"But he'd just had a pilot killed on a ferry flight..." And you thought, what a great opportunity!

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Never said I was the sharpest tool in the shed!

@classicraceruk1337

4 ай бұрын

@@KerryDMcCauleyLOL

@stanislavkostarnov2157

4 ай бұрын

@@KerryDMcCauley kind of presumed you found that out sometime afterwards....

@snowmannyc1

4 ай бұрын

Youth!

You are the best story-teller. I listened to them numerous times and find them as entertaining every time. And of course, the educational part is always a good reminder. Thanks for doing these for us,

1990s....So it was before GPS but after LORAN. 🙂 My first GPS was a Garmin GPS-90 handheld. The database is 20 years out of date, but it still works. Anyone interested in a working, slightly used, GPS-90? 🙂 Thanks for the ride-a-long. You have balls of steel. I've been a PPL since 1972. I still don't have the guts to do an 'over the ocean' ferry flight. I don't even like flying over the Rockies! 🤣

When that map at 8:32 popped up my eyes lit up. This is the life I'm after, not the 9-5 behind a screen for the next 35 years or so. Thanks for sharing, you've inspired me.

Thanks for sharing your amazing ferry flight . . . at 3:32 I saw the Icom 735 HF radio. I still have one to this day and enjoy ham radio. '73. Bob

What an outstanding story! After all, all great aviation stories begin with "So there I was..." My son has enjoyed reading the book Ferry Pilot and I think on his way to becoming a pilot. There are so many aspects of these stories that ring true. Thank you for sharing & having the courage to share. I have read Dangrous Flights, I can not help but laughing at the risks assumed in these stories. Kerry is the real deal & one hell of an aviator!

Great video. I loved reading Ferry Pilot and Dangerous Flights. Keep the videos coming please 🙏 😊 Thanks Nick

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Will do! I've got a lot of stories that didn't make it into the books!

@user-nr4ed8do7r

4 ай бұрын

That was a great book! Dangerous flights was just as good!

Good stuff.

Scary story Kerry, I clearly remember like it was yesterday going back to night school mid 1994 at Essendon Airport Melbourne to get endorsed on the Garmin GPS 100. This was newly fitted into the shrike commander 690B I was flying in the Australian Outback, but only as a supplemental enroute nav aid initially, followed by a year later primary means, including NPA overlay approaches etc, It was a game changer, and I'm still lugging stuff around the countryside at 61, 37 years later. Definitely more stories Kerry. Cheers.

Good work and thanks for the effort, Kevin. Keep them comming.

Pretty cool Kerry. Thanks for sharing your experiences

Greetings from TJIG

Your stories are awesome im glad you started posting more videos in the last 2 months keep it up and we will continue to watch your subscribers go up and more safer pilots from your channel thank you for all the great content

Great story! Both of your books were excellent!

Really enjoyed Ferry Pilot👍 An excellent storyteller.

Great video Kerry. I enjoyed reading your books recently. I was a cargo pilot in turboprops for most of the 90s throughout Europe and I have a few of my own war stories. Happy landings from the UK!

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

The young ones could learn a thing or two from us old dogs!

Love it. Keep em coming. Just found your channel recently and can’t wait for more of your stories. I am changing careers into aviation and the modes of failures and recovery are very interesting to me.

What an exciting story

Kerry, thanks for your video. Great to hear your background.

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

……. Of steel 😳😁👍👍

Love your stories!

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Great story-telling!

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Hi from the UK. I have learned so much from your channel. Great content. Thanks for sharing.

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

GEEEZ! That's an amazing story, you have nerves of titanium. I will be glad to hear more from you and thanks so much for sharing this. I am an NZ ppl with 200hrs and some of my experiences could not compete with that. cheers NZ

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

More to come!

@davechapman7735

4 ай бұрын

I hope so, next time I will be watching and wearing a life jacket

Ferry Pilot is a great book. A real "page turner".

I did that for years, both independently and with Southern Cross. I always say that ferry flying is a great thing to have done, rather than to do.

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

I remember Southern Cross! I used to run across you guys all the time back in the day.

Paradoxically, this story makes me want to change my career to be a ferry pilot

@Catpanl

5 ай бұрын

All men crave adventure.

Love your stories! I think That exact Duchess was one of the twin engines I flew on my ATPL course . I took the course in Cascais, Lisbon and my school was the only one that had duchess twin engines on the fleet .

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Maybe it was the same one!

woah baby thats wild. Lets go Pete haha

Great content 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

@KerryDMcCauley

Ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

Before GPS...when pilots were true pilots. Nowadays it's "just follow the magenta line"

@manfredstrappen7491

5 ай бұрын

And now we don’t have airliners crashing into mountains and short of the runway at the same rate that “true pilots” used to either.

@keithhaas6841

5 ай бұрын

@@manfredstrappen7491 modern aircraft can land themselves, for example the beechcraft denali. Soon there wont be a need for pilots at all, Technology is slowly phasing us out.

This channel is gold. You deserve to get more popular. Keep it up. If you run out of stories just retell them! Pro tip make your videos minimum 10 minutes for the algorithm and pop another advertisement in. Keep up the good work!

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips!

Great stories, albeit pretty damn scary. Let’s me personally know what not to do north of 65.

Geez Kerry, amazing first story for your beginner ferry flight! Heck if you can do this on the first …what the hell! You and I share a common career path in that I was a Cobra AH-1G & J model crew chief. But I was regular Army 💪😉 So you still do ferry flights? Stay safe out there.

@Chris-Nico

5 ай бұрын

Although it was 50 years ago! 😉

Sittin in his office drinking scotch .. now that’s a training program I could get my head around 😬👍

Yup, Santa Maria was like seeing Jacob's Ladder for me on my first ferry flight. Sounds like our career's started about the same as far as trying to build time and the time frame you started. I was also heavy into the skydiving world back then to build time. Long time ago and almost everyone I was associated with in the ferry world back then died in airplane crashes. Just found your channel so I will subscribe and catch up with your adventures when I can. Thanks for the memories. BTW, Curious why you guys didn't go over to Lajes AFB during this flight? Had a friend who was taking a Bonanza across and ran into a similar situation so he declared an emergency and landed there.

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Lajes wouldn't have really been any better. What we could have done is land at Flores before it got dark and IFR but they didn't have any kind of hotel and the boss didn't want to sleep in the plane. Personally, I would've landed.

Hey Kerry, great video again! I am happy you broke me in as a ferry pilot when we flew around the world, but you didn’t give me a cool certificate, I feel like you owe me one, we had dual gryo failure in a sand storm in Saudi Arabia, and I got nothing. Just kidding loved the video!

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Next time buddy!

lindberg did a solo flight across the Atlantic, all the way across

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

I've crossed from St. John's to both Ireland and France many times but never as far as Lindberg did!

👍✅ Tks

👍

Wow, what a story! 👍😅

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! But stand by, I've got better coming!

@Hallo-Hallo

4 ай бұрын

@@KerryDMcCauley Waiting! 👍😅

Santa Maria is about as big as an aircraft carrier. Been there but a DC-7 is bigger than a Duches

Definitely will pick up your books, your comment “A great view of nothing” immediately made me think of the ex-wife, scary. Be safe sir.

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Lol!

Had an uncle did that seen him take off loaded down with fuel trying too get over themtn in a little single engine beech

You certainly have bigger bollocks than I do. I’d love to do a ferry crossing but via the northern route. And with a PT6 at the front.

Brilliant, absolutely bonkers, for people who don’t fly light aircraft, this is just bonkers 🤪 most GA plane are quite old, and most just a good old piston engine!, and no GPS!, dead reckoning takes some doing and there quite a lot off error, you must have more life’s than a black cat

Story gives me anxiety...

I think I would have considered declaring an emergency (due to the non-functioning attitude indicator and DG) then insisted on flying the approach into Santa Maria in formation.

Just remember how utterly pitch black it is over the open Ocean at night...

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Most people have no idea.

Great storyteller!, but why did you say clear customs in Bangor when coming from St. Paul, Mn..?

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Because that's the last stop in the US before entering Canada. We are also exporting the aircraft, so we need to clear customs.

ATC refused what sounds like a reasonable request from a Mayday aircraft? What did the enquiry make of that?

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

They said they would only allow us to fly a formation approach if Pete declared an emergency which he was unwilling to do because of all the paperwork it would involve. Yes, it made things much more dangerous but that was his call.

@timward2001

4 ай бұрын

Ah. The last thing on my mind if I felt like calling Mayday would be any consequential paperwork.

What was the registration? My pilot school had two of those…maybe i flew that one :D

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

It was BE-76 N6718D. I delivered it to Lisbon on 1/1/91

When are you comming trough greenland again ?

@KerryDMcCauley

3 ай бұрын

Soon I hope!

What ever happened to the show you guys had?

Why anyone plans a flight like that to forecast IFR with no alternates??? Crazy. Hate to make a customer wait a week or two to get their plane.

I have only one question. Why your older comrade didn't decide to fly through Greenland and Iceland? P.S. awesome story!

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Much shorter and cheaper going through the Azores. That's a ferry pilot's job, getting the plane delivered as fast and cheaply as possible. Safety is third. Not kidding.

@19ij

5 ай бұрын

@@KerryDMcCauley thank you for the answer. But I prefer to be poor but alive pilot...

Vac pump isn’t a declared emergency?

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Pete didn't want to declare and emergency because of all the paperwork and delay the Portuguese would have put him through. His call.

Funny, I found 6 other airports in the Azores.

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

We could've landed at the first one but the boss didn't want to. The only other onee back then was Lajas which was military only.

@rickowens4397

4 ай бұрын

Flores- 1972 Graciosa - 1981 Horta - 1971 Joao Paulo II - 1969 Lajes Field (Military) - 1939 Pico - 1982 Sao Jorge - 1983@@KerryDMcCauley

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

@@rickowens4397 Wouldn't have made much difference because they all had the same weather. Besides, I did what the boss told me.

You’re not going to sell many more books if you put all the stories on here….great stories though. Love the books..

@KerryDMcCauley

5 ай бұрын

Probably not!

@John-nc4bl

5 ай бұрын

This will help thae sales of your two excellent books, I think and I hope for you.@@KerryDMcCauley

What do you mean ‘denied’? In an emergency ATC cannot deny anything…

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

They denied letting us fly a formation approach with declaring an emergency, which Pete didn't want to do because of the paperwork it would involve.

Why do people fly over water with one engine

@KerryDMcCauley

4 ай бұрын

Because it's there!

"He just had a pilot get killed on a ferry flight..so he decided to give me a shot"...a young and inexperienced pilot...geezus christo, thats some next level dumbassery benny hill stuff...