I’ll take that as a compliment! The type of flying I do, an uneventful flight is a successful flight.

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Hero is a bit strong, but I’m glad we can stick together in the struggles! Team right-seat-bouncers!!!

Thanks a lot!

Check the rules or ask wherever you’re renting from, but they might let you do it in a rental. My first PnP flight was in a rental plane.

Thank you!

Whether you’re referring to a dog rescue flight or a skyline tour, my answer is the same… do it!!!

@@thebadgerpilot I think the Hudson Corridor is a little closer to me, I'd like to do that at some point, but I was talking about the Pilots N Paws. That's definitely on my list to do this year.

Thank you! And thanks for your support throughout the year!

It would take something special to get me to move away from the Cherokee platform!

Thank you! It’s a fun route for sure!

I can’t wait to do it again now that I’ve done it a few times and I’m comfortable with it! Milwaukee isn’t as big a skyline but it falls in the surface area of the C airspace. Just get flight following and tell them you want to fly the shoreline under 2500. They usually are landing west so you’ll be plenty out of the way

If you ever want to do it with somebody first, shoot me a DM on Instagram and we’ll go

Mogas is cheaper at my home base 😉

They did not, so it must’ve been OK. I love when I have a good cause behind my flying.

Yeah the wind was blowing it toward me. KZbin is great to learn from others as long as it stays positive and constructive (seemingly rare these days!)

Thank you very much!

I was waiting for another blocked field goal!

I trust you’ll rein me in if I go too far!

Thank you for the kind words and for watching!

Awesome! Congrats on your purchase! It sounds like we have very similar paths. Keep me updated on your progress. Thanks for the sub!

Funny you mention that… the video I’m editing right now includes the skyline at night! But it might be cool to do a video that focuses directly on how to fly it. I’d love to come flying with you some time

We couldn’t stop giggling at it!

Thank you, I’m excited to start the process!

Thank you and congrats! Ownership is incredible!

Excellent! (Spoken in my best Monty Burns voice)

If it wasn’t directly over St. Cloud, it was darn close! Great catch!!! Thanks for the feedback on the selfie cam

Thanks! I appreciate the feedback! I’ll say this… this style of video was much easier to edit. I probably will do a mix - videos where I have something planned to talk about will be like this while videos that focus more on the flight will be more of the plane or out the windows

@@thebadgerpilot Editing is for sure a big time sync! Thankfully multicamera video sync has gotten easier than in the past!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

Those are great goals! I don’t remember where you’re located, but if you’re somewhat local, I’d be happy to join you studying and practicing maneuvers.

@@thebadgerpiloti am out of KTKI, located in the Dallas area, so unless the midwest expands that far south I think I am out of luck 😂

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Talking about grass strips, have you even went to Washington Island? I went there a few years ago and it was awesome.

@ I haven’t yet. Hopefully this year!

Could you expand on that? I’m always open to criticisms if you can give some ideas on how to be safer

West Bend (KETB)

Wide-angle cameras can be deceiving. It’s not like it was right over the runway, but it was close enough to have had an effect.

It was in, but I could’ve used more! But being so far left was grim the rotor wash

Appreciate it!

Sounds like you had a wild ride! Glad you got out of it okay! Your instructor must have been quite experienced to let that go so long and still trust you to make the right decision.

I’ll keep an eye on it, thanks! I always do a full range of motion check as part of my runup

Merry Christmas to you, too! I’m glad you see some value in my videos. Where about are you in Wisconsin?

​My home base is out of the Mauston-New Lisbon Union Airport (82c)!

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Wouldn’t been a totally different ending

Thank you! Yeah, they are consistently the lowest prices! Really beautiful area, too!

That’s an option. But my SOP is once the decision to go around is made, it’s final

Thank you! You too!

It usually only does that when I’m turning right

@@thebadgerpilot Seriously if you look at the horizon line when you are taxiying you can see it. And if it only does it when you turn right your wing will hit the ramp...

I’m not seeing what you’re seeing, but it could be the strut was low, could be uneven terrain on the horizon, could even be the camera was a little off center giving that perspective

@@thebadgerpilot Yes, as a DP, that is why I looked at the horizon and the center of your windscreen. OK, just thought it might be a strut, shock, or something.

Interesting thought. Just so I understand, you’re saying use rudder to both stay over the center line and also for longitudinal control? And don’t use ailerons for anything?

Yes, exactly. Dynamic proactive bracketing of the centerline between our legs allows not even a half degree heading to target error. If the nose can't move off target, the wing cannot bank even in gusty air. We can't really help the yoke twist reaction to a strong gust putting a wing down if our feet get lazy and quit walking the rudder pedals, but extra rudder to return the nose to target will get the wing back up smartly. At the slower than Vso airspeed needed to quit flying, the ailerons no longer have much effect. Falling leaf proves the lesser control and even bad control of the ailerons, and that is at Vso. I take the yoke and have students walk the rudder dynamically and proactively to bracket the centerline between our legs with their hands on their lap to demonstrate the power and fine control of the rudder. It is out there enough, this technique, that even an experienced modern Ag pilot didn't believe me. He used a selfie stick on his tailwheel spring looking forward. He couldn't believe how the rudder moved continuously not only on short final but also in the crop field to stay on the crop row. He was of course fully understanding of the cross control rudder turns in the field to move over a row without dragging a spray boom off. He just had glommed over how rudder movement to maintain longitudinal alignment is a constant thing when low. It also works for hands free cross country, but we need not work that hard. Just push a rudder to bring a wing back up after gust disruption. What wing waggers (steering wheel users) call moderate turbulence, tail waggers call light turbulence. Give it a try. You will love it.

@@thebadgerpilot Yes, exactly. We all have steering wheel muscle memory from driving autos. When the gust drops a wing, we try to bring it back up with aileron. What happens is the dropped wing now slows a bit, the adverse yaw, and yes we step on the ball but the nose first goes the wrong way. In the air not such a big deal, especially with limited banking, but on short final to touchdown a big deal. I start students with their hands in their lap and just walking the rudders to both stay over the centerline and also for longitudinal control while I lock the yoke. On my first dual cross country from Jeffco, now Rocky Mountain, to Greeley Colorado in the 90 hp SuperCub, Ken Hoffman of Kensair did not let me touch the stick. I walked the rudder pedals the whole way while working with sectional and wiz wheel with both hands. What is happening with correct yaw, walking the rudder pedals continuously, is that we are exactly directing our nose to target in no wind or our butt to target if a crosswind. When a gust tries to drop a wing, we are already moving to nail/bracket that target so it is not as bad. Yes, if it comes off target a bit, the rudder yaw will speed the down wing up. So rudder in quickly bracketing/finding longitudinal alignment and is speeding up the low wing if off. What is nice and what pilots just don't notice is that turbulence is not as bad and LOC on landing never even begins to happen. What this proper yaw rudder control allows is proper airspeed control. Pilots get worried when the really slow, slower than Vso, an out of ground effect number, airspeed necessary to stall in one inch ground effect makes the ailerons useless. Yes, we want to roll the steering wheel all the way over into the crosswind, but it really isn't doing much. So pilots increase ground speed in headwind components. This drives us old guys crazy. We should be at slower ground speed with God's gift of headwind component. In strong crosswinds I angle across the runway from the downwind corner to the upwind thousand feet marker. In the 172 I very often touch down with ten to twenty mph ground speed. It is hard to damage tin and skin, LOC, at twenty mph ground speed. With this much headwind component, say 40 mph, there is no way to get down on the actual centerline. Make your own into the wind. The hanger crowd will say, the gust just picked him up and threw him on the ground. No, a strong gust dropped a wing. He reacted with aileron to bring the wing back up. His nose was already well off target starting LOC. The down aileron brought that wing back further bringing the nose even further off target. He reacted by also pulling back on the yoke as well as full aileron. So the airplane flew up and turned steeply away from the runway. He either stalled or entered graveyard spiral away from the way he intended to turn to correct. Work on you rudder only to nail target or heading (one half hash line) with rudder only at altitude. You will really like it on short final where gusts, crosswinds, crab or side slip technique, are just nada. You will be so far ahead of the airplane you won't even notice the rough air.

Part of this rudder only to level the wing and maintain heading on cross country was that we had no DG in those days. The wet compass did not react to slight yaw so much. Banking made it go crazy. The rudder only wings level kept the magnetic compass from spinning so bad.

Always primed and ready for a go around! Landing is just a bonus

Thank you

Did it work? 😉 I don’t know, I thought it was pretty close. Only a few feet above the runway lights

@thebadgerpilot I fly and i also white water kayak. Cameras don't show it all. For kayaking rapids look way easier than they are and I think for flying maybe it looks like it wasn't close when it was. ANYWAYS!! I'm just messing with you and nice go around. That's all that matters! 😁

@@Dan007UT I trusted you were just messing when I saw the wink emoticon. You’re right, cameras don’t always do it justice. And I’ll admit I’m trying to walk the fine line of being as click baity as possible without actually lying 😂