Planning an EPIC 3000+ nm Flight with Foreflight | Alaska to Oshkosh

[@alaskanmike]

If you ever decide to want to visit Anchorage Center, let me know! I am a controller (I work the sector covering Homer) and will certainly be happy to bring you in for a tour so you can see what it is we can do and how the radar coverage looks down there. Hope the flight goes or went well.

[@angleofattack]

That would be AMAZING! Can you DM me on Instagram? Let’s link up.

[@publiux]

I just found this channel and watched the first 2 legs of your trip. This is great! Great content!

[@jacobmaeser3556]

Have a safe flight guys

[@daves.9076]

What a wonderful learning experience you have created. Your thoughtful planning should be consumed by all of us, both new and experienced pilots. I look forward to each coming video and congratulate you on the teaching environment you are creating. Blue skies!!

[@MatematicaTel]

Impressive!! Looking forward to fly with you guys, in rhis great journey!!

[@angleofattack]

Can't wait!

[@bryancozad5317]

I’ve been kind of binging your channel, this was a great video! Everything you’re posting is informative, and I’d dare to say life saving. Your channel is cool and so are y’all. Thank you 😎😎😎

[@angleofattack]

Glad to hear it! This series is really extensive.

[@theworshiptraveler6709]

Congratulations on your 100,000+ subs. Glad I’m one of them.

[@angleofattack]

Thank you!

[@williebowmar7166]

Wow what a trip! Hope the skies stay clear for you

[@Bushmasterpilot]

I resent your comments about my hometown of Fort Nelson, B.C. We are an oil and gas and forestry town, which has taken a huge hit in our industries and negative comments by you dont help. We have very nice hotels here too by the way, unless you want to be VERY cheap and take a less quality hotel, like anywhere. I have helped countless Americans passing through our airport, even hauling fuel to the local lake for float pilots. I have given countless free rides to and from town for passing pilots. I even recently put up a young pilot for the night and fed him(Mike Shower) on his way home from Florida to Anchorage, in my home during a pandemic. I have watched, and liked, and supported your channel, which I will continue to do despite your comments, but in the future during these difficult days and times, I ask that you not rundown the little airports, that are so vitally important to all, thank-you. Reuben Gullackson Lifetime resident and pilot, Fort Nelson B.C. Canada

[@angleofattack]

Thanks, Rueben. Can only go off what I had been told, and a handful of people had said the town wasn’t pilot friendly. $400 a night for the hangar is pretty terrible. We also waited roughly an hour for fuel even though we tried to call ahead. Perhaps all of the issues start and stop at the airport. I have to say I found Canadians to only be fantastic otherwise. I also drove through there a couple times and it seemed just fine.

[@Bushmasterpilot]

@@angleofattack Thats exactly the attitude that gives Americans a bad name. You probably flew through on a weekend or after 5p.m. because the fuelers are usually there. They are actually installing a self serve to help out guys flying later in the day. Also 400.00 a night for a hangar was probably the huge Quest hangar. It costs 100.00 bucks just to open the door all the way in the winter. By the way, Villers Air Service, which is not in the business of hangar rentals, will kick one of their aircraft out overnight to accommodate someone for 200.00 a night. Thats 150.00 USD for you. This airport is very important to travellers heading north, and obviously being such a northerly town, costs will be higher. I never complained about your hotels in Homer, when I stayed there, or that Avgas was 1.60 more than Anchorage.

[@markmaccani9411]

Great job on the video Chris. That is a massive trip and I can't even imagine the planning that went into it. Foreflight is a great tool and has so much information tucked away in it I would be surprised if anyone person knows it all. My Flight Instructor and I just used it yesterday filing my first IFR flight plan. Worked out great. Of course it was nothing like this planning just bouncing around doing approaches. My IFR training is getting back on track now that I am done messing around in Alaska. It was great meeting you and thank you for the time you took out of your day and away from your family to fly with my wife and I. It was beautiful.

[@angleofattack]

Was so great flying with y’all! That was the last time I flew. Been a bit under the weather since. Was a real pleasure meeting you and Jenna. Keep rocking on that IFR!!!

[@markmaccani9411]

@@angleofattack . Well that sucks. Hope you are on the mend.

[@jamestharp7880]

Hi Chris, another great video! Five times flying to Alaska single engine, three in a 180 Arrow, twice in a Bonanza. Never in winter. So much easier with ForeFlight than with paper charts. You are a brave man doing it in winter. See you in June.

[@andyhawaii2819]

I’m excited for you guys. This is going to be an epic trip. Praying for your success and safety 🙏🏻

[@maritestaylor8458]

Awesome thanks

[@allanj]

Awesome - thanks for telling us about all the ins and outs! I'm gonna do the same flight in Microsoft Flight Simulator :)

[@philipcaseyfilms]

Fantastic video! Thank you! I can't wait to do this myself! I can't believe 5 people disliked this video. Ridiculous! Keep more videos like this coming!

[@angleofattack]

Thank you!

[@youthfulambitionya]

this was awesome

[@jamesrutherford9597]

Great trip planning 👌

[@angleofattack]

Thanks a ton

[@srinivasnyayapathi9083]

Great video... Thanks for filling in information for something I was planning too,

[@nicksharp7972]

Could you please elaborate on stopping in Canada for fuel only and not clearing customs. As an Alaska pilot (PAVD, PAWD, PASX) that will likely be flying to the lower 48 this series is very interesting. I'm very interested in how it goes with the border crossings during covid. I've driven the AK highway and been up and down the inside passage many times but haven't flown eitjer yet. I'm hoping its workable to cross the border and stay in Canada job a few years time.

[@WarrenKimpel]

nice video

[@muradhamouda4257]

Very cool video Chris! Question why does 23U always looks like its tail heavy?

[@CuratedPile]

Great video. Flying through my area, I'm based in Red Deer, Alberta. One thing that American pilots really should know about crossing Canada is that filing flight plans (or itineraries) is required in Canada for trips more than 25 NM from point of departure. It's a bit of a pain, but ForeFlight makes it easy.

[@New2Me170B]

I heard Red Deer is full of college chicks.

[@ats8911]

Great choice avoiding the West Coast route. I'm live in the Seattle area and the La Niña this year is no joke.

[@nwdieseltech]

whaddup Chris! keep these vids coming - they only take a little bit of editing, get to it :)

[@budowens6478]

Wow, what an amazing trip!!! Can’t wait for the next video!!! What was the coldest temperature you experienced on this flight?

[@JeremyMyersmusic]

I am really excited about this series! I dove to AK in 2014 and went to a lot of those towns you mentioned. Whitehorse was nice, but there was big city queues I saw. Fort Nelson was nice. I think that’s the place with all the sign posts that people come and add their own sign. I think it’s also the beginning of the AlCan. On the way back to the lower 48 in 2016, we took the Cassiar highway. I liked that trip better. But if you’re flying above in the plane, AlCan is a better choice to fly “IFR” (I Fly Roads).

[@angleofattack]

Watson Lake is the place with all the signs. Ft Nelson really isn’t that great.

[@JeremyMyersmusic]

@@angleofattack it’s been a few years since I was through there. Lol apparently I’ve mixed it up in my mind.

[@lvmypepper]

If you are flying through the Ponoka area (CEH3) you are more than welcome to use my heated hangar. There is fuel available and a couple of hotels/motels within walking distance. Can show you around Edmonton as well.

[@michelbieri8521]

Hi Chris Wow! I really would like to meet you It’s on my bucket list for sure I am not so sure in the winter though I live in Seldovia I have been driving the Alcan about 20 times Always in the winter usually leaving after the holidays I always wonder about flying that route not much traffic for sure I am hook on all your video Can’t get enough thank you for sharing Be safe out there it can be brutal and if you get good weather it can be the most beautiful trip

[@keithrogers5832]

Don't forget to show your weather briefing process along the way, maybe the days of old when one would actually call weather services to get a weather brief are gone but to show how you would come to the decision to go and how far or to stay and wait out adverse weather is great safety issue that is so important. Have a great trip I'll be watching.

[@BruceArtwick]

This is very good and thoughtful planning, but your choice of destination made me wonder: is there really no place closer to you that could be suitable to re-equip your aircraft with all the required stuff or you just craved for some travelling? :)

[@angleofattack]

We had some special arrangements with the crew down there. It would mean more money saved in the long run.

[@johnwhite3455]

KOEO represent! (Even though I know you ultimately went to KANE) One of your IG stories on this trip was literally a few miles north of my house, my wife didn't think that was nearly as cool as I did

[@angleofattack]

Actually we didn’t stop at KANE. We stopped at Glennwood.

[@peanuts2105]

Would you change your chunky tyres to original OEM specification to increase IAS?

[@angleofattack]

NAH!

[@frednorthup1657]

Could you stop in Canada with the COVID problem?

[@MichaelLGriffin]

Gigantic planning exercise! Just a question, does foreflight take the curvature of the earth into account? A "straight" line may not be the most efficient route. On short trips it is not a major factor but on 6000mile round trip it is substantial! Blue skies & fly safe!

[@angleofattack]

I’m pretty sure it does.

[@Heyemeyohsts]

What was the total cost of this trip?

[@goadamson]

I in Lethbridge (CYQL) so if you need help, a meal or even a place to stay, please reach out.

[@janis1951]

What minimum fuel reserve are you planning on?

[@matthewstuart6109]

fyi, specific type of Covid test or vaccine proof to get into Canada, Arrive Canada app when I moved to ANC this summer,

[@angleofattack]

Correct. More on that in future videos.

[@rfriesen1644]

No avionics shops in Alaska, British Columbia or Washington that could do the work you wanted?

[@angleofattack]

There are. But we had some special arrangements down south.

[@alpenglow1235]

A hangar every night? What’s wrong with wing covers, and draining the engine oil into a bucket for warming overnight on a wood stove, Mukluks, and tins of Dinty More?

[@angleofattack]

Bahahaha!!!

[@VividCollectiveWorks]

How do you pee when flying hours on end? I wonder how to deal with that?!

[@angleofattack]

We kinda keep ourselves barely hydrated. And we have an empty pee bottle.

[@stevemyers2092]

file a flight plan from lethbridge to your 1st entry point into the USA - easy peasy.

[@angleofattack]

There’s more to it than that.

[@justinjohnson2501]

why not fly the coastal route to washington?

[@angleofattack]

I explain that in the video.

[@merlinbk]

We need more Annalynn. How's she doing? Where she at?

[@MaydayMishap]

I personally would never use Foreflight during a flight, just googling iPad catches fire on a plane will show you why. This is why I suggest the Garmin tools because they are not known for blowing up on airplanes. While flying I would put them in a thermal bag and only use them in emergency situations. I would much rather get lost from a bad GPS than be in a cockpit on fire that I cannot do anything about, especially with oxygen being rapidly burned away.

[@angleofattack]

I’ve got bad news for you - every pilot on an airliner is using an iPad, and most are using a form of ForeFlight. So I guess that means the cockpit will spontaneously combust. Any way, this is a weird conspiracy theory and not at all based in reality.

[@saturn_v3362]

1st?