22 miles Open Ocean Ultralight Trike Flight to Catalina Island

[@TJKillip]

I just stumbled onto this video. This Ultralight ride is amazing to watch; You're literally out in the breeze(hoping no bird strikes either). It reminds me of a few parasailing rides in Avalon harbor in years past, though that's a much quieter sublime ride with height at above the Carnival cruise ships but recall looking down and seeing Sunfish that were deceivingly big and if one turned over to horizontal, they appears to be +- 20-25' long. Landing this Ultralight takes even more skill than an aircraft touching down on Catalina

[@HenryGyroLife]

I gave my trike up 2 years ago and I fly gyroplane now.

[@TJKillip]

@@HenryGyroLife I'll have to read up on that. With Ultralite , getting up to +-9,000 ft. for emergency glide procedure if necessary; how close to Catalina would you have had to be (in normal weather conditions)to safely land somewhere on the Island-if not at Catalina airport?

[@HenryGyroLife]

@@TJKillip if I’m 9000 feet in the middle of the way (about 11 miles from the middle) I can glide to Catalina Airport without engine power. This is based on 8:1 gliding ratio.

[@TJKillip]

@@HenryGyroLife exactly what I was curious about. thanks. Only reason I consider you lucky to live in LA area- is having Catalina Island so accessible!

[@adamjhuber]

Last summer I took my personal watercraft (PWC) to Catalina. I wanted to do that for a long time. It was on my bucket list. It was so beautiful. Your video over the island is absolutely amazing! Great, now I just added one more thing to my bucket list.

[@Serrano46571]

Nice clear video. Wonderful shot of Catalina Island and you. I can't believe how calm is was that day. Way to go.

[@planecrazyish]

WOW. Amazing

[@jamiecaudill5915]

Thanks for the ride!

[@polakayne]

Hi Henry, excellent clip & amazing scenery especially Catalina Island. A real pleasure to watch mate! Regards from Western Australia Andrew

[@theobserver3346]

Great Video & Beautiful Trike ..

[@Fsone174]

Stunning. Envious of your experience, this is something I want to do before I die, fly an open ultralight over open water. I'll be subscribing so I can continue to drool.

[@fadi420420]

great ......thanks for upload ....

[@BryanThePilot14]

Talk about feeling like a bird! I hope in the future I can make it out to Catalina for a cool flight.

[@jaarmen3]

Excellent video, enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing this.

[@GeneralGCuster]

Great video, fun to watch..These new hi def cameras are amazing...

[@lasahe4440]

Wow, amazing.

[@terrycarter4459]

Thanks I enjoyed the flight video.

[@thermicphil]

Hi Henry, a truly spectacular video

[@Sinaimedve007]

Dear Henry, your journeys are as fascinating as ever! Breathtaking. Wish u safe landings and cheap gas from Hungary! :)

[@HenryGyroLife]

Thanks, Medve.

[@drzeus7044]

Hi Henry, I fly with Leo f out of calvada. Love your videos! His gyro is also the way to go...

[@HenryGyroLife]

Carlos Tsung thanks, Carlos

[@HugoHugunin]

Weren't you worried about being over gross weight limit? *Each* of those big, brass balls must have weighed 20 kilos! Thanks for a great share. My last flight to KAVX was in a PA28-181. I cannot imagine doing the trip in anything smaller. (Of course...I hit instant "auto-rough" at the ½-way mark.)

[@HenryGyroLife]

Bosco Bob Hahaha...

[@1biggun712]

Cool video of flight to Catalina island 😎

[@BobDiaz123]

I love the video, is there a second one of the return flight back to Torrance?

[@HenryGyroLife]

Bob Diaz no we flew back to Santa Paula Airport directly.

[@EMTG100]

ESSE TRIKE É BONITO. THIS TRIKE IS BEAUTIFUL.

[@kingonegostone6659]

wowwwwww awsome video merci bouceup

[@skylane1829]

Great Video. Were you guys in Bravo airspace? How long did it take you guys? My Brother and I are thinking a flight from Texas to Alaska sound little crazy but interesting one. (The Bucket List thing)

[@alexandrinaoliveira692]

Beautiful! How long was the flight?

[@HenryGyroLife]

It was about a hour one way.

[@Dreaklock]

How these things easy to learn to fly? Once you learn how, do you need a license, or can you just rent one whenever? Id love to make this fight someday. Hopefully these things are safe.

[@HenryGyroLife]

+kennan conway Are you a pilot ? Please don't take anything fling as casual. Many people were killed themselves in trikes if they don't get proper training. Average people can fly a trike with 20 hours training in dual instruction. But that is a minimal. You have to keep practicing in order to fly in the weather.

[@drzeus7044]

Henry, are you all done with your gyro training?

[@HenryGyroLife]

Carlos Tsung I have flown 21 hours and ready for checkride.

[@drzeus7044]

Nice Henry! Good luck and have fun. If you like, check out “evening landings with Carlos” on KZbin, practicing touch and go’s with my other instructor in az... I was mostly trained in air creation trikes, I love how they fly Henry

[@Mike-01234]

I want to get my PPL so bad but it's so expensive with a certified aircraft. Wife thinks ultralights are dangerous. I think with a trike the visibility is so much better traffic is much easier to spot. Whats your thoughts on this.

[@spwb2k]

henry i love catalina and i've recently started to become fascinated with trikes. how does a person book a catalina run like this with somebody? up in norcal napa airport there's a guy who flies a real nice revo out over the ocean north of san fran. but id love to do a catalina trip what to do?

[@evandroalmeida712]

Great Video! How long is it possible flying over the ocean with a 18.4 GL tank? is it possible to cross the ocean by trike to brazil and south america? what is the autonomy and what would be the longest leg?

[@luisworld911]

Even better from the air I have gone to catalina on my 1997 SEADOO jetski I have made it in just under 1 1/2 hours but looks much better from the air nice

[@AV8R_1]

How is mixture managed on these engines?

[@HenryGyroLife]

AV8R Tom no manual mixture control. Self adjusting altitude compensation carburetors.

[@airstone1673]

Beautiful 👍🏻🇺🇲

[@oblivion1244]

how do you turn on the ground without a rudder?

[@HenryGyroLife]

+Oblivion staring on the front wheel

[@oblivion1244]

+Henry TrikeLife ok thanks how hard is it to get a license for those?

[@HenryGyroLife]

+Oblivion minimum 20 hours dual lessons in a trike and paper test

[@oblivion1244]

ok thanks

[@johnmer3000]

What do FARs say about qual for Trike?

[@HenryGyroLife]

It was about 40 minutes flight for one way.

[@beijingkoala4]

Cool!! The final approach is so much steeper than normal airplanes, what is the approach speed?

[@HenryGyroLife]

Yes, our appreach is much steeper than normal airplanes. Approach speed is 50 to 60 mph.

[@beijingkoala4]

That's about 15% less than ab light airplane such as Cessna 152

[@HenryGyroLife]

Check out this movie for landing in turbulence. *MUST SEE* Ultralight landing in the bad turbulence

[@DavethePilot]

I would like to know if you are under part 103 and if so, why did you have to get an N registration number for your trike? Also, for what purpose did you need to also get a transponder, thought they definitely are not needed under part 103? From a long time hang glider pilot who has kept an eye on ultralights since the inception of putting engines years and years ago on the quicksilver. Oh also, I’ve been an Airline Captain for over 40 years. Isn’t your total weight under 254 pounds or what? You might even be under the sport pilots license and your trike is considered Experimental. Anyway very curious why all the extra crap to be able to fly...

[@HenryGyroLife]

DavethePilot these trikes are not ultralight but light sport aircraft. Registered with FAA and needs sport pilot license to operate it. I just use the word “ultralight” because vast majority people knows ultralight but not light sport.

[@dantenicholas8885]

what's the song to this? I must know. it's so amazing I love it

[@KonorSacks]

+Dante Nicholas in the discription via a google "Tranceshift" by Diane Arkenstone

[@rickobrien4025]

You forgot one thing in all your gear,Henry...SHARK REPELLENT !!!

[@HenryGyroLife]

I'll add that in my list !!

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

Cool flight but that can't be under 254 lbs?

[@HenryGyroLife]

NZ Salt Flats Racer actually, these trikes are not ultralight category, but light sport.

[@HenryGyroLife]

We can fly between 50 and 80 MPH for over 300 miles with full tank of gas.

[@619sdbdub]

So I guess that flights to big bear is no problem. Still need a private pilots license or is this considered the "sport" license??

[@HenryGyroLife]

These trikes are light sport aircraft, so you need a sport pilot license to operate it.

[@HenryGyroLife]

@ttabbs Hi Tom, yeah it looks like crosswind in the movie, but it was very calm.

[@nurshahdatulnazrin5951]

hye henry, what an gps you're use as long as this travel which you put on dashboard of ultralight

[@HenryGyroLife]

Garmin 695 portable GPS

[@nurshahdatulnazrin5951]

Hi, what is the service ceilling of this aircraft can fly high? Are you flying maximum at 10'000msl it's mean 3000km on his trip?

[@barongustavo4057]

free like a bird

[@JeffFishman]

GreAt video! Would be interested in flying trike's myself - do you know who I can contact to get started? Jeff

[@HenryGyroLife]

I have no idea. My trike is stationed at Santa Paula.

[@grantvanderwal8392]

Do you have your pilot license?

[@HenryGyroLife]

Anocks yes, you need a sport pilot license to operate a trike with 2 seats.

[@grantvanderwal8392]

I wasn't aware your trike had two seats. Thanks!

[@RedondoAce]

What is "MSL"?

[@HenryGyroLife]

+RedondoAce MLS means Mean Sea Level, an average level for the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

[@RedondoAce]

+Henry TrikeLife OK, somehow in my mind I didn't think that the Catalina Airport would be at much of an elevation above 0. I guess I was 1600 feet wrong!

[@usmanio]

whats the background track?

[@HenryGyroLife]

Thanks !!

[@HenryGyroLife]

Hey Jeff, how are you ?

[@spwb2k]

Worthy!

[@HenryGyroLife]

Thanks, :)

[@irritatedgoat4642]

Nice

[@billcallahan9303]

Catalina! 22 miles! Impressive! My name is Bill Catalina. I try not to implant my video atop others but for the name similarity you might want to look at mine. Toward the end, a friend & I tried a 4 mile over water flight to an island off north Florida (later completed). "Drifter Flying" by William Catalina on KZbin. Enjoyed your video! Great job! Beautiful scenery of the island too!

[@HenryGyroLife]

Bill Callahan thanks Bill. What is your origin of name came from ?

[@billcallahan9303]

Henry TrikeLife .....Henry! Thanks for not getting mad about my inserting my video. Callahan is my book name. Catalina is real. The origin is Italian. Grandparents arrived as Catalani from Ancona on the Adriatic Coast. Like many other immigrants of that era, they wanted to sound more American so they simply dropped the i and added an a. Cute! So sadly, my surname is not really Catalina! P.S. My book is Over & Back by Wild Bill Callahan on Amazon. That was a flight you two guys will remember for a long time. Glad you got some great video too. When you get to 70 like me you'll look back on it with "WOW! We really did that!" Or maybe "Damn, we're we really that crazy!" I've watched it twice. Going back for my 3rd. helping now. Thank you! Oh! I fly an old Trike too. Type in "Ultralight Politics" on KZbin. I tow a 10 x 16 foot American flag with.....you'll see!

[@HenryGyroLife]

Bill Callahan that’s great story. I’m an immigrant from Japan. My wife and two daughters moved US in 1987. My girls were 1 and 2 years old. Now, one became a doctor and the other became a mother.

[@billcallahan9303]

Henry TrikeLife ....Okay, so you must not be the guy who did the talking at the beginning. Looks like your Doctor bill worries are over too! Time to collect! You guys be safe. Great video. Nice to see some Americans not afraid to stick their necks out. Some guy, years back, was going to fly around the world on his Trike including an Atlantic crossing. I know he made it at least part way across the north Atlantic but I lost track after that. (?). Got more nerve than me. I know that 22 miles seemed like 22,000 at times too! Same for my 4 miles. I kept saying "Okay, just run for 5 more minutes & I can glide in!" You guys didn't even have a beach from the looks of it.

[@chuckmarks2010]

Bill Callahan it’s the fucking Catalina wine Mixer

[@microlightmadnessuk]

🔥

[@toskooverlander9062]

Wow!

[@ltschannel2067]

Crazy Kids!! ~♥~

[@gliderrider]

You could carry an electric unicycle to get to the hotel. Oh wait. Just noticed this video was done in 2011. Electric unicycles were not invented yet. Lol.

[@maulanwong3841]

Hi

[@umaxen01]

Whew... Whenever anyone says "open ocean" I think of fast feeding, hungry sharks...

[@andrew.mccarter]

I really enjoyed that but music always ruins video

[@tonderthundertt2818]

Rich People can do everything.

[@gotemfishing2190]

He isn’t in a private jet… he’s on a kite with a motor strapped to it lmfao.

[@Lastprophetpeacebeuponme]

The music was terrible and totally unnecessary thumbs down 👎but good video other than the music