Austin Helicopter Tour | Lake Travis, Mansions, Downtown
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- During my Austin, Texas helicopter tour we flew a Robinson R66 from Lago Vista airport, over Lake Travis, viewed mansions and estates owned by billionaires and celebrities (Michael Dell, David G. Booth, Sandra Bullock, Richard Garriott, etc), flew over the Pennybacker Bridge, and spotted famous sites in and around downtown Austin including the Texas Capital Building and the University of Texas.
I can’t lie, Austin blew me away with its beauty, architecture, and insane wealth. It was a treat to tour Austin from the sky.
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Special thanks to Steven Bush for taking me out in his Robinson R66 helicopter. For flight training, aircraft sales, or helicopter tours near Austin contact Lone Star Helicopters: www.lonestarheli.com/
Thanks for flying with me! #MicahFlies
00:00 Introduction
1:04 Departing Lago Vista Airport
1:41 Lake Travis
6:30 Lake Austin
7:36 Britannia Manor | Richard Garriott Estate
8:12 Pennybacker Bridge (360 Bridge)
8:56 David G. Booth Estate
10:23 Michael Dell Estate
12:53 Downtown Austin
13:56 Texas Capital Building
14:28 University of Texas
15:04 Longhorn UT Stadium
16:07 Frost Bank Tower
17:02 6th Street Downtown Austin
17:58 Zilker Park
18:53 Auditorium Shores
20:15 Texas hamburger debate
21:20 Army Headquarters, 36th Infantry Division
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Settle our burger debate. Which is best? In-N-Out, Whataburger, or P. Terrys?
Whataburger, hands down. The others are generic and uninspiring.
Side note... If I ever finish my rotary ticket and end up in Socal, you're the first person I'm hitting up
Hi Micah , im subscribed to airforce vet (
C.W. Lemoine
) (is also youtube name.
recently he started his Heli licence and already did a few solo flights in R 22,but his instructor got in an accident and was hospitalized ,so his lessons stopped .
he gets to hold the stick every now and then when flying along with friends of army and police ,and get a few minutes in ,but also very active in Digital flightCombat simulator DCS,flying helis and jets .
maybe it would be nice for a video or 2 for you guys to get together ,share some helicopter wisdom and tips ,and get extra subs from eachothers followings .
would love to see a video of 2 pilots that LOVE flying.
Whataburger is solid Texan, but the P Terry chicken burger with a mixed milkshake is pretty Austin...
Whataburger then P. Terrs then In-N-Out, in that order. But Moonies actually has the best burgers!
WHATABURGER
I live 45 mins. from Austin and go all the time. It is an interesting perspective to see it from the air!
Loved this tour! So cool to see Austin from a helicopter’s perspective. Thank you!
Agreed. I've visited Austin countless times at ground level. But from the air, it's doubly impressive!
WOW! Austin looks so good from above.
I LOVED this tour. A small correction, though. Richard Garriott made Ultima Online, not World of Warcraft. He is also famous for being one of the first space tourists.
I went to Austin last week and I fell in love …
That was awesome, thanks for the awesome tour.
Nice video. I love to show my friends around the world where I'm from. Lake Travis is unique.
Please do Dallas next
Thanks Micah for the great tour of Austin! It looks like a very nice city! 😎
The house at 8:03 I used to be able to see from my childhood home it looked over 360 bridge and Lake Austin
This is a great presentation of Austin thank you for sharing.
Thank you Micah for another GREAT video.
Loved the tour, lived there in the 80's
Outstanding video,as always. Thanks for letting this viewer travel and explore without leaving home. Keep up the great work and stay safe.
Thanks for the kind words. Cheers!!
Gorgeous tour, thank you
Love these type of tours. Please do more. Greetings from UK 🇬🇧
Great tour of Austin!
AWESOME BRO!!!!!
I wasn't ready for this video. You hit my nostalgia hard, even had me tearing up at parts. My wife got her undergrad and masters from UT, my first job out of college was working in the UT Football stadium organizing special events, and managing the private suites and bar areas in the stadium for games during the season. I have so many happy memories in and around downtown Austin. I had forgotten how much I missed it. Austin was the first big city I lived in, and is a real oasis in Texas. We left in 2014 for my wife to pursue her PhD at The University of Kansas, and now we live in New Hampshire working for Dartmouth college... It's weird, I don't miss Texas, but I miss Austin hard. Thanks for the trip, I wasn't expecting it.
Sean, your comment made my day. I love that my video helped you connect with your former hometown. Cheers!!
Fave memory of Austin? SXSW 2014. I walked so much, saw so many bands, had a great time.
BTW: Richard Garriott did the Ultima saga, not Warcraft. Great house!
Awesome video! As a former Austinite I can say the city has changed so much since I was last there. Also Austin is referred to as "Silicon Hills " because of the heavy influence of tech such as Dell, Apple, Samsung, & Microsoft.
It’s a second Silicon Valley
Great way to explore an unfamiliar city! Excellent tour!
Cool!
Great video of our fair City. Love it. Best Burgers are HOME COOKED...Everybody here can burn on the Grill...
Enjoyed. Even though I'm in Houston, we don't get to Austin very often.
Definitely growing.
Thanks, Micah and Steven.
Interesting video, Micah! I have never seen Austin before. It looks awesome! I love your humor too ...party boats, party bats, party helicopter 😂 I love your LA/Southern California tours, but it is a nice change to see something else too. T'ank U 😁
I had always heard Austin was awesome but it is even nicer than I expected. Would have loved to have seen the Tesla factory under construction. Great job and hats of to Steve and his fast helicopter.
I drive by the tesla factory every time I make my trip to college. It's fun Watching the progress.
I was born in south Austin in '84 and before SxSW and ACL it was called something else- aquafest or something. There used to be free concerts at auditorium shores weekly in the summer. So many out of staters have moved to Austin- it was the fastest growing city for a few years, by a lot. Very interesting video. Thanks!
I miss Austin. Visited there twice last year for work and it's a great place to visit! Didn't go down Sixth Street: that's on my list for the next visit. But I've been down South Congress and spent a lot of time up in The Domain, too.
God I can't wait tooke back. Four Points
Favorite memory of Austin - 17:07 Met my wife at a club on 6th Street.
2013 took my family from Australia 🇦🇺 to Austin TX and The Circuit of America’s racetrack yo see the V8 Australian Supercar Championship and I remember the heat, the squirrel s and the Longhorns stadium
Love having you in Texas MM!
Dude you have the best job!
I live about 60 miles south of Houston. Back in the 70's my older brother and I would go to Austin and we saw some bands at the old Armadillo World Headquarters. Remember seeing Willis Alan Ramsey in some little club. IN 76 (I believe) I went to a concert called Sunday Break II. Steve Miller, Fleetwood Mac, The Band, and some others. Austin isn't the same as it was back in the 70's.
I built this City in SimCity simulation before.Austin is a great city 🤘
Great one. Going here next year to see my buddy Lee -
Awesome video Micah! Culver’s burgers!
My favorite thing to do in Austin is go flying with Lone Star Helicopters with my Steve.
Visited from Canada....The Lone Star Roundup Hot Rod meet held in April every year at the Travis County Expo Center....and BBQ! Will be back when things open up again!
My city, my school, awesome to see it from the air!
I've always likes Austin but seeing it from the really expanded my appreciation.
I live in Austin, lived in San Diego, CA. P.Terrys is the Best, Whataburger 2nd place, In and Out. easy 3rd.
This was so cool. I had watched a lot of your vids flying over L.A. in the past. Love seeing LA from the air! Been there many times. But then to see you come to the city I just moved from, Austin, it’s almost surreal, what are the chances? Are you gonna start flying other cities? I think that would be awesome!
You flew past my home near Lake Travis! Such an amazing view!
Absolutely lovely area. I need to come back to see how things look from the ground. 😄
Got married at Zilker Park in Austin in a gazebo in the Garden and met Willie a number of times at his Opry House and built a house on his property in Dripping Springs and went to his Fourth of July Picnics too..lucky me!
This is so awesome I would love to take such ride and I live in Austin,tx
Great video! My family lives right on Austin Country Club and I visit a lot!
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Another great one Micah. Did I hear a hint of excitement about a possible relocation to Austin? ;)
There are much worse places I could move. Though for now work has me tied to LA. 🤷♂️
Thanks for the tour! My wife spoke on behalf of HB 16 in a TX House committee a couple years ago...so we recognized the Capitol building for sure! Would have love to have seen Hamilton Pool from the air...I visited there 10 years ago to see it for the first time in real life....after having a dream of it 18 years before...not realizing it was a real place until 2 months before my visit. It was that visit that led to me meeting and marrying my wife Carrie!
sick mansions
I bet Micah's life is super interesting. I should've tried harder to get my pilots license when I was young.
Dang forgot the go to the domain could of seen the austin fc stadium
Correction:
@7:50 in your video. I did a lot of searching. That is definitely NOT Britannia Manor Richard Garriott. Richard Garriott actually own the property at the Colorado River bank (south) of that castle (north) of the Colorado River bank. I've actually been to Richard Garriott property before, did an Uber ride there long time ago, drove someone to The Curtain Theatre. I've never been to that castle and that castle is owned by Jeff Kodosky the founder of National Instrument, NOT Richard Garriott.
Pls fly over Dallas at night
I have these glasses they're nonpolarized so they don't interfere with your displays
Very nice video Mary Babiec Pawtucket , Rhode Island
I'm surprised you did do a flyover The Salt Lick or Franklin's BBQ joints to see the lines around the block of folks waiting to get their BBQ fix. But yeah, Austin has really too many favorites to list, but y'all hit some of the top for sure.
In-N-Out, hands down!
Mes amis!
13:03 DT and frost bank , texas capital , UT
Love the tour, my favorite place in Austin is the Circuit of the Americas racetrack. You didn't fly over it, it's just east of the Bergstrom airport.
Here you go. czcams.com/video/sO16q7PsMUc/video.html
I flew over COTA in a separate video.
FYI, you flew right over Michael Dell's ranch as well. I didn't see it in the video really but you may have seen it. It would've been on the right side of Lake Austin as you're coming to Austin and has a full size football field, tennis courts, etc. It spans from the Lake all the way to 2244 (Bee Caves Rd). One of the largest parcels of land in Austin.
I've found it. AKA 6D Ranch by Commons Ford Ranch Metro Park. You can see the 6D Ranch across Colorado River/Lake Austin from Selma Hughes Park.
Seeing Joe Rogans new pad would of been cool haha. Amazing so many billionaires are in one place though
What billionaires lmao
Starting back in 1996 we would come to Austin every year For the Texas Heatwave. One of the craziest things I've been to especially back in the early days . Lawlessness and debauchery for 4 days..
I never been to Austin but I have family out in Dallas Fort Worth though
Ask Steven if I were to move to Austin... where is the best place to buy a home on the lake (preferably) where I can fly in and store a helicopter. ;-) Love this.
like south of the lake lakeway
Micah you’re from New Braunfels?? That’s awesome dude what part
Yeah, lived for a few years there as a youngster. Then visited my grandmother there many times after. I always love hitting the Gristmill and the Schlitterbahn when in town.
Cool! What brought you to the Austin area? I’m just a stone throw away in San Antonio.
The house right after Dennis' belongs to Kendra Scott the famous jewelry maker.
You asked what we like to do in Austin, and for me and my family it's probably hitting up the food trucks on South 1st St. Goudoughs is a regular stop for us.
BTW, I live in San Antonio, and I'd bet that would make for an interesting tour if you can get around all the Air Force bases.
Funny thing. I used to live in San Antonio when I was a kid. I have very fond memories of the city and visiting my grandmother in New Braunfels.
It's a lot flatter than I remembered.
Should have showed him the F1 track as well as the new soccer stadium.
Shopping at Allens Boots on Congress. They broke out the beers in the afternoon for customers.
My guitar hero... 13:31
dallas, fortworth el paso next?
im flying with you all day long lol
I can also verify that was Dennis Quaid's house. We sold it to him!
it is also in your video, Joe Rogan's house is right by Sandra Bullock's Lake Austin's house.
My favorite memory of Austin, was when it was STILL Austin... Jeez, it seems like the town completely changed in a week, sometime back in the early 2000s.
Sadly, I left in the late 90s and hadn't been back, but after seeing what it AIN'T anymore, I'm inclined to believe I haven't been missing much.
From 'Weird' to GENERIC in the blink of an eye.
Missed out the circuit
It got its own video. czcams.com/video/sO16q7PsMUc/video.html
8:18 pennybacker bridge
As someone who’s goes between LA and Austin, I’ll take those LA views and weather over anything. I know Austin’s cheaper and yadda yadda yadda but there’s a reason LA is so expensive, it’s the best (well not DTLA itself but the greater LA/Ventura County area).
I don’t think Austin is that far off, Austin is fairly expensive
7:52 richard garriott estate
That’s NOT Richard Garriot’s house! It belongs to one of the founders of National Instruments.
Jeff & Gail Kodosky, they bought it from Coldwater Residence LLC. Richard Garriott owns the property by the Colorado River bank south of the Kodosky's castle.
Just fyi the castle home is owned by Richard Garriott he is the creator of the video game Ultima not warcraft :) he has many tunnels and secret hidden rooms through out and under his home!
Richard Garriott made Ultima Online, not World of Warcraft. UO was the first huge MMO. WOW came later and displaced UO.
Hippie Hollow.. lol
Where exactly did the Joneses live in all that cluster because apparently everybody’s trying to keep up with them. Only in Texas do you have “party bats”.😆
Question, never been to Austin, but heard that there is a place called China Town, if so would love to see . So is it there?
My favorite things while visiting Austin...,funky shops on South Congress, vibrant food truck scene and Franklin BBQ out in the countryside. Definitely not bike riding. Drivers were a$#holes...don’t know why Austin has a good reputation for cycling.
How tall is Steve? When he has the controls it seems like his knees are bent at a 90. Curious how he’s on the pedals lol
No major game developer in Austin worked on Warcraft. Richard Garriott made Ultima.
also that house DO NOT belong to Richard Garriott, Richard Garriott's property is south of the castle. The castle is owned by National Instrument founder Jeff & his wife Gail Kodosky, NOT Richard.
Blizzard does have an office in Austin, but don't know if they've worked on WoW (headquarters is in Irvine, CA). But yeah, he confused Ultima Online with WoW.
Aw man, you guys didn’t tour the Domain which is Austin’s 2nd downtown
Do Dallas
Who are the 4 people who disliked this video? What is there not to like? Who hurt you?
Hey Micah are there any good driving roads in the Austin area like what California is known for?
Based on the topography I think CA is the superior driving state. But yeah, some folks told me there are decent driving roads around Texas. Next time I'm in Austin I'll hunt them down. The roads not the folks. ;)
Did you see the Wizards Academy?
i always flying in a helicoper so so bad
My sister lives in austin tx
Austin doesn’t have a lot of defining landmarks surprisingly
Actually it does when you're seeing it from the ground. I'm from L.A. living in Austin 25 years now. For a much smaller city, it has landmarks and iconic spots that givs it a real sense of place and identity which is probably why it's such a popular town. Even Dallas and Houston, much bigger cities don't have the landmarks that are memorable. Tourists can name landmarks they want to see before ever seeing them. That's when a city knows it has landmarks. Just check out Austin landmarks on youtube.
@@richardcogbill6791 no it doesn't