Helicopter Flight: Nick Over the Rocks Part 7
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- COME FLY WITH ME as I finish up my hour+ flight with Central Washington University geology professor and star of "Nick on the Rocks" (and "Nick at Home") Nick Zentner on a helicopter tour of the Columbia River Valley downriver from Wenatchee, WA. This is the seventh part of our second flight together and we start just downriver from Wanapum Dam and head upriver, making our way back to Wenatchee. Along the way, we make a detour up Rock Island Creek and over Badger Mountain before landing at the airport. The nosecam footage is stunning and Nick points out many geological features along the way. This is the last (and longest) part of a multi-part series.
Note: In parts of this video, you'll hear Nick and I talking about unreliable video cameras. That's because of the camera failure I had on my first flight with Nick, which you can see for yourself in Part 2.
Places mentioned in this video:
- Wanapum Dam and Lake
- Sunrise Highway
- Frenchman's Coulee
- Gorge Amphitheater
- Mouth of Lower Moses Coulee
- Rock Island Dam
- Rock Island Creek
- Badger Mountain
- Pangborn Bar
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- I have been flying for about 20 years. My 4,000 hours of flight time is in Robinson R44, Robinson R22, and Bell 206L (Long Ranger) helicopters.
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About Nick Zentner
- Nick has an MS in Geology and has been teaching at Central Washington University since 1992.
- In 2015, Nick received the prestigious James Shea Award, a national award recognizing exceptional delivery of Earth Science to the general public.
- You can learn more about Nick on his website: www.nickzentner...
- You can watch Nick on the Rocks episodes here: • Nick on the Rocks
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- The video was recorded with a pair of GoPro Hero 7 cameras (amzn.to/2Lxyzwl), one of which was connected to the helicopter's intercom system with an NFlightCam audio cable (amzn.to/31syLTm). Both cameras record audio, but I dialed down the helicopter sound to about 25% of normal volume so it wouldn't be annoying.
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Nick is a national treasure, and a great embassador for Washington state. I live in Ontario Canada and plan on coming out to see some of this great geology I have learned from Nicks youtube channel. Thanks for bringing us along on this flight.
I'm a Nick fan and fell upon these today and did binge watch them all at once, so long videos double yea! Beautiful flying, beautiful country, beautiful company! Thanks for inviting Nick along! And us!
So good - please do more like this - very excellent!
Love it. Always look forward to your rock shows with nick
Excellent video!!
An impressive set of videos flying above terrains Nick lectures involve along the Columbia River. Watched all seven
parts and it did not dissapoint me. Thanks Maria, so very much.
Incredible! I've been following Nick for awhile and he recently mentioned this channel and I am not disappointed.
I so enjoy your flights with Nick. You’re two of my favorite folks to watch. I’m a geologist (BSc WSU ‘78, MSc UIUC ‘85) who teaches high school math and science these days so had been following Nick’s lectures for some time. Then I found your videos. You two together are a real treat. Keep doing them. Coincidently, my wife is from Waterville and her family farm was on the northwest flank of Badger Mountain, about 5 miles south of Waterville. Terri’s Mom lives in town now and we were there just last week. When I got home I found this video! It was such a treat to see the top of Badger Mountain-also the Rock Island grade, which we have driven a couple times since our wedding in 1980.
That's one of my favorite local flights: going up Rock Island Creek. Did you see the one I shot last autumn? (Did I tell you about it already?) ruclips.net/video/LFNqssG79L8/видео.html
@@FlyingMAir Thanks, I'm sure I watched it but I'll go back and check it out again.
Just so Maria knows, it was extremely easy to watch all seven videos in this series in one sitting! There's no such thing as a flight that lasts too long. And there's no such thing as too much information about geology of the PNW. Both of you were informative and enjoyable to watch and listen to. Your flights were a dream come true. I grew up in Cashmere and worked for Cascade Helicopters. But I never got the chance to fly with geology in mind or just to see the area in general. You've flown over so many of those places that I've always wanted to see and you've answered so many of the questions I've had for years and years about how these odd formations have come to be. Many heart felt thanks for the hours and dollars you've spent making my evening so wonderful.
Well done, Maria and Nick. Some impressive geology in your area.
Amazing....thanks Maria,Nick.
Oh man! Am I envious!
These are Fantastic! Thank You!
Please coordinate with Nick to do more, maybe ask him what might be fascinating to see from these vantage points and being able to articulate around to see things from different angles.
He is a Sucker for perfect lighting, and I bet the gravel bars out by your place would be one of the big ones on his list to show it at just the right moment to reveal the patterning and contours at just the right positions to show its immense scale and likeness to ripples in sand.
I'd love to do more with Nick, but I'm not budgeted for it. The helicopter costs hundreds of dollars per hour to fly. At this point, I'm only making videos on revenue flights. Sorry!
Fantastic tour with Nick! Thank you!
stunning scenery and excellent video. nice work. 👍👍
Nice flyover over the Dam and River view and History!
Very enjoyable video. It's always a pleasure to see and learn about the geology of Washington state and hear the dialog between you and Nick.
Excellent video once again. So fascinating and informative. You and Nick are the best!
Rock Island Creek segment especially great!
I shot this a month later when the trees were in autumn color. ruclips.net/video/LFNqssG79L8/видео.html
Absolutely stunning Maria, I cannot think of a superlative that would adequately describe that scenery. Having never visited the area I find it so so interesting. Thank you so much for bringing these videos to us and to Nick for the amazing commentary. 👍👍👍👍👍
More great stuff Maria (and Nick) thanks a lot. :)
And yes - I always learn something new, even if I am an old fella!
Brilliant video Maria, thanks.
Fantastic group of videos. So much fun to watch.
Dang... I could have sworn I had seen all of Nick's video. Seems I was wrong thankfully.
Thanks for this!
There are 7 in this series. I hope you look up the rest of them, too!
Wonderful video. Thank you.
Great series of flights, really picturesque area..the Columbia River steals the show!
Thanks! The river is great. And that was a perfect day for the flight.
been across that bridge many-many times with loads, never had the time to stop.
Excellent video
Ugh -- if only it weren't so damned expensive to operate, I'd push for you and Nick to go to LOTS of places near and _in_ the Cascades that only the most seasoned climber could reach, just to tell more stories from a different vantage point of how and when this landscape came to be. You both are doing a great service and I hope _your_ fans get a bunch out of these geology excursions, and maybe Nick can run these vids in his Geo 101 classes and add it to his pedagogical resumé.
Help Nick get some sponsors.
Enjoyed it.
Outstanding
wowza wowza great sights
Great video and very interesting
If we had that 360 cam, we could be looking all over the place. At least turn to your interest stop the vid. Take your time and see the sights. 👍🙌 You HAVE to bring Nick back for more pleasure rides. 🤣
Missing the channel, hope you do more flights with Nick.👍
Amazing video
Love from india
Bangalore
Right when Nick says atta girl, in the left foreground, there is a cone of gravel and it reminds me of cavediving because l would see the same formation in silt at junctions. 32:50-32:56.
My time slot is way off! And 30 minutes with you guys seems like 5.
Very nice flight except for one thing ... "There's a lot of cows down there" ... me not seeing a single cow!
So jealous, wish I could fly there, it can be such a joy killer flying in the UK sometimes, I want to come to America ! 🙂
Love the videos. I think the bug has bitten me. I have been on three flights in a R22 and i am going to enroll in the school to further my education. Have so many questions for you on flying and doing the fun stuff you are doing.
would love to see the teanaway basalts
The rock ovens are along the railroad grade.
www.bigbendrailroadhistory.com/2008/07/great-northern-between-quincy-and.html
Awesome stuff. Do you ever land at those abandoned houses to peek inside?
Not yet. 😉
Eratics?
At 2845 there is a "lump " in the middle of a mown hay-field. It is bigger and darker than the bales and the tracks of the tractors go around it.
Or am I reading too much into it?
GREAT video, by the way.
Yes, probably. There are a lot of them in the area.
More on the Spanish Castle can be seen here:
www.bigbendrailroadhistory.com/2013/02/spanish-castle.html
We need to teach Nick how to fly then get him a whirly bird!
Yeah. That makes a lot more sense than just chipping in to help him pay an experienced pilot he’s already flown with who has a helicopter. 🙄
At least he could hangout at spots of interest instead of passing them at 90 knots.
Who says I can't? But here's a news flash: it costs just as much to hover/circle/fly slow as it does to cruise at 90 knots.
You flew beautifully please have more cameras so we dont have the close up of his hand and your not depended on one camera that might die at any moment. Other than that, great airmenship on your part.
I want to come and visit you. I'll be in Wenatchee Friday evening for work. What is $ to go fly and enjoy geology FlyingMAir?