Helicopter Flight: Nick Over the Rocks, Part 5
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- COME FLY WITH ME as I take Central Washington University geology professor and star of "Nick on the Rocks" Nick Zentner on a helicopter tour of the Columbia River Valley downriver from Wenatchee, WA. This is the third part of our second flight together and we start not far from the mouth of Potholes Coulee and Quincy Lakes and head south almost as far as Vantage. The nosecam footage is amazing and Nick points out many geological features along the way. This is part 5 of a multi-part series.
Note: In Parts, 3, 4, 5 and beyond 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:
- Babcock Bench washington.hom...
- Potholes Coulee
- The Gorge Amphitheater
- Cave B Inn and Winery
- Frenchman's Coulee
- Petrified Forest
About Me and the Helicopter
- I have been flying since 1998. My nearly 4,000 hours of flight time (as of 2019) is in Robinson R44, Robinson R22, and Bell 206L (Long Ranger) helicopters.
- My helicopter is a 2005 Robinson R44 Raven II -- the same one that appears in the photo at the beginning of the video. You can learn more about them here: robinsonheli.c... I own this helicopter. It is the third helicopter I've owned since 2000.
- My helicopter has ADS-B Out and is picked up by radar facilities. You can see my track for recent flights on Flightradar24: www.flightrada... This is a great site for tracking any almost any flight, including the airlines.
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
About the Video
- 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.
- The video was edited on a Macintosh using Screenflow software. Learn more about it here: www.telestream...
- The intro music is by Bob Levitus, famed "Dr. Mac." You can find him here: www.boblevitus....
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The enthusiasm that Prof. Nick has for Washington geology is on display and infectious (not that kind). I was born and raised in Sunnyslope, so if it is in the cards for 2020, please head back up the Columbia and Wenatchee River Valleys. (Our orchards were at the mouth of Warm Springs Canyon.) Nobody can get the many wonders of Eastern Washington geology across like Nick in a Copter with your expert piloting.
Wonderful video!! I would leave all of the video in !! It's great to see that area a few times to be able to check out the terrain!! And I love it when Nick gets all excited!!😊😊😊
LOL. He gets VERY excited. You should see what's coming up in Part 6 (I think). There's a formation on Saddle Mountain that he's really excited about because I could take him closer than he'd ever been to it.
I love watching your videos, their very relaxing to view the scenery.
Loved it. Fantastic landscape n scenery. Dialogue was most informative..! Another great production. Thank you for all your efforts given.
A fabulous video and lovely to tag along for the ride. Thanks Maria, great video as always
Wow, endless beauty of nature, excellent captured, thanks for showing.
What a genius way to talk/show geologic features! This was so fun to watch :D
The perspective from a helicopter of these geologic features is awesome, much better idea of the scale of it all. HUGE!
And that nose cam makes you feel like you're about to run into the edges of those cliffs 🤣 Exhilarating!!
Yeah! I noticed I got VERY close in a few spots. Sure wish I had a camera mounted on the skids.
Another super great vid just love the land scape. Great floods and lava flows very interesting can't wait tell part 6
What a wonderful video, so glad that I’ve found your channel. Love from the UK.
Thanks!
Yet another terrific video! Keep flying!
thanks for buzzing the vertical petrified tree; a trip out to land and do some close-in stills would be nice
/ really like the geology of the area; very interesting
Any friend of Nick is a friend of mine, and great video, lovely footage.
I hope I get a chance to fly with Nick again one day.
I share Nick's concern with vandals - as soon as I saw the _star attraction;_ I recalled an incident, a few years back smh-
Anyway, another great video @Maria and; Nick's enthusiasm with geological process and history, brings dormant interests to the surface, again. Cheers-
Skimming those rugged rocks is exhilarating! Absolutely breathtaking views. I want to see more in the future so please continue to take care!
LOVE THE "NICK ABOVE THE ROCKS" SERIES YOU GOT GOING HERE. PLEASE MAKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN, AND LOVE ALL THE RIVER SHOTS AND THE HIDDEN LAKES. GREAT WORK MARIA AND NICK.
with these video's with Nick, I have learned a lot about the formation in eastern Washington.
The diagonal look, to me, would be/could be caused as the result of the columns not really being connected, so as they are exposed to time, and weather, they come apart where-ever they are the weakest/receive the most exposure to the elements ! This would be the only way they could 'fall', as that's where their divisions are. In contrast, those areas where material is just piled, as it was laid down, falls downward in a mass, such as in a mudslide, etc.
Thank you both. (It'd have been seeing the petrified log from closer up... Hovering?)
Wow, wow, wow, wow wow!
Hi Maria. Love your channel. Found it by following a Nick Zentner search. Thanks for posting your videos. I too am a pilot, but of fixed wing and ultralight aircraft. You POV reminds me of flying my ultralight. Really enjoyed the Nick Over The Rocks series. Subscribed.
I have a few more Nick videos to edit and release. Two or three of them, I think. I'll get to them eventually.
Thank you for the geological joy flight..
.. the commentary was great...
The stuff I learned from you both on previous vids made this one all the more incredible...
Beautiful flight Maria, like the low flying!.. thanks for sharing!
gorgeous and super informative - some of the best views of those "crinkle cut" columns out there
If I had to make a guess on pinch and swell in those rocks it would be gravitational. I don't know how fast a lava flows are but I guess it's the molten tide effect from the Moon as the lava flow travels I could be completely wrong...
How did I miss this 👍
It's possible that the unusual variations in the columns are a result of being modulated by long sustained seismic vibrations during the cooling process.
Ahh - had been anticipating this episode. More super scenery and further erudite info from Nick.
So many fascinating features... too many to mention individually. Look fwd to more! Thanks again Maria. :)
Great to see at ground level too, wonderful area to take a geologic excursion. I’m surprised you haven’t been contacted by National Geographic to make a show.
Superb geological tour guys and particularly interesting for someone who has never visited the region previously. The landscapes are amazing from the air 👍
Love these geo vids. Thinking about bringing our gimbal up there.
Great video, Maria! Makes me miss living in East Wenatchee and exploring by ground. I'm a geocacher and I've hiked the majority of the areas you've over-flown. In reference to your southwesterly flyby of Potholes Coulie into Ancient Lakes: there are 2 natural bridges at N47 09.017 W119 58.889. Two of them in one spot. Huge arches about 20 to 30 feet high. I'm sure you can see them from the air. Tons of geocaches down there.
Thank you for spending your time and money doing this. -- Antoine AKA Winos_Seattle
I'll try to look for those next time I'm flying in that area. It won't be until next summer, though.
When I see the crinkle cuts, I keep thinking that maybe heat expands the column upward and cooling drops the cut down, and each time the "down" event happens, the column shrinks a bit and creates the lines.
I LUVE THESE VIDS!
At 9:37, your 'columns', are they the same as those in the 'Giant's Causeway' ( in another part of the world ) as that's what they appear to be, to me !
The basalt columns at Giants Causeway are of the hexagonal variety that have already been scientifically explained. The columns visible at the timestamp you linked are different in that they have the wavy "crinkle cut fry" look to them that is very unique and currently *unexplained* by science.
15:48 Can you push a button on one of your instruments or hand held device and mark the exact latitude/longitude location of the petrified log?
I've got a response: I found a geocache that was about 0.2 miles to the west. N46 59.169 W120 00.960.
@@Winos_Seattle Honestly it should probably be kept a secret. There's a lot of assholes out there that would try and take pieces of the log away for mementos...
Rosa Flow, is that the weird one, I think the flow was cooling then the ground hopped or slapped from below maybe during tremors or in a single caldera burp that left a giant hammer effect like wave of energy in curves and way it breaks apart.
Great view of those basalt columns, the Giant's Causeway in N. Ireland is not unique! Hard to see those wires - you look for the towers, I suppose?
I'm always looking for wires when I fly below 500 feet. Towers are the best indicator but not always easy to spot. (We're trained to fly over towers because wires can't be above towers.) I happen to know this area very well so I've got all the wires mentally catalogued.
@@FlyingMAir Just as well, it must be much more difficult in poor weather, thanks!
6:31 - 6.45 What is the area on the left that appears to be a landslide into the water?
Its just like Devels tower in wyoming.
Same kind of formation. Columnar basalt.
Great videos of these geologic features, ONE Question , I've not seen you slow down & hover over any of the spots so far that NICK has commented on, Why is that? I'm not a chopper expert, it may be it's not capable or weather related. Not complaining just wondered
Nick never asked me to.
What exactly are you saying when you make area traffic reports? I seem to miss some of the words and their meaning.
9:18 My computer screen shows the horizon on the upper right and lower left corners. Does this mean you are banking at a 45 degree angle?
The angle is closer to 25-30 degrees. It would be 45 if your screen was perfectly square.
Actually, I'd be banking at 90° if the horizon was top to bottom, cutting the image into two squares (rectangles). I could be about 45° at 9:18. It's a shame my instruments aren't in that shot; I have an instrument that would tell us exactly what the bank angle is.
@@FlyingMAir Can you bank a helicopter at 45 degrees or greater?
@@oscarmedina1303 My laptop screen is rectangular, not square. I see now that a square and a rectangle produce different angles when measuring diagonal corner to corners. The wider the rectangle, the lower the angle. The taller the rectangle, the steeper the angle.
@@sanfranciscobay - Yes. Now you've got it.
do you think you could keep the audio channel in stereo? Listening with headphones kinda gives you a headache when the voices are all coming out of the level channel
What a huge, empty area. I'm not worrying about over-population any more.