Everyone's talking about their love life like Josh didn't absolutely butter the bread on that landing.

Dude - She reached over to you, hugged you, and said, "I had a great time with you." You responded, "and this is how we're going to take off." ?!? And she's smooth on the radio.

She loves you Josh! Hug her back, we’ll turn our heads!

Josh, now you know why we live here. By car, train or plane we are lucky to live here and enjoy all California has to offer.

Finally got started on flight lessons in a 172 last week, thanks to you and your videos! Just had a 1.5-hr session today with 2 landings. Keep inspiring others Josh and thanks!

Your landings are the smoothest I've ever seen on KZfaq.

Josh, the efforts you put into your productions certainly show. They are fantastic.

Marry that girl Josh!

Really Appreciate you walking through the thought process, assessing the risk, diving into the problem solving. Aeronautical decision making is hard to teach, so I appreciate the insights.

Great video! I graduated from Cal Poly and got my PPL in '83 at San Luis Obispo (SBP) airport, when it was a single strip uncontrolled airport. Now it's a towered jetport.

Well done as usual. Thank you for all you do. Sharing all of the work that you and Chelsea do has really helped my 15 old nephew realize his potential. Thank you !.

Your attention to details filming is spot on !! Thanks for taking ALL the time to put these together so we can just sit here and ENJOY.

Got my private and subsequent ratings out of Torrance (KTOA) years ago..weekend trips up north were a treat...runs up to SBA for lunch at the Elephant Bar was a sure fire date win ..keep up the great content folks

Excellent Video Josh & Chels. Your videos are expertly produced and well thought out. Great flight!! You are an excellent imbasitor for general aviation. Please remember to treat Chels with the same passion you have for aviation. I wish only the best for you and Chels. ❤❤

You’re a master pilot, and yet so humble which will keep you away from mishaps. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the awesome content.

Life changes? Lock it down already. lol. You're perfect for each other.

I was going to say " wow ' she is beautiful " , looks like its been well covered !

We all appreciate all the quality content and adventures but you could do again what you used to do 12 years ago, and thats posting more casual flying videos we wouldnt mind it. Thank you for all the content you are making for us and for showing us all those places.

Josh, thanks for what you do. So many of us get so much enjoyment from your hard work and dedication to beautifully shot and amazingly edited pieces.

I’ve been busy with boats, so I was just able to binge your last four. All fabulous! And as always, that you for your important thoughts and fun times! B

Flew today into a somewhat hidden runway in between hills that itself was on a plateau, and I’ll tell ya, watching your “runway on the sky” and the Grand Canyon episodes came to mind…… and the cautions proved to be true. While we shouldn’t try to learn from watching YT, the tips really do help. Made for a great day.

Fantastic video, as always, Josh. Looking forward to the next video in this series. Excellent work portraying unmatched adventure possible with an airplane, evolving your story with Chels, and being a superb model for other pilots to emulate when it comes to aviation safety.

always not only wonderful, but so worthwhile ...thank you so much

Great video, Josh! I really really enjoyed this one, but as is the norm I enjoy all of these videos of yours! Keep it up Wishing You Blue Skies & Tailwinds! See you at Oshkosh! -Caleb’s Aviation 😅

A back-country trick for short, bumpy runways, like Happy Canyon for instance, is no flaps until close to rotation speed then 10 degrees, or more if you have a Johnson bar, to get off the ground. This insures quick acceleration and then a jump into ground effects..

I am not a pilot myself but, your content is well thought out, interesting, and professionally presented. I'm pretty sure that pilots appreciate the open door into your decision making process also. The time that you invest in every video shows and is appreciated. In addition to being informative, they are entertaining. A great combination.

Love the videos hands down my favourite KZfaq channel. Thanks for putting in all the effort to bring us along with you. Happy flying

Great decision making, I never get tired of the shoutouts of the Airplane Flying Handbook and other FAA publications. Good info all around - the iPad screen overlay is great for the viewers SA too!

I’m loving the content! Been watching for quite some time! It’s been really cool to see the progression in the filming quality. Keep up the good work!

You make the best content, simple. So informative, enjoyable and stunning videography and editing. Nice !❤

Love your quality. Thanks Josh and Chelsea!

I love the explanations of putting the videos together. Thanks!!!

You two are definitely a dream!

Beautiful vid of a beautiful area - CA is so awesome in the winter. Morro Rock is one of a chain of old volcanic plugs called the Nine Sisters that run in a line to the SLO area. Bummer there was a Pipstrel Alpha that crashed at Halter a few weeks ago, but fortunately no injuries.

With how good your content is im surprised you don't have a million subs by now

Always great content - much appreciated..

Quality stuff as always. Great job. You are must see for me. Thanks,

Great video! Love the direction you’re headed with these latest videos.

Amazing video as always man. Appreciate the hard work you put into it to make it enjoyable to watch.

Thank you JOSH and CHELSEA wishing God's blessings Don

Great channel you two! Well produced professional content. Keep it up!

Thanks for sharing these videos with us, its really entertaining and informative. Saw ur Cessna taxi past us a few months back at KHYI. Was pretty cool seeing that plane go by!

Another great video! Thank you!

As Always, another GREAT show, entertaining and educational. OH, by the way, you two make a great couple, and would be a beautiful family.

Another great video, love your work!

As always another great video Josh.

I used to live in Monterey, it's so beautiful there, definitely worth a visit

Another beautiful flight guys, you really are blessed to be able to enjoy those spectacular views👌

Please Josh, just pop the question 🙏 you're not going to find another beautiful, smart, AMT, who loves the same thing you do. Comon' man!!

As a current student pilot learning right in LA I have really been enjoying your videos around here, knowing that I may very well be flying to some of these airports soon!

These videos are so good.

You achieve your content goals in spades! All your videos are as informative as they are entertaining/interesting to watch. Just keep 'em coming, that's my ask!!

Regarding your closing sentences: I love your videos precisely because you explain your thought process and decisions you make. The in-flight footage might be nice to look at and mildly interesting, but it would probably be pretty much the same every time. The decisions you make for takeoff, approach and landing are the really interesting content. Please keep doing it this way.

I really like this series. I grew up in Santa Maria, but haven't been back in 25 years.

Good content and great production value, as always. Interesting to see the flaps recommendations for the older 172 model. I looked again into our 172S manual, and just as I rememberd, it says that 10º of flaps shortens both the takeoff roll and the distance over 50ft obstacle by 10%. Flapless takeoff is also a normal procedure, but we usually do 10º, because it has no real disadvantage on the "SP".

In the Cardinal we use 10 degrees on virtually every takeoff, accelerate to best rate and retract.

Love your videos

Heard you on the pilot to pilot podcast, liked your story and wanted to subscribe. Working through flight school myself.

Primo content; thanks for the hard work 👌

Great flight and winery visit.

Great video ❤

172 has a big wing and lightly loaded, its happy to take off 50ish knots and you wont ever have any probs unless you are really high density altitude. Remember one time moving over to it, i was landing half tanks and myself on hotish day and it just floated and floated , so that wing unlike the 150, really gives you good lift.

A+ guys!!! 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎

Oh yea, great flying also!

AWWW dang. You made it to Bryce Canyon?!?! You were right in my backyard of Cedar City, UT

Would be interested to hear a little bit of the story behind the 'gear-up' landing of 80991 from 50yrs ago.

GD you guys have the most amazing life! i always wanted to fly but i cant due to issues with the eye`s

Enjoy your videos. My Dad rebuilt a Cessna type plane when I was in elementary school. He was an airplane mech in WWII. So I got to go flying with him as a kid. But the bug never bit me. I turned into a golf rat instead.

Yes, Cal Poly is a cool place to go. I miss SLO.

The interpretation of the POH really got me thinking. I had a hard time getting by the RV though. I was still thinking about the months accident reports I saw last night. An RV had to ditch in the water. By all account he did a good job, but flipped it onto its top at the end. Very little damage, but, he couldn't get the canopy opened, and never got out, he drowned. That really bothered me more than most for some reason. There are no good fatals, that one just struck a nerve. 8( --gary

another nice video

Geez put a ring on that finger LOL

Great video quality; did you upgrade to new cameras?

Awesome video. Do you have a minimum altitude that you add the final set of flaps on final?

You flew over my house on final about 2 miles out. 😊

You guys been to Jacko's in Nimpomo?

Any particular reason for not using the wingtip strobe lights?

Such a Smooth Landing Dude!!! Another ACE!!!!!! Love the videos!!!!! You going to do the walls and doors with new interior? Just wondering. And i know you don't reply to comments. Enjoy you guys!!!!!!

Josh, I have a thought for you. You are a stickler for checklist usage, as you should be. However, you do something that I always found to be antithetical to proper usage of a checklist. On your Pre-Landing checklist, your next-to-last item is "Flaps......Set As Required". In your videos, you check that item as complete, when, in fact, it isn't complete. In your 172, it might not be a big deal if you were to land with partial or even no flaps, but in come aircraft, you could get a configuration warning at low altitude that could be startling. Maybe it would be best if you moved that item to the end of the checklist and left it unchecked, i.e., the checklist incomplete, until the flaps are in fact set to whatever setting you briefed when you briefed your approach. This sets up a good habit pattern for any possible future checklist usage to always complete items before you call a checklist complete.

what app do you use for your EFB? that doesn't look like firelight?

Hey Josh, how do you record your cockpit audio? @Aviation101

3:24 she wanted a hug and a kiss.... You missed the moment

Are you making a version of this video for the Cockpit Club?

That landing didn’t look like it had 15kt direct xwind. Maybe I misunderstood…or you’re that great of a pilot! Anyway, nice work once again!

10 degs flaps will short the take off BUT have very little" drag" on climb out and on the 172 rarely necessary as so much lift but in doubt, you want to get off and pick up speed fast as you can and then you have the air speed to climb steeper over obstacles while taking the flap off bit at a time. More so when you start with say 20 degs but thats rare and dragy. 10 degs very little negs just even more lift for iffy takeoffs from mt dirt short fields. 172 is very good with zero flap and its the 150's that need 10 or 20 when heavy loaded anyway.

This guys is the Sheldon of pilots.

Is that a railroad track?

Question, you mentioned that if the engine stopped you'd have better glide performance. Have you tested that in your plane and confirmed it to be true? I know a *windmilling* propeller produces more drag than a stopped one, but I remember Trent Palmer did some tests proving that an *idling* prop caused less drag than a stopped one.

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful scenery. My offer still stands to treat you and Chelsea to lunch at the Picket House Restaurant in Woodville. Best fried chicken around.

I’m wondering why, when the tower told you a plane was on 5 mile final , you didn’t slow the plane down at that moment and put in flaps. This would’ve kept you from having to fly so far away from the airport on downwind. Just a thought👍 thanks for the great vids!

Down slope runway and down drainage egress. Good natural energy. Ground effect energy good as well, but not needed and not good for over folks at end of runway.

You got this Josh put a ring on the finger😊

91.119 sucks for helicopters. Even tho D (1) says "may" be operated at less than minimums, they always do. There's a red robinson that leaves the lakeway airport that goes to the salt lick and flies literally 100 feet over all the houses in the area for several miles. Disrespectful and unnecessary.

Killer dinner, a burger and fries, lol, i don't know if he meant it literally or not lol it could be either.

Terrible decision to forego Monterey! I hope you can make it back like you said because it and the surrounding area is some of the most beautiful in all of Ca.

Can someone explain to me why he doesn’t go 10 degrees of flaps on t/o? Don’t they allow for a greater climb rate and lower stall speed? Is this recommended for most SEL planes? Just asking 😊

I think we would enjoy more of the trips vs the flying. More of how you utilize the plane for your adventures. Great Video!

As I’m watching this video, I’m paying attention to not only what is happening but also where you have cameras placed. Hopefully, we’ll bump into each other again at OSH25.

Do you consider a 3300 foot runway a “short field”?

is that garmin pilot? no more foreflight?