Aircraft Ferry Adventure: First Ever Trip to ALASKA (Part 1)

I was in the fledgling stages of becoming a ferry pilot when I got a call from new aircraft owner asking if I could take a PA-12 from Kansas to Alaska. Of course I couldn't say no! The key was that he never asked specifically if I had flown to Alaska before, so perhaps I left out that detail at the time, but I certainly wasn't going to let the fact that I had never done it stop me from trying.
I did lots of research ahead of time and thankfully I had adequate time to prepare. I'm also very thankful I live in a time where information is abundantly available for research ahead of time and there are lots of other extremely useful resources out there to help the flight along the way.
Stay tuned for the second part of this trip as I have a lot more footage from that part and I faced many more challenges along the way as we made our way from Toad River to Anchorage.
Resources I found useful researching the trip to Alaska:
-AOPA: www.aopa.org/t...
-Transport Canada (Canadian FAA): tc.canada.ca/e...
-Aviator Zone Academy (FCC License Info): www.aviator.zo...
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[@kasm10]

dude your channel rocks. above average I'd say

[@ClearedAsFiled]

What a great adventure 😊.....thanks for the trip...

[@GlensHangar]

Sounds like a great adventure!
Lack of fuel, lack of radio and RADAR, and lack of suitable landing spots are some of the challenges of flying up here for sure. So glad you popped back up in my feed; I hadn't seen you in a while and now realise I've missed a few episodes.

[@AverageAviator]

Haha I'm glad to hear it, hopefully I didn't offend you too bad with that terrible Canadian accent/impression.

[@downwindchecklist6567]

Really nice style of narrating. The adventure is a fantastic one. Great that you can actually do that and make a living from it. Thank you for sharing and looking forward to the next part!

[@jarebear3528]

Dude the search history at 1:08 had me dying!

[@DPSDDS]

Just the kinda stuff I love watching! Good work. Keep it up

[@dalejones1977]

Great video! Your narration is terrific and natural! And my home town of Calgary was in your vid! Too bad you couldn't have landed here and stayed a couple of days! Keep up the great work!

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

G,day Travis from Sydney Australia. That was a fantastic video production, especially the sectional charts with plane direction. Your new planes not F15 for KIAS. What about a header tank behind the seat?
Gee that MT orange sunset from the rooftop was amazing.
🌏🇦🇺

[@runwillrobinson]

Wow, great video. Thank you.

[@BumAviator]

Awesome....very different experience compared to your trip to Idaho a few years ago.

[@ArsalanBahojb]

Great video, Thank you for sharing!

[@jacobkahle4999]

This is too good 😂

[@letsfly72x]

“A boat through butter”