Going to start flight training? Watch this!
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Here are my top 5 tips for you to know before you start learning to fly!
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I am not a flying instructor so my video content is for pleasure only and not to be used for training as editing removes context. Be aware some flight-critical checks and radiotelephony may have been edited out but are always completed on the actual flight. All video content is my own, or it falls under CZcams's fair use policy and music used has been downloaded from either the CZcams music library or Epidemic Sound where I have a CZcams subscription! - Zábava
Tip #6. Record flights when possible, edit the content & share the content through social media. Editing allows one to review the flight & by posting the content it could perhaps help someone out. (Though it should NEVER be a replacement for flight instruction.)
Agreed! Editing my videos helps me debrief the flight and I post them for that very reason :)
Nice video bud thanks for the tips. Any practice on RT is welcome! Well done on your pass and happy flying! I’m about half way through. Just about to start nav.
Thank you and awesome! Best of luck for your GST!
Grateful for all the video I would love to see more like this would be good as it helps me to learn as I am Dyslexic and this help me to understand the theory.
Thank you for you Channel
You're welcome and that's good to know! This is exactly why I make the videos :)
I have a friend learning he's lower spectrum dyslexic, I have elements of it too. It can be done, chat about it with potential flight schools/your flight school to get a feel for how they could help you. I'm sure that there are ways to help with the ground school aspects - must have been done before, I wonder if one of the forums could help?
Muso Seven thank you for that advice I am still saving at the minute as don’t want to have to stop when I start
Greeeeeat video mate. Looking forward to our co-lab
Me too mate!
Enjoy that even tho I’m 10 hours into my training 😊 just done my first few radio calls.
Not the greatest 🙈 but can only get better👍
Really looking forward to vid with Ben
Thanks pal, kind of you to say!
Thank you just used the discount code 😊
More than welcome! Buy anything interesting?
@@TheMicroPilot yes I bought the glider pilots starter kit as I'm embarking on my instructor training in October 😊
@@clairegardner4945 Oh that's awesome!! I really need to try some glider flying! I'd love to get some glider episodes on the channel as well haha. Wishing you all the best for your course!
@@TheMicroPilot thanks so much! 😊
My dad started on gliders, then progressed to GA and some complex types. Purest form of flight gliding/soaring. Good luck and enjoy!
Thanks for doing videos and sharing to us, any advice on passing the selection day in Helicentre please.
More than welcome, it's exactly why I make these videos. I actually do have a video in the works about passing pilot selection days, I'm just waiting on a few things to fall into place to make it. Hopefully doing it with a CAE student as well!
Don't start in August or Sept! haha, have a 2 hour lesson later but my last 3 from last week, have been cancelled due to weather. That said it's probably chance anytime of the year. Any previous navigation experience is useful. I used to do sea kayaking (also quite wind dependant and easy to get lost at sea) and I do a lot of walking or trail running now. Regarding the 6 pack, totally agree that the flight simulator helps. though I think MSFS2020 should be called Garmin G1000 simulator as I usually just set the autopilot then let the game play itself...
I agree and yes it's just Sods Law with the weather. Previous nav experience does deffo help and I'm jealous!! I'd love to have FS2020 myself but I only have a mac haha.
The first tip u said I did the same thing
Edit I know most of the tips u said in the vid I'm feeling proud
Nice one Tom, very professional, good advice too. Looking forward to your video with Ben, my buddy flies at the same club as Ben.
Not sure where you are based right now Tom, but isn't Enstone about 40 mins flying time from Kemble (Ben)? And there's another You Tuber, Adam, flies from there now too. Depends on the slant of your video, but Ben is a microlight pilot as are you, you're also a helo pilot and Adam is fixed wing GA pilot. A cool video if all three commented on each type of flying and chatted to camera and each other about it?
Thank you! I will check Adam out and see if he's up for it. I am based at Leicester so we're thinking of Turweston with its nice cafe and it's about 40 mins flight for us both. I will get down to Kemble at some point. I'd like to see all the 747s!
Hi Tom, yes Turweston would be good, three airfields around there, Hinton in the Hedges and Finmere. Turweston being the most glamorous of late. And it would give Adam somewhere to go to as well?
Kemble? My local too, it's like Heathrow with all the Jumbo's there LOL, they're becoming like spoons (every home has them). Bittersweet really, provides local work etc, but sad to see old buses like that end up in bits. My mate said to his instructor, when taxing past some of the airliners, ".....this is like the MS Flight Sim missions at Oshkosh"... his instructor laughed and agreed. They dwarf a C42 or Eurostar. LOL!
@@musoseven8218 Haha yes, I'll have to come see for myself! Only difference is MS2020 doesn't have any helicopters... Yet
Looking forward to new version of MSFS (2020), a few that I know are waiting to see how it plays out - but it does look stunning. Looking forward to helicopters too - I like testing myself with helicopter flight sims, I did a few of the tests at a Middle Wallop open day, and I did okay, I was younger then LOL. Even on a flight sim, it's still stick and rudder time, even better if more realistic too. I think that Popham has a C42 Simulator?!
Great video. What's the story behind the RN cap? I've applied a few times for pilot but couldn't get past the aptitude test so I'm now going down the commercial route. Aiming for bush pilot.
I used to be in the University Royal Naval Unit. I’d love to be a fleet air arm pilot but I went for the Civvie route as it’s more guaranteed and quicker.
Can u tell me some good flight schools to join because there are many news of students getting scammed by flight school..and as an international student pilot..this really scares me...
Now then Tom what would I like to see on your channel? ........ ummmmm....... ummmmmm..... Oh! I know,-how about those two bits of totty that you had sitting next to you in the last video on here more often preferably with their taps out LOL!!! Sorry mate I am rather crude aren't I or at least that's what my Mrs keeps telling me (the old bat) LOL!!! Seriously all of the stuff you talked about was very sound advice especially the Airband Radio and with me everywhere I went I would actually spell "signs" in supermarkets out in my head phonetically, also make good use of the home flight simulator for procedures such as HASELL and BUMPFICH so it becomes second nature, and, to pass the exams definitely download from the internet or write to the CAA and get them to send you all the potential questions you could be given in the exam and YES they have to do that don't let them tell you otherwise. Great Vido as always mate!!!
Hahaha I'll do my best to get them in more episodes just for you David!! Thanks for the kind comment as always!
@@TheMicroPilot Ohhhh I shall definitely look forward to seeing them again Tom, me old mate!!!
I have a CPL(H) Pilot selection day with Helicenter in 2 days, any advice? 😳😂
Brush up on your mental maths. Wear something smart. Just be yourself and you'll be fine! I'm in on Tuesday so I'll probably see you.
@@TheMicroPilot Yeah the outfit requirements were smart casual, but also something comfy as we are flying for 2 hours. So still deciding what to wear haha.
I'm 15 I just started my ppl training and lockdown came so sad I just dont get it I'm not allowed to go learn to fly with one instructor but I'm allowed to go to school with 100 people
I know pal! It's hit us all in different ways, now my training for CPL has been knocked behind schedule for about 6 months!
Do you have a scanner you recommend?
I had a Uniden UBC-125XLT Handheld and it worked perfectly. There are cheaper ones out there if it's only aircraft you want to listen to. I had to get a better antenna than the standard one in the box to get better range.