Whale spotting in this tiny red plane

[@liftcreator]

Finally the whale saga has concluded! With their annual northerly migration, you were bound to see some off the Gold Coast at this time of the year. Such a cool video (Errol and his plane too)!

[@Igamerfellow]

Loved this - I was fortunate enough to find a pod of whales on my first area solo! Followed them all the way down the coast to the edge of the training area. Awesome stuff, Mr Drury!

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Same on my first solo! Only there were a dozen 10 foot bronze whalers about 50 metres off the beach where people were walking. YMER

[@O_Dingo77]

Congratulations on the whale spotting Stefan. I still remember my first from an airplane in the late 70's out of Sydney heads. Speaking of whale spotting thought I'd share a unique magical moment I had in Tasmania. I was on a rock climbing weekend camping trip in Freycinet Peninsular and sat on a cliff edge at night to eat my dinner. I looked down and phosphorescence from the waves was everywhere below me. Then I witnessed something truly amazing, the phosphorescence of thousands of krill being driven to the surface and a whales mouth coming up from underneath, breaching and engulfing them. All of it lit in bright green.

[@rustyknight6190]

Always nice to get a video you can grin your way through. Nice job, thanks!

[@BrynPrice]

Finally seen whales! Well done Stef, you must be ecstatic

[@TAS609]

Thanks, really enjoy your videos

[@StefanDrury]

Thank you Michael, that's a really kind thing to do. I am very grateful for your support and really glad that you're enjoying the videos. Cheers, stef

[@AnthonyGriz]

Congrats on seeing your first whales! Never seen them from a plane before myself, but definitely seen them off the beaches on the south coast of NSW a few times whilst I was there. That Bushcat looked like a ton of fun too.

[@MaverickAussie]

Welcome to Queensland, Stefan! Was wondering when you were gonna get up here! I love flying the Goldie area; if you scoot over around Moreton Island and the Bay you can often see dolphins, turtles, dugong and sharks. I bet you'll be back more often - it's perfect flying in winter!

[@romyferreira7134]

Thought I saw you in Surfers Paradise the other day. My wife and I went to say 'hi' and compliment you on your videos, but you turned in to Strike Bowling. I am lucky to call Heck Field home, and see the whales during the migration season. Keep up the great work! 👍

[@keagang10]

I reckon a whale spotting trip off the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island is in order! Not to mention the spectacular scenery and a good stretch of the Cirrus’ legs 😉

[@davegrundgeiger9063]

Congratulations! I also especially enjoyed this one because my daughter and son-in-law live in QLD, up in the Sunny Coast. (I live in Los Angeles, but will be visiting in September.) I'm a student pilot out of KWHP, and I love your content. Keep up the great work!

[@StefanDrury]

That's good to hear, thanks Dave. Hopefully you can get a flight along the Gold Coast when you visit, it's a fun way to see the city from low level along the beach.

[@GamesandGopros]

I’m actually live in Queensland, it’s great to see you up here!

[@StefanDrury]

I had a great visit, hope to be back again soon. Thanks.

[@adoptedegg_3392]

Haha! This is so cool! Would love to have an Animal Planet type documentary from the air!

[@StefanDrury]

It's such a unique perspective from up here hey? Such a fun morning of flying.

[@MrJames_1]

Congrats Stef 🐋😁

[@maydayay]

This plane is quite affordable. Gives new enthusiasts a hope to buy it some day.

[@R2robot]

Cool plane! And WHALES!!

[@bruceharper8149]

I seriously love your stuff Stef!

[@simonabunker]

We can see whales from our kitchen window at breakfast time. Admittedly they are quite a lot further away than flying directly over them! That looks like a fun aircraft!

[@nsw72]

Wey-hey! Finally! Whales! 👍👍👍

[@lachlanmckenzie8208]

If you’re excited for whales you need to come up to Exmouth in WA. Currently getting 40+ whales a day, whale sharks, turtles, various other shark species and have even been lucky to catch Orcas a couple of times!

[@reubenmorison8149]

I thought my 20ish a day was good out of Airlie Beach😂

[@thomasheffernan7101]

As soon as I saw the title, I thought whales! Nice one Stef, great video!

[@StefanDrury]

Cheers Thomas

[@WX4CB]

LOVE the bushcat... i fly one at the school i go to.. only thing i dont like is the throttle on the left lol

[@rodneyskennedy3163]

A lot fun that wee Bushcat, not sold here in Ireland yet unfortunately.

[@Balthazar744]

Love the whales. Great video mate, thank you.

[@AudioTones67]

Welcome to Queensland Stef 🐋

[@JBAviation]

Awesome Stef! Glad you got to experience seeing a whale from the air!

[@mjotd8670]

Nice one Stef, great vid as per, pretty clear you that you had a whale of a time! Keep up the great work! Cheers

[@StefanDrury]

Haha, puns are very much welcomed on this channel. 10/10

[@KTWardlaw]

Nice video!😎👍🏼

[@davevanbeers6944]

Awesome 😎

[@galiyarr3694]

Damn, You literally flew over the top of me Stef! Heck field is also where I was getting my license. Shame I didn't know you were up here ad I would of loved to say hi! Hope you enjoyed your holiday though 😁

[@lachlanmcmahon6070]

Im so happy for you that your dream came true to see the whale's when flying also great video stef it. I like to also be in Gold Coast what a great plane nice weather and lots of things to do

[@ardmore0017]

Wasn’t expecting this Stef, it has been a dream of me to fly a bush plane. Nice vid Btw

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Nice!

[@pilotkayayan2171]

You’re so funny ! Cheers for such a beautiful video

[@StefanDrury]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks

[@tomdchi12]

Congrats on seeing that whale! Also, love the fuel gauge! (It's crazy to me that normal gauges aren't reliable except near empty!)

[@deanwalker2682]

Need to come for a fly with me, offshore from Port Albert to Lakes Entrance there are a lot of whales. My Tecnam is no Cirrus but she's a delight to fly.

[@leifekstrom1828]

Hey Stef, welcome to sunny Queensland…most of the time😁 Awesome experience scooting up the South Stradie beach at low level isn’t it! I’ve done that on more than one occasion! You probably won’t have time, but you should pop up to Archerfield and see my Cirrus friendly friends at Flight One and Tisdall Aviation Group.

[@StefanDrury]

Thanks Leif, nice to be in QLD and I'm hoping to get back up here again as soon as EYZ's upgrade is finished. Thanks for the tips and watch this space...

[@joecastro2153]

Great video Stef! Wow a whale? That you don’t see every day! Love it 😍 Funny note: for a minute I thought you were filming driving in the wrong side hahaha… then I remembered you’re in AUSTRALIA 🤦🏻‍♂️😂😂

[@StefanDrury]

What do you mean the wrong side, it's the US that is on the wrong side :) Thanks Joe, I appreciate the support.

[@joecastro2153]

@@StefanDrury lol

[@tomwills9058]

great vid Stef! keep it up

[@StefanDrury]

Cheers Tom

[@andrewedgar380]

Looks like you had a whale of a time....well done :-)

[@MrJames_1]

In my pretend life (MS FS 2020) I fly my Honda Jet out of Southport airport and can see the tag for Heck field but it’s so small I can never make out the runway.

[@bryan.meijer]

Wahoo Whales!!

[@CHARLESCRANFORD]

When I saw your Instagram post, I though you had given up on updating EYZ and got a simple aircraft. Maybe one of these will be next. Nice video and congratulations on seeing whales from the sky.

[@StefanDrury]

I like my glass cockpit too much to give up on EYZ, but it was a lot of fun getting back to stick and rudder flying again. Reminds me that a mix of the two is not only fun but good for improving skills as well.

[@CHARLESCRANFORD]

@@StefanDrury I'm sorry, I didn't mean "give up" on EYZ I just meant that I thought you were tired of waiting on EYZ to be finished, with supply chain issues and other delays. It is a lot different flying an aircraft that doesn't need much rudder input compared to one that does.

[@EddyOtway]

There was whales in Port Campbell yesterday 👌🏼

[@dommycool100]

30Knt climb I love that. My airspeed doesn't even come alive until 40 lol

[@Combatants1]

Wooooo finally!!!!

[@StefanDrury]

I know right? Finally I can tick that off my list.

[@Combatants1]

@@StefanDrury we’ve had sightings everyday since Monday in warrnambool and Portland. But haven’t had the weather to fly in :(

[@Darcy_prince]

Yet another example of how lucky us pilots are!

[@StefanDrury]

Agreed! We are the lucky ones seeing the planet from up here.

[@angelodepasquale6636]

That’s awesome

[@branislavbabic4579]

How wide this cabin is? Very nice plane...

[@dariusbriers]

1.3 meter wide. One of the widest in LSA range.

[@branislavbabic4579]

@@dariusbriers even in entire GA range 😉 I wish I have money for year Cirrus maintenance cost, then I would fly this pussy cat 😄

[@robinbaass1825]

0.4 psi tyre pressure??

[@jasonbarnhart8056]

What are your thoughts on electric aircraft?

[@StefanDrury]

Hey Jason, I made a video flying an electric plane here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q37VfXubgK90bpI

[@serverlan763]

How much is Tri Undercarriage model with basic avionics ?

[@aekpani]

I learn flying at heck field

[@arcanondrum6543]

Whales have tremendous hearing. Before man decided to noise up the ocean, whales could hear each other from Pole to Pole using their lower frequency calls. Whales BTW have much larger brains than we have .

[@lukastiatoa2033]

this looks like the plane isaw at brisbane airshow

[@marsgal42]

Nice! I've never seen any whales from the air thanks to that pesky "gliding distance to land" requirement. It's quite common to see whales and porpoises from BC Ferries. Porpoises like to play in the ship's bow wave.

[@amcconnell6730]

Flight below 500" AGL ?? IS that legal now? - it's a long time since I flew in Australia.

[@Hothand621]

certainly looked lower than 500' to me as well

[@StefanDrury]

Hello, the magnified field of view settings on the 360 cam (exterior shot) and the turbulence dipping the left wing makes it look closer to the ground than we were. No rules were broken, and as soon as we saw people on the beach I climbed up to 1,000 feet again as you see at the end of that beach sequence.

[@sangeerth_c]

Achievement unlocked

[@Mike_Costello]

I can totally see you running back to Q1 exclaiming to Jacqui how you saw whales and not a single mention of the aircraft.

[@StefanDrury]

This was exactly the conversation we had as I showed her videos from my phone.

[@gianluigi7619]

Why couldn't you write what you saw in the title?? Let the viewer know so THEY can decide if it's interesting for them or not.