Pre flight preparation - Mini-series - pt 2
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6 жыл бұрынIn this mini series, the Flying Reporter shows you some of the steps he follows, when preparing for a general aviation flight in the UK. The series shows preparation for a flight from Biggin Hill to Sherburn in Elmet in a PA28.
Part 1
Choosing the route
• Pre flight preparation...
Part 2
Creating the plog (pilot's log)
• Pre flight preparation...
Part 3
Choosing frequencies, weight & balance, performance, & fuel calculations
• Pre flight preparation...
Part 4
Notams, airspace restrictions, airfield information & weather
• Pre flight preparation...
Part 5
The flight from Biggin Hill to Sherburn in Elmet
• Pre flight preparation...
Links:
Notams, airspace restrictions, aerodrome information, the AIP.
Aeronautical Information service: www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/...
Weather
BBC weather: www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
XC weather: www.xcweather.co.uk/
Metcheck aviation forecasts: www.metcheck.com/HOBBIES/avia...
Aviation Weather Europe: avwx.info/
Weather Online cloud bases: www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bi...
NOAA Air Resources Lab, Skew T soundings: ready.arl.noaa.gov/READYcmet.php
Met Office GA forecast: www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/ga
Other
Skydemon: www.skydemon.aero/
AIS information line 08085 354802 / 01489 887515
About me
FAQs, flight tracks etc www.jonhunt.net/
Facebook: / theflyingreporter
Twitter: / jonhunttv
Patreon: / theflyingreporter
Music licensed by Audio Jungle
Ambient Motivation, PUZZOSOUND
Motivational Slow Melody, lekaalesio
@jasonrwilkinson9216 6 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyable Jon. My instructor checked me 3 years after qualifying when I flew into Sywell and I still had a hand written PLOG and annotated chart - something that I still do today despite GPS as a very professional way of flying. Hopefully your viewers will appreciate this and do the same. Thanks for your video and best wishes.
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Jason.
@clearofcloud2038 6 жыл бұрын
Another tip for the chart that one FI gave me was to draw a big arrow along your route with the forecast wind. Helps with visualising heading during the flight or if you need to divert. Enjoying the series !
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Yes, that's a good tip. Do you draw the wind star on your map too?
@clearofcloud2038 6 жыл бұрын
The Flying Reporter what is the wind star ? Oh and the other tip was to calculate the max drift in degrees. That way you can always guestimate headings for diversions
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, max drift is good. Very easy to work out. A windstar shows the headings to fly for various tracks on the compass, along with ground speeds for each. Very handy for diversions.
@roryonabike5863 6 жыл бұрын
Excellent series. I’m impressed with the sound given that you’re recording in a small room surrounded by hard surfaces. No obvious reverb problem. And the chart is indeed a lot sharper this time :)
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Cheers Rory.
@stevehogg7873 3 жыл бұрын
This is perfect timing for me as a ‘just gone solo’ student embarking on Nav. Thank you so much!
@markmcguigan1 6 жыл бұрын
Best way to start a Saturday morning. Great stuff.
@josephhodgins3806 6 жыл бұрын
Another brilliant video and all explained very clearly! Look forward to next week!
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Joseph. Glad it did the trick for you.
@HomeBog 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent work! Thank you so much!
@hunt635 5 жыл бұрын
Hi. What a fantastic series. Just starting my journey into PPL and loving how you are explaining things. Keep up the great work.
@martinsatherley8399 4 жыл бұрын
Great video and very useful for those of us preparing for navigation. Your explanations of how you do it are very clear and informative.
@flybe146 6 жыл бұрын
This brings it all back to me Jon - awesome!!
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
That's brill. Thanks David.
@forfengeligfaen 6 жыл бұрын
ahhh the "confuser" - mental exhaustion before you even sit in the cockpit.
@garydell2023 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I appreciate this video series. Look forward to the rest. I still use old school methods along with the new tech but it's easier for me to glance at my E6B for quick reference than to fumble with the E6B electronic computer.
@davep5829 6 жыл бұрын
Really takes me back, wonderfully explained as ever.
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
That's Great. Thanks Dave.
@JodelFlyer 6 жыл бұрын
Nice one Jon. I am sure there are plenty of students out there who will be very pleased with this clear and precise video.
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Tim.
@LeeRussell 6 жыл бұрын
Hi Jon, the timing of this video is perfect as I get the dust off the whizz wheel in preparation for my IMC theory course 👍🏻👍🏻. Great work. Lee
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Cheers Lee.
@DrivingTestMordan 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this. I think many of us who are looking to gain a pilot's licence very much appreciate this video. It's really going to help me with the navigation exam. Would you consider making more videos with information on how to prepare for the exams?
@callumfrost8762 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jon this is very helpful, studying Navigation now and was really struggling on how to use my flight computer as it’s hard to understand in the books and there’s not a lot of content out there to tell me how to do it. I understand now so thanks for that! I’ve got a 2 hour tutor session with my instructor next week so now I’m much more prepared for that otherwise I probably would have struggled. Thanks again Jon.
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Pleasure. Thanks for watching.
@patricepnc 6 жыл бұрын
waoo great series and very pedagogical , absolutely must see for student pilots, very good idea to have these series,
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@philipbaldwin775 5 жыл бұрын
All good again Jon
@pilot-motivation5868 6 жыл бұрын
wow. amazing series loving it👏📐✈
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@stuartessex4535 6 жыл бұрын
Hi Jon, great and informative as always and good refresher on using the whiz wheel! (And prefer the professional looking office back drop! lol) From your other viewers it looks as if we all had slightly different tuition, I was always taught that MSA was 1000ft above nearest obstacle 4NM either side of track. Then again like yourself I like to fly high which isnt always easy squeezing under Londons TMA! Anyway great stuff and look forward to the next instalment......... Stu
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Stuart.
@tommasopoletto1324 6 жыл бұрын
I do agree skydemon or garmin pilot (which i personally use) are safe and very useful flight tools, but i have to say that each and every time that i'm planning a navigation i always use the old school method in addition to the modern flight planning (mainly talking about VFR), i think is a very powerful briefing method which allows you to go through every step of your navigation and avoid mistakes. But i do understand that flying a navigation across the uk can require a much longer PLOG sheet than for a navigation across Belgium ahah. Well done anyway, i enjoyed playing with my flight computer and comparing your methods with mine! :)
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
I agree. I often pick up mistakes/enhancements, by cross referencing routes on the paper charts.
@JUSTYH82 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Jon. Done this today for my Nav flight but used triangles of velocity. :-)
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Ace. You can keep your triangles though!
@neilhathaway7051 6 жыл бұрын
JP Hughes There is. An app for that ToV Flight Planner itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tov-flight-planner/id1259297841?mt=8.
@JUSTYH82 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Neil.
@AshKirby 6 жыл бұрын
I've always thought that SkyDemon charts are more accurate than printed paper charts due to the fact that many people never annotate or update their paper charts each month with the published updates, and so even when buying a current chart we are actually flying with an out of date chart for 11 months of the year!
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
+Ash K that's true. I compare both.
@alexeyalekseev4197 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another great video, after being spoiled with skydemon it is good to have a little refresher. One question though, it sounded to me like the large numbers in each quadrant on the map is MSA, but from the top of my head Id say it is the highest obstacle in that quadrant to which you need add 500feet to get MSA. Away from home so don’t have map legend nearby to check :( alternatively seen somewhere online that people look at highest obstacle 4nm left and right from track and add 500 feet to that so you might get MSA lower, but takes a bit more work:)
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
The numbers in the map quadrants give highest elevation, to which you need to add your 500' / 1000' / 2000' clearance. You can go along the route, and look a the max elevation / obstacles along the route within 8km, and choose your MSA from that if you don't want to use the MEF.
@christopherwilson6527 6 жыл бұрын
These are great and informative videos! Will you be doing any on the ifr route planning? Was curious how you navigate when vor’s are sparse and you still have to know where you are for airspace awareness. Cant rely on skydemon for ifr right?
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Skydemon isn't certified, so useful for situational awareness, I use a certified GPS for a lot of my IFR navigation these days, with VORs/NDBs as back up/supplementary.
@VMCAviationVideos 6 жыл бұрын
Question, are flight schools still train their students on plotting lines on charts? When I go flying, I open up Foreflight on my iPad, draw the route I wanna fly, check the wether & NOTAM's and up I go, so, no piece of paper is used for planning, and the flying part.I use the iPhone as backup to the iPad, in case the screen goes black.
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
I think they do...best ask a current FI. I believe our regulator insists that iPad navigation is secondary to the traditional/certified methods.
@aaryanpour 6 жыл бұрын
Depends on the club. On mine (Azure - Cranfield) using non-paper-based devices are banned for the students. Fortunately I passed mine a few months back and now I am allowed to buy my Skydemon license !
@auspilot6119 6 жыл бұрын
In Australia, at least at my school, we still use paper. I also use an EFB but not allowed in instructional flights or tests to use it. I agree that EFBs are the way forward however way too many people are relying on non-certified GPS in these apps to work out their position. Dead reckoning skills will be going by the wayside, that’s for sure. Also, I’d be nervous about using a tiny iPhone screen as a backup EFB - why not another (perhaps older) iPad instead?
@VMCAviationVideos 6 жыл бұрын
As I said, the iPhone is JUST a backup. If the IPad screen goes black, you still have all the information at hand to get to the nearest airport.
@VMCAviationVideos 6 жыл бұрын
I will stop at the flying school and ask how they teach students now.
@ItsCDB 6 жыл бұрын
I just saw your plane on flight tracker was it you?
@TheFlyingReporter 6 жыл бұрын
Probably. Flew to Leicester today.
@BeerHuntor 6 жыл бұрын
YOU MADE AN ERROR NORTH IS 360 DEGREES NOT 000 DEGREES
@stewartwilkinsonsnr 6 жыл бұрын
BeerHuntor Checked details on Internet and found this north representing 0° or 360° east representing 90° south representing 180° west representing 270°
@neilhathaway7051 6 жыл бұрын
Depends if you are talking about true or magnetic, where you are on the planet and magnetic variation and variance and your compass accuracy...