When I earned my private pilot's licence the chief flying instructor at my club reminded me that the licence was just the start of learning to fly and how right he was. As I built my hours I made so many blunders (not endangering anyone) that I was much wiser when I passed 100 hours of flight time and at 150 hours wiser again and so on.

You are quite a natural instructor. Engaging, affable, with a great patter and flow. Keep paying it forward, it will help others and build your own self-confidence.

I love this! I’m the military we always say to practice the way you fight and this is true with everything. When you practice professional behaviors you’ll develop professional habits!

Just ran across your channel over Christmas Holiday's and you are putting out some great info. Keep it up!

By FAR the most underrated channel about aviation, your content is spot on! Love it!

Great video, thanks!

Excellent topic and delivery. Agree with all your points. One of the best aviation channels on YT . Very useful information for every experience level. Keep up tbe great content.

Great advice and video! I’m reading Mike Busch’s book too and it’s excellent. A good pilot is always learning. Wishing you clear skies and tailwinds.

In 1983 my dad had a heart attack and was flown to Memphis. I was stressed AND had get-there-itis. Tried to fly between thunderstorms but did a 180 and it was a good choice.

Great channel. Learning a ton. Thank you!

👍Great tips. Thank you.

Thanks for this video! I think your channel and content is really underrated! More people should your videos and keep doing what you're doing! I just wanted to say that I'm working on my private right now and have finished ground school and I just got scheduled to take my knowledge test! I'm very excited for it but still working on using that manual E6B! I'm also a college student and helping start a flying club on campus!

Great information awesome.

Really appreciate your combination of knowledge and humility Charlie. Keep up the great work!

Great list, I’ve learned a lot from hanging out with some of the long time (old) pilots around the airport

Excellent video. Something to be said about understanding yourself better as a person and pilot

Great content and appreciate you for sharing your knowledge with the GA community. I just earned my private pilot cert last month and am transitioning into my new to me Piper Comanche. I feel like it's just the starting point for my learning and training. Love your channel! Keep it up 👍

Enjoyable topic!! I always make sure to hit like before i watch your videos. The reason is that i get so engrossed listening to you and thinking about the subject at that time, that i don't want to forget to hit like! 👍 I enjoy your channel. it's in my top 5 for aviation related.

My Lubbock, Texas flight school, Hub City Aviation, stressed safety above everything, for which I am so thankful. Your video is a great (and timely) reminder. Keep 'em coming, brother.

Another outstanding video - Thank you !!!

Good content as always. Happy landings

Perfect timing! Going up for my 8th hour at noon, and I'm going to employ a few of these tips today!

Mike’s Engine book is great, I’ve read it myself. Keep up the great advice and videos! Know what to expect next is one of the best skills to have IMO, I still work on it before I get into the air.

Outstanding! Nice work!

Thank you for the tips, I’m going to work on implement these into my flying. Taking my private checkride in 2 weeks!!

Great advice, thank you sir!

I couldn't have agreed with point number 4 more. When I got my Private I was under the impression that I got all the knowledge to fly. Sure I was licensed, but it's like starting the learning all over again, going into the world without the safety net of your CFI. I found a lot of guys are happy to help you if you admit you are fresh and new. Flying is a profession where learning never stops

Great video. Thanks.

As a private pilot instrument rated pilot, I wish I find your channel before. Now, I am in my commerical rating training and all the solo I am doing right now are mostly base on weather, I has been alot of bad weather 15ft of visibility and low ifr. I have been canceling alot of week last week. Hope this week improve. Recommend for anyone that is in training and flying solo requirement; Don't rush, Don't accept task that you are not comfortable yet, Plan well ahead if time, Don't be afraid to ask other pilot about their flight. I alway try to ask how other feel about the weather right now and how was their flight. This will give me more insight and a little more accurate of the weather.

Learning and adding experience to a person’s unique performance envelope...solid bean footage, Charlie! CAVU 🇺🇸✈️😎👍

REALLY good points. I love the stuff you put out, because it makes me think. Think about different ways I can fly better and safer. Dan Gryder has a new channel up called 'probable cause' that's another place I go to. On this video, point 1 jumped out and reminded me of a phrase that drives me nuts, and that's "have to". People think they "have to" get somewhere, or get somewhere by a particular time. Nope, you don't. There is weather that will ground anything....and if you have a mindset of "have to" it probably means you haven't even considered the other options. Point 3 jumped out too, about asking questions. My favorite is that if I'm going to an airport I haven't flown to before, I'll do my best to find another pilot who's flown there and ask them if there are any things to be aware of. And there often are - weird local traffic patterns that aren't written down, something unusual about the taxiways, power lines that are on final, etc. Thanks for doing these videos, they are great.

I need to move to Idaho. It's got the best looking flying! I love all the scenery and the strips.

Another terrific video. So glad you liked my recommendation on Mike Bush’s engine book. I am hoping to become an airplane owner at some point in the not too distant future and thought his book “Airplane Ownership” was also full of good information.

This is just great advice!

You have some great content. I wish more people would watch your videos.

I have just found you on youtube. Your videos are great.

Good stuff! I’ve certainly shown my low hours in the past and have learned what’s most important and what’s not. Getting in the air should not always be the must have goal.

Mike Bush just did an eaa webinar on baffles. It is in the webinar archive.

What also contributes to safety in the air is deploying the principles to other parts of your life so that they become more natural and are not only restricted to the cockpit. For instance get used to do a weather briefing or fuel planning for road trips while driving a car. Get used to more standardised ways to merge into traffic or to leave traffic on on- and off-ramps on a highway. It sure helps me do things in a more structured and predictable way.

where is that grass runway looks so cool

I've Really enjoyed your videos. I am right around the corner from my PPL, and then using my VA Benefits to work on IFR, into a plane purchase. I would love to fly with you someday!

I imagine keeping an eye on that flock of geese at 7:42 is helpful. 😂

Thank you🌈

Nice to see this! Hopefully I'll get my PPL in a few years!

Another excellent clip! Great advice! I am a student pilot. And sounding like a newbee, comes with the territory. Suck up your ego/insecurities and embrace your position. Experienced pilots see us coming a mile away. haha! So be the new pilot and you will get way more support and guidance. Then being a poser which I am 100 percent of the time when trying to fit in with the big kids! haha! Go AA Go!!

On the subject of personal minimums and decision-making...take preflight action seriously. Flying for CAP, we're explicitly required to fill out an operational risk assessment and a flight briefing form every time we get ready to fly, and to discuss that information with a Flight Release Officer. It really does help us to ensure we review all of that "available information concerning that flight" that 91.103 calls for, and creates the opportunity to think about and consider the level of risk we're accepting for that flight. CAP goes above and beyond the reg here, but having an explicit process for it really does help to make sure the information is reviewed and understood.

Hi Charlie I have a question as far as Sport Pilot license. Back when I was in my 20s I started flying lessons and only got like 6-8 hours and ran out of money to keep going but was bitten by the GA bug. Now that I’m almost 65 and can well afford it and live 5 months in central Florida I’m thinking of going after the Sport License since it’s less restrictive and I would only want to fly in good weather anyway. Do you or any of your followers have any suggestions as to what I should be doing to get ready or do you even recommend a Sport License. Thanks for all your videos because that is a job in itself. Ken

When you speak of your 30kt max wind gusts are you referring to surface, aloft or both?

Why am I the only pilot that doesn't look like a very caring dad?

With gusts it is not so much the gust speed (although that is a limit) but more about gust factor (eg. How much the wind speed is changing, for me 8kts gust factor with a max gust speed of 20kts but I do fly a very light aircraft). Also for go / no go the old saying better to be on the ground wishing you could be flying than flying wish to be on the ground. I do think that it is good to fly near your limit as that way if you end up at the limit you a current at dealing with it but you have to be careful not to exceed it. The comfort zone is an area that you need to go to the edge of fairly often as that way it grows but the comfort zone should be smaller than your limits to help keep you safe.

Engines is worth the money. It's really made me more comfortable in the sky.

Are there any scripts for all the calls you can expect to make with ATC? That would be an amazing resource. It would be so much easier to see and study them beforehand to know what to expect.

Its not about time, its about good adm always. There are plenty of high time experienced old guys from the airlines which will hop in their cessna and crash because of bad adm.

*2:22** Even with a multi engine A/c* ?!

Not supper to fly if you’re stressed...but flying is how I relive my stress😂

How do you have 700 hours flight time. BUT have been flying for 17 years???

I'm a young Air Force T-6A instructor pilot and have created a KZfaq channel focused around helping my students, coworkers, and other aspiring instrument rated pilots. I run an extremely small (100ish subs) YT channel that I'm trying really hard to grow. After coming across your channel I feel like there could be an opportunity for our communities to overlap. If youre interested at all please let me know if youd like to coordinate something going forward Blue Skies, Courty

You cant be clear in your intentions if your radio is crap. Too many GA pilots allow their radios to go to hell to they are using a 30 year old headset.

be open handed. lmao. i’ll smack you if the clouds get lower