces of them, but through the semi-darkness he saw nothing. As he stared out through the now morning light, the light of day just breaking the horizon, he saw a dark shape where the island was, it was sticking up above the water. He knew from past times the river had risen so high that there was one tree that was the last to go under the water. Just than he thought he saw something moving out in the water. He stared into the ever increasing light of the morning. He could make out a shape out in the water, but it didn't look like the tree. He grabbed his binoculars and looked across the very high water that was now so high it was coming down in waves. As he picked out the tree he spotted two people, drenched and hanging on for dear life to the tree which was bending under under the pressure of the water trying to push it over and downstream. He ram and picked up his mobile phone and dialled for help. Just then there was a cracking noise and a splash as the tree gave up its fight to stay upright. it bent over and sunk below the water taking with it the two people that was clinging to it branches for a last chance at life. But it was not to be and as it took the two people below the waves the old man heard one shout "Oh F***". As they drowned in the water, the bald eagle that had been watching them came in the hope that they left something to eat rubbed its wings together at the thought of the feast of the two peoples bones tonight when they were washed up downstream, cold, lifeless, but above all, yummy! Never again was there a noise in the skies above the river. But wait, here comes a woman flying a microlite and a bright yellow microlight. As they come into land at a nearby Burger kink the pilot of the Bright Yellow microlite was heard to say "Oh, Vicky, I need a pee!" FIN.
Runways are numbered according to the first two digits of their magnetic bearing rounded to the nearest 10° - so a runway pointing to the south (or 180°) would be runway 18. The beach runs approximately North-South so we used the approximate direction to determine a made-up runway number for the beach.
Great vidoe. An absolutely fun way to have an adventure. I have a question though. Why couldn't you have put the camping stuff in the yellow plane and Curtis in your plane with you?
@@mmatt Thats actually flyable for me. My buddy has a house in Maine on Grand Lake where we fish and hunt out of. Were in Houlton often.. Just need to have the border open up.
serious question, it just rained near you, are you not worried about the river rising and leaving you with a smaller runway or possibly washing your planes away?
Living the dream! Flying to a camping site, any camping site, makes for a great time. Even if the weather gets bad, you are having an adventure worth remembering. Cheers from Winnipeg.
You returned to comp on the island on the St. John River down behind the home where I grew up. It made me a little homesick for Carleton County. Thanks for the video.
I get the home sick thing. I grew up in Grand falls. Now in southwestern Ontario. I sure do miss the landscape out there, not so much the bugs, or amount of snow. Another 20-ish years to wait, but I hope to retire out that way somewhere. At least spend my summers there. I need to re-explore New Brunswick like I did in my twenties.
Yall living a lot of folks dreams. Thanks for the video.
You guys are living my childhood dreams right now!😊
Well how cool is this for a camping trip! 🤙🏻
Please do more camping on islands with the ultralight! It's super inspiring!
I love your editing on the 360 camera. That takes a lot of time and effort. Much appreciated!
Very nice camera work ! Thanks for the ride.
Best camera angle and position I've ever seen in flight videos!
I think Matt is a very experienced camper.
I need to go back and get something, so while I'm gone set up camp.
Edit: THANK YOU for not adding mid-roll ads.
I intentionally de-select non-skippable ads and mid-roll ads. They are simply too annoying and I like my viewers way too much to subject them to that. :-)
@@mmatt true maritimer attitude. Awesome.
Cool shot of the nose wheel/rudder control on final landing at the end.
Come down to Australia we’ll show you real island 🏝 camping 🏕 great to see you all having a fantastic time...✌️
Superb video many thanks for sharing with us all,lovely country for aviating.
I actually enjoy the wind noise. Quiet flying is relaxing.
How long have you GUYS been friends and how long have yall been FLYING
Wow. I found this video at 1AM. But it's like tapping into my dreams.
Ha ha, well at least I'm glad to hear that my videos don't put people to sleep... lol
Loved every min of that Matt just wish we could do that sort of fly camping over here in the UK!
same, uk sucks for bush flying and camping
think I would have set up house on the landing strip. I think it may be less bugs than in the tall grass. Rocks can be raked out of the way for a 6x2 lay down spot. LOL
Great videography, Matt. Thanks.
Good call on the bannock, and it looked good.
Outstanding job on filming & editing, Matt.
I can't count the many fishing/camping trips where I'd forgotten the bug dope, lol.
Beautiful shots!
Amazing flight footage. Looks like you had a great trip. Thanks for sharing this. :)
Awesome!
Looks really fun!
I want to do that!!! Really cool!!
I appreciate your taking tome in editing to switch back and forth between planes. Good start to video.
Yes sir! Still fly in camping indeed. Great channel!
Cool video! I have been flying the rivers around here looking for a spot to land like this. Spending a lot of time on google Earth, then follow up with recon flights in the Aerolite.
Great fun. Just love the extra flight to get bug spray.
Plane camping beats car camping...does it beat motorcycle camping?
@@John-gp9qf I have done motorcycle camping and would put it at the same level. It depends on what you expect from camping.
@@flyingkub I am a backpacker, I love getting to very remote places, and I know you can fly over places I would hate to try walking, or cutting a path through. Once you leave the road with a wheels or shoes, you kinda slow down some. I like that. I like setting up camp at the end of the day and hearing the critters checking me out.
@@John-gp9qf You could still do that but go to a place that other would struggle to get to. I am not so much a backpacker but love caneoing to remote places and then walk to explore the area and look at the animals around, I can't see why you couldn't do the same with an aircraft (except here in the UK, we are restricted to wild areas we can camp in).
With our ultralight planes all around the world, we all dream of the same thing..land on an island and make a fire camp
This makes me happy just watching!
Great landings 😊
I like the structure of the yellow glider more than the blue one - the tail wheel instead of the front ...🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲😋😋😋
But if you want to be an airline pilot you better go with the nose wheel
Pretty much ANY M0DERN MULTI ENGINE PLANE iz tricycle gear...Not all that many serious Arctic operations really
this was really really awesome. Great landings and take off.s
Lots of fun! Nice video!
That was enjoyable watching....thanks
Well that makes me wanna go drag my airplane out and head to sand bars. Thanks I know what I'm doing this weekend.
Sweet plane MMatt! This looks like too damn much fun!
Amazing video. Looks like great fun.
Felt like I was right there with you. Great one.
looks like a lot of fun, thx for sharing
That's what it all about. Thanks for posting.
thanks for posting info about the gliders in the description! that made my search simpler
Awesome Guys, funn and enjoying,👍
Awesome camera angle from every side on flight ....
Good job and well done.
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watching you guys fly makes me wish I was 30 years younger I would be during that in a heart beat keep it up hint maybe some more places to see
Good fun fellas! You might be experienced pilots, but campers... Practice makes perfect!
I used to live on the E. coast of Central Florida. Photographing in the evening required bug spray! Like my camera gear, I never left home without it!
Great footage! Keep it coming 👍😁
Fantastic Video!!!
this is the best camping... trip !!
Buen video !!! Me encantaría vivir esa experiencia
Boy scout cooking motto...when it's smokin it's cookin...when it's black it's done
Excellent video! Awesome!
One of my favorites
irmão esse lugar é magnifico. é um sonho de qualquer piloto de ultraleve, voçê é um um cara previlegiado . boms vôos
Te agradece! Estou feliz que você gostou!
Great Video Matt !! I have been waiting for it and was not dissapointed buddy , ok maybe a little. no Vicki and her Beaver :o) Down River Tim (Oak Point Area)
Just gone say looked like you had plenty of runway left when you took off with Curtis from the island.
As always, I'm impressed with your flying skills. Are there any dams upriver of the island where flood control releases of water are made, which might reduce your takeoff distances and/or flood your planes?
During the spring melt this would definitely be an issue but during the summer there is never an excess of water so there is no danger of being flooded out.
100FT margin of error is terrible if you have an emergency. When things go great, it's fantastic though. Just keep that in mind for future flamping trips. Just get a can of bug spray and sun screen and keep it on the plane with your first aid kit.
great fun thanks guys
Great video
Great video I enjoyed it
14:25 whoah you have quite the fuel cavitation going on there.
The camerawork is amazing!! I could probably afford the plane, but not the cameras! LOL Great video!!
I’ve camped on a lot of islands and have found camping on the gravel points of the islands have almost no bugs at all. FYI
You will need an air pad to sleep on 🙂
Cool adventure. Bug spray always good to have. Maybe need to save up for some real food next time. LOL Thanks guys!!
Hey Matt! Thanks for providing such awesome flight videos. I recently bought a Beaver 550 on floats, and I've installed two wing tanks to provide for extended range. Can you please recommend some sort of inexpensive flight navigation system I can use for extended flights in British Columbia?
Congrats on the new plane! :)
Try 'Flight Plan Go'.
Thanks, Matt! Can you tell me what navigation system you use?@@mmatt
Thanks Matt! I'll try "Flight Plan Go".
This is my first video of yours, so the accidental backlighting made you more mysterious and interesting.
Maybe I should backlight myself more often then... ;-)
Nice
Do the backlight silhouette while holding one of those hot dogs.
@@andycraig7734 🌭
Missing Vicky with her Beaver!
That makes 2 of us ..Wonder why the boys wouldn't let her hang out lol.. Down River Tim (Oak Point Area)
Been seeing a lot of ultralights lately. Back country flying and camping always seemed far too expensive and out of reach. Somehow I'd never considered doing it with an ultralight, but it makes perfect sense. I still can't immediately afford $20,000 for a plane, but it's sure as hell a lot more achievable than $200k to $500k for a proper bush plane.
Have I missed something? Did you say where this is located? Well done video. No elevator music as your flying. Just the drone of the motor, communication & flying.
We are in Woodstock, NB, Canada. The island we landed on is just South of Hartland if you're looking for it on Google Maps.
@@mmatt Thanks for the reply. I believe you have MANY areas to camp up there. Again, about as good as the video could've been done. I mildly criticized another video today for having music. Take care.
@@rodneyjordan6745 I think music is fine in flying videos if it's done correctly. But if it's not needed, I don't think there's any sense in having it just for the sake of it.
Looks like a lot of fun, just a thought but why not put the camping bag in the yellow aircraft backseat, then the two blokes go off in the Beaver?
The Chinook was crammed full of camping gear too.
Success !! 👍
What is that the Jurassic Park Island.⛺️ I never seen Fern so big 🌿
Living Like Kings
Nice to see your trip, landing and camping at the Island, greetings from Puerto Rico,USA. Where is Woodstock, Canada?
On the east coast of Canada. It's right on the US border across from Houlton Maine.
A poor story of three campers, (an almost true story): They flew there with two microlite aircraft, they flew back to get another camper they could not take the first time. They did remember bug spray, however, the bugs didn't care and ate them half to death. During the night the rain came on, one of them panicled and went to his microlite, but wandered into some quick sand, his dieing calls were heard by the others, but he had sunk out of sight by the time the others got there. They went back to their tents thinking "More beer for us" and they went to sleep in a half drunken state. They woke to the sound of heavy rain, then it dawned on them that they had better get off the island before the river rose and the gravel bank runway was under water. As the packed up their tents they heard a roar of water, the river was rising very quickly, they left their tents in an attempt to reach their microlite aircraft and take off before it was to late and there was no beach left. They got to the edge of the island just in time to see the microlite aircraft hit by a wall of rising water and with a crunching, crashing noise the water swallowed up the microlites, smashed them against the side of the island and swallowed them up and carried them downstream to oblivion!
The two remaining campers realising they were is great danger walked away from the bank to find a high spot, but there was none, just the odd small tree. However one tree stood higher than the others, so they ran to it as the waters rose above the bank of the island and started to swallow the land they were standing on.
They climbed the tree as high as they could, helping each other as they climbed. Still the water rose and rose until the island was all but gone.
A house owner noticed that the river was rising, he had been woken by the heavy rain, he looked out to see the island was almost under water, then he remembered he had seen two microlites land there last night making a lot of noise. He looked for traces of them, but through the semi-darkness he saw nothing. As he stared out through the now morning light, the light of day just breaking the horizon, he saw a dark shape where the island was, it was sticking up above the water. He knew from past times the river had risen so high that there was one tree that was the last to go under the water. Just than he thought he saw something moving out in the water. He stared into the ever increasing light of the morning. He could make out a shape out in the water, but it didn't look like the tree. He grabbed his binoculars and looked across the very high water that was now so high it was coming down in waves. As he picked out the tree he spotted two people, drenched and hanging on for dear life to the tree which was bending under under the pressure of the water trying to push it over and downstream.
He ram and picked up his mobile phone and dialled for help. Just then there was a cracking noise and a splash as the tree gave up its fight to stay upright. it bent over and sunk below the water taking with it the two people that was clinging to it branches for a last chance at life. But it was not to be and as it took the two people below the waves the old man heard one shout "Oh F***".
As they drowned in the water, the bald eagle that had been watching them came in the hope that they left something to eat rubbed its wings together at the thought of the feast of the two peoples bones tonight when they were washed up downstream, cold, lifeless, but above all, yummy!
Never again was there a noise in the skies above the river.
But wait, here comes a woman flying a microlite and a bright yellow microlight. As they come into land at a nearby Burger kink the pilot of the Bright Yellow microlite was heard to say "Oh, Vicky, I need a pee!"
FIN.
Nah, in real life it would be a EF5 tornado.
man ultralights are awesome
cold weather camping=no bugs=no bug spray
Very cool!
Nice video guys excuse my ignorance what the significant in calling the runway 1-8
Runways are numbered according to the first two digits of their magnetic bearing rounded to the nearest 10° - so a runway pointing to the south (or 180°) would be runway 18. The beach runs approximately North-South so we used the approximate direction to determine a made-up runway number for the beach.
@@mmatt thanks for clearing that up mate , look forward to watching more of your adventures
yeah, this vid earned a like... way too cool.
The flying Dorks for sure! 🍀👍🍺🍺🍺
Can you land on water saltwater fly low island land can ?
Saludos desde
Buenos Aires .
👍👍👍👍👍😷
I cant believe you guys didnt invite me! I mean I like Canadians😳
As long as there are brown bears you shouldn't have any casualties XD lol
Great vidoe. An absolutely fun way to have an adventure. I have a question though. Why couldn't you have put the camping stuff in the yellow plane and Curtis in your plane with you?
The Chinook (yellow plane) was completely full already with other camping stuff.
@@mmatt gotcha. It looked empty in the video. Love your videos, so Im going to watch some more now.
@@jamesparvana716 Awesome! Have fun! :-)
Beavers have such great visibility. Did the Bannock biscuits taste like chicken?
I want to fly my Challenger II up and hang out with you guys! Where are you kocated?
Woodstock, NB
@@mmatt Thats actually flyable for me. My buddy has a house in Maine on Grand Lake where we fish and hunt out of. Were in Houlton often.. Just need to have the border open up.
@@way2manyhobbies Oh wow, you are close. Nice! As soon as it opens, come on over! :-)
This is freakin awesome. Norhwest Canada? Is that guy serious with the FUBU shirt?
Hello guys a great greeting from Buenos Aires.
One question those fuel tanks of how many liters they are and what autonomy they reach.
👍👍👍👍😷
The fuel tanks hold 19 litres each so 38 total on the plane. That gives around 2 hours of flying time.
It’s foggy out! LOL
Matt. I remember you mentioning a navigation you use one time. But I can’t remember the name could you share that again?
I have used several over the years. I currently use FltPlanGo. It's kinda like a free version of ForeFlifht.
Who done this first. You or Tucker Gott ? The rock skipping and all lol
Check the upload dates... I think he copied me... (not really, he'd have no idea who I am...lol)
What helmet are you wearing ( with audio ? )
Do you like it ~ is it the one you’d recommend ?
I made it out of an old headset and a BMX bike helmet from Walmart... lol
@@mmatt I love it !
Google maps doesn't update often enough for accurate measurements of a river island's fluctuating dimensions.
Next time, go a day before with a weed wackier. Cool island. Got any other ultralight pilots in the area ?
Un sueño....💓💓
Did you have to research land ownership of that island prior to using it for landing and/or camping?
serious question, it just rained near you, are you not worried about the river rising and leaving you with a smaller runway or possibly washing your planes away?
The river is controlled by a dam just upstream. Water levels change very slowly over the course of days, not hours.