I’ve flown over 100 Young Eagles. If a YE is particularly keen I let them “steer” the airplane for a bit. One kid was particularly good. He had never been in a small plane but used MS Flight Simulator. He went on to become a pilot. An airline gave us a case of sick-sacks but I never had a kid need one. Flying YEs is one of the most gratifying things I ever did in aviation.
Funny, I took the controls on my flight back in the early 90's. And I flew a little extra because the pilot got us lost and had to figure out where the airport was to land. At least, that's what I thought. 30 years later I am now working on getting my license at that same airport, and I can't imagine getting lost now, unless he really wasn't local 😂
Back in the early 90s, my dad took me to a Young Eagles gathering at Nervino Airport north of the Tahoe area.... ... Sat in the right seat of a Piper Apache and i dont think i ever came down from that flight!...... fast forward 30 years and im now a 737 CA for a major US carrier...... Thanks Dad for taking me .... still remember it as one of the greatest experiences as a young teen...
@@rward883 Juan has mentioned this before. He was a teenager with a 65hp T Cart. On a hot sunny day at 5000' with a passenger, couldn't get it flying on take off. Everybody should learn to fly in a 65hp airplane in the mountains!
My first flight in a small plane was at EAA Chapter 32, Smartt Field. KSET, Young Eagles. I got to ride in a Piper Warrior. I didn't realize airplanes turn using bank and I got scared when we banked for the first time. That was 25 years ago. I ended up joining the chapter and volunteering on the ground at the chapters Young Eagle events until I left the area. Great memories!!
An EAA Young Eagles event nearly 30 years ago is how I got my first taste of general aviation and my love for flying. I was the oldest at 12, and got the fly with a CAF pilot and his T34B. I will never forget that, I still have the Polaroid!
Did my first flight in the early 90's with EAA1. Sadly, I didn't think it was any more than just a fun ride, I didn't ever give it any more thought. 30 years later, I'm working on my license.
Hey Juan, Been subscribed to your channel for a while. As a former Civil Air Patrol cadet, who had the privilege to fly why the Young Eagles as well, I want to extend a THANK YOU to you and all the other pilots who make those flights possible. My days in CAP and my interest in aviation are some of the most cherished memories I have of my childhood. I also had the privilege of volunteering for several years at the Watsonville and Salinas airshows. Some of the best times of my life! Keep on keepin on brother. God Bless 🙏 @blancolirio
Thank you very much for presenting this meritorious Action!👍 Btw.: Very nice to see the beautiful Spring Weather! Here in Germany we´ve a late winter now with frost and very ugly wind and rain.
Ahh! That looks like a smooth operation they got down there. 👍🏻 I gave a couple kids rides this morning and it’s quite rewarding to see the joy and excitement on their faces when they see their home town from the air!
Thanks to all of those pilots that participate in YE program. I've kept those memories from 9 years old and have been a part of the fuel for my love of aviation.
Love Young Eagles! My son had his first flight at 9 years old in a Navion with Young Eagles, and another at around 16. He's now 24 and a line check captain with a regional airline flying Embraer jets.
My love for aviation goes back to when I was maybe 3. Two of my three kids have been on Young Eagles flights. My son will be graduating two weeks from today with his degree in aviation. I can't thank this prgrasm enough. I truly hope some day he will pay his experiences forward.
We were flying YE in Auburn today too. Perfect weather. One of my favorite things to do in aviation. We pilots have the easy part. All the wonderful volunteers and organizers make it happen. 😃☀️✈️
Great program, I took my kids to a flight, my daughter flew in a nice 172, and my son had a chance to fly in a beautiful v-tail bonanza but he didn’t want to! I guess it wasn’t his thing, but I wished I was 10 years old so I could have flown!
That is fantastic. My mother took me to Buchanan Field in Concord, where they had a program for a penny a pound. You got to fly in a light plane. This was in the 1960s.
This sounds like a wonderful program. I grew up on the other side of the hill from a small field in northern NJ, and we had small planes directly overhead all the time--I suspect they used something right by us as a signpost. I would have loved something like Young Eagles.
Flew in one of these exact meets out of Stockton, Ca airport back in 99’. The guy took me and my dad up in a Cessna 172. At the time I was really into flight simulators, I was talking instruments(ILS, VOR, NDB, glideslopes, flight paths, etc.) with the pilot, so the guy let me take the plane from about 800ft, climbed to 1500. And then handled the descent to Lodi airport. We did a touch and go, and back to Stockton. Was amazing. I still to this day couldn’t believe it was totally free. They asked for not one dime. Great experience.
That's Fantastic, I would say the Future of Pilots, Both Military and Commercial Aviation Wise is hopefully looking good. These Children are the Future, Getting a Mind Set Now could be Life Altering for So Many Young People to Aim for something in College And not End Up in Anywhere Land and in Possible Trouble or other like Problem Situations Etc. Great Concept and Great Idea to Put it on Your Posts. Regards.
Hey Juan. Welcome again to Columbia. I live in Jamestown and this is my home airport which I love. From my location I am able to the see incoming and outgoing aircraft in the pattern. I also have Flightradar24 so I keep close track of everyone. Amazing how many private jets are in and out of this airport which i think is 4800’. I keep missing you at these functions. Didn’t know this was going on this weekend. I hope I’ll have a chance to meet you one day. Hopefully I’ll see you at Columbia Fly in. Thanks for all the good coverage.
Memories from late 70s . Used to fly my Cessna 140 from Lancaster Fox Field to visit the old state park ghost town of Columbia. I see the area hasn’t changed much.
I'm presuming any food served is provided post flight. A university friend and I went for a flight (his first ever) with another friend, a fairly new pilot building his hours, (this many years ago - 80's) in a club airplane I think he had just joined - I volunteered to do the initial post flight cleanup and [essential] detailing while the pilot and our friend recovered from the inflight abruptly curtailed and in plane precipitation event.
Adding this - relative [to] a comments mentioning 'sick sacks', I had brought a few bags in a coat pocket but all three of us were looking through windows at the ground. horizon and sky - when perhaps I should have been watching my passenger friend to catch the early moments when his face started changing color, I got a bag out but to no good use.
This might seem off topic, but I assure you it is not. Juan, do you happen to hold an amature radio license? I am not a pilot, but l do run several nets a week and I have always been fascinated with airplanes. Listening to aircraft and ATC I can tell who has a radio license. The cadence is discernible. Anyway, love your channel. Kirk KB7QOD. 73.
@@bananaman2711 Go to Juan's home page. You will (I hope) see a line that is clickable that says something like "blancolirio store and two other links". Click on the "and two other links" part, which will display the About page. Scroll down the About page until you see Request email address.
I see that the kids in this video, and in other Young Eagles videos, are predominately girls. Boys naturally gravitate towards aviation and it is odd to see boys as the minority in these videos about Young Eagles.
Our Young Eagles event yesterday at Columbia was about 70% boys and 30% girls. We are thrilled to have as many kids of either variety to introduce them to General Aviation.
@@johnwilliams2768 - I'm sure there are Young Eagles events that are not mostly girls. I would attribute that to the organizers of each event. I am favor of getting as many kids involved as possible regardless of their gender. I am not in favor of filling most every seat with a girl just because an event organizer wants to see more girls.
Actually the Pine Mountain Lake chapter has members from both PML and Columbia. We do Young Eagles events at both fields. Both fields by the way are owned by Tuolumne County.
@thomfult7956 “Factually” that poster was making the point that our EAA chapter achieved the milestone of 1,000 flights provided October 2022 at Pine Mt Lake. Sorry you missed that.
I've been uncomfortable with Young Eagles since a convicted child molester who cannot have contact with children was organizing YE events and EAA and the chapter seemed OK with it. Some of the local chapter folks attacked people like me who said they needed to pause and figure things out. No judgement. Safety really should be #1. I lost alot of respect for EAA because of that.
@@markbanks3319I can assure you that is not the case at every Young Eagles event. I attended an EAA BBQ last fall that was preceded by a YE event. The organizer didn't know who several of the pilots were who had just shown up from out of the area. The flights didn't follow a set route. There was no ground organization or safety protocol. I'll take credit for advocating for risk management (CYA) being implemented by EAA even though it's not followed by local chapters. And I saw (and saved) Juan's attack on me for speaking up before he deleted it. I am a member of EAA and I did get off the sidelines and do something. Apologies are accepted. 🤝
Juan, I am still angry with you. Your comments towards Rebuild Rescue and Sam's death were uncalled for. Constructive criticism is one thing, but your comments were over the top abusive and uncalled for. This is not how to build enthusiasm and a love for aviation.
I’ve flown over 100 Young Eagles. If a YE is particularly keen I let them “steer” the airplane for a bit. One kid was particularly good. He had never been in a small plane but used MS Flight Simulator. He went on to become a pilot. An airline gave us a case of sick-sacks but I never had a kid need one. Flying YEs is one of the most gratifying things I ever did in aviation.
Funny, I took the controls on my flight back in the early 90's. And I flew a little extra because the pilot got us lost and had to figure out where the airport was to land.
At least, that's what I thought. 30 years later I am now working on getting my license at that same airport, and I can't imagine getting lost now, unless he really wasn't local 😂
Flying Young Eagles has been one of the most rewarding events I've been involved with in our EAA chapter.
THANK YOU for being a part of this 😎
Back in the early 90s, my dad took me to a Young Eagles gathering at Nervino Airport north of the Tahoe area.... ... Sat in the right seat of a Piper Apache and i dont think i ever came down from that flight!...... fast forward 30 years and im now a 737 CA for a major US carrier...... Thanks Dad for taking me .... still remember it as one of the greatest experiences as a young teen...
Juan crashed at that airport!
@michaelsamson3276 Oh really? Didn't know that..... sounds like JB needs to spill the beans on that experience 😀
Yes I'd like to hear about that too hehe
@@rward883 Juan has mentioned this before. He was a teenager with a 65hp T Cart. On a hot sunny day at 5000' with a passenger, couldn't get it flying on take off. Everybody should learn to fly in a 65hp airplane in the mountains!
My first flight in a small plane was at EAA Chapter 32, Smartt Field. KSET, Young Eagles. I got to ride in a Piper Warrior. I didn't realize airplanes turn using bank and I got scared when we banked for the first time. That was 25 years ago. I ended up joining the chapter and volunteering on the ground at the chapters Young Eagle events until I left the area. Great memories!!
An EAA Young Eagles event nearly 30 years ago is how I got my first taste of general aviation and my love for flying. I was the oldest at 12, and got the fly with a CAF pilot and his T34B. I will never forget that, I still have the Polaroid!
That's cool! A T34! Far out.
Did my first flight in the early 90's with EAA1. Sadly, I didn't think it was any more than just a fun ride, I didn't ever give it any more thought.
30 years later, I'm working on my license.
Hey Juan,
Been subscribed to your channel for a while. As a former Civil Air Patrol cadet, who had the privilege to fly why the Young Eagles as well, I want to extend a THANK YOU to you and all the other pilots who make those flights possible.
My days in CAP and my interest in aviation are some of the most cherished memories I have of my childhood. I also had the privilege of volunteering for several years at the Watsonville and Salinas airshows. Some of the best times of my life!
Keep on keepin on brother. God Bless 🙏
@blancolirio
Thank you very much for presenting this meritorious Action!👍 Btw.: Very nice to see the beautiful Spring Weather! Here in Germany we´ve a late winter now with frost and very ugly wind and rain.
Ahh! That looks like a smooth operation they got down there. 👍🏻
I gave a couple kids rides this morning and it’s quite rewarding to see the joy and excitement on their faces when they see their home town from the air!
THANK YOU for what you do 😎
Thanks to all of those pilots that participate in YE program. I've kept those memories from 9 years old and have been a part of the fuel for my love of aviation.
EAA 677 in Columbus, GA has flown thousands of kids in our monthly Young Eagles rallies. It’s a great program.
Love Young Eagles! My son had his first flight at 9 years old in a Navion with Young Eagles, and another at around 16. He's now 24 and a line check captain with a regional airline flying Embraer jets.
My love for aviation goes back to when I was maybe 3. Two of my three kids have been on Young Eagles flights. My son will be graduating two weeks from today with his degree in aviation. I can't thank this prgrasm enough. I truly hope some day he will pay his experiences forward.
We were flying YE in Auburn today too. Perfect weather. One of my favorite things to do in aviation. We pilots have the easy part. All the wonderful volunteers and organizers make it happen. 😃☀️✈️
Great video my friend! Cheers to the EAA & Young Eagles it exposed me to aviation! 🦅 😊
Great to see the support for the next generation of aviators. Big thanks to Juan for doing more than his part in the effort as well.
Great program, I took my kids to a flight, my daughter flew in a nice 172, and my son had a chance to fly in a beautiful v-tail bonanza but he didn’t want to! I guess it wasn’t his thing, but I wished I was 10 years old so I could have flown!
What a fantastic program. Thanks to everyone that helps with it 🎸
Thanks for shining another bright light on Gen Av. Keep up the great work!
Outstanding!!!
Keep up the great work.
That is fantastic. My mother took me to Buchanan Field in Concord, where they had a program for a penny a pound. You got to fly in a light plane. This was in the 1960s.
This program or a similar one got me into aviation years and years ago. Love that it’s still happening!
This sounds like a wonderful program. I grew up on the other side of the hill from a small field in northern NJ, and we had small planes directly overhead all the time--I suspect they used something right by us as a signpost. I would have loved something like Young Eagles.
One of my favorite things to do, give YE rides.
Wow, what a great program for kids and a way for pilots to give back to aviation.
Looks like a nice day. Good to share like that with the kids. Couldn't have asked for a nicer Spring day. Thanks for sharing.
Great to see you and the Waco at O22 today. Thanks for the video Juan!
Hey Mark! Great job!
Great program. Good people.
That's a great program. Wish it were around when I was a kid.
That sounds like a great program. Love hearing about this.
Nice to see Columbia airport again. Used to visit friends there who were attending the Luscombe fly in.
Future fighter pilots Globemaster pilots, NASA astronauts. ❤️❤️❤️
Sounds like an awesome program!
A great idea to introduce young people to aviation.
Flew in one of these exact meets out of Stockton, Ca airport back in 99’. The guy took me and my dad up in a Cessna 172. At the time I was really into flight simulators, I was talking instruments(ILS, VOR, NDB, glideslopes, flight paths, etc.) with the pilot, so the guy let me take the plane from about 800ft, climbed to 1500. And then handled the descent to Lodi airport. We did a touch and go, and back to Stockton. Was amazing. I still to this day couldn’t believe it was totally free. They asked for not one dime. Great experience.
How fun for them and a good way to keep getting pilots in the pipeline. Columbia and sarsaparilla.
Cool you posted this glad you did. We need more stuff like this!
Nice airport. I used to fly up there from SoCal, walk into town and buy fresh honeycomb
That's Fantastic, I would say the Future of Pilots, Both Military and Commercial Aviation Wise is hopefully looking good.
These Children are the Future, Getting a Mind Set Now could be Life Altering for So Many Young People to Aim for something in College And not End Up in Anywhere Land and in Possible Trouble or other like Problem Situations Etc.
Great Concept and Great Idea to Put it on Your Posts.
Regards.
this would have made my day as a kid.
Hey Juan. Welcome again to Columbia. I live in Jamestown and this is my home airport which I love. From my location I am able to the see incoming and outgoing aircraft in the pattern. I also have Flightradar24 so I keep close track of everyone. Amazing how many private jets are in and out of this airport which i think is 4800’. I keep missing you at these functions. Didn’t know this was going on this weekend. I hope I’ll have a chance to meet you one day. Hopefully I’ll see you at Columbia Fly in. Thanks for all the good coverage.
Memories from late 70s . Used to fly my Cessna 140 from Lancaster Fox Field to visit the old state park ghost town of Columbia. I see the area hasn’t changed much.
Awsome thing!
Thank you, keep working.
Outstanding Juan!
Give Ken Cobb a handshake for me
I would absolutely LOVE to see a video of the kids actually experiencing this! Not dxpecting (but hoping).
I was hoping to see them fly, will you do a vid and upload on your channel? Thanks Capt. Juan.
awesome!
Sweet!
Very cool!
I'm presuming any food served is provided post flight. A university friend and I went for a flight (his first ever) with another friend, a fairly new pilot building his hours, (this many years ago - 80's) in a club airplane I think he had just joined - I volunteered to do the initial post flight cleanup and [essential] detailing while the pilot and our friend recovered from the inflight abruptly curtailed and in plane precipitation event.
Adding this - relative [to] a comments mentioning 'sick sacks', I had brought a few bags in a coat pocket but all three of us were looking through windows at the ground. horizon and sky - when perhaps I should have been watching my passenger friend to catch the early moments when his face started changing color, I got a bag out but to no good use.
The dreaded "reincarnation of breakfast"......
That's SO COOL!!!
This hilarious considering when I grew up in the 1960S.
Is the campground still out there in Columbia?
Say hi to Ken Cobb for me, if he is there!
Juan,
Please comment on the UAL charter flight Colorado Rockies with 'vistors' in cockpit.
Paul (in MA)
That clip is wild...
This might seem off topic, but I assure you it is not. Juan, do you happen to hold an amature radio license? I am not a pilot, but l do run several nets a week and I have always been fascinated with airplanes. Listening to aircraft and ATC I can tell who has a radio license. The cadence is discernible. Anyway, love your channel. Kirk KB7QOD. 73.
I was working on when I was a kid. Hung out with Hams.
I heard An-2 has "no stall speed".
I imagine, it can't land like a parachute ...
Can you adress this item sometime, please?
Cool Juan. Weather here in N.C. has been pretty nice lately. This seems like a really cool event. Nice video in support of aviation.
All the aircraft you own,, why are you not one of the eight!
Heck, put all your aircraft up for a chance...
👋👋👏👏🙏👍🇦🇺
Any riding trips in the future
Yes! Ca,Ore,NV tour 1 June...stay tuned...
@@blancolirio fantastic
Will you make a video about the cirrus crash in Paso Robles with three people?
Links?
@@blancolirioRUclips won’t let me send a link but the article is under KSBY news
@@bananaman2711 Go to Juan's home page. You will (I hope) see a line that is clickable that says something like "blancolirio store and two other links". Click on the "and two other links" part, which will display the About page. Scroll down the About page until you see Request email address.
Stall c paramotor
Let guard down thats it
His reserve couldnt save him
Juane discuss this
Stalls 500 ft and under
Hi Juan, are you aware of the 738 FlySafair plane who lost a maingear wheel on take-off at JNB?
Juan do a discussion of
A
Winds i. Husky bonanza
B
This outfit
Should he have a ballistic chute
l33t club name there :)
I see that the kids in this video, and in other Young Eagles videos, are predominately girls. Boys naturally gravitate towards aviation and it is odd to see boys as the minority in these videos about Young Eagles.
Our Young Eagles event yesterday at Columbia was about 70% boys and 30% girls. We are thrilled to have as many kids of either variety to introduce them to General Aviation.
@@johnwilliams2768 - I'm sure there are Young Eagles events that are not mostly girls. I would attribute that to the organizers of each event. I am favor of getting as many kids involved as possible regardless of their gender. I am not in favor of filling most every seat with a girl just because an event organizer wants to see more girls.
Pine Mountain Lake is not Columbia!
The banner was repurposed from a previous YE event. This EAA chapter has members at both airports and holds YE events at each one.
Yer missing the point...entirely...lol
Actually the Pine Mountain Lake chapter has members from both PML and Columbia. We do Young Eagles events at both fields. Both fields by the way are owned by Tuolumne County.
@@blancolirio No just being factual not alternative factual!
@thomfult7956 “Factually” that poster was making the point that our EAA chapter achieved the milestone of 1,000 flights provided October 2022 at Pine Mt Lake. Sorry you missed that.
I've been uncomfortable with Young Eagles since a convicted child molester who cannot have contact with children was organizing YE events and EAA and the chapter seemed OK with it. Some of the local chapter folks attacked people like me who said they needed to pause and figure things out. No judgement. Safety really should be #1. I lost alot of respect for EAA because of that.
EAA has implemented a course that is required for volunteers and it also includes a background check. You can’t participate until both are complete.
@@markbanks3319I can assure you that is not the case at every Young Eagles event. I attended an EAA BBQ last fall that was preceded by a YE event. The organizer didn't know who several of the pilots were who had just shown up from out of the area. The flights didn't follow a set route. There was no ground organization or safety protocol. I'll take credit for advocating for risk management (CYA) being implemented by EAA even though it's not followed by local chapters. And I saw (and saved) Juan's attack on me for speaking up before he deleted it. I am a member of EAA and I did get off the sidelines and do something. Apologies are accepted. 🤝
Juan, I am still angry with you. Your comments towards Rebuild Rescue and Sam's death were uncalled for. Constructive criticism is one thing, but your comments were over the top abusive and uncalled for. This is not how to build enthusiasm and a love for aviation.
The FAA is scrutinizing that operation very closely. Jason is STILL not doing it right. No ratings, no license. I would steer clear.