Chinook Solo to Put In Bay #1 My Final Flight
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Chinook+2
Chinook+2 Ultralight makes a solo flight to Put-In-Bay out in Lake Erie. Part 1
Round trip flight is 187 miles. ( less than half a tank of fuel.) Most of the cameras batteries went dead before the end, but they did run longer than expected.
I have decided to stop flying, but wanted to take one more flight to Lake Erie. Airports around here are closing, and we have lost many in just a few years. I am just getting too old to take care of the plane. The plane is FOR SALE, and other videos on the play list will tell you more about it.
Not a very pretty day, and there was a bit of rain out over the lake. There is no landing at Put-In-Bay, as the weather was turning for the worse, and I did not need to use the restroom. Saved the landing fee and just circled the island. Yes, I had an inflatable life jacket on. Note sloshing fuel.
Thank you for a great summer of vicarious flying. I've learned a lot!
Looking forward to this adventure - when I found your home airstrip, i had a look around and saw those islands, and thought they look interesting, and now you're going there. Glad you're you're taking adventures while the weather's kind!
Cool little aircraft! I have never flown in Ohio before. I can see why you turned Northwest quickly. I noticed the class C just South of you. It even appears that little airport lies beneath and very near the edge of Akron-Canton airport's Class C.
It is. They let us come and go without calling as long as we stay low and go north to leave the airspace quickly. You are very sharp.
Thanks! I am happy to hear that the FAA can be practical in this regard and let you fly into that nice grass runway without the hassle of atc communication and clearance.
@@jamesbrummett9530 I think it got started because our little grass strip was there first.
"Ya really don't want to go into corn. That's really a bad idea." Hahahahahaha!
Great plane and video, thanks for posting@ what wind speeds won't you fly in? 20,25,30knots and how about wind gusts?
I don't talk knots. Only mph. I can fly in a wind, but don't because it is difficult to get anywhere and costs fuel. If I think my destination will have a 20 mph crosswind, I probably won't go. If I have a 15 mph headwind, I probably won't go because it takes me too long to get there. Tailwind are all great, and I will fly higher to search them out.
@@Adventurepilot70 Thanks for you reply, where do you fly, what state, town etc.
I'm in Connecticut myself.
I am in Kent, Ohio. Near KSU. We have a club called the North Coast Lite, Flyers.
I run only non-oxy gas in all my small engines.
And I do not.