Habits are a big part of our everyday life as human beings there's a whole science
behind the conscious and subconscious actions that we take which form habits
in our everyday life and I'm not going to go into too much detail on that but
the bottom line for this video is there are good habits and there are bad habits
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when it comes to Flying there's a bad habit but I've kind of fallen into probably since
the pandemic to be honest which has really started to affect the
way that I approached my flying and and kind of act as a pilot [Music]
ground okay because they're living in the southern run-up they received November request taxi three
five left eight Runway three five left okay so my problem is that I've started getting a little bit
lazier with the flying that I've been doing I've been kind of waking up in the mornings
thinking that I was gonna go flying that day maybe I already had a bit of a plan under my
belt ready to go but I've just been bugging out on flights recently I haven't been coming down
to the airport as much as I'd want to but this morning we've got really good weather for the
next three hours and then there's this Cloud front that's going to come in and it's going
to be pretty gnarly here in Melbourne for the next kind of two or three days I'm gonna
do one of my favorite flights it's a short one but one of my all-time favorite flights
that you can do here in Melbourne oh fuel pump goes on flaps are set instruments switches PD
will go on in the second yolk full and free and we're ready to go over to Tower and then I will
line up essendon Tower because that's the one I'm gonna need next once we've taken off okay Yankees
take off Airplane Civic full power temperatures and pressures are green 70 knots
uh Runway flaps go away and in order to do this flight that I love doing we need to get clearance
into Melbourne's airspace from Essington Tower which I'll do next okay Yankee Zulu
is a serious uh four miles to the south of Albert Park Lake 1500 received Charlie uh received Delta
correction request to right hand City orbit okay thank you very much at 1 500 remainder east of
balti bridge cleared to rights City orbits 1 500 East of baldy Bridge thank you mate
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ly coming across the city it hits the buildings of the city and Spills over the top and always
gives you this turbulence on the North side like when you find this as many times as I've
been lucky enough to fly you get used to but when you've got passengers you always
warn them at this point okay there's going to be a couple of bumps don't worry about
it and it'll be over in seven seconds and seven seconds later it's nice and smoothly
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south of the Children's Hospital things uh south of Children's
Hospital which means he wants me to keep it quite tight to the city because there
must be some inbound traffic coming into essendon just to give us some separation
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but I will let you know thanks [Laughter]
traffic 12 O'Clock High one mile oh there he is this bad habit that I've been falling into is
I've been sitting at home and I've been grabbing my iPad and I've been planning these elaborate
flights like you know I'm going to spend four weeks flying around Australia or I'm going to take
two weeks to fly up the East Coast of Australia and I block out the time in my Google Calendar
and my wife is really supportive he's like yeah do it you know you'd be great then I get closer
and closer to the time that I was planning to go away and then life gets in the way and work gets
in the way and all of a sudden I find myself thinking I'm not going to be able to do that
and the problem with them going okay I'll pair it back into something smaller and maybe just
do some local flying like I'm doing today the trouble is then I'm comparing it to something
and I'm comparing this local flight to this huge Adventure that I was hoping to have and
the disappointment of not doing that Adventure outweighs the potential benefit that I would have
had of maybe just doing a nice Scenic flight like I'm doing today or a local flight with
so I think I'm missing out on everyday Great Adventures like this because I'm just trying
to build up too many actually I don't want to be too close to Karim there that's the inbound
VFR reporting point everyone comes into that point when they're coming into moorabbin at
this level so I just want to stay away from that so what I've done is two things the first thing
that I've done is today I've come down just to fly and do this quick Scenic flight I need to
get the car back to my wife in an hour and a half so I thought I've got a bit of time this morning
let's do a quick flight around Melbourne and just enjoy the fact that I'm very privileged and lucky
to be able to do this but the second thing that I've done is I've been getting in touch with a
friend of mine in the UK summer if you've watched this channel for a while you'll know I have been
putting together one of those big plans because I've just had this Edge that I want to scratch in
terms of doing some flying overseas and actually executing and seeing through one of these big
projects and coming up I hate doing this coming up next but coming next on the channel there will
be a mini series a really cool flying Adventure that I've been planning for quite a while now
where we take another aircraft not Echo Yankee Zulu unfortunately but a new aircraft for this
channel to a brand new country on this channel doing flying which I've never shown you this
type of flying on the channel before just turn us around start heading us back to moorabbin now
and that's why the purpose of today's flight was first of all just to get a little bit of
air time on Echo Yankee Zulu because I won't be flying this aircraft for a
couple of weeks whilst I'm away but also yeah to try and break out of that bag habit of you
know I have to plan big things and maybe just appreciating the little things a little bit more
is this layer of cloud up ahead you can see on the wing camera it's right on 1500 feet which
is where we are at the moment so I've just got a duck underneath it I mean uncontrolled airspace
and I'm below 3000 feet so the requirement is to stay clear of that cloud I could go over
the top of it but we need to be low down to get into moorabbin anyway so I'm just going to duck
down to about a thousand feet the hardest thing to do is always to take to the first
step to leave the house sometimes it's way harder than to actually do everything that follows there
if you can just get that first one step done I think you can then start to really change the
way you approach life framing Tower Echo Yankee Zulu and Karen 1500 inbound with Oscar okay left
final three five left to echoing so brakes are the carriage down lock makes the pool
Rich fuel pump goes on switches are all checked three five left three five left three five left
bring the power back a little bit but within flap speed traffic Two
O'Clock High one mile got him first stage of flaps second stage laps
90 knots so start slowing us down to 80 and then compression holes will be 78 12.
so much traffic thanks Echo Yankee's early but I could see it all foreign
so I guess the moral of the story if there is a moral to this story is that bad habits are
everywhere everyone has them but if you want to break out of a bad habit like I wanted to if my
kind of lazy flying habit sometimes you just need to take that first step you just need to you just
need to leave the house just need to get in the plane you just need to turn the ignition
key you just need to go out to the run-up Bay and then before you know it you'll be flying
and having a brilliant day like I had today I'm really glad I did that that was great fun