[BEWARE] Rocks Found in Clouds

[@donwagner7395]

We flying Jarheads called it Cumulus Granite.

[@kennethperian4370]

Great job again Ryan landing and showing and telling, check you out next time have a good one. see ya bye

[@Sheps16]

Just wanted to say as a student pilot on the path towards a CPL not so far from PNG in Queensland Australia. Your videos are helping me with my situational awareness, airmanship and confidence in the air. Especially with tropical weather flying which will be my first job environment in the top end. Grateful for all your videos and helping us pilots become better through your professionalism. Thank you Ryan.

[@bradleysmull5949]

Our NOAA P-3 "Hurricane Hunter" research aircraft pilots were fond of using the term "cumulus granite-us" back during our operations out of Honiara (back in the dark ages of the early '90s!). Your excellent videos bring me so much pure joy (not to mention edification!) as well as opportunities to reminisce about the beautiful skies and challenging terrain of the PNG region--many thanks! Here's wishing you and yours a great (and I know *very* well-deserved) holiday!

[@waltk9492]

Love you videos and your work for the Lord! God bless and protect you and yours always 🙏✝️

[@MRYBGMZ]

Marine corps vet here currently shopping for a msfs setup to start the process and everytime I watch a video on this channel I get more inspiration 💯. Keep up the good work brother. I only fly kodiaks in the sim at the moment but I really gotta ditch this xbox controller so I can mimic these flights

[@FlyWithFitz81]

If you plan on spending for the long-term, go with a Honeycomb Aeronautical Yoke: Alpha Flight Controls. That and a set of pedals is all you need to get a little bit of a feel.

[@davebartosh5]

@@FlyWithFitz81 Indeed. I spent a long time flying with just a keyboard. Huge difference with joystick, throttle and pedals.

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

Thank you for your service!

[@jonathanholzmann]

Even if I haven't commented on your vids lately, I watched all of them hours after you published. As always, amazing. Have a good vacation Ryan!

[@timofthomas]

David Marfleet warned about these 'solid clouds' in Wings Like Eagles some 30 years ago now, they've been giving pilots a fright for a long time, it does sound like you cannot take anything for granted flying in the mountains, you still have to fly the plane in hand and be ready to deal with the unexpected at all times - not what many PPL and commercial pilots have to deal with any more on your typical private and commercial fields - flying in general has come a long way over the last 100 years since the Barnstormers and the relaxed flying rules, but out there in the mountains it is about as close as it gets to those early days of powered flight!

[@ghilani]

Hello Ryan, I'm new on your channel and your Videos are very interesting with Top explanations of everything. I live in Switzerland, I'm a retired ATP Pilot.

[@garethleitner9547]

Thank you, Ryan, for your informative video and letting us fly along!

[@jl991825]

I'm glad you didn't find any dangerous rocks in the clouds. Or anything resembling.

[@MartyBecker]

I received your PNG photo book this past week. Really nice! Thanks for making it available.

[@nancpatterson5178]

Have a good vacation. Thanks for your videos.

[@placidbeach]

Having bounced for many hours on the back of a flatbed truck on trips between goroka and Hagen and such in 1991 I sure wish I could have been on one of these babies instead lol

[@georgevanhaezebrouck8809]

I got the book. Got way more than I expected. Absolutely fascinating

[@robertcarveth8722]

Clouds with hard centres is the way I heard it!

[@GeraldDaniel-i3e]

Greatly enjoy your flight & and appreciate your attention to detail. Appreciate your help in Gods work🙏🏻✝️

[@placidbeach]

Another memory is exiting a twin otter after landing in sepic Ewam and feeling like I just opened a hot oven door LOL

[@ramoneortiz]

Great video as always. Watching your flights are now part of my Sunday morning routine. Greetings from a 2900 hr CFI in Las Vegas, NV.

[@kevchilton908]

Great flight to follow, as always. Have a good break... you've earned it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@kingfisch]

Excellent video with great info. Thanks! 🙏 Have a great vacation!

[@stevekirk8546]

The Asaloka Gap is a gem - in reality and in my simulation it so often provides safe access into the northern end of the Goroka Valley in cloudy conditions. The Goroka Valley always looks beautiful as you drop down into it. Thanks for the overview of the Flightspan app - it looks to be a great piece of kit. Was interesting to see the airport chart for Goroka included the identifiers for all the taxiways - I've never seen that before, as well as the location of various facillities on the airfield - fascinating. Thanks for another very informative video.

[@patrickheavirland3599]

Hello from Minnesota USA! Great episode!

[@planetaemilio-r3i]

I love this channel

[@gilliantracy7991]

Great video as always. Have a great and restful vacation!

[@PropertyEnvy]

Another awesome ride along - thanks for the share and what a cool app!

[@DrDoid0420]

Have a great vacation. Enjoy the fam and recharge.

[@philallen5406]

Hi Ryan, watching from New Zealand, another great video, it’s amazing the amount of information you have at your fingertips, I used to fly a Beechcraft King 200 for a few years, it had GNS1000 system on board which was good for the time but what you have now is making life easy for you on the flight deck, have a nice break

[@SkipGetelman]

You are an amazing pilot😊

[@nofider1]

Hey Ryan. Thanks for another great upload. Enjoy your vacation. :-)

[@JCsaves333]

Awesome flight video Ryan have a blessed vacation brother 🙏🏻

[@joelmiller569]

Thank you

[@russbird8257]

Great vid .. Enjoy u time off.

[@oelph]

Hi Ryan. Does the trim wheel move on its own sometimes even with autopilot off? There are times I thought it did when you were hand flying but I couldn't quite tell.

[@roberthale8407]

My flight engineer instructor called mountains in clouds "cumulus granitus"

[@JorisRobijn]

Did you know you can tell Windy what your route is, how fast you go, and it can calculate the weather for the route?

[@paulnielsen3525]

do you think the airfish 8 would be useful in and around PNG?

[@lscott6088]

What was the weather app you used on your iPhone?

[@newportnelson]

You'll NEVER Guess

[@lscott6088]

I saw that, on his iPhone is the question

[@gabor-toth]

Ryan, have you considered selling your coffee table album in eBook format? I'd love to buy it but shipping to my country is very expensive, it would be so much more convenient to buy it digitally. And you wouldn't have to worry about shipping either.

[@Alex000113]

Nice vid ! As the convenient (and nicely featured) electrnic records become standard Im sure you still do a sanity check in your head, perhaps the next generation starting out wont have that ability ?. Have a nice vacation !

[@ehrenkrause9861]

I thought they were called mountains. 🤔 0:12

[@Daniel-nh9db]

Hey Ryan I was curious if ATC has radar in PNG? It seems to be only reporting points and expected arrival times from what I can see in your videos. Also, how does a pilot go about finding a bush flying opportunity such as this? Aloha!

[@bwk4528]

Ethnos360 Aviation and Mission Aviation Fellowship are two organisations doing these flights in PNG, you could approach them.

[@chrisearlyup]

where rocks?? ;-) Have some nice days off.

[@davebartosh5]

I'm not grasping the title of this video..did I miss something?

[@AndrewTowne]

I was wondering the same thing.

[@offylibertylover4868]

I hate cumulus granite. But I like your videos.

[@Rob1660-m3h]

beware low lying cumulo granitus

[@TheInvoice123]

Guess you wont be going electric ever

[@thelakeeffect8565]

Rocks found in clouds comment (time?) I missed it.🤔

[@simoncorporation3]

Allways learning something on this channel, thanks for the updates on new tech.

[@richardblair4774]

Please be careful! I recently heard a story about downed pilots being eaten by cannibals there! I don’t want you to end up someone’s snack, I enjoy your channel too much.

[@stevekirk8546]

The Asaloka Gap is a gem - in reality and in my simulation it so often provides safe access into the northern end of the Goroka Valley in cloudy conditions. The Goroka Valley always looks beautiful as you drop down into it. Thanks for the overview of the Flightspan app - it looks to be a great piece of kit. Was interesting to see the airport chart for Goroka included the identifiers for all the taxiways - I've never seen that before, as well as the location of various facillities on the airfield - fascinating. Thanks for another very informative video.