She Flew Open Cockpit + helped Build our Plane - Inviting viewers to do the same!
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2019
- Seriously - We’re inviting You to do this!
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This is a great episode. Sara is a natural in front of the camera. Get her in more episodes.
You know, this is the reason, and the kind of production that keeps me coming back to YOUR videos. Sure, I follow other great pilots, a lot of them you know, but I don't watch them as religiously as I do your stuff. You are a great filmmaker and story teller. Wish i could join you for a weekend or so, but right now, that's not really possible.
Thanks Gary! We'll have to get together some how, some time.
It’s always great to see a new video...they’re all unique but they’re also each more unique than the last. Thanks for the great video!!
Yet another example as to why your the best RUclips content creator! You have this awesome ability to pull in your audience in such a powerful and motivational way. This was totally a classic Flight Chops video!
19 minutes of aviation awesomeness! 😎 We love you, Steve!! 👍👍
I just passed my check ride!!! You're an inspiration; your videos has helped fuel my passion and drive to make it this far. I'd kill to fly and hangout with ya'll. Thank you for doing what you do and please don't ever stop.
Congratulations 🎉
Awesome work Steve and the crew! It takes a lot of work to do projects like this and also put together such high quality content. What you are doing is really inspiring 😁
Another really good video Steve, Keep up the good work as always!
What a great episode. I want build my own plane someday and the more you show the grind of building the more I think it's something I could really do. I see the importance of having knowledgeable people in your corner too.
Awesome video Chops !!
Awesome episode! I love the mix of all different stories packed into one episode! 😀
Man thats so awesome!! Love it.
Flightchops you rock und roll.
Great episode Steve... I so admire what you're doing. All the best from a Brit in France.
I love that you're inspiring pilots, but more importantly you're inspiring all of us to follow our dreams and live with passion! That's what I take from each and every video you produce, to some day live to work and not work to live.
Right on! this is exactly what I am hoping to do - you put it so clearly - great stuff!
I live in Windsor. Lucky enough to see these war birds flying out over the county from time to time. If you need a set of capable hands at any time, would love to help. Cheers!
If you'd like to help, we'd like to have you - send the email via the contact form on the website and we'll be in touch
Amazing stuff Quality work and channel.
This is the 4the video and I'm glad I've found the channel. Wish I could have caught up with it earlier and volunteered some time. A&P and Private pilot here.
No, I love your videos, they're amazing!
Fantastic
Every time you make me proud to be a supporter!
If it wasn't so far away I'd love to participate to the contest and come over to help you!
Great stuff...For sure...Thanks again...!
You’re right, this was an awesome video :)
This big is so cool up close!
So a good first lesson is you never stop learning and second a prepared paper backup log/flyt plan
About the ipad overheating.
Remove the cover.
Helps the heat to disperse.
Just like when you remove your blanket when your hot.
Basic physics.
Awesome video. Man, there is some serious money being spent in that hangar !!!
Really curious how many other people are watching FC and have ZERO experience with anything other than being a passenger on commercial flights. so obsessed with this channel the last couple years and ive learned so much (that i'll never use) and am waiting patiently for more and more content each month. wish this channel had more viewers!
Love this comment :). Thanks for letting me know you’re into the videos even as a non pilot
FlightChops Same here, non pilot, love the videos, also watch Mikey McBryan and Trent Palmer and a couple of others. You have come a long way since your first vlogs 👍
I love your videos there amazing
I'm in! PPL, did my initial training in tailwheel and my wife is an A&P
Great video, I’d love to visit you in Windsor!
Oh my God ,, When I win this I will call in sick at work .. FOR sure .. Great idea for the contest ..
Climb/Descent chart in the TPP add it to your documents on foreflight for descent planning :)
Steve, I'm definitely going to have to contact you guys to try and come out and help! You're one of the guys who inspired me to take the leap forward and get my license (got it late last year!!). I flew with one of my buddies today along the Detroit River so it's really cool to see the Detroit skyline in a video from one of my favorite channels!!
I love your videos they're amazing
Nice video, I would love to come up there and hang out with you guys. Hopefully I can make it happen sometime!
Another amazing video, as always! I love watching the process of building the Vans and the stories of all the people working on it. What was the music you used for the formation footage at the end? It gave me almost Tycho vibes
Also interested in that track.
Yeah I'm starting old school to with an RV 6 know about those jobs.
Where I live, electronics, (my phone,) overheat commonly. Of course it was a nice cool day today at 111° F and I just got to turn it back on a few minutes ago at 9pm. I feel your pain, man.
Boy I would love Just too help! I want the preschool experience!
Shame i'm in the UK or i'd come and help and fly, love old aircraft, getting my DH 82 Tiger Moth conversion and soon my cub conversion soon. Also nice Mosquito in the hanger, air worthy or being rebuilt?
I'm WAY out in BC but I would love to come put some time in - maybe it would help give me the confidence to actually work on the plane I bought and haven't started to put together.
Uh, I ABSOLUTELY want to be part of it. I'll even pay for my own hotel! Awesome stuff Chops.
Awesome! Enter the contest incase you win :) . but yes for sure - we are inviting people to come long term, after the contest as well
That mossie is worth a vid too!
sarah,loves planes, loves this lifestyle, I thin I'm in love with her! not to mention easy on the eyes! nice episode, keep up the grass roots site.
How are you handling the pre closure inspections? I have a pileup of semi finished parts clecoed waiting for inspection. I really have to be careful with clecoes on the parts getting damaged. Do you have an inspector on retainer??!!😃
After building a large portion of a rv-14a empenage kit, I would highly recommend a low profile tungsten bucking bar. I have found it to be very useful while building.
Thanks and agreed - I will look into it
Hi
So my first time making a comment here on your channel. What a great episode you put together, I really enjoyed this one.
Thank you very much for the sharing of this with us.
Erik Sowden.
Thanks for letting me know Erik!
@@FlightChops your welcome friend.
Might have to take you up on this.
I would love to bring my dad there to help. He has been building a teeny 2 from scratch for a long time and he’s finally almost done. I can’t imagine how he would react to flying in a t6
Let's make it happen!
FlightChops I sent an email on your web page. It would be amazing if it could work out!
Avionics tech in Calgary if you need help let me know. Go Garmin!
Are you going to be at the AOPA flyin in TN?
can't make it to that one...
I just got a job at a fob in Omaha Nebraska. With a company called tac air. If yall stop by over this side come check us out.
Great video (as usual), but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE tell us what the story is with the De Havilland Mosquito in the background. My favorite aircraft of WW2 and there are way too few of those beauties left in the world.
The short story is it's a work-in-progress complete scratch build following original plans. The engines you see are brand new from the original shipping crates (need to be overhauled though). We hope it will fly, but financially that is very difficult. It is currently still being built to airworthy standards.
@@thehoeser Brilliant, thanks for taking the time to reply. I wish you all the very best in getting this wooden wonderful plane in flying condition.
Amazing video sir. Keep em coming Mr. Chops. Nice AT 6 Texan......with a long pipe and landing gear skins removed.....oh wait... Kanooks call that a Harvard. Lol. Between you and Mikey Mc Bryan.and Mike Pattey you keep me hooked on aviation. Good luck and persevier on the RV sir. Fair weather and safe flying . gods speed to ya......over.
Man, Id love to sign up for this but I know I wouldn't be able to travel from YCD To YYZ by myself :(
Great video as always. Would so love to join you, but Europe a bit too far away for that... :’(
t6 for the win
You know it!
Just curious, do you have an md-ra coming out to inspect the components as they are being closed? My son and I just purchased a Zenith 750 super duty that we are going to build together (he’s 8yrs old), so I am learning lots about the build process (including from your vlogs!!) as always, love your content and delivery, just the best.
Yes, it is a legal requirement to be inspected by the MD-RA.
Detroit-area native here. Would love to take you up on the offer to come help out. I come from the long distance ocean sailing world so I love to see where the disciplines overlap. Will check out your contact page.
Awesome! I'd be interested to hear your story
Oh that's a neat idea. I'm curious to hear how the disciplines overlap, too.
Look in the datasheets/manuals of consumer electronic things. Most components used to build them are tested upto a certain altitude. (Often something like 2000 meter) If you are that high, things go wrong faster when it is f.i.also hot. Besides that there is also much more background radiation (from the sun) the higher you go and that big engine can "polute" the power net of the plane and if you power a camera or ipod from the plane things like inductive spikes can kill consumer electronic. Airplane and automotive stuff have a lot of extra protection and special parts to survive those things. Ipad and most cameras not.
If I lived near I would have come..
👍👍👍 👩✈️
Sara is awesome, also you missed a great opportunity- You departed from YYZ and didn’t give us a bit of RUSH in that intro! Must fix 😊👍🏻😎
Hi Steve! I’ll be flying to Windsor for my solo cross country from London (For PPL). Would you happen to be around Windsor that day?
Which day?
FlightChops haha it would help if I mentioned Monday
Sorry no - I was just there today flying the Harvard. The guys will probably be working on the RV-14, but I don't think the Museum will be open...
FlightChops thank you for the heads up! I’m so lucky to have a mentor like you around southern Ontario
@ 13:50 Is that a mosquito in the background in the hanger??
I live in Perth, Western Australia, can I come up? :D
Home of the boys from Tame Impala!
Steve, if your building that in Windsor, I'd be up for giving you a hand.
Right on! Send an email via the contact for on the website and we'll co ordinate
Holy s**t is that Mike Melvin?!?
Humm, the Vertical stab looks all closed up... you have someone from MD-RA on site? I guess what I'm asking is did you get the pre-close inspection done?
I think the plan with that is to leave the spar disconnected until after inspection.
@@FlightChops Yup - that's what most of us do - from the quick glance of the VS it looked like the rear spar was riveted, I guess I saw wrong ;)
Steve, what about using some anti corrosion paint on the ribs/spar?
Yeah - we’re priming everting
Actually all of our parts and all the insides of all the skins are primed for corrosion resistance purposes- it's just not very obvious at a glance.
David Carrick Cool. I was expecting to see more yellow on the parts. What kind of primer are you using?
@@maillouski I forget the exact part number but it's exactly what is recommended by Vans in the build guide. It's a Sherwin Williams product if I recall correctly.
Where you at KTIW today? I took my instrument check ride and heard someone over the radio that sounded just like you.
Wasn’t me, but never mind that - HOW DID THE CHECK RIDE GO?!
@@FlightChops Thankfully I passed :)
Also, I'm a C-17 Crew Chief in the Air Force. If you are out in WA state in the future, please feel free to reach out to me. I can take you on a ground tour of the C-17 or fly with you in a 172!
Love your content/lifestyle by the way, keep crushing it!
@@ErtanxEstavez Awesome congrats! And thanks for the invite (and your service :P)
sorry for the delay replying until now - I missed the notification that you'd answered.
Would Love to help build and fly! I am a USMC Aviation Veteran would love to tell the story!
YES! Thanks for your service! Send that email with this info clearly in there some where and we will connect!
@@FlightChops info sent!
My wife’s cousin’s husband built an RV-8. I helped him rivet the main spar. Sort of scared me at first. I mean, it’s an airplane right? I flew in that plane a couple of times. A sweet little sports car in the air. Finger and thumb on the stick, hands-off straight and level. Not the sort of thing you imagine taking shape in someone’s garage. Unfortunately, his wife came down with ALS, so their planned active retirement years (likely with flying involved) went out the window. Not sure if he owns it any more. Sad. Whoever ends up with it gets an awesome little “baby fighter plane”.
A DH Chipmunk with a bubble canopy?...........................
If you don't have the fancy tech it's not hard to figure out when and how fast to descend to hit a point when ATC wants you do.
12 miles before PICKUP you need to be at 12,000. It looked like you guys were at 20,000 at the time. So you need to descend 8,000 ft.
For top of descent calculations it's (altitude to descend) x 3. Take that answer and divide by 1000. So 8,000 x 3= 24,000. 24,000/ 1,000= 24. So it will take you 24 miles to reach 12,000. Or you can just divide the altitude to descend by 1,000 and then multiply. So 8,000/ 1,000 = 8. 8 x 3= 24. Basically just take how many thousands you have and multiply by 3. (22,000 means you have 22 1,000s so 22 x 3. 8,000 means you have 8 1,000s so 8 x 3.)
Now to make this happen you need to have the right descent rate. To do this take your ground speed and multiply by 5. It's hard to tell but it looks like you guys were at 250 knots GS. So 250 x 5= 1,250. So descend at 1,250 FPM.
So basically it would have taken you guys 24 miles at 1,250 FPM to hit 12,000 ft. She said cross 12 miles BEFORE PICKUP at 12,000 so add 12 to 24. So you needed to start the descent at 36 miles from PICKUP. Also you need to keep the GS as close to your calculation as possible during the descent because if you calculate for 250 knots x 5 and you slow to 200 knots will now you're 250 FPM off track. So it's actually simple. 8 x 3 = 24. 24 + 12= 36. 250 x 5= 1,250. That's all the calculations you needed to comply with that instruction.
I am confused by the ream it with a drill bit or a reader and there is no burr. drilling an already drilled hole will widen the hole and make burr.
You can see this if you take a piece of discarded sheet metal, drill a hole in it, deburr, drill it again and run you hand on the other side, you can feel it. Maybe not a problem but just a confusing statement, maybe I misheard what he said.
That's why I asked Perry at the time. I'll look for more clarification on this...
A Canadian called it YYZ?! FOR SHAME. Y Y ZED forever!
Dear Flightchops; RE. Matt's latest video. Let's not all get DUPED here. Remember your mission statement.
I’m at the cottage for a vacation with my family (with poor internet, which is a good thing :). Anyway, I saw that video right before we left and made a quick comment about being glad they were alive despite being terribly un prepared for flying over water (no life vests, etc) other than that, I don’t know what you think I have to do with it...
16:30 the poor cameraman gets to finally cleco and he gets cut out...
He actually did that rough cut - so he removed himself :P
What engine is in that Titan T-51?
I believe it is a Subaru or something? Dave will probably have to answer this one :)
Suzuki V6.
@@thehoeser Very cool, I'd love to see a video of it sometime.
There's a mosquito in that hangar👅😱😱😱😱😱 where did that come from???? What is the story???
some rich guy's toy? that's how it usually goes.
i think it's the first of the New zealand new build fuselages
they are building one from blueprints, its a project at the heritage museum
Some notes: 1. Dave had no idea what he was in for, did he? ;) 2. Use reams instead of drills to touch up holes whenever you can. 3. Pneumatic cleco squeezer? Really?! smh. 4. I want to form a group of Flight Chops Patreon supporters who are also RV-8 builders... I gotta know our strength in numbers. 5. Please give Jon my phone number, and reciprocate if possible. 6. How did you get permission for that, umm, one clip (he asked vaguely just in case you didn't). 7. Hope I'm grandfathered onto that list. Still await the call. Dave's, too, for that matter. I'll be there.
Haha - too much to reply to there :P . but we'll be visiting your build too. I'm gonna have to make an other video where I explain that is part of my plan as well - to visit other builders as well as have them visit our project.
I was I wasn't on the opposite side of the globe.
Wait we are skipping answers to the real aviation questions: What do you say to a pilot as a good luck phrase?
Haha - Right?! Thanks for watching to the end :)
Why is it that we don't have 1 million subs yet?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?
Haha - I have no idea - I just need you to talk to ~750,000 friends - cool? ;)
This Not a "negative" comment Steve..
IFR theory is not "insane", it is a very valuable knowledge.
You, IFR guys must be able to do simple very maths to get your "start of descent" in order to be @ this point @ that altitude.
Too many pilots, with the help of those fancy computer screens and radar vectoring forget the essence of IFR.
Perform an approach and some circuit on your own even if you loose your radios...
Understood, yes, but I was specifically talking about the NDB / ADF stuff they make us do on paper for the written test in Canada... At best it is a stretch to try t visualize those things on paper with no instruments in front of you (something you'd never be faced with in the real world) and at worst, it has little to no application in the real world any more due to NDBs being phased out.
@@FlightChops phased out on Europe too.
Any VOR depicted on a RMI card looks like a NDB.
Your NDB knowledge is still pretty much valuable.
🙂😀
fyi your contact form on your page for the build shows ""There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later""
Aaaaaarg - looking into it now - thanks for the report!
Can you actually clarify what browser / system you were using to try to sign up?
that must be nice to have other peoples build your airplane .
YY Zed. Steve. YY Zed
Someone got laid.
Would love to take you up on your offer but unfortunately family health issues forbid it. I have been fortunate to have flown on 3 warbirds. A SNJ-5 which I had the controls after takeoff. A Harvard which I was pretty much a spectator, though still very exciting, and the creme-de-le-creme A flight with the great Lee Lauderback on Crazy Horse, A TF-51d Mustang. Here's a video of that flight ruclips.net/video/0vapvp_YvSc/видео.html
Thanks for the link to your flight - I'll check that out
FlightChops - I am super disappointed!!! This great videos of yours are too darn short!!! Please, try to make them longer if you can. I know its a lot of work and you have your hands full with building the RV, but c'mon man, get real, these awesome vidoes need to be at least 30 mins long .... just saying!
Thank you. Keep the awesomeness, send regards to the building team from NY
Watching you riveting was just painful! A rivet gun is NOT an air hammer! Trigger control is key. The difference between an air hammer and a rivet gun is the controllable trigger. Anything more than two to ten pulses per second it just too much. Just fully pulling the trigger is totally wrong. *sigh* Watching pilots do mechanics work is always something that makes one worry. It takes time, but you can do it. The only advice I can give you from my location is to try to get a full time structures engineer to teach you how to do it properly. DO NOT USE PILOTS to teach you to be a mechanic/engineer! The unfortunate truth, to which pilots never want to acknowledge, is that pilot's knowledge alone does NOT possess the required knowledge to accomplish maintenance work. Get a real full time engineer in there to teach you properly. Realize that in the U.S., to be a pilot requires a minimum 40 hours instruction before you can take the single basic private pilots exam before your oral and practical exams. To be a mechanic/technician/engineer requires a minimum 2,100 hours of instruction before you can can take the three exams before your oral and practical exams. (In Canada it's even more stringent.) Think about that as you build your aircraft.
Yikes! phantumdrummer; If you want absolute perfection, you are correct; Of course if only mechanic/engineers built RV's with oversight from a full time structural engineer than there might be only 100 RV's built. Fortunately many pilots have successfully built fine well engineered RV's capable of +6, -3 gs. 10,000 in fact!
Videos like these from Steve will awaken our next generation of young aviators, many of them saying "I can do that!"
...from a combat aviator, aerospace engineer, airline pilot, and RV-7 owner