Helicopter Flight Up the Salt River
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Here's a cockpit POV view looking out the front window between me and my buddy Woody as we flew from Falcon Field (FFZ) in Mesa, AZ all the way up the Salt River to Roosevelt Lake. The cockpit intercom audio did not record [insert eye roll emoji here] so I wound up narrating it in the editing process
I want to give a HUGE shout out to the channel members and Patreon patrons who made this flight possible -- I had to rent this helicopter to do the flight and make the video.
You can see Woody in a tour of a King Air airplane in this video: • Super King Air A100 Wa...
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About Me and the Helicopter
- I have been flying for about 20 years. My nearly 4,000 hours of flight time is in Robinson R44, Robinson R22, and Bell 206L (Long Ranger) helicopters.
- This helicopter, which is not mine, is a Robinson R44 Raven II. You can learn more about them here: robinsonheli.c... I rented this helicopter for the sole purpose of creating this video for channel members, patrons, and subscribers.
About the Video
- For this flight, I set up a pair of GoPro Hero 7 cameras (amzn.to/2Lxyzwl) and a GoPro Hero 8 camera (amzn.to/38GyrWO). One of the Hero 7s should have been connected to the helicopter's intercom system with an NFlightCam audio cable (amzn.to/31syLTm) but I messed up and apparently didn't connect it correctly. The Hero 8, on the nose, did not record because of operator error. So all this video is from one Hero 7. I dialed down the helicopter sound by 10 decibels so it wouldn't be annoying.
- All cameras should record audio, but for this video I added a narration in the edit stage and dialed down the helicopter sound so you can hear it.
- The "cockpit cam" front-facing camera was mounted with my current Instrument Cam set up, which you can learn about in this Behind-the-Scenes video: • Behind the Scenes: Coc... . It's based upon a MyPilotPro Helicopter Mount (mypilotpro.com...) modified to get the height I need. The rear facing camera was mounted on the cockpit bubble with a MyPilotPro Spider Swivel GoPro Windshield Mount (www.mypilotpro.... The "nose cam" camera is mounted with a proprietary mounting system.
- The video was edited on a iMac using Davinci Resolve 16 software. Learn more about it here: www.blackmagic...
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Missed yaa
I live in Apache Junction. Your in my backyard.
Completely enjoyed your commentary...
Maria commentary better! Flight narration!
Excellent presentation 👏👏👏😍
Quite a few times.... have I flown over this whole area... in stuff like a ratty old 172 to an A320..... Love that whole AZ thing...
AZ. or Washington same but different thank you
Awesome video... enjoyed your commentary too!
great video, great scenery !
Something different, anyway. LOL.
Maria funny video with you moving your hands!
Narration is interesting not boring!
Really beautiful flight thanks for sharing this with us! 😁
Thank you 😉
Missed you, Maria!
Nice run up the river. I've done the Sycamore Creek area in an MD-900 when I used to work at MD Helicopters. Beautiful country.
Yay your back!
Hope you fly around Sedona/Flagstaff some time and post a video.
:-)
Glad that you are doing well …looking forward to seeing more video … it’s been a long winter … wish you the best 🚁..your friend from Pennsylvania 🚁🚁🚁
Thank you so much. I lived in Tempe when I was young and this brought back great memories of when my stepfather took me flying (airplane-Champion two seater) all around Arizona. I miss Arizona and my stepfather ( he taught aeronautical engineering at ASU)
It’s great to have you back. That was an interesting flight. Thanks so much for sharing. No problem with the audio. Your soothing voice was great. Take care and stay safe!
Great to see another flight. Best of what's left of Winter & a great Spring.
Conversational commentary is just fine.
Great to see you in the air again Maria. Been kind of missing your videos. No need to apologize either. I am also more than happy to continue supporting you Maria. I know it’s not easy and it’s not cheap but please keep it up. Safe flying my friend.
Thank you so much! I'm glad to be back and look forward to sharing some videos from outside the cherry orchards and Washington state.
I think it is the Granite Reef Dam (5:22)
Yep. That's it. Thanks!
Hi Maria, Thank you for sharing once again. Very cool state.
I have been watching for a fair amount of time and always look for familiar faces in the comments as well as the members and patrons. I always see Rebecca Allen listed and today the name was gone. any word?
I was wondering about Rebecca, too. She was a channel member for a long time and dropped off. I hope she's okay. I'll see if I can touch base on Twitter.
Check out Cut water Boats. Made in Washington. Think about living aboard, and keeping an apartment or your home. Think about full time living aboard. Decide what you want from cruising. Also as small as your puppies are you vet would have to write a prescription. A compounding pharmacy would then make a liquid that you would give by a dropper. You can get life jackets for them. They have really small ones for pets. Then you would secure them to the cockpit, and where they can also get out of the sun. Also pick up a couple of cruising magazines so you can get ideas of what you might want. Good luck with cherry drying.
Hi Maria, I trained in a Hughes 269 from Falcon field several years ago. Great area to fly and really lots of fun.
Yes, I have done every inch of what you covered either by car, Jeep or motorcycle; but never by air. So this was great. This is the first I have seen of your videos, but I have to say , I sort of enjoyed just the narrative as compared to other "flight" videos that have a lot of chatter and not as much peace of just enjoying the scenery. Thanks.
Good to have you back Maria! Looking forward to the upcoming videos!
Great to back. Sorry it took so long to sit in my editing chair.
Subscribed! Always enjoy your flights :)
Awesome, thank you!
The longest wait is over. Welcome back!
Good job
Excellent video! Never spent much time in AZ, and it was great to see the scenery from above.
Great video!
The first dam is named Granite Reef Dam.
Thanks!
So glad to see you back, Maria. You're going to have to have Woody make some checklists for you so you get all those bits plugged in where they go. ;-) Love from Liz and Ginger (pic to left) in Australia.
I think you've got something there. On today's flight, I forgot to plug in the power for one of my cameras and the damn thing ran out of batteries after an hour.
My sister has a large horse-riding arena on her property, and various groups use it. She has gotten a camera and numerous microphones set-up to film the horses, riders and instructor with sound and pictures. _Everytime_ something goes wrong. She would empathize with you for sure.
Very relaxing to watch. You do a nice job.
super video, thank you so much ✌
Greenfield Road
Granite Reef Dam???
That one wasn't Greenfield, although Greenfield intersects with it at the next corner. I just looked it up: McKellips.
Yes: Granite Reef. Thanks!
been trying to find a video of yours to tell you something Mrs Maria, i watched 3 Videos of the SFAR 73, im not good at picking up on things in videos, but I think all in a nut shell that when training in a helicopter dont do any "Push Overs" cause i wouldn't want to do any Mast Bumping that is what i got out of the three videos i watched, Should I watch more videos about SFAR 73? Mrs Maria doesn't have to answer this, i guess anyone could answer it.
Don't worry about the recording issue - it's so good to hear your pleasant voice and see you! Thank you for taking us along, and sharing the super scenery. Safe flights!
Just curious if this is your R44 you flew to Arizona.
Hmmm.... I'm thinking that you watched this with the volume off or didn't read the description.....
Your flights are well appreciated.
How much to rent helicopter
$600/hour.
Is that 600 plus fuel
Great to see ya! I like the voice overs doesn't make a difference to me. Love these terrain rides. Beautiful countryside! Can't wait for the cherry season too. 🙌😁
Nice to see you back Maria, hope you're Ok and keeping Safe.
I used to jump in eloy all the time for years good times. Now time to buy a helicopter lol
Great video! Greetings from Berlin, Germany.