Pretty rad I met you today, and I am prepping for my first solo XC and watching this!

1:07:07- Right near the end of the video was enlightening..." I saw him, but didn't hear him..." These little unintended lessons help me be more aware. Thats a good lesson, something audible can be missed when flipping frequencies so keep situational awareness sharp. Just the opposite, something visual can be missed and the audible can be the life saver. I find value in Jason's long videos, they are practical application applied to real life situations.

What a delightful trip with you two! When you’re having fun, the learning just seems to sneak up on you. Thanks for reminding me of the goal: flying with family.

I’ve just got into flying and watching your videos and I can feel so much positive energy coming out of you guys. I’ve been flying on the sim for 8 months now and I’m about to start zero to hero program. I want to continue being as happy as you guys are! Thanks for the great energy!

I have wanted an understanding of abbreviated tail numbers and here we are, mystery solved by another great MzeroA video!

Loved the movie! I really learn a lot from flying with you. Cockpit management.. staying ahead of the airplane and flight and thought process. Thanks for everything you do to help with Mastery.

Hey Jason, this format is really valuable, showing end to end plus little items that add up to more than the sum when taken as a whole. Thank You from a 400hr PPT that's still learning!

Another awesome video Jason, thanks so much for your tireless dedication.

Great video. I am a V F R pilot but learned a lot from this video Thanks

Great video. Mastery: Three angles for it. 1 - Knowledge changes constantly so we must be proactive and willing to stay current. 2 - Each one of us brings our own life experience, personality and talents to flying. Therefore, we are all in our personal journey to become a more proficient and safe pilot by continuous learning. 3 - The more proficient you become at flying, the more fun you have. Nailed It! -:)

Just call me Bruce, because I guess I'm one of the Die Hards! On a side note, I find these long-form videos that actually show the hands-on, real-world process of flying more informative and helpful, than standard classes. Also, as a 55-year-old looking to change my stars, I just earned my PPL last Wed, July 26th!!

Love this channel. Thanks for all the great tips. I got my private but I'm still learning!

Great video to get reacquainted with radio communications. Recently took the AOPA Rusty Pilot course looking to get back in the air after way too many years. But changes like Basic Med make it possible now. Way back I had completed Commercial Certificate training, but had to stop just short of the check ride.

Great video. Love the format!

I took my niece flying last week. She has shown interest in becoming a pilot (made my day). I'll be sure to point her to your resources and videos as her inquiries continue.

"Who names navigation fixes in the U.S.? When airways or procedures are being designed or modified, local FAA facility employees often recommend fix names. The FAA’s Office of Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) checks the names to make sure they are unique, pronounceable, and not obscene or controversial. Air traffic controllers have a pretty vivid imagination and a great sense of humor. There are some really clever fix names out there. It’s a small part of what makes aviation interesting and fun."

Funny IFR fixes around Budapest, Hungary (LHBP): - FAHAZ (wooden house) - GAZDA (owner of a pet or farmer) - BODZA (elderberry) - PATAK (brook, creek, rivulet, runnel) VFR entry/exit points for the LHBP CTR: - DUNAMO (the bridge of the M0 - MZero haha - motorway above the Danube river which is called Duna in Hungarian) - TSEPEL (the most northern point of Csepel island on the Danube river) - SIKATOR (junction of the M3 and M0 motorways) - KEREPES (the city of Kerepes) - MIKLOS (Hungarian for Michael) BTW I loved this longer format as well, sometimes it makes me sad that I’m across the world from you so can’t be a part of the Nation as much as I would like to be, but I’m still learning a lot from every video I watch.

Maintenace pulled my 172 in the hangar as we walked out to do my checkride. Got another plane that had radar, glass, and all the bells and whistles. Didnt know how to operate half of it. Most stressful day of my life. Flew out to the practice area and talked my way through it. His advice was to master all the equipment on everything i could so this wouldnt happen again. IFR started a week later in that plane.

Love the longform videos!

Love these videos and your ground school. Keep up great work Jason! Sorry for making your team so busy. I sent in about 20-30+ requests for correction on new web site. More to come ... on chapt 10. Sorry that my software dev side and meticulous side coming out. I'm being your QA guy! Hahahaha.

Amazing videos. Please make more

51:32 That is the exact weather I experienced during my first solo cross-country, and you are right about it being a bit nerve-wracking. I remember taking off on a sunny morning with all of the metars showing 10SM visibility, only to get up and realize there was haze, and just like Magda I thought it might have been fog. I was still able to see fine and it improved as time went on. Regardless, it was a fun cross-country!

I like the longer video especialy on an ifr flight, it shows real world communications and procedures.

Love it man. You've gotta be the best instructor👍

The tail number thing is definitely true. At our academy we have many different tail numbers but I find myself hear class mates flying the other planes and my ear catches the tail numbers I usually fly. I just got my commercial certificate few weeks ago and right before my checkride the tail number was changed in the plane I was most familiar with. It was a challenge for the first few calls. Great video. Thanks.

I'm 2 years late but I found this flight so instructional. Did you ever look back and see if they guy departing 05 made a radio call?

"Air conditioning checklist complete" Amazing. Excellent landing

Just had a night flight in an unfamiliar aircraft and the panel was poorly lit. Could never get the call sign right! Definitely made comms a lot harder. Love your content!

I really enjoy your videos learn alot from listening to comms.

Since I’ve been watching your videos, when I do checklists in Flight Simulator, I actually say, “Wagging my tail” when I test the rudder!

I find it funny when you were mentioning the tail numbers. A situation that happened to myself was i was learning in the same plane for several flights, then one day it was already booked so i had to fly a different one. Wasn't a big deal until the plane i normally fly was talking to the same controller and i was trying to respond to ATC. I had to stop myself several times as i wasn't flying that tail number that day.

Mastery to me is the practice of continuing to be proficient in the field of what your trying to accomplish as you excel in the phases you face, with new opportunity as time goes on you are always trying to stay ahead when being a master you can allow yourself to fluently accept the new change from having past experiences and help yourself correct the situation when new things in your mastery approach you.

The long format is excellent because it puts concepts into real-world contextual Application.I think even a multipart series For a cross country. The first video you could show how you do the flight planning and why you’re doing what you’re doing, you could do it old-school on paper, and then show how you use ForeFlight, then show you flying The flight and teaching lessons along the way. The best form of teaching is role-play and showing in real time. So I’m all for this long format and even expanding up on it Also I think another thing that would be really awesome would be a series where you go flying with private pilots who earned their certificate but aren’t using it to its full potential because either their training felt lacking or they’re just uncomfortable going certain places or doing certain things I’d like to be able to do, and walking them through how to get over those issues. Maybe go flying to places they want to go fly to but don’t really feel comfortable doing it. Of course they could always go hire an instructor to do that it would be awesome to see it on your channel.

More of this please!

As most of us who go through the rusty pilot syndrome that aren't fortunate to regularly fly either professionally or are rich enough to always maintain currency much less proficiency at various times through our lives feeding our addiction to flying, have to laugh at the "exhausting to maintain mastery" comment. Having gotten my first license way back in 1985 and instrument rating a few years later in 1991 prior to GPS during the golden age of mastering ADF-NDB, VOR and ILS approaches, learning to initially use GPS after returning to the air following a series of rusty pilot sabbaticals was struggle just for VFR use much less IFR with varying GPS units in different rental aircraft. Now as a retiree with fewer reasons for surprise financial rusty pilot sabbaticals and much more time to study excellent resources such as MzeroA videos and other flight training videos on KZfaq, amazing progress is being made toward currency, proficiency and even mastery of communications and IFR procedures by this old but not so rusty pilot. Thanks for your great videos!

A video on density altitude. How to flight plan on those days. This will help us fly safer. Good job, you are a good flight instructor!

To me Mastery is perfecting your skills at a higher level. Please write my name down 😜 Thank your, Jason, for helping us mastering our skills 🙌🏼✨😉

Mastery to me is being the "best version of yourself" that you can be in all aspects of life. (I'm falling short myself but I'm always trying to be better!)

Great answer on mastery.

I flight train out of KFRG, which has some of the busiest airspace in the country. Having the NY class bravo to the west and MacArthur’s Charlie airspace to the east definitely puts your radio communication skills to the test!

I had an IAF the other day DRBOB, I wanted to use it to do the complete procedure turn. I had zero idea as to how to "officially" say it so ATC would understand me so I just said Doctor Bob. ATC apparently uses it that way, as he understood and continually referred to it as Doctor Bob.

My latest flight was in a Skyhawk 739LU (a mouthful to a returning pilot). That's TEN syllables! Geeze.

Mastery is being the best you, or anyone else, can possibly be. In practical terms it means endeavouring to be the best you can possibly be and recognising how and where you can continue to improve.

Love the US IFR waypoints ! Made me laugh so much

At 32:46 you said "Jorks". I believe that's a little dyslexia kicking in. Its JOKRS a.k.a. "Jokers". haha

I need a video on how to use the auto pilot on a G 1000 when it’s located on the panel? I’m not quite sure of the sequence of steps. Thanks!

Suggestion: make a video about different apps like ForeFlight, garmin etc…..which one do you think is the best?…..Thank you from Italy. Love you guys!

Aviation Mastery is being able to predict the future and handle it... Thinking ahead of the aircraft.

At about 20:00 you mention Magda had the Foreflight passenger app. Was that interfaced with the ADS-B in your plane? If not, how was she able to see your location?

A local flight school here acquired a fleet of 172's from U of ND, and all of the tail numbers end with _ND... I pictured that to get confusing when they're all up in the pattern 😵‍💫

I was a little confused: Prior to depatrure, did controller at KOCF say "turn left 030, maintain 3,000, runway 36 cleared for takeoff, no delay on the runway" - heading 360 to 030 is right turnout, not left. What did I get wrong?

Coming to Ocala for my first xc!!

Jason, question: did you ever fly out of Lincoln Park N.J.?

So, this guy the Tony Robbins of flight training? I mean that is awesome and all but wasn't expecting the taxiway pep-talk, caught me a little off guard.

Can you refuse a no delay take off and what are the producer how to do it

mastery for me would definitely mean becoming an enemy of complacency..as the saying goes "the more you know the more you realize how much you don't know..

Please help with some tips with FLARE (i know you ha te this word, therefore with TRANSITION). I am desperate, i hard failed 2 checks and can not pass my solo flight after 30 Hours…….already took 15h extra and will probably take more. Failed again today……wanna quit…..

jacksonville controller sounded pretty young!

mastery means you can do it without sweating but still bring a towel.

Black belt definitely continue to train and learn....at least in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu they do!

Giraffe ave. Was a road a grew up on easyly remember the address as well haha spelling

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Mastery!

fun ifr fixes look to jersey, ruuth ejder (edger) ood (dr. who character) holey buzie sookie ditch and the best, wacki

Mastery=proficiency

If you’re going to be elected to the “Fix Naming Committee,” why not make “JASON,” and “MAGDA” your first fix names?