More Helicopter Cherry Drying
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2019
- COME FLY WITH ME while I dry cherries in three different orchards after a heavy rain.
This is the last cherry drying video this season -- I promise! It's very long -- despite heavy editing -- because I do a lot of talking about my drying work and cherries, including orchards, growing, picking, and those light-colored tarps under the cherry trees. You'll also hear me talking to the two other pilots on my team as I coordinate our efforts. If you've got sharp eyes, you'll even see them in flight. Along the way, I have a close encounter with two wind machines and deal with a minor in-flight "emergency." On flight segments from orchard to orchard, you get a glimpse of the amazing scenery in the Wenatchee area of Washington State.
So grab a favorite beverage or bag of popcorn or chips (or bowl of cherries) and settle down beside me in the cockpit to learn some things about cherry farming that you probably didn't know.
Some questions answered:
About Cherry Drying:
- I tell you all about cherry drying in this article I wrote for AOPA Pilot years ago:
blog.aopa.org/aopa/tag/cherry...
- If you like podcasts, this one on AvTalk features me telling you all about my cherry drying work and this UA-cam channel:
www.flightradar24.com/blog/av...
- You can also find more articles about cherry drying in my blog under the cherry drying tag:
www.aneclecticmind.com/tag/ch...
- Want to see a video where I show another pilot how it's done? Here you go:
• Helicopter Cherry Dryi...
- And here's the cherry picking video I mention: • Cherries from Tree to ...
About Me and the Helicopter
- I have been flying for about 20 years. My nearly 4,000 hours of flight time is in R44, R22, Bell 206L (Long Ranger), and Bell 47 helicopters.
- The helicopter is a Robinson R44 Raven II -- the same one that appears in the photo at the beginning of the video. You can learn more about them here: robinsonheli.com/r44-specific... I own this helicopter. It is the third helicopter I've owned since 2000.
- My helicopter has ADS-B Out and is picked up by radar facilities. You can see my track for recent flights on Flightradar24:
www.flightradar24.com/data/ai...
This is a great site for tracking any almost any flight, including the airlines.
About the Video
- The video was recorded with a pair of GoPro cameras, one of which is connected to the helicopter's intercom system. Both cameras record audio, but I dialed down the helicopter sound to about 25% of normal volume so it wouldn't be annoying. I wouldn't mind leaving it out altogether, but lots of folks seem to want it, so there it is.
- The video was edited on a Macintosh using Screenflow software. (Screenflow was the only affordable software I could find that allowed me to do picture-in-picture.) Learn more about it here: www.telestream.net/screenflow...
- The intro music is by Bob Levitus, famed "Dr. Mac." You can find him here:
www.boblevitus.com/
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I am so glad you started posting videos again...even the boring but interesting precision flying cherry drying missions. I like your matter-of-fact narration either live or overdubbed. As I recall your R44 used to be red...I suppose it was easier to sneak up on cherries that way. I was wearing out your old videos so much I'm surprised they still even play on UA-cam :-) Thanks!
I was wondering why those old videos were starting to sound scratchy.... Am I dating myself here? LOL.
Love everything about what you're doing Marie! Keep it up!
Thanks for sharing this video. Well done on both the flying and making the video. Appreciate that you explain the cherry growing business. Keep it up.
Wow, your job really blows, (sorry, couldn't resist). When you get close to that wind machine my heart beats faster and I find myself moving my body over to avoid hitting it.
It has its ups and downs too.
Things get a little shaky at times!
I have absolutely no idea why I am watching a Cherry drying video utilising a Helicopter? but I love it! Very therapeutic and great flying skills demonstrated. Well done!!!
this never gets old, fly safe and thanks for the Sunday morning show!!!
Great work and thank you for another awesome video and a lesson in cherries that I didn’t know :) it’s a beautiful day to make a living with your tool of trade and to be able to live in the location you love... you are definitely living the right way
I have to thank my wasband for leaving when he did. I just wish he would have left sooner.
FlyingMAir oh my! Lol
FlyingMAir what engine does that R 44 have? I used to work on recip engines back when I lived in Alaska ... I’m guessing the IO 540 lycoming?
Excuse me the TVIO540?
That is correct. Lycoming IO-540.
Another great vid!
What a great find this channel has been! I really appreciate the mostly raw, mostly un-edited footage of you flying and including relevant commentary along the way. I haven't even started on my practical helicopter journey yet (just theory) but can already tell you are a very competent pilot and have fantastic tips for everyone. Thanks for continuing to upload. I'm a new subscriber!
FIRST! I love your videos! I'm a fixed wing pilot and a CFII but you make flying helicopters seem much more fun than flying fixed wing aircraft!!
That is SO meditative ... thanks a lot for this great video, so informative.
Good long video, really loved it Maria, thanks for sharing!.
Very interesting information on cherries! Really enjoyed it! Thank you!
Thanks for the great video, for some reason I find it very relaxing and your commentary is excellent. Cheers
Yep, all those hours show, that thing is an extension of you by now. Thank you for sharing your flying with us. There are lots of videos of airplanes but only a few of helicopters and yours are wonderful.
I absolutely agree. I wish there was more helicopter media out there.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
Thanks for the videos and excellent narration. I have learned about something I never had a clue about, drying cherrys. What precise flying!
Your videos are fascinating. Never heard of cherry drying until I came across your channel a few weeks ago. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the time and effort you put into making these videos!
Wow! impeccable flying skills.
This is the craziest use of a helicopter I've ever seen.
Fantastic and informative, burnt 45 min without a beverage or popcorn! Kudos for taking your errors on the chin, it’s what makes good pilots great pilots. I’ve seen your work around for a bit M, but looks like I’m going to have to dive into the back catalogue and propagate my inspiration for converting my license from fixed to rotary... cheers from Oz.
This is fascinating. Thank you for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Spending the weekend at my cousins’ farm up on the Waterville plateau. Was telling my wife all about what you do as we drove by the orchards from Wenatchee to Pine Canyon. Really enjoy the videos!
Congratulations on the Flightradar24 article!! I have one of their receivers on-line at my house! Nice world wide shout out!!! I enjoy your videos. Great work!!
WOoooooooooooWWWW!!!! YOUR AMAZING!
Awesome 👍 👍👍 And I love the scenery ♥️🍒
I love cherries, my favourite fruit, thank you for this video it’s given me an insight into what work goes into the produce I eat 👍
I love the tech talk and the scenic view's
Welp learned a few things new today, thank you! Pretty cool job!
Thanks for the ride along.
Wow, it's a really beautiful and healing good movie. Thank you for sharing a good video
what a cool job
Great job thanks for posting.
Love the vids....keep em coming.
This video was nerve wrecking.. you are a true pilot!
Maria, I love your videos. They're very informative without all the show off stuff. It would be amazing to do a video from before you get in the helicopter. Like the walk around, getting it ready etc.
It's in the works. I'm looking for an assistant to do the camera work.
FlyingMAir awesome. Thank you for replying! Keep up the great work.
I liked this one. Great content
Great video, thanks for sharing!!!
For local and transient pilots to Wenatchee (KEAT): The fuel problem won't likely happen again. The airport was in process of switching suppliers and the old supplier threw a temper tantrum and delayed delivery of a 100LL order for nearly two weeks just for spite. Then, they delivered only one truck load late on July 17th.
wow...what are they children running a business?!?....incredible...and not in a good way...
Wow. CUSTOMER SERVICE at its finest....
Vary good video.. I live in Pennsylvania.. I did not know how much went involves in Cherry 🍒. I like how you explain everything (plus flying ) you are the vary good ( note flying and explaining what’s going on .. note people like that ( I do ) well explained videos … I just started seeing your video and you do a vary go job explaining your videos .. grade A in my book … your video are out standing . Thanks you !!! (So must) 🚁
Another Awesome Vid thank you !!
very impressive flying!!
This auntie is a very precise pilot.
Thank you for the ride and great descriptions! Don’t mind the long video.
this is so cool!
This is trippy!
It’s funny cause when your flying I mentally find my hands and feet making those small corrections as if I’m flying lol 😂 I love the camera view when your low drying cherries
I love the sensation of flying you get from watching your videos when you are close to the ground. I'm not sure where you live but going by the lack of trees there must not be an overabundance of rain. Nice job on the narration.
It's high desert, very similar to Flagstaff or Prescott, Arizona. The orchards and farms exist only because of irrigation.
@@FlyingMAir thanks
Amazing
*_"You don't risk your life for fruit."_*
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I love helicopters, I love flying, I love your job!
This is one of the many reasons why I love your videos so very much: INFORMATIVE and ENTERTAINING poured into each and every video your produce. This very video is, imho, the very best on across the board. QUESTION: How did orchard owners dry their cherry crops in the old days before the advent of helicopters, and in a timely manner to save said crops??? Keep up the great work Maria!!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks so much. I try not to be boring. The work is tedious and if I don't say something, we'll all fall asleep. I assume they just used ground sprayers in the old days. Or let the cherries split and called their insurance companies.
you make my day, thx
I love when you post these videos. I'd suggest making them realtime with less cuts. It's just relaxing to watch, and listen to you narrate what you're doing. Safe flying!
Lovely smooth flying Maria,quite demanding intense work with those obstructions to deal with.
The obstructions do tend to keep things interesting.
I enjoyed the ride.
Really nice video, 100% quality content. Great explanation of everything you are doing nice camera angles, really nice way to fly that R44… Definitely I’ll subscribe to your channel. Really enjoyed your work with this video. Thanks a lot to let us partecipate, learn and enjoy your aerial works throughout your great videos!
Thanks so much. I have a lot of cherry drying videos on the channel, including one where I teach another pilot how to do it. There will be more this summer. Cherry season starts in a week or so.
@@FlyingMAir Great! I will check them out for sure! Thanks a lot for everything you are doing! 😊😊😎👍🏻👍🏻🚁🚁🚁
Amazing video!
Awesome Camera Placements! Good vid
This is a satisfying video.
Best job you have.
I'm not complaining, although hours hovering over cherry trees does get tedious after a while.
You are the consummate pro! Such smooth flying :D
I love these videos. Makes me want to learn to fly a helicopter. I live in hoodsport, washington and saw a white robinson that looks like your today.
Nice to see other helicopters in flight as well lol
you must be high score at FSX helicopter mission lol. i was wondering as there was no update for long time. thank you for awesome videos!!
Nice chopper!
I will eat my cherries with more respect henceforth. I do have two questions. Do you have an off season and do you instruct?
We do this here in brewster wa for the orchards for gebber farms ,chelan fruit and etc and use old Vietnam war helicopters for cherry drying.
I would be tempted to work for cherries!
Hahahaha That is so cool!!!
Great attitude. Most people now cannot admit their mistakes and deny everything- driving is the worst but god forbid if it happened in the air, but then idiots don’t have flight licence lol
First. I enjoyed the ride :)
Dont know what the hell this video is actually about but its interesting to watch!
That was a nice break. I had been watching paint dry.
This is mildly more interesting.
I love sweat heart cherrys
a lot of roads in Germany are lined with cherry trees makes a good road side snack .
Thanks
ok....so literally 3 seconds after I typed that question you gave the answer ,,,lol
Super interesting knowledge of the whole cherry process! I found your channel while looking for information on supertankers, and I found your video of your tour of the tank system. I am super fascinated by flying and I’m thinking about going for it. You have talked a little bit about getting your pilot license in AZ in the video where you fly your old helicopter to get overhauled if I recall. Can you do a video about how you were able to get your license? How you paid for it? And how long it took you? Any tips or things you’ve learned that would make such journey easier on future helicopter pilots?
I'll be doing videos like that in the winter time when I'm not flying as much.
You know, it would be great if you could ask a friend to get some vidéos from the ground when you are doing it, so we can get a better feel for how close you are from the top of the trees! and also, how you manage your tail around the obstacles. That would be very informative!!!
I'm working on it.
Eating cherries off the stem warching this. Yum.
I used to dry cherries in Lindon CA close to Stockton. I used an Enstrom F28C. They’d pay $1,000 a day to park the helicopter at their packing yard, and $1,000 an hour to dry cherries when the time came. A long grueling day hovering just at the edge of translational lift, but fabulously profitable under the right circumstances.
Unfortunately, the rates aren't that high here. Too much competition, maybe?
@@FlyingMAir
Really? I do seem to remember there being a real scurry to find helicopters when rain was forecast across the picking days.
I also wanted to ask: we were told to fly directly above the tree, not down the side as you were demonstrating.
In retrospect your technique is probably better for several reasons, not the least of which is not ending up straddling the tree in the event of an engine failure.
Checked out your website. Impressive growth in an area probably not known for lavish spending. Can’t tell you how many ex-attorneys, accountants, MBAs I’ve flown next to as an airline pilot who decided life was too short to work in a box.
It's different here. There's some competition from guys who don't ask for standby money. They sell themselves on being cheaper because growers only pay when they fly, but then they make arrangements to cover far more acreage than they can so when the calls start coming, some growers don't get covered. Those of us who know better have to charge for standby to ensure we can cover all the acreage we're contracted to cover. Our clients get covered. Others don't.
@@FlyingMAir seems to be the same dynamic you see in many fields of endeavor. Quality work will always be challenged by inferior people who dangle false value.
The trick would appear to be trying to obtain a testimonial from those victimized by shoddy work in an effort to head off other client’s bad decisions.
You bought 34D! That was a good helicopter back in the quantum days.
Where have you been, Danny? I bought that bad boy back in 2018. Did you fly it when it lived in AZ? The air conditioning sure is nice!
@@FlyingMAir ohh that’s why I left Quantum in 2016. It was a good bird and yes the ac in 34D was awesome during those AZ summers. Fly safe!
Can I come fly for you?!? Looks like a great time! And I love the PNW!
Sure. Bring a helicopter. I have an open position for cherry drying right now.
Why do I get the feeling this job is made up so she can play with her helicopter?
I want my Helo Cert, too!
Hey Maria another great informative video can’t wait for the next one.
Can I ask what the operating costs are for your R44 inclusive of annuals, insurance etc etc ? Thanks!
Greta T. wpuld love this method :-D
cool
Every now and again, some of the growers will give away their older, wooden, three-leg ladders. We picked up two of them from a grower in Quincy or Ephrata a few years ago. FAR more useful and stable on any surface than the ubiquitous four-leg ladders.
The wooden ones must be heavy, though. I bought my picking ladder at Home Depot! It's a smaller one, but great for outdoors.
That looks smooth. I once took a flight in an R44 as a passenger and it was noticably shaking. I thought it was because of the piston engine but this one here appears much better. Do helicopter rotors need balancing, like wheels on a car, to stop them from shaking?
What prevents birds from eating the cherries? I eat lots of cherries every year. I buy them in Chinatown where they buy the doubles/seconds, $1.50-2.50 per pound. I'm buying them now at Safeway, cherries say Washington on them and they are on sale at $2.50 per pound, usual price is $4 per pound. Big dark purple sweet cherries.
Im a cherry fan too. Every year as far as I can remember. Good day to you.
Interesting use of a Helicopter's downdraft as Orchard drying machines! Curious, how long have Helicopters been used in this manner and how Effective is this Service to the orchard? I've always been interested in Helicopters and flying one but your Cherry drying Videos helped me find your channel. Stay Safe & Thumbs Up!
It’s been at least 25 years. I’ve been doing it for 12. Must be pretty effective if they keep using us.
I WANT THIS JOB....
What an great occupation. Can’t believe they pay you to do that
Neither can I. Sometimes.
I really think you've got a fantastic life.
My offer of food and massage still stands 😁👍👍🚁
OK Got it Thanks
This is good work for new pilots that want to get hours. You should be able to get pilots to intern at $0 cost for your company
It's actually a terrible job for low time pilots. The work is dangerous and requires finely honed hovering skills. I won't hire anyone with fewer than 500 hours in helicopters. Then, when they get here, it rarely rains so there isn't much flying. And I would never have anyone fly for me for free. I won't insult a pilot by offering such a deal and certainly don't expect a skilled pilot to suggest such a deal.
@@FlyingMAir Ok. I see your point of view. Just though internship like Doctors do it why not pilots. But, the hovering skills must be tough too acquired. I' was not aware of this. I'm going to be stariting Heli school in month. Thanks for the info.