Video: Remove Cat Before Flight

Memo to self: Update preflight checklist.

CAT 1 Approach!!!!!

Well Kitty can mark that off his buckcat list.

The cat looks like he's done this before.

As a non-pilot, but having read many squawks here about how pilots must keep their cool in all situations, I love the pilot's expression, and his immediate return to calm attention to his flight, when he realizes the cat is present.

I wish we could hear the conversation between pilot and passenger, or between pilot and ground.

Glad everyone landed safely (I'm presuming the cat landed safely when it leapt from the wing at the end of the flight).

PIC did not do his Cat Scan on pre-flight. Lol

His expression is priceless! Gets me everytime.

Cool and calm. And the pilot looked good too.

Since I do own a cat I can safely say some trees just are not high enough! Pilot handled his unexpected passenger like a pro, passenger seemed to enjoy the hitch hiker, and the cat, well, just acted like a cat and waited for the exit door to open.

The cat must be saying: "My first Intro-Flight in an ultralight?! YUPIIIIIII"

I once had a hand-full of panicked cat while driving an 18-wheeler along an interstate highway north of Dallas in a true Texas thunderstorm, at night. Based on my experience (and the insurance claim), what you just saw in that video qualifies as a TRUE in-flight emergency.

Kitty Hawk???

haha.. nice!

Suffering succotash, I'll get that tweety bird now.

And, apparently their own pilot. The two of mine do!

Look like purrrrfect take off and landing to me.

Pre-flight?

Feline "stowaway". Wonder if the PIC did a pre-check walk around. The cat went where no other cats have gone before. Hope he/she enjoyed the ride.

Tailwind

The happy ending is the best finish

Frankly, I just hope the pilot stays on the ground until he learns two things:
1. Learn to find out what that dark area in the wing he should have seen in the translucent wing might be. The ending of the story might be much worse had it been a hornets nest!
2. Learn how to scan the sky when airborne. His next flight may also end less happily when other objects come from outside his tunnel vision "scan".

I think the cat has already learned its needed lesson; fly with a different pilot! LOL!

The video was immediately suspect to when the camera's preset angle is offset to capture the cat. In addition the hair on the cat and the people doesn't seem to always match the background when wind blown.

Something about this video just does not seem right. The pilot notices the cat at about the 0:40 mark. One would think he would mention it to the passenger and upon hearing this, she would immediately turn her head to look at the cat. Instead, she does not appear to notice this feline flyer until the 1:37 mark.

I agree with the possible conclusion raised by someone here that this is not the first time this cat has taken a circuit around the airport. I just hope the pilot did not put the cat out there so that he could make a "cool" video.