Watch This Pilot Take On a Thrilling Ferry Flight!

♪ Never stop, forget it if I want it. Gotta make to myself a promise. I won't quit, keep going till I got it. I won't give up till I'm on top of it. ♪ It is good to be back. I've been out for quite some time due to an annual inspection where we found 34 different things that needed to be addressed. Good news is 33 of those have been addressed. Today, I actually get to fly. Unfortunately, it's only for another fix. We're going to fly it down to Georgetown. The way we're going to do that is through this thing that I have here, which is called a ferry permit. With that said, let's hop in and let's get it going. All right. We are live at five. Let's go ahead and crank this puppy up. All right. It is cranked up. For those of y'all that are always talking about, oh, he doesn't use his checklist. Checklist. All right, granted, it's upside down, but checklist. I've already done the first couple parts. All right. So we are cranked up. We are about to get the weather for example, 134.97. Overcast, 4200. Temperature, 24 Celsius. Dewpoint, 20 Celsius. Altimeter, 2990. Remarks, density altitude, 1900. Present weather, information not available. All right. Back to 123, which is the CTAV for Temple, and we will taxi runway 16 because that is the longest. So I could take runway 21, but I'd rather not because it's just a tad shorter than 16, and I'll take 16 with a little bit of crosswind ease. Temple traffic, Cessna N4068U is taxiing to runway 16 from the North Hangers, Temple. So as I said, it's been quite some time since I've flown, at least a couple of months. Like I said, the mechanic, which I actually have three different mechanics working on this project because there was just so much to do, have discovered about 34 different things that needed to be addressed before this airplane was considered airworthy, including the right muffler, which, you know, worst case scenario, if the crack would have been any bigger or it would have been any worse, could have had exhaust leaking into the cockpit, and of course, that's how you get poisoned, and when you're no longer capable of flying the airplane, what happens? You go down. So air under caution to safety, made sure we got all of the points done. Now, I will say that not all of the points were airworthiness things that needed to be fixed, but I'm very much about safety, so I said let's get it all done. So the problem that's left here is a major one, and they are not able to fix it over here on the field at Temple, so I have to fly it down to Georgetown, where I've already spoken to the mechanic, who is not in today, but will be back in tomorrow, so we're just going to leave it on a ramp for him to pick up tomorrow, which is not a problem for me. All right, as we're rolling here, pull up our nav log, and we're going to do a heading of 198 once we take off, and I will try to get the whole thing on camera today. We're not making any cuts from beginning to end, and the ceilings have lifted just a little bit, so we should be able to get to our altitude that I've designated for today, which is around 2000. All right, we'll hold short here. We'll do another quick check. Make sure our trim tab is set to takeoff. All right, trim tab is set for takeoff. All right, everything is still in the green, and we are G2G. Oh, hold on. Check this fuse here. Yep, the fuse is fried. I'm glad we caught that. Luckily, I keep plenty of fuses on board. All right, transponder is good. All right, here we go. Let's go ahead and pop this back together. No traffic on the field today, so, all right, let's take off. Temple Traffic, Cessna N4068U is taking runway 16 for departure at Temple. All right, controls are out to the wind, and let's do this. All right, instruments are green, airspeed is alive, and let's rotate. And we are up, and we are getting lots of lift because the air is so cool outside. Man, it feels good to be back up here. Oh, man. Temple Traffic, Cessna N4068U is on the open at 16, Temple. So, like I was saying earlier, I'm currently flying on a ferry permit, which allows me, even though the aircraft is currently not airworthy, allows me to fly to a repair shop of my designation, which in this case would be in Georgetown. I'll be honest with you, I have no idea what the protocol is to get it, but my mechanic kind of hooked me up. He put that in for me, so definitely appreciate that. All right, and we'll trim it out right here. Yeah, like I said, not very high today, but the goal is to get it to where we need to go to get it fixed so we can do more videos and capture more experiences and so on and so forth, which I'm super excited about. I have a lot of stuff planned this summer and a couple of co-pilots that I plan on bringing along on the journey. Real quick, I want to give a shout out to my Uncle Andy, who is probably my biggest fan. I think he's seen all of the videos that we've posted so far on B2 Aviation, and we really do appreciate it. Thank you, Uncle. And if you have not subscribed to our channel yet, please hit the subscribe button. Hit it again, and then hit it again. No, tell all your friends about it, hit the subscribe button, and become part of the B2 Nation. We are currently at over 30,000. I'll say it again, 30,000 followers. That is amazing. And I appreciate every single one of y'all for tuning in to every one of my videos. I've also been getting a lot of feedback on these videos, which is always appreciated. Little things that may have been forgotten can always lead to disaster, so if you see something or hear something in one of my videos that could be safety related or is a safety feedback comment, please drop it. I have no problem with constructive criticism at all. I am a little over 300 hours now, so I'm not as seasoned as an airline pilot would be, but by all means, tell me what you see. Temple Traffic, Cessna N4068U is departing traffic pattern to the southwest, Temple. I also get asked a lot about sponsors, and if I'm willing to take on sponsors. Personally, do I need a sponsor? Probably not. But I am willing to help any company or any individual that is willing to help the channel grow. So if you're willing to, I don't know, send me a headset for instance or a cleaning product, of course I'll do a video for you and send it to you. Not a problem at all. We actually have a video coming up from Avalon King. They ended up sending us some of their amazing cleaning product, and once I'm done with the repair to this airplane, we'll put that video out as well. Great product, I must say. Avalon King is pretty great. I see a bird up to our left here, no factor. You guys probably aren't able to tell at the current moment, but it's pretty bumpy. I will say that much, it's pretty bumpy, but it's alright. I believe that the last video I put out was back in December of 2022, where I took a trip to Germany to visit my family and friends, took you along on a commercial ride, and kind of showed you where I grew up and things of that nature. Since then, I've actually gone back again. Not for the best of circumstances, but I'll leave that to talk about in the next video, because the person that actually got me into flying, subconsciously, she didn't even know she did it. We'll just wait until the next video, we'll get into that. Alright, let's go check out what Georgetown ADIS is talking about. ADIS is the Automatic Weather Frequency, 118.6. Tower, ADIS information, Whiskey, 1848Z, wind 170 at 19 gust 23, visibility 10, ceiling 2900 broken, 3700 overcast, temperature 25, dewpoint 18, altimeter 2992. Remarks, pressure falling rapidly. Landing and departing runway 18, GPS approach in use. Notice to airmen, one crane, one mile northeast, at or below 200 feet AGL. 5G NOTAM is in effect, for more information, contact flight service. Bird advisory is in effect. Advise on initial contact, do you have Whiskey? Alright, we have Whiskey. 120.22 for Tower, and we will contact them in 3 miles. Normally on every trip I get Flight Following, which is a service that allows you to get traffic information and kind of call outs from the surrounding towers closer to you. But on a short trip like this, it's rather, I would say silly to be honest with you, but I mean some people do it for safety reasons, I just didn't feel the need to do it today. Okay, so we will contact Georgetown Tower in approximately 4 miles. Got the lake over to my right, which y'all can't see right now because I don't have a camera mounted over there. So, I also get asked a lot, what is in my flight bag? What do I use on every trip? And what do I use for short trips? And I will address that, I will make a separate video for that, so stay tuned. And yeah, I'll let you know what's in my flight bag. Alright, about another minute and a half or so, and then we will contact Georgetown Tower. I think I can see my sister down there, picking me up, or on the way to pick me up from Georgetown Tower. Not from Georgetown, from Georgetown. I'm at Georgetown Tower on my flight. 1-2-6, contact Austin Departure, talk later. Austin Departure, 1-2-6, thank you. Feels so good to be back in the air, so good. Other people drink and do drugs, and this is my drug here, flying. I also get asked a lot, how hard is it to obtain your license, and how much does it cost? So, to be honest with you, to get a private pilot's license, you really want to budget for about $12,000 to $18,000. And that includes your medical, it includes your oral, it includes your written, and it includes your checkride. All of those have to be paid separate as well. It also includes your equipment, it includes a minimum of 45 to 50 flight hours. So your minimum is 40, but not a lot of people get it done in 40. So budget for at least 50, 55. And then also plane rental. So there's that, budget between $12,000 and $18,000, depending on your area location. And then, of course, it's also about how dedicated are you, right? Because a lot of people, you'll see them, they'll fly, and they'll fly, and they have 39 to 40 hours. It's not ready, I think they're ready to take the checkride, but in all actuality, they haven't taken a written yet because they can't pass the written exam. So another, I guess, tip would be to get the written knocked out early. I think I got my written done with my 15th or 16th hour. I was dreading it. I don't test very well when it comes to me sitting down and answering multiple choice questions. I'm not good at that stuff. But I sat down over a weekend, and I crammed, and I crammed, and I made sure I understood and obtained all the knowledge that I could get. And then I think on a Tuesday or Wednesday at lunchtime, I was like, I'm feeling it today. And then I just walked in, and I took the exam, and I got it done. And I passed it, passed it my first time out. So don't dread it. It's not super hard. I had no prior aviation experience before I started flying, zero. Only experience I had was on a flight simulator. Now, don't go tell your flight instructor that you have flight simulator experience. Then expect for him to look at you with a straight face because that's not going to happen. Flight simulators are not super respected in the aviation community. Now, will it get you to basics if you study on it? Absolutely. But being physically in an airplane and in a simulator is two different things. All right. Let's contact Georgetown Tower. Georgetown Tower, Cessna N4068U, approximately 15 to the northeast. We'd like to come in full stop landing 18 with Whiskey. Okay. Got nothing on Georgetown Tower. Let's try that again here in a second. Georgetown Tower, Cessna N4068U. I'm Hattie here. All right. Hear you good now, 68U. We'd like to come in full stop landing 18 with Whiskey. Cessna N4068U, squawk 0616, make straight in runway 18. 0616, straight in 18, 6U. Cessna 120, base turn approved, runway 18, clear to land, full stop, taxi back. Base turn approved, Cessna 120, full stop, taxi back. Skywagon 7770, Kilo, Georgetown Tower, yes and ready? All right. So, we've been approved for runway 18, straight in. There isn't too much traffic out here. Tower, 5231 Kilo, number 2 holding short. Skywagon 7770, Kilo, Georgetown Tower, yes and ready? Georgetown Tower, Skywagon 7770, Kilo. Skywagon 7770, Kilo, Georgetown Tower, yes and ready? Yeah, we're at 18, ready for departure, run-up complete. And we've got a departure heading 319, Georgetown. Skywagon 70, Kilo, right turnout, north-westbound approved, runway 18, clear for takeoff. Runway 18, clear for takeoff, right hand turnout, north-west departure approved, Skywagon 7770, Kilo, thank you. 68U, confirm, you said Cessna, Skyhawk? Cessna 150, 68U. 150, roger. Georgetown Tower, November 4308, Kilo, midfield for touch and go landing. 08Kilo, extend your downwind, you're looking for the Cherokee, just crossing over 195. Extending downwind, looking for traffic, 08Kilo. Got a little bit of traffic in a pattern here. 08Kilo, are you doing touch and go's or full stop taxbacks? Touch and go's. 5231Kilo, Georgetown Tower, hold short runway 18 for landing aircraft. Wind 190 at 22 gusts, 27. Georgetown Tower, November 4308, Kilo, we have that traffic in sight. 08Kilo, extend your downwind one more mile before starting your base turn for one departure. Runway 18, cleared touch and go, number two. Extending downwind, 08Kilo. I will extend down a mile and then we're cleared touch and go, number two, 08Kilo. So this is going to be the first video that we're not cutting. We're doing it from start to finish with no cuts. That's only because the distance is short enough for us to have the battery life and the memory to do it. We will upgrade at some point to be able to do that on more trips. But in the 150, the trips seem to be a little longer than in, let's say, any kind of jet. 08Kilo, you're good to start your base turn for 918. Cleared base, cleared land, 08Kilo. Cleared touch and go, 08Kilo. And I also don't aim to bore anybody, so I try to cut out a lot of the clutter and get straight to the point. And I try to not give you the same takeoff over and over again and the same landings over and over again at the same airport. So I try to give you different locations. And we will continue to do that. All right, we've got some downdrafts here, which I just took note of, which is not a problem. Chantel, Arizona 120 going around. Arizona 120, make left close traffic. Close traffic, Arizona 120. 95231Kilo, Cherokee traffic in the upwind making left close. Follow that traffic, runway 18, cleared for takeoff, make left close traffic. Cleared for takeoff, 231Kilo. Georgetown Tower, 28220, holding short, runway 18. 28220, Georgetown Tower, hold short, runway 18, landing traffic. Holding short, runway 18, 28220. All right, we're about 12 miles out and I can see the runway from here. Oh, big gust from the right. 6-8 Uniform, runway 18, clear to land the traffic. You're flying into half mile, number 2. Clear to land, we'll be looking for the traffic, 6-8 Uniform. All right, cleared to land. I'll be expecting to be off by Delta and taxi via Alpha Echo to parking. Let's see if we can get that. Georgetown Tower, Arizona 120, reporting mid to downwind, full stop termination. Arizona 120, extend your downwind, you're looking for the Cessna 150 on a 5 mile final. Standing by downwind, looking for traffic, Arizona 120. 311Kilo, extend your downwind, I'll call you base. 311Kilo, we'll extend, you'll call base. All right, let's see if I still got it. It's been 2 months since I've done a landing. Let's see if I still got it. I'm about to butter this puppy. Runway 28, 22 Sierra, traffic in the upwind making left coast traffic. For now, fly runway heading, runway 18, clear for takeoff. Fly runway heading, runway 18, clear for takeoff, 22 Sierra. Traffic in sight, Arizona 120. Arizona 120, you're number 2 of the field, runway 18, clear to land. Clear to land, runway 18, number 2, Arizona 120. 311Kilo, you're number 3 of the field, following a Cherokee straight ahead of you, runway 18, cleared touch and go. Number 3, following a Cherokee in sight, runway 18, cleared touch and go, 311Kilo. Aw yeah, this is going to be a bumpy one. 28, 22 Sierra, left turnout eastbound approved, have a great day. Turnout eastbound approved, thank you very much. 311Kilo, extend your downwind, I'll call you base and the traffic you're following. Extending downwind, 311Kilo. Aw yeah, this one's going to be tricky. Wind 190 at 20 gusts, 27. Man, this one is no joke. 311Kilo, you've got about a mile separation between you and the traffic in front of you, they're a full stop. 311Kilo, roger. 311Kilo, copy. 08Kilo, follow the Cherokee off your left base, turn approved, now number 3 of the field, runway 18, cleared touch and go. Cleared touch and go, 08Kilo. 08Kilo, number 3, runway 18, cleared touch and go. Number 3, cleared touch and go, 08Kilo. 606A Uniform, turn left at Juliet, contact ground. Left at Juliet, contact ground, 606A Uniform. 19.12 Georgetown Ground, Cessna N406A Uniform at Juliet, ready to taxi to ramp. N406A Uniform, Georgetown Ground, taxi via AECO. Taxi via AECO, 606A Uniform. Alright, let's see, we can't tie this puppy down over here somewhere. Watch how we pull this up. Just like that. Alright, well that's it. Thanks for joining me. We are now at Georgetown and I'll see you guys in the next one. Take it easy.