When I was looking, roughly 6 years ago now, the Cessna 177 was much more affordable than the light sports. I have flown the Czech Sportcruiser and really enjoyed the experience. I just didn’t have the budget at the time to afford an aircraft with newer avionics and airframe. I think the difference for me personally in hindsight, now that I know more, is that the light sport category of aircraft are limited. You can only have 1 passenger (2 people total including pilot), and if I remember correctly, most are not IMC certified or capable? I know the equipment can be IFR capable, but I’m not sure if they’re allowed to fly in IMC? I don’t know enough to say for sure, but my main deciding factor was 4 seats or more because I intended to fly with friends and family.

Thank you! I forget I have these posted! They’re quite old now. I just wanted to be able to go back and watch my flights in full to help see and remember what was done during them. I was in college at the time and was going back and forth from Dallas to Lubbock, Texas. Therefore I went through many different instructors as I was at different airports for the semester and then back home for summers or winter breaks!

​@@LeftSeatAviation yeah, I know they are old, it's perfect for a student pilot, I like it because it's watching a STUDENT, not just an instructor or average flight. Also shows me the difference in cockpit conversations. I'll catch up on your vids soon enough and will probably put some up with even smaller view counts, my goal is more like yours is/was for why I put stuff up. It's winter in the north, I've had more weather-cancelled flights than instructed flights. Hence watching.

Thank you! It was a lot of fun. I have another tomorrow and this time it’s 5 pups! This next trip will be to Tulsa, Oklahoma. I’ll make the flight tomorrow morning and will make another video of it shortly.

Enjoy it! The push to talk is on the yoke/stick. You click it with your pointer finger. It’s not going to be visible from the camera as it’s on the far side of the yoke/stick. Thanks!

Discovery flights! It’s never too late or too early. Go up for a flight sometime!

@@LeftSeatAviation Absolutely, ive done two introductory flight courses which got me one hour of flight time. Its just a matter of saving up for the private pilot course. Thank you 💪🏾

How was it?

@@LeftSeatAviation loved it

@@HoustonGamerTVHGTV once I get my aircraft back we may be able to go for a flight someday. I hope your training/flying is going well. Weather has been great lately!

@@LeftSeatAviation yes sounds nice

@@LeftSeatAviation you're flying a cirrus sr22?

Did you buy one?

Aztec Warrior are you working on your LIght Sport certificate or private?

Jon Mulvey thank you hahaha! The landing was rough! Not my best one. Matthew wanted to conquer his fear of flying in small planes but only by doing it once. That was his one and only flight it seems. I tried to use the checklist to keep him occupied so that he felt included and more “in control”. He told me before he was scared but wanted to go regardless because he wanted to conquer this fear and at least say he did it. He had a good time and it was a nice flight. Thank you for the compliments! Safe flying to you as well!

@@LeftSeatAviation Go Mathew! I was the same way! Hated flying! Now it's all I think about! Keep the clips coming and so will the subs! Cheers!

Jon Mulvey thank you for the comments! Cheers and safe flying.

Aztec Warrior thank you for the kind words! This was my first flight in the sport cruiser so I was learning as well myself. I only flew it twice or so before I bought a Cessna Cardinal. Great plane!

james Higgins thank you! Currently installing ADSB and will be putting out more videos soon!

Ha! I was just about to comment, why the fuck would you force Alvin and the Chipmonks on us?

Hi runways are indicated using numbers. For example Runway 36-18. This runway is the magnetic direction of 360 and 180. Just add a 0 to the end of the run way number. If you take a compass and look at the numbers on it, 360 is north, 90 east, 180 south, and 270 west. So runway 36/18 means it runs north and south. So if you are on a heading of 090 (East) you know you are approaching the runway perpendicularly. If you are approaching the airport from the north or south (360 or 180) you know you are approaching the runway head on. Now, we do have applications like ForeFlight (on an iPad) as well as the GPS in the aircraft that will show airport orientation. This is a helpful visual aid. If you are wondering why runways are labeled Runway 36/18 is because depending on the wind direction you can use the runway in either direction. So one day it may be windy from the north, so you take off into the wind northbound at a heading of 360. The other day the wind is from the south so you take off Into the wind southbound on a heading of 180. So when runways are labeled, they have two values, both of these being the exact opposite directions of each other.

@@LeftSeatAviation Yeah thanks for the reply. I am a student pilot and it is just hard to visualize the runways on the ground. I know they are magnetic headings but when I approach a runway I often end up entering a different direction then I expected.

Hi ah so when taxiing that’s difficult sometimes for me too. I always try to use an airport diagram. They have taxiways and are labeled. The difficult part is keeping up with your direction and which taxiway you’re on. I use foreflight and have the geo-referenced taxi charts where it shows my aircraft and it’s location on the airport. I always try to plan my full route before I start moving.

@@LeftSeatAviation Yeah that too. What I meant by ground was visualizing the runways as you are approaching the airport to land. You listened to the winds are know the runway to use, but it's hard to picture the runways on the ground as you after approaching the runway

Angel Jimenez that would be much appreciated if so! I would love to hear what he thinks. He’s free to reach out to me if he likes it.

Griffin thank you I appreciate the comment! That would be sick. I’ll take him flying any day. If he wants to go fly all he has to do is ask.

Its Handle hey! Glad you liked it and attended. Thank you for the comment. Made my day. How did you like the concert?

Left Seat Aviation it’s was good!

Its Handle glad you had a good time!

Dan G you’ll definitely get used to it. You use differential braking when slow I found as you have no rudder authority. Once speed picks up and you have sufficient prop wash/authority on the rudder you can use less braking. It’s been a while since I own a cardinal now but they fly nicely. Very simple aircraft. You’ll have a lot of fun when you get the hang of it.

jazzdad24 I will start working on that soon! I just got all my cross country time and will be doing the simulator portion soon. The pilot friend I was with is a CFI and is instrument rated. He was able to take over if the weather deteriorated at which one point we had to pass through a few scattered clouds. We were IFR the whole time and that is why we were able to.

jazzdad24 this is a friends cardinal. He has a very nice model. Mine is a 73 and his is a 75 or so. Both are fixed gear. We took his because ours currently is undergoing an interior installation and other maintenance.

Thanks for your response. Have fun and be safe. One side note, remember the way you train is how you'll react when everything goes sideways. Good Luck my friend.😎

jazzdad24 yes it was surrounded by water! Pretty risky thinking back knowing that was the first major flight in an unfamiliar aircraft. This is the aircraft we got. It currently has a new interior and soon will get paint and instruments.

@@LeftSeatAviation ,Whew, Thank God nothing went wrong while you were out over the water. That would have been very interesting first flight. Haha 🙂

It really is. I can't wait to fly it some more. Tomorrow I go reinstall the interior and paint the plastic trim to match.

Cessna Cardinal I am on CFO! Thank you for the comment. Will do!

Just curious, are you still flying? I was fortunate to grow up around airplanes as my dad was a pilot and owned different planes over the years, his favorite being a Citabria Decathlon and mine was hearing all of the stories in our hanger told by the many WW2 pilots, from B-17, 24's and my dad's close friend Max who flew a P-38 during WW2 based England when he was 19. They're all gone now, but what an amazing bunch of guy's.

raider6511 it’s going okay. Just got a new interior and will try to make a video on how that gets done. It was from Airtex and looks very nice. I haven’t installed it yet but it did arrive today in the mail. I’m in college so I am away from home where the aircraft is located. I am back for spring break and will be going flying tomorrow though!

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mj ee not intentionally. I just watch other flight videos regularly and made notes of songs that I thought were okay to use and put them in a video. A majority of the songs are also in popular aviation channels such as Steveo1Kinevo for example where I got the life is but a dream song. I don’t plan on always using music but will always be open to your suggestions if you have some better songs in mind for next time.

@@LeftSeatAviation have you listened to the music you chose?

mj ee yeah I listen to them. I don’t think they’re the worst but everyone has a different taste in music. Also I try to find songs that are not copyrighted as it can prompt removal of videos or strikes against an account. So my options are limited so I have to use alternate versions of songs or use similar songs found in other videos I watch. What I think in this situation is that there’s too much music as all the filming was done by a passenger. I had no cockpit mounted cameras or audio. Therefore the video didn’t have much content. I don’t normally put in music if I have cockpit audio or something to show. This video though is the exception in which there is no sound aside from cabin noise.

@@LeftSeatAviation There is an involved; convoluted; context to Music You Tube has a crude editor with which one can add music known to be free of such concerns ~ many complain about the music no matter what *Genre* is utilized → _there is no pleasing everyone_

Nicholas Jordan appreciate the comment. All is good. All I can do is try better next time. Today I start putting in a new interior from Airtex so that should be a fun and exciting process. It will look pretty good I believe.

Ethan Green it’s nice. I am able to see everything next to, and around the aircraft. With the exception of where the wings are. I like how there is no wing struts as I don’t see them when looking outside the aircraft. It’s a quick aircraft. I only notice one thing and that is from the training Cessna 172’s I have flown compared to the cardinal, it seems the space from the top of the panel to the top of the windshield is smaller. I think it’s just smaller due to the way the fuselage is shaped. I like the aircraft though so far.

It's incredible.

I used a suction cup mount and stuck it somewhere behind on the canopy.

Left Seat Aviation thanks buddy!

I believe it spent about 6 years in Florida. It was not there it's whole life as previously it was in Wisconsin. We had it checked for corrosion and it was regularly treated during the annuals. There was one spot in the cowling that cause a stiffener to be replaced before we would buy it, and the inside was treated with Corrosion X as well as spot treated on any screws with signs of corrosion with primer. There was only one spot inside they found and corrected. It should all be written in the logbook, but I don't exactly recall all that was done. The airframe and engine are excellent from what we have been told by multiple independent mechanics. It only has 1275 Total Time Airframe and Engine. It does need a few mechanic things done as well as avionics. I just finished flying it back to Texas. I was unable to record any video with the cameras as I was trying to beat the tropical storm (Now Hurricane Gordon) and took my focus to the flight only instead of making a video. I wish I had more footage from the experience, but I will have plenty more adventures to come now that the plane has a new home. It just had a Garmin GMA 345 Audio panel installed and I love it.

Sounds like you’ve done a lot of research 👍 I owned a 1978 Cardinal Classic for years and loved mine. They just have a few squawks that need to be watched. I know mine did catch fire with me because of an alternator issue. Thank goodness I knew what was happening and got the fire out quickly. Just have a mechanic you trust and know really go through this airplane.

Wow glad to hear it turned out okay though! I heard they are amazing airplanes and it flew flawlessly. I did have a fuel gauge go from Full to Empty after takeoff within 10 minutes of the first flight. It returned after 20 seconds to full again as if it never happened. It never did it again the other 8 hours. I was watching it closely as if it did, I would land immediately. Not sure what I need to have looked at in that respect, but I have a lot of mechanical things I will buy off Aircraft spruce to clean her up. It'll end up being about $1,000.

Keep us posted on how it all goes. You can email me directly at [email protected] if you want to talk more directly.