Pretty entertaining, actually. Grab a beer and enjoy the grainy film of yesteryear. I love these old FAA videos.

Update: A friend is flying out west right now with some forecast heat so I was obligated to send him Harry Bliss and his Bonanza adventures. I've updated the dead video link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihee35QrWtk

I can not believe I watched the whole video. That is too funny

Tunnel Meadow, boy i hope rick and joe get it opened some day. great movie by the way. good find zane.

cheers...rob

Hah.

Harry Bliss (hah). Stapleton airport. Gunnison. Leadville. Classic Bo.

Great stuff... thanks.

That was cool
Watched the whole thing
Was just another time back then
With I had a time machine to visit

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_fre ... ulare.html

Scroll down a little.

Enjoyed it and a good chuckle here and there. Thanks for posting.

Plane must have liked the west, it now lives in Casa Granda AZ

I remember watching this in 1970 or so when I was learning. Never figured out why the C180 guy was such a pussy. He shoulda sat in the shade and had a cold refreshing beer, and took off after catching some fish.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:I remember watching this in 1970 or so when I was learning. Never figured out why the C180 guy was such a pussy. He shoulda sat in the shade and had a cold refreshing beer, and took off after catching some fish.

Gump

Tough to take a load off when your diggers are fulla poop.

Naw... What do you think those Oregon Aero seat cushions are made of?

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Naw... What do you think those Oregon Aero seat cushions are made of?

Gump

Actually, I bet they found the best stick of the bunch that day and said "We're making a movie about safety. Do your best shitty landing."

Yup... Funnier than shit.

Vintage porn. "What's Density Altitude?" said the 170 pilot.

HEY that was a shitty landing? I must need more practice.

So Harry is an expert now....lining the 180 pilot out, while the other guy hits on Mrs. Harry? Was I the only one making snide comments throughout? Great hats anyway. Cool planes too.

I have yet to see a warning about LOW density altitude landings, how they can be hazardous also, they are like slow motion and it always takes me a few to get re-used to how thick sea level air is. Better that I guess then get surprised by thin air.

Like all FAA videos of the era, it was way too long and full of bad acting and bad lines, but in between all its hokiness, some pretty good advice. I don't recall seeing this particular one back in my training in the early 70s, but I saw a lot of them. The scene that stands out in my mind was in a video about float plane flying. The aircraft drifted out into the lake while the pilot was getting it ready to go, and several hundred yards from shore, he opened his window and hollered, "CLEAR!"

Cary

courierguy wrote:I have yet to see a warning about LOW density altitude landings, how they can be hazardous also, they are like slow motion and it always takes me a few to get re-used to how thick sea level air is. Better that I guess then get surprised by thin air.

I've run into that too, while departing. Not in a dangerous way, just looking at the deck angle, looking at the A/S in disbelief, pulling back more, looking back at the deck angle, looking back at the A/S again in complete disbelief, pulling back more, pegging the VSI...

It made me understand how people fly by habit and familiarity at times, and finally realized the pickle I could have been in had I been happening had I been experiencing high DA for the first time after being at sea level instead of experiencing low DA for the first time.

courierguy wrote:So Harry is an expert now....lining the 180 pilot out, while the other guy hits on Mrs. Harry? Was I the only one making snide comments throughout? Great hats anyway. Cool planes too.

I loved that part as well. It's always good form to act like an expert the same day you learn something, right?

It's cool to see "new" old planes in action. I kinda with they had flown the old plane out to the strip and left the Bonanza...

I love seeing these old films. What I really liked was seeing places I've been to and how they looked 60 years ago. The acting might be bad and a little corny, but overall, it gets the message across too.