LAST KITFOX VLOG of 2019. Amazing flying!! ✈

Yeah, this has got to be one of the most beautiful places we've come. Check this out. That's the lake, the lake. We have the kit fox and we have the... Joe is that an avid that you have? There's the avid and Jeff's, Jeff's kit fox. So what's the plan for today? Did you get, did you get permission to land on that mystery valley? So How nice, all these places that we go. There's a place here that I saw, turning final, that I think I want to land there. It's right here, and it looks pretty doable. So let's take a look at there, see if we can land over there. All right, we're gonna go. Fire. I'm going around that guy. Roger. The last time I looked for this place, I couldn't find it, so I may have to have you guys show me where it's at, I don't remember. So, Alex, the idea is to touchdown, kind of at the crest of that road, where the road kind of comes up the hill. Yeah, the idea is to, there's a ditch before the road, so just past that ditch, and anywhere on the road should be pretty good. Okay. And I made the switch, are you guys still on 2275? Yeah, we were calling you, but we didn't hear you, so yeah, we're at 12275, and I'm coming down on left on wind, and I'm gonna go for landing. Roger, I wasn't 100% sure where to park, so I just kind of pulled off a little bit into the weeds here. Yeah, that's perfect there. Good job, Jeff. Thanks, man. All right, Joey, I'm turning final. Yeah, I'm up above you. Damn, man, this place is awesome, dude. That's fiber optic. First time for Jeff. How you feel? Two thumbs up, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I love the little road here, it's green. Easy to see. Easy to see, yeah. It's a beautiful place. I mean, there's no, there's, you can't go wrong, right? We need places we go. Oh, no, this is great. Yeah, it's a joy coming in. That's an avid, that's awesome. A little bit of leg bounce going there, taxiing in. Check it out. Crazy color to it. Yeah, and there's some, there's some, whatever it's called there. No, it's, there's water all over around every time we see it. It's almost like a little dam. Old headboard. Yeah. The last time I was here, this was full of water all the way up to, all the way up to the, to the edge. But the interesting is, someone did this. Yeah. It's not, it's not nature, it's freaking nowhere. What is that, we were 2,000 feet elevation here? Yeah. Probably. 1900, yeah. This is, we'll call this place fiber optic. Buri fiber optic. How is that Buri fiber optic here? And the post has sunglasses on it. And Joey, did you name this place, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because of the sign, fiber optic. Yeah, first time I was here, I pulled my plane right up in here. Yeah. Took pictures of it. Yeah. Cool. I brought my drift camera with me, I haven't shot a second of this. That's an awesome place, this is an awesome place, dude. Yeah. I actually turned my GoPro on. You gotta do it. You guys bring your cameras, you don't turn it on. What's up with that? What's up with that, man? I forgot my wing mounts on my other plane. I have one in the cockpit. Right. All right, you guys ready? You feel good? Mysterious Valley? Yeah, he just texted me. All right. It's okay to stop in. Sweet, let's go. All right, let's go Mysterious Valley. Good job, Jeff. I gotta run all the way back and get the plane and go. The thing is, we do it to show you guys. Hey Alex, I'm on your six, I'll just follow you. Okay. That's beautiful scenery, man. Sure is. I got you. Yep, I've got you in sight too. Oh, that's not what I thought you were going to be landing in. I thought it was that dirt strip that he just flew over. Me too. Yeah, so there's that one, there's this one, and then that other one's about another half mile further north up on that hill. Wow, cool. All right, I'm flying overhead. I'm going to enter on the left. Roger, all space behind you, and do the same thing. All right. I sure hope we can find someone looking pretty promising. It's awesome. Looks like you can touch down way down this runway too, Joe. He's right, man. I could land the Falcon on this thing easy. Yeah, I landed way down, and I still taxi today. I'm clear, guys. Wow, both of them look good. Sleep a little bit here. There's two strips. I didn't realize there was two. There's another one right up where that little low point in the ridges right there. It's right on the other side of that, but it's got a big hump in the middle of it. Yeah. It's kind of cool, and I think I'm going to go up and land it from the bend here. It's quite a bit shorter than these. No, this is huge. You can land anything in here. That's what I say. You could land the Falcon in here. You could. Wow. Dan, this is awesome, huh? This place is fantastic. I know. When we were doing the river run the other day, a while ago, we flew over this, and I said, oh, that must be a cool place to land. Let's check out. The runway. I wonder if we can take off from this end and land on the other runway. That would be fun. Wow. Look at this. I can't see much this way. Dang, there's so much more runway there. Wow. Beautiful. All right. Cool. This is Mysterious Valley, and there's another runway on top, and another one here on the back, so we're going to check out the shortest one, which is the one on the back behind me. That would be pretty cool to just climb up and then touch right back down again. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Where is the other runway? It's right here. I'm going to go down. Yeah. Lots and lots and lots of cow pies here. Okay. I got Alex in sight. Oh, I see it. I see the red building. Yep. Okay. I see the strip. Yeah. I'm right above it. And Alex, do you have me in sight? Negative. I'm crossing right in front of you about 100 feet low. I'm going to form up behind you. All right. It looks pretty landable. Oh, yeah. You just touched down. I'm going to do a low approach there, Jeff, just to make sure it's clear there. Okay. That's pretty sporty. It looks pretty good. How do you take off though? Because that's kind of a new takeoff. I'm going to give it a try. All right. This is a new place. Pull up. Pull up. Looks a little bit on the challenging side. All right. Pretty smooth. Yeah. When I flew low over it, it looks pretty smooth. I'm doing a low fly by. I'm just approaching the approach in right now. I'm going to be right over here. I won't be too low. I think you can land here, Jeff. It looks pretty doable. I was going to just see what you thought about the takeoff. I'm going to park here. Let's take a look. I'm right over you right now. Oh, the takeoff is not an issue, dude. Really? So it's not as steep as it looks? Well, we'll take off on the other direction. We'll take off from the opposite direction we landed on. Okay. It's all downhill. There you go. I'm going to park here, okay? That's awesome. This place is amazing, too. Let me just stay on the radio with you. Are we good? No, I should be okay. If I don't like it. Yeah, it's uphill, so you're going to stop real quick and just go slow. That's all. Sounds good. There's a house here. Abandoned house. And Jeff's coming in. We're good. That's good. It's uphill, so you stop real quick. Hey, Jeff. Yeah, no worries. If you see that the brush turns a little more red, I touch down on the area that's a little more red. And it's all uphill, so you stop real quick. I have to taxi most of my uphill. Well, I mean, don't land on the uphill, on the beginning of the uphill. Anywhere on that area where the collar is a little more red, should be good. All right. It's not an easy place because it's a big uphill here. And it can't go too low because there's hills on the other side. So there we go. There we go. There we go. Nice. Yeah. Sweet, man. What is that, three for three? Wow. This is even more challenging than Hammond's. I was thinking it's just like Hammond's. No, it's a little more challenging than Hammond's, but the hill is higher, so it stops you quite a bit. I mean, I could feel that I was going to run out of speed up the hill, so I just tried to keep my speed up to make it up here. But you're right, it took a lot of power. This is cool. And it's smooth. Very. I was shocked. Very smooth. Dude, I'm dying to check out this house. I wonder if this door is open or unlocked and what's inside of this thing. Oh, it's open here. Oh, no. Oh, no trespassing. Oh, this thing was. Oh, there's a door. No trespassing. Let's take a look at the door. Dude, it looks like someone started to build this. Yeah. And they never finished. Yeah. It's open. Yeah. Oh, my God. There's a full. Look at this archway. Look at this brick archway. Holy crap. I'm OK. I take that back. Damn. Look at this. I'm waiting for someone to jump out. This place is sweet. Why? Oh, this is a garage. That's a garage door. Oh, yeah. Tow bar. Oh, no, that's a water main. The rounded walls and everything. Someone spent some money on this place. I never expect this to be open. No. You know, technically, we're on someone's property. So someone came in here and shot us. They would be within their rights. They would. We would be the crackheads get ready to jump out in the closet. Well, that is trippy. That is totally trippy. That was worth the stop. That was worth the stop so bad. Dude, that was so cool. That's that's something. There is something. Three for three. That's a that was a quiet year of flying. It was. Right. Twenty nineteen was good. I think this is my last vlog of the year. I bet. Yeah. I slack for four months and. But yeah, we flew all the way to Oshkosh and back. Yeah. Get a bunch. I did the whole the whole gear design video, the whole testing. And you help filming the testing. All the VGs. All the VGs. All that testing and all the testing as well. Oh, gap seals and the gap seals. The gap seals are more of a try out than anything. And it was the we went all the way to Oshkosh and back. We vlog all the way every day. And then the trip that you didn't go was the Alvord trip in May. But it was it was a lot of flying. How many hours do you think you did this? I don't know. I have to I have to look into it. Probably every year was like two fifty to thirty five to two fifty. Yeah. And you probably log quite a bit. I did. I did. Oshkosh. Oshkosh alone was close to 40 something. Yeah. Right. Yeah. In the upper 40s, like 46 or 47. Yeah. Yeah. And next year you going to Oshkosh next year? Yeah. We got to do it right. I'm doing it. We got to do it. Yeah. Oshkosh and I want to do Idaho next year too. Me too. Yeah. Because of our both of us left out on that trip and both of us had mechanicals. We got to return from that that trip. We got to we got to do that one. I made it as far as the East Bay Hills out of Oakland. So I made it about 1.9 miles. Yeah. I made it up to Truckee and that was that was that was it for me. I was like I'm not going all the way there. Wow. Yeah. It was hopefully next year we'll do quite a bit more flying. I hope so too. And get more going. Yeah. And thanks you guys for watching. And now Jeff is going to have his GoPros next year. I have GoPros. I just keep getting to turn them on. He needs to get his GoPros and I will turn it on and start. He started getting a camera and vlogging it. That'll be fun. Well, thanks for watching, guys. I'll see you next year. 2020. Happy New Year. All