Immersive Formation Flying - Join a New Gen of Pilots - WWII-era DHC-1 Chipmunk - Part 1

[@GSOaviator]

I don't think most people understand how close those birds at 12:00 really are until you're in a plane and it happens to you. My favorite FlightChops video so far! Can't wait to see more of these!

[@FlightChops]

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[@TheFlightSimDeck]

So awesome that they let you name the formation Flight Chops!

[@thunderbolt513]

Hi Steve. One of these days I mentioned my memories when I saw you close to a very special airplane for me. The 337 Skymaster. Today you bring up another memory with the aircraft that was my elementary flight school on the Air Force (Portuguese). The mighty Chipmunk. Thanks Steve and happy landings.

[@meduffer]

My daughter's working on her PPL and will solo in a couple of weeks. I thought I'd pass on a tip of the hat to you and your crew. Both of us really appreciate your videos and your philosophy of safety and discovery. What an adventure!

[@unkymark]

Consistenly the best photography of all the flying pages. High tech script yet accessible to us less experienced fighter pilots (in our own minds.)

[@FlightChops]

Thanks Mark! I'll make sure James sees this comment - his shooting was definitely top notch on this one!

[@PlaneOldBen]

Absolutely epic, I'm doing my taildragger conversion in a Chipmunk later this year!!

[@georgewalker7030]

I didn't know you could do one in a Chipmunk in the UK! Most are just on Supercubs etc. Where are you going to do that? I hope that will be on your channel! 🙂

[@jcaviation1135]

George - there are plenty of chippies out there, many of which are used for tail wheel training :)

[@georgewalker7030]

I haven't come across many... that's a good thing that they are still flying... a great aircraft! :)

[@miksal26]

best to do your ab initio training and first solo in one. It will instil you with good old fashioned airmanship🙂

[@ellisandrews440]

I took my initial flight training in the RCAF on the Chipmumk at Camp Borden in 1967-68 and soloed Feb 8,1968 . We did 27 hours on the Chipmunk before going onto the Tudor at either Moose Jaw or Gimli Manitoba . I went to Moose Jaw. Art Scholl won the world aerobatic championship in his Super Chip one of two that he owned one he bought in 1963 and the other in 1968. He was tragically killed in 1985 when he didn't recover from an intentional spin. A great aircraft but tricky to fly and could snap easily into a spin from a stall. Could ground loop and also one could write off a propeller if not careful. (Remember left rudder) Taxing turn to the left ,needle left, ball right, compass decreasing ai steady and so on. Don't have my log close by so don't know if I flew one of these Chips or maybe even both. We didn't do formation with them during our initial flight training and started our formation flying with the Tudor. Fun to watch the Chips fly again.

[@nards656]

Awesome video. I LOVE warbirds, too. I'll never do what you're getting to do, so I am so grateful to be able to watch it. I plan to donate a small bit once I can get some things taken care of, because this is WORTH A LOT to me.

[@cameronwick]

I haven't even watched it yet...I just saw you the release like 30 seconds ago so you are catching me at my moment of surprise joy. There is a lot of quality content out there today that we have to wait a long time for. I'm thinking Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, the Primitive Technology KZbin Channel, ...and you Steeeeevy. Thanks so much from just one humble fan who really takes the time (read multiple watches of each video) to really appreciate the care you put into each one of these.

[@FlightChops]

Thanks Cameron! I really appreciate this feedback :)

[@seagullsbtn]

Still flying. Amazing. Flew them 40 years ago. Great first aerobatic trainers

[@drewtuley]

"FlightChops Formation" ! How cool is that...... Excellent and atmospheric sunset video Steve...... keep 'em coming..

[@FlightChops]

Thanks Andrew!

[@anonharingenamn]

Man! Your production value is so high. It's so well filmed and edited.

[@FlightChops]

Thanks - it is a ton of fun to produce this stuff - glad you're enjoying it!

[@marcs990]

I flew chipmunks at RAF Shawbury in the UK, in my day it was part of our pilot training program in 1989. they had to use an explosive to start the engine, also the canopies where the old square type with the emergency side window which u could punch out or you would slide back the canopy and bail out then, used old parachutes which actually was part of you seat so when walking out to the aircraft the chute was around your backside. I didn’t fancy my chance if we had to bail out. I remember it was fully aerobatic but u had to dive to pick up speed to do a loop or a stall turn. I also remember the entire console shaking around after engine start. I thought it was gonna fall off. Still have fond memories of it though. Also your Camera guy must of been freezing. Not to bad for the pilot with the screen mostly covering him but in the back he would of been getting all that wind lol

[@richardstratman2107]

Man the video quality is getting better and better, keep'm coming.

[@brandonb417]

Have you guys thought about using one of those VR camera balls? Your flights would be so fantastic to view with the KZbin VR.

[@FlightChops]

Thanks - We're looking into it.

[@MichaelCarrPilot]

You've upgraded cameras. Nice work by your entire production team!

[@Canleaf08]

Makes me mulling about pursuing a career in aviation instead of media... Why not both? But I haven't touched any throttle and handle since 2009... The sky's the limit and aviation is universal. You have so many awesome videos with so many incredible images and perspectives!!! Maybe, when I have landed in Canada in a few years...

[@Mavrick1509]

It was nice to see a different perspective from these planes, I'm used to seeing them flying overhead all the time. Hope you enjoyed your time however short in Windsor.

[@FlightChops]

+Mavrick1509 - very cool that you live there! I am committed to being an active member there, so I get back as often as I can to stay current in those awesome planes!

[@michaelm.9219]

Beautiful ! Thanks to all of you ! Have nice flights ! ;-)

[@DuncanInUK]

This is soooo cool. I watched this video almost with envy! Awesome, epic, almost not enought words can be used to describe this! Really really the best thing as a pilot can do!

[@jesselarrabee9981]

I must say I'm absolutely jealous right now! Great video's and flying keep up the awesome work!

[@GamePlayWithNolan]

Thank you for sharing all these videos, I always love watching them! Hopefully one day you can even fly in a Spitfire.

[@nemahs]

That was awesome. I love formations so much, you guys rule

[@Shwepnick]

So cool! I have been looking forward to this video for a while. I can't wait to see what is in store for the future!

[@Recovering_Californian]

Really enjoyed this video. Can't wait for part 2!

[@brandonb417]

I wish they had a club like this at Chino, CA Planes of Fame. I know you can pay for flights, but there isn't a club attached to it where you can be around the planes more and help out with them for maybe some discounted time. I know we have a commemorative air force, but I get the impression the Canadian club has more opportunities to fly. Very cool Steve.

[@thehoeser]

We're not actually a flying club, rather a Historical Aircraft Museum. There's a lot more to the CH2A than what is seen in this video.

[@FlightChops]

Yes we'll cover more of the other things CH2A does in later episodes. James got a great interview with a non flying member who prides himself on helping with restoration projects and such.

[@LarGriff]

Great job, Steve. You're gonna love the formation work and the precision skills you'll develop. Was a pleasure meeting you at Osh'16, btw.

[@klingerfpv6802]

Do more formation videos!!!

[@thehoeser]

They're coming! :)

[@Johnsonhesp]

This was really awesome! Especially because my grandfather was a pilot in the Canadian Air Force and trained on Chipmunks. Really cool stuff. =)

[@rizvi114]

Hope you enjoyed flying at CYQG. 😊

[@AlexFeldstein]

Awesome is right Steve! Impressive!

[@1dgram]

Another incredible video. Hope to see you down in Oshkosh.

[@General-Grant]

Great to see you flying over my home territory of Detroit.

[@kevinstone9638]

Wonderful video, keep inspiring and flying.

[@andyr8413]

Great vid! It shows us how aviation is an always learning process ! A question, is it not possible to use a vhf frequency for the formation instead of in flight signals? Keep going Steve!

[@garytucker5748]

Great fun,nice documentary,thanks.

[@M9199bro]

You met my friend at Oshkosh on Sunday!

[@gcollinz07]

Steve you are living the dream! Jealous!

[@RibasFilms]

Such an amazing video! Thank you so much for sharing.

[@nickcahill8156]

I definitely need to get myself involved in something like this near me.

[@brianhedrick4986]

Where'd the chops go!? Also, any suggestions for float plane flying near Vancouver?

[@joynermark]

Sweet vid. I'm sure I watched one of your videos some time back and you were explaining how you sync up your video and audio recordings. Could you remind me what video you did that in? I looked but can't seem to find it. Thanks

[@Borel-nv5bq]

Dude how do you get to do all this cool stuff, I've always wanted to formation fly.

[@T25de]

long time sub, really happy to finally see this video. congrats

[@FlightChops]

Thanks Tyson!

[@BIGNEWY]

great episode, good to see the chipmunks

[@IVAOpilot]

Can't wait for part 2 :-)

[@bazwabat1]

Brilliant a nice taste of flying warbirds. :-)

[@garytucker5748]

Great plane to learn in.love it.

[@bluecollarphil7064]

More of this!

[@red88ization]

yay my first flight was in a chipmunk loved every second

[@73h73373r357]

If I remember correctly, some of this footage was posted by you a while ago.

[@FlightChops]

This is new content - you might be thinking of the quick and dirty video I shot when I first visited these guys last year and went for a quick Chipmunk ride with Dave. In that older video, we talked about hoping to get back for the full training with my production team... it is awesome to have finally done it!

[@73h73373r357]

***** Oh ok. That makes sense. I guess it was just so similar because it was in the same area, with the same guys. Sorry about that

[@darn1737]

Might have missed it, but why did #1 fly with an open cockpit?

[@mattruggiero3243]

What do you have to do to get checked out in the t6

[@w0706]

Do you plan a flight in the Harvard, seen in the hangar?

[@thehoeser]

Pause the video and look closely at time index 14:24

[@w0706]

Great, I must have missed that last moment of the video. Thanks!

[@younghils]

AMAZING!!

[@lw216316]

I'm not a pilot, but I know you have rudder, elevator and aileron controls- when I watch formation flying videos sometimes it looks like one plane will move sideways to get closer to another plane and it looks like the wings stay level while doing it - maybe I'm just not seeing it right how is that done - what controls are used?

[@Idontwantachannelok]

Little bit of rudder and some aileron and elevator to offset the induced bank and pitch

[@R3dmanactual]

Very cool!!

[@jonnimart1]

I instructed on 18054!

[@MrGsheperd]

Awesome!!

[@KMFKAlex]

Awesome!

[@anathemapth]

I love your videos and am a Patreon member, but originally you did alot of videos that really focused on debriefing and really helped me see that all pilots make mistakes and kind of helped keep things in perspective while still allowing the viewers to learn from it as well. Seems that since the Super Cub stuff ended, the learning part of these videos kinda went away with it. I am not advocating at all that you stop doing these videos because they are also awesome, but are you going to sneak some "learning/debrief" type videos back in?

[@FlightChops]

+anathemapth - thanks for the feedback (and support :), and yes, as I get back into training for IFR and other ratings the debriefing and learning style videos will be more frequent. The next one is pretty raw training in the Chipmunk - let me know what you think - it goes live this Friday.

[@Bakrain]

I just subscribed, thanks for the videos and the contest! #BoseA20

[@ekkehardg.9851]

Brave cam man :-)

[@suloja61]

SUPER VIDEO :) 😂👍👍👍😂👍👍👍

[@jonathonsolum5995]

Looks like you might have a new viewer with the ATC guy...How can you not know what Flight Chops is!? Lol

[@Mirandorl]

I am so jelly you could stick me in a mold and serve me with ice cream

[@FlightChops]

Haha - love it!

[@Payne2view]

I've just got to say the DHC-1 first flew in 1946 and WWII ended in 1945, so its not really WWII era, nor a "warbird" is it. Other than that it is nice to see any old aeroplane airborne.

[@stevemackie12]

Please, tell us more oh Wise One. You have so much knowledge, of such importance. IT. MUST. BE. SHARED. Don't keep anything to yourself!

[@Booshka823]

Any aircraft with military service is considered a "warbird". Not just those that have active combat or were combat types. My IAR-823 and my Chipmunk before are both considered warbirds.

[@Payne2view]

OK point taken on the warbird definition although I can't quite think of a Grob G115 Tutor as a 'warbird'. The type still wasn't flying during WWII though so I can't agree that it is WWII era. 1940s era yes, WWII no.

[@Payne2view]

Well, stevemackie12 since you asked, there were 1000 Chipmunks built in the UK, 200+ in Canada and the Portuguese created jigs from ones sold to them and made another 66 in total. There are still some in use by the UK military for tailwheel conversion training for those who are to fly warbirds owned by the nation.

[@sbmasonator]

wow

[@garytucker5748]

No canopy,Brrrr.lol.

[@TheAgonistfan]

yassss

[@niconiconnu]

700th person to like :)

[@FlightChops]

+Nick Aviation - awesome thanks!

[@MrThuggery]

Awesome !