[pilot and instructor in cockpit of small plane on runway]
>> Instructor: Yeah, we'll leave the windows open for a few minutes till -
>> Pilot: Yeah! That's cool.
[pilot taxis plane around runway]
[laughs]
Alright, we'll do a soft field takeoff so we're going to just stay real low to the ground.
>> Pilot: Okay.
>> Instructor: And it'll be a bit more fun.
Alright, ready?
[engine gets louder as plane starts to accelerate down runway]
Okay, so pull back.
Now we're going to try to pop a wheelie.
Okay, so we're popping a wheelie now.
And now push forward just a little bit.
And now we're just waiting for it to come off the ground.
I'm not, I'm not doing it. It's all you.
>> Pilot: [cheers]
>> Instructor: There we go.
[plane rises off runway]
Now pitch down, let's level it off.
And then there you go, you're flying it.
>> Pilot: Oh my gosh! Awesome!
[plane rises higher into the sky]
Alright, we're at a safe altitude, props are going to come up.
[instructor points at controls]
And so now we, we want to get a climb of about 80 knots.
Okay so that's going to tell you what - right here.
So that's going to tell you what kind of a climb angle we're going to have.
See what I'm saying?
>> Pilot: Oh my god!
Instructor: And we're going to want to turn to that orange boat right there.
>> Pilot: [laughs]
[radio chatter]
Oh my gosh, this is awesome!
[laughs]
[radio chatter]
>> Instructor: And you can see downtown.
>> Pilot: That is awesome.
>> Instructor: We're pretty much just flying right over it.
Hopefully no [unintelligible]
>> Pilot: [laughs]
[plane flies over bridge]
Oh my gosh, this is awesome!
>> Instructor: You're doing - [cut off by radio chatter]
>> Pilot: I can understand why - [cut off by radio chatter]
>> Instructor: Alright, let me contact them real quick.
[radio chatter]
Okay, let's make sure we got this right.
Yep, we're going to just aim right here, we're going to go just to the left side of it.
[instructor reaches towards controls]
And I'm going to fix this. We want to be right on that orange thing.
>> Pilot: Okay.
>> Instructor: Actually, we're going to go that way.
So, turn to the left, just a little bit.
I'm not doing anything, it was all you.
>> Pilot: This is awesome!
I could do this every day of my life.
[video cuts to later in flight]
>> Instructor: Okay, here's downtown over here. [points]
You want me to turn the plane so you can see it?
[plane turns dramatically]
>> Pilot: [laughs]
>> Instructor: There it is.
[radio chatter]
>> Pilot: Okay, will you take a picture?
>> Instructor: Yeah!
[instructor holds phone up to take picture]
Let's see if I can get one here.
Okay, one, two, three.
One more. One, two, three.
[instructor puts down phone]
>> Pilot: Awesome. Thank you!
[video cuts to later in flight]
[radio chatter]
[both people bounce in their seats and a small thump is heard]
>> Pilot: [laughs]
>> Instructor: Yeah, we're going to feel a little bit of bumps.
Once we get into ground effect
which is essentially the wingspan of the airplane
there's a - you're going to feel a cushion.
Okay?
[plane lowers towards ground]
[plane approaches runway]
[plane ascends back into the air]
>> Pilot: [laughs]
That's badass!
>> Instructor: Was that awesome?
>> Pilot: That's awesome! [laughs]
That is too cool.
>> Instructor: I love flying.
>> Pilot: I imagine!
>> Instructor: [laughs]
I can see how -
>> Instructor: There's some things -
[video cuts to later in flight]
>> Instructor: You can see, like, the lake's really pretty over here.
[plane turns towards right and lake is visible]
>> Pilot: [laughs]
[plane straightens out]
>> Instructor: I love looking at the water from -
[plane takes another sharp turn]
>> Pilot: Yeah! Nice enough to be on the water.
>> Instructor: This lake is really nice, it's becoming really popular around here.
>> Pilot: What lake is that?
>> Instructor: This is Lake Skiatook.
>> Pilot: Skiatook, no kidding.
>> Instructor: Yeah and it's uh, it's really pretty
and they're building some resorts around here
and it's becoming like a pretty cool hot spot.
>> Pilot: Where's a place to stay, in Skiatook?
>> Instructor: Um, I don't know exactly where it is, I just hear it on the news all the time.
>> Pilot: Oh, okay.
>> Instructor: I think it's right -
[unintelligible]
I know it's right - there's one of them that's right here below us
but there's another one or two of them that they're building.
>> Pilot: Okay.
>> Instructor: [points to right] This is a resort area over here off our right wing.
Okay so we do a stall first.
What - a stall is when a plane exceeds its critical angle of attack,
it doesn't have anything to do with the air speed. Okay?
So, we do this with the students, we go up to stall
[airplane noise descends in pitch]
[plane angles up and electronic alarms whine]
[airplane quickly tilts downward]
>> Pilot: [excited laughs]
[plane returns to proper orientation and engine noise returns to normal]
That's fricking awesome. [laughs]
>> Instructor: Okay, and then we're going to go to a west heading right now
and then we'll do a steep turn.
[plane turns sharply as instructor speaks]
Okay, so the steep turn, we roll to about a 50 degree bank
and then we throw a couple shots of trim in here.
And then, this is what we teach the student to do
so let's say we want to stay at 3100 feet.
This is something that they have to do for every maneuver.
They have to maintain plus or minus a hundred feet
plus or minus ten knots in order to make this work.
[plane continues to turn sharply to left]
>> Pilot: Alright, and again, I mean, that was awesome!
[points at controls] We're looking at this right here?
Yep, and I'm going through west and I'm going to go all the way to south, so that's the direction that we're going.
Yeah, I'm holding this [points at controls] and I'm going -
this one right here, all the way to the south and I see the lines. The lines run up north and south.
[plane returns to normal orientation]
There you go, and that's it.
>> Pilot: Wow!
>> Instructor: We can do another stall if you want.
>> Pilot: Yes!
>> Instructor: You want to do zero gravity?
>> Pilot: Sure!
>> Instructor: That's what the astronauts feel.
>> Pilot: Yeah!
>> Instructor: It's when we're falling at 9.8 meters per second squared
which is the same as gravity.
>> Pilot: Yes.
>> Instructor: Okay, so we essentially felt that for a second doing a stall.
Okay? So, hold your phone out.
[pilot holds phone out]
Okay, now hold it there, and in just a second you'll see it float.
[plane tilts up and engine noise descends in pitch]
[plane quickly tilts down and phone floats out of pilot's hand]
>> Pilot: [screams and laughs]
[plane returns to normal orientation and phone returns to hand]
That's [laughs] oh my god!
[claps] That's amazing!
>> Instructor: There we go. Alright, we're going to call up Tulsa and we're going to head back over downtown.
>> Pilot: Do we have to?
>> Instructor: [laughs] I think so, they're going to be late.
They're going to be like -
>> Pilot: Come on, we're the last group!
[laughs]
[video cuts to later in flight]
[radio chatter]
[radio chatter]
[pilot holds out phone]
[plane tilts up and engine noise descends in pitch]
>> Pilot: [laughs]
[plane tilts downward and phone floats into the air]
[bags in back of plane float into sight]
[laughs]
>> Instructor: There we go, it's basically just a stall, is all it is.
[video cuts to later in flight]
[radio chatter]
>> Instructor: Okay, so they approved us for a short approach
which means that
we're basically - we're going to act like we're flying along
and, oh my gosh we just lost our engine.
Okay, see those big white spots on the runway?
We're going to land on those.
This is what a student has to do to pass their commercial.
Okay so, pretty much we've got the white marks
plus an additional fifty feet.
Okay? So what I do is I teach the student
when we get to about 45 degrees from those
[plane tilts left]
we start a left turn.
Okay? But remember, we're going to do it a little differently,
we're going to stay real high.
And we're going to make this kind of crazy and fun, right?
Alright, we get to base key, we put our flops ten, right here
and see how high we are? Can you tell we're high?
>> Pilot: Yes.
>> Instructor: Okay. We're pretty high.
So we're going to start this turn and then we're going to put it in a slip
while we're doing this turn, so I put the right rudder in.
[plane turns to the left]
>> Pilot: Right rudder in. Okay.
>> Instructor: Yep.
And I'm dumping the flops because we want to increase our rate.
[plane levels out]
[plane approaches runway]
[unintelligible]
Alright, we've got about fifty feet past
[light shaking and sound of impact as plane lands]
And there we go.
And on the students' check ride
where they would get that license, that would be a pass.
>> Pilot: Nice!
>> Instructor: But we should be able to do that, I mean,
that's what I do all day, right?
>> Pilot: I would think!
[laughs]
That was amazing.
>> Instructor: Alright, you can pop your window.
[pilot and instructor open their windows]
>> Pilot: Thank you so much, that was amazing.
>> Instructor: Yeah!
[video fades to black]
