Flying To Catch SpaceX Rocket Launch
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- I live 250miles north of Vandenberg space force base, I can sometimes see launches under the right lighting conditions, but now I fly planes I have the option of getting a bit closer in a relatively short time compared to the hours and hours it would take to drive the distance. In addition the extra altitude would let me be above intervening clouds, and see further over the curvature of the Earth, potentialy to see the the entry burn which happens hundreds of miles downrange from the launch site.
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Talking to ATC can be the hardest part of GA flying imo. You just have to remember that they are there to help you, not out to get you.
scott has a great radio voice.
As a pilot I 100% agree. Flying a helicopter is second nature after a while. Remembering everything I need to say to ATC and saying the correct thing to the correct person on the correct channel at the correct time is stressful AF. Especially for someone with ADHD and the working memory of a goldfish. 😂
Unless vatsim.
If I ever get a flying licence I'll probably have 1000h on simulators talking with ATC before I have 1000h on simulators flying the plane.
Not always*
Watching a landing burn from far away and seeing the rocket disappear behind the horizon... flatearthers hate this trick!
Amazing footage!
Nah, they'll just handwave it away as CGI.
@@anteshell My answer is everything you see on the interwebs is cgi since every image is generated by a computer.
I would love to watch them trying to explain the literal shadow of the planet in the atmosphere around 5:30. you can't get that with spotlight... well, maybe if the spotlight is above and below and what we are seeing is the upwards spotlight illuminating the firmament. hell, curse my worldbuilding brain that finds so much fun in trying to create a flatearth world that works...
@@johnarnold893so your comment is also cgi?
@@johnarnold893 I think YOUR cgi, ( Common General Idiot ) lol
Way to mix your passion for space and flying in one video Scott. Great job.
And videography - just an amazing combo👌
It is amazing to see how you have changed from KSP Videos to a Pilot.
I am so proud of you! I wish you all the best Scott! You are my Hero!
I find myself wondering why more people don't do aerial photography / films of rocket launches, you make it all look so simple....
Ten thousand US dollars or more to get a private pilot's license, plus over a hundred dollars an hour to fly. Not impossible for many if it's your passion, but it sure raises the barrier to entry.
@@IstasPumaNevada The key is to team up with someone who already flies and you just focus on buying and operating the camera rig.
@@RCAvhstape Of course, but now you need either to hire a private pilot or coordinate with someone else's free time. It is possible, it's just that there's a much bigger barrier than just "show up with a camera".
The view of launches from San Diego is great, we get to see stage separation and entry burn every time. Glad you were able to catch the entry burn, it's unbelievable how bright it is given how far away the booster is. Even down here, 200+ miles away, it's brighter than anything else in the sky.
Sunsets so cool you need to climb up a couple thousand feet to see them again.
It’s amazing how you have gone from KSP Master to rocket launch chaser via IRL flying a plane! So cool and inspiring!
I got to see this launch while sitting on my couch looking out my front window. But I do live in Rosarito Beach Mx. and I'm about 400 yards from the beach. What a show.
This video seems like it describes what an absolutely perfect day in my mind would be, only thing missing is going to a car show
Here in Santa Maria we do have a few car shows a year.
Maybe sometime one will line up with a launch?
Not QUITE the same as a pair of F-22s chasing a launch, but still very cool! 😁
Did they do that? Is there a video?
@@andrewfecheyr7790 Yeah, there's a cockpit view from one of the planes. Search for it on UA-cam. Every time I try to post a link in the comments it disappears. It was recent. A starlink launch. I think.
@@andrewfecheyr7790 Search F22 chase rocket and you'll find it
I used to work the morning shift refueling airliners at SJC in the '90s. Occasionally I'd look to the east and see a very wavy and curly multicolored stripe in the sky before the sun rose. They were predawn launch contrails from Vandenberg that were twisted by the varied winds at different altitudes. It was always so cool to see... but didn't come close to something like this. So very cool that you got a chance to capture this.
Nice job. Logistics well planed and executed. Not your typical private pilot Saturday 60 mile trip to a neighboring airport coffee-shop.
Scott is really living the dream lately, definitely well deserved
Thank you for this brilliant show Scott. Felt as though I was in the plane with you. What an experience that was! Also thank you for the live image you posted of how busy the air space traffic is in the sky of California. Wow! Makes this flight that more miraculous. Well done!
You can see the Vandenberg launches here in Central Arizona when the twilight effect is operative. And since we are further east, the sky is darker and the rocket is quite bright even though it's fairly low on the horizon.😊
Kewl plane, Didn't know what it was so I looked it up. Aerospool WT9 Dynamic. I enjoy all your content, thx and Fly Safe!
Scott Manley is the best channel on UA-cam. Change my mind
Talking on the radio to the tower is an art that needs practice. I am an AME and drive commercial jets around a busy international airport, and speaking with the tower is daunting at best. Other than some little mistakes, from what I could hear it sounded like you did pretty good.
Kelsey, the commercial pilot who runs the super channel gear74, told us several times that this can be practiced in parallel to training in the gym. Where* you can listen and repeat. Many people who play flight simulator games can often do this quite well also.
*) may be also by cooking, cleanig, tidying up or jogging 😊?
Man reading back complicated taxi instructions at an unfamiliar field is just the worst. I sound like a seasoned pro at my home 'drome but send me somewhere else and I'm derpy mcderpface. But Scott you have the perfect radio voice. Just give em a smooth baritone "hullooo Scott landing here"
What a neat confluence of a bunch of your hobbies. The flight back into the sunset was beautiful too. Thanks for posting Scott!
Crazy to see the manly Scot flying safe o7
Scott you are a lucky man to live in such a place. In 1988 I spent a month in Petaluma on business and got to see as much of the area as possible. Loved it so much I went back twice for holidays there from the UK. I have a very soft spot for Armstrong Woods, and for Bullfrog Pond, accessible only to careful searchers of detailed maps. And seeing your flight made me miss my night flying days around Bournemouth. Loved it!
That was awesome, Scott. Thank you for making the trip!
Wow! I love that “dinky little plane” with that big view window.
Thanks for the flight Scott. That was fun.
Great video Scott. The last time I did video from an aircraft was aboard Cessna 208 in the right seat with my camera on a telescopic monopod sitting on the floor and strapped to the cockpit door handle with Velcro. I got lovely rock steady video that way. The boss man in the left seat liked this idea so much that he said he'd be trying that. Gotta love the 208. It's a lovely aircraft.
Thanks for sharing! 😊
That was really neat. Thanks for taking us along!
Great video Scott, thank you for taking us on that amazing journey with you and your friend.
What a cool spontaneous adventure! Thanks for sharing with us!
What an awesome video! Such a unique perspective. I'd love to see you do another one of these but get even closer!
that plane's interior and glass is gorgeous. Well done and congratulations.
Pedant here: the portrait lens is the 100mm, or 105 or 135. the 50mm (on full frame sensors) most approximates what we see with our own field of vision. The 100+mm is used for portraits to reduce distortion.
Pedantier here: he likely doesn't use a full-frame camera, but rather an APS-C-sized one, in which case 50 mm is within the field of view generally considered as "portrait".
Pedantimax here: the ideal portrait FOV is subjective, but on full-frame cameras, it is the 35mm focal length which most closely approximates the human field of vision
Jerk here:
There were 2 people in the plane. Why not have a really high-powered telephoto lens?
@@ozzymandius666 Too hard to stabilize.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing Scott. ❤
That’s was a cool little video! Thanks Scott 👍🏿
Awesome - thanks for sharing.
What a really super idea and super cool video. Thank you very much Scott! Looking forward to the next fly-to-fly-to- space-flight! 😊
Really cool Scott. Thanks for sharing.
This was a cool video Scott. I enjoyed the gopro of the flight and was glad you included it :)
This is such a cool video, Scott! Thanks for sharing!!
Damn flying private airplane and seeing rocket launch from the sky... your life looks so epic sir scott
Hey scott, one of the things that really helped my calls to ATC was listening to liveatc either via the Internet or their app. I would listen to instructions from ATC and then try and read them back.
I really enjoy these videos Scott. Fly safe :)
Perfect plan! Also, that sun canopy is cool!
Great footage! Beautiful views!
Awesome perspective! I'm a half checkflight away from my first solo, I intend to keep flying safe!
Great job! I watched this launch too from San Diego - it was spectacular. The exhaust plume looked like a giant neon light across the night sky - it was still lit by the sun. A few minutes later the sunset cast across the lower part of the contrail. Really beautiful.
This is amazing, Scott! Awesome!
What an adventure! You rock Scott!
Very cool, thx for taking us
Thanks so much for sharing this Scott! We saw the launch from New Cuyama while driving west; didn’t even realize a launch was planned, so it was a nice surprise!
Wonderful stuff Mr Fly Safe!
Way To Go Scott Awesome to be 9in a Plane Flying your self to see that Great Vlog Thanks
Back in the early 90's, I saw a space shuttle launch from Kennedy Soace Center while flying over Lake Okeechobee in South Florida. The flame from the SRBs was a bright orange, and the white exhaust plume traced all the way back down to the launch pad.
Scott Manley, you’re such a star, thank you!
Awesome footage Scott. Great vid
THAT were fun Scott. Thanks!
Oh how cool was that! Great idea, Scott!
Super experience. Thank you for sharing.
I live in Long Beach and saw this from the 405, completely by chance. It was amazing!
Cool.. happy landings!
Comms were probably the single most nerve-racking thing about my PPL training, yours weren’t bad at all. I still think it’s hilarious that I asked you if you’re going to get a PPL during the Lego Discovery build livestream and you were like “eh, yeah, I’ve been thinking about it…” …now you have a freaking plane. Time flies!
Great video for a different perspective
That was extremely cool. I envy your freedom to do stuff like this.
Wow, great footage and what a great idea to fly towards the launch and see what you can! Great stuff! 😜
Nice to see from upthere ,thank you scott
Thanks Scott, that was cool!
I was out on my Sailboat at Catalina Island. Great view of the launch over the Island. Landing burn was visible too...just before it disappeared behind the Island. Fly safe
I wish you would make more flying videos! I really enjoyed this video!! Thanks Scott!
Come on down to the central coast sometime and watch a launch and landing from SLC-4. Plenty of parking on the top of the hill
off Highway 1. Left turn onto Firefighter Road, keep left into a dirt parking lot. It is amazing to see it go up, and then come right back
down again. The launches always rattle our garage doors. Bet they REALLY rattle when they start launching Starship from SLC-6.
If you're going that far you might as well go down to the Ocean Ave roadblock to hear and feel it better
very cool. thanks for sharing
Yer livin' the life, dude. My highlights are cruising among the West Texas cumulo congestus as they become nimbus. Love your slick little ride.
Well, although hearing the sounds of a launch (I never experienced that and likely never will) I think this is way more awesome, a true combo of "hobbies". What a view and what a privilege.
Brilliant video Scott and congrats on bagging the visual on the Entry Burn. Your handling and airmanship have definitely improved. As for talking to a Tower, Ground or Arrivals or Departures, just takes practice. Suggestion, visit that place with the tower for an hour of circuits once a month and your radio skills will come up quickly. Just takes practice. ... and remember, Fly Safe!
That's the Belt/Girdle of Venus coming up at @5:45, it's Earth's terminator rising as the sun sets. Beautiful colors.
Wow Scott! Very nice feat!
Glad you flew safe.
Absolutely awesome, Scott! I'm jealous :)
Very cool. Sensational
Nice job, Scott. Nice hasty video, interesting video.
I got to watch the Falcon Heavy launch in person today. It was amazing, the sound of the rocket engines, the sonic booms, the intense glow of the Merlin engines.
I think what I loved most was that I was in Titusville. Rocket launches are commonplace at this point. I live in Jax so I can still watch from a distance on my driveway. I see launches 2-3x a week. And yet, there was a huge crowd. The shoulders of the street on US-1 were absolutely packed with cars. I was surrounded by other nerds who were as passionate about rocketry as me. It was incredible to see the coast of the Indian River saturated with fellow nerds for miles.
If you get the chance to watch a rocket launch, take it!
It was awesome getting to meet you at OpenSauce! Didn't realize you were so close to home. Thanks for sharing your flight, very cool vid.
I watched it from a hilltop in San Jose. Loved the jelly effect, booster and fairing halves visible!
I had never thought of watching a launch from a plane.
But then I'm no fan of flying.
Greetings from Santa Maria.
dude, this is awesome!
Awesome, Sir !
I lived in Santa Maria, in the early '80s, and made several Service Calls (Telecom) onto the Base at Vandenberg.
i'd LOVE to be able to watch those Launches from there, now
Watch one of the Falcon 9 launches from the bluffs above gaviota state beach. You won't be disappointed...boost, staging, and the landing burns are clearly visible, and the pass overhead is low enough that the sound lags along the sky following the trajectory of the rocket.
Cool Cool Cool Scott. I'm envious.
Cool video Scott
This is so cool
That was a fun one Scotty 🫡
Nice piloting. It has been a while since I saw one of your flight videos. Your proficiency and comfort as a pilot is 1000% improved. Great job! Re: ATC… Get some good ATC software for whatever sim you use and knock yourself out. There are some with voice recognition which are pretty good as well.
I live an hour away from vandenberg and I have to say this launch was definitely in the top 3 most amazing view-wise.
Very cool 👍🏼
Tres neat. Very cool thing to do.
I see no issue with Armstrong D.C. controls on light aircraft. ;) for those who don't know D.C. is Direct Cable.
incredible video, i would love to see a launch from the air. I can definitely see how a high altitude balloon could be seen as something...other worldly by a novice. thanks for all the cool shots!
Watched this launched the other night with my dad down in SoCal. This was the most visible the booster and fairings have been for me. Were able to catch the reentry burn right above the horizon every time, its amazing.
Caught this on a walk. Really cool to see the first stage thrusters.