ALVORD DESERT FLY IN - BIKER RESCUE AND THUNDERSTORMS - PART 2 OF 3

smoke on wow morning guys this is day two that's uh was a little wake up call uh Pilatus beautiful airplane coming in and this is gonna be our day two of our trip we uh slept not so good we had some uh noises overnight i think come from somewhere there so we're somewhere there or somewhere there look like a symphony but uh yeah we have a full day ahead lots of stuff going on we're gonna go to the uh field station and then we're gonna go to the desert i'm gonna probably go to the desert take the uh stuff out of the airplane and set up camp and then go to field station lighter so we don't have to carry a lot of weight and then hopefully do a bunch of flying thank you another spot another tent to set up so at this point of day two I realized that my microphone plug was not connected to the camera so from now on I'm going to try to do a little bit of a voiceover and not talk too much Brian wants to do a drag race practice I have never done it I asked him if I could join him so off we go I was pretty surprised how quickly I accelerated my airplane is I think I have 20 horsepower less than right he the whole idea is to go to two miles towards the end of the line and land after the line come to a full stop turn it around 180 degrees and do the same thing and land after we the line that we started off my airplane has no brakes after I put the 29 tires on it I basically have no braking power whatsoever it is really hard to know where the line is and with the desert it's really hard to judge where the floor is so he tried to do as much as it could but he wasn't too bad I think it did pretty good for my first time it was pretty awesome so down below is the field station as you can see you can you have the road that you can lean to and on the back of the gas station there is also a landing strip and that's what I chose to land so after landing and we decided that we wanted to get some fuel and a friend with a helicopter was taking off so we asked if he could take a look in the road and we could taxi from the dirt strip all the way to the gas station so we could put fuel on it we knew that the weather is coming and we wanted to continue flying so we want to fill it up and have some flying in the afternoon and avoid some of the thunderstorms that were coming up and I won't lie it was a little bit of nerve-wracking taxiing on the road without being able to see if the cars are coming ahead of you and behind you luckily our friend with a quad slim was looking ahead of us and the helicopter he was looking at behind and was looking ahead of us some of the signs I could swear that I almost hit them I didn't realize them until they were so close and it was a little bit on a sketchy side but we made it safe to the gas station this particular sign on the right side I almost hit it and the one on the left someone already hit it for me that was pretty close and not knowing exactly what the wires were and the signs I chose not to land on the road until I could taxi on and take a look at them and later I found out that that's not the best way to land towards the other side of the gas station is the best way to take off and land which is there's a little more space and there's less wires and signs yeah look at this wire right on top of the video now you can barely see it and once we get off the road in a kind of a feel of relief and we park right next to the fuel pump and fuel it up and the guys that fills station were super nice and they had the a lot of fuel there for us and after that is just have a milkshake and enjoy a burger that is just incredible I mean there's no there's no way you can describe what it feels to be like in place like this until you get here you know it's so overwhelming I'm intrigued about the black thing man I want to go check it out let's go check it out what the black thing is as you can see a bunch of thunderstorms are building up quite a few of them three or four in sequence one after the other and believe it or not the little black dot that we could see seven eight miles out you can see coming in on the left side of the screen it's a little tiny dot it's a guy stuck in the mud in a motorcycle now we knew the storm were coming and basically if he didn't get out of there he was going to be on the water and we also couldn't land next to him because if he was stuck we'll probably be stuck there as well just few miles away from him we spotted this camping van which originally we thought it was his so we tried to understand what was going on there so we did a couple of flybys around him try to let him know that we're going to try to get him some help we really wanted to land right next to him but you can see the dark color indicates that's nice and moist and wet and could be muddy so we didn't want to take the risk again to be stuck there so after a few passes around the van we decided that the floor will be nice and firm and we decided to land next to them and see if there's any way they could help the guy with a motorcycle at least get him in the van and ditch before the thunderstorm come look at this thing it is dumping down big-time we're gonna have probably to go over around there behind it hey puppy hello puppy hello hello hello hello what's going on guys good how are you hey puppy yeah so do you guys see the guy there yeah yeah he's stuck there and and there's no way that he can get out of there seems like it's pretty pretty muddy but at least but at least I mean if it wasn't for you guys here he would be in bad shape because there's nothing around yeah we thought it was his van or hey pup you guys just camping here yeah we need to watch for all right so it looks like the guy is gonna get help from these guys here these guys are just camping here and look at the size of that cell coming in that's nuts that's water and dust and the tanks are probably going to be soaking wet all right I think it's time to head back yeah as you can see things got a little bit hectic the winds were blowing at least 25 miles an hour and we decided to just get out of there as quickly as possible and start dodging all the cells around and unfortunately the guys on the van decided to ditch and never help the guy in the motorcycle and the funny story is after three or four hours of flying we all head back to camp and this is must be 7 8 o'clock at night or even more a guy in a motorcycle suit shows up on a campsite and that's the guy and he walked all the way from that place he was to our campsite we could be at least 15 20 miles and he was all happy and good spirits and he even brought some drinks for us that he had in his pocket and we hang out and we talk over the fireplace so it was all good he was all happy so there was a happy ending there I think next day Ty gave him a ride to his spot and his motorcycle was all good and he moved on we knew we couldn't come back to the campsite because the dry lake bed at this time was basically a lake so we just decided to keep flying we had plenty of fuel and we had a lot of dry lake beds to explore and we just pointed where the weather was nice and we flew for you know three four more hours and I finally realized that my plug was disconnected and I ended up connecting and regain audio feed close that yeah let's get out you can't get over how cool this thing is it's too cool that is definitely like in the middle of nowhere I think that's the prettiest so far this is very like home and secluded Wow this is so beautiful and we just heard that the guys at the campsite are completely under mud and water they're going fishing it rained at a campsite and it got muddy it's really bad and we just so it looks like a lot of thunderstorm is underwater it flooded everything nobody's getting in and out so it looks like we're gonna go check it out and see if we can land on the grass there's a piece of grass hopefully I can land there I don't know if I can if we can't if I can't then I don't know we're gonna all right we made it down man this dry lake bed is not dry anymore check this out it's basically a lake and we didn't we know if we could land here or not so we ended up landing over there it's a patch of grass which is very very muddy and it just made a massive mess everywhere tires are all messy the bottom of the wing it's all messed up so that's the way it goes all right so this is the end of day two and I'm pretty beat up we flew quite a bit found some really cool places and unfortunately the connection of the audio on my camera was not plugged in so a lot of a voiceover anyways thanks for following along if you like go ahead and subscribe and click the little bell button there