Flight Chops

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“Today, I’m not only going to give you the problems, I’m going to give you the solutions.” When a pilot hears those words from an instructor before launching into a flight review—what can be a pedestrian exercise at best—that pilot knows this session will be different. Steve Thorne didn’t have to fly all the way […]

For his first video of 2018, Flight Chops (AKA Steve Thorne) is conducting a sort of victory lap for what he says is probably his best accomplishment of 2017. The feat? “Actually starting and finishing something.” We all know how good that can feel. More specifically, he earned his multi engine rating, and now his […]

As Steve Thorne told us recently, out of all the aircraft he has already flown and would love to fly, no plane comes close to a Spitfire for him. That one is clearly at the top of his “bucket list.” Still, that doesn’t mean there aren’t more aircraft on his list, and as a result […]

For this Throwback Thursday edition of Flight Chops, we’re going back to 2016 for a really cool example of how being an aviation YouTube celebrity leads to some pretty awesome adventures. Or, in this case, how two aviation YouTube celebrities received the opportunity to undergo U.S. Coast Guard training because they have some fans in […]

For this week’s Flight Chops throwback, we’re sharing a particularly funny video from 2014 about “the good, the bad and the barfing” of flying with passengers. As everyone’s favorite weekend warrior pilot Steve Thorne explained, “This video is really just about sharing experiences, both mine and some of my friends, kind of starting the conversation […]

This week’s throwback Thursday edition of Flight Chops begins with a simple question: Could you survive with nothing but the kit in your airplane? “It’s the responsibility of the pilot in command to keep their aircraft and passengers safe,” Steve Thorne, AKA Flight Chops, explains in the opening of this video from earlier in the […]

Part of what makes Flight Chops videos so successful (and entertaining) is that Steve Thorne gets to fly the planes most of us don’t have the opportunity to fly, and he gets test gear that we don’t necessarily get to use. For his latest episode, Chops and friends tested one piece of equipment that we […]

“My friend MJ is deathly afraid of flying,” Steve Thorne explains in the opening of one of his more popular Flight Chops videos. He’s not embellishing her fear at all, as MJ becomes the ultimate pessimistic passenger the moment she simply sits in a cockpit to get a feel for the airplane. “That’s scary because […]

At a time when we wonder if millennials have any interest in aviation, and especially if they can afford it (for more, read “On Course” from the November issue of Flying), Matt Guthmiller’s story is one every pilot can appreciate. Flying since he was 16, Guthmiller added his name to the record books when he […]