Wow, Stef, it’s an honour to be mentioned along with these amazing channels, thank you very much. I have been following your journey from before I got my PPL, and I wish you amazing fights (and all the best) for 2024!

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Peter, I am SO sorry for how I pronounced your name, but thanks for making enjoyable aviation content. Happy New Year to you!

@papics

6 ай бұрын

@@StefanDrury no worries, since I’m not living in my native country I have heard so many pronunciations and even I pronounce it wrong if I do administration because it makes it easier for others to understand 😅 All the best!

@sweiv

6 ай бұрын

Well done Peter! Congrats! I wasn't excpeting it but you deserve it! See u at Charleroi soon!

@papics

6 ай бұрын

@@sweiv thanks, and definitely say hi when you see me at EBCI!

@sweiv

6 ай бұрын

@@papics Of course, as usual ;-) (my name on youtube is not that recognizable but i'm Manu, we already met several times at the airport ) Best wishes!

What a lovely surprise that was, particularly from aviation KZread royalty! I’ve always said that I make my videos as memories for myself in years to come and if others get enjoyment out of them then that is an absolute result, so to get such high praise from you is a privilege. Thank you again and I hope 2024 is a good one for you and your family!

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets enjoyment out of your videos, so thank you to you for taking the time to make them. Great to connect online, thanks for the comment, and all the best to you and your loved ones for 2024 as well. Thanks mate.

@ghoflyer

6 ай бұрын

@letsgoflying Keep up the good work Nick, my wife and I always enjoy your videos

@TheOrangeGodOfTheSkies

6 ай бұрын

@@StefanDrury Couldn't agree with you more, really refreshing to watch this and see someone that actually not only enjoys making the content but can see behind the crud out there. Nicks channel is great fun (I'm the one normally on his radio being told off) and he's mega enthusiastic for the sport which is what we want.

Please keep this kind of content up, this is a really great way to sign off the year and almost a gift to those smaller channels that produce content similar to you (a lot of your viewers would be interested). Happy new year!

Your words resonate SO well with me. I've been annoyed with exactly same clickbait video headlines and thumbnails just a couple of weeks ago. And felt ashamed that this trend of clickbaiting went to the aviation videos because clickbait is not isolated from the content. Content will degrade too. Glad to know that not only me feels the same and worried about that but someone with a much louder voice than me.

The cinematic beauty of flying - Trent Palmer. The love of engineering- Mike Patey’s aviation content. The process of continuous learning of flight - Flight Chops. Also some really zen glider/soaring pilots that are worth a watch. Cheers!

The calm, informational and entertaining tone of your channel is what attracted me to your videos, and certainly is a big part of the reason I have an interest in aviation now. It's very refreshing in a world of sensationalized video titles and fear-mongering crash analysis "content". I really respect your desire and drive to stick to the style you've developed over the past few years, even in the face of more and more people across the site turning to chasing the big view counts and large sponsorship deals from shady companies. The community you've built up is very positive and I'm excited to see what 2024 will bring!

Stef, followed your channel for a while now, just keep doing what what you do, keeps me and many others very entertained! Happy New Year!

Hi Stef, not a KZreadr, just a humble Cirrus pilot, but I also watched (and sponsored) the Pilot Bambi series from Holland to South Africa, absolutely fantastic. In terms of diversity, I also think Stevie Triesenberg makes excellent honest aviation videos, like flying her C140 from California to Osh Kosh over 5 days, but noticed you had some of her content flash up in the ‘sensational, for clicks’ category (yes she ended up flying acrobatics with Mike Goulian while at Osh Kosh but, then again, wouldn’t we all if we had that opportunity?!!), but most of her content is A to B style with excellent ATC comms and also documenting her avionics upgrades in older planes, which was interesting. Anyways, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, and keep on doing what you do, it’s absolutely awesome. HNY and all the best in 2024.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Yes I enjoy Stevie's videos as well. Lots of ATC comms and on the ground content too. I didn't include her as she already has a strong following, but I definitely watch and enjoy her content. I didn't actually mean to infer any of those videos specifically were sensationalising the industry, more just wanted to show what's currently in my 'home' feed on KZread. Thanks Julian, happy new year to you too.

Great suggestions Stef. All great channels. Thanks for sharing 😊 Have a great new year and may there be more flying in 2024!

You made one of my favorite videos about 3 years ago. "How I fixed BAD LANDINGS in one lesson" had beautiful scenery, and an excellent lesson on landings. It changed the way I land, and really, how I approach energy management in the air. While there's always need for change, I think you've been doing it right all along.

Thanks for ALL the content Stef - what you do and how you do it is exactly why people follow you. Best wishes and looking forward to sharing your adventures and thoughts in 2024. 😊

Great content Stef, keep it coming. KZread needs more positive GA content like yours. Hope you and your family, and EYZ have a Happy and safe new year. Fly Safe bud👍

Probs for adding the channels in the description. Giving a shout is one thing, but putting the effort to collate the links for ease of accessibility for the viewers makes a world of difference. All the best for you in the new year :)

Hey Stef, I’ve always enjoyed watching your content for the simplicity and no drama approach. I’m not a pilot but I do love aviation, and often find myself watching your videos in my downtime and love when I see that you’re posted a new vid. All the best to you and the fam for 2024 🙌

Happy new year Stefan. lets have a great year of fun, videos and adventures

Hi Stefan. That’s why I love your channel so much. You are honest to yourself and aviation. Great to see you support other aviators and that it’s not your goal to get as many likes as possible with sensational content. You inspire me to get more videos done during my PPL. I wish you a happy 2024 with many happy landings!

Stef, happy new year. I'm 100% with you. I love the way you do your videos, feel almost as if you were a friend.

love what you do, and I can't wait to become a pilot and enjoy aviation like everyone else. There are few people on youtube who make great quality videos from just doing what they love, and that's why I love the aviation community. Happy new year stef!

I hope to get on your list this year! We're already established at 100K+ but will be flying the plane we've been rebuilding all over the States. Thanks for all that you do on your channel. Always a pleasure to watch.

Feeling very humble Stefan, you are a legend, thank you so much for the kind shout out sir.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for making enjoyable videos, I wish you all the best for 2024.

Stef, I enjoy the content you put out there, I am a student pilot myself, and I agree that while you train to respond to emergencies, I will take an smooth, uneventful flight each and every time. Love following your experiences and your insights and will continue watching your channel; and would love to meet you in person next time you are in the Toronto area. So happy new year and look forward to seeing more of of your flights in 2024

Happy New Year, Stefan. Especially loved the videos you made of your flights around the UK on your visit here, looking forward to further content from you - oh and I subscribed to all the folks you recommended, thanks for that!!!

Thanks for your content and I’ll check out the channels I hadn’t heard of. Have a great 2024!

I tend not to watch any shorts. But usually enjoy your content! I wish you a happy new year and thanks for the fun year!😊

Thank you Stef for the content, entertainment you and other pilots provide for us. One of the great things about you is that you have been doing this for quite a long time and still going. I have a feeling that the 1st day of 2024 for you might include a bit of flying. All the best to you and the family. Thanks mate 😊

Awesome video Stef! I’ve just started filming my own flying too! You inspired me to get checked out in the Cirrus. I’ve only got one video up at the moment but plenty more to come in 2024 as I start my PIFR training. For context I’m a Brisbane Centre ATC and have my PPL and RA-Aus license. Planning to post a mix between flying a Sling 2 and Cirrus SR20/22 here in Brisbane/Gold Coast. Also keen to explain some ATC things and any other questions people have! Hopefully catch up with you one day mate!

Stefan, keep on keeping on mate, as someone who dreamed of flying, you give great enjoyment of watching your videos. Hoping that 2024 brings you all you wish for and bring me many more of your flight experience’s.

The KZread algorithm showed me your video. It was good to hear your thoughts about what you like to see. I like to learn about lots of things, and learning from the mistakes of others is part of that.

HAPPY NEW YEAR STEFAN. Love your videos and how real you are and the adventures you have. i fly on flight sims and follow the routes you take on your flights for something different. Please dont change just stay yourself and do what you want that is real not sensationalist videos. Cant wait for 2024

Thank you Stef, deeply appreciate you. Im a 58 year old police in the USA and flies the Diamond Da40 NG and XLT from out of my home airport (KCHS). I've been following your channel for a while and my favorite videos where when you and Niko were island hopping in the Bahamas. Please keep your content coming. I definitely enjoy watching and learning new things from your channel. Happy New Year.

You're channel and content published certainly has a quality about it, which appeals to me. Keep up the great work and all the best for 2024!

Really great to see you highlight some amazing content creators! Several aviation channels have come and gone from my subscription list over the years because of the “clickbait” context they’ve decided to focus on. I found your point on air crash investigations interesting. It’s hard to find good content in this area (for fairly self explanatory reasons), but it’s something I find really helpful as a way to keep me humble and better with my threat and error management.

Great way of welcoming 2024. As you say, it's great to cheer more of the people who provide quality aviation content for us. Thanks Stef!

I love your content as it is Stef. The story and production of your videos are spot on. Keep up the work and Happy New Year to you and your family.

Thanks, Stef. Appreciate some new quality content for learning. Don't forget Flight Chops. I love learning from his experiences as well. Happy New Year!

6 ай бұрын

I'd love to go for with Steve.

Stef, we love that your videos are about enjoying aviation simply for the fun and excitement of flying. We also have a small channel Family Flyouts, which while it is the same middle aged grey haired male pilot, the channel was setup and edited by the kids so hopefully shows a slightly different perspective. Keep up the good videos!

Such heartfelt video! It is completely true, I have been genuinely appreciating the more simple videos as social media is really going for the clickbait. I subscribed the ones mentioned and some of the comments as well, hopefully they will show to me more often. Cheers Stefan, from Portugal! Have a wonderful 2024!

You do an incredible job mate, I absolutely love your videos and love your Cirrus as well! 😃❤️ Please don't change! 😃 A very happy new year to you and your family 😃

I first came across you on a recommendation from Mentour Pilot who I also follow. I love all your video's and remain glued to them each and every time I watch one. I'm nearly 63 and you always conjure up so many flying and travelling memories. You are doing something every time you fly something that is still but a dream for me. I have tried twice to get my PPL but not because I'm a bad pilot, just that in both cases I had a lot of bad luck......thank you for making me smile often.

A great video and message to share for the new year ahead. Well done Stef!

Stef, your real approach to videos is what I enjoy the most. You always tell a good positive story involving aviation. No sensationalism just purity of the event. Keep it up!

Great video, love the positivity you bring. Keep on making the interesting content you produce and as a bit of a nervous flyer who loves aviation, (I know) I want to watch safe pilots being safe. Have a great 2024, I’ll be watching.

Hi Stef, I just wanted to add my support to your on your channel and also your message of kindness and participation in general aviation. I don't enjoy or watch the sensationalized aviation videos either. I've been watching your videos for a long time and always enjoy them and pick up useful hints for my own flying. Keep the good work mate and see you in 2024.

I saw this video from you, until now I had no idea who you are and I enjoyed this video :). Just like you've mentioned! I'm glad I've stumbled on this video. It's refreshing and pleasant, and now I feel a little less self conscious about what I post. Thank you!

I am glad that this is a "calm" channel without all the crash investigation and panic. I want to see calm flights and casual conversation, maybe even just traveling, maybe topics about flying and cockpit situations, but without crash and panic. And no wonder, tik tok and those "short" type content is not for me. I think it's good that you differentiate yourself from the other channels, who optimize for clicks. I think you have a unique "voice" in your channel and this is a good thing and should not change :) all the best for 2024!

@TheLegoPerson

6 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more!!

Keep doing what you're doing, mate, you're doing it right. Two favourite channels of mine are Plane Old Ben (hasn't posted for a while but it's similar to your stuff), and Guido Warnecker. HNY and happy landings!

Stefan, my hat is off to you. In the race to the bottom that we see on social media, again my hat is off to you for trying to keep the information you present in a positive light. I hope to keep enjoying your aviation content.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Normd, also bonus points for a cat in your profile pic! Happy New Year to you.

2:00 - I appreciate your bringing to awareness the "reaction" fixation that I've also observed in the media (aka expert option consultants) in last year or so. It's good for marketing, but strays further from source content, as it then becomes more about the reaction.

I love watching flying channels and also aircraft rebuild channels. Your channel and outlook is a gem among the chaff.

Nailed it on all fronts. Happy New Year to you!

Happy New Year!! …keep up the good work.

Thanks Stefan. I’ve subscribed to all those channels you’ve suggested. HNY and safe flying next year….in 4hrs 20mins

What a lovely video mentioning the better side of youtube. Whilst I have uploaded some aviation content (my first solo and my qualifying Cross country) I do it so that others might be inspred to get into the cockpit, a place where family and friends can see how my aviaton journey is going, and so that maybe someone whos thinking of learning, takes that next step. Have a wonderful 2024 Stef, and I'm looking forward to the videos this year! (by the way, if you do find yourself visiting the UK again this year, pop into Turweston Aerodrome) :D

Thanks for the wonderful breathe of humanity, moderation, and tolerance. I'll be watching more of you henceforth. Thanks for the great recommendations; these will bring me lots of pleasure. What's better than help others have fun. Be safe up there.

Very much enjoy watching and learning from your flying adventures, best wishes for a wonderful 2024, cheers mate 👏👏

Happy new year stef great work

Very nice touch Stefan! Yes, pretty hard for the niche aviation channels to get noticed! Sometimes incredible editing goes unnoticed for so many of our videos. Was wondering if you were going to give a shout out to your favorite flight sim channels? All the best for 2024!

Thanks so much for this type of video! I found some new creators thanks to you! THis is exactly the type of content I love watching :D. I doubt I'll ever be able to afford or have health good enough to be a private pilot myself, so flight simulators and Creators are how I experience all this stuff myself :D.

Hi Stefan. As a Cirrus instructor with more than 5,000 hours in SR’s in the USA and also trains pilots who are preparing to operate outside of US airspace, I greatly enjoy watching your “boring” videos. I really appreciate how you walk through a lot of the ATC communications and procedures that are very different from here in the states. I learn a lot from your videos and have actually used them a few times to demonstrate some of the differences in operations in different countries. Keep up the great content!!

Fantastic video and great idea to share content. I started a KZread channel called Let’s Fly 72X. I usually fly alone and making this channel and talking to the cameras makes me feel like I have people on board with me. It has given me a kind of motivation to continue flying. I pick a destination airport, fly to that airport and talk about what you can do there once you land. Thank you!

Happy New Year - loving the videos this year, best wishes from Sydney

Thank you Stef. To you and yours, may you all remain safe and well in 2024 and 25 and so it goes.

Hey Stefan, as an older US pilot who retired and can’t afford flying very often, I look to YT to further my education and satisfy my affection for general aviation. Just a quick note to let you know I’ve found your channel to do just that, and I thank you for referring other similar YT channels. I’m not interested in crash details as I can get that in an instructive mode from my various aviation magazines. Thanks for what you do!

Excited to binge some new channels content of some really solid aviation content. Happy New Year from a quiet but longtime sub :)

I am glad to hear this perspective. Some of us do want to see the everyday pilot flying well and learning! As you said it shows the rest of us what others are doing and I appreciate the validation of my learnings and skills too when I see the decisions you make. Thank you for putting yourself out there. "Boring" aviation is the best aviation!

I agree completely with your thoughts on the sensationalist content being churned out. I lost interest in one aviation KZreadr because of the heavy focus on crash investigations and the shift towards over dramatising videos. Keep being yourself and doing what you do. It’s genuine content like in your and Niko‘s channels that develops an audience who value you, not the material itself. Hope you and your family have a wonderful New Year, and I’m looking forward to more videos next year!

Gday Stef, I’ve been enjoying your work for a while now. It’s so good to see you promote Australia in your travels. Sometimes it’s difficult to find content from here. I got my commercial license in Victoria flying out of Coldstream. We flew in to Moorabbin quite a bit. I’m in Queensland now and my small KZread channel is about building my own aircraft (called Frankenstein) and hopefully this year, testing and flying it. Thank you for your channel. It’s given me inspiration to make videos, helped me improve them, and helped keep me building so I can enjoy flying around this awesome country. Cheers mate

Thanks Stef there where a few channels in your list that I had missed - I subscribed as soon as I saw your recommendation

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Awesome, thanks Kieran. Hope you enjoy some new content from new creators in 2024. HNY.

Agreed, present your content as you see fit. I enjoy watching from Cleveland OH -- US. Keep them coming Stef!

✈️ Love what you said! I’ll definitely look into the channels mentioned. I’ve also started my aviation journey and I am recording the process. I have published the beginning/intro on what encouraged me, and I’m on lesson two! I can’t wait to fly amongst y’all! ☺️💕

Please make the videos you love to make. Everyone is following the trends these days and it sucks. I love aviation and even make videos about it on my own channel. Over the next couple years I hope to get my PPL. We need more creators and pilots like you. Keep up the great work and I wish you a safe and great new year!

Hey Stef, thanks so much for these links and recommendations to these other channels; so appreciated. After seling, my own aircraft 6 years ago and giving up on flying due to our stupid UK privatised Air Traffic control service who just want to make so difficult for us to enjoy the same freedoms you take for granted in Aus and the US - I get my aviation fix from MSFS and KZread videos like yours so it's so good to be introduced to new content creators with a passion for flying as well. Happy New Year, and keep up the awesome work. Give me a shout the next time your in the UK

100% agree Stefan. As a new pilot myself its great to just watch and learn from other pilots. Ben Atkinson did a great series a few years back calked "Learning to Fly" where he documented his entire PPL (M) progress. Interesting and invaluable learning while i progressed through my training. "DarkLord" is another UK based pilot flying a Eurofox microlight who has some great videos. So much good content out there. Hadn't come across Richard Tyrer but just watched one of his vids and really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work and best wishes for 2024!

Got onto your channel as I had watched a stack of Short Field videos, love your content! Just a MSFS wannabe flyboy (did some actual flying as a kid), and channels like yours provide stacks of inspiration for flights in the sim. Living under the training circuit for YSBK I just love the sound of Rotax and Lycoming engines overhead. Lots of real world resources for a simmer in Oz as well as massive amounts of open source & pay ware scenery. Keep doing what you do, it’s excellent!

Fantastic video Stef, I could not agree more with your messaging here, if a flight was unsensational so far as incidents or worse accidents are concerned then it was a very good flight and that is something to be celebrated on YT. Thanks for the recommendations, I was following a few already but certainly off to add some others to my list. A highlight of 2023 for me was bumping into you and chatting at Melbourne INTL airport back in February, it’s already 2024 for you guys in Aus right now, we’ll join you in the future in a few hours here in SoCal. All the best for the New Year, cheers, Fraser

Hi, stef, absolutely love your work, it’s always very well presented and filmed. Was wondering if a trip over to WA might be on the cards for 2024?. Just a thought , as some of the scenery would look amazing from the air. Keep up the awesome content, can’t wait to see what you get up to in 2024

Thanks for the content. Happy new year

Hey Stef, absolutely have loved your content this year and look forward to another great one! Thought I'd mention I am about to begin a very long journey of becoming an airline pilot by doing my RPL next year also in Melbourne funnily enough. Wanted to thank you for the inspiration you gave through your videos which brought me to love aviation and everything about it. Greatly appreciate your work mate as do many many others.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Alessandro, great to hear you're starting your aviation journey in 2024. I. wish you all the best with that, look forward to sharing the skies over Melbourne with you.

@alessandromusic1439

6 ай бұрын

@@StefanDrury Thank you so much! Certainly look forward to it, all the best.

I completely resonate with this video. Many times, I get disappointed, looking at the title of the video, which will get your attention but the content of the video is no way near to the title. Thank you for sharing other channels I will definitely look into it and subscribe which resonates with me like this channel. Keep up the good work and a very happy New Year.

Keep being you Stef.. Iv been a long time subscriber.. I love your content.. N thankyou for the recommendations.. Will go check them all out.. Happy new year ❤❤

Love your vision for the channel in 2024 and the reasons you articulated Stef..Thank you for what you do.

Agree 100% Sometimes I got tempted to do that and then I felt stupid. That is not the kind of viewers we want to engage anyway. I still believe that good content sells by itself, you are a good example. You will always have your "few" loyal viewers, even for the videos that don't end up in an emergency 😂

Firstly, a very Happy New Year to you Stefan. For a minute during this video I though you were going to go all vertical on us, Phew, your not!! Great video and I love that phrase about a rising tide. The content here is great and I love the honesty and simplicity of it all. I think the followers you get are true aviation people and you seem to do what you do for the love of aviation so you've aced it in my opinion. I love Short Field, I have followed him for a while and another I like is The Flying Reporter, again simple and straight forward.....

Happy new year mate. Bring on 2024

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year Kris.

You've certainly caused a ripple in the algorithm 😆. Since watching this, my KZread feed has presented me with a lot of new aviation videos. Can't wait to see what I can find!

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Hopefully you'll enjoy discovering some new creators in 2024. Thanks MCBB.

Been subscribed to Bambi for a while now, great vids. I agree Stefan, I've deleted my subscription from numerous aviation creators recently. Either they have become total shills for product only, sensationalists, or horrible role models for up-and-coming pilots. Some I've seen have given up airline careers when the job gets tough to FOCUS on social media, LOL! Keep up the positive attitude and the hard work! Happy New Year!

I totally agree with this. Its amazing the kind of tiny channels that have been appearing in my feeds as of late. Something seems a bit different with KZread's algorithm. I'm getting more of a flow of similar content as opposed to BIG content. Sure, yes, I still get BIG content, but I've been getting videos that I quite enjoy recommended with just a few hundred views or subscribers.

Love your work Stef! 🎉 Have an amazing 2024!!!

Stefan, "Great content"and I don't say that lightly. I've been in aviation 35 + year's pilot /mechanic Falcon 2000LX/Pilatus so I've been around the block. You are absolutely right about not falling into the HYPE in you-tube content.You're on the right path IMHO, I love your HONESTY !!!

Please keep posting the content as you always did untilĺ now. That's what I/we love. And don't forget stevie Triesenberg, also a female pilot with interesting video's .

@patrickaalto

6 ай бұрын

I was going to mention her channel, but you beat me to it. :)

@patrickaalto

6 ай бұрын

@@theaviator06Well, I do, for one. Sure, she is a pretty girl, but the focus of her channel is aviation. Unlike some other supposedly aviation-related channels like Gyrocopter Girl, for example. Besides, Stevie is a software engineer by profession (as am I), so I believe she knows how to work in a male-dominated business without being considered just a pretty face. I think she succeeds quite fine without over-using her gender on her videos.

Thanks for staying the course. We watch your videos because we like the kinds of content you produce.

Happy New Year to you and family Stefan I'll be watching as always Thanks

Happy New year stef 🎉🎉 love your videos. No need to change please.

Well done and well said Stefan Best wishes for 2024

Great video. I'm a student pilot. I love your videos. They're upbeat. They're informative. They always make me feel excited about flying. Not long ago, I was creating a video about my first 20 hours of flight training, and yours was the tone I had in mind. I didn't have quite the same production value, and I don't have a cool Australian accent, but I love your tone, your seriousness, your delight, your enthusiasm. Nothing melodramatic or eyeball chasing. Yours is definitely a channel worth aspiring to and emulating. Keep up the great work, and thanks for the content!

Canadian guy here, CPL of about 10 months and still trying to add ratings...you're spot on with the silly sensational content...and I simply don't get the tub thumping crap about what each person flies...there are of course stereotypes in every vocation, but when it becomes insulting to content creators, especially in aviation it's extremely tiring...great to see you promote some folks I follow and a couple I've never heard of; but as a suggestion or two @FlightChops is one of my faves and another Canadian for excellent flying fun, he's a PPL, Instrument and aerobatic rated and flies warbirds from time to time! Micke is great too!

Don’t worry about the outside noise. I love just watching your videos. Even if it’s just going for a fly. I only fly PPG - Powered Para gilders and just love flying. Just keep doing what you are doing. Just my 2 cents worth. Cheers Craig Benalla VIC

I love your channel Stef. Keep up the good work. Happy new year!

Happy New Year Stefan! 🎉

Stef thanks for the recommendations. A great idea to direct people to quality content creators like yourself.. As much as I love aviation I will never be able to participate in it beyond the normal interactions. With videos like yours I get to look over your shoulder and enjoy your enthusiasm and light touch approach to sharing it. Thank you.