it looks like there's a bit of cloud hanging around at the uh on the end of the runway home
yeah we're gonna have to keep it pretty tight to get in here so we don't have uh any problems but
you just gotta make sure as you come in that you give it enough power so we get over these cliffs
and then we got obviously stopped because there's a cliff on the other side so this is Sam Chui Sam
is one of the world's largest aviation youtubers he's a long time self-proclaimed av geek with
over 2 million followers his aviation videos range from traveling and private suites on the world's
best airlines to riding planes in some of the world's most remote locations when covet hit
it prevented it from going home so he decided to change from aviation enthusiast to aviator
and this is me Kelsey I'm a commercial airline pilot I fly the Boeing 747 the largest commercial
aircraft Boeing makes and i fly both passengers and cargo and i'm lucky enough to pilot a special
aircraft called the dreamlifter a modified 747. I was on a layover in los angeles and
i saw sam was in town i asked him if he wanted to be part of a new series i'm starting called
seven for burger where i take YouTubers or Instagram influencers up flying i told him
he could pick the location and I would let him fly as much as he could and here we are
welcome to catalina airport known as the airport in the sky it's a 3000 foot runway has cliffs
on both ends and the runway is only 75 feet wide which is narrower than one of the wings on my 747.
it probably wouldn't have been my choice when i was going through flight school to come here
but since sam is the first guest on seven four burger I said hey why not uh Sam are you a little
nervous coming into a runway like that that's so short so narrow yeah a little bit nervous
but it's also really challenging it's very fun really beautiful setting out there on the cliff
so let's see how it goes oh nice landing sam good job good job we'll just get off here let's go get
some lunch yeah very short runway man but uh very happy that that was a good one for me yeah
i'm sam's flight attendant today we're putting food on here yeah sam had a good
landing so that's why you're buying food sam gets landing i'll buy the lunch there you go very nice
this is the great thing about learning flying in america every airport has a restaurant on site so
you have the excuse to come here to have a burger sandwich and fly back so my one is called the dc3
on sourdough bread and chicken i went with the healthy option i got a burger with a salad so i
remember the healthy option there you go all right calling the traffic Sling 863SL taking
active runway four for straight out departure you try to please advise kelly all right right
all right we'll be my take off all right what we'll do since it's downhill and a tailwind
let's get up here get lined up we'll give it all all of all the juice and let it go right
so we won't we won't take off the brakes until you're full throttle lined up
okay so hold the brake and run the full power right exactly this is my first time uh okay so
like ready go go release the brakes all the way let it go all the way all the brakes
rotation speed at 55. keep it coming
keep it coming 55 rotate
oh yeah beautiful look at that
catalina traffic sling 863SL climbing 5500 any traffic please advice Catalina
so there's some traffic that's right over that was right over behind us at 5 000.
okay that was a great time we should see uh what you see there right so yeah
it was fun and that was like just over the cliff and see the ocean meeting exactly it's
all about the fun flying man this is this is the stuff that i'm really excited to be doing
and sam i got to tell you i want to thank you so much for coming to do this first episode of this
this new series i want to start oh it's a pleasure learning a lot man
well since i never had your landing so i'm going to give you the landing at torrance okay
a 747 pilot landing in the sling all right let's see how it is you want to do one and i do one or
you want me to just do one we'll call it a day oh yeah let's do that then let's do a pattern and uh
you left one and then i'll take over we'll do a go around and i'll take the last landing okay
yeah cool cool so sam uh what kind of what kind of products do you have coming up i think the
biggest thing i'm waiting right now is to have my solo that's cool are you nervous at all about
your solo are you feeling excited what are you thinking yeah a bit of both honestly yeah it's
a big moment for me there's no you know margin for error but at the same time super exciting
uh you know what a dog leg is uh not really like a yes or no dog leg so if we go straight for the
runway right now we're gonna be on a dog leg let's do that let's do a dog leg but i'm gonna pop the
bridge and then we're gonna turn heads uh straight into the runway we can even do it now though okay
let's check it out yeah sure somebody on the right downwind so we're gonna look i will keep an eye on
that so dog leg is if you're coming in at a uh-huh there's a straight in and then there's a douglas
darling it's the dog leg just like a dog like because it's shaped like this right oh okay so
it's like a 45 so you're going to get a 45 to come in so this is a dalek yeah so we're kind of coming
into the dog leg cool back and then drop them all stop them all okay get them all out because
usually i jump one more one notch at the top yeah this will get it that way you get configured up
in here okay yeah good for repair yeah early get on the glide what is this other person
maybe they were leaving the area i think maybe a mistaken call okay but i got it like finals clear
all right flaps up one yep on the go around
sorry okay good you want to do uh I'll do radio now and your control all right sure
yeah this is our uh traffic pattern last one i got the controls okay taking over the sling and
like in the different shoes to a 747 let's see I'm learning from Kelsey got one on he's
on base you got yeah yeah we're number two oh there he is way down there i was going to
bring his end super tight so that's what we're going to do all right you call them radio then
there that's fine i got them all right Torrence traffic sling 863 SL right base 29 right Torrence
traffic so we're not going to do the back that they did we're going to roll we're going to go
we can go down to the last one we're going to go for the thousand foot markers you know sure
so those so those white bars out there the big white bars that's what air that's this glide path
if you follow the glide path that will take you down to those white bars that's what the airline
pilots shoot to hit and they that's a thousand feet down the runway and some people think it's
silly but it's basically it there's a bird right there oh they're waving at us landing there
all right
let's go for these thousand footers here
i can get it to get there
excellent very good we did it i know congratulations man that was fun i know
a lot of you guys are sitting at home and there's some concerns with what's going on
with covet and concerned and that was part of the other thing that really motivated me
and wanted to get out here with sam and do some general aviation flying because
i know some of you are concerned of what's going on i know i've seen a lot of pilots
struggle through 911 through the 09 crash and through all these different economic things so
i think it's really cool what sam is doing and if it's really something you're passionate
about you should come out and do it thanks so much Sam that was awesome man you did great