Condolences to all families involved in this tragic crash. Steve really enjoying this series of videos nothing but professionalism. Safe travels

As a glider pilot who regularly flies for more then 5 hours the controlled dehydration sounds so dangerous. Usually we use the rule of thumb that if you aren't going to the bathroom once an hour you probably aren't drinking enough. And yes, high performance gliders are outfitted with a simple urination system, look it up.

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Yes for sure; I should have maybe clarified that by "controlled dehydration", I meant that we were reducing, not eliminating fluid intake. The basic schedule is: no tea or coffee with in an hour of departure, have water or sports drink on hand to sip through out flight, and then have a solid ~500 mils with in an hour of landing...

Keep up that great airmanship !!! What a TEAM !!! 👏👏👏👏👏 My condolences for Haraldur Diego’s family from all the team of AOPA Spain

This series is really amazing, one of your absolute best! I

I was waiting for this one. Thanks. Funny to hear ATC chatting in Icelandic there also and someone replying ATC with "Einar frændi" (my cousin Einar)

Loved this, but you knew that. Had to laugh when I saw Micke's "slate clap"... I've had to do that when syncing separate audio from action cam video. Someday someone will develop a micro-mixer for ambient and transmitted audio (and separate remote power) for us single-cam buccaneers. You should be glad you made this trip when you did... joining the No-Pee Club when you're over 60 is a lot harder... or softer... whatever. Looking forward to hearing "Bluie-West-One" on the next one, giving me all those great Ernie Gann memories. Hoping you're anticipating the same level of relief getting this series completed as I am of getting my airworthiness certificate. Weight and balance is done; now crunching numbers in spreadsheets and Foreflight W&B... and shoveling snow from yesterday's storm before preparing for first engine start. Heard about the loss of Volcanopilot... Godspeed, Haraldur Diego.

Controller here: Usually we ask for a readback again because something was wrong with what we heard, but sometimes we were just laughing at the joke somebody in the room just told. Either way, there is no judgement in being asked for the readback again, just like we don't feel judged when a flight crew asks for the cleared level again because one of them heard something different.

@iain8837

10 ай бұрын

I think his FL read back was slightly garbled.

Favourite part of this series is just the briefings you have, and just seeing the process involved in the days travel.

Great video beautifully tributed. Love from Iceland

22 single engine ocean crossings and not a single pee. Thank you for this series, bringing back many memories. 😁

I've been waiting for it to show up - definitely a bucket list item!

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

I don’t know if it is just great camera placement or not but the visibility out the front of the DA42 is incredible.

@MichaelDreksler

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the big clear window looked like a simulator it was so imersive

I remember flying from North Dakota to England in the 80s in a B52 to do a flyover at an air show, then back without landing using aerial refueling. We flew over Iceland doing an excercise with some fighters on the way, and also taking us over Greenland, Greenland was very much covered in ice and snow, and Iceland had lots of greenery and was beautiful which we got a laugh out of 😆 seems a similar route was just used this week but very little was funny for those crews sadly.

very exciting....mega edit.

Good show.

Thank you FlightChops.

Love seeing how focused the planning is juxtaposed with how much fun you guys have flying. Great production and great story-telling as well!

These are really well done.

The usual Flight Chops excellence. It's great to see Diamond showcasing their aircraft this way too. Wick is lovely from the air, I have friends there and was lucky enough to visit and drive the north coast of Scotland a few years ago. Iceland and Greenland are still on my to do list.

Always liked your films but this one (production) is your BEST work so far !!!

2 thumbs up!!

Steve, thank you so much for all those images from different points of view and angles. At the end of the video, watching Micke landing, I had that thought: How tedious it is again and again to position yourself at the right place for a couple seconds of video that we "take for granted". Not forgetting the tremendous amount of video editing. Thank you so much for all the excellent work!

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it Richard, and I really appreciate you noticing "the work" - I try to make the story telling transparent and seamless; for the most part, people just soak it in without a thought to how it was achieved, so it is very rewarding when I get a comment like this - because yeah, it AIN'T EASY! :). But I enjoy doing it and thanks for watching / sharing / engaging with and supporting the content so I can keep doing it.

Really good job showing all the behind the scenes planning that go into flights like this.

RIP 'volcanopilot' Haraldur Diego

Congratulations, very professional assembly of clips of your flight preps to corresponding legs and radiocalls to make this fantastic and entertaining adventure movie! Best ever here on KZread. Thank you FlightChops, Martin and Micke!

Another great episode Steve - can tell just how much work you have put into the editing. ... all from a massive 8TB of data too, wow. Appreciate being able to share your amazing experience, thank you.

I was part of a P-3C Orion crew while in the US Navy & got to go to Iceland two different times - each time being about two weeks. We were sent there from Brunswick, ME to hunt down a rare Soviet submarine that a surface ship got a whif of. Good times (this was at Keflavik).

Really amazing episode all around. even emotional. great work, really

Just heard you talking to Toledo approach as I was doing a lesson out of 1G0. Made me smile man, can't wait to see what you're planning!

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Haha - that’s awesome. I’m at Hartzell with the RV-14 for a couple days. I was excited to cram an IFR flight into a short leg to an uncontrolled field on a nice day that probably should have just been VFR 😬🤓 Check it out on Flightaware - I zigzagged because the initial plan was for RNAV 08, but I managed to get better wind data just as I was cleared for the approach, and decided to switch to RNAV 26 (so I wasn’t landing with a slight tail wind). The smarter move would have been to just go VFR and over fly the field to assess the wind sock and then fly a tight pattern and land 🤷‍♂️

Fantastic. Love it

Beautiful work, as always. Thank you for sharing your adventures!

What an amazing adventure

Love this series!

Love this series! Looking forward to the next!

This is awesome, im doing my 3rd ever solo nagivation from Inverness to Kirkwall via wick

Nice job! Loving this series!

Awesome stuff Steve!!!

Great content. Enjoying the episodes

great trip, THANKS

Thanks sky chops haven’t had this much fun since you went to Bahama with Osama WTF.

Great stuff: over water flight, twin DA’s with glass, volcanoes 🌋, gps nav and approach, North Atlantic ferry flight, international radio comms, landing in Iceland in IMC, and “controlled dehydration”. R.I.P. Haraldur Diego

Great series well shot and edited. That glass cockpit is so damn impressive I want one,

Awesome series... some of the stuff I'd like to do once my PPL is done... to bring up my hours....👍

MIcke's wide angle camera showing him and the front really shows off the amazing view you get on the window of this plane. Now, if only I had fisheye... eyes.

Nice episode, thanks! The constant mixing of Imperial and Metric units still surprises me!

Overcast 0 is kind of a standard, especially early in the day, at my homebase during the cooler part of the year.

Great content..

Keep it up man, love your videos.

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

I've always wanted to visit Iceland, and I'd love to rent a plane (or hire a CFI) to do a local flight there. A good buddy spent a week there, driving around the island in a rented camper, his photos were stunning.

Interesting that the ATIS (at 11:30) reported winds in knots and visibility in kilometers - even in Canada, we hear everything in Statue Miles.

@johan56

2 жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken I think visibility in km is the standard across Europe.

@niklaspilot

2 жыл бұрын

That's standard in Europe. Vis in meters (below 5000m) or km, cloud heights in feet, speeds in knots and QNH in hPa

I love the cut back edits.... the "rewind" to planning between segments is so good!!! Premium content!!

I wish that there was more time spent checking out little towns along the way, or flying into some really remote communities... i get that wasn't possible for this one... but would be cool to see one day.

Great episode! Bittersweet with the news about Haraldur though ☹

Yeah, I don’t know if my bladder or kidneys are prepared for such a trip. I feel as if I always need to pee every 2 or 3 hrs. Sometimes I’m lucky and can go 6 hrs without a break, but sometimes it’s bad and I have to go every hr.

110% 🤟🍻🍻

Great video. Reykjavik's an awesome town

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

It really is! I'm so glad to have had this opportunity to visit - I will be back!

Nice planes. Nice flying. 😎 Back-of-tne-envelope flight planning suggests my Musketeer could do this - easily with a modest ferry tank. As a west coaster I've also looked at flying across the Pacific. There are routes and procedures across the Bering Strait (Nome to Provideniya, PAOM-UHMD), but getting to Nome in the first place is no small feat and it's insanely far from Provideniya to anywhere else. Russia is a big country and the Russian far east makes Canada look densely populated...

@gordanmilne7034

2 жыл бұрын

Round the world has been done by microlight and gyrocopter so should be doable, but now is not a good time.

How do you build confidence flying over oceans…planning.

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely - And it doesn't hurt to fly with and learn from a solid crew like Martin and Micke :)

@nitehawk86

2 жыл бұрын

Start by flying over ponds, then lakes, then great lakes... :)

I would love to ferry a 40 or 42 from the factory. Most of my flight time is in Diamonds. Martin or Micke, do you need another experienced Diamond pilot to fly?

3:55 Ooops!

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

ForeFlight Planning?

8 terabytes!!?? I would like to know your hard drive workflow lol.

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/m2Zqxq-oXbLNmNI.html :)

I'm not sure where I saw notification of Mr. Diego's passing. Maybe it was "In The Hanger" with Christie. It's a sad loss when someone like that passes. Steve, I have another request for you. I mentioned in a previous video that you used Lumix cameras, and I just made a recommendation to a friend of mine for a Lumix to replace her older Nikon Point and Shoot. Would it be possible to go over your camera gear, why you chose it and what software and stuff you use to put together these great videos. If you ever get the opportunity, it's out of print, but you might look for Daniel V. Gallery's book called 'All Hands on Deck.' Gallery was the aircraft carrier Captain that worked out a plan to board and capture a Nazi U-Boat during WWII. However, before he was Captain of the U.S.S. Guadalcanal, he served as the Commanding Officer of a bunch of sub-hunting Catalinas flying out of Reykjavik. Fun story to read. He later goes on to detail the capture of the German U-505, which now sits on display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology.

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

I just posted this answer to another related comment of yours, but I am copy/pasting it here too: Hey sorry for the delay replying - camera wise, I'm still shooting on a Lumix G85 that has to be pushing 5 years old now. It's still a great little camera and shoots 4k, but I am sure there are better options now, I just haven't been putting the energy into learning what is new - please let me know what you find out.

@GaryMCurran

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlightChops Steve, it's okay. I apologize for the redundancy of my questions. As I said, I suggested that my friend buy a Lumix, since the Sony I wanted her to get was discontinued and unavailable. I knew you used them, and have always been pleased with your videography, so I figured it was pretty good. What I was unaware of was the Lumix actually had interchangeable lenses. I was under the impression that they only made Bridge-style cameras. Anyway, I'm really enjoying this video series. Thank you for taking us along on it.

Could we get the flight plans for flight simulator use?

Why did yoy want to do RNP approach with a circling when you could be radar vectored for ILS to any runway in KEF? Does it look more cool in the video?

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Rewatch the related part of the briefing. Martin explained why this is the way he does it, and no, it had nothing to do with the video.

@MickeLang

2 жыл бұрын

Why getting vectors to an ILS with a final of 12.5 NM when the RNP is a straight in plus brings you down in a way that you can do a “normal” traffic pattern? This means less flight time and less fuel burn. And we landed in Reykjavik not in Keflavik 😉 Flying comes first, video last☝🏼

@flightchops great movie! Just wondering I made some pictures from OE-UDP on the 16th of march departing from RKV towards Greenland Given the big camera in the Cockpit which was clearly visible do you perhaps also have any footage from this one? I do have pictures for you if you are interested for the guys on this delivery flights send me a message if your interest so I can mail them to you all! :) Greets from holland

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks - I will let the guys know - I am not sure who was flying that one

is that a big line of q400's at 18:48?

@MickeLang

2 жыл бұрын

it is

@Jon090

2 жыл бұрын

Both Q200 and Q400 operated domestically by Icelandair

@allmightygriff

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jon090 thanks. Those are some of my favorite planes to fly in. Sad to see them being phased out in the US and Canada.

How did VolcanoPilot die?

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

He crashed unfortunately. For details, see the link in the description.

How did Haruldr pass away?

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

super sad - link to AOPA article in description.

Where I can get these Overall?

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Can you clarify what you are looking for? The whole playlist of the series you mean? It is here: kzread.info/head/PLJOPFT88qcBATyHgq0bpqS0P6RxlK56OE

@domenicwinkler5168

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlightChops Oh well, I mean the Orange Suits^^

Junior didn't need to re-confirm the waypoints to Reykiavik. He had erroneously confirmed FL 120 instead of 140 and was corrected by the controller :)

@MickeLang

2 жыл бұрын

Incorrect, I said 140 the first time😉 BR junior😜

@calummacfarlane8476

2 жыл бұрын

Lovely video. I'll chime in and say the reason the readback was queried was because the clearance was to maintain FL140 'from' DEVBI but initially you only read back 'at' DEVBI leaving some uncertainty as to what level you might fly after passing the point which the radio operator cannot accept. I know this because I was corrected on the same error the first time I flew oceanic.

@tehlarsie

2 жыл бұрын

@@MickeLang you did. There may however have been poor reception or it wasn't spoken clearly enough, leaving room for doubt. The radio operator needs to be certain of a good readback, he queried just the part concerning the flight level, from DEVBI maintain F140. VHF reception can be spotty from the Faroe islands remote site but it's also possible that the oxygen feed may have interfered with your transmission. Great video, thanks for sharing :)

First 😜😂

@FlightChops

2 жыл бұрын

Micke's episode is here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2SL1MZyf6rgcto.html