Well hello and good morning from Moorabbin Airport more specifically from The Hanger
where I keep Echo Yankee Zulu here at (heavy doors) here at Moorabbin Airport. If like me
you enjoy watching Aviation content on the internet I want to have a little talk about
what's happened recently and more importantly where I think it's actually going to go because
hopefully in this video I want to help Empower you so your viewing experience through 2024
and Beyond with Aviation on the Internet is a lot more enjoyable so I thought I'd bring you
down to the hanger to Echo Yankee Zulu and I thought we could have a little onetoone
chat when I've been browsing Aviation content on YouTube recently I've noticed this kind of
what what a lot of the YouTube experts they call this Mr beastify of content which I think it's a
little bit unfair to kind of place it all on Mr beast and what he does he does very well
and there's a there's a place in an audience for that but there's certainly this kind of Desire I
think on YouTube now to chase the views and create these sort of one-off content pieces that are very
Sensational and very big rather than sharing the reality and honesty and life experiences
of someone just enjoying their life doing whatever they do for me it's Aviation but that kind of real
connection that I think we used to be able to get with a Creator on YouTube and now nowadays
a little bit less so because it's all about that click I've noticed a few of the creators not going
to name names maybe going down that path a little bit kind of like the air crash investigation type
content the oh my God I can't believe I just did this to my airplane there's a little bit more of
that coming through on YouTube nowadays and I don't like it very much I've been asked in the
past hey what what are your opinions on you know an incident that might have happened if say a
serious aircraft like heo Yankee Zulu has crashed people have asked me well are you going to make a
video about what you think about that crash and what you think might have happened yes it would
get huge views I know it would pilot reacts to Sirus crash of course that's going to get lots
of clicks and Views but I just wanted to kind of put it out there that even if more of that content
appears Elsewhere on YouTube it's not going to appear on my channel on YouTube because well I'm
not an air crash investigator Ator I'm not an expert in that field and honestly I don't want
to be involved in those sorts of conversations in that environment in the environment of the
internet so I've been experimenting this last year with some new forms of content shorter form sort
of 60c you know the vertical type content what I do in this aircraft in the event of a go around
for example I can show you what happens like various Air Traffic Control calls when I've
got really low visibility approaches that I'm making I think it's been interesting to those
of you who might not be in the world of Aviation but you're just interested to know what happens
inside the cockpit and I think it's interesting maybe to those of you that do fly cuz like me as
a pilot I think us Pilots like to see what other Pilots do um helps to validate our own decisions
but it also helps us learn from each other which is a huge part of why why I have this channel in
the first place so I've enjoyed making the content trouble is putting that content out on places like
YouTube is fine Instagram yeah it's kind of gray area Tik tok's awful so I've put stuff out on Tik
Tok in the past and I think the problem is the audience that's there is very different to the
audience that I have on YouTube in that I don't think it's kind of the accepting Community like
we have on YouTube and they think they know better than everyone else and they think that
depending on the brand of the aircraft that you fly it either makes you a legend or an idiot in
this case it makes me an idiot um because of the brand of the aircraft I fly I actually cannot fly
I don't have the ability to I shouldn't have done a go around I should be doing s turns on short
final with parallel runways Etc it's it's it's difficult to put yourself in front of an audience
like that it feels like the percentage of people who know better or want to try and push you down
as you grow that is growing and it might just be the volume of people who are seeing the content
I'm making it might just be the the change in the world that we're going through at the
moment either way and the reason why I'm talking about this is because that audience I think does
resonate well with that kind of misde beastify air crash investigation Sensational thumbnail type
content on YouTube the thing for me with Aviation right is is it's not about the the the spikes that
that oh my God this happened and I can't believe it I actually love Aviation when it's boring and
it's exactly the same thing that happens over and over again you see I want my flight from
Melbourne to Sydney to to be exactly like every other flight that I've done from Melbourne to
Sydney and every other flight that any other pilot does from Melbourne to Sydney that for
me is a success and I want to be able to share that with you but obviously as attention gets
more scarce online and more people are doing the same sort of thing it gets harder to get noticed
now I don't want to make this sound like a big sort of moan about social media it's absolutely
not in fact the point of this video is uh that social media is like it has its downside of course
but it's about how you use it and I think moving forward into 2024 this is what I want to empower
you with a little bit is is a little bit of my learnings as a Creator but also to tell you what
I'm doing in 2024 to maybe help you uh improve your your social media experience as well so
the good thing about social media now is some of those algorithms that bubble up the content to you
are so much more about the content itself rather than the person who's making that content so you
might see a video from me and not have any idea who I am but enjoy watching that content because
it's based around the sort of content you've watched before and that's happened to me as
well it means that YouTubers suggested content to me this year from people I would otherwise
never have known about but the type of content they're making is similar to what I've watched
in the past and because I'm not watching those amateur air crash investigation or I did this to
my airplane type videos it's not suggesting those to me it's just suggesting the here I am going for
a nice flight and enjoying what Aviation can do for me type videos and I wanted to share some of
them with you because I'm fortunate to have had a channel which has grown nicely over the years and
hopefully will continue to in the future but there are other creators out there who are putting in
just as much work and producing videos that are just as good if not better than a lot of us who
have a decent amount of views and subscribers on YouTube and they just don't get noticed so as my
sort of starting the new year I'd like to give back a little bit to the aviation community and
and I prepared a list on my phone of some of the creators that I think you should subscribe to or
at least have a look at and see whether you like and maybe just change your your YouTube feed from
that more Sensational content to just a bunch of aviators like me maybe like you who are just out
there doing cool things start off with a channel called let's go flying now this is a pilot base in
the UK he flies an aircraft which I'll be honest with you I didn't know about before watching his
channel it's called a Sky Ranger Ninja he makes really enjoyable content just about some of the
the airfields and the places that you can visit flying around the UK um gives you some great ideas
about places to go if you are flying around that neck of the woods or if you just want to see what
it's like flying in the UK so let's go flying is the first one the second one and I must apologize
before I say this to the Creator I'm going to murder your name and I'm so sorry but I think
it's Peter L papich or Papik he flies a couple of aircraft there's a Sonica 200 a d Di da40 and this
is in Europe so outside of the UK um places like France and Germany he's been flying around again
for Destination based content the flying content itself with all the air traffic control calls is
really interesting and some of them are also in foreign languages so you can hear uh French
speaking ATC German speaking ATC just hear about how it's done elsewhere in the world and remind
yourself that a lot of the time it's actually even though it might be a different language the
the principle is basically exactly the same what we are trying to do around the world is the same
as as each other so that's a good channel to to have a look at if you want to see what it's like
in Europe back to the UK there's a channel called short field now they fly a piper sport aircraft
out of a place called North wield which is kind of in the southeast of England just near Essex very
simple I don't want to use simple as a negative but just nicely simple Aviation videos flying in
and out of smaller strips as well once again just like some short field take off and Landing stuff
places you might not otherwise either be able to go in the aircraft you fly or or have thought
about going to before as well you get some good ideas from that channel too there's another few
channels as well which I wouldn't necessarily say are small channels but they're they're the
ones that I've been watching recently now Mika Lang who I've spoken about on this channel before
never actually had the opportunity to met so M if you ever come into Australia please let me know
or next time in Europe I'd love to meet up and we should do something together but he's a uh Diamond
fery pilot he flies aircraft normally things like the da42 da62 he's got on his channel as well
which is a great twin engine aircraft from Europe across to the US he does a lot of Ferry delivery
flights across the North Atlantic but it's not just those routes he also goes south um I think
he's got some clients in the Middle East as well he flies aircraft down there too just again really
simple not in a bad way but beautifully simple Aviation videos lots of air traffic control calls
lots of great views out the window and M seems like a really cool guy as well someone I think
I I really would resonate well with and I enjoy watching him so check out mikah too Richard Tyra
is a UK based Private Pilot now he started a round the world solo circum navigation attempt
recently quite procedural in some ways as well so if you a bit like with mik if you're interested in
you know like how approaches are flown at certain different airports Richard includes a lot of that
content in there as well and I would say I will maintain I think Richard's got one of the best
YouTube voices for a pilot out there if he's not a a British Airways Captain he should be not just
to fly the plane just to make the announcements his voice is fantastic so check out Richard too
and finally finally for now the pilot Bambi there's a series on her Channel which I loved
this year which was flying a sling aircraft from the Netherlands down to South Africa halfway
across the world through some really interesting countries there were a lot of challenges that they
faced it's a really interesting series and she makes some great content too a little bit more
about the destinations too which I really like so what you can enjoy when you're out there on
the ground as well as the flying aspect too um so check out pilot Bambi and I did notice when I was
making this list that it's not a particularly diverse list there's one female pilot on there
on there and you know the rest of it is kind of Bloks my age doing what I do on YouTube so
I would love it if you have other suggestions if you're a pilot with your own channel and you
want to promote yourself put it in the comments down below please tell everybody else about uh
about what you do let's use this video to help promote the community as a whole because there's
a phrase that I love which I've I say quite a lot to people which is a rising tide lifts All
Ships it's not about being the number one serus YouTuber in Australia it's not about being the
number one Bush pilot in America whatever you do it's about being part of a community that
hopefully you value as much as I do so sell yourself in the comments below tell me about
other Pilots who might not be middle-aged blokes flying aircraft that you might think we like to
watch as well because let's yeah let's grow this community as diversely and as communally as we
can filming at an
airport let's use 2024 as an opportunity to be really positive and kind to each other I think
we just need to remember sometimes that everybody's learning at different rates
nobody's getting it perfect all the time very few of us get it perfect any of the time let's
be honest and we're all going to benefit if we learn from each other and with each other so
I wish you all the best for a very positive and peaceful 2024 the bottom line for me is
just going to be to try and be kind of exuded more more kindness to people give more through
this Channel and through through what I do in my everyday life and just realize what a
privilege it is to have this industry behind me and to be a part of it because I love it
so much and I really hope that everything that shared online in 2024 is a lot more peaceful a
lot more positive and really benefits you as the viewer moving forward so thank you that's my end
of year review now I'm going to lock the hanger and make sure make sure everything's in place
and well still got some leftover vegan roast of course but got some leftover roast to have back
home so how good by the way are leftover roast potatoes and gravy potatoes and bit of gravy
warm it up a little bit that's like Christmas just keeps on giving some years doesn't it