We Bought Another Soviet Fighter Jet

I've wanted to do this my entire life I thought I had all the Time in the World to figure it out and now it Reno's ending so I've got to find a jet it is 4:00 in the morning here in sunny Alpine Wyoming it's time to go take the jet Alabama I got to make that happen I got to go race in the the fastest race on the planet is that all it is July August September I have 3 months hey the wind has picked up a little bit you ready for the engine you need some time back [Applause] [Music] there you ready sweetheart but really you know with like registration deadlines and things I've probably got about a month to find an airplane maybe less um somehow I'm going to make that happen here comes the engine I was worried it was going to be too dark but I think there must be an overcast layer that's reflecting or something yeah I'm just glad I don't have to worry about my laptop on this flight up in the nose lovely that last laptop egg like I've needed a new bag forever and that Carl Friedrich 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doing this in the dark yeah send it uh old instruments K okay we're uh get everything this right we're going to be there in 5 hours perfect at this rate well now at this rate I don't think we have 5 hours of fuel either actually it might just be Salt Lake yeah I don't think we would be there in 5 hours we will be there in two 2 hours and like 25 minutes oh that sounds like we got a lot of gas all right my panel board's clear do my light test I get lights everywhere hydraulic pressure on the front the back system on my oxygen I got flap set trim set confirmed ah yeah fresh did you see how much O2 is in there Jets departing Runway 31 line yeah that's a nice number it was 150 when I filled it but the bottle was hot yeah you ready to go ready is all over be let's send [Music] it that all looks golden okay triple gauge is good Vib is good Center Line's over here somewhere we'll find it I got mountains in my periperal here air speed's allow 60 kns 80 90 100 [Applause] 120 coming up I'm just going to hold this attitude dump the landing lights so we can see 140 flaps coming up beautiful visual references hopefully there's no night flying birds right okay we're accelerating we're climbing we can mostly see the terrain I'm going to keep the power here for a moment just till we have a little bit better terrain clearance so we go ahead and make a left turn yeah I think left sounds nice if you can make it fast enough we're not in a bonanza well you want to pull a little harder yeah I want a g or two here okay power's coming back a little bit I got a little bit of a layer up above us trying to look at what it is but 10,000 yeah okay at this rate we going to clear all the terrain up ahead I'm just worried about climbing through ice hopefully layers thin yeah it' be nice if we had a uh out outside air temperature reference of some sort or an ice light I'd rather just know what the temperature is honestly it looks like the cloud layer doesn't extend very far yeah give me a little heat back here on the canopies y turnning up a little bit yeah it was what 447 something like that you call center yes let's call let's see I me it's a lot less than on the left but you're going any either way in about 10 seconds you a level here for a moment we got some preet on the radar for the next 80 miles and you might want to not doing it Center experimental jet 13 ner Lima that came a little unre was that November 139 or Lia he it is and we're wondering if you have any cops reports out here no 139 Lima I've had no one around that area uh recently to get a top report well I see pre l yeah stand by one for 139 [Applause] Li um just stay low cuz I can see light on the other end of this Ridge let's get through this little section here and then we'll climb I don't know about our 12:00 but there's a wall hanging down of like Cloud on the left right so that's why why we made this little turn here yep 1 Three N Lima I'm showing that the pine I know [Applause] um mear there showing there they have a feeling 1 1,000 broken uh that's not a deal okay yeah thanks we're we're just kind of just below the bases here just want to avoid some icing we we'll probably call you back in a few minutes once we get around this stuff and then the IFR 143 yeah it lookin right above me right now but right I don't know what's above that I think there's a I think there's two layers here 1 Three N Li you say you want to pick up your CL uh negative we'll call you back in just a bit is there any other weather on the route today no it was supposed to be beautiful the whole way this is one little bug huh yep Western Wy like he Landing to the South so here's 16 come on 165 yeah I can still kind of see a little ahead but you got something up on the left right but I think if we continue on this heading so we just pick up the IFR on this heading and get whatever altitude we want for now I think in just a minute we're going to see a little further yeah it looks pretty good up ahead there's just this edge of that wall you were talking about hanging over in front of us that I I can't tell yeah it's starting to open up quite a bit as we're getting through here but I see another layer above it right then I can see okay yeah go ahead and climb I can see I can see the tops on the left you think yeah Center 139 we'd like to pick up that IFR 13 SP 635 635 13 n Lima 13 n Lima to 175 right 139 Lima 13 Lima clear to a kilo alpha alpha Oscar V maintain level 270 okay clear to the alpha alpha officer airport as filed maintained level 27013 n Lima and it looks like you might just be able to pop on the second layer here and squeeze right in that little slot and then be up BMC the whole way I mean I think I think that's where we're going to be right now you got air spe 200 yep maybe pop over this thing did we flip the pedo heat on for a moment just to be yeah yeah just to be safe just to be safe but yeah you could pop over the top of this I think you got enough energy H just barely let's give it one second here but just go left slightly oh let see yeah I don't think we have the energy for that cuz we're going to we're going to lose it real fast I was look at the hole on the left there yeah what the hole on my right and not much hole but what's our destination I'll let you fly first alpha alpha Oscar we're on top of the world we are never it does get higher on the right yeah better get that tail in you promised well it died down quite a bit I think now it's like 35 knots or something or 25 knots yeah that happens in the morning there's 22,000 we're going up to 27 yeah I think we got the tops made one 3 n Lima contact 2 4.35 12 4.35 139 he starting a right turn tot L Center experimental jet 13 ner Lima fight level 255 for fight level 27 for 139 L Center Center 139 request Lev 280 139 L maintain F level 280 expect to go to 290 in about 10 to 15 minutes oh would love to thank you okay level 280 139 Lia and we'd love 290 but uh we're negative rvsm I know he was 27 now was 28 actually us some top yeah for now seems like it keeps going up W that's pretty I got to get a photo of that hey beautiful there she is when we land I got to pay Shane that way he's paid before we get there now there's like a line of thunderstorms just moving through Witchita the entire Central United States last night the forecast was like clearing a million everywhere yeah there's quite a bit of color on that uh screen there like Center experimental jet 13 Niner Lima flight level 280 139 Good Morning Light shop like maybe a touch of rain up ahead okay we got a wing tip and drop tank light been in the air for 46 minutes and 39 Lima do you need to stay at 28 um wrong direction or do you want to go down to 27 yeah we'll need to stay at 280 for 139 L long contact center 12765 12765 139 Lima good Denver Center experimental jet 13 Niner Lima flight level 280 13 n Li mod to extreme paration from your 10 to 12:00 looks like you're certain in the south side of it here in 180 Mi so um I'll be taking it down probably to um probably about 900,000 by the time you hit that though so you might be under 139 I bet about 6 hours 13 Niner Lima just to maintain uh ,000 the city ultimeter is 2 ner n or 5 you can Flo it down this way ,000 can we make it PD to ,000 for 139 L yeah like I said you can Flo it down um I just need you to start down here in about uh 8 minutes after that if you could defend it ,000 please I appreciate it okay we'll start down about 8 minutes for 139 Li to 9,000 actually you know what let's uh no yeah 9 that's got to be 9,000 sorry no you know what let's do this uh no 13 n Lima in 8 minutes just to maintain follow 23 like can't take down the rest way okay in 8 minutes we'll just end the flight level 230 13 n Lima okay should we just do Dodge City anyway well you said the 2600 Ft Dodge City it's still pretty high 2800 broken 2800 overcast 3500 7 miles yeah we're going deviate Dodges just to get it done CU we're DOD City Ork which is the Dodge 2800 remember 13 ner Lio we'd like to divert to Dodge City number 13 ner Lio yeah deviation uh oh you want to go oh like divert to a different uh destination of Dodge City okay Roger that um November 13 n Li clear direct to the Dodge City airport and with that I will have to have you descended n or th000 the Hill City AL 295 so approach so the weather is 140 at 11 so Land Run 14 the ILS 14 I can see the inlets warming up a little bit I'm more concerned about the tail yeah well don't look at the wing then see [Music] that supplement well just the uh total air temperature four flight's giving me a sink rate warning yeah I got hit too they're coming out the bottom here so we should be good in a second but uh yeah how much ice is on the wing yeah I I see how much ice is on the wing it's our record ice build there we're doing 380 true it shouldn't last too long yeah it's melting pretty quick you getting that yeah it's sub waiting it's just melting number 39 Li maintain 6,000 6,000 139 Lima number 39er Lima continue on this present heading Defender maintain 5,000 join the ILS inbound report established uh fly this heading down a 5,000 join the ILS report established 139 there's 11,000 we'll slow down a little bit ILS needles alive light's coming in 139 L established power 39 Roger y clear for the al14 approach into D City report cancellation in the air on the stre on the ground FL service chain advisory is approv C the il4 CH advisory what's decision altitude it's going to be 2786 you want to go and set the rare altimeter too uh 200 ft okay I can't set it from back here I don't think so that how many meters is that 200 ft in meters what's a meter like 9.6 Dodge City traffic Albatross J about a 10 m Final on the is from one4 that's [Music] see yeah there's the runway I got it give it a couple seconds here and I'll go back to him and cancel C 139 can 39 cancellation maintain V good good D City traffic El 4 m d City 180 get the gear trigger air door is closed hydraulic pressure good 160 go the first Notch of flaps all right we fully configured hydraulic presses are good it's kind of fun to go from Cruise till like shooting the approach to breaking out in like you know what was that 5 minutes yeah yeah was pretty [Music] quick cabin's coming de [Music] pressurized okay the wind has picked up a little bit but we got some fuel some McDonald's swamping cockpits now headed to Alabama and Center should be the other frequ the standby frequency in come to so you should be all good and you got filed yep filed the Gat direct DOD City traffic 3 going to depart for will the uh [Applause] eastbound all right swi they all for triple let's get a little closer to the center line is good what the drops scare me a little bit on the taxi lights take out some taxi lights goodness you just drop the drops off well it all right we're set for departure engage is good temp's good Fe is life and not I'm going give it just a little hair more so I can get some crosswind 20 GE up that a count coming down the road give him a nice little show now there's birds low you see it you see the cop but I'm worried about the birds there's the cows I mean I've seen a lot of cows in my time but I don't know that I've ever seen this many cows all those little dots cows I got traffic right ahead of us 600 ft below sounds like no Factor where is he just off the back us and Center experimental J number 139 Li off Dodge City looking for hard Gadson City Center 2145 2145 3 Lima radar contact 2 5 mil soueast the airport sou4 139 Lima Roger 3 to golf Alpha Delta as file maintain 230 guess as file 230 for minut 13 Li your final requested 28 do you want uh 270 to uh remain in rvsm or not rvsm and direction of Flight 2 3 request 28 [Music] reest honestly this isn't that bad a traveling airplane it's really not it's kind of [Music] enjoyable how many minutes out are we seven potatoes is taken about 19 minutes how many minutes up from the destination are we I don't know many na8 28 I think we're going to be about 13 minutes Kil out contact Memphis Center on 132 put I don't think that's enough at gon cuz our nearest alternate with fuel and a Runway is6 is with you pass 24 for flight level 33 I think we're better off the 1546 stopping short buying cheaper gas and uh having a few more options November 13 Niner Lima go ahead yeah we'd like to change our destination to Hotel alpha bravo should November 1 1 3 Niner Lima Roger clear direct Hotel alpha bravo okay so we made it to gadston Alabama getting the annual done on the existing Jet and now we're going to go Testify the new jet also fresh out of a shipping container from Estonia just like this one was last year and uh Matt's too chicken to try it so I think I'm going to go for the first flight pin one's coming out pin two I guess you have pin one all pins are remove your she's hot okay you can get the [Music] canopy

Channel: Matt Guthmiller

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Keywords: flying, aviation, flight vlog, airplane, landing, airport, pilot, pilot vlog, takeoff, cockpit, jet, fighter jet, flying a fighter jet, matt guthmiller, hand flying a jet, flying a jet, landing a fighter jet, jet cockpit, fighter jet cockpit, fighter jets, l-39, l-39 cockpit, experimental airplane, l-39 albatros

Id: XxHOeNQii3I

Length: 24min 51sec (1491 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 06 2023