Learning to FLY a NEW AIRPLANE!!!

[@combatking911]

Thank you for revealing your method to verify and discover the flight characteristics of a new plane. Found your talk through very informative and since I am not a pilot your video showing aircraft response and your critique prior to, during, and after an exercise was eye opening. Very cool! Thank you for sharing your first flights with your new plane and your technique and flight operation. Great camera placement and clear views with each camera. Beautiful afternoon flight scenery. Great content. Looking forward to your upcoming adventures in the new craft.

[@gearbender49]

I'm in the painting stage of my Bearhawk. It's been a long haul. Thanks for this video. It's a good prep for my first flight when that day finally arrives. Thanks to Mark G too. If you stay out west, I'm south of ABQ, E98. Stop by.

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

I'm glad it helped, and I'm sure the Bearhawk is a beaut!

[@TimothyCarswell]

Thanks for making a great "real world" video that will help us all be better pilots!!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Of course, love to offer the point of view!

[@joshmccarthy7943]

This guy is great love how you explain what you are doing ,my flight instructor took it as talking to much.You should be a flight instructor I’m an extrovert and you are one of them, best teachers because people pick up on that more I think when they talk through it.great video

[@joshmccarthy7943]

Great video dude very professional honest and no ego

[@waynescheineman5054]

As a Bearhawk owner the short field takeoff technique in this aircraft is a three point takeoff. Trim nose up enough to keep tail on the ground and it will surprise you how quick it gets off the ground. Takeoff roll is always extended when putting nose down on takeoff roll.

[@HisWayHomestead]

thanks for bringing us along... I'm a big fan of the BearHawks

[@songmaster9308]

The best Bearhawk video I've seen so far, great to see you run this fine machine through it's paces!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Glad ya enjoyed it... loving the Bearhawk so far!

[@Jeffrey-Flys]

Katie and I had just watched a video on the kit building plant in Mexico, and then saw one online .... the next day you instagram that you are flying a Bearhawk. So cool

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Lol what a coincidence.. Take it as a sign!

[@Jeffrey-Flys]

www.globalair.com/aircraft-for-sale/Bearhawk-4-Place ...not that I have looked... 😎

[@johntempest267]

Great video, and a great aircraft. This plane would be a great candidate for a LS3. I'd bet it would out climb, out cruise and get better GPH than a O-540. And with the leftover cash, you could put it on floats, or add some glass.

[@vinsonsmith4345]

Great Video, I like how you stick to the basics. No crazy flying good way to learn how the aircraft will maneuver.

[@felsenpanzer]

So much confidence in a new bird. I learned a lot here, great work as usual.

[@plantpower3048]

You should test fly the Superstol XL

[@cr-us9ch]

I can watch this video over and over

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Lol we wouldn't mind if ya did!

[@serg2963]

Excellent video of an excellent airplane... keep them coming!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

We've got plenty more coming.. Keep an eye on the channel!

[@57eleven1]

Great job! Very cool! I’m very interested in the Bearhawk

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

I appreciate it!! It's a fun little beast

[@JohnWiltberger]

So when you gonna build one? I have been thinking a Bearhawk 4-place would be ideal for all your adventures!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Would love to build one! It's a hard airplane to beat!

[@ColbyOsborn]

Great video. Still patiently waiting for some footage of you guys taking the 4-place out west. :)

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Hopefully soon enough!!

[@michaell9811]

The shadow when you were landing looked like you were being stalked by a killer drone!

[@terryrutherford2114]

Bring that plane out to Napa, CA, KAPC, and take me for a flight. We can do the Bay tour around San Francisco. Your viewers will love it. Lol!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Lol would love to some day! Gotta make my way back over there first

[@paperclipmaniac]

When you hear someone make a gun reference(M&P) and you chuckle to yourself about it, @3:28

[@RussellTelker]

Smashed the like button during the intro! Love the Bearhawks! I'm starting to build a Patrol from scratch. Looking forward to hearing your impressions.

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

That sounds like such a sweet project!

[@RussellTelker]

@@fly8ma.comflighttraining199 If you find yourself up in MN, swing by KMZH or KCOQ and let me know you're coming, I'll show you around and you can check out the progress I'll hopefully have by then!

[@chrisbjohannsen]

I saw this aiirplane at high sierra, looks like a nice ship

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Hope ya enjoyed HSF!

[@kiethlowry2862]

As soon as my lotto hits the bear hawk is on the list to buy!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Gotta make it happen! They're worth it for sure

[@pspmartins]

Great flight and plane 👌 By the way, what kind of software you use for the “on screen” flight data?

[@flyingkub]

You did basically what I had to do with my Sherwood Kub on the first flight.

[@petroelb]

I love how the advice at the end is almost completely covered with links to other videos so you can't read it :)

[@doranjaffas9645]

24 gph...what for power? If it is a fairly tame aircraft this works. I first flew a Cygnet SF2A I bought when I picked it up. My Tailwind W8 that I now own and fly was a different story. Was checked out by a CFII familiar with the Tailwind. Some of the most necessary and best money spent.

[@bhvinson248]

Really cool video. Liked the how you just talked through it. Did you buy the plane at Geauga County? I used to fly out of CGF and practiced near there.

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Borrowed it from Mark over at Bearhawk aircraft

[@jwschrag]

Wow those ad interruptions are annoying! Looks like the O-540 is a good option for this airplane and the O-360 might leave one wanting more power! It also looks like it uses a lot of up elevator with the flaps down. Did you still have quite a bit of nose up travel?

[@rickybobbyaviationandfishi9768]

Seems like a powerful airplane

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Definitely a mighty one!

[@RussellTelker]

Reports of 50 degree deck angle climbs are out there. NOT stalling.

[@thegarre]

How tall are you if you don’t mind? Wondering if I would fit in a bear hawk. I’m 6’2”. Struggle in most small ga aircraft

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

5'7"....Cessna 180 will fit you best

[@spurgear4]

Thank you for this, I am wondering if the oil check panel is not latched on your cowl?

[@WoutervanTiel]

Did you have the Pilot Owner Handbook to refer to? Some of the data of the plane you're just trying to feel out....

[@Jack-fx8ry]

Agreed. Why is there not at least a pre-takeoff checklist in the plane?

[@coreymitchell1468]

It’s an experimental boys!

[@AkPacerPilot]

Sweet!!! Looks like a fun one!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

It for sure is!! Love it

[@AkPacerPilot]

FLY8MA.com Flight Training btw, the way you feel an airplane out is exactly how I was taught to, even when you have a POH with numbers. :-) As my instructor had put it, every plane is different, even the same model will be different. I think the model you put out is a great method, if anything it sharpens your skills. :-)

[@jayphilipwilliams]

Very, very interesting! Thanks!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Glad ya enjoyed it!

[@thegeek3348]

I believe the space shuttle pattern is still being used by the Embry Riddle students.

[@marysmith4576]

2 dogs? Has your pom been watching how the hangers multiply in the closets!? ;-)

[@r.k.williams2887]

Did you sell the 140 and where is Steff and the 170? Did you buy the new ride?

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

The 170 is in Anchorage (possible ski flying this winter!) Steph is here! Her and I flew the Bearhawk out west for HSF.

[@r.k.williams2887]

Thanks for responding. Glad all is well! I enjoy both youtube channels. Keep them coming! @@fly8ma.comflighttraining199

[@manoloaviation8609]

Pretty cool man!!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

I appreciate it!!

[@shadowsrwolf]

A or B Wing?

[@WendelltheSongwriter]

There's a cool guy near Okeechobee named Andy Cordetti, a KZbin channel called IcepickMr....He flies a Bearhawk Patrol with his dog, Puccini...might give him a look

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

I'll have to check it out!

[@chrisbowpiloto]

Do as I say, not as I do! LOL! Is it just me or did you land before the thresh hold on that last landing?

[@terryrutherford2114]

I have a Smith & Wesson M&P15. Nice rifle. Thanks for the video!

[@earlystrings1]

Your mean your CFI doesn't let you try to put an airplane you've never flown before into a spinning stall at 2500 AGL? ;-) Seriously, good luck and safe flights to you and Steph with the new plane!

[@BeyBoy17]

How did you estimate g/load limit from va? Or did you simply assume the g must be around +3.8g since that’s what most ga planes are rated to?

[@z987k]

In this case the design engineer states it in the drawings. 4.5G @ 2500lbs and you can linerally extrapolate from there.

[@BeyBoy17]

What “drawings” are you referring to? In the video he makes it sound like an estimate

[@z987k]

@@BeyBoy17 The engineer's drawings on the aircraft. The "plans" if you will. You can buy them from the designer, every bearhawk, one way or another has a set. He may have been guessing, I don't know, he didn't build the airplane so he's probably not all that familiar with it. Possibly not with the extreme differences in experimental vs certified. But it is a known value.

[@BeyBoy17]

@@z987k gotcha, ya I’m aware of that. He might’ve guessed it like you said. It just seemed like he calculated it in the air which is why I was asking

[@therealmauipilot]

Great stuff as always!!!

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

I appreciate it!!

[@lessharratt8719]

SSSSSWWWWEEEEEEEEETTT!!!!!

[@Hedgeflexlfz]

M&P make great quality pistols for a reasonable price. M&P 9 2.0's are awesome. Sorry that's random lol

[@jayphilipwilliams]

Smith & Wesson makes them. M&P is the model.

[@Hedgeflexlfz]

@@jayphilipwilliams correct I mistyped

[@josesbox9555]

Like kit Maule.

[@woodyahh2110]

Flying a new bearhawk not really a new bearhawk but new to me and I'm really not flying 😀

[@hunterfagan6272]

For va, are you using vs0 or vs1

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Clean stall speed since you'll likely be flying it clean.

[@plantpower3048]

How can you have 0 G force??? are you out in space or what?!

[@joshmccarthy7943]

Notice the word ego had a small e

[@joshmccarthy7943]

Over confident and ego will kill u every thing in life should be like flying equilibrium.

[@RichardofOz]

did you say 2 dogs? :)

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

2 poms!

[@RichardofOz]

@@fly8ma.comflighttraining199 :D

[@gonemarbles8562]

I missed you when you were in arlington wa. Whats a good email i can send you my contact info and if youre in the area we could meet up. Im literally close enough to throw rocks at the airport

[@fly8ma.comflighttraining199]

Send an email out to [e-mail]!

[@TheGbelcher]

Do guys really fly planes without a checklist and without reading the POH? I have never heard this before.

[@BeyBoy17]

It’s because it’s an experimental/amateur built plane

[@iflystuff]

Not the smartest move that's for sure. But I guess if your brain dead and you fly under part 91 in an experimental plane you have the right to kill yourself if that's what you want to do. I would not recommend learning to fly from a reckless KZbin pilot. Perhaps using a checklist and reading the POH would be prudent. I wouldn't want to have to sit across from the fed (FAA) after an accident, knowing they have seen this flagrant stupidity posted online. Tail number and all.

[@its4michael]

1. He has lots of time in ac like this. 2. It's experimental so the POH is actually written by the builder and lack of one means you write one (hence the video). @Oregon. No part of this flight was at all dangerous. These are the maneuvers any new pilot would be learning with their instructor (and any pilot in a new ac). Anyone who buys/uses an aircraft should do the exact same thing to find the correct numbers that may or may not be published. A certified ac will have a POH with nothing more than ball park numbers of the same maneuvers. If anyone thinks part 91 is more dangerous they are delusional. It's all about the choices the person in the left seat makes.

[@z987k]

You mean the POH that doesn't exist? Ya he should probably have read that.

[@TheMyHobbies]

Why dont you read the POH?

[@Ichibuns]

Kit plane. The numbers will be different from builder to builder. The only way you will get accurate numbers is by experimentation. CFIs have to go the route he did from time to time because what's the chance that you have a local instructor who has a lot of time behind your particular experimental airplane?

[@TheMyHobbies]

@@Ichibuns I understand, didnt know it was an experimental plane, thanks !

[@jayphilipwilliams]

@@TheMyHobbies In the video, you can see the word EXPERIMENTAL on the right-hand wing root inside the cockpit.

[@acerbus02]

That’s a bit of a reach from the right seat. Nice landings!

[@bill2292]

You have some very good videos, this is not one of them. Just a CFI chattering BS for 34 minutes... Tell us about the plane, what you think, how it compares.

[@oldglory1944]

You surely must be kidding !!! You are encouraging no check lists & no CFI training or check outs ! This is criminal, to be encouraging this kind of airmanship to any new to the aircraft builder/pilot.

[@BrianGochnauer]

Not a fan of the "don't do what i do" and "this is not an instructional video" then nothing but a continuous stream of instruction verbal diarrhea. Those that don't know what they are doing are sucking it all up as 'fact' which most of it is; but you can't have it both ways; really need to pick a lane.

[@FlyingJournalism]

Like if jon should shave his facial hair.

[@flyifri]

Your nonchalant days of flagrantly wasting fuel is coming to an end. Enjoy it while you can. If you are not part of the solution, than you are part of the problem. !

[@petroelb]

I want to be part of the problem too! What can I do to join?

[@its4michael]

@donnyboy Why is testing safe operating procedures and learning a waste? That's like saying someone with a learner's permit for their driver's licence are doing nothing but "flagrantly wasting fuel”.