"But he'd just had a pilot killed on a ferry flight..." And you thought, what a great opportunity!

You are the best story-teller. I listened to them numerous times and find them as entertaining every time. And of course, the educational part is always a good reminder. Thanks for doing these for us,

When that map at 8:32 popped up my eyes lit up. This is the life I'm after, not the 9-5 behind a screen for the next 35 years or so. Thanks for sharing, you've inspired me.

1990s....So it was before GPS but after LORAN. 🙂 My first GPS was a Garmin GPS-90 handheld. The database is 20 years out of date, but it still works. Anyone interested in a working, slightly used, GPS-90? 🙂 Thanks for the ride-a-long. You have balls of steel. I've been a PPL since 1972. I still don't have the guts to do an 'over the ocean' ferry flight. I don't even like flying over the Rockies! 🤣

Thanks for sharing your amazing ferry flight . . . at 3:32 I saw the Icom 735 HF radio. I still have one to this day and enjoy ham radio. '73. Bob

Great video. I loved reading Ferry Pilot and Dangerous Flights. Keep the videos coming please 🙏 😊 Thanks Nick

Greetings from TJIG

What an outstanding story! After all, all great aviation stories begin with "So there I was..." My son has enjoyed reading the book Ferry Pilot and I think on his way to becoming a pilot. There are so many aspects of these stories that ring true. Thank you for sharing & having the courage to share. I have read Dangrous Flights, I can not help but laughing at the risks assumed in these stories. Kerry is the real deal & one hell of an aviator!

Scary story Kerry, I clearly remember like it was yesterday going back to night school mid 1994 at Essendon Airport Melbourne to get endorsed on the Garmin GPS 100. This was newly fitted into the shrike commander 690B I was flying in the Australian Outback, but only as a supplemental enroute nav aid initially, followed by a year later primary means, including NPA overlay approaches etc, It was a game changer, and I'm still lugging stuff around the countryside at 61, 37 years later. Definitely more stories Kerry. Cheers.

Really enjoyed Ferry Pilot👍 An excellent storyteller.

Great story! Both of your books were excellent!

Great video Kerry. I enjoyed reading your books recently. I was a cargo pilot in turboprops for most of the 90s throughout Europe and I have a few of my own war stories. Happy landings from the UK!

Good stuff.

Good work and thanks for the effort, Kevin. Keep them comming.

Love your stories! I think That exact Duchess was one of the twin engines I flew on my ATPL course . I took the course in Cascais, Lisbon and my school was the only one that had duchess twin engines on the fleet .

Pretty cool Kerry. Thanks for sharing your experiences

GEEEZ! That's an amazing story, you have nerves of titanium. I will be glad to hear more from you and thanks so much for sharing this. I am an NZ ppl with 200hrs and some of my experiences could not compete with that. cheers NZ

I did that for years, both independently and with Southern Cross. I always say that ferry flying is a great thing to have done, rather than to do.

Love your stories!

Your stories are awesome im glad you started posting more videos in the last 2 months keep it up and we will continue to watch your subscribers go up and more safer pilots from your channel thank you for all the great content

Love it. Keep em coming. Just found your channel recently and can’t wait for more of your stories. I am changing careers into aviation and the modes of failures and recovery are very interesting to me.

Great story-telling!

What an exciting story

Ferry Pilot is a great book. A real "page turner".

Hi from the UK. I have learned so much from your channel. Great content. Thanks for sharing.

Kerry, thanks for your video. Great to hear your background.

……. Of steel 😳😁👍👍

woah baby thats wild. Lets go Pete haha

This channel is gold. You deserve to get more popular. Keep it up. If you run out of stories just retell them! Pro tip make your videos minimum 10 minutes for the algorithm and pop another advertisement in. Keep up the good work!

Great stories, albeit pretty damn scary. Let’s me personally know what not to do north of 65.

Paradoxically, this story makes me want to change my career to be a ferry pilot

Geez Kerry, amazing first story for your beginner ferry flight! Heck if you can do this on the first …what the hell! You and I share a common career path in that I was a Cobra AH-1G & J model crew chief. But I was regular Army 💪😉 So you still do ferry flights? Stay safe out there.

Yup, Santa Maria was like seeing Jacob's Ladder for me on my first ferry flight. Sounds like our career's started about the same as far as trying to build time and the time frame you started. I was also heavy into the skydiving world back then to build time. Long time ago and almost everyone I was associated with in the ferry world back then died in airplane crashes. Just found your channel so I will subscribe and catch up with your adventures when I can. Thanks for the memories. BTW, Curious why you guys didn't go over to Lajes AFB during this flight? Had a friend who was taking a Bonanza across and ran into a similar situation so he declared an emergency and landed there.

Sittin in his office drinking scotch .. now that’s a training program I could get my head around 😬👍

Hey Kerry, great video again! I am happy you broke me in as a ferry pilot when we flew around the world, but you didn’t give me a cool certificate, I feel like you owe me one, we had dual gryo failure in a sand storm in Saudi Arabia, and I got nothing. Just kidding loved the video!

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You certainly have bigger bollocks than I do. I’d love to do a ferry crossing but via the northern route. And with a PT6 at the front.

Before GPS...when pilots were true pilots. Nowadays it's "just follow the magenta line"

Wow, what a story! 👍😅

👍✅ Tks

Santa Maria is about as big as an aircraft carrier. Been there but a DC-7 is bigger than a Duches

lindberg did a solo flight across the Atlantic, all the way across

Had an uncle did that seen him take off loaded down with fuel trying too get over themtn in a little single engine beech

Great storyteller!, but why did you say clear customs in Bangor when coming from St. Paul, Mn..?

Brilliant, absolutely bonkers, for people who don’t fly light aircraft, this is just bonkers 🤪 most GA plane are quite old, and most just a good old piston engine!, and no GPS!, dead reckoning takes some doing and there quite a lot off error, you must have more life’s than a black cat

ATC refused what sounds like a reasonable request from a Mayday aircraft? What did the enquiry make of that?

What was the registration? My pilot school had two of those…maybe i flew that one :D

When are you comming trough greenland again ?

Definitely will pick up your books, your comment “A great view of nothing” immediately made me think of the ex-wife, scary. Be safe sir.

I have only one question. Why your older comrade didn't decide to fly through Greenland and Iceland? P.S. awesome story!

What ever happened to the show you guys had?

I think I would have considered declaring an emergency (due to the non-functioning attitude indicator and DG) then insisted on flying the approach into Santa Maria in formation.

Funny, I found 6 other airports in the Azores.

Story gives me anxiety...

Why anyone plans a flight like that to forecast IFR with no alternates??? Crazy. Hate to make a customer wait a week or two to get their plane.

Just remember how utterly pitch black it is over the open Ocean at night...

Vac pump isn’t a declared emergency?

You’re not going to sell many more books if you put all the stories on here….great stories though. Love the books..

What do you mean ‘denied’? In an emergency ATC cannot deny anything…

Why do people fly over water with one engine

"He just had a pilot get killed on a ferry flight..so he decided to give me a shot"...a young and inexperienced pilot...geezus christo, thats some next level dumbassery benny hill stuff...