Honestly aviation itself is so interesting and even without a story these videos are still entertaining to watch.

Personally I enjoy seeing you fly to different airports, watching the process, listening to the calls, seeing the aerodrome and approach from above. I would say most of your subscribers aren't here specifically to see go-arounds, close calls, or "wishing I was on the ground" moments. I'm a pilot, live in Victoria and enjoy watching your "uneventful" flights to cool locations, I also find the what to do when you arrive and how you get from the airport to the final destination interesting.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Chris, this sort of feedback really helps me tune my content and hopefully make it more useful/enjoyable. I appreciate the feedback.

@IceTemple13

6 ай бұрын

@@StefanDrury As someone who doesn't really know anything about aviation but watches your channel a lot, I'm gonna second their comment. Seeing the process is very interesting and also kinda relaxing. In this video specifically I also really liked how you talked about your destination.

A regional Australian airport on the ground can be ordinary, but from the air extraordinarily in all its beauty. More please Stef

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Well said, and thanks for watching as always.

You don't need a savory story with every flight video. Just bring us along on your adventures. This was excellent Stef!

From an expat Aussie in the US, who happens to be a student pilot, this video is anything but ordinary! Made me incredibly home sick although I haven’t been in Victoria for many decades. Your stunning cinematography and great editing are the icing on the cake. Thank you, and carry on!

Just loved it Stef. Loved your self awareness. Nothing is ordinary in your videos. Drone footage was fantastic. You put the videos together so well. Keep doing what you’re doing. We love all of it! ❤

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Lisa, always grateful for your support.

Stefan, you are by far my favourite Aussie KZreadr. Your videos are always insightful and entertaining and you are very funny. I vote yes to more ordinary flights to spectacular places like Mallacoota.

Every flight is UN-ordinary. Each is a lesson. Thank you, Stefan!

Loved the video, Stefan. A good way of remembering the significance of recording your videos is that you're taking your viewers on a journey that allows them to escape the mundane lives that they may be living. We're from all around the world and, for the vast majority of us, the sights that we see through your camera's lens are new and interesting to us. 🙂

Really enjoyed that Stef. Aviation doesn't need to be dramatic to be interesting and enjoyable to watch, especially when we see you are enjoying yourself.

Thanks for taking us with you,just do what you enjoy doing

As someone who has only been flying for a year and has a recreational pilot certificate, the run of the mill stuff you do like using your garmin, IFR, communication with control is really interesting to see and gives me a bit of an idea of what I'm in for in time to come. I love watching it, keep it up.

SO glad you filmed it too Stefan, authentic indeed. As a viewer the radio work adds so much to my situational awareness of your flight. More like this please.

With a tear running down my cheek this was just a special reminder of what a beautiful country we live in. And as a volunteer fireman over the years how special our communities are when faced with tragedy. Fly safe Stef.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for writing that, and thank you for the brave and vital work you do as a firefighter, stef

As an Aussie but a non-pilot (just an av-geek), I enjoy you just being you Stefan. Just like Nico, you're natural and tell it the way you see it. Love the fact thta you keep your hours up and video going for a coffee somewhere, or a swim - keeping it real.

I'm at a time in my life (young kids, fledging business) where I'm unable to even entertain the idea of flying. Thank you for all your content Stef, I'm living adventure through videos like these and they are never ordinary.

Personally I'm a great believer in the session, the process, the vibe... Feeling like you're just hanging out and soaking in the atmosphere. There doesn't have to be any kind of planned story for that, and yet I love it so much :D

Hi Stefan, just recently found the channel and am really enjoying the content, thanks! i am a student pilot based in the South Island, New Zealand. Your content is very inspiring to someone in my position!

Great video, thank you so much for filming, Yes I would like more every day flights

You can post 'ordinary' videos every day of the week, Stef - I'll watch them all!

Nice one Stefan. There are no ordinary flights - every one is special. Cheers!

Hiya Stefan, I've watched you for ages but never commented. Its strange to say this about someone you've never met but you come across as a sound bloke. I live in Newcastle, England on the North East coast and your videos are magic, a drop of Aussie sunshine on a cold December Sunday. Don't beat yourself up, you and your content are magic, keep it coming as I for One love it. Thank you

Ordinary breeds Authenticity! Thanks Stef :)

Thanks for being so honest at the start about your creative processes, Stef! I reckon we are all stoked about seeing whatever content you're happy to send out! 🔥

To quote Jill Scott, the English footballer, “you must enjoy the dive as well as the splash”.

Thank you for your videos love to watch and see more of aussie🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Lesley, I love being able to show off this amazing country.

Stories don't always need the help of a script. I went somewhere good in my head when you were at that beach. I haven't been able to travel for a while, but that took me away for just a few minutes. I suppose what I mean to say is, thank you for filming your adventures. Script or no script.

No flights is ordinarily. Just pottering around enjoying the flight is good.

I don't have plans to become a pilot, way too old, but I do enjoy watching your "ordinary" flights. They're interesting to someone where flying isn't the norm. I find them relaxing, and thoroughly informative. The little info about how the tech helps you monitor changing height from 4500 to 8000 is fascinating to someone who doesn't usually have exposure to that tech. Keep it up! (and it was lovely to see your flights around the UK - wasn't too far from me here in Dover).

👍✅🏝 ordinary is great, tks Stef

Thank you for always putting a smile on my face, my year 6 graduation is tomorrow at 5:30pm. I’m stressed and upset but time is valuable and you need to spend it wisely. Wish me luck and thank for lots!

Personally, I really enjoy all your videos Stef. Even the "ordinary" ones! If I'm completely honest as well, I do envy you and that you can go out and explore the world around you in your aircraft. I hope one day to be able to do it myself but unfortunately not very likely. Keep the videos coming, I'll watch them all!

Loved this one Stef. Not gonna lie it got me a bit emotional. I absolutely love how much smaller having a pilot license makes the world. So excited to be able to do little trips like these one day. You're an inspiration to me mate, I'm not much of a sucker for a good story line myself, I just love watching you do what you do and learning the odd thing or two along the way from a much more experienced pilot. Cheers!

Hey Stefan, I've been following you for a few years, and honestly, this is one of my favorite videos! It was interesting to watch you realize that what may be ordinary for you, is just such a dream for me, and so many others. I really enjoyed everything about this one! Nicely done!

Beautiful Mallacoota! Thank you for sharing this magic coastline with us. I live a few miles further on, just over the border in NSW. Mallacoota has had a rough time in the past few years so thanks for showing us how much it has recovered. Love your videos.

Nah Stefan, You chasing after the 'perfect story' is what gives the channel its zest and pip. We all notice just how much creativity and energy you put into finding that narrative arc, special moment, and happy ending. So thank you. I know the toll all your efforts and angst extracts. But my life is enriched by all of this. Selfish? For sure! But this is KZread 🙂 Dr M

Exactly what I like about your videos!

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Tom

Pls do more of these in the future, this was a great video and it definitely wasn’t boring!

❤ this kind of stuff routine doesn't mean boring

Life is a story. And we are interested in your life and your story no matter where it takes you. Really great stuff! Thank you sir for sharing with us.

Your country is beautiful, and your ordinary for me living in a third world place is just mesmerizing. Long time viewers know that you are planning and interested in a flight around the word, but also, a flight around Australia will be something that everybody watching your channel will love to watch. Thank you for sharing your country and sharing aviation for those of us that can't fly anymore. PD: I left a similar comment on your video "I'm embarrassed, I owe you an update". Got a bit of traction and likes, and by the reaction of everybody commenting I think that it will be a fantastic series.

Hey Steph - the process IS the story - and every one has something slightly different. Your destinations and discoveries are pure bonus, so from one aviation “tragic” to another - please keep them coming!

Mallacoota Airport also has partially below ground concrete arched roof bunkers adjoining one of the airstrips. When originally constructed the roof was covered in soil for camoflauge purposes. Used during WW2 to home radio equipment, in conjunction with high frequency (HF) radio antennas hung between the tall eucalyptus trees above the bunkers. Different building to the one shown in your video, by the looks. I think one of the bunkers was set up with chimneys to allow fresh air and exhaust gas flows to a fuel powered generator. Mallacoota was one of three such sites along the East coast of Australia. The hard to see (disguised) HF antennas were used for navigation purposes by allied Aircraft flying sorties in the Pacific. Three sites reaching up into Queensland (from memory) to allow redundancy in case the Japanese Forces managed to locate one of these radio triangulation sites and destroy it. Two HF radio beacons are required to calculate a position. I 're-discovered' one of these bunkers in the early 1980s with a now Silent Key (deceased) Amateur Radio operator whose mate had also served at Mallacoota with the Airforce and had found Postmaster General (PMG) drawings of the (then during WW2) top secret radio base in archives at a Telecom Australia Facility in Eden, NSW. The adventure of locating the hidden bunker was sightly lessened by seeing about ten years worth of graffiti on the inside and discovering they had been used in more recent years during attempts to grow mushrooms commercially. It was a great days's adventure, nonetheless, just like your recent flight shown so beautifully in today's video. I loved seeing the coast between Mallacoota and Cape Conran from the air. As a university student my mates and I bush walked along that coast for three or four days, swimming across the mouth of the Wingan River with our back packs wrapped up in plastic bags. We probably only needed to swim 30 to 50 metres to cross the Wingan river on that trip, but when it floods I am told the mouth of the river widens to 500 metres or more. There are also massive sand dunes somewhere along that coast. Next time you fly down there East Gippsland Coast perhaps drop down and grab some footage for your viewers? Corrugations on the Betka Rd towards the airport haven't changed in 40 years, btw.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to write this comment. Your bushwalking trip sounds fantastic, what an adventure that must have been. Thanks for the tip about the sand dunes, I'll add that to my 'places to visit' list and next time I'm down there I'll see if I can get low along the coast to have a look. Thanks again, I really enjoyed reading this one, stef

Love videos like this. I also followed your flight on FR24. Super interesting 😃👍

If I can live vicariously through you to be in an airplane I’m ok. I’ll take any flight vlog I can. Thank you!

Definitely glad you brought us along for this trip. Your narration is always interesting and you manage to find something a New Yorker like me probably won't see unless I can make the journey to Ozz. Well done!

More “ordinary”. A thousand times yes please.

That was great. I'm only at the RPL level. I learned out of Bacchus Marsh, so anything involving CTR airspace, IFR flying or Moorabbin airport with the dual circuit runways is facinating.

its not the story, its the journey we like. we dont need perfection. we just like to see what you do.

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

I am very grateful for a comment like this, thanks

I enjoy videos that are not the focus of the video. Your headed the right direction in my opinion. “Cloud Dancer”

That was amazing Stef I really enjoyed that too and also how you touched on the WW2 bunker history. Please keep it going!

Perhaps one of your best videos....thank you!

I think more videos like this would be great. Point to point flying is still interesting.

Great vid, and nice to see Mallacoota's regenerated nicely again after 2019. Horrific pictures out of there. The very fact that we can risk our life in a tin can with a computer dictating where we go to stop running into anyone is an adventure in itself!! Imagine 2 centuries ago, people would have been terrified by the very thought (ok, so I may have been watching too much 'Outlander' lol)!

Really glad that you made this video. I was glued to the screen. More of these videos Stef! Great videography by the way!

Thoroughly enjoyed that Stefan - you hit the nail on the head, as a PPL viewer from the UK your ordinary is very special to me! Keep the videos coming, I for one appreciate the incredible filming and editing you do and the work overhead that introduces to your pleasure flying......

A great video Stef and thank you for choosing to shoot it. Yes your #ordinary flights are extraordinary for many of us and aspirational whether we fly or not so please keep it up. I agree 100% with you when you mention just getting out for a fly ‘cause you can and you should👍 it’s great for the mind, I do that from Melbourne too on my Hayabusa. Just getting out there and enjoying the application of ones skill as a pilot whether on the motorcycle or in the aircraft is the reward for your effort, it resets you. Good on you, keep them coming 👏

I can second the other people, aviation videos are always interesting, even if it's all normal and ordinary.

Just being able to see the grandeur of Australia can be extraordinary to others that have not gotten to visit. A question Stefan, In the US they have a volunteer organisation Called Angel Flights that help remote patients get to doctors appointments. I know Australian Air Ambulance (and they do a fantastic Job) but do you have a similar volunteer organisation there?

@vlfreak

6 ай бұрын

We also have angel flight along with wingz4kidz, among others

@briancarter8922

6 ай бұрын

thanks for the info.@@vlfreak

Let me first start out by saying I love your channel. You helped me to start flying again, so thank you. Now I cannot believe that people actually stayed in their homes for almost a year that is absolutely freaking hilarious. We never even closed our schools and nobody died. Lol.

Tks Stef enjoy your vids as an X GA pilot (now 86) enjoy ur lifestyle vids I am also still a keen cyclist a folding ebike Tern which fits inside my CRV , my flying was from Grovedale now overgrown with houses . Have a great Xmas.

Love the drone shots, brings out the beauty of the spot even more!

Keep it up man! Love your videos

Loved this.

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for taking us along.

Yep... keeping making these! !!! Love it!

G,day Stef from Sydney. I like the wing camera images of the ocean with the fuselage in the frame. Thanks for explaining AUS restricted military airspace. 🌏🇭🇲

Hi Stef - long time watcher, first time commenter here! Really enjoyed this video, as I have all your others for that matter. I'm a relatively low hour GA pilot and have just completed my taildragger rating in a Piper Cub which I purchased a share in earlier this year - I'm now wanting to push myself a bit more and fly to some airfields I haven't been to before, even if it's just to have a bite to eat and then fly home again. Keep the videos coming, you're a legend! Dan (Christchurch, New Zealand).

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Dan, I'm grateful for you having been here for a while and for leaving that comment. Congrats on your Piper Cub purchase, now that is a great aircraft. Hope you get to have some really fun adventures in that.

Awesome vid Stef

Really enjoy your content Stef. Keep it coming and its never ordinary 😂

Love this! Currently doing my PPL navs. Seeing it from an IFR viewpoint is so Interesting! Awesome stuff mate! Keep it up.

I enjoyed it too. More please.

Love these sort of videos. Has helped improved my radio calls watching stuff like this! Good job Stef!

Thanks for the great content Stef. This was a such an enjoyable video, and I reckon ordinary should never be underestimated

I don't need a story for those or of us who have been around since the fly daily days I think we just enjoy seeing aviation

cool video, I was lucky enough to see the roulettes in person at a ground display, it was very exciting

Ordinary flights are great, Stef!

Great vid. They don’t all have to be epic adventures. Would very happily watch more of these.

thanks for the ride loved it

Loved this video, thank you Stef!

You’re a lucky man to be able to do what you do. Thanks for taking us along.

Great to see the spectacular Australian scenery.

Excellent stuff!

Great vid. Really enjoyed the bike ride.

Awesome video Stef once again just making me homesick in a good way

Hey enjoyed your vid,as a former skydiving instructor(12000) jumps and pilot of 38 years I think that we often forget that we who are involved in aviation sometimes get very used to what we do. The greatest satisfaction I ever had was sharing my passion and skills with others and watching them come alive with the thrill of being in the sky and helping them step out of their usual daily lives and experience something that we often see as cheers for sharing your passion with us on your vids.

Thanks for making an extra ordinary video Stef. Your general musings on getting away and finding some quiet space, exploring and "the battle" of why we do it really resonates (i ride motorcycles on and off road for similar experiences) . Best wishes for you and yours, have a great run into the new year 🍻

Thanks for the video. It reminded me of a beautiful airport close to the coast that I haven't yet landed at, so I have put it on my list of places to go. Also good to see a go-around at Moorabbin, that's something you could never have planned for, it happens when it happens 😊

@StefanDrury

6 ай бұрын

Haha yes not planned and after a long day of flying not really wanted either! But it’s all part of the process. Thanks for watching.

Hey Stef, this is the type of video i enjoy best. Out and about visiting some really fantastic places and travelling on your own seems to make these videos somehow even more entertaining. The heat was stifling up here yesterday but much cooler today. Thanks mate.

Excellent video Stef 👌🏻. More of this please 🙏🏻

Stef, this was such a great video, bit of everything. Just remember that some of us are in the short, damp, cold days of winter and seeing the beach reminds me that there’s still a world out there. Thanks (and love the drone shots, the stops to see things people might never see)

Keep them coming!

I like the 'ordinary' flights Stef, keep them up. :)

This is such a beautiful and inspiring episode, yes the 'ordinary' is indeed extraordinary for me. Would certainly want to see more of this. Thoroughly enjoyed it:)

You are so right.....what is ordinary for you is extraordinary for us. I love your flights and the explanations you give. Thank you very much.

Thanks for this video, seems like every video you upload teaches me something, thank you.

Thank you for the video, its what i needed on this ordinary monday night

Oh yes more of these videos, well done..

This is a perfect story!

Please make this more. the beach part even made me a lil teary absolutely beautiful