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  @Heneling2 сағат бұрын

  Will you be attending sleapkosh this year? I hear it’s going to be huge

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  @BruceDuncan19 сағат бұрын

  I often remind my students that a, for example, 5 knot tailwind equates to a difference in relative airspeed of 10 knots if you were to just drive to the other end! We are extremely cautious about taking off with tailwinds in gliders, and will often go to the hassle of changing ends in even a slight breeze (it's much more faff than just taxiing to the other end lol). When we practice winch launch failures, a tailwind can make the recovery extremely exciting! The only advantage of taking off with a tailwind is that it makes the reciprocal landing in the event of a launch failure a piece of cake (only advisable in a glider, though!)

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  @noololly2703Күн бұрын

  Hi Jon, you just flew right over me in MIV

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  @scottbeyer101Күн бұрын

  Your analysis strongly suggests you have all the knowledge. I make (small, checklist related) mistakes often so i cannot judge. How do we intercept these potentially dangerous errors? I find having PAX on board to be a challenge. Somehow it changes my process negatively. I feel rushed. Not by them but by me.

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  @julianwebb6194Күн бұрын

  Dan and his wife have done a fantastic job i am one of the most frequent visitors there. What we need now is the empty building next door to the bistro to be converted to holiday lets so we can have week-ends on the island. well done Dan!!! G-CCPJ always there!!!

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  @andycampbell54912 күн бұрын

  "I learnt about flying from that". Another good honest report Jon. We should never be too embarrassed in educating others about out mistakes it could save a life. I had a similar experience shortly after buying my PA32 Saratoga. I flew across to Sywell, a familiar haunt, on arrival the runway in use was their shortest, Rwy23 grass just 603m. It's always 21R hard. However, i repositioned for it and landed without incident and plenty to spare. I stopped for a cuppa, fuelled her up to the gunwales and proceeded to Rwy 23 grass. didnt' think much about performance apart from i have lots and it's 600m...tons ...surely? I was given the option for 21R hard but i was lined up now so i'll go with 23. So short softfield take off, i remeber doing that ONCE! Flaps 25, full power, brakes off, back on the yoke, rotate at 75IAS. My goodness that hedge at the end of the runway came up pretty quick. Gear up, cleared the obstacle just, accellerate, flaps up and away we go. Phew that felt a little too close for comfort. On my return that evening i sat down with the POH. Apart from not calculating anything i had worked on rotate at 75, it should have been 70...bugger! I remeber that last five knots taking forever, at least 100m of that short ish runway, and on grass. Lesson learn't! know your aeroplane, learn the numbers and do the calculations. The Swiss Cheese didn't get me that day...thank goodness! I'm just about to embark on my MEP rating where the numbers literally are life or death.

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  @JonathanWinton1232 күн бұрын

  Legend has it that 'Raven6VR' is still calling.

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  @Madpom682 күн бұрын

  Excellent video! Love the ability to proactively review what could have been done better. We never stop learning. I wonder if density altitude compounded the situation?

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  @douglasb50463 күн бұрын

  Seems you did pretty well Jon with your flight planning just some minor methodological errors which we all can make. Was density altitude an issue? All were lightly dressed, so I’m guessing this was summer. Ahem…now the outcome might have been different in the USA as you would probably be loading up two orca-sized passengers.😂😂😂

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  @joechamberlain74413 күн бұрын

  There does seem to be a dilemma with the short field technique. With 25% flaps you have a shorter take-off roll and leave the ground at a lower speed, but at the price of having poorer climb performance - that's going to be especially problematic at MTOW. If there simply is not enough runway length for a normal take-off, then you've got no choice - but when you do have the choice, having the best possible climb performance is very desirable. It's not always a simple choice, each case needs to be evaluated depending on the situation presenting.

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  @paulrichardson68043 күн бұрын

  I notice you have your iPad with EFB mounted on the right hand yoke…do you find this safer, better for control and still easy to read? I’ve got my iPad on my left hand yoke ( on a Foxbat, so it’s tight) and it takes up a lot of room , but am pondering if it’s the safest thing to do

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  @tonyf90762 күн бұрын

  Buy an iPad mini ?

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  @farmer68613 күн бұрын

  Enjoy your aircraft while you still can and squeeze every hour of pleasure out of it! Sadly, in the risk adverse world we now live in, I can see a time when older general aircraft will be banned and historic aircraft will be grounded. Of course in the case of your aircraft, you documented how a few years on from this, you found out that it needed a major engine overhaul. It’s like a cars performance - on paper you may think you’ve got x number of horses under the bonnet, but mechanical parts age and wear out. Probably in truth, the reality is that the biggest risk is flying around in old aircraft, with all the engine and airframe hours! It’s like the rules on MOT exemption for classic cars. How many would pass a modern MOT test with all the advisories nowadays? But you cannot blame the owners as it’s human nature to take advantage of an exemption in a society where we now have ULEZ and 15 minute towns and cities enforced upon us. Enjoy your freedom while we still can, as it’s only a matter of time before the Green lobby come after GA. We’re seeing it already with the airfields themselves now going to greedy developers with Local Authority backing. I had the best years in the 80s and 90s. Thruxton Airport has now changed hands so it remains to be seen what happens next! Not much plane spotting to be had there, Old Sarum or even Compton Abbas these days as new owners make changes which is their privilege of course, but they also want to see a return on their investment. It’s crazy how places I took for granted are changing and the pace of change across the GA and automotive worlds. I used one of my 9 lives up on a Tiger Moth experience at Compton Abbas. Took 20 mins of playing with the mags and spinning the prop before the engine started! I then had an enjoyable flight around Blandford Forum. A week later, a guy my age and the pilot both tragically killed after it crashed on take-off. These are the truly sobering occurrences that cause you to reflect, and thank our lucky stars! This was my second lucky escape after experiencing aerobatics at Thruxton in the school’s T67B Slingsby Firefly with a lovely instructor. Jean Herridge phoned me in the evening to inform me that both he and his student pilot had been killed over Oxfordshire that afternoon performing spin awareness exercises when the aircraft failed to recover. Probably just wrote myself out of ever having a ride with you Jon! Ha ha. Anyway, happy landings and keep enjoying what you do while you can!

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  @jamesonpace7263 күн бұрын

  Almost everything wrong. But no crash, so not "everything". Glad ya got to fly another day....

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  @DanFrederiksen3 күн бұрын

  yeah I'm not a believer in flaps at take off and barely during landing. It's an airbrake and you have ground effect

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  @kevchilton9083 күн бұрын

  A great lesson to share, Jon. Thanks also for your honest self-criticism on what happened 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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  @FuturePilotNinerOne3 күн бұрын

  A great example of humility and willingness to learn and improve 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I had a bit of a moment recently, taking off from Sandown. I assured the passengers but boy was I shaken up. One of the benefits of filming flights is being able to do debriefs like these. Thank you for sharing!

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  @dr_jaymz3 күн бұрын

  Another possibility is that it was more than 5kt tail wind. A tail wind makes it feel much shallower because you're eating much more ground distance than usual which means the trees are really close by as you reach the airfield boundary. Usually it's the other way around. And yes, as you climb you pick up more tail wind and the aircraft's inertia works against you, meaning you find yourself having to reduce the climb with any gust. Whilst it's unsettling it may not be as marginal as you thought, you just reduced your climb and kept an eye on your airspeed. That's exactly what you should do. I accepted about 5kt tail wind out of Wellesbourne... never again.

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  @Jeffpower-3 күн бұрын

  Well John, I had a scare last week flying back from Durango, Colorado. The altitude there is 7,000 feet above sea level, but the day I took off, it was reporting a density altitude of 12,000 feet. It’s a very long runway, but I had fully refueled the plane with 70 gallons of fuel and, luckily, I was by myself. I struggled to lift off, and when I finally got airborne, the performance was definitely less than half of what it usually is at sea level.

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  @Robinbamv3 күн бұрын

  Aircraft performance is an interesting subject, at one time under the U.K. CAA every three years an airtest to a published schedule was required. Part of this test was a five minute climb, this part of the test found out the aircraft with performance issues, the list of problems I found is far too long for this thread but usually revolved around engine power output or inaccurate weight schedules. I was once told by the late Mike Tate ( who ran an engine overhaul business ) that he would regularly see in the test cell a new 200HP engine make 205HP and he held the opinion that at 200-400 hours a 200 HP engine would make 210-215 HP. In contrast he once put a 2400 hour 200 hp engine ( TBO+20%) in the test cell and got 180 Hp out of it. Back when the U.K. became part of EASA the requirement for three yearly test flights disappeared and I have absolutely no doubt that this has increased the number of aircraft flying around with performance issues that no one knows about.

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  @StormHawks1203 күн бұрын

  wow, amazing

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  @thomasdalton15083 күн бұрын

  I would say the main error here was the last minute change in the type of take off you were doing. You hadn't done a proper departure briefing for a short-field take off. You hadn't reviewed the POH for such a take off. You just decided on a whim to use some flaps. Doing a short-field take off from that runway may or may not have been a good decision, but the decision should have been made before you started the engine.

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  @classicraceruk13373 күн бұрын

  You mean exactly as he said……..

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  @thomasdalton15083 күн бұрын

  ​@@classicraceruk1337 He didn't say that at all. Nowhere in his list of lessons learned does he say anything about not changing the plan at the last second.

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  @classicraceruk13373 күн бұрын

  @@thomasdalton1508 Re watch it, he used two stages of flap at the last minute for a start. He also retracted them on the climb out. All last minute decisions.

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  @thomasdalton15083 күн бұрын

  @@classicraceruk1337 Yes, which I'm saying was his biggest mistake. A point he neglected in his conclusion. I'm really not sure what you are disagreeing with...

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  @seonamarion5 күн бұрын

  G’day from Queensland, where scheduled flights land on public beaches ❤ K’gari (Frazer Island). Nice wee aircraft 😊

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  @simulatorgamersuzie5 күн бұрын

  Fantastic flight. I've not long been watching your videos, but was particular interested in this one as you fly around my hometown. Although the camera's were not visible for full flight, I still fully enjoyed the content. Maybe the next time you and family are in Glasgow I'll get to say hello.

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  @AviatingWithMel6 күн бұрын

  Enjoyed that, bit of a different format to usual and enjoyable for it. Definitely do a few more of these!

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  @douglasb50467 күн бұрын

  Rob, very familiar with M25 prior to leaving us. I do a number of night flights in a single engine Saratoga in the USA . Even though most of these are IFR, I ask traffic control to allow me to keep within gliding range of a major highway akin to motorway just in case I have engine failure. They’re easy to see at night and wide enough for a landing. Plus at night traffic is light so lower chance of collision with a car.

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  @regal1637 күн бұрын

  Hi, just wondered this aircraft is different to the one you flew over the M25 a few days ago because its fixed gear, am I right?.

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  @TheFlyingReporter7 күн бұрын

  Yes. This is quite an old video.

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  @regal1637 күн бұрын

  @@TheFlyingReporter Oh sorry, yes I should have looked at that, 5 years, great video all the same👍.

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  @UraFlight7 күн бұрын

  What a wonderful video 😊I’ve been driving on this route for years. It’s great to see it from the air. Please create more videos like this one. It’s nice to see the motorways from above.

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  @Transcriptor7 күн бұрын

  Did 40 hours there back in 73. There used to be a scrap Avro Anson you could crawl about in, sadly gone. There was a guy in our group who, in the Red Lion, could down a pint in 3secs, hmm catching isn’t it.😂

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  @aviatortrucker62857 күн бұрын

  You should never be giving the stick the death grip. All you need to do is hold the stick with your index middle finger and thumb. Feel the airplane. It will go a lot smoother for you and you won’t white knuckle and make over corrections. just to note, I have not flown a tail wheel until three weeks ago since my sign off almost 11 years ago. You do remember many things and you do forget some things. The main point is to make sure that you keep the aircraft under control and you do not groundloop. Some landings will be pretty and some will not. As long as you relax and fly the plane like you have flown a nose wheel airplane this too, will become natural. Good luck.

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  @boeingbwoy8 күн бұрын

  i solo'd there 2008, sad to hear its been ran into the ground

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  @chippyjohn18 күн бұрын

  There are advantages to multigrade oils even if not in freezing conditions. They protect the engine better at start up due to lower initial viscosity. Good for if you do regular frequent cold starts, also good if in an emergency you need to apply a lot of power right after start up.

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  @chippyjohn18 күн бұрын

  W80 is actually an SAE 40 oil and W100 is an SAE 50. 80 and 100 are just names.

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  @jeffreyhall63458 күн бұрын

  I flew to Blackpool fron Stansted just there and back in a day on Ryanair. Why would I? Just to tick off the BAe 146 from my list. For a short time Ryanair used the ex Buzz 146s they had taken over.

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  @DavidElliston-uq6ld9 күн бұрын

  Great video John. You should do some more like this. Just a laid back flight over the great British countryside and townscapes. This one reminded me of a pub quiz question about British cities completely encircled by motorways. London was the gotcha. The Dartford crossing is the A282. The M25 is not quite continuous 🙂

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  @stephenashby98589 күн бұрын

  That was so very reassuring, and had me laughing out loud at times. Flying can be so counter intuitive in the extreme at times…well done! It will be that Spitfire soon…👍

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  @Calidus_Pilot9 күн бұрын

  Entrancing video and a great music soundtrack! Thanks, Jon.

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  @barrywood535710 күн бұрын

  Jon you cracked me up with this one. I used to live in the estate in your video at 12.35 with the golf course just behind the trees at 12.54 and with the house just below the nose at13.05. Damyns hall was my local airfield having flown from there for many years . Microlights weight shift and ppl A single engined. I have flown in the blimp from there and had helicopter rides and was a member of the resident model club for three years before i moved 3 miles away to Rainham. I could still see the various aircraft that flew in and out of this delightful little piece of aviation history. Yes we had the people complain about the aircraft but the aircraft were there a very long time before their houses were built in Aveley. nice little jolly for you nice one sir crack on

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  @tmeyer202210 күн бұрын

  Very enjoyable! In the U.S. we have a public broadcasting system titled "Aerial America" which has a somewhat similar format. 🤓

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  @paulthomas294310 күн бұрын

  What a great video I use this road quite a bit, strange seeing it from the sky. Love the music. Subscribed last month

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  @TheFlyingReporter10 күн бұрын

  Thank you Paul.

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  @stephenashby985810 күн бұрын

  Thank you for this, what a lovely day for flying! I did actually fly 11 hours for my PPLH from Redhill. Sadly, I rather ran out of money….

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  @TheFlyingReporter10 күн бұрын

  Thanks Stephen and sorry you had to stop the training.

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  @stephenashby98589 күн бұрын

  @@TheFlyingReporter

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  @stephenashby98589 күн бұрын

  Thanks, do let me know next time you require a passenger from Redhill. You never know, i might go back to it. I visited Lasham airfield the other weekend, thinking I might try a glider and get my wings that way….🤔

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  @richardharris721411 күн бұрын

  Nice video, John. I live in East Sussex [Hailsham] and remember your sports reports on local television. I wonder whether you have flown into the airstrip at Kitty Hawk Farm - approx 2.5 miles north of Firle Beacon? A flight from Redhill to Eastbourne, then along the coast over the Seven Sisters to Newhaven and then a stop at Kitty Hawk on the way back would make a very scenic flight. [I confess I do not know of the permissions and airstrip length at Kitty Hawk] - but watch out for the Spitfires from Biggin'!

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  @TheFlyingReporter10 күн бұрын

  Hi Richard. It's funny you remember the sports reports. I did these just a total of about 6 times in my entire 30 year BBC career. Sport was not my thing, but had to do it at weekends occasionally. I've been into Kittyhawk - a long time ago - with a friend's aeroplane...not my own yet.

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  @evanscm311 күн бұрын

  i have a preference for some kind of radar (traffic) service and certainly so if in IMC. Most radar operators will provide a service even if they don't officially offer LARS - Birmingham, Luton & Liverpool come to mind... plus the many MIL sites around who are often quiet. They're usually accomodating, especially if you sound like you know what you're doing on the R/T. Last resort is usually London Info but I'd always call them in the absence of other options. I want to be able to hit the PTT button if something goes bang and know that the person on the other end has my details post haste. I don't get these folks who say 'I'm not required to speak to anyone, so I wont...' - makes no sense to me...

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  @duncanbradshaw899311 күн бұрын

  It should kept as an aerodrome.

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  @greggpedder11 күн бұрын

  Really good video Jon. IMO you definitely had been forgotten about 😂 (15:32). But massive qudos to Nicole for the very professional and very excellent reply in defence of the controller concerned. I can imagine forgetting about an aircraft is a very serious "deal" for them. Nicole sounds like an excellent manager is definitely a very clever and switched on lady. Exactly the type of person that should be in Air Traffic Control. We have a similar excellent controller at Humberside called Tracy who is consistently brilliant. Great vid 🛩️

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  @evanscm311 күн бұрын

  Nice bit of IFR flying... I Follow Roads :-)

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  @davidmiles380711 күн бұрын

  I recall landiing at 8 airport/fields in one hour (1960s)

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  @stevestjames393411 күн бұрын

  For years the lanes around the airfield were my route to the A13 and on into London. Fun seeing it from above. Great video, and the Doobie Brothers to boot.

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  @TheFlyingReporter11 күн бұрын

  Can't beat the Doobies..

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  @fingerhorn411 күн бұрын

  Your best video ever. Well done.

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  @TheFlyingReporter11 күн бұрын

  Thanks.