Learning to land when you can't see ahead! - WarBird Training - Boeing Stearman
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2015
- It's a whole new experience landing when your forward view is totally obstructed!
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NOTE: this flight was EDITED down from over an hour to under 15 minutes; Thus, there are missing details and possible lost context.
Also, I am NOT an instructor, so PLEASE do not look at this as instruction but rather the start to a conversation that you can have with your instructor.
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Here are the direct links to some other Tail Wheel Flying videos that I've done,
but please also check my channel in case I forget to update the links here in this description:
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(Great illustration of trim usage, and my WORST landing is also in this video)
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FLIGHT CHOPS DISCLAIMER:
I am a "weekend warrior" private pilot, I fly for fun with no intentions of going commercial. I have had my PPL for over 15 years, but still consider each flight a learning experience - I generally take detailed notes after each flight to remind myself what went well or what I could do to improve.... Having the GoPro cameras to record flights like this is invaluable. I find these self analysis videos very helpful in my constant quest to improve, and am happy to share. Feedback is invited; however, please keep it positive.
This is one of the most (if not THE most) beautifully done flight videos I've ever seen. Excellent instruction and piloting, video done to perfection - made me feel like I was right there with you all the way! The flight instructor was very experienced and comfortable in his skin and knew his plane well, making it a joy to listen to his instructions - I learned a lot just from hearing him! . . . and the way you shared your excitement and satisfaction really made the experience come alive.
The only way this could have been more enjoyable would have been if I was actually the one in the seat.
THANK YOU BOTH for doing such a fantastic job!
Right on! thanks for the great feedback. Have a look around at the channel, we've got over 100 episodes now, many have the same feel as this one - it has been a fun ride working with the flying community to create this stuff!
A Stearman
When reading the Pilot handbook for the E75, it says with regards to crosswinds, "crosswind operations should be avoided if possible." That's all it says. Lol truth
Haha - there ya go - that's awesome. ;)
My dad rebuilt a 41 Stearman, my nemesis. It was tricky except when it was in the air..It's a real treat to fly..Taking off and landing, well...
If you ever have an engine failure, look straight down. Plan of landing there.
"Once you'll slow down this thing will fall off the sky like a refrigerator" lol
Nice flying!
Dennis seems like he has just the right disposition to be an instructor. Lucky you to have found someone with a knack for teaching and an awesome machine to go fly!
That radial engine has such a beautiful purr
OMG What a beautiful airplane, another “dream within a dream.” Great instruction Dennis, “What a joy to be comprehended...”. Lincoln
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching these "oldies"
- I try to make evergreen content that will always have value even if UA-cam stops sharing things that are more than 2 weeks old :P
So much fun! I remember doing the same thing in a Stearman, years ago. What a plane - brings a whole era back, right in your hands.
Just came across this video. Can't thank you enough for it, you see my father soloed in this type aircraft in the Army Air Core in Ocala FL. he served 29 years and went onto fly B-29's and KC-135's. This gave me a better understanding of what he went though as a young man in his early 20's. Thanks again.
Absolutely great, I had a opportunity to fly Stearman in Florida and LOVE every second of it. Check it out when you have time.
brings tears of joy.. nicely done. Im flying a stearman too..every flight is a joy and a gift
Well that looks like the most fun ever. The last landing was lovely - thanks for sharing!
Ben Kolbeck thanks Ben; yeah it was pretty satisfying to get the hang of it - but I still have LOTS to learn about flying this thing!
Love your videos! It's so great to see such fantastic stuff! Good ones like this are not so common. Keep it up!
Very nice!
Great skills
I really like your instructor he seems very well mannered and great to work with!
Such a legendary airplane. I used to watch a Stearman that was converted into a crop duster, dust the fields near my house when I was a kid. Then this summer I heard that same radial engine roaring overhead, rattling the whole house. I stepped outside and sure enough, a big red Stearman flying sightseer's up and down the coast. Just beautiful. Thanks FlightChops. Very cool.
Absolutely awesome! Great Instructor too!
Awesome as ever FlightChops keep em coming.
Another great episode. And such a lovely old bird...
Another amazing and quality video Mr Chops. This series is a must watch for any and all pilots and students as well. You set the standard for all flight videos period. I would pick your videos over anything from Sportys or AOPA..Thanks for your efforts...
forexpro35 Wow - awesome comment! Thanks! With the great community support we're putting together a budget to do a fair bit more Warbird stuff! I can't wait to share the videos!
This very beautiful and i wish one day i can get lucky enough to fly such an amazing airplane.
I just love this channel. so inspiring {and also addicted!}
+FlightChops Great stuff!
+Yaniv Moas Thanks! Happy to share!
Brilliant. Living the dream! Congrats man.
Excellent video, great camera work and wonderful instructor patter. I watched it as I'm about to convert onto Stearman...very usful. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Dude! You're awesome!
I've lived vicariously through about 15 of your great videos so far! :)
Jimmy Bones Thanks Jimmy1 Glad you're enjoying them!
Well done Steve. Looks like a challenge but so fun.
Keith Burr challenging fun, exactly! it is good times!
Seems very challenging but far more rewarding. Thanks again for sharing! I enjoyed as always! :D
Another great vid Steve and Dennis! Can't wait to come out there for a ride soon. Thank goodness spring is finally here! This weekend is flying WX for sure.
CPsVids Thanks Chris! And yes, I hope you're flying this weekend. I can't fit it in but a close second was taking my daughter for her first "flight" in the RedBird with her new pink head set that I got her for her 6th birthday. Actual flight to follow soon :)
Dennis is an awesome FI and you two have a natural rapport which really comes through. Keep on making excellent videos.
Andrew Tuley Thanks Andrew!
They were married 2 months later
I always wanted to get some time in a Stearman after flying a Decathlon and Citabria. Tail dragger time is the most fun. I always enjoyed doing cross wind landings in a tail dragger......it requires all your concentration.
I feel like this Stearman serie will be incredible! This was an amazing video sir :)
Not everyone's so lucky to get to fly a warbird, but with such a quality of video content, it's almost like experiencing it yourself...
Saw one of these ground loop at KCCR about ten years ago. Happened so fast that it took a moment to process what you just witnessed. It touched down, rolled for a moment, then "whoosh", whipped right around in a blink. He sat there motionless on the runway for quite some time afterwards before he taxied away.
Treetop64 Yes, it's scary how fast you can lose it. I covered ground loop risks in a recent video if you didn't see it, it's called: "Scaring myself - Tail Wheel Flying - Strong Gusting Cross Wind - Ground Loop Risk"
Excellent video and Stearman.
Very nice! beautiful day and beautiful landings!
Bill Flyge Thanks Bill!
Another awesome video! I got to start making some flying ones too!
Great video as always! Some pure flying right there
DocsOn APlane Yes sir!
Another great instructor! I am too excited to start flying!
Another excellent video, buddy. You are really coming on 😉
Well done sir.
Watching those landings is interesting. It always looks like you're just going to drop to the ground when you turn on final, but that plane always seems to manage to keep you gliding through to landing.
Darren Love I think what happens is it really floats in the ground effect if you're at all fast. But if you're slow, it slinks and "comes out of the sky like a refrigerator" as Dennis says :P So it is a fine line to get it right with this plane.
Looking forward to trying a taildragger at some point after finishing my 172 training. Thanks for the great videos. I learn a lot from Flight Chops (sometimes I learn what NOT to do!) #BoseA20
Great Video!!! Love your Channel Chops!
Payton Hankins Thanks for the awesome feedback Payton!
Miss Delish, what a great name for a plane!
Awesome !!! your instructor is pretty relaxing to hear ....
Bill Fernandez Yeah, Dennis is always a pleasure to fly with.
That landing was very smooth at the end.
Very cool. I wish fly it one day too!
Beautiful aircraft right there!
Beautiful!
what I do when landing a Stearman . just visually imagine looking through the plane or just " use the force". great video
Flew one. Loved it.
Awesome job Steve!
Aaron Barnhard Thanks Aaron! I can't wait to by flying PIC in a Chippy in formation with you in the CH2A Stearman!
What a beautiful aircraft the Stearman is. Learned a lot from this video. Thanks guys ever so much. Too bad that I just came across this so far after it was made.
Glad you enjoyed this one - it is still fairly relevant, but there are things I've learned and shared since, flying a lot more aircraft that require similar skills. Have a look around the back catalogue (for Pitts-S2B, T6, and even the recent RV-14 that is blind in the round out / flare), or let me know if you can't find anything and I'll share some specific links.
@@FlightChops Sounds great and thank you.
Very very welcome.
Neat. I envy you.
The "peripheral" view during the round out and flare reminds me of night landings: once you start the round out all you can see is the lights at the edge of the runway.
Laura Halliday Thanks! And good point about the similarity with night landing; Maybe that's why it didn't feel totally wrong as I was probably subconsciously drawing from my night experience.
Man I love this channel.
ready4pullback Thanks!
Looked like a solid flight with some solid flight instruction. Your view will be a whole hell of a lot more obstructed when you start flying it from the back seat with someone in the front seat! I was laughing at the ballooning and drop on landing because I think that's when you discovered how sensitive the elevator is on the stearman in the roundout, the airplane will almost oscillate with the smallest movements at low speed in ground effect. The plus side is the mains are so cushy that you probably felt nothing. Dennis mentioned being worried about fuel sight glass bird strike incidents... I've thought about it a lot as well. I'm banking on the prop dicing the bird before it gets there but it's probably 50/50.
David Carrick Thanks Dave. See you soon at CH2A! (unless you're here first to fly the Super Cub (and maybe Stearman?) with Dennis.
GREAT VIDEO!! I ADMIRE YOU GUYS!!
Another great video. Hell of a difference from the Cub where you almost seem as you are looking down on the engine cowling. No chance with the Stearman! Looks like you nailed that last landing. Well done! I see a Spitfire in your future young Flight Chops.............
bazwabat1 Thanks! And yes, learning to fly a Spitfire is my ultimate dream. my grandfather flew them, and I'd love to honor his memory.
***** Was he with a Canadian Squadron? Talking of Spitfires we now have three flying in New Zealand. A Mk IX, a Tr9 and the latest one a MK XIV. If you come to New Zealand you could go up in the Tr9 (being a two seater). There are a couple available in the UK too. A very worthy goal.
great video!
Amazing flying. Thats what its all about.
IPGVirtual Totally!
The vid is just great, very well done, my heartbeat went up watching it. An excellent mix of sound information and entertainment. Just one thing: the music at the beginning of the clip is just a pain in the neck.
Love you videos, keep it up ! :)
Mate, Great videos. I am lucky enough to be the custodian of a J3 and a A75 N1 Stearman in Melbourne Australia.
Its great to see your work promoting old planes. Well done. Nice Flying.
Cheers,
Michael Jarvie.
VH MQJ (Cub) VH YSY ( Stearman).
Michael Jarvie Thanks! I've yet to fly a J3 - it's on my list!
Ending a glider flying day with one of your videos :) very nice
Being low and slow over the country in a biplane, it doesn't get better than that. I couldn't have said it better.
That plane looks amazing to fly
Good one ol' buddy. Looking great throughout!!
Talk soon.
MrJimmer Thanks Jim!
Great Video would love to just fly in that thing never mind fly it !
Ahh, felt like I was there with you...:-) I'll switch "my" B737 with you any time. And what an instructor you have. Last time I flew a small airplane or rotorcraft was in 1993. 3000+ dual given. God knows I miss it!!!!
Fly Jaytrainer Wow - I really appreciate this comment! It is really humbling to hear one of "the big boys" is enjoying my stuff :)
Well, the truth is that the more experience I get the more humble I get. Look at "big boys" like Sullenberger and Skilles. They charish
Well, the truth is that the more experience I get, the more humble I get. Look at "big boys" like Sullenberger and Skilles. They still cherish basic general aviation. Besides, I have flown with "big guys" who never really had a chance to learn the basics. I wish everybody still learnt to fly like you. Today, there are to many products of "the magenta line". My next goal is reinstating my expired Gold Seal CFI in 2016/17 by taking the glider commercial/CFI. I'm kind of stuck far away from the US aviation I love, based in Norway. Keep it up, so I can day dream and learn from your videos. They are fantastic!
Fly Jaytrainer Thanks so much for this great feedback! I'm definitely inspired to keep at it :)
I find it interesting that the instructor here had you start out three pointing. Learning to fly a Waco ASO my instructor had me wheel land every time so that I would have more directional control and be able to see where I was going as long as possible. I think for this reason I bounced a lot more. Awesome flying
daniel patterson Thanks. And interesting regarding the wheel landings. There are some old WWII training videos around, I have been meaning to watch to see how they did it.
+FlightChops well I also think he had me do wheel landings so that we could easily do touch and go's. The way you were taught here is the proper method for landing on grass. I just don't like not being see when I roll out. See you at Oshkosh. If you get a chance to leave the foreflight booth swing by the Wacos
LOVE it bro! That's all I got!!
Thumbs up!~~John
WORRO01 Thanks John!
my last log book entry is in a stearman. this is the only thing I don't like about getting older.....I soloed n5106n in 1973...at csg.
enjoyed this
Very nice episode, Chops. I was late getting to this one - it's been an all-things-flying kind of weekend for me. XC to visit my brother on Friday, fly-in and a hot air balloon festival yesterday. Watching this makes me wanna go right back up there and log hour #100. (I'm at 99.7 as of this comment)
ZeroByteInFlight Awesome! It feels good to break through the 100 hour mark! I feel like I'll have a similar reaction to getting to that point with tail wheel flying - I'm just over 40 now.
Great video! Love the whole series.
Now that you have flown the trainer, you will have to find someone with a spitfire. :)
Colin Corbett Thanks! And that is my goal - If I can find my way into a Spitfire, I'll have to redefine my life goals :P
Dear Flyboy Mutton Chops, your videos encouraged me to contact the nearby non-profit operator of historical aircraft and ask them: "Hey, I would love to buy a short sightseeing flight with your 60-year old Polikarpov-2 biplane, but since I am a pilot as well (albeit a low-hour one), can I also take control of the airplane in the air, just to try it?" The outcome was literally a blast! After a short ground training and verbal coaching by the chief pilot, I had the controls during takeoff and landing as well :) Now the only problem is that,if flying is addictive, flying vintage biplanes is even more addictive.... D'oh!!!!!!!
Zoltán Nagy Wow - it is SO awesome to hear that! I'm happy to have helped be a part of inspiring you to try that first flight in a vintage plane!
Nice one Steve.
A.T.1357 Thanks Ali! We gotta get you up in that thing with Dennis next time you're in town!
***** Well, if you twist my arm, sure!
Very good
Awesome! I envy you for that possibility! Can't wait for more of this! :)
Eric Lund Thanks Eric! If you wanna visit, we can get you up flying with Dennis in that lovely bird!
***** Well that's officially going on the "bucket list"! When the day comes that I start earning a living instead of using it all on flight training, I will definately hold you to it! :P
Eric Lund For sure man! And we've got a free guest room for you to stay if you wanna crash here.
Awesome! I'll definately keep that in mind!
Wow very nice very good I love biplane
good instructor
I think want to move back to Canada so I can hang with you.
Great video thanks as always.
***** Awesome thanks - You're welcome to visit and fly with Dennis any time!
Looks like fun
What type of intercom do you have. It sounds great. Most are completely useless in that environment.
Randomly found your site. Great honest videos.
Loren Betts Thanks!
i saw one today. plus a dc-3 that was following me.
My mother learned to fly in a Stearman back in the 1950's. She said it was fun till you had to deal with cross winds. Then it scared the shit out of her but she over come it.
A forward slip does wonders for forward visibility on final. It also forces you to steepen your approach which also helps your forward visibility on final.
Jonathan Cullifer Yup. That's another technique that we start working on in later training - for this initial Stearman flight we kept it simple. But even flying with out a slip on final you can see more or less; it's during the round out and flare that you can't see - and you can't be forward slipping at that point.
***** Agreed. The Stearman is a great airplane to fly, and your video reminded me that I need to make some phone calls and get back at it :)
I landed a couple of times as a passenger (front seat) on a Great Lakes (biplane). I know what you mean. Good job.
Alex Feldstein Thanks Alex!
I want to see the Curtiss P-6E Hawk. That would be cool.
You're totally making me want to hop in a taildragger!
nice airplane ..
Good stuff! So how was the handling on the roll out compared to the Super Cub? Also, why touch and go's instead of full stop landings?
+SayAgain709 It is a lot more mass to manage than the Super Cub. Watch for the next video which goes live this Friday (Nov 6th) for some solid training when me doing full stop landings on a gusty day in this thing. :)
Dennis , Thank You, Im Thinking Back and It was Maybe my 3 or 4th flight, and we were at the end of the Taxiway,Doing our Run Ups,and My Inst, Neil. said Watch This,as a Old Biwing Tail dragger was Coming in for a Landing,And MMK was Only 1100 ft, and Bam,,,they slamed the Brakes on,and as You said,in another Vid, They can Flip so fast! And it Did,,, Niel said, Open Your door,and Hold on! as we rushed down the runway,to make sure they were OK! Thank God,, The ONLY Thing Hurt, was The older Gents Feeling and Pride,,, Fantastic Vids,since changing Over to Comcat,cable Modem,as Att,was so Much and Buffer city,at There fastest,speed. love em,,, And Be safe and Thank You!,,,Jack
You're one lucky guy :-)
Do you know what intercom setup Dennis has in the Stearman?
I Really Wish I have my own.
Quick question. Had my second flight lesson today and during both of my lessons I've started to get motion sick. I'm fine at the beginning and middle but it seems to me that the last 5-10 mins of both flights I've started to feel sick. Did this happen to you? Is this normal when I first start flying? How do I overcome this? Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Jack Salcedo I'd say keep at it Jack. The more your brain is engaged with flying, the less mental energy you'll have to worry about feeling sick. It is generally passengers, not pilots that get air sick - so as you transition from passenger to pilot you'll be fine.
Hello again. Hate to keep bothering you but I have a quick question. How do you record your voice for videos? Want to do the same thing but to show my friends and family video with voice. How do you do it? Anything would be appreciated!
Jack Salcedo It's cool - if you look at my "Super Cub Winterizaion" video (thumb nail has a cat in the corner) I cover that set up. Or you can email me and I will send you a detailed "process document" that I have pre written. flightchops at gmail dot com.
Boeing Stearman! 'Nuff said.
#Aviation
skyyguyy Thanks for sharing!
Set it down like a butterfly with sore feet.
Does this plane have an artificial horizon??
Ethan Slater nope - just the real one - and lots of it with that open cockpit :)
Why not land with wheel landings rather than full stall mini crashes? I asked Ray Maule that and he told me the gear legs on Maules were too short so the POH says no wheel landings.