Flying Over Water + International Border Ops: Scenario based Flight Training VLOG

[@FeralKimchi]

This is my new fav YT channel. I'm a medical student who dreams of one day flying in my own GA plane, but watching FlightChops gets me by for now!

[@FlightChops]

Awesome thanks! happy medical schooling :) I don't know how you guys do it - That is some serious training! Respect!

[@SusheePerumal]

Awesome editing! Love the Carbon Cub.

[@PaulScott_]

A doctor that can fly himself into remote locations to provide his medical expertise - there could be worse things to do!

[@GrizzlyWhale]

Feral Kimchi I have my own little cessna 150. Costs about $600 a month to own before flying. then you add about $50 an hour for gas. It’s not fancy, but its my own airplane. So get through school and start getting that debt down, and it’s a good possibility!

[@AnthonyWhiteJ]

Late to this video, but wanted to add that I’ve flown with someone, who lived on the island, in and out of Orcas on a Bonanza. About a year later he was flying his family, four including him, back to the island in a Piper P28-181 in the early night/evening. Due to low fog and ceiling and bad pressure settings, his altimeter was set roughly 350 feet high and he crashed a quarter to a third of a mile from the runway. One of his family members wasn’t able to get out before it sank. Single engine flying over water like this is no joke people! Be prepared!

[@hempelcx]

"You married Steve?" "Why, you interested?" Well played, sir.

[@FlightChops]

:)

[@steveo1kinevo]

Fun times! Those Buck Bay oysters where off the charts. Enjoyed the vid!

[@FlightChops]

Yes sir!

[@vikingcomic]

I got my PPL out of Pitt Meadows in 1977 and flew extensively around the BC coastal area. Familiar territory! Now flying in the Toronto/Niagara area-also very exiting. Just love flying. Even after 40 years on and off flying.

[@anthonybellotti6062]

Damn, I gotta say, Jason is just plain good, he knows his shit

[@TheFinerPoints]

Thanks Anthony! I spend so many hours in the air -- I should know a few things by now, but still I learn something new all the time, thanks for the kind words

[@donjohnston3776]

The entire area is a visual flight feast. My wife & I took a float plane ride from Victoria waterfront in an old Kenmore Air beaver to Seattle waterfront. On arrival we took a bus & cab to tour the Boeing plant. We returned to Victoria in a turbine beaver then hopped on a AC 737 to CYYZ, all in a day!

[@creationnasheion1731]

Love seeing my favourite youtubers Chops,Steveo, and Finer Points flying around Western Canada and skimming my home base of CZBB. Glad you got to experience the unique landscape I'm fortunate to fly around for my cpl training!

[@PoulGo]

McAviation Geek i fly out of CZBB too. Which school you fly out of man?

[@creationnasheion1731]

Poul Go it's Alex McKenzie from Pro! Pretty neat to see these guys flying around our neck of the woods eh

[@walachaviation9171]

Who needs tv when you have flight chops, tucker Gott, and Bradley fraisen? Love these videos!

[@arrow5533]

Same here

[@BillAndersonNS]

"... why, you interested?" LOL so funny

[@FlightChops]

I love that you watched to the veeerrry end :)

[@alexenns3203]

Vancouver is a awesome place

[@eljuano28]

Cool to see Patrick and Steve. It's like buying a burger and getting your Coke and fries for free.

[@hobie1613]

Steve, your channel of one of my favorites. I am planning on my solo on my sixteenth birthday and I would be honored to fly with you once I get my ppl.

[@FlightChops]

Hit me up! And congrats on starting your training so young!

[@SkiDuneTech]

Dude im so pumped your overflying CAP3 ( Sechelt) & Squamish CYSE my home Airport I wish I was in the air when this happened

[@JAMESBOND-zz5bh]

Chops!!!! what an unbelievable episode. thanks for posting.

[@FlightChops]

Thanks!

[@alexislayne195]

Man! I just finished my PPL at Galvin and I’ve personally flown with all 3 of the Galvin a flight instructors! It’s so amazing to see you and Steven flying around in the airspace I trained in, and to fly out of 13L (now 14L) which is the runway I did my first solo landing on! And also when you were holding short of 13L that 152 landing was 6378M, the plane I got checked out in!! Small world man! Keep making awesome videos!

[@Niv73]

Wow Fighter Pilot Chops

[@highmarkrich]

Great video! I'm really looking forward to the STOL episode. I got my taildragger endorsement earlier this year after watching your series. I love flying Super Cubs.

[@subsoar5734]

Hi Steve, I just wanted to let you know that it’s basically you that inspired me to start considering a PPL. You’re so great with your Px, you’re fantastic with your planes, and you’re just a good pilot in general. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@FlightChops]

Awesome! Glad to hear it! And thanks!

[@subsoar5734]

Yup!

[@Mrcaffinebean]

Love these Finer Points of Flying videos. They tickle my love for aviation and preparedness at the same time.

[@TheFinerPoints]

Thank you sir!

[@andrews640]

Really nice trip

[@TheFinerPoints]

Join us next year Andrew! We'd love to have you onboard

[@mhansen300]

That looks so chill! Totally gonna join in when i get my license

[@joshsvoss]

FlightChops awesome to see you flying out of my home airfield BFI! That's where I'm working towards my PPL, I can even see my house under your downwind departure leg! BFI has a great mix of aircraft: GA, Boeing test aircraft, both commercial and military, helos, UPS, and a bunch of corporate jets.

[@RCuser22]

Never thought id see my home in a Flight Chops video! Hope you enjoyed the San Juans and Gulf Islands!

[@TheFinerPoints]

you have a beautiful home

[@psyrixx]

Next time you're in SF hit me up - I work for Lagunitas Brewing Company and will hook you up with some awesome beer.

[@FlightChops]

Sounds good!

[@TheFinerPoints]

I'm here all the time ;)

[@psyrixx]

Well, let's go flying! I'll bring the post-aviation drinks. :D

[@TheFinerPoints]

Robert Sogomonian I'm in!

[@mikercflyer7383]

Great video love that flight over Vancouver reminds me the time we flew in a floatplane from Victoria to Vancouver it was awesome.

[@harrisonjacobsen173]

Good to see some action at my home airport! KBFI FTW!

[@robertsemancik3809]

My wife and I flew from Pemberton to Victoria in a Cessna 207 to go whale watching while on our honeymoon. The scenery was breathtaking. Being from SW Ontario we don't see much vertical landscape! That round robin flight in the DA40's would have been spectacular.

[@prof2yousmithe444]

Steve, my mother was a Canadian, born around Belleville, Ontario. She grew up in Toronto! I consider Toronto my "adopted" city. I spent years up there as a boy with him over the summers. He came over from Great Britain right before the Blitz. I spent many weeks in and around Vancover as well. There was an excellent steak place downtown near the "Top of Vancover." I remember that city as fog central which always hampered our flights in and out. I know you are from around Toronto yourself and was curious if you heard that? This was an excellent video yet again! Had to laugh about bringing the tail up early on the Cub lol! I heard that is easilty done!

[@NoahGoldstein]

Awesome video, as always. Looking forward to the next one!

[@Deezle_Gaming]

Immediately recognized the San Juan Islands in the opening scene. I love Orcas.

[@roryfiler214]

Steve, that was one of my favorite videos of yours, awesome job. So cool on so many levels and I'm still laughing about the strategically placed Nanaimo Bars

[@devingraves8044]

This is actually realy cool to see for me because im from the Seattle area, did my ground school at Galvin, and pretty much consider Boeing field my home away from home. Ive also flown up to orcas before, and it's truely amazing.

[@jamesaddison81]

You're helping pave the way for so many future aviators, hopefully myself included. Big respect to you Sir. #BoseA20

[@slow5203]

One of your best videos yet!

[@rfriesen1644]

Wow! Watch your videos all the time and surprised to see you flying through our backyard. I fly out of CYXX (Abbotsford). We do get over to Friday Harbor a few times every summer and enjoy the short walk from the airport to downtown and the many eateries. Keep the videos coming.

[@TylerDoughertySalmon]

Nice in from new Brunswick but am living in Nanaimo for now. Love your videos bud.

[@Backcountryaviation]

It was great getting to fly with you and Stevo, despite the damn wind! I loved the episode particularly the nanaimo :-). I am Looking forward to the rest from this trip!

[@TheFinerPoints]

It was really fun flying with you Patrick! Maybe you'll join us next year?

[@Backcountryaviation]

The Finer Points. I’d love to that was a great experience!

[@warwickmostert7347]

Reminded me of the bush flying course offered by CC Pocock in South Africa. Building confidence to handle short field landings, low slow flight and exploring the real flight envelope in the plane you fly. Keep up the good work Steve, GA needs more of this and well done to your sponsors #BoseA20. Come visit us down south!

[@deetothajizzle]

Sosososo much love in this vid. Steve x2 collab, Canada, hilarious pronunciation of Nanaimo. Please make p2 to this longer

[@huntersnow7818]

Great episode!!

[@clayshapiro1913]

Great video Steve!

[@jk32841]

Carbon Cubs are bae :)

[@agentorange153]

I thought they were Piper, not BAe?

[@brendaproffitt1011]

I love 💘 💘 💘 💘 💘 💘 💘 this..wow...these plane's are amazing and beautiful too..Thank you so much for your videos and everything you do..

[@Captain.Kaelin]

Glad to see you in the PNW, I got my private and high performance from Galvin! Good to see N722PA and N856DS, I have spent many hours in those aircraft. Great Video, can't wait to see the next of the series. If you ever find yourself at KELN or KBFI again, hit me up!

[@wilycoyote5360]

Experience flying over water: Any landing you can swim away from is a good landing. ;) Keep up the inspiring work.

[@tullyward-hamer7906]

#BoseA20 love the content, thanks FlightChops for sharing

[@guzziguy]

Awesome! Your in my hood now...

[@w0706]

Great video Steve, so much to cover. Can't wait for the next from Orcas Island! :)

[@strepsal6957]

NICE FLIGHT

[@simcptmike]

i grew up in van and abbotsford (yxx, yvr) this video was really cool thx!

[@apolloactual7666]

God I love this channel, always something new and brilliant to look forward to. If I wasn’t saving for my aviation course I would totally support you through Patreon.

[@jasonjohnston185]

Another awesome video. Would be hard to find a better group of professionals to learn from. Super jealous and would love to attend the course someday. If you guys ever decided to sell videos of the seminars on those trips I'd definitely buy them.

[@brendanjohannes9309]

Great vid! 'Ny-ain-mo' bars are the best

[@TraneFrancks]

Nice! Love the channel. I'm in the cheap seats (X-Plane 10 on an iPad), but love living vicariously through your vids. Great stuff! Some day I'll actually get up for an intro lesson in a small craft.

[@howardflies]

Geez that carbon cub is making me drool. How's the G3X? I'll be returning to flight school soon and will fly a Sling 2 with G3X touch.

[@davidstagg314]

International flight would be interesting. Not something a can do so easily in Australia. #BoseA20

[@j.vincenttaylor8916]

Great vid! Never stop learning/never stop flying! Thanks

[@skylarcaldwell7208]

My fun story, back in 2016 I took a piper archer up to Winnipeg with my girlfriend for a weekend camping trip and time building for Commercial. I did a lot of research to get ready for the flight, but I only had about a month ahead to plan everything out, I should have planned earlier to make sure I had my border protection sticker and radio card but I was able to work everything out where customs let me fly with just confirmation numbers for each item and not actually have them. The Customs agent said the customs sticker is really just a border crossing tax and he just needed to confirm I had paid for it whether I had the sticker or not. I filed an IFR flight plan and eAPIS flight plan and everything went really well. It was quite a hassle and I haven't done it since however. So we landed in Winnipeg and customs wasn't there to meet us so we stayed in the plane and chatted with the ramp guys for a bit. after about 15 minutes with no agents showing up I called customs phone number, told them we were on the ground and waiting for an agent, the guy on the phone gave me a confirmation number to write down then said "welcome to Canada, you're released, enjoy your stay." So we landed in Canada and never saw a customs agent haha. Funny getting back in to my home country was more of a hassle than flying in to Canada.

[@TheodorKK]

at 17:34 wasn't the fuel selector on wrong setting? Normal is left?

[@channingburton7476]

One day I want to grow up to be just like you...A STUD! Cheers to ya and keep those videos coming. Start Safe, Stay Safe

[@jaymartin5752]

Flying the CC is one of the aircraft on my buck list. You made it look easy. #BoseA20

[@johndownen3237]

I am taking online ground school now, I love the the training and survival trips and would love to participate in one in the future! #BoseA20

[@willson2295]

Only just discovering this channel, but I love the insightful commentary that comes with it. As someone who's about to commence their training towards a ppl its really cool to see what you can do when you get the licence. #BoseA20

[@triumph1669]

Awesome video man! Canada is beautiful!

[@calebcheshire3430]

Always wondered how international border GA flying worked...thanks for the video! #BoseA20

[@Draculapin]

"post flight beer" ahaha XD

[@NOTINMYKITCHEN01]

dang, i may have missed it in an old video, any reason you didn't try flying air force. seem like a good wingman to me.

[@FlightChops]

Appreciated! But I wasn't a great student. Never figured I could have made the cut as a fighter pilot. Happy to fly for fun and be the best private pilot I can be.

[@GilbertKaimenyi]

AM SUBSCRIBED!! GREAT CONTENT

[@dixienormous3262]

Great video Chops!

[@danwaldie4661]

Great video. Nice to see it from an American pilots perspective. We are usually going the other way down south.

[@arthurschwalm6332]

Did they see any bearded Canadian helicopter pilots on that leg of the tour that took them up to Widgeon Lake?

[@FlightChops]

Brad had actually broken his foot on one of his crazy adventures a few days before this trip - he was meant to be with us :(

[@davidvanlandingham684]

I always look forward to your videos with Carbon Cubs!! Amazing videos!! #BoseA20

[@BillRoberts5]

Hello, new to the channel. Being a pilot has always been one of my dream jobs. I've gotten into building quad copters and have been looking into the more technical things about using the airspace. #BoseA20

[@FlightChops]

+Bill Roberts - welcome to the channel!

[@FlightSimMaster108]

See you wearing that #BoseA20 headset there, always wanted a pair for future use when I start on flight lessons

[@toufikzarouri5279]

Awesome Video i Learn a lot from you steve , i have had my PPL since 2009 , i also do some Video editing , inspired by you ! does anyone know the tune @ 16:15 ? i appreciate your help

[@woodcutter308]

Great scenery and a great video. #BoseA20

[@ggroombr]

What does CFI stand for in USA and Canada, because here in Australia it stands for Chief Flight Instructor, i.e: the head of flight training at a school. I have a sneaking suspicion thats not what it means for you guys...

[@dg1234uk]

ggroombr Certificated Flight Instructor

[@TheFinerPoints]

yes, Certified Flight Instructor ... what do you all call instructors there? "officially"

[@ggroombr]

We are just called Flight Instructors, there are 3 tiers of instructor here however. Grade 3 fresh instructor with no hours and with restrictions. Grade 2, minimum 200hrs ab-initio flight instruction and less restricted. Grade 1 minimum 500hrs ab-inition flight instruction. All 3 Grades of flight instructor can instruct for the purpose of a license/endorsement up to the Commercial Level. From there we have the Chief flying instructor and above that flight examiners which you do all your flight tests with.

[@TheFinerPoints]

ggroombr sounds like a solid system

[@timdouglas2011]

Your life man...it rocks! :)

[@digivation]

Loving the episodes! Keep them coming! #BoseA20

[@kurtisf3366]

A tour of Canada eh? Na-a-mo eh? I hope you gave your American friend a good ribbing when you edited this footage!

[@Falkano]

This is so cool! I would love to do a training like this. Especially in such a beatiful part of the world! #BoseA20

[@matthewmcgee]

Nice that you totally blew off the noise abatement procedures on your arrival to KORS. It has been NOTAM'd for years. As for the "I don't normally use flight following" comment (by the CFI?), why not? How does NOT having flight following make any flight safer? ATC can notify you of hazards, traffic, airspace, ... Why would you not want that? Just so you don't have to listen them on radio?

[@radiomantodd]

Lol @ Nanaimo!!!

[@FlightChops]

I knew some people would enjoy that :)

[@TheCanadianBubba]

You flew right over us !

[@ryan0io]

I grew up on Van. Island, so hearing people butcher Nanaimo was pretty common. Funniest one is probably "nah-nah-eee-moo" Also didn't know they weren't called the Gulf Islands in the US.

[@radiomantodd]

Guess I’m gonna make some Nanaimo Bars this weekend now....

[@TheCanadianBubba]

radiomantodd - my wife does them with cherries in the custard... could eat a whole pan myself : ]

[@connorcook4261]

Really wanted a Carbon Cub after watching your videos on all three types. #BoseA20

[@kristinawoodmansee7477]

Good video man!

[@PutterersFolly]

Definitely would need to learn this by flying with someone experienced at it. #BoseA20

[@agentorange153]

So what would be the procedure to cross the Bering Strait, say Khabarovsk to Fairbanks (with a landing at Fairbanks)? I imagine it would be even more involved than this, right?

[@benjaminduchow9470]

SEATTLE!!!

[@erictaylor5462]

Are these cubs newly built, or are they converted from original airframes?

[@FlightChops]

They are completely new beautiful machines!

[@erictaylor5462]

It is a real testament to Gilbert Taylor (no relation) that is design is still being built 87 years later. I had a few lessons in a J-3 back in the 80's and they are a very fun plane to fly. Whatever happened to the cub with the prop strike you had on a while back? Can you maybe do an update?

[@Real2Sim]

Music at 3:15 ? 😊

[@mattdyer9544]

I am just a bit too young to start flight training, and it is just a bit expensive at cheapest £8000, but there is also a microlight field near my home, will it be better to get a ultralight licence, then get a PPL later on in life? And how much can it cost?

[@ByTheWae]

Well I'm doing my SPL and I'm going to get my ppl. As far as I know it's cheaper yes.

[@45621681]

Hi Flight Chops, i love your video's, if you ever make it down to NZ, i'd love to help you enjoy New Zealand from the air. I flew with Tom Hoshino from Galvin when i was in Seattle last year, hes a fantastic instructor, and really cool to see him in your video. Wish i could have spent more time in the US. #BoseA20

[@bleachme8165]

Instrument rating any time soon?

[@FlightChops]

soon-ish?

[@bleachme8165]

alrighty then

[@bleachme8165]

can't wait!

[@SlyTigerX]

Are there any special tricks to landing a tail drager in a cross wind.

[@markoda8455]

I'm I correct that you need a Third Class Medical to also land in Canada and that they don't accept BasicMed or has that changed?

[@goatflieg]

I had heard the same, so I renewed my Third Class Medical this month. Still hoping to fly with the CH2A guys, but hasn't happened yet this year. Gotta call and find out how late in the season they fly...

[@arrow5533]

1:10 What plane is it?

[@cubcrafters]

2016 Carbon Cub FX

[@irnbrukidsm]

A crackin video

[@derrick_blak_]

awesome but it really looked complicated to fly to Canada

[@TheWindigomonster]

Anyone who likes bush flying should check out Trent Palmer - he’s pretty new to KZbin but he does vlog type stuff out in the American South West. His production quality is awesome too