New student pilot here. These full lesson videos are gold. The focus in the cockpit is palpable. Love it.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! This is great feedback! I hope to start making a lot more of them

This was not a C video but an A Class Video Thank You

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike!

This came at a perfect time. I just did my first towered airport coms yesterday and today it was definitely a little rough 😅 super helpful!

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Olivia! I was originally going to release it on Saturday, but I think I get more excited about releasing a video than you guys do. 😆

30:23 "that's what I was fixin' to say". love fixin'. Also great question from Hagen, "is that a cloud?" 39:30 papis, "what does that mean", "I'm not sure". Great honesty! 50:05 "dude. that was a really awesome lesson." I was thinking he was getting close to solo. good job, CFI, and good job, Hagen.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate that! Yeah, I would rather say I don’t know than to confuse the student lol

@flysport_tedder

9 ай бұрын

@@FreePilotTraining in that case it was Hagen saying he didn't know what four whites meant. But yeah, especially on your end! It's intimidating to have a CFI who knows absolutely everything. Like, c'mon, admit you're human.

Love how you mention Colorado Springs 2 videos in a row. My home town. Beautiful place to be. Kfly

@FreePilotTraining

2 ай бұрын

Great little airport!

Great video dude i learned a lot. 11/13/23 second week of school thanks again.

@FreePilotTraining

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Grats on 100k subs

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

It sounds like you've got a really good student! Thanks to both of you for sharing these videos of real-life training! Makes me wish I could get out to where you are for my next rating or endorsement!

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! He is an awesome guy! Yeah, I’m hoping to train lots more students very soon!

Just wanted to say, I love this channel, and I think the teaching is EXCELLENT!!

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! That means a lot!

im restarting my ppl training soon. I had 17.5 hours prior to covid in a 172. the school I want to attend use piper warriors. I hope its an easy adjustment from 172s. I can’t wait to get started. I love your teaching style snd videos.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Yeah, it should be a pretty easy change for you. Thank you so much for the comment! It means a lot

Love the full length videos, hope you do more, thank you for this!

@FreePilotTraining

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I have plans to make lots more of them, but unfortunately I won’t be able to do that with Hagen. I just moved my family up to Alaska. I’ve got plans to film a couple folks up here. Thanks for the feedback. I’m always interested to see what people want to watch

These full lesson videos are awesome! I wish you were an instructor at my local airfield…

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that! Unfortunately, im not going to be able to finish the series with Hagen since I’ll be moving, but I intend on continuing this series with some other students. Im trying to coordinate with a fellow instructor that will hopefully film the rest of his training so you guys can follow Hagen’s progress

@justplanefred

9 ай бұрын

@@FreePilotTraining​​⁠well that stinks that you can’t finish with Hagen. What area are you moving to maybe it’s close enough that I could work with you when I’m ready…

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

@@justplanefred I’m moving to Alaska. Anchorage area.

@justplanefred

9 ай бұрын

@@FreePilotTrainingOh no! That’s even farther away. Good luck with the move!

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

I know! I wish it was closer too! Thanks!

Amazing video man !!! Keep it up

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you guys for sharing this awesome lesson. I am about to do the same with Mike Horn . Extremely helpful video. Thank you Josh 😎👍

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Nice! Have fun!

Josh, this video comes at a perfect time for me. I'm training at KMSL and I'm flying to KTUP next week for my first towered airport. Your videos have been super helpful for both ground school, written test and flight training. Really appreciate them. Please keep them coming.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment Bryant! I appreciate that! Enjoy that tower work! It’s a blast!

After doing all my lessons on grass and a non towered 2800' airport I'll never my first impression of the 10,000' monster my instructor took me to. Even had an anxious 727 captain behind us while on short final. Approach and tower controllers were great.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Lol, they seem ridiculous when you’re used to landing on small runways

Excellent video Josh. I remember my first time into Adams. 😂. Good times. Keep up the excellent work. Safe skies my friend 🇺🇸🛩️

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

It’s a whole new ball game if you’re not used to it! Thanks Kevin!

I first started taking lessons at Del Rio airport DRT and that was an uncontrolled field. It sits right on the Rio Grande river so if you made a right crosswind to downwind from Rwy 13 too wide over the River you could easily be considered as an international flight. My next location was Korea and that was my first towered airport at Osan Air Force Base. We had to contact ground control to request engine start and then again when we were ready, to taxi to the runway. After that we would contact tower for takeoff. The first cross country was to a airbase that was made by Korean air, traffic controllers and that was interesting with the language barrier. It was so fun.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Del Rio! Too funny. I had a few friends go down there for pilot training. It’s funny, only the military wants to clear you to start engines. I don’t get that. Lol

@aviatortrucker6285

9 ай бұрын

@@FreePilotTraining that’s where I was stationed at Laughlin Air Force Base, which was a pilot training center back in the day when they had T-37’s and T-38’s. Military gave you permission to start engines because they own the airplanes. By the way, my first aircraft when I took my very first lesson was in a T-41 which was the Air Force is version of the Cessna 172. It had 40° flaps and no panel lighting. The VOR‘s in there actually had a blue and yellow sector at the bottom of the instrument. It didn’t have a coordinator. It had a turn slip indicator. HSI was non existent. ADF was fun to use.

stumbled on this video while stuck in the nebulous of GA training vids - absolutely fantastic vid. I start training next month, clearly a channel worth binging. Never flown a single hour, but during the simulated engine out, why go straight from engine out to land? As opposed to engine out, try to restart the engine, and then land when that failed. That just struck me odd. If you’re driving and your car stalls out, you turn the key to turn it back on, not find the nearest parking lot.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Colin! Glad to have you on the channel! That’s an excellent question…it may seem like we are NOT trying to start the engine back up, but we actually are. The first two steps are to Pitch for the Proper Airspeed, then choose the Best landing spot. Then comes the checklist. During this part, we are making sure the airplane is in the proper configuration so it will restart. If the propeller is still spinning and you correct an issue, the engine should restart. For example, if I had accidentally pulled the mixture out too far and killed the engine, pushing it back in will restart the engine. If you check everything and it’s all good, but she won’t restart, start planning to make an emergency landing

Assuming you had students fly the pattern first, It might be helpful to tell them on a power off stall to pretend like they are on short final. For some reason I could fly the pattern really well but out in the maneuvering area was often confused when told to do a power off stall.

@FreePilotTraining

4 ай бұрын

I actually do like to do that. It makes them seem a lot more real

Are you going to put out another video for student pilots practicing radio comms? That was great practice. If not do you have any recommendations for helpful resources? Thanks for all you do!

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Have you seen this video yet? kzread.info/dash/bejne/oaGqqK2thZW3Y9o.htmlsi=ZZ8DAeF_0XhBtrgJ I have plans to replace it eventually, but this video will get you in the right direction and I have a video you can practice with right here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4p4j9x6mKu3h5M.htmlsi=ql8N90O4hiQMqjNn

The airport I’m training at is in busy class C airspace. I have experience talking on radios from the military and my job so I started making the calls on my first flight. I’m still not perfect, sometimes I miss an instruction on read-back or mess up a call, but I think it is a benefit to have a background talking on the radio and to fly out of a busy controlled airport.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

I have quite a bit of experience and I still make a ton of mistakes. Lol, yeah, you have a huge advantage!

6th lesson? Looked like a checkride to me. LOL Nice vid.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Yes, he’s doing awesome for his stage in training

@PghGameFix

9 ай бұрын

@@FreePilotTraining I just challenged myself, and officially got my tailwheel last week.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

@@PghGameFix that’s so cool! I need to get back in one and do some real flying!

If you think that's long try KSAC 😆 it talks about all the cranes in the area of the airport, no practice landings, and more 😆 (important, but still...)

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

😆 I don’t know why they do that! People should just check the NOTAMs

I fly out at bvo and sometimes ride out of rvs. Love to hang out sometime

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

I used to live near there! I got my PPL at RVS. Great little airports!

@codac493

9 ай бұрын

@FreePilotTraining it peaked my interest on your channel realizing you're relatively local

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

@@codac493 PM me on Facebook. I may be around the Claremore area in the next few weeks

Just a thought. When I’m told there’s traffic and I don’t see them they understand that I’m looking. So I give him either in sight or negative contact. If it’s a Military tower, I say tally ho and check six.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

😆 that’s a navy thing. One of the first things we were taught in AF pilot training is to not say Tally, or No Joy. Lol

@aviatortrucker6285

9 ай бұрын

@@FreePilotTraining I forgot about no joy. I guess I better go bingo while I have the chance. Don’t want to miss the drag.

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

@@aviatortrucker6285 lol

So does the garmin gps route you around airspace you’re not allowed in or is that something you must figure out when doing your flight plan?

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

You could set it up do go around, but that’s way too much work. The GPS displays the airspace, you can just go around it pretty easily

@cjoller2701

9 ай бұрын

@@FreePilotTraining that’s sweet! Found your channel looking for things to study prior to starting school. Watched about 13 so far

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

@@cjoller2701 awesome!

What are that glasses for?

@FreePilotTraining

5 ай бұрын

They keep him from looking outside to simulate instrument conditions

A littletrim would help

@FreePilotTraining

9 ай бұрын

Yes, It would

Is this guy still taking lessons ?

@FreePilotTraining

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately no. He hasn’t been able to do any more since I moved to Alaska. Hopefully he will be able to soon though