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Matt: Lawrence ground, Bonanza 367HP with Sierra, looking for an IFR to Columbia County
Flying about 5,000 miles this week, uh tonight we're just going to Rochester, New York, gonna stop in
Columbia County for some cheap fuel, then on to South Dakota tomorrow
another stop in South Dakota on Wednesday, Thursday we're heading down to Sun n' Fun
then Friday after Sun n' Fun we're heading to the Bahamas for a couple days
so it's gonna be an action packed adventure here
ATC: Attention all aircraft, wind shear alert uh 20 knots gained for Runway 22 arrival on the runway?
Matt: Yeah this has been pretty interesting, uh they're super busy for 11 pm and uh the wind er the
weather's been crazy, wind's switching directions, we've had to switch approaches *altitude alert*
and they're just shuffling everybody around and right now the surface winds are 130 at 7 knots
and 1,500 feet in the air the winds are 145 at 50 knots
ATC: Bonanza 367HP, Rochester Tower, wind 260 at 26 gust 44 Runway 25 cleared for takeoff
Matt: 25 cleared for takeoff, 367HP
Seatbelt tight?
Rachel: Always
ATC: Bonanza 7HP contact Departure
Matt: 7HP over to Departure, good day
So yeah it's not too bumpy up here but the wind's still, still got a 53 knot headwind right now
so we're only going 60 knots over the ground as we climb
So we've got a little bit of weather here just around Rochester that was making the wind pretty crazy,
gusting to 44 knots during takeoff but uh I think it should be pretty much a clear shot the rest of the way
got a little bit more uh just over Michigan, but we'll probably just go around that and then uh
over in South Dakota there's just a little bit but I don't think that's gonna turn into much
So other than the wind when we took off the weather's just perfect for flying today
Got these beautiful views out here
So yeah let's take out a snack
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So now that we're all set up here in cruise, got some good snacks
great day to go flying uh just wanted to uh explain a little bit about what we're actually doing this week
and uh also I get a lot of questions about why I have a plane and how I afford to go flying
so first for those of you who don't know, a few years ago
in 2014 I flew this plane around the world, set the world record as the youngest person to fly solo around the world
so that's sort of how I ended up with the plane in the first place
um I currently lease the plane, that's how I started it, basically I came across this idea to go fly solo
around the world and I needed a plane to use
So I needed to find someone who would lease me a plane and so that was a pretty tough sell
to find somebody who was actually willing to lease a 19 year old with 500 hours a plane to go fly
solo around the world. So I finally found this guy out in San Diego, that's where I got the plane
for the trip I raised money uh had enough, a bunch of different sponsors
so that's how I paid for the trip, since then I've been doing a lot of speaking engagements and so I go around
talking to different businesses and groups and whatever telling the story of how I flew around the world and
kind of all the you know business and life challenges involved in doing something like
flying around the world. So there's enough that I'm able to do because I have the Bonanza
that it covers a huge portion of the actual fixed cost of continuing to have the Bonanza
a lot of my trips uh you know end up traveling somewhere with friends so we split the cost
so it generally keeps the cost pretty low
there's a lot of different ways you can make flying very affordable
uh particularly if you already travel a lot, so you know if you travel a lot you can probably save some
money and just have a lot more fun flying yourself in your own plane
but you know if you need to travel a lot for business you can also save money, save a lot of time,
be able to do more which is essentially what I'm doing, you know I'm able to do more speaking engagements
to the point where it pays for you know the cost of the plane
that's essentially how I make this affordable and uh so I hope that makes sense,
if you guys have any questions you know hit me up in the comments below.
I think I like Triscuits a lot more than I thought I liked Triscuits.
Rachel: Yeah?
Matt: Yeah
I like how salty they are.
Rachel: Yeah
Matt: So a little bit about what we're actually doing this week, last night I started in Boston, stopped in
Columbia County, New York, uh Hudson, New York I guess
to get some cheap gas. I met a guy uh Chris who came out and said hi to me, helped me fuel the plane up
uh showed me his new Travel Air that he just got. One of the great things about aviation is just how
friendly uh the whole aviation community is
ATC: N367HP descend and maintain 2,300, report Niles in sight, 12 o'clock, 10 miles
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Matt: 2,300, 7HP
Now today we are flying from Rochester to...I don't actually know where we're going right now,
right now we're going to uh
Rachel: Somewhere in Michigan
Matt: Niles, Michigan
uh to get some more cheap gas and then we're continuing on to Rapid City, South Dakota
I got to speak there a couple times tomorrow
uh then we're flying home to Aberdeen
so we're just gonna uh spend the overnight there, then Thursday we might meet up with another friend
then we're gonna fly down to uh Lincoln, Nebraska to meet some other friends
uh just to see them for a little bit, then we're gonna fly down to probably somewhere around Memphis
to get gas, gonna fly to Bartow uh just outside, next to Lakeland, Florida go check out Sun n' Fun
Friday morning, speak there, just take in the show for a little bit
then we're gonna fly down to uh somewhere in the Palm Beach area, we're gonna meet up with a couple
other friends, couple pilot buddies down there, they're flying down on JetBlue
then the four of us are gonna go fly around the Bahamas for a couple days and then uh fly back to
you know essentially Rochester and then Boston
and this stuff is really just made possible by the fact that a plane is just an incredible business tool
and uh so you know you can use it in so many different ways you know really just adding
Sun n' Fun and the Bahamas stuff is only a few hundred dollars because that's all the extra it is compared
to just flying from Boston to uh South Dakota and back like I would have had to for the speaking engagements
and I see now we're kind of in and out of the clouds and the air temperature is 0 Celsius
a minute ago it was -1 so we'll have to keep an eye out for icing and maybe go just a little bit lower today
Matt: Heading towards MAPPS then KELSI and then direct Rapid City
ATC: What takes you to Rapid City?
Matt: Uh I've got a little speaking engagement
ATC: Oh cool, I used to work Ellsworth Approach, I used to live there for a few years
Matt: Were you ever there when anybody uh accidentally landed at Ellsworth?
ATC: No, uh I think that there was one that happened last year and one about ten years ago
and I was in between those two
Matt: They point it out every time
ATC: Yep, every time and they still find a way to mess it up
Matt: Yeah
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Matt: Approach, Bonanza 7HP has the airport
ATC: 367HP cleared for visual approach Runway 32
Matt: Cleared visual 32, 7HP
We'll dim that
ATC: 37HP left turn when able, you'll make a right on to Alpha, remain this frequency and taxi
to the GA ramp
Matt: Right on Alpha, this frequency 7HP
Announcer: Please welcome Matt Guthmiller
*applause*
*audience laughing*
Matt: and if you just start to take on all those challenges every time you come to one
you start to develop this habit of just not accepting that something can be too hard
*applause*
Matt: So just finished a fun day of speaking, spoke at this Day of Excellence event uh there were like
1,400 people, just a ton of energy, it was really fun, some other great speakers
uh including Judson Laipply the creator of The Evolution of Dance
so that was pretty cool, got to see that live and in person
uh just stuff like that, now we're heading home to Aberdeen for a the night and then tomorrow we're
heading to Sun n' Fun
Matt: Ellsworth Departure, Bonanza 367HP, 3,900 climbing 9,000
ATC: N367HP, Ellsworth Departure radar contact
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Matt: doing good, how are you?
Shawn: good
Matt: Just had to stop in and say hi at Hangar 9 here in Aberdeen, the best FBO in the world
and now we're gonna go to Sun n' Fun
Ryan: Hey Matt, you copy?
Matt: Yeah
Ryan: Hey this is your cousin, Ryan I'm number two behind you in the Mooney
Matt: Oh hey how's it goin?
Ryan: Good man, didn't even know you were in town
Matt: Yeah just stopped for the night, headed down to Sun n' Fun today and then the Bahamas for a couple
days then back to Boston
Ryan: Man! I need to go with you!
*laughing*
Matt: What are you up to?
Ryan: Headed up to North Dakota to get our Air Tractors ready for the season
Matt: Nice
Aberdeen Traffic, Bonanza 7HP is departing Runway 13 Aberdeen
Ok window is shut, you're buckled, I'm buckled, that's shut
Alert: Traffic, 11 o'clock, same altitude, 0 miles
Matt: Aberdeen traffic Bonanza 7HP is off of 13 departing straight out, Aberdeen
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ATC: Bonanza 7HP use caution for parallel runway misalignment, if not familiar, advise
Matt: 7HP
ATC: Bonanza 7HP keep your turn to final inside of four miles, cleared visual approach, Runway 35
Matt: turn inside 4 miles, cleared visual 35, 7HP
ATC: 7HP thanks for your help, contact tower 118.5
Matt: Tower 18-5, 7HP good day
Matt: Lincoln Tower, Bonanza 367HP visual 35
ATC: Bonanza 367HP Lincoln Tower, good afternoon, Runway 35 cleared to land
wind 340 at 10, gusts 16, traffic Citation mile final
Matt: 35 cleared to land, looking for traffic, 7HP
ATC: Bonanza 7HP, Citation traffic no factor
Matt: 7HP
Ok gear's down, got three green, prop's forward enough for the moment for final here
bleed off some airspeed, we'll be just right on
ATC: Bonanza 7HP make the right turn at Kilo ground .9 we'll see ya
Matt: right Kilo, ground .9, 7HP see ya
Ground, Bonanza 367HP, Kilo, going to Silver Hawk
ATC: 367HP, Lincoln Ground, tax taxiway Kilo, East Ramp
Matt: Kilo, 7HP
Matt: So one of the great things about flying yourself wherever you're going is that you can stop
anywhere along the way, like nothing is really out of the way so
we're just dropping in to Lincoln, Nebraska for a minute
That's way to far back
Rachel: *laughing*
to see a couple friends from high school, grab some ice cream or something with them and then
we'll get back in the air and head down to Sun n' Fun
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ATC: Bonanza 7HP contact departure, good day
Matt: 7HP over to departure, good day
So yeah but on longer flights like this there's not a whole lot to do other than to just sit back, relax
drink some Coke to stay awake, keep an eye on the traffic, weather, and hopefully get the uh latest
vlog out on time this week
I think we're in Missouri right now
Matt: Memphis Center, Bonanza 367HP 11,000
ATC: Bonanza 367HP Memphis Center, roger, *unintelligible* altimeter 3012
Matt: 3012
You can tell we're getting to the south
45 minutes out from Memphis, I suppose it would be appropriate to crank some Elvis
*Viva Las Vegas*
ATC: 7HP Runway 22 cleared to land, wind's 2905
Matt: 22 cleared to land, 7HP
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ATC: Bonanza 7HP contact Memphis Departure 124.15 thanks for coming by, we'll see ya
Matt: over to Departure, thanks for the help, 7HP, goodnight
ATC: Attention all aircraft hazardous weather information air AIRMET for Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the
Coastal Waters on HIWAS, Flight Service frequencies
ATC: 7HP contact Jacksonville Center on 135.8 if no joy on that frequency reattempt Jacksonville
on 134.3
Matt: Ok we'll try 135.8 or 134.3, 7HP goonight
ATC: goodnight
Matt: Ok, we made it, we're in Bartow, Florida, it's 2:30am but we made it
Now we just have to figure out how to get out of here, find which car is ours and find the hotel
and then get up in like 6 hours to go speak, so it'll be fun
We have five minutes to find the Sporty's tent, get set up and be ready to speak, we might make it
There's a lot to be said about having a plan, flying the plan but you also have to be ready to completely
throw the plan out the window
Hi there, so do you have ice cream and strawberry shortcake? Or is it all one thing?
Vendor: No we have, well the strawberry shortcake is a dip of ice cream
Matt: How far down were we?
We have no idea where we parked
If you hold it up to your head do you get a better signal?
Rachel: I think
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