Good suggestion callum. External pressure is a very real danger, so yes, by all means adjust your own IMSAFE checklist to include that!

The FAA view is that it's "external pressures" because it's attempting to counter the get-there-itis which has caused so many tragic accidents.

I did mine about the same time, also thought 'e' was for 'eat', and thought exactly the same regarding emotion/stress.

It's a very good point.. I think I prefer eating to be honest. So yes, that works really well too.

I too did “eat” about 10 years ago in Canada.

Don't you just love checklists!

Great!

Thanks Alex. That's lovely of you to say.

Ah, kind of you to say so, thanks.

Glad you enjoyed the videos Phil.

Pleased that you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.

Absolutely right Michael. Thank you. Happy new year to you.

Thanks for joining up Paul.

word-nerd - haven't heard that one before. Like it!

Hi Duncan. Typical for you to notice that! It's our fruit bowl. I go in waves of eating apples - the only fruit I really like. And James, husband is currently eating satsumas.

Thanks Chris. I waggle, and blow and still nothing. It seems to have been better last couple of flights, so hoping it's better now.

@@TheFlyingReporter this will sound exceptionally odd, but one can buy little balloons with a piece to put on your nostril. I have been told by Doctors to use them for general issues in the area before, but I’m sure they’d help pressure related popping.

Very reliable and comfortable.

Thanks Stephen. I haven't gone as far as printing the skydemon plog yet. I do like to be able to refine my plan..I also have other info on my plog, a space for ATIS, readback notes, fuel management etc. Yes, I think eat maybe a more useful E!

Hi. Here are copies of the current ones I use. www.jonhunt.net/hrf_faq/where-did-you-get-your-plog/

Hi, thanks. Good idea...never done it. I usually back up with the certified GPS on board, so doubt it would be much of an issue - especially with the plog.

@@TheFlyingReporter it might make for an interesting video just as an exercise to revert just to the plog and paper chart and see if you can find your way just for fun.

Ah...but we whizz over the M25 without even paying a toll charge!!

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At home, I'm probably spending somewhere in the region of 2 hours on a typical "normal' flight. It's difficult to give you an accurate figure, as I dip in and out. Plot a route a couple of days before. Check the weather. Come back to it....fiddle with the route, look at notams, weather. Flight day, weather, look at notams, restrictions, do my performance calculations (the arrow is quite heavy, and Redhill's hard runway is very short 498m, and it's a new aeroplane to me, so I do a thorough performance review for every take off and landing). Sometimes the weather needs more research than other days. It's also difficult to extract the time I spend doing the cameras/prep etc. That is at least an hours work before flight...batteries to be charged, cards to be wiped, lenses to be cleaned etc.

Hi My FAQs have details..jonhunt.net

There's a video for that. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rKd7bJWTtci7Z40.html. Links are in the description.

@@TheFlyingReporter Oh perfect, that's tomorrows study!

It seems from the comments, other people think it is. I think E for eating might be better to be honest.

Hi. Redhill is full ATC, so you have to follow their instructions. My clearance was to leave the circuit via the Godstone VRP...I have no choice but to take this route. This is because traffic is tactically managed by Redhill ATC to avoid conflict between arriving and departing aircraft, which is difficult to manage because of the constraints of the Gatwick CTR/CTA which limits the airspace Redhill has available to use. When runways 25/26 are in use, Redhill will take outbound traffic to the east via Godstone VRP, and to the north via Buckland VRP. Inbound traffic from the north comes in via the M23/M25 Junction VRP. Inbound traffic from the east comes in via Godstone Station VRP. So why wouldn't I route north from Godstone, track around the M25? I don't like the height of the terrain around godstone, which makes it quite tricky to maintain the rules of the air...not impossible, but tricky. Plus, I wouldn't particularly want to route that close to Biggin Hill's extended centreline. Yes, you can do it, it's class G, or you could talk to them. But to avoid potential conflict with their outbound traffic, I prefer to route well south. The penalty, a 2 minute delay at most. Another option would be to route Godstone, Biggin Hill, Swanley. This in theory is the faster of all three routes, saving 3 minutes on my long route around. However, calling up Biggin Hill just 2 minutes before arriving at their ATZ is a little unfair on them, may lead to me having to take up an orbit, near residential areas, which increases my workload too. So that's why I go the way I do.

I suppose it makes sense. My home base is under the EDDM (Munich) class C airspace, and we try to stay away from the lower maximum allowed altitudes. I was not aware (or overlooked) that you were starting from a controlled aerodrome. EDMY, my homebase, is an uncontrolled airfield. By just looking at the map online, and not "knowing" your local situation, I would have tried to head north first to gain some headroom. Also, I wasn't thinking so much about your ETE as much as the ability to climb higher. I always prefer to have plenty of air under me, especially after having had an engine out emergency landing. The online map I looked at, didn't show the terrain height. I assumed that the area in this part of the UK was more or less flat. Like the bit of England - Essex & East Anglia - where my UK relatives live.